Document:

Exhibit 4.7

 

SILVERSEA CRUISE FINANCE LTD., 
 as Issuer,

 

CITIBANK, N.A., LONDON BRANCH, 
 as Trustee, Principal Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and Security Agent,

 

and

 

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS DEUTSCHLAND AG,
  as Registrar

 

 

 

 

INDENTURE

 

Dated as of January 30, 2017

 

 

 

7.250% SENIOR SECURED NOTES DUE 2025

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

	
 
    	
 
    	
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ARTICLE ONE
    
	
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
SECTION 1.01.
    	
Definitions
    	
1
    
	
SECTION 1.02.
    	
Other Definitions
    	
27
    
	
SECTION 1.03.
    	
Rules of   Construction
    	
28
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE TWO
    
	
THE NOTES
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 2.01.
    	
The Notes
    	
28
    
	
SECTION 2.02.
    	
Execution and   Authentication
    	
29
    
	
SECTION 2.03.
    	
Registrar, Transfer   Agent and Paying Agent
    	
30
    
	
SECTION 2.04.
    	
Paying Agent to Hold   Money
    	
30
    
	
SECTION 2.05.
    	
Holder Lists
    	
31
    
	
SECTION 2.06.
    	
Transfer and Exchange
    	
31
    
	
SECTION 2.07.
    	
Replacement Notes
    	
33
    
	
SECTION 2.08.
    	
Outstanding Notes
    	
33
    
	
SECTION 2.09.
    	
Notes Held by Issuer
    	
33
    
	
SECTION 2.10.
    	
Definitive Registered   Notes
    	
34
    
	
SECTION 2.11.
    	
Cancellation
    	
34
    
	
SECTION 2.12.
    	
Defaulted Interest
    	
34
    
	
SECTION 2.13.
    	
Computation of Interest
    	
35
    
	
SECTION 2.14.
    	
ISIN and CUSIP Numbers
    	
35
    
	
SECTION 2.15.
    	
Issuance of Additional   Notes
    	
35
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE THREE
    
	
REDEMPTION; OFFERS TO PURCHASE
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 3.01.
    	
Right of Redemption
    	
35
    
	
SECTION 3.02.
    	
Notices to Trustee
    	
35
    
	
SECTION 3.03.
    	
Selection of Notes to   Be Redeemed
    	
35
    
	
SECTION 3.04.
    	
Notice of Redemption
    	
36
    
	
SECTION 3.05.
    	
Deposit of Redemption   Price
    	
37
    
	
SECTION 3.06.
    	
Special Mandatory   Redemption
    	
37
    
	
SECTION 3.07.
    	
Payment of Notes Called   for Redemption
    	
37
    
	
SECTION 3.08.
    	
Notes Redeemed in Part
    	
38
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE FOUR
    
	
COVENANTS
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 4.01.
    	
Payment of Notes
    	
38
    
	
SECTION 4.02.
    	
Corporate Existence
    	
38
    
	
SECTION 4.03.
    	
Maintenance of Properties
    	
38
    
	
SECTION 4.04.
    	
Insurance
    	
38
    
	
SECTION 4.05.
    	
Statement as to   Compliance
    	
39
    
	
SECTION 4.06.
    	
Incurrence of   Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock
    	
39
    
	
SECTION 4.07.
    	
Liens
    	
44
    
	
SECTION 4.08.
    	
Restricted Payments
    	
44
    
	
SECTION 4.09.
    	
Asset Sales
    	
47
    
	
SECTION 4.10.
    	
Transactions with   Affiliates
    	
49
    

 

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SECTION 4.11.
    	
Purchase of Notes upon   a Change of Control
    	
51
    
	
SECTION 4.12.
    	
Additional Amounts
    	
52
    
	
SECTION 4.13.
    	
Additional Intercreditor   Agreements and Amendments to the Intercreditor Agreement
    	
54
    
	
SECTION 4.14.
    	
Note Guarantees and   Security Interests
    	
55
    
	
SECTION 4.15.
    	
Limitation on Issuance   of Guarantees of Indebtedness
    	
56
    
	
SECTION 4.16.
    	
Dividend and Other   Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries
    	
57
    
	
SECTION 4.17.
    	
Designation of   Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries
    	
59
    
	
SECTION 4.18.
    	
Payment of Taxes and   Other Claims
    	
59
    
	
SECTION 4.19.
    	
Reports to Holders
    	
59
    
	
SECTION 4.20.
    	
Further Assurances
    	
61
    
	
SECTION 4.21.
    	
[Reserved]
    	
61
    
	
SECTION 4.22.
    	
Impairment of Security   Interest
    	
61
    
	
SECTION 4.23.
    	
After-Acquired Property
    	
62
    
	
SECTION 4.24.
    	
Limitation on Sale and   Leaseback Transactions
    	
62
    
	
SECTION 4.25.
    	
Payments for Consent
    	
62
    
	
SECTION 4.26.
    	
Maintenance of Listing
    	
63
    
	
SECTION 4.27.
    	
Business Activities
    	
63
    
	
SECTION 4.28.
    	
Re-flagging of Vessels
    	
63
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE FIVE
    
	
MERGER, CONSOLIDATION OR SALE OF ASSETS
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 5.01.
    	
Merger, Consolidation   or Sale of Assets
    	
63
    
	
SECTION 5.02.
    	
Successor Substituted
    	
65
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE SIX
    
	
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 6.01.
    	
Events of Default
    	
65
    
	
SECTION 6.02.
    	
Acceleration
    	
67
    
	
SECTION 6.03.
    	
Other Remedies
    	
68
    
	
SECTION 6.04.
    	
Waiver of Past Defaults
    	
68
    
	
SECTION 6.05.
    	
Control by Majority
    	
69
    
	
SECTION 6.06.
    	
Limitation on Suits
    	
69
    
	
SECTION 6.07.
    	
Unconditional Right of   Holders to Bring Suit for Payment
    	
69
    
	
SECTION 6.08.
    	
Collection Suit by   Trustee
    	
69
    
	
SECTION 6.09.
    	
Trustee May File   Proofs of Claim
    	
70
    
	
SECTION 6.10.
    	
Application of Money   Collected
    	
70
    
	
SECTION 6.11.
    	
Undertaking for Costs
    	
71
    
	
SECTION 6.12.
    	
Restoration of Rights   and Remedies
    	
71
    
	
SECTION 6.13.
    	
Rights and Remedies   Cumulative
    	
71
    
	
SECTION 6.14.
    	
Delay or Omission Not   Waiver
    	
71
    
	
SECTION 6.15.
    	
Record Date
    	
71
    
	
SECTION 6.16.
    	
Waiver of Stay or   Extension Laws
    	
71
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE SEVEN
    
	
TRUSTEE AND SECURITY AGENT
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 7.01.
    	
Duties of Trustee and   the Security Agent
    	
71
    
	
SECTION 7.02.
    	
Certain Rights of   Trustee and the Security Agent
    	
72
    
	
SECTION 7.03.
    	
Individual Rights of   Trustee and the Security Agent
    	
76
    
	
SECTION 7.04.
    	
Disclaimer of Trustee and   Security Agent
    	
76
    
	
SECTION 7.05.
    	
Compensation and   Indemnity
    	
76
    
	
SECTION 7.06.
    	
Replacement of Trustee   or Security Agent
    	
77
    

 

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SECTION 7.07.
    	
Successor Trustee or   Security Agent by Merger
    	
78
    
	
SECTION 7.08.
    	
Appointment of Security   Agent and Supplemental Security Agents
    	
78
    
	
SECTION 7.09.
    	
Eligibility;   Disqualification
    	
79
    
	
SECTION 7.10.
    	
Appointment of   Co-Trustee
    	
80
    
	
SECTION 7.11.
    	
Resignation of Agents
    	
80
    
	
SECTION 7.12.
    	
Agents General   Provisions
    	
81
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE EIGHT
    
	
DEFEASANCE; SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 8.01.
    	
Issuer’s Option to   Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
    	
82
    
	
SECTION 8.02.
    	
Defeasance and   Discharge
    	
82
    
	
SECTION 8.03.
    	
Covenant Defeasance
    	
83
    
	
SECTION 8.04.
    	
Conditions to   Defeasance
    	
83
    
	
SECTION 8.05.
    	
Satisfaction and   Discharge of Indenture
    	
84
    
	
SECTION 8.06.
    	
Survival of Certain   Obligations
    	
85
    
	
SECTION 8.07.
    	
Acknowledgment of   Discharge by Trustee
    	
85
    
	
SECTION 8.08.
    	
Application of Trust   Money
    	
85
    
	
SECTION 8.09.
    	
Repayment to Issuer
    	
85
    
	
SECTION 8.10.
    	
Indemnity for   Government Securities
    	
85
    
	
SECTION 8.11.
    	
Reinstatement
    	
85
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE NINE
    
	
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 9.01.
    	
Without Consent of   Holders
    	
86
    
	
SECTION 9.02.
    	
With Consent of Holders
    	
87
    
	
SECTION 9.03.
    	
Effect of Supplemental   Indentures
    	
88
    
	
SECTION 9.04.
    	
Notation on or Exchange   of Notes
    	
88
    
	
SECTION 9.05.
    	
[Reserved]
    	
88
    
	
SECTION 9.06.
    	
Notice of Amendment or   Waiver
    	
88
    
	
SECTION 9.07.
    	
Trustee to Sign   Amendments, Etc.
    	
88
    
	
SECTION 9.08.
    	
Additional Voting   Terms; Calculation of Principal Amount
    	
88
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE TEN
    
	
GUARANTEE
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 10.01.
    	
Note Guarantees
    	
89
    
	
SECTION 10.02.
    	
Subrogation
    	
89
    
	
SECTION 10.03.
    	
Release of Note   Guarantees
    	
90
    
	
SECTION 10.04.
    	
Limitation and   Effectiveness of Note Guarantees
    	
90
    
	
SECTION 10.05.
    	
Notation Not Required
    	
90
    
	
SECTION 10.06.
    	
Successors and Assigns
    	
91
    
	
SECTION 10.07.
    	
No Waiver
    	
91
    
	
SECTION 10.08.
    	
Modification
    	
91
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
ARTICLE ELEVEN
    
	
SECURITY
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 11.01.
    	
Security; Security   Documents
    	
91
    
	
SECTION 11.02.
    	
Authorization of Actions   to Be Taken by the Security Agent Under the Security Documents
    	
92
    
	
SECTION 11.03.
    	
Authorization of   Receipt of Funds by the Security Agent Under the Security Documents
    	
92
    
	
SECTION 11.04.
    	
Release of the   Collateral
    	
93
    

 

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ARTICLE TWELVE
    
	
MISCELLANEOUS
    
	
 
    
	
SECTION 12.01.
    	
Notices
    	
94
    
	
SECTION 12.02.
    	
Certificate and Opinion   as to Conditions Precedent
    	
95
    
	
SECTION 12.03.
    	
Statements Required in Certificate   or Opinion
    	
96
    
	
SECTION 12.04.
    	
Rules by Trustee,   Paying Agent and Registrar
    	
96
    
	
SECTION 12.05.
    	
No Personal Liability   of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders
    	
96
    
	
SECTION 12.06.
    	
Legal Holidays
    	
96
    
	
SECTION 12.07.
    	
Governing Law
    	
96
    
	
SECTION 12.08.
    	
Jurisdiction
    	
96
    
	
SECTION 12.09.
    	
No Recourse Against   Others
    	
97
    
	
SECTION 12.10.
    	
Successors
    	
97
    
	
SECTION 12.11.
    	
Counterparts
    	
97
    
	
SECTION 12.12.
    	
Table of Contents,   Cross-Reference Sheet and Headings
    	
97
    
	
SECTION 12.13.
    	
Severability
    	
97
    
	
SECTION 12.14.
    	
Currency Indemnity
    	
97
    

 

Schedules

 

	
Schedule I
    	
–
    	
Subsidiary Guarantors
    	
 
    
	
Schedule II
    	
– 
    	
Security Documents
    	
 
    
	
Schedule III – 
    	
 
    	
Agreed Security   Principles
    	
 
    
	
Schedule IV –
    	
 
    	
Guarantee Limitations
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Exhibits
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Exhibit A
    	
–  Form of Note
    	
 
    
	
Exhibit B
    	
–
    	
Form of Transfer   Certificate for Transfer from Restricted Global Note to Regulation S Global   Note
    
	
Exhibit C
    	
– 
    	
Form of Transfer   Certificate for Transfer from Regulation S Global Note to Restricted Global   Note
    
	
Exhibit D
    	
– Form of   Supplemental Indenture
    

 

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INDENTURE dated as of January 30, 2017 among Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (the “Issuer”), Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”), as Principal Paying Agent, as Transfer Agent and as Security Agent, and Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG, as Registrar.

 

RECITALS

 

The Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of its 7.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 issued on the date hereof (the “Original Notes”) and any additional senior secured notes (the “Additional Notes”) that may be issued after the Issue Date in compliance with this Indenture. The Original Notes and the Additional Notes together are referred to herein as the “Notes”. The Issuer has received good and valuable consideration for the execution and delivery of this Indenture. All necessary acts and things have been done to make (i) the Notes, when duly issued and executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered hereunder, the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Issuer and (ii) this Indenture a legal, valid and binding agreement of the Issuer in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

 

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders, as follows:

 

ARTICLE ONE

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

 

SECTION 1.01. Definitions.

 

“Acquired Debt” means, with respect to any specified Person:

 

(1)           Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other Person is merged with or into or became a Subsidiary of such specified Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person merging with or into, or becoming, a Restricted Subsidiary; and

 

(2)           Indebtedness secured by a Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person.

 

“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 purposes of this definition, “control,” as used with respect to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by agreement or otherwise. For purposes of this definition, the terms “controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with” have correlative meanings.

 

“After-Acquired Property” means any property of the Issuer or any Guarantor acquired after the Issue Date, with respect to property of the Issuer, or the First Escrow Release Date, with respect to property of a Guarantor (including, but not limited to, any Vessel which replaces a Vessel that was the subject of an Event of Loss) that is of the same type as any of the Issuer’s or such Guarantor’s assets that were intended to be a part of the Collateral as of the Issue Date or the First Escrow Release Date (subject, in each case, to any time periods to put the applicable security arrangements in place as permitted by this Indenture), as applicable; provided that any (i) Vessel, (ii) Related Vessel Property or (iii) Capital Stock of a Vessel Holding Company subject to a lien in connection with any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred and to be secured by a lien on such Vessel, Related Vessel Property or Capital Stock shall not constitute After-Acquired Property until such Indebtedness has been repaid in full or otherwise terminated.

 

“Agreed Security Principles” means the Agreed Security Principles as set forth on Schedule III hereto.

 

 

“Applicable Law” means any competent regulatory, prosecuting, Tax or governmental authority in any jurisdiction.

 

“Appraised Market Value” means the value of any Vessel as may be determined from time to time based upon a valuation that shall be addressed to the Security Agent and the Trustee and shall be prepared:

 

(1)           with or without a physical inspection of the Vessel and expressed in U.S. dollars on the basis of a sale for prompt delivery, charter-free, at arm’s-length between a willing seller and a willing buyer;

 

(2)           by any Approved Shipbroker;

 

(3)           without interrupting the operation or trading of the Vessel; and

 

(4)           not earlier than six months prior to (i) the date of creation, incurrence or assumption of the related Permitted Collateral Lien pursuant to clause (B), (C) or (F) of the definition thereof or (ii) the date of the incurrence of the relevant Indebtedness (as the case may be)

 

and the Appraised Market Value shall be the value as stated in such valuation, except that:

 

(a)           other than for the purposes of entering into a French Tax Lease, if the Vessel is subject to a mortgage under which the amount recoverable is restricted to a registered maximum mortgage amount, the market value of the Vessel shall be restricted to that mortgage amount if the valuation otherwise determined under this definition would be higher; and

 

(b)           if the Vessel becomes subject to an Event of Loss but the proceeds of the insurances in respect of that Event of Loss have not yet been applied in accordance with this Indenture, the Vessel shall be deemed to have a market value equal to its insured value or, if lower, such amount as the Security Agent determines is reasonably expected to be received from the Vessel’s insurers in respect of the Event of Loss.

 

For the avoidance of doubt, the Appraised Market Value of any Vessel whose most recent valuation occurred earlier than six months prior to (i) the date of creation, incurrence or assumption of the related Permitted Collateral Lien or (ii) the date of the incurrence of the relevant Indebtedness (as the case may be) shall be deemed to be zero.

 

“Approved Shipbrokers” means Barry Rogliano Salles, Harpain Shipping, Jaegar or such other internationally recognized shipbrokers of similar standing as may from time to time be selected by the Parent Guarantor for the purposes of determining a Vessel’s Appraised Market Value.

 

“Asset Sale” means:

 

(1)           the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of any assets by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole will be governed by Section 4.11 and/or Article Five and not by Section 4.09; and

 

(2)           the issuance of Equity Interests by any Restricted Subsidiary or the sale by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Equity Interests in any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (in each case, other than directors’ qualifying shares and shares to be held by third parties to meet the applicable legal requirements).

 

Notwithstanding the preceding provisions, none of the following items will be deemed to be an Asset Sale:

 

(1)           any single transaction or series of related transactions that involves assets or Equity Interests having a Fair Market Value of less than $5.0 million;

 

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(2)           a sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of assets or Equity Interests between or among the Parent Guarantor and any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(3)           an issuance of Equity Interests by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Parent Guarantor or to a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(4)           the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of inventory, insurance proceeds or other assets in the ordinary course of business and any sale or other disposition of damaged, worn-out or obsolete assets or assets that are no longer useful in the conduct of the business of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(5)           licenses and sublicenses by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

 

(6)           any surrender or waiver of contract rights or settlement, release, recovery on or surrender of contract, tort or other claims in the ordinary course of business;

 

(7)           any transfer, assignment or other disposition deemed to occur in connection with the creation or granting of Liens not prohibited under Section 4.07;

 

(8)           the sale or other disposition of cash or Cash Equivalents;

 

(9)           a Restricted Payment that does not violate Section 4.08 or a Permitted Investment;

 

(10)         the disposition of receivables in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or in bankruptcy or similar proceedings and exclusive of factoring or similar arrangements;

 

(11)         the foreclosure, condemnation or any similar action with respect to any property or other assets or a surrender or waiver of contract rights or the settlement, release or surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind;

 

(12)         the sale of any property in a sale and leaseback transaction that complies with Section 4.24 that is entered into within six months of the acquisition of such property or completion of the construction of the applicable Vessel;

 

(13)         time charters and other similar arrangements in the ordinary course of business;

 

(14)         any Event of Loss; and

 

(15)         any French Tax Lease.

 

“Attributable Debt” means, with respect to any sale and leaseback transaction, including any French Tax Lease, at the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the interest rate reasonably determined in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Parent Guarantor to be the interest rate implicit in the lease determined in accordance with IFRS, or, if not known, at the Parent Guarantor’s incremental borrowing rate) of the total obligations of the lessee of the property subject to such lease for rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such sale and leaseback transaction, including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended, or until the earliest date on which the lessee may terminate such lease without penalty or upon payment of penalty (in which case the rental payments shall include such penalty), after excluding from such rental payments all amounts required to be paid on account of maintenance and repairs, insurance, taxes, assessments, water, utilities and similar charges; provided, however, that if such sale and leaseback transaction results in a Capital Lease Obligation, the amount of Indebtedness represented thereby will be determined in accordance with the definition of “Capital Lease Obligation.”

 

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“Authority” means any competent regulatory, prosecuting, Tax or governmental authority in any jurisdiction.

 

“Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended, or any similar U.S. federal or state law or the laws of any other jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, voluntary or judicial liquidation, composition with creditors, reprieve from payment, controlled management, fraudulent conveyance, general settlement with creditors, reorganization or similar or equivalent laws affecting the rights of creditors generally.

 

“Beneficial Owner” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any particular “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), such “person” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only after the passage of time. The terms “Beneficially Owns” and “Beneficially Owned” have a corresponding meaning.

 

“Board of Directors” means:

 

(1)           with respect to a corporation, the board of directors of the corporation or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such board;

 

(2)           with respect to a partnership, the board of directors of the general partner of the partnership;

 

(3)           with respect to a limited liability company, the managing member or members or any controlling committee of managing members thereof; and

 

(4)           with respect to any other Person, the board or committee of such Person serving a similar function.

 

“Book-Entry Interest” means a beneficial interest in a Global Note held through and shown on, and transferred only through, records maintained in book-entry form by DTC and its nominees and successors.

 

“Business Day” means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or a place of payment under this Indenture are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

 

“Calculation Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of “Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio.”

 

“Capital Lease Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation of such Person under a lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) any property (whether real, personal or mixed), which obligation is required to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease obligation under IFRS, and, for purposes of this Indenture, the amount of such obligation at any date will be the capitalized amount thereof at such date, determined in accordance with IFRS and the Stated Maturity thereof will be the date of last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date such lease may be terminated without penalty.

 

“Capital Stock” means:

 

(1)           in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;

 

(2)           in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock;

 

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(3)           in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership interests (whether general or limited) or membership interests; and

 

(4)           any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person, but excluding from all of the foregoing any debt securities convertible into Capital Stock, whether or not such debt securities include any right of participation with Capital Stock.

 

“Cash Equivalents” means:

 

(1)           direct obligations (or certificates representing an interest in such obligations) issued by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the government of a member state of the European Union, the United States of America, Switzerland or Canada (including, in each case, any agency or instrumentality thereof), as the case may be, the payment of which is backed by the full faith and credit of the relevant member state of the European Union or the United States of America, Switzerland or Canada, as the case may be, and which are not callable or redeemable at the Parent Guarantor’s option;

 

(2)           overnight bank deposits, time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and money market deposits (and similar instruments) with maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition issued by a bank or trust company which is organized under, or authorized to operate as a bank or trust company under, the laws of a member state of the European Union or of the United States of America or any state thereof, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia or Canada; provided that such bank or trust company has capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating in excess of $250.0 million (or the foreign currency equivalent thereof as of the date of such investment) and whose long-term debt is rated “A-1” or higher by Moody’s or “A+” or higher by S&P or the equivalent rating category of another internationally recognized rating agency; provided, further, that any cash held pursuant to clause (6) below not covered by the foregoing may be held through overnight bank deposits, time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, banker’s acceptances and money market deposits (and similar instruments) with maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition issued by a bank or trust company organized and operating in the applicable jurisdiction;

 

(3)           repurchase obligations with a term of not more than 30 days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (1) and (2) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (2) above;

 

(4)           commercial paper having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from Moody’s or S&P and, in each case, maturing within one year after the date of acquisition;

 

(5)           money market funds or other mutual funds at least 95% of the assets of which constitute Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (1) through (4) above; and

 

(6)           cash in any currency in which the Parent Guarantor and its subsidiaries now or in the future operate, in such amounts as the Parent Guarantor determines to be necessary in the ordinary course of their business.

 

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

 

(1)           the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any Person (including any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act)) other than the Principal or a Related Party of the Principal;

 

(2)           the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Parent Guarantor;

 

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(3)         the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation), the result of which is that any Person (including any “person” as defined above), other than the Principal or a Related Party of the Principal, becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of 50% or more of the issued and outstanding Voting Stock of the Parent Guarantor measured by voting power rather than number of shares; or

 

(4)         the Parent Guarantor ceases to Beneficially Own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Voting Stock of the Issuer, other than director’s qualifying shares and other shares required to be issued by law.

 

“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme. 

 

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

 

“Collateral” means the following:

 

(i)           shares of capital stock of the Issuer, Silversea Cruises Ltd., Silversea Cruises (UK) Limited, Silversea Cruises (Europe) Limited, Silver Cloud Shipping Co. Ltd., Silver Wind Shipping Ltd., Silver Shadow Shipping Co. Ltd., Silver Spirit Shipping Co., Ltd., Silversea New Build Six Ltd., SG Expeditions Cyprus Ltd., SG Expeditions SAGL, SG Cruises GmbH and Canodros C.L.;

 

(ii)          mortgages over the following Vessels owned by the Guarantors: Silver Cloud, Silver Wind, Silver Shadow, Silver Spirit, Silver Galapagos and Silver Muse and, in each case, an assignment of insurance claims and earnings in respect of such Vessels, and with respect to certain of the foregoing Vessels, the related intra-group charter agreement and other relevant contacts;

 

(iii)         assets to be pledged by the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor, Silversea Cruises Limited, Sil-versea Cruises (Europe) Limited, Silversea Cruises (UK) Limited, Silver Cloud Shipping Co. Ltd., Silver Wind Shipping Ltd., Silver Shadow Shipping Co. Ltd., Silver Spirit Shipping Co., Ltd. and Silversea New Build Six Ltd. in each case pursuant to an all assets debenture;

 

(iv)        a charge over certain bank accounts of the Issuer, Silversea Cruises Ltd., SG Expeditions SAGL and SG Cruises GmbH;

 

(v)         trade receivables and intercompany receivables pledged pursuant to the Security Documents owing to any Guarantor or the Issuer by any of the Issuer or any Guarantor; and

 

(vi)        any additional assets that are pledged for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, the lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility and certain hedge counterparties.

 

“Collateral Vessel” means each of the Silver Cloud, the Silver Wind, the Silver Shadow, the Silver Spirit, the Silver Galapagos and the Silver Muse.

 

“Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“Consolidated EBITDA” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income, without duplication:

 

(1)         provision for taxes based on income or profits of such Person and its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries for such period; plus

 

(2)         the Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person and its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries for such period; plus

 

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(3)           depreciation, amortization (including amortization of intangibles and deferred financing fees but excluding amortization of prepaid cash expenses that were paid in a prior period) and other non-cash charges and expenses (excluding any such non-cash charge or expense to the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash charges or expenses in any future period or amortization of a prepaid cash charge or expense that was paid in a prior period) of such Person and its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries for such period; plus

 

(4)           any expenses, charges or other costs related to any Equity Offering or issuance of Subordinated Shareholder Funding permitted by this Indenture or relating to the offering of the Notes, in each case, as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor; plus

 

(5)           the amount of any management, monitoring, consulting and advisory fees and related expenses paid in such period to consultants and advisors; plus

 

(6)           any costs or expense incurred pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent that such costs or expense are funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Parent Guarantor or net cash proceeds of an issuance of Equity Interest of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock) solely to the extent that such net cash proceeds are excluded from the calculation set forth in Section 4.08(a)(iii)(B); plus

 

(7)           the amount of any minority interest expense consisting of subsidiary income attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary in such period or any prior period, except to the extent of dividends declared or paid on, or other cash payments in respect of, Equity Interests held by such parties; minus

 

(8)           non-cash items increasing such Consolidated Net Income for such period (other than any non-cash items increasing such Consolidated Net Income pursuant to clauses (1) through (14) of the definition of “Consolidated Net Income”), other than the reversal of a reserve for cash charges in a future period in the ordinary course of business;

 

in each case, on a consolidated basis and determined in accordance with IFRS.

 

“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:

 

(1)           the consolidated interest expense (net of interest income) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued, including, without limitation, amortization of debt discount (but not debt issuance costs);

 

(2)           non-cash interest payments;

 

(3)           the interest component of deferred payment obligations;

 

(4)           the interest component of all payments associated with Capital Lease Obligations;

 

(5)           commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance financings, net of the effect of all payments made or received pursuant to Hedging Obligations in respect of interest rates;

 

(6)           the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period;

 

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(7)           any interest on Indebtedness of another Person that is guaranteed by such Person or one of its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries or is secured by a Lien on assets of such Person or one of its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries; and

 

(8)           the product of (a) all dividends, whether paid or accrued and whether or not in cash, on any series of preferred stock of any Restricted Subsidiary, other than dividends on Equity Interests payable to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, times (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then current combined national, state and local statutory tax rate of such Person, expressed as a decimal, as estimated in good faith by a responsible accounting or financial officer of the Parent Guarantor.

 

Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, Consolidated Interest Expense shall not include any payments on any operating leases.

 

“Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the aggregate of the net income (loss) attributable to such Person and its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, out of such Person’s consolidated net income (excluding the net income (loss) of any Unrestricted Subsidiary), determined in accordance with IFRS and without any reduction in respect of preferred stock dividends; provided that:

 

(1)           any goodwill or other intangible asset impairment, charge, amortization or write-off, including debt issuance costs, will be excluded;

 

(2)           the net income (loss) of any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting will be included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or similar distributions paid in cash to the specified Person or a Restricted Subsidiary which is a Subsidiary of the Person;

 

(3)           solely for the purpose of determining the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 4.08(a)(iii)(A), any net income (loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Issuer or any Guarantor) will be excluded if such Subsidiary is subject to restrictions, directly or indirectly, on the payment of dividends or the making of distributions by such Restricted Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to the Parent Guarantor (or the Issuer or any Guarantor that holds the Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable) by operation of the terms of such Restricted Subsidiary’s charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute or governmental rule or regulation applicable to such Restricted Subsidiary or its shareholders (other than (a) restrictions that have been waived or otherwise released and (b) restrictions pursuant to the Notes, this Indenture or the Revolving Credit Facility); except that the Parent Guarantor’s equity in the net income of any such Restricted Subsidiary for such period will be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash or Cash Equivalents actually distributed or that could have been distributed by such Restricted Subsidiary during such period to the Parent Guarantor or another Restricted Subsidiary as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend to another Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Guarantor), to the limitation contained in this clause);

 

(4)           any net gain (or loss) realized upon the sale or other disposition of any asset or disposed operations of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiaries (including pursuant to any sale leaseback transaction) which is not sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business (as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor) or in connection with the sale or disposition of securities will be excluded;

 

(5)           any extraordinary, non-recurring, unusual or exceptional gain, loss or charge or any profit or loss on the disposal of property, investments and businesses, asset impairments, or any non-cash charges or reserves in respect of any restructuring, redundancy, integration or severance or any expenses, charges, reserves or other costs related to acquisitions will be excluded;

 

(6)           any non-cash compensation charge or expense arising from any grant of stock, stock options or other equity-based awards will be excluded;

 

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(7)           all deferred financing costs written off and premium paid or other expenses incurred directly in connection with any early extinguishment of Indebtedness and any net gain (loss) from any write-off or forgiveness of Indebtedness will be excluded;

 

(8)           any one-time non-cash charges or any increases in amortization or depreciation resulting from purchase accounting, in each case, in relation to any acquisition of another Person or business or resulting from any reorganization or restructuring involving the Parent Guarantor or its Subsidiaries will be excluded;

 

(9)           any unrealized gains or losses in respect of Hedging Obligations or any ineffectiveness recognized in earnings related to qualifying hedge transactions or the fair value or changes therein recognized in earnings for derivatives that do not qualify as hedge transactions, in each case, in respect of Hedging Obligations will be excluded; provided that any such gains or losses shall be included during the period in which they are realized;

 

(10)         (x) any unrealized foreign currency transaction gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness of any Person denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of such Person and (y) any unrealized foreign exchange gains or losses relating to translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies will be excluded;

 

(11)         any unrealized foreign currency translation or transaction gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness or other obligations of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary will be excluded;

 

(12)         to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or so long as the Parent Guarantor has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (a) not denied by the applicable insurer in writing within 180 days and (b) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within 365 days), losses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption;

 

(13)         the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles will be excluded; and

 

(14)         the impact of capitalized, accrued or accreting or pay-in-kind interest or principal on Subordinated Shareholder Funding will be excluded.

 

“Consolidated Total Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the sum (without duplication) of (1) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding any undrawn letters of credit) consisting of Capital Lease Obligations, bankers’ acceptances, Indebtedness for borrowed money and Indebtedness in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services, plus (2) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries and all preferred stock of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor, with the amount of such Disqualified Stock and preferred stock equal to the greater of their respective voluntary or involuntary liquidation preferences.

 

“continuing” means, with respect to any Default or Event of Default, that such Default or Event of Default has not been cured or waived.

 

“Credit Facilities” means one or more debt facilities, instruments or arrangements incurred by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (including but not limited to the Revolving Credit Facility) with banks, other institutions or investors providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such institutions or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such institutions against such receivables), letters of credit, notes or other Indebtedness, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, refinanced, repaid, increased or extended in whole or in part from time to time (and whether in whole or in part and whether or not with the original administrative agent and lenders or another

 

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administrative agent or agents or trustees or other banks or institutions and whether provided under the Revolving Credit Facility or one or more other credit or other agreements, indentures, financing agreements or otherwise) and in each case including all agreements, instruments and documents executed and delivered pursuant to or in connection with the foregoing (including any notes and letters of credit issued pursuant thereto and any Guarantee and collateral agreement, patent and trademark security agreement, mortgages or letter of credit applications and other Guarantees, pledges, agreements, security agreements and collateral documents). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “Credit Facilities” shall include any agreement or instrument (1) changing the maturity of any Indebtedness incurred thereunder or contemplated thereby, (2) adding Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor as additional borrowers, issuers or guarantors thereunder, (3) increasing the amount of Indebtedness incurred thereunder or available to be borrowed thereunder or (4) otherwise altering the terms and conditions thereof.

 

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

 

“Default” means any event that is, or with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.

 

“Definitive Registered Note” means, with respect to the Notes, a certificated Note registered in the name of the Holder thereof and issued in accordance with Section 2.06 hereof, substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto except that such Note shall not bear the legends applicable to Global Notes and shall not have the “Schedule of Principal Amount in the Global Note” attached thereto.

 

“Disqualified Stock” means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for which it is exchangeable, in each case, at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock, in whole or in part, on or prior to the six-month anniversary of the date that the Notes mature. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders of the Capital Stock have the right to require the issuer thereof to repurchase such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a “change of control” or an “asset sale” will not constitute Disqualified Stock if the terms of such Capital Stock provide that the issuer thereof may not repurchase or redeem any such Capital Stock pursuant to such provisions unless such repurchase or redemption complies with Section 4.08. For purposes hereof, the amount of Disqualified Stock which does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such Disqualified Stock as if such Disqualified Stock were purchased on any date on which Indebtedness shall be required to be determined pursuant to this Indenture, and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the Fair Market Value of such Disqualified Stock, such Fair Market Value to be determined as set forth herein.

 

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

 

“Equity Interests” means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).

 

“Equity Offering” means a public or private sale either (a) of the Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock and other than offerings registered on Form S-8 (or any successor form) under the Securities Act or any similar offering in other jurisdictions) of the Parent Guarantor or (b) of the Equity Interests of a direct or indirect parent entity of the Parent Guarantor to the extent that the net proceeds therefrom are contributed as Subordinated Shareholder Funding or to the equity capital of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

“Escrow Agent” means Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as escrow agent under the Escrow Agreement.

 

“Escrow Agreement” means the escrow agreement, dated the Issue Date, among the Issuer, the Trustee, the Escrow Agent and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as security trustee.

 

“Escrow Long Stop Date” means May 15, 2017.

 

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“Euroclear” means Euroclear SA/NV.

 

“Event of Loss” means the actual or constructive total loss, arranged or compromised total loss, destruction, condemnation, confiscation, requisition, seizure or forfeiture of, or other taking of title or use of, a Vessel.

 

“Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor statute, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder.

 

“Existing Indebtedness” means all Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in existence on the Issue Date; provided that the Indebtedness to be repaid on or following the First Escrow Release Date with the proceeds of the Notes issued on the Issue Date as described under “Use ofproceeds” in the Offering Memorandum shall cease to constitute Existing Indebtedness upon such repayment.

 

“Fair Market Value” means the value that would be paid by a willing buyer to an unaffiliated willing seller in a transaction not involving distress of either party, determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor’s Chief Executive Officer or responsible accounting or financial officer of the Parent Guarantor.

 

“FATCA Withholding” means any withholding or deduction required pursuant to an agreement described in section 1471(b) of the Code, or otherwise imposed pursuant to sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, any regulations or agreements thereunder, any official interpretations thereof, or any law implementing an intergovernmental approach thereto.

 

“First Escrow Release Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Escrow Agreement.

 

“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the ratio of the Consolidated EBITDA of such Person for such period to the Fixed Charges of such Person for such period. In the event that the specified Person or any of its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries incurs, assumes, guarantees, repays, repurchases, redeems, defeases or otherwise discharges any Indebtedness or issues, repurchases or redeems preferred stock subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is being calculated and on or prior to the date on which the event for which the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the “Calculation Date”), then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio will be calculated giving pro forma effect (as determined in good faith by a responsible accounting or financial officer of the Parent Guarantor) to such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, repayment, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other discharge of Indebtedness, or such issuance, repurchase or redemption of preferred stock, and the use of the proceeds therefrom, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter reference period; provided, however, that the pro forma calculation of Fixed Charges shall not give effect to (i) any Indebtedness incurred on the Calculation Date pursuant to Section 4.06(b) or (ii) the discharge on the Calculation Date of any Indebtedness to the extent that such discharge results from the proceeds incurred pursuant to Section 4.06(b).

 

In addition, for purposes of calculating the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio:

 

(1)           acquisitions that have been made by the specified Person or any of its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries, including through mergers or consolidations, or any Person or any of its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries acquired by the specified Person or any of its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries, and including all related financing transactions and including increases in ownership of Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries, during the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to the Calculation Date, or that are to be made on the Calculation Date, will be given pro forma effect (as determined in good faith by a responsible accounting or financial officer of the Parent Guarantor and may include anticipated expense and cost reduction synergies that would be permitted to be included in a pro forma prepared in accordance with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act) as if they had occurred on the first day of the four-quarter reference period;

 

(2)           the Consolidated EBITDA attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance with IFRS, and operations or businesses (and ownership interests therein) disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded;

 

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(3)           the Fixed Charges attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance with IFRS, and operations or businesses (and ownership interests therein) disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded, but only to the extent that the obligations giving rise to such Fixed Charges will not be obligations of the specified Person or any of its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries following the Calculation Date;

 

(4)           any Person that is a Restricted Subsidiary on the Calculation Date will be deemed to have been a Restricted Subsidiary at all times during such four-quarter period;

 

(5)           any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary on the Calculation Date will be deemed not to have been a Restricted Subsidiary at any time during such four-quarter period; and

 

(6)           if any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest, the interest expense on such Indebtedness will be calculated as if the rate in effect on the Calculation Date had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any Hedging Obligation applicable to such Indebtedness if such Hedging Obligation has a remaining term as at the Calculation Date in excess of 12 months, or, if shorter, at least equal to the remaining term of such Indebtedness).

 

“Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the sum, without duplication,

 

of:

 

(1)           the consolidated interest expense (net of interest income) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period related to Indebtedness, whether paid or accrued, including, without limitation, amortization of debt discount (but not debt issuance costs), non-cash interest payments, the interest component of deferred payment obligations, the interest component of all payments associated with Capital Lease Obligations, commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance financings, net of the effect of all payments made or received pursuant to Hedging Obligations in respect of interest rates; plus

 

(2)           the consolidated interest expense (but excluding such interest on Subordinated Shareholder Funding) of such Person and its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period; plus

 

(3)           any interest on Indebtedness of another Person that is guaranteed by such Person or one of its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries or is secured by a Lien on assets of such Person or one of its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries; plus

 

(4)           the product of (a) all dividends, whether paid or accrued and whether or not in cash, on any series of preferred stock of any Restricted Subsidiary, other than dividends on Equity Interests payable to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, times (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then current combined national, state and local statutory tax rate of such Person, expressed as a decimal, as estimated in good faith by a responsible accounting or financial officer of the Parent Guarantor.

 

Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, Fixed Charges shall not include any payments on any operating leases. For the avoidance of doubt, with respect to any particular French Tax Lease transaction, only the greater of (i) the consolidated interest expense of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries attributable to a French Tax Lease and (ii) the interest on Indebtedness of another Person that is guaranteed by any of the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, in relation to such French Tax Lease transaction, will be included in Fixed Charges for any period.

 

“French Tax Lease” means a transaction whereby:

 

(i)       ownership of a Vessel (other than the Silver Cloud, the Silver Wind, the Silver Shadow, the Silver Spirit, the Silver Galapagos and the Silver Muse, for so long as each such Vessel is pledged as

 

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Collateral) is transferred to a Tax Lease Counterparty (which may be by way of the transfer of ownership of the Person owning such vessel (including as a sale or other disposition or as a merger or consolidation));

 

(ii)          such Vessel is leased by such Tax Lease Counterparty back to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(iii)         the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary is granted (x) a purchase option in respect of such Vessel and/or (y) a share purchase option in respect of the entire share capital of the Tax Lease Counterparty;

 

(iv)        the consideration (including the assumption of Indebtedness) for the transfer of the ownership of the Vessel subject to such French Tax Lease must be greater than or equal to the Fair Market Value of such Vessel; and

 

(v)         the consideration for the acquisition of the Vessel is structured such that (x) the Tax Lease Counterparty assumes all of the outstanding Indebtedness (including any refinancing thereof) of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries that was used to acquire or pay the consideration for the construction of such Vessel (other than any Indebtedness incurred to finance any equity portion of the purchase price or construction price of the Vessel) without further recourse to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than (i) to the Vessel Holding Company selling the Vessel in such sale and leaseback transaction as a co-obligor under such Indebtedness and (ii) pursuant to a Guarantee permitted under Section 4.06(b)(19)) or (y) the Tax Lease Counterparty pays consideration in cash to the Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary and such cash proceeds are used to repurchase, prepay, redeem or repay all of the outstanding Indebtedness (including any refinancing of such Indebtedness) of the Parent Guarantor and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that was used to acquire or pay for the consideration for the construction of such Vessel (other than any Indebtedness incurred to finance any equity portion of the purchase price or construction price of the Vessel) or (z) a combination of (x) and (y)

 

“Government Securities” means direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed by, the United States of America, and the payment for which the United States pledges its full faith and credit.

 

“Guarantee” means a guarantee other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business, of all or any part of any Indebtedness (whether arising by agreements to keep-well, to take or pay or to maintain financial statement conditions, pledges of assets, sureties or otherwise).

 

“Guarantors” means the Parent Guarantor and any Restricted Subsidiary that guarantees the Notes in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, and their respective successors and assigns, until the Note Guarantee of such Person has been released in accordance with this Indenture.

 

“Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any specified Person, the obligations of such Person under:

 

(1)         interest rate swap agreements (whether from fixed to floating or from floating to fixed), interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements;

 

(2)         other agreements or arrangements designed to manage interest rates or interest rate risk; and

 

(3)         other agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange rates or commodity prices.

 

“Holder” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Registrar’s books.

 

“IFRS” means International Financial Reporting Standards promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Board or any successor board or agency as in effect on the Issue Date.

 

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“Immaterial Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor (a) the assets of which Subsidiary, taken together with all other Immaterial Subsidiaries as of such date, constitute less than or equal to 5% of the total assets of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, (b) the revenues of which Subsidiary, taken together with all other Immaterial Subsidiaries as of such date, account for less than or equal to 5% of the total revenues of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis and (c) the Consolidated EBITDA of which Subsidiary, taken together with all other Immaterial Subsidiaries as of such date, accounts for less than 5% of the Consolidated EBITDA of the Parent Guarantor.

 

“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any specified Person (excluding accrued expenses and trade paya-bles), without duplication:

 

(1)           the principal amount of indebtedness of such Person in respect of borrowed money;

 

(2)           the principal amount of obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments for which such Person is responsible or liable;

 

(3)           reimbursement obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit, bankers’ acceptances or similar instruments (except to the extent such reimbursement obligations relate to trade paya-bles and such obligations are satisfied within 30 days of incurrence), in each case only to the extent that the underlying obligation in respect of which the instrument was issued would be treated as Indebtedness;

 

(4)           Capital Lease Obligations of such Person;

 

(5)           the principal component of all obligations of such Person to pay the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property or services due more than one year after such property is acquired or such services are completed;

 

(6)           net obligations of such Person under Hedging Obligations (the amount of any such obligations to be equal at any time to the termination value of such agreement or arrangement giving rise to such obligation that would be payable by such Person at such time); and

 

(7)           Attributable Debt of such Person;

 

if and to the extent any of the preceding items (other than letters of credit, Attributable Debt and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of the specified Person prepared in accordance with IFRS. In addition, the term “Indebtedness” includes all Indebtedness of others secured by a Lien on any asset of the specified Person (whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by the specified Person) and, to the extent not otherwise included, the Guarantee by the specified Person of any Indebtedness of any other Person.

 

The term “Indebtedness” shall not include:

 

(1)         anything accounted for as an operating lease in accordance with IFRS as at the Issue

 

Date;

 

(2)           contingent obligations in the ordinary course of business;

 

(3)           in connection with the purchase by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of any business, any post-closing payment adjustments to which the seller may become entitled to the extent such payment is determined by a final closing balance sheet or such payment depends on the performance of such business after the closing;

 

(4)           deferred or prepaid revenues;

 

(5)           purchase price holdbacks in respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset to satisfy warranty or other unperformed obligations of the applicable seller;

 

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(6)           any contingent obligations in respect of workers’ compensation claims, early retirement or termination obligations, pension fund obligations or contributions or similar claims, obligations or contributions or social security or wage Taxes; or

 

(7)           Subordinated Shareholder Funding.

 

“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.

 

“Intercreditor Agent” means Citibank, N.A., London Branch acting as intercreditor agent pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

“Intercreditor Agreement” means the Intercreditor Agreement, to be dated on or before the First Escrow Release Date, by and among, inter alios, the Security Agent, the agent for the Revolving Credit Facility, certain hedging counterparties and the other parties named therein, as amended, restated or otherwise modified or varied from time to time.

 

“Interest Payment Date” means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on the Notes.

 

“Investment” means, with respect to any Person, all direct or indirect investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the forms of loans (including Guarantees or other obligations, but excluding advances or extensions of credit to customers or suppliers made in the ordinary course of business), advances or capital contributions (excluding commission, travel and similar advances to officers and employees made in the ordinary course of business), purchases or other acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other securities, together with all items that are or would be classified as Investments on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with IFRS. If the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary sells or otherwise disposes of any Equity Interests of any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary such that, after giving effect to any such sale or disposition, such Person is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary, the Parent Guarantor will be deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition equal to the Fair Market Value of the Parent Guarantor’s Investments in such Restricted Subsidiary that were not sold or disposed of in an amount determined as provided in the final paragraph of Section 4.08. The acquisition by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of a Person that holds an Investment in a third Person will be deemed to be an Investment by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary in such third Person in an amount equal to the Fair Market Value of the Investments held by the acquired Person in such third Person in an amount determined as provided in the final paragraph of Section 4.08. Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the amount of an Investment will be determined at the time the Investment is made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value.

 

“Issue Date” means January 30, 2017.

 

“Issuer Order” means a written order signed in the name of the Issuer by any Person authorized by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Issuer.

 

“Lien” means with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law, including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or any lease in the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction.

 

“Loan-to-Value Ratio” means, as of the date of creation, incurrence or assumption of the related Permitted Collateral Lien pursuant to clause (B) or (C) of the definition thereof, or on the earlier of (i) the date of reinvestment of any Net Proceeds or (ii) the date on which the Parent Guarantor or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary enters into a binding commitment to reinvest such Net Proceeds from any Asset Sale or Event of Loss relating to any Collateral pursuant to clause (2), (3) or (4) of Section 4.09(b), the ratio of (1) the Consolidated Total Indebtedness on a pro forma basis that is secured by Liens on the Collateral (assuming, for purposes of this clause (1), that any Indebtedness available to be borrowed under any revolving credit facility, including the Revolving Credit Facility, incurred

 

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pursuant to clause (2) of Section 4.06(b) is fully drawn) to (2) the aggregate of the Appraised Market Value as of such date of the Vessels (after giving pro forma effect to any improvements being financed by the Indebtedness the incurrence of which requires, or the application of Net Proceeds which requires, the calculation of such ratio to the extent reflected in such Appraised Market Value) that are a part of the Collateral (and secured by first priority liens (subject to Permitted Liens) for the benefit of the Holders) as of such date owned by the Parent Guarantor and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries plus the Fair Market Value (as determined by a recent appraisal of a qualified independent third party) of any other Collateral constituting marine spare parts and equipment held in inventory (as reflected on the consolidated balance sheet of the Issuer) or onboard Vessels that are part of the Collateral (and secured by first priority liens (subject to Permitted Liens) for the benefit of the Holders).

 

“Management Advances” means loans or advances made to, or Guarantees with respect to loans or advances made to, directors, officers or employees of any Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary:

 

(1)           in respect of travel, entertainment or moving related expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(2)           in respect of moving related expenses incurred in connection with any closing or consolidation of any office; or

 

(3)           in the ordinary course of business and (in the case of this clause (3)) not exceeding $1.0 million in the aggregate outstanding at any time.

 

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.

 

“Net Proceeds” means (i) with respect to any Asset Sale or Event of Loss, the aggregate cash proceeds and Cash Equivalents received by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of such Asset Sale or Event of Loss (including, without limitation, any cash or Cash Equivalents received upon the sale or other disposition of any non-cash consideration received in any Asset Sale); provided that with respect to any Asset Sale, such amount shall be net of the direct costs relating to such Asset Sale, including, without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees, and sales commissions, and any relocation expenses incurred as a result of the Asset Sale, taxes paid or payable as a result of the Asset Sale, and any reserve for adjustment or indemnification obligations in respect of the sale price of such asset or assets established in accordance with IFRS and (ii) with respect to any French Tax Lease, the cash proceeds, if any, received by the Parent Guarantor or relevant Restricted Subsidiary in excess of the amount of cash proceeds used to repurchase, prepay, redeem or repay the outstanding Indebtedness (including any refinancing thereof) of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that was incurred to acquire or pay the consideration for the construction of the Vessel subject to such French Tax Lease.

 

“New Build Agreement” means that certain Shipbuilding Contract, entered into on January 10, 2014, by and between Fincantieri S.p.A., as builder, and the Parent Guarantor, as buyer, relating to the construction of the Silver Muse.

 

“New Build Facility” means that certain Loan Agreement, dated as of June 15, 2015, by and among, inter alios, Silversea New Build Six Ltd., as borrower, the banks and financial institutions listed in Schedule 1 thereto, as lenders, Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, as facility agent, and SACE S.p.A., as amended, restated or otherwise modified or varied from time to time.

 

“New Vessel Aggregate Secured Debt Cap” means the sum of each of the New Vessel Secured Debt Caps (with such New Vessel Aggregate Secured Debt Cap to be expressed as the sum of the euro and U.S. dollar denominations of the New Vessel Secured Debt Caps reflected in the New Vessel Aggregate Secured Debt Cap).

 

“New Vessel Financing” means any financing arrangement, including a sale and leaseback transaction (including a French Tax Lease), entered into by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of financing or refinancing all or any part of the purchase price, cost of design or construction of a Vessel or Vessels or the acquisition of Capital Stock of entities owning or to own Vessels.

 

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“New Vessel Secured Debt Cap” means, in respect of a New Vessel Financing, no more than 80% of the contract price for the acquisition and any other Ready for Sea Cost of the related Vessel (and 100% of any related export credit insurance premium), expressed in euros or U.S. dollars, as the case may be, being financed by such New Vessel Financing.

 

“Non-Recourse Debt” means Indebtedness as to which neither the Parent Guarantor nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) provides credit support of any kind (including any undertaking, agreement or instrument that would constitute Indebtedness) or (b) is directly or indirectly liable as a guarantor or otherwise.

 

“Note Guarantee” means the Guarantee by each Guarantor of the Issuer’s obligations under this Indenture and the Notes, executed pursuant to this Indenture.

 

“Obligations” means any principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.

 

“Offering Memorandum” means the final offering memorandum in respect of the Notes, dated January 13, 2017.

 

“Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the Chief Executive Officer or any Vice President of such Person.

 

“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed on behalf of the Parent Guarantor by an Officer.

 

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

 

“Parent Entity” means any Person of which the Parent Guarantor is a Subsidiary (including any Person of which the Parent Guarantor becomes a Subsidiary after the Issue Date in compliance with this Indenture) and any holding company established by the Principal or any Related Party of the Principal for purposes of holding its investment in any Parent Entity.

 

“Parent Guarantor” means Silversea Cruise Holding Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

 

“Permitted Business” means (a) in respect of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, any businesses, services or activities engaged in by the Parent Guarantor or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries on the Issue Date and (b) any businesses, services and activities engaged in by the Parent Guarantor or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries that are related, complementary, incidental, ancillary or similar to any of the foregoing or are extensions or developments of any thereof.

 

“Permitted Collateral Liens” means (A) Liens on the Collateral described in one or more of clauses (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (17), (18), (19), (20), (22), (24), (26) and (29) (to the extent related to the foregoing or clause (F) below) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”; (B) Liens on the Collateral to secure Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary that is permitted to be incurred under clauses (2), (3), (9), (10) (in the case of clause (10), to the extent such Guarantee is in respect of Indebtedness otherwise permitted to be secured and specified in this definition), (12)(ii) or (18) of Section 4.06(b); provided, however, that, in the case of Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary that is permitted to be incurred under clause (12)(ii) or (18) of Section 4.06(b), after giving pro forma effect to such transaction and the use of proceeds thereof, the Loan-to-Value Ratio does not exceed 60%; (C) Liens on the Collateral securing Indebtedness incurred under Section 4.06(a); provided that, in the case of this clause (C), after giving pro forma effect to such incurrence and the use of proceeds therefrom, the Loan-to-Value Ratio does not exceed 60%; (D) Liens on Collateral securing Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Indebtedness secured pursuant to the foregoing clauses (A), (B) and (C); (E) Liens on the Collateral securing Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clause (4) of Section 4.06(b); provided that (i) such Lien is incurred in relation to financing the improvement of a Vessel such that it is not reasonably practicable to provide a Lien over such improvement apart from such Vessel as a whole as determined in good

 

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faith by the Parent Guarantor and (ii) the Parent Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee and the Security Agent a new appraisal for the Vessel subject to such improvements prepared by an Approved Shipbroker as soon as reasonably practicable following the completion of such improvements; provided, however, that such Liens securing Indebtedness pursuant to the foregoing clauses (B), (C), (D) and this clause (E) rank equal (with respect to the application of proceeds from any realization or enforcement of the Collateral in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement) or junior to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes or the Note Guarantees (except that a Lien in favor of Indebtedness incurred under clauses (2) or (9) of Section 4.06(b) may have super priority in respect of the application of proceeds from any realization or enforcement of the Collateral on terms not materially less favorable to the Holders than that accorded to the Revolving Credit Facility on the First Escrow Release Date as provided in the Inter-creditor Agreement as in effect on the First Escrow Release Date), and (F) Liens or Collateral described in clause (23) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”; provided that after giving pro forma effect to such transaction and the use of proceeds thereof, the Loan-to-Value Ratio does not exceed 60%.

 

“Permitted Investments” means:

 

(1)         any Investment in a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(2)         any Investment in cash in U.S. dollars, euros, Swiss francs, U.K. pounds sterling or Australian dollars, and Cash Equivalents;

 

(3)         any Investment by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in a Person, if as a result of such Investment:

 

(a)           such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary; or

 

(b)           such Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(4)         any Investment made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from an Asset Sale that was made pursuant to and in compliance with Section 4.09 or any other disposition of assets not constituting an Asset Sale;

 

(5)         any acquisition of assets or Capital Stock solely in exchange for the issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Parent Guarantor;

 

(6)         any Investments received in compromise or resolution of (A) obligations of trade creditors or customers that were incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of any trade creditor or customer; or (B) litigation, arbitration or other disputes with Persons who are not Affiliates;

 

(7)         Investments in receivables owing to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary created or acquired in the ordinary course of business;

 

(8)         Investments represented by Hedging Obligations, which obligations are permitted to be incurred under Section 4.06(b)(9);

 

(9)         repurchases of the Notes;

 

(10)       any Guarantee of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Section 4.06 other than a guarantee of Indebtedness of an Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor that is not a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(11)       any Investment existing on, or made pursuant to binding commitments existing on, the Issue Date and any Investment consisting of an extension, modification or renewal of any Investment 

 

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existing on, or made pursuant to a binding commitment existing on, the Issue Date; provided that the amount of any such Investment may be increased (a) as required by the terms of such Investment as in existence on the Issue Date or (b) as otherwise permitted under this Indenture;

 

(12)         Investments acquired after the Issue Date as a result of the acquisition by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of another Person, including by way of a merger, amalgamation or consolidation with or into the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in a transaction that is not prohibited by Article Five after the Issue Date to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation;

 

(13)         Management Advances;

 

(14)         Investments consisting of the licensing and contribution of intellectual property rights pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with other Persons in the ordinary course of business;

 

(15)         Investments consisting of, or to finance the acquisition, purchase, charter or leasing or the construction, installation or the making of any improvement with respect to any asset (including Vessels) or purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials, services or equipment or purchases of contract rights, licenses or leases of intellectual property rights (including prepaid expenses and advances to suppliers), in each case, in the ordinary course of business (including, for the avoidance of doubt any deposits made to secure the acquisition, purchase or construction of, or any options to acquire, any vessel);

 

(16)         other Investments in any Person having an aggregate Fair Market Value (measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (16) that are at the time outstanding not to exceed $10.0 million; provided that if an Investment is made pursuant to this clause in a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary and such Person subsequently becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is subsequently designated a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 4.17, such Investment, if applicable, shall thereafter be deemed to have been made pursuant to clause (1) or (3) of the definition of “Permitted Investments” and not this clause;

 

(17)         Investments in joint ventures having an aggregate Fair Market Value (measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), when taken together with all other investments made pursuant to this clause (17) that are at the time outstanding, not to exceed $5.0 million; provided that if an Investment is made pursuant to this clause in a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary and such Person subsequently becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is subsequently designated a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 4.17, such Investment, if applicable, shall thereafter be deemed to have been made pursuant to clause (1) or (3) of the definition of “Permitted Investments” and not this clause;

 

(18)         Investments consisting of subordinated loans provided by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary to a Tax Lease Counterparty representing not more than an amount equal to (i) the greater of (x) the Fair Market Value of the related Vessel or (y) the contract price for the acquisition or construction of the related Vessel plus (ii) the amount of all fees and expenses, including any related export credit insurance premium, incurred in connection with such French Tax Lease less (iii) the amount of Indebtedness incurred or assumed by the Tax Lease Counterparty in connection with its acquisition of such Vessel pursuant to the associated French Tax Lease.

 

“Permitted Jurisdictions” means (i) any state of the United States of America, the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States of America, (ii) Bermuda, (iii) the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, (iv) the Isle of Man, (v) the Marshall Islands, (vi) Malta, (vii) the United Kingdom and (viii) any member state of the European Economic Area.

 

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“Permitted Liens” means:

 

(1)           Liens in favor of the Parent Guarantor or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(2)           Liens on property (including Capital Stock) of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged with or into or consolidated with the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such Liens were in existence prior to the contemplation of such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary or such merger or consolidation, were not incurred in contemplation thereof and do not extend to any assets other than those of the Person (or the Capital Stock of such Person) that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged with or into or consolidated with the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(3)           Liens to secure the performance of statutory obligations, insurance, surety, bid, performance, travel or appeal bonds, workers compensation obligations, performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business (including Liens to secure letters of credit or similar instruments issued to assure payment of such obligations or for the protection of customer deposits or credit card payments);

 

(4)           Liens on any property or assets of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of securing Capital Lease Obligations, purchase money obligations, mortgage financings or other Indebtedness, in each case, incurred pursuant to Section 4.06(b)(4) in connection with the financing of all or any part of the purchase price, lease expense, rental payments or cost of design, construction, installation, repair, replacement or improvement of property, plant or equipment or other assets (including Capital Stock) used in the business of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that any such Lien may not extend to any assets or property owned by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries at the time the Lien is incurred other than (i) the assets (including Vessels) and property acquired, improved, constructed, leased or financed (provided that to the extent any such Capital Lease Obligations, purchase money obligations, mortgage financings or other Indebtedness relate to multiple assets or properties, then all such assets and properties may secure any such Capital Lease Obligations, purchase money obligations, mortgage financings or other Indebtedness) and (ii) to the extent such Lien secures financing in connection with the purchase of a Vessel, Related Vessel Property;

 

(5)           Liens existing on the Issue Date; provided that any Liens securing Existing Indebtedness to be repaid on or following the First Escrow Release Date with the proceeds of the Notes issued on the Issue Date as described under “Use ofproceeds” in the Offering Memorandum shall cease to be Permitted Liens pursuant to this clause (5) upon such repayment;

 

(6)           Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims that (x) are not yet due and payable or (y) are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings that have the effect of preventing the forfeiture or sale of the property subject to any such Lien and for which adequate reserves are being maintained to the extent required by IFRS;

 

(7)           Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s, landlord’s and mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s, construction or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business and with respect to amounts not yet delinquent or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and in respect of which, if applicable, the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary shall have set aside on its books reserves in accordance with IFRS; and with respect to Vessels: (i) Liens fully covered (in excess of customary deductibles) by valid policies of insurance and (ii) Liens for general average and salvage, including contract salvage; or Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provisions relating to attorney’s liens or bankers’ liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds maintained with a creditor depositary institution;

 

(8)           survey exceptions, easements or reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real property that were not incurred in connection with Indebtedness and that do

 

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not in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair their use in the operation of the business of such Person;

 

(9)           Liens created for the benefit of (and to secure) the Notes (or the Note Guarantees) issued on the Issue Date (or the First Escrow Release Date);

 

(10)         Liens securing Indebtedness under Hedging Obligations, which obligations are permitted to be incurred under Section 4.06(b)(9);

 

(11)         Liens on insurance policies and proceeds thereof, or other deposits, to secure insurance premium financings;

 

(12)         Liens arising out ofjudgments or awards not constituting an Event of Default and notices of lis pendens and associated rights related to litigation being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been made;

 

(13)         Liens on cash, Cash Equivalents or other property arising in connection with the defea-sance, discharge or redemption of Indebtedness;

 

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

 

(15)         Leases, licenses, subleases and sublicenses of assets in the ordinary course of business and Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of assets entered into in the ordinary course of business;

 

(16)         [Reserved];

 

(17)         (i) mortgages, liens, security interests, restrictions, encumbrances or any other matters of record that have been placed by any developer, landlord or other third party on property over which the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary has easement rights or on any real property leased by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary and subordination or similar agreements relating thereto and (ii) any condemnation or eminent domain proceedings or compulsory purchase order affecting real property;

 

(18)         Liens securing or arising by reason of any netting or set-off arrangement entered into in the ordinary course of banking or other trading activities;

 

(19)         Liens on Unearned Customer Deposits (i) in favor of credit card companies pursuant to agreements therewith consistent with industry practice and (ii) in favor of customers;

 

(20)         pledges of goods, the related documents of title and/or other related documents arising or created in the ordinary course of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary’s business or operations as Liens only for Indebtedness to a bank or financial institution directly relating to the goods or documents on or over which the pledge exists;

 

(21)         Liens over cash paid into an escrow account pursuant to any purchase price retention arrangement as part of any permitted disposal by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary on condition that the cash paid into such escrow account in relation to a disposal does not represent more than 15% of the net proceeds of such disposal;

 

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(22)         Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary arising from vessel chartering, maintenance, the furnishing of supplies and bunkers to vessels;

 

(23)         Liens securing an aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness not to exceed the aggregate amount of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 4.06(b)(5); provided that such Lien extends only to (i) the assets (including Vessels), purchase price or cost of design, construction, installation or improvement of which is financed or refinanced thereby and any proceeds of products thereof, (ii) any Related Vessel Property or (iii) the Capital Stock of a Vessel Holding Company;

 

(24)         Liens created on any asset of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary established to hold assets of any stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit or incentive plan or unit trust of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary securing any loan to finance the acquisition of such assets;

 

(25)         Liens incurred by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to obligations that do not exceed the greater of $10.0 million and 0.75% of Total Tangible Assets at any one time outstanding;

 

(26)         Liens arising from financing statement filings (or similar filings in any applicable jurisdiction) regarding operating leases entered into by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

 

(27)         any interest or title of a lessor under any Capital Lease Obligation or an operating lease;

 

(28)         Liens on the Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and

 

(29)         any extension, renewal, refinancing or replacement, in whole or in part, of any Lien described in the foregoing clauses (1) through (28) (but excluding clauses (4), (16) and (25)); provided that (x) any such Lien is limited to all or part of the same property or assets (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof) that secured (or, under the written arrangements under which the original Lien arose, could secure) the Indebtedness being refinanced and (y) the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at such time is not increased to any amount greater than the sum of the outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed amount of such Indebtedness at the time the original Lien became a Permitted Lien under this Indenture and an amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses, including premiums, related to such extension, renewal, refinancing or replacement.

 

“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness incurred by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, any Disqualified Stock issued by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and any preferred stock issued by any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case, in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to renew, refund, refinance, replace, exchange, defease or discharge other Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than intercompany Indebtedness), including Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness; provided that:

 

(1)           the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable, or if issued with original issue discount, aggregate issue price, or, if greater, committed amount (only to the extent the committed amount could have been incurred on the date of initial incurrence)) of such new Indebtedness, the liquidation preference of such new Disqualified Stock or the amount of such new preferred stock does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable, or if issued with original issue discount, aggregate issue price or, if greater, committed amount (only to the extent the committed amount could have been incurred on the date of initial incurrence)) of the Indebtedness, the liquidation preference of the Disqualified Stock or the amount of the preferred stock (plus in each case the amount of accrued and unpaid interest or dividends on and the amount of all fees and expenses, including premiums, incurred in connection with the incurrence or issuance of, such Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or preferred stock), renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, exchanged, defeased or discharged;

 

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(2)           such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has (a) a final maturity date that is either (i) no earlier than the final maturity date of the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, exchanged, defeased or discharged or (ii) after the final maturity date of the Notes and (b) has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity that is equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged;

 

(3)           if the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the Note Guarantees, as the case may be, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the Note Guarantees, as the case may be, on terms at least as favorable to the holders of Notes or the Note Guarantees, as the case may be, as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, exchanged, defeased or discharged; and

 

(4)           if such Indebtedness is incurred either by the Parent Guarantor (if the Parent Guarantor was the obligor on the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged) or by the Restricted Subsidiary that was the obligor on the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged, such Indebtedness is guaranteed only by Persons who were obligors on the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged.

 

“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, limited liability company or government or other entity.

 

“Principal” means Manfredi Lefebvre.

 

“Productive Asset Lease” means any lease or charter of one or more Vessels (other than leases or charters required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases under IFRS).

 

“QIB” means a “Qualified Institutional Buyer” as defined in Rule 144A.

 

“Ready for Sea Cost” means with respect to a Vessel to be acquired, constructed or leased (pursuant to a Capital Lease Obligation) by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, the aggregate amount of all expenditures incurred to acquire or construct and bring such Vessel to the condition and location necessary for its intended use, including any and all inspections, appraisals, repairs, modifications, additions, permits and licenses in connection with such acquisition or lease, which would be classified as “property, plant and equipment” in accordance with IFRS and any assets relating to such Vessel.

 

“Record Date,” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date, means the January 15 and July 15 (in each case, whether or not a Business Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date.

 

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

 

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

 

“Regulation S” means Regulation S under the Securities Act (including any successor regulation thereto), as it may be amended from time to time.

 

“Related Party” means:

 

(1)           any immediate family member of the Principal; or

 

(2)           any trust, corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity, the beneficiaries, stockholders, partners, members, owners or Persons beneficially holding a majority (and controlling)

 

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interest of which consists of, or any charitable foundations founded by, the Principal and/or such other Persons referred to in the immediately preceding clause (1).

 

“Related Vessel Property” means (i) any cash deposited in a bank account owned by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary representing prepayments of principal and interest of the relevant financing for up to one year, (ii) any insurance policies or proceeds relating to such Vessel (whether incurred by way of pledge or assignment of such policies or proceeds thereof or otherwise), (iii) any warranty claims of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary (whether incurred by way of pledge or assignment of such claims or otherwise) against a contractor or developer of any such Vessel and (iv) all monies payable to the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as a consequence of the operation, charter, lease or rental of such Vessel (or any agreements related thereto).

 

“Replacement Assets” means (1) assets not classified as current assets under IFRS that will be used or useful in a Permitted Business or (2) substantially all the assets of a Permitted Business or a majority of the Voting Stock of any Person engaged in a Permitted Business that will become on the date of acquisition thereof a Restricted Subsidiary.

 

“Restricted Investment” means an Investment other than a Permitted Investment.

 

“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

“Revolving Credit Facility” means the revolving credit agreement for an amount of up to $40.0 million to be entered into on or prior to the First Escrow Release Date among the Issuer, as borrower, certain of the Parent Guarantor’s Subsidiaries, as guarantors, and certain financial institutions, as lenders, as amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced (whether or not upon termination, and whether with the original lenders or otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreement or indenture extending the maturity thereof, refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreement or any successor or replacement agreement or agreements or increasing the amount loaned thereunder (subject to compliance with Section 4.06) or altering the maturity thereof.

 

“Rule 144” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act (including any successor regulation thereto), as it may be amended from time to time.

 

“Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act (including any successor regulation thereto), as it may be amended from time to time.

 

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group and its successors.

 

“Second Escrow Release Date” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Escrow Agreement.

 

“Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor statute, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder.

 

“Security Agent” means Citibank, N.A., London Branch acting as security agent pursuant to the Intercredi-tor Agreement or such successor Security Agent or any delegate thereof as may be appointed thereunder.

 

“Security Documents” means the security agreements, pledge agreements, charge agreements, collateral assignments and any other instrument and document executed and delivered pursuant to this Indenture or otherwise or any of the foregoing, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, creating the security interests in the Collateral as contemplated by this Indenture.

 

“Security Interests” means security interests in the Collateral securing the Notes and the Note Guarantees.

 

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“Significant Subsidiary” means, at the date of determination, any Restricted Subsidiary that together with its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries (i) for the most recent fiscal year, accounted for more than 10% of the consolidated revenues of the Parent Guarantor or (ii) as of the end of the most recent fiscal year, was the owner of more than 10% of the consolidated assets of the Parent Guarantor.

 

“Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any installment of interest or principal on any series of Indebtedness, the date on which the payment of interest or principal was scheduled to be paid in the documentation governing such Indebtedness as of the Issue Date, and will not include any contingent obligations to repay, redeem or repurchase any such interest or principal prior to the date originally scheduled for the payment thereof.

 

“Subordinated Shareholder Funding” means, collectively, any funds provided to the Parent Guarantor by any Parent Entity, any Affiliate of any Parent Entity or the Principal or any Related Party of the Principal in exchange for or pursuant to any security, instrument or agreement other than Capital Stock, in each case issued to and held by the foregoing Persons, together with any such security, instrument or agreement and any other security or instrument other than Capital Stock issued in payment of any obligation under any Subordinated Shareholder Funding; provided, however, that such Subordinated Shareholder Funding:

 

(1)           does not mature or require any amortization, redemption or other repayment of principal or any sinking fund payment prior to the first anniversary of the maturity of the Notes (other than through conversion or exchange of such funding into Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Parent Guarantor or any funding meeting the requirements of this definition);

 

(2)           does not require, prior to the first anniversary of the maturity of the Notes, payment of cash interest, cash withholding amounts or other cash gross ups, or any similar cash amounts;

 

(3)           contains no change of control or similar provisions and does not accelerate and has no right to declare a default or event of default or take any enforcement action or otherwise require any cash payment, in each case, prior to the first anniversary of the maturity of the Notes;

 

(4)           does not provide for or require any security interest or encumbrance over any asset of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries; and

 

(5)           pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement, an Additional Intercreditor Agreement or another intercreditor agreement is fully subordinated and junior in right of payment to the Notes pursuant to subordination, payment blockage and enforcement limitation terms which are customary in all material respects for similar funding.

 

“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any specified Person:

 

(1)           any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency and after giving effect to any voting agreement or stockholders’ agreement that effectively transfers voting power) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees of the corporation, association or other business entity is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination thereof); and

 

(2)           any partnership or limited liability company of which (a) more than 50% of the capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting interests or general and limited partnership interests, as applicable, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof, whether in the form of membership, general, special or limited partnership interests or otherwise, and (b) such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person is a controlling general partner or otherwise controls such entity.

 

“Subsidiary Guarantor” means each subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that has provided a Note Guarantee.

 

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“Supplemental Indenture” means a supplemental indenture to this Indenture substantially in the form of Exhibit D attached hereto.

 

“Tax” means any tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other governmental charge (including penalties, interest and additions to tax related thereto, and, for the avoidance of doubt, including any withholding or deduction for or on account of Tax). “Taxes” and “Taxation” shall be construed to have corresponding meanings.

 

“Tax Lease Counterparty” means a Subsidiary of a credit institution which is tax integrated within such credit institution’s tax group or is tax transparent with such credit institution (including any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor that is transferred to such credit institution) that is the counterparty to the Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary under a French Tax Lease.

 

“Total Assets” means the total assets of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries, as shown on the most recent balance sheet of the Parent Guarantor, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS.

 

“Total Tangible Assets” means the Total Assets excluding consolidated intangible assets.

 

“Trust Officer” means any officer within the agency and corporate trust group, division or section of the Trustee (however named, or any successor group of the Trustee) and also means, with respect to any particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

 

“Unearned Customer Deposits” means amounts paid to the Parent Guarantor or any of its Subsidiaries representing customer deposits for unsailed bookings (whether paid directly by the customer or by a credit card company).

 

“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor (other than the Issuer or any successor to the Issuer) that is designated by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors but only to the extent that such Subsidiary:

 

(1)           has no Indebtedness other than Non-Recourse Debt or a Lien described in clause (28) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”;

 

(2)           except as permitted under Section 4.10, is not party to any agreement, contract, arrangement or understanding with the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary unless the terms of any such agreement, contract, arrangement or understanding are, taken as a whole, no less favorable to the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons who are not Affiliates of the Parent Guarantor; and

 

(3)           is a Person with respect to which neither the Parent Guarantor nor any Restricted Subsidiary has any direct or indirect obligation (a) to subscribe for additional Equity Interests or (b) to maintain or preserve such Person’s financial condition or to cause such Person to achieve any specified levels of operating results.

 

“U.S. dollar” or “$” means the lawful currency of the United States of America.

 

“Vessel” means a passenger cruise vessel which is owned by and registered (or to be owned by and registered) in the name of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or operated or to be operated by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case together with all related spares, equipment and any additions or improvements.

 

“Vessel Holding Company” means a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor, the assets of which consist solely of one or more Vessels and the corresponding Related Vessel Property and whose activities are limited to the ownership of such Vessels and Related Vessel Property and any other asset reasonably related to or resulting from the

 

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acquisition, purchase, charter, leasing, rental, construction, ownership, operation, improvement, expansion and maintenance of such Vessel, the leasing of such Vessels and any activities reasonably incidental to the foregoing.

 

“Voting Stock” of any specified Person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such Person.

 

“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing:

 

(1)           the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect of the Indebtedness, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by

 

(2)           the then outstanding principal amounts of such Indebtedness.

 

SECTION 1.02. Other Definitions.

 

	
Term
    	
 
    	
 
    	
   Defined   in Section
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
”Additional   Amounts”
    	
 
    	
4.12(a)
    
	
“Additional   Intercreditor Agreement”
    	
 
    	
4.13(a)
    
	
“Additional   Notes”
    	
 
    	
Recitals
    
	
“Affiliate   Transaction”
    	
 
    	
4.10(a)
    
	
“Agents”
    	
 
    	
2.03
    
	
“Applicable   Procedures”
    	
 
    	
2.06(b)
    
	
“Authorized   Agent”
    	
 
    	
12.08
    
	
“Change of   Control Offer”
    	
 
    	
4.11(a)
    
	
“Change of   Control Purchase Date”
    	
 
    	
4.11(a)
    
	
“Change of   Control Purchase Price”
    	
 
    	
4.11(a)
    
	
“Covenant   Defeasance”
    	
 
    	
8.03
    
	
“Defaulted   Interest”
    	
 
    	
2.12
    
	
“Event of Default”
    	
 
    	
6.01(a)
    
	
“Excess   Proceeds”
    	
 
    	
4.09(c)
    
	
“Global   Notes”
    	
 
    	
2.01(c)
    
	
“incur”
    	
 
    	
4.06(a)
    
	
“Increased   Amount”
    	
 
    	
4.07
    
	
“Issuer”
    	
 
    	
Preamble
    
	
“Judgment   Currency”
    	
 
    	
12.14
    
	
“Legal   Defeasance”
    	
 
    	
8.02
    
	
“Notes”
    	
 
    	
Recitals
    
	
“Obligations”
    	
 
    	
10.01(a)
    
	
“Original   Notes”
    	
 
    	
Recitals
    
	
“Participants”
    	
 
    	
2.01(c)
    
	
“Paying   Agent”
    	
 
    	
2.03
    
	
“Permitted   Debt”
    	
 
    	
4.06(b)
    
	
“Principal   Paying Agent”
    	
 
    	
2.03
    
	
“Registrar”
    	
 
    	
2.03
    
	
“Regulation   S Global Note”
    	
 
    	
2.01(b)
    
	
“Required   Currency”
    	
 
    	
12.14
    
	
“Restricted   Global Note”
    	
 
    	
2.01(b)
    
	
“Restricted   Payments”
    	
 
    	
4.08(a)
    
	
“Security   Register”
    	
 
    	
2.03
    
	
“Special   Mandatory Redemption”
    	
 
    	
3.06
    
	
“Special   Mandatory Redemption Price”
    	
 
    	
3.06
    

 

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Term
    	
 
    	
 
    	
   Defined   in Section
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
”Special   Termination Date”
    	
 
    	
3.06
    
	
“Supplemental   Security Agent”
    	
 
    	
7.08(b)
    
	
“Surviving   Entity”
    	
 
    	
5.01(a)
    
	
“Tax   Jurisdiction”
    	
 
    	
4.12(a)
    
	
“Transfer   Agent”
    	
 
    	
2.03
    
	
“Trustee”
    	
 
    	
Preamble
    

 

SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:

 

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

 

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

 

(iii)         “or” is not exclusive;

 

(iv)        “including” or “include” means including or include without limitation;

 

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

 

(vi)        unsecured or unguaranteed Indebtedness shall not be deemed to be subordinate or junior to secured or guaranteed Indebtedness merely by virtue of its nature as unsecured or unguaranteed Indebtedness; and

 

(vii)       the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section, clause or other subdivision.

 

ARTICLE TWO 
 THE NOTES

 

SECTION 2.01. The Notes.

 

(a)             Form and Dating. The Notes and the Trustee’s (or the authenticating agent’s) certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture. The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, the rules of any securities exchange agreements to which the Issuer is subject, if any, or usage; provided that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in form reasonably acceptable to the Issuer. The Issuer shall approve the form of the Notes. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms and provisions contained in the form of the Notes shall constitute and are hereby expressly made a part of this Indenture. The Notes shall be issued only in registered form without coupons and only in minimum denominations of $2,000 in principal amount and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

(b)             Global Notes. Notes offered and sold to QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A shall be issued initially in the form of one or more Global Notes substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto, with such applicable legends as are provided in Exhibit A attached hereto, except as otherwise permitted herein (the “Restricted Global  Note”), which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes represented thereby with a custodian for DTC, and registered in the name of DTC or its nominee, duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee (or its authenticating agent in accordance with Section 2.02) as hereinafter provided. The aggregate principal amount of the Restricted Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made by the Registrar on Schedule A to the Restricted Global Note and recorded in the Security Register, as hereinafter provided.

 

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Notes offered and sold in reliance on Regulation S shall be issued initially in the form of one or more Global Notes substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto, with such applicable legends as are provided in Exhibit A attached hereto, except as otherwise permitted herein (the “Regulation S Global Note”), which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes represented thereby with a custodian for DTC, and registered in the name of DTC or its nominee, duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee (or its authenticating agent in accordance with Section 2.02) as hereinafter provided. The aggregate principal amount of the Regulation S Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made by the Registrar on Schedule A to the Regulation S Global Note and recorded in the Security Register, as hereinafter provided.

 

(c)                                  Book-Entry Provisions. This Section 2.01(c) shall apply to the Regulation S Global Notes and the Restricted Global Notes (together, the “Global Notes”) deposited with or on behalf of DTC.

 

Members of, or participants and account holders in, DTC (including Euroclear and Clearstream) (“Participants”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by DTC or by the Trustee or any custodian of DTC or under such Global Note, and DTC or its nominees may be treated by the Issuer, a Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, a Guarantor or the Trustee as the sole owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Issuer, a Guarantor, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuer, a Guarantor or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by DTC or impair, as between DTC, on the one hand, and the Participants, on the other, the operation of customary practices of such persons governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Note.

 

Subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b), the registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Participants and Persons that may hold interests through Participants, to take any action that a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.

 

Except as provided in Section 2.10, owners of a beneficial interest in Global Notes will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Definitive Registered Notes.

 

SECTION 2.02. Execution and Authentication. An authorized member of the Issuer’s Board of Directors or an executive officer of the Issuer shall sign the Notes on behalf of the Issuer by manual or facsimile signature.

 

If an authorized member of the Issuer’s Board of Directors or an executive officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee (or its authenticating agent) authenticates the Note, the Note shall be valid nevertheless.

 

A Note shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or its authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Note. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture.

 

The Issuer shall execute and, upon receipt of an Issuer Order, the Trustee shall authenticate (whether itself or via the authenticating agent) (a) Original Notes, on the date hereof, for original issue up to an aggregate principal amount of $550,000,000 and (b) Additional Notes, from time to time, subject to compliance at the time of issuance of such Additional Notes with the provisions of Section 4.06 and Section 4.07. The Issuer is permitted to issue Additional Notes as part of a further issue under this Indenture, from time to time; provided that, if the Additional Notes are not fungible with any series of Original Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such Additional Notes will have a separate CUSIP number and/or ISIN, if applicable.

 

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent reasonably acceptable to the Issuer to authenticate the Notes. Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, any such authenticating agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by any such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as any Registrar, co-Registrar, Transfer Agent or Paying Agent to deal with the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer.

 

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The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Notes under this Section 2.02 if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders.

 

SECTION 2.03. Registrar, Transfer Agent and Paying Agent. The Issuer shall maintain an office or agency for the registration of the Notes and of their transfer or exchange (the “Registrar”), an office or agency where Notes may be transferred or exchanged (the “Transfer Agent”), an office or agency where the Notes may be presented for payment (the “Paying Agent” and references to the Paying Agent shall include the Principal Paying Agent) and an office or agency where notices or demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes may be served. The Issuer may appoint one or more Transfer Agents, one or more co-Registrars and one or more additional Paying Agents.

 

The Issuer shall maintain a Paying Agent in London, England and a Registrar in Frankfurt, Germany. The Issuer or any of its Affiliates may act as Transfer Agent, Registrar, co-Registrar, Paying Agent and agent for service of notices and demands in connection with the Notes; provided that neither the Issuer nor any of its Affiliates shall act as Paying Agent for the purposes of Articles Three and Eight and Sections 4.09 and 4.11.

 

The Issuer hereby appoints (i) Citibank, N.A., London Branch, located at Citigroup Centre, 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LB, United Kingdom, as Transfer Agent and as Principal Paying Agent (the “Principal Paying Agent”) in London, England and (ii) Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG, located at 5th Floor Reuterweg 16, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany, as Registrar. Each hereby accepts such appointments. The Transfer Agent, Principal Paying Agent and Registrar and any authenticating agent are collectively referred to in this Indenture as the “Agents”. The roles, duties and functions of the Agents are of a mechanical nature and each Agent shall only perform those acts and duties as specifically set out in this Indenture and no other acts, covenants, obligations or duties shall be implied or read into this Indenture against any of the Agents. For the avoidance of doubt, a Paying Agent’s obligation to disburse any funds shall be subject to prior receipt by it of those funds to be disbursed.

 

The Issuer shall maintain a Paying Agent in an EU Member State that is not obliged to withhold or deduct tax pursuant to European Council Directive 2003/48/EC, as amended or supplemented from time to time, including through European Council Directive 2014/48/EC or any other Directive implementing the conclusions of the ECOFIN Council meeting of November 26-27, 2000 on the taxation of savings income or any law implementing or complying with, or introduced in order to conform to, any such Directive.

 

Subject to any applicable laws and regulations, the Issuer shall cause the Registrar to keep a register (the “Security Register”) at its corporate trust office in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Issuer shall provide for the registration of ownership, exchange, and transfer of the Notes. Such registration in the Security Register shall be conclusive evidence of the ownership of Notes. Included in the books and records for the Notes shall be notations as to whether such Notes have been paid, exchanged or transferred, canceled, lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed and whether such Notes have been replaced. In the case of the replacement of any of the Notes, the Registrar shall keep a record of the Note so replaced and the Note issued in replacement thereof. In the case of the cancellation of any of the Notes, the Registrar shall keep a record of the Note so canceled and the date on which such Note was canceled.

 

The Issuer shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Paying Agent or co-Registrar not a party to this Indenture. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent. The Issuer shall notify the Trustee of the name and address of any such agent. If the Issuer fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee may appoint a suitably qualified and reputable party to act as such and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section 7.05.

 

SECTION 2.04. Paying Agent to Hold Money. Not later than 12:00 p.m. (London, England time), one Business Day prior to each due date of the principal, premium, if any, and interest on any Notes, the Issuer shall deposit with the Principal Paying Agent money in immediately available funds in U.S. dollars, sufficient to pay such principal, premium, if any, and interest so becoming due on the due date for payment under the Notes. The Issuer shall procure payment confirmation on or prior to the third Business Day preceding payment. The Principal Paying Agent (and, if applicable, each other Paying Agent) shall remit such payment in a timely manner to the Holders on the relevant due date for payment, it being acknowledged by each Holder that if the Issuer deposits such money with

 

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the Principal Paying Agent after the time specified in the immediately preceding sentence, the Principal Paying Agent shall remit such money to the Holders on the relevant due date for payment, unless such remittance is impracticable having regard to applicable banking procedures and timing constraints, in which case the Principal Paying Agent shall remit such money to the Holders on the next Business Day, but without liability for any interest resulting from such late payment. For the avoidance of doubt, the Principal Paying Agent shall only be obliged to remit money to Holders if it has actually received such money from the Issuer in clear funds. The Principal Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Trustee of any default by the Issuer (or any other obligor on the Notes) in making any payment. The Issuer at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and account for any funds disbursed, and the Trustee may at any time during the continuance of any payment default, upon written request to a Paying Agent, require such Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and to account for any funds disbursed. Upon doing so, the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for the money so paid over to the Trustee. If the Issuer or any Affiliate of the Issuer acts as Paying Agent, it shall, on or before each due date of any principal, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes, segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders a sum of money sufficient to pay such principal, premium, if any, or interest so becoming due until such sum of money shall be paid to such Holders or otherwise disposed of as provided in this Indenture, and shall promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure to act.

 

The Trustee may, if the Issuer has notified it in writing that the Issuer intends to effect a defeasance or to satisfy and discharge this Indenture in accordance with the provisions of Article Eight, notify the Paying Agent in writing of this fact and require the Paying Agent (until notified by the Trustee to the contrary) to act thereafter as Paying Agent of the Trustee and not the Issuer in relation to any amounts deposited with it in accordance with the provisions of Article Eight.

 

SECTION 2.05. Holder Lists. The Registrar shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Holders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee, in writing no later than the Record Date for each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list, in such form and as of such Record Date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Holders, including the aggregate principal amount of Notes held by each Holder.

 

SECTION 2.06. Transfer and Exchange.

 

(a)                                 Where Notes are presented to the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request to register a transfer or  to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Notes of other denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange in accordance with the requirements of this Section 2.06. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee (or the authenticating agent) shall, upon receipt of an Issuer Order, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, at the Registrar’s request; provided that no Note of less than $2,000 may be transferred or exchanged. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any agency fee or similar charge payable in connection with any such registration of transfer or exchange of Notes (other than any agency fee or similar charge payable in connection with any redemption of the Notes or upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.10, 3.08 or 9.04) or in accordance with an Asset Sale Offer pursuant to Section 4.09 or Change of Control Offer pursuant to Section 4.11, not involving a transfer.

 

Upon presentation for exchange or transfer of any Note as permitted by the terms of this Indenture and by any legend appearing on such Note, such Note shall be exchanged or transferred upon the Security Register and one or more new Notes shall be authenticated and issued in the name of the Holder (in the case of exchanges only) or the transferee, as the case may be. No exchange or transfer of a Note shall be effective under this Indenture unless and until such Note has been registered in the name of such Person in the Security Register. Furthermore, the exchange or transfer of any Note shall not be effective under this Indenture unless the request for such exchange or transfer is made by the Holder or by a duly authorized attorney-in-fact at the office of the Registrar.

 

Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Issuer or the Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

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All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer evidencing the same indebtedness, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

Neither the Issuer nor the Trustee, Registrar or any Paying Agent shall be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Note during a period beginning at the opening of 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Notes selected for redemption under Section 3.02 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Note so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

 

(b)                                 Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein, so long as a Global Note remains outstanding and is held by or on behalf of DTC, transfers of a Global Note, in whole or in part, or of any beneficial interest therein, shall only be made in accordance with Section 2.01(c), Section 2.06(a) and this Section 2.06(b); provided that a beneficial interest in a Global Note may be transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the same Global Note in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the restricted Note legend on the Note, if any.

 

(i)                                Except for transfers or exchanges made in accordance with either of clauses (ii) or (iii) of this Section 2.06(b), transfers of a Global Note shall be limited to transfers of such Global Note in whole, but not in part, to nominees of DTC or to a successor of DTC or such successor’s nominee.

 

(ii)                             Restricted Global Note to Regulation S Global Note. If the holder of a beneficial interest in the Restricted Global Note at any time wishes to exchange its interest in such Restricted Global Note for an interest in the Regulation S Global Note, or to transfer its interest in such Restricted Global Note to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note, such transfer or exchange may be effected, only in accordance with this clause (ii) and the rules and procedures of DTC, in each case to the extent applicable (the “Applicable Procedures”). Upon receipt by the Registrar from the Transfer Agent of (A) written instructions directing the Registrar to credit or cause to be credited an interest in the Regulation S Global Note in a specified principal amount and to cause to be debited an interest in the Restricted Global Note in such specified principal amount, and (B) a certificate in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest stating that the transfer of such interest has been made in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Global Notes and (x) pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S or (y) that the interest in the Restricted Global Note being transferred is being transferred in a transaction permitted by Rule 144, then the Registrar shall reduce or cause to be reduced the principal amount of the Restricted Global Note and shall cause DTC to increase or cause to be increased the principal amount of the Regulation S Global Note by the aggregate principal amount of the interest in the Restricted Global Note to be exchanged or transferred.

 

(iii)                          Regulation S Global Note to Restricted Global Note. If the holder of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note at any time wishes to transfer such interest to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the Restricted Global Note, such transfer may be effected only in accordance with this clause (iii) and the Applicable Procedures. Upon receipt by the Registrar from the Transfer Agent of (A) written instructions directing the Registrar to credit or cause to be credited an interest in the Restricted Global Note in a specified principal amount and to cause to be debited an interest in the Regulation S Global Note in such specified principal amount, and (B) a certificate in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto given by the holder of such beneficial interest stating that the transfer of such interest has been made in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Global Notes and stating that (x) the Person transferring such interest reasonably believes that the Person acquiring such interest is a QIB and is obtaining such interest in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or (y) that the Person transferring such interest is relying on an exemption other than Rule 144A from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and, in such circumstances, such Opinion of Counsel as the Issuer or the Trustee may reasonably request to ensure that the requested transfer or exchange is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act, then the Registrar shall reduce or cause to be reduced the principal amount of the Regulation S Global Note and to increase or cause to be

 

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increased the principal amount of the Restricted Global Note by the aggregate principal amount of the interest in such Regulation S Global Note to be exchanged or transferred.

 

(c)                                  If Notes are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes bearing the restricted Notes legends set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto, the Notes so issued shall bear the restricted Notes legends, and a request to remove such restricted Notes legends from Notes shall not be honored unless there is delivered to the Issuer such satisfactory evidence, which may include an Opinion of Counsel licensed to practice law in the State of New York, as may be reasonably required by the Issuer, that neither the legend nor the restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to ensure that transfers thereof comply with the provisions of Rule 144A or Rule 144 under the Securities Act. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, the Trustee, at the direction of the Issuer, shall (or shall direct the authenticating agent to) authenticate and deliver Notes that do not bear the legend.

 

(d)                                 The Trustee, the Security Agent and the Agents shall have no responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by DTC, Euroclear or Clearstream, as the case may be.

 

SECTION 2.07. Replacement Notes. If a mutilated Definitive Registered Note is surrendered to the Registrar or if the Holder claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Issuer shall issue and the Trustee shall (or shall direct the authenticating agent to), upon receipt of an Issuer Order, authenticate a replacement Note in such form as the Note mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken if the Holder satisfies any other reasonable requirements of the Issuer and any requirement of the Trustee. If required by the Trustee or the Issuer, such Holder shall furnish an indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of the Issuer and the Trustee to protect the Issuer, the Trustee, the Security Agent, the Paying Agent, the Transfer Agent, the Registrar and any co-Registrar, and any authenticating agent, from any loss that any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced. The Issuer and the Trustee may charge the Holder for their expenses in replacing a Note.

 

In the event any such mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken Note has become or is about to become due and payable, the Issuer in its discretion may pay such Note instead of issuing a new Note in replacement thereof.

 

Every replacement Note shall be an additional obligation of the Issuer.

 

The provisions of this Section 2.07 are exclusive and will preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or wrongfully taken Notes.

 

SECTION 2.08. Outstanding Notes. Notes outstanding at any time are all Notes authenticated by or on behalf of the Trustee except for those cancelled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation and those described in this Section 2.08 as not outstanding. Subject to Section 2.09, a Note does not cease to be outstanding because the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer holds the Note.

 

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

 

If the Paying Agent holds, in accordance with this Indenture, on a Redemption Date or maturity date money sufficient to pay all principal, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, payable on that date with respect to the Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed or maturing, as the case may be, and the Paying Agent is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, then on and after that date such Notes (or portions thereof) cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.

 

SECTION 2.09. Notes Held by Issuer. In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction or consent or any amendment, modification or other change to this Indenture, Notes owned by the Issuer or by any of its Affiliates shall be disregarded and treated as if they were not outstanding, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent or any amendment, modification or other change to this Indenture, only Notes which a Trust Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned which have been pledged in good faith shall not be disregarded if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to the Notes and that the pledgee is not the Issuer or any of its Affiliates.

 

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SECTION 2.10. Definitive Registered Notes.

 

(a)                                 A Global Note deposited with a custodian for DTC pursuant to Section 2.01 shall be transferred in whole to the beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Registered Notes only if such transfer complies with Section 2.06 and (i) DTC notifies the Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to continue to act as depositary for such Global Note or DTC ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act, and in each case a successor depositary is not appointed by the Issuer within 90 days of such notice, (ii) the Issuer, at its option, executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that such Global Note shall be so exchangeable or (iii) the owner of a Book-Entry Interest requests such an exchange in writing delivered through DTC following an Event of Default under this Indenture. Notice of any such transfer shall be given by the Issuer in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.02(a).

 

(b)                                 Any Global Note that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Registered Notes pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall be surrendered by the custodian for DTC, to the Transfer Agent, to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and the Trustee shall itself or via the authenticating agent authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount at maturity of Notes of authorized denominations in the form of Definitive Registered Notes. Any portion of a Global Note transferred or exchanged pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in registered form in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof and registered in such names as DTC may direct. Subject to the foregoing, a Global Note is not exchangeable except for a Global Note of like denomination to be registered in the name of DTC or its nominee. In the event that a Global Note becomes exchangeable for Definitive Registered Notes, payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Definitive Registered Notes will be payable, and the transfer of the Definitive Registered Notes will be registrable, at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for such purposes in accordance with Section 2.03. Such Definitive Registered Notes shall bear the applicable legends set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

(c)                                  In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 2.10(a), the Issuer shall promptly make available to the Trustee and the authenticating agent a reasonable supply of Definitive Registered Notes in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons.

 

SECTION 2.11. Cancellation. The Issuer at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee, in accordance with its customary procedures, and no one else shall cancel (subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange Act and the Trustee’s retention policy) all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation and dispose of such cancelled Notes in its customary manner. Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the Issuer may not issue new Notes to replace Notes it has redeemed, paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.

 

SECTION 2.12. Defaulted Interest. Any interest on any Note that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes and this Indenture (all such interest herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Issuer, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (a) or (b) below:

 

(a)                                 The Issuer may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names the Notes 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 Issuer shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Issuer may deposit with the Paying Agent 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 prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as provided in this clause. In addition, the Issuer shall fix a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, such date to be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the proposed payment date and not less than 15 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment date. The Issuer shall promptly but, in any event, not less than 15 days prior to the special record date, notify the Trustee of

 

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such special record date and, in the name and at the expense of the Issuer, the Trustee shall cause notice of the proposed payment date of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor to be mailed first-class, postage prepaid to each Holder as such Holder’s address appears in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment date of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes are registered at the close of business on such special record date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to clause (b) below.

 

(b)                                 The Issuer may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Notes in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Issuer to the Trustee of the proposed payment date pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed reasonably practicable.

 

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.12, each Note delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Note.

 

SECTION 2.13. Computation of Interest. Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

SECTION 2.14. ISIN and CUSIP Numbers. The Issuer in issuing the Notes may use ISIN and CUSIP numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use ISIN and CUSIP numbers, as appropriate, 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 or codes either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the ISIN or CUSIP numbers.

 

SECTION 2.15. Issuance of Additional Notes. The Issuer may, subject to Section 4.06 of this Indenture, issue Additional Notes under this Indenture in accordance with the procedures of Section 2.02. The Original Notes issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Notes subsequently issued shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Indenture.

 

ARTICLE THREE

REDEMPTION; OFFERS TO PURCHASE

 

SECTION 3.01. Right of Redemption. The Issuer may redeem all or any portion of the Notes upon the terms and at the Redemption Prices set forth in the Notes. Any redemption pursuant to this Section 3.01 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of this Article Three.

 

SECTION 3.02. Notices to Trustee. If the Issuer elects to redeem Notes pursuant to Section 3.01, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the Redemption Date and the record date, the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed, the Redemption Price and the paragraph of the Notes pursuant to which the redemption will occur.

 

The Issuer shall give each notice to the Trustee provided for in this Section 3.02 in writing at least 10 days before the date notice is mailed to the Holders pursuant to Section 3.04 unless the Trustee consents to a shorter period. Such notice shall be accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate from the Issuer to the effect that such redemption will comply with the conditions herein. If fewer than all the Notes are to be redeemed, the record date relating to such redemption shall be selected by the Issuer and given to the Trustee, which record date shall be not less than 15 days after the date of notice to the Trustee.

 

SECTION 3.03. Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed. If fewer than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee shall select the Notes to be redeemed by a method that complies with the requirements, as certified to it by the Issuer, of the principal securities exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed at such time,

 

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and in compliance with the requirements of the relevant clearing system or, if the Notes are not listed on a securities exchange, or such securities exchange prescribes no method of selection and the Notes are not held through clearing system or the clearing system prescribes no method of selection, on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee deems fair and appropriate; provided, however, that no such partial redemption shall reduce the portion of the principal amount of a Note not redeemed to less than $2,000.

 

The Trustee shall make the selection from the Notes outstanding and not previously called for redemption. The Trustee may select for redemption portions equal to $1,000 in principal amount and any integral multiple thereof; provided that no Notes of $2,000 in principal amount or less may be redeemed in part. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption also apply to portions of Notes called for redemption. The Trustee shall notify the Issuer promptly in writing of the Notes or portions of Notes to be called for redemption.

 

The Trustee shall not be liable for selections made in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.03 or for selections made by DTC.

 

Any redemption and notice may, in the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent.

 

SECTION 3.04. Notice of Redemption.

 

(a)                                      At least 10 days but not more than 60 days before a date for redemption of the Notes, the Issuer shall mail a notice of redemption by first-class mail to each Holder to be redeemed at its address contained in the Security Register, except that redemption notices may be mailed more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a defeasance of the Notes or a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, and shall comply with the provisions of Section 12.02(b).

 

(b)                                      The notice shall identify the Notes to be redeemed (including ISIN and CUSIP numbers) and shall  state:

 

(i)                                the Redemption Date and the record date;

 

(ii)                             the appropriate calculation of the Redemption Price and the amount of accrued interest, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, to be paid;

 

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

 

(iv)                         that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any;

 

(v)                            that, if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount (equal to $1,000 in principal amount or any integral multiple thereof) of such Note to be redeemed and that, on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be reissued;

 

(vi)                         that, if any Note contains an ISIN or CUSIP number, no representation is being made as to the correctness of such ISIN or CUSIP number either as printed on the Notes or as contained in the notice of redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes;

 

(vii)                      that, unless the Issuer and the Guarantors default in making such redemption payment, interest on the Notes (or portion thereof) called for redemption shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date; and

 

(viii)                   the paragraph of the Notes pursuant to which the Notes called for redemption are being redeemed.

 

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At the Issuer’s written request, the Trustee shall give a notice of redemption in the Issuer’s name and at the Issuer’s expense. In such event, the Issuer shall provide the Trustee with the notice and the other information required by this Section 3.04.

 

For Notes which are represented by global certificates held on behalf of DTC, notices may be given by delivery of the relevant notices to DTC for communication to entitled account holders in substitution for the aforesaid mailing.

 

SECTION 3.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. At least one Business Day prior to any Redemption Date, by no later than 12:00 p.m. (London, England time) on that date, the Issuer shall deposit or cause to be deposited with the Paying Agent (or, if the Issuer or any of its Affiliates is the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) a sum in same day funds sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed on that date other than Notes or portions of Notes called for redemption that have previously been delivered by the Issuer to the Trustee for cancellation. The Paying Agent shall return to the Issuer following a written request by the Issuer any money so deposited that is not required for that purpose.

 

SECTION 3.06. Special Mandatory Redemption.. In the event that (a) all amounts outstanding under the New Build Facility have not been permanently repaid (together with the cancellation of all remaining commitments thereunder) on or prior to the Escrow Long Stop Date or (b) final delivery of the Silver Muse has not been made pursuant to the New Build Agreement (as amended to the date of the Offering Memorandum and without any subsequent change to the terms thereof that are materially adverse to the interests of the Holders) by the Escrow Long Stop Date, or (c) there is an event of bankruptcy, insolvency or court protection with respect to the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer on or prior to the Escrow Long Stop Date (the date of any such event being the “Special  Termination Date”), the Issuer will redeem, in the case of clause (a) or (c), all of the Notes or, in the case of clause (b) (so long as neither clause (a) nor (c) is applicable), $275.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Notes (the “Special Mandatory Redemption”) on a pro rata basis, in each case, at a price (the “Special Mandatory Redemption Price”) equal to 100% of the aggregate issue price of the Notes, plus accrued but unpaid interest and Additional Amounts, if any, from the Issue Date to the date of redemption (subject to the right of Holders on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).

 

Notice of the Special Mandatory Redemption will be delivered by the Issuer, no later than one Business Day following the Special Termination Date, to the Trustee, the Principal Paying Agent and the Escrow Agent, and will provide that the Notes shall be redeemed on a date that is no later than the fifth Business Day after such notice is given by the Issuer in accordance with the terms of the Escrow Agreement (the “Special Mandatory Redemption Date”). On the Special Mandatory Redemption Date, the Escrow Agent shall pay to the Principal Paying Agent for payment to each Holder the Special Mandatory Redemption Price for such Holder’s Notes and, concurrently with the payment to such Holders, deliver any excess escrowed funds to the Issuer.

 

SECTION 3.07. Payment of Notes Called for Redemption. If notice of redemption has been given in the manner provided below, the Notes or portion of Notes specified in such notice to be redeemed shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date at the Redemption Price stated therein, together with accrued interest to such Redemption Date, and on and after such date (unless the Issuer shall default in the payment of such Notes at the Redemption Price and accrued interest to the Redemption Date, in which case the principal, until paid, shall bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed in the Notes) such Notes shall cease to accrue interest. Upon surrender of any Note for redemption in accordance with a notice of redemption, such Note shall be paid and redeemed by the Issuer at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Date.

 

Notice of redemption shall be deemed to be given when mailed, whether or not the Holder receives the notice. In any event, failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of Notes held by Holders to whom such notice was properly given.

 

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SECTION 3.08. Notes Redeemed in Part.

 

(a)                                 Upon surrender of a Global Note that is redeemed in part, the Paying Agent shall forward such Global Note to the Registrar who shall make a notation on the Security Register to reduce the principal amount of such Global Note to an amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Global Note surrendered; provided that each such Global Note shall be in a principal amount at final Stated Maturity of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

(b)                                 Upon surrender and cancellation of a Definitive Registered Note that is redeemed in part, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder (at the Issuer’s expense) a new Note equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered and canceled; provided that each such Definitive Registered Note shall be in a principal amount at final Stated Maturity of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

ARTICLE FOUR 
 COVENANTS

 

SECTION 4.01. Payment of Notes. The Issuer and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, covenant and agree for the benefit of the Holders that they shall duly and punctually pay the principal of, premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes and in this Indenture. Subject to Section 2.04, principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, shall be considered paid on the date due if on such date the Trustee or the Paying Agent (other than the Issuer or any of its Affiliates) holds, as of 10:00 a.m. (London, England time) on the due date, in accordance with this Indenture, money sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, then due. If the Issuer or any of its Affiliates acts as Paying Agent, principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, shall be considered paid on the due date if the entity acting as Paying Agent complies with Section 2.04.

 

The Issuer or the Guarantors shall pay interest on overdue principal at the rate specified therefor in the Notes. The Issuer or the Guarantors shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate to the extent lawful.

 

SECTION 4.02. Corporate Existence. Subject to Article Five, the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor and each Restricted Subsidiary shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect their corporate, partnership, limited liability company or other existence and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor and each Restricted Subsidiary; provided that neither the Issuer nor the Parent Guarantor shall be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise if the Board of Directors of the Issuer or the Parent Guarantor shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

SECTION 4.03. Maintenance of Properties. The Parent Guarantor shall cause all properties owned by it or any Restricted Subsidiary or used or held for use in the conduct of its business or the business of any Restricted Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment and shall cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Parent Guarantor may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided that nothing in this Section 4.03 shall prevent the Parent Guarantor from discontinuing the maintenance of any such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Parent Guarantor, desirable in the conduct of the business of the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

 

SECTION 4.04. Insurance. The Parent Guarantor shall maintain, and shall cause the Restricted Subsidiaries to maintain, insurance with carriers believed by the Parent Guarantor to be responsible, against such risks and in such amounts, and with such deductibles, retentions, self-insured amounts and coinsurance provisions, as the Parent Guarantor believes are customarily carried by businesses similarly situated and owning like properties, including as appropriate general liability, property and casualty loss and interruption of business insurance.

 

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SECTION 4.05. Statement as to Compliance.

 

(a)                                 The Parent Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year or within 14 days of written request by the Trustee, an Officer’s Certificate stating that in the course of the performance by the signer of its duties as an Officer of the Parent Guarantor he would normally have knowledge of any Default and whether or not the signer knows of any Default that occurred during such period and, if any, specifying such Default, its status and what action the Parent Guarantor is taking or proposed to take with respect thereto. For purposes of this Section 4.05(a), such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice under this Indenture.

 

(b)                                 If the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer shall become aware that (i) any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or (ii) any Holder seeks to exercise any remedy hereunder with respect to a claimed Default under this Indenture or the Notes, the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer, as the case may be, shall immediately deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate specifying such event, notice or other action (including any action the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer is taking or propose to take in respect thereof).

 

SECTION 4.06. Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock.

 

(a)                                 The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to (collectively, “incur”) any Indebtedness (including Acquired Debt), and the Parent Guarantor shall not and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to issue any Disqualified Stock and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to issue any shares of preferred stock; provided, however, that the Issuer may incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Debt) or issue Disqualified Stock, and the Guarantors may incur Indebtedness (including Acquired Debt) or issue preferred stock, if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Parent Guarantor’s most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Indebtedness is incurred or such Disqualified Stock or such preferred stock is issued, as the case may be, would have been at least 2.0 to 1.0, determined on a pro forma basis (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if the additional Indebtedness had been incurred or the Disqualified Stock or the preferred stock had been issued, as the case may be, at the beginning of such four-quarter period.

 

(b)                                 Section 4.06(a) shall not, however, prohibit the incurrence of any of the following items of Indebtedness (collectively, “Permitted Debt”):

 

(1)                                 the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries of Existing Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness under the Revolving Credit Facility);

 

(2)                                 the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor and any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness under Credit Facilities in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to exceed the greater of $60.0 million and 60% of Consolidated EBITDA of the Parent Guarantor for the most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Indebtedness is incurred;

 

(3)                                 the incurrence by the Issuer and the Guarantors of Indebtedness represented by the Notes issued on the Issue Date and the related Note Guarantees;

 

(4)                                 the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness represented by Attributable Debt, Capital Lease Obligations, mortgage financings or purchase money obligations, the issuance by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Disqualified Stock and the issuance by any Restricted Subsidiary of preferred stock (but excluding, in any such case, any French Tax Lease unless financing a vessel that does not constitute Collateral), in each case, incurred or issued for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price, lease expense, rental payments or cost of design, construction, installation, repair, replacement or improvement of property (including Vessels), plant or equipment or other assets (including Capital Stock) used in the business of the Parent Guarantor or any of

 

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its Restricted Subsidiaries, in an aggregate principal amount or liquidation preference, including all Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to renew, refund, refinance, replace, defease or discharge any Indebtedness incurred or Disqualified Stock or preferred stock issued pursuant to this clause (4), not to exceed the greater of $20.0 million and 1.5% of Total Tangible Assets at any time outstanding (it being understood that any such Indebtedness may be incurred and such Disqualified Stock and preferred stock may be issued after the acquisition, purchase, charter, leasing or rental or the design, construction, installation, repair, replacement or the making of any improvement with respect to any asset (including Vessels)); provided that the principal amount of any Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or preferred stock permitted under this clause (4) did not in each case at the time of incurrence exceed, together with amounts previously incurred and outstanding under this clause (4) with respect to such Vessel, (i) in the case of a completed Vessel, the Appraised Market Value and (ii) in the case of an uncompleted Vessel, 80% of the contract price for the acquisition or construction of such Vessel, in the case of this clause (ii), as determined on the date on which the agreement for acquisition or construction of such Vessel was entered into by the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiary, plus any other Ready for Sea Cost of such Vessel plus 100% of any related export credit insurance premium;

 

(5)                                 the incurrence by any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness, the issuance by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Disqualified Stock and the issuance by any Restricted Subsidiary of preferred stock in connection with any New Vessel Financing or French Tax Lease in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding (including all Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness and any French Tax Lease incurred to renew, refund, refinance, replace, defease or discharge any Indebtedness incurred or Disqualified Stock or preferred stock issued under this clause (5)) not exceeding the New Vessel Aggregate Secured Debt Cap as calculated on the date of the relevant incurrence under this clause (5);

 

(6)                                 Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to renew, refund, refinance, replace, defease or discharge, any Indebtedness (other than intercompany Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or preferred stock) that was permitted to be incurred under Section 4.06(a) or clause (1), (3), (5), (6) or (12) of this Section 4.06(b);

 

(7)                                 the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of intercompany Indebtedness between or among the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that:

 

(a)                                 if the Issuer or any Guarantor is the obligor on such Indebtedness and the payee is not the Issuer or a Guarantor, such Indebtedness must be unsecured and ((i) except in respect of the intercompany current liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with the cash management operations of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (ii) only to the extent legally permitted (the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries having completed all procedures required in the reasonable judgment of directors or officers of the obligee or obligor to protect such Persons from any penalty or civil or criminal liability in connection with the subordination of such Indebtedness)) expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all Obligations then due with respect to the Notes, in the case of the Issuer, or the Note Guarantee, in the case of a Guarantor; and

 

(b)                                 (i) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Equity Interests that results in any such Indebtedness being held by a Person other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) any sale or other transfer of any such Indebtedness to a Person that is not either the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, will be deemed, in each case, to constitute an incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, that was not permitted by this clause (7);

 

(8)                                 the issuance by any Restricted Subsidiary to the Parent Guarantor or to any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of preferred stock; provided that (i) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Equity Interests that results in any such preferred stock being held by a Person other than the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) any sale or other transfer of any such preferred stock to a Person that is not either the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, will be deemed, in each case, to constitute an issuance of such preferred stock by such Restricted Subsidiary that was not permitted by this clause (8);

 

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(9)                                 the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Hedging Obligations and not for speculative purposes;

 

(10)                          the Guarantee by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary to the extent that the guaranteed Indebtedness was permitted to be incurred by another provision of this Section 4.06; provided that, in each case, if the Indebtedness being guaranteed is subordinated to or pari passu with the Notes or a Note Guarantee, then the Guarantee must be subordinated or pari passu, as applicable, to the same extent as the Indebtedness guaranteed;

 

(11)                          the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness (i) in respect of workers’ compensation claims, self-insurance obligations, captive insurance companies and bankers’ acceptances in the ordinary course of business; (ii) in respect of letters of credit, surety, bid, performance, travel or appeal bonds, completion guarantees, judgment, advance payment, customs, VAT or other tax guarantees or similar instruments issued in the ordinary course of business of such Person or consistent with past practice or industry practice (including as required by any governmental authority) and not in connection with the borrowing of money, including letters of credit or similar instruments in respect of self-insurance and workers compensation obligations, or for the protection of customer deposits or credit card payments; provided, however, that upon the drawing of such letters of credit or other instrument, such obligations are reimbursed within 30 days following such drawing; (iii) arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument inadvertently drawn against insufficient funds, so long as such Indebtedness is covered within 30 days; and (iv) consisting of (x) the financing of insurance premiums or (y) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply agreements, in each case, in the ordinary course of business;

 

(12)                          Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or preferred stock (i) of any Person outstanding on the date on which such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged, consolidated, amalgamated or otherwise combined with (including pursuant to any acquisition of assets and assumption of related liabilities) the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or (ii) incurred or issued to provide all or any portion of the funds used to consummate the transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary or was otherwise acquired by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, with respect to this clause (12), that at the time of the acquisition or other transaction pursuant to which such Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or preferred stock was deemed to be incurred or issued, (x) the Parent Guarantor would have been able to incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 4.06(a) after giving pro forma effect to the relevant acquisition or other transaction and the incurrence of such Indebtedness or issuance of such Disqualified Stock or preferred stock pursuant to this clause (12) or (y) the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Parent Guarantor’s most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such additional Indebtedness is incurred or Disqualified Stock or preferred stock is issued pursuant to this clause (12), taken as one period, would not be less than it was immediately prior to giving pro forma effect to such acquisition or other transaction and the incurrence of such Indebtedness or issuance of such Disqualified Stock or preferred stock;

 

(13)                          Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary providing for customary indemnification, obligations in respect of earnouts or other adjustments of purchase price or, in each case, similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection with the acquisition or disposition of any business or assets or Person or any Equity Interests of a Subsidiary; provided that (in the case of a disposition) the maximum liability of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of all such Indebtedness shall at no time exceed the gross proceeds, including the Fair Market Value of non-cash proceeds (measured at the time received and without giving effect to any subsequent changes in value), actually received by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such disposition;

 

(14)                          the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness in the form of Unearned Customer Deposits and advance payments received in the ordinary course of business from customers for goods and services purchased in the ordinary course of business;

 

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(15)                          Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary incurred in connection with credit card processing arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business;

 

(16)                          the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness, the issuance by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Disqualified Stock and the issuance by any Restricted Subsidiary of preferred stock to finance the replacement (through construction or acquisition) of a Vessel upon an Event of Loss of such Vessel in an aggregate amount no greater than the Ready for Sea Cost for such replacement Vessel, in each case less all compensation, damages and other payments (including insurance proceeds other than in respect of business interruption insurance) received by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any Person in connection with such Event of Loss in excess of amounts actually used to repay Indebtedness secured by the Vessel subject to such Event of Loss and any costs and expenses incurred by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such Event of Loss;

 

(17)                          the incurrence by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness in relation to (i) regular maintenance required on any of the Vessels owned or chartered by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, and (ii) any expenditures that are, or are reasonably expected to be, recoverable from insurance on such Vessels;

 

(18)                          the incurrence of Indebtedness by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness, the issuance by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Disqualified Stock and the issuance by any Restricted Subsidiary of preferred stock in an aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, as applicable) at any time outstanding, including all Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to renew, refund, refinance, replace, defease or discharge any Indebtedness incurred or Disqualified Stock or preferred stock issued pursuant to this clause (18), not to exceed the greater of $10.0 million and 0.75% of Total Tangible Assets;

 

(19)                          the Guarantee by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness of a Tax Lease Counterparty under a French Tax Lease; provided that (i) the guaranteed Indebtedness was incurred in connection with a French Tax Lease that replaces, refinances or discharges or is the assumption or novation of a New Vessel Financing incurred in accordance with this Section 4.06; (ii) any such Guarantee must be unsecured and (iii) the amount of the guaranteed Indebtedness does not exceed (x) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable, or if issued with original issue discount, aggregate issue price or, if greater, committed amount (only to the extent the committed amount could have been incurred on the date of initial incurrence)) of the Indebtedness (plus the amount of accrued and unpaid interest or dividends on and the amount of all fees and expenses, including premiums, incurred in connection with the incurrence or issuance of, such Indebtedness or the implementation of the French Tax Lease), replaced, refinanced, discharged (or if the amount of such guaranteed Indebtedness is greater than such amount, such Guarantee is limited to such lesser amount) plus (y) 10% of the contract price for the acquisition or construction and any other Ready for Sea Cost of the related Vessel (and 100% of any related export credit insurance premium); and

 

(20)                          the assumption by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Indebtedness of a Tax Lease Counterparty in connection with the acquisition of such Tax Lease Counterparty upon the cancellation, dissolution or unwinding (or other transaction with similar effect) of the related French Tax Lease; provided that such Indebtedness shall be limited to the amount of Indebtedness incurred by such Tax Lease Counterparty in connection with such French Tax Lease.

 

(c)                             Neither the Issuer nor any Guarantor shall incur any Indebtedness (including Permitted Debt) that is contractually subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Issuer or such Guarantor unless such Indebtedness is also contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Notes and the applicable Note Guarantee on substantially identical terms; provided, however, that no Indebtedness will be deemed to be contractually subordinated in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Guarantor solely by virtue of being unsecured.

 

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(d)                                 For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.06, in the event that an item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Debt described in clauses (1) through (20) of Section 4.06(b), or is entitled to be incurred pursuant to Section 4.06(a), the Parent Guarantor, in its sole discretion, will be permitted to classify such item of Indebtedness on the date of its incurrence and only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in one of such clauses and will be permitted on the date of such incurrence to divide and classify an item of Indebtedness in more than one of the types of Indebtedness described in Sections 4.06(a) and (b) and from time to time to reclassify all or a portion of such item of Indebtedness, in any manner that complies with this Section 4.06.

 

(e)                                  The accrual of interest or preferred stock dividends, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any Indebtedness in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, the reclassification of preferred stock as Indebtedness due to a change in accounting principles, the payment of dividends on preferred stock or Disqualified Stock in the form of additional shares of the same class of preferred stock or Disqualified Stock, the accretion of liquidation preference and the increase in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in exchange rates or currency values will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness or an issuance of preferred stock or Disqualified Stock for purposes of this Section 4.06; provided, in each such case, that the amount of any such accrual, accretion, amortization, payment, reclassification or increase is included in the Fixed Charges of the Parent Guarantor as accrued.

 

(f)                                   For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar-equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a different currency shall be utilized, calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred or, in the case of Indebtedness incurred under a revolving credit facility and at the option of the Parent Guarantor, first committed; provided that (a) if such Indebtedness is incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a currency other than U.S. dollars, and such refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such U.S. dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing indebtedness does not exceed the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced; and (b) if and for so long as any Indebtedness is subject to a Hedging Obligation with respect to the currency in which such Indebtedness is denominated covering principal amounts payable on such Indebtedness, the amount of such Indebtedness, if denominated in U.S. dollars, will be the amount of the principal payment required to be made under such Hedging Obligation and, otherwise, the U.S. dollar-equivalent of such amount plus the U.S. dollar-equivalent of any premium which is at such time due and payable but is not covered by such Hedging Obligation.

 

(g)                                  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 4.06, the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary may incur pursuant to this Section 4.06 shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in exchange rates or currency values. The principal amount of any Indebtedness incurred to refinance other Indebtedness, if incurred in a different currency from the Indebtedness being refinanced, will be calculated based on the currency exchange rate applicable to the currencies in which such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is denominated that is in effect on the date of such refinancing.

 

(h)                                 The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be:

 

(i)                                                                                     in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount, the amount of the liability in respect thereof determined in accordance with IFRS;

 

(ii)                                  the principal amount of the Indebtedness, in the case of any other Indebtedness; and

 

(iii)                               in respect of Indebtedness of another Person secured by a Lien on the assets of the specified Person, the lesser of:

 

(A)                               the Fair Market Value of such assets at the date of determination; and

 

(B)                               the amount of the Indebtedness of the other Person.

 

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SECTION 4.07. Liens.

 

(a)                                 The Parent Guarantor shall not and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any Lien of any kind securing Indebtedness upon any of their property or assets, now owned or hereafter acquired, except (1) in the case of any property or assets that do not constitute Collateral, (A) Permitted Liens or (B) Liens on property or assets that are not Permitted Liens if, contemporaneously with (or prior to) the incurrence of such Lien, all payments due under this Indenture and the Notes (or the relevant Note Guarantee, in the case of Liens on property or assets of a Guarantor) are secured on an equal and ratable basis with or prior to the obligations so secured until such time as such obligations are no longer secured by a Lien; provided that, if the Indebtedness secured by such Lien is subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Notes or a Note Guarantee, as the case may be, then the Lien securing such Indebtedness shall be subordinate or junior in priority to the Lien securing the Notes or the Note Guarantee, as the case may be, at least to the same extent as such Indebtedness is subordinate or junior to the Notes or a Note Guarantee, as the case may be, and (2) in the case of any property or assets that constitute Collateral, Permitted Collateral Liens.

 

(b)                                 With respect to any Lien securing Indebtedness that was permitted to secure such Indebtedness at the time of the incurrence of such Indebtedness, such Lien shall also be permitted to secure any Increased Amount of such Indebtedness. The “Increased Amount” of any Indebtedness shall mean any increase in the amount of such Indebtedness in connection with any accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms or in the form of common stock of the Parent Guarantor, the payment of dividends on preferred stock in the form of additional shares of preferred stock of the same class, the accretion of liquidation preference and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies or increases in the value of property securing Indebtedness.

 

(c)                                  Any Lien created in favor of this Indenture and the Notes or a Note Guarantee pursuant to Section 4.07(a)(1)(B) will be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged (i) upon the release and discharge of the initial Lien to which it relates and (ii) otherwise as set forth under Section 11.04.

 

SECTION 4.08. Restricted Payments.

 

(a)                                 The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not cause or permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:

 

(1)                                 declare or pay any dividend or make any other payment or distribution on account of the Parent Guarantor’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity Interests (including, without limitation, any payment in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) or to the direct or indirect holders of the Parent Guarantor’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity Interests in their capacity as holders (other than dividends or distributions payable in Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Parent Guarantor or in Subordinated Shareholder Funding and other than dividends or distributions payable to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary);

 

(2)                                 purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value (including, without limitation, in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Parent Guarantor) any Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor or any direct or indirect parent entity of the Parent Guarantor;

 

(3)                                 make any principal payment on or with respect to, or purchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, any Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Guarantor that is expressly contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or to any Note Guarantee (excluding any intercompany Indebtedness between or among the Parent Guarantor and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), except (i) a payment of principal at the Stated Maturity thereof or (ii) the purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition of Indebtedness purchased in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund obligation, principal installment or scheduled maturity, in each case due within one year of the date of such purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition, or make any cash interest payment on, or purchase,

 

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repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, any Subordinated Shareholder Funding; or

 

(4)                            make any Restricted Investment

 

(all such payments and other actions set forth in these clauses (1) through (4) above being collectively referred to as “Restricted Payments”), unless, at the time of any such Restricted Payment:

 

(i)                                no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur as a consequence of such Restricted Payment;

 

(ii)                             the Parent Guarantor would, at the time of such Restricted Payment and after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Restricted Payment had been made at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, have been permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 4.06(a); and

 

(iii)                          such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries since the Issue Date (excluding Restricted Payments permitted by clauses (1) (without duplication of amounts paid pursuant to any other clause of Section 4.08(b)), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (9) of Section 4.08(b)), is less than the sum, without duplication, of:

 

(A)                               50% of the Consolidated Net Income of the Parent Guarantor for the period (taken as one accounting period) from the first day of the fiscal quarter commencing immediately following the fiscal quarter in which the Issue Date occurs to the end of the Parent Guarantor’s most recently ended fiscal quarter for which internal financial statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment (or, if such Consolidated Net Income for such period is a deficit, less 100% of such deficit); plus

 

(B)                               100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds and the Fair Market Value of marketable securities received by the Parent Guarantor since the Issue Date as a contribution to its common equity capital or from the issue or sale of Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock) or Subordinated Shareholder Funding or from the issue or sale of convertible or exchangeable Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary or convertible or exchangeable debt securities of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, in each case that have been converted into or exchanged for Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor or Subordinated Shareholder Funding (other than (x) net cash proceeds and marketable securities received from an issuance or sale of Equity Interests, Disqualified Stock or convertible or exchangeable debt securities sold to a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor, (y) net cash proceeds and marketable securities received from an issuance or sale of convertible or exchangeable Disqualified Stock or convertible or exchangeable debt securities that have been converted into, exchanged or redeemed for Disqualified Stock and (z) net cash proceeds and marketable securities to the extent any Restricted Payment has been made from such proceeds pursuant to clause (4) of Section 4.08(b)); plus

 

(C)                               to the extent that any Restricted Investment that was made after the Issue Date is (i) sold, disposed of or otherwise cancelled, liquidated or repaid, 100% of the aggregate amount received in cash and the Fair Market Value of marketable securities received; or (ii) made in an entity that subsequently becomes a Restricted Subsidiary, 100% of the Fair Market Value of the Parent Guarantor’s Restricted Investment as of the date such entity becomes a Restricted Subsidiary; plus

 

(D)                               to the extent that any Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor designated as such after the Issue Date is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary, or is merged or consolidated into the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, or all of the assets of such Unrestricted

 

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Subsidiary are transferred to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, in each case, after the Issue Date, the Fair Market Value of the Parent Guarantor’s Restricted Investment in such Subsidiary as of the date of such redesignation, merger, consolidation or transfer of assets to the extent such investments reduced the restricted payments capacity under this clause (iii) and were not previously repaid or otherwise reduced; provided, however, that no amount will be included in Consolidated Net Income of the Parent Guarantor for purposes of the preceding clause (A) to the extent that it is included under this clause (D); plus

 

(E)                                100% of any dividends or distributions received by the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date from an Unrestricted Subsidiary to the extent that such dividends or distributions were not otherwise included in the Consolidated Net Income of the Parent Guarantor for such period (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, repayments of, or interest payments in respect of, any Permitted Investment pursuant to clause (16) of the definition thereof).

 

(b)                                 The preceding provisions will not prohibit:

 

(1)                                 the payment of any dividend or distribution or the consummation of any redemption within 60 days after the date of declaration of the dividend or distribution or giving of the redemption notice, as the case may be, if at the date of declaration or notice, the dividend or distribution or redemption payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture;

 

(2)                                 the making of any Restricted Payment in exchange for, or out of or with the net cash proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor) of, Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor (other than Disqualified Stock) or Subordinated Shareholder Funding or from the substantially concurrent contribution of common equity capital to the Parent Guarantor; provided that the amount of any such net cash proceeds that are utilized for any such Restricted Payment will be excluded from clause (iii)(B) of Section 4.08(a) and will not be considered to be net cash proceeds from an Equity Offering for purposes of the provisions of paragraph 6 of the Notes;

 

(3)                                 the purchase, repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement for value of Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Guarantor that is contractually subordinated to the Notes or to any Note Guarantee with the net cash proceeds from an incurrence of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness;

 

(4)                                 so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the purchase, repurchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary held by any current or former officer, director, employee or consultant of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to any equity subscription agreement, stock option agreement, restricted stock grant, shareholders’ agreement or similar agreement; provided that the aggregate price paid for all such purchased, repurchased, redeemed, acquired or retired Equity Interests may not exceed $1.0 million in the aggregate in any twelve-month period with unused amounts being carried over to any subsequent twelve-month period subject to a maximum aggregate amount of $2.0 million being available in any twelve-month period; and provided, further, that such amount in any twelve-month period may be increased by an amount not to exceed the cash proceeds from the sale of Equity Interests of the Parent Guarantor or Subordinated Shareholder Funding, in each case, received by the Parent Guarantor during such twelve-month period, in each case to members of management, directors or consultants of the Parent Guarantor, any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any of its direct or indirect parent companies to the extent the cash proceeds from the sale of such Equity Interests or Subordinated Shareholder Funding have not otherwise been applied to the making of Restricted Payments pursuant to clause (c) of the preceding paragraph or clause (2) of this paragraph or to an optional redemption of the Notes pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 6 of the Notes;

 

(5)                                 the repurchase of Equity Interests deemed to occur upon the exercise of stock options to the extent such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of those stock options;

 

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(6)                                 so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the declaration and payment of regularly scheduled or accrued dividends to holders of any class or series of Disqualified Stock of the Parent Guarantor or any preferred stock of any Restricted Subsidiary issued on or after the Issue Date in accordance with Section 4.06;

 

(7)                                 payments of cash, dividends, distributions, advances or other Restricted Payments by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to allow the payment of cash in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares upon (i) the exercise of options or warrants or (ii) the conversion or exchange of Capital Stock of any such Person;

 

(8)                                 the payment of any dividend (or, in the case of any partnership or limited liability company, any similar distribution) by a Restricted Subsidiary to the holders of its Equity Interests (other than the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary) on no more than a pro rata basis;

 

(9)                                 so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $20.0 million since the Issue Date; and

 

(10)                          so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1.0 million since the Issue Date.

 

The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) will be the Fair Market Value on the date of the Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or securities proposed to be transferred or issued by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to the Restricted Payment.

 

SECTION 4.09. Asset Sales.

 

(a)                                 The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, consummate an Asset Sale unless:

 

(1)                                 the Parent Guarantor (or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be) receives consideration at the time of the Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the assets or Equity Interests issued or sold or otherwise disposed of; and

 

(2)                                 at least 75% of the consideration received in the Asset Sale by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary is in the form of cash, Cash Equivalents or Replacement Assets or a combination thereof. For purposes of this provision, each of the following will be deemed to be cash:

 

(a)                                 any liabilities, as recorded on the balance sheet of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than contingent liabilities), that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets and as a result of which the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries are no longer obligated with respect to such liabilities or are indemnified against further liabilities;

 

(b)                                 any securities, notes or other obligations received by the Parent Guarantor or any such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are converted by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents within 180 days following the closing of the Asset Sale, to the extent of the cash or Cash Equivalents received in that conversion;

 

(c)                                  any Capital Stock or assets of the kind referred to in clauses (2) or (4) of Section 4.09(b);

 

(d)                                 Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary that is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such Asset Sale, to the extent that the Parent Guarantor and each other Restricted Subsidiary are released from any Guarantee of such Indebtedness in connection with such Asset Sale;

 

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(e)                                  consideration consisting of Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Guarantor received from Persons who are not the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary; and

 

(f)                                   consideration other than cash, Cash Equivalents or Replacement Assets received by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary in Asset Sales with a Fair Market Value not exceeding $10.0 million in the aggregate outstanding at any one time.

 

(b)                            Within 360 days after the receipt of any Net Proceeds from an Asset Sale, any Event of Loss or any French Tax Lease, the Parent Guarantor (or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be) may apply such Net Proceeds:

 

(1)                                 to purchase the Notes pursuant to an offer to all Holders at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to (but not including) the date of purchase (a “Notes Offer”);

 

(2)                                 to acquire all or substantially all of the assets of, or any Capital Stock of, another Permitted Business; provided that (i) after giving effect to any such acquisition of Capital Stock, the Permitted Business is or becomes a Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) to the extent the assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale, Event of Loss or French Tax Lease comprised part of the Collateral, the assets comprising such Permitted Business shall also be pledged as Collateral;

 

(3)                                 to make a capital expenditure; provided that to the extent the assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale or Event of Loss comprised part of the Collateral, such capital expenditures shall be made in respect of assets that are Collateral;

 

(4)                                 to acquire other assets (other than Capital Stock) not classified as current assets under IFRS that are used or useful in a Permitted Business; provided that to the extent the assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale or Event of Loss comprised part of the Collateral, the assets being acquired shall also be pledged as Collateral;

 

(5)                                 to repurchase, prepay, redeem or repay Indebtedness (a) incurred under Section 4.06(b)(2) that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral; provided that in connection with any repurchase, prepayment, redemption or repayment of revolving credit Indebtedness pursuant to this clause (a), the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary will retire such Indebtedness and will cause the related commitment to be permanently reduced in an amount equal to the principal amount so repurchased, prepaid, redeemed or repaid; (b)upon the sale of assets that do not constitute Collateral, of a Restricted Subsidiary which is not the Issuer or a Guarantor (other than Indebtedness owed to the Parent Guarantor or another Restricted Subsidiary), or Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Guarantor that is secured by a Lien (provided that the assets secured by such Lien do not constitute Collateral) or (c) of the Issuer or a Guarantor which is secured by a Lien on the Collateral and which is pari passu in right of payment with the Notes or any Note Guarantee; provided that, in the case of this clause (c), the Parent Guarantor (or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary) may repurchase, prepay, redeem or repay such pari passu Indebtedness only if the Parent Guarantor (or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary) makes an offer to all Holders to purchase their Notes in accordance with the provisions set forth below for an Asset Sale Offer for an aggregate principal amount of Notes at least equal to the proportion that (x) the total aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding bears to (y) the sum of the total aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding plus the total aggregate principal amount outstanding of such pari passu Indebtedness;

 

(6)                                 to enter into a binding commitment to apply the Net Proceeds pursuant to clause (2), (3) or (4) of this Section 4.09(b); provided that such binding commitment (or any subsequent commitments replacing the initial commitment that may be cancelled or terminated) shall be treated as a permitted application of the Net Proceeds from the date of such commitment until the earlier of (x) the date on which such acquisition or expenditure is consummated and (y) the 180th day following the expiration of the aforementioned 360 day period; or

 

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(7)           any combination of the foregoing;

 

provided that in the case of clauses (2), (3) and (4), the Parent Guarantor (or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be), notwithstanding the proviso to each such clause, may choose to apply such Net Proceeds to acquire assets or Capital Stock of another Permitted Business, make capital expenditures and acquire assets, in each case, that are not Collateral so long as on the earlier of (i) the date of reinvestment of such Net Proceeds and (ii) the date on which the Parent Guarantor or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary enters into a binding commitment to reinvest such Net Proceeds from any Asset Sale, Event of Loss or French Tax Lease relating to Collateral, after giving pro forma effect to such application and any related transaction, the Loan-to-Value Ratio does not exceed 45%.

 

Pending the final application of any Net Proceeds, the Parent Guarantor (or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary) may temporarily reduce borrowings under any revolving credit facility, including the Revolving Credit Facility, or otherwise invest the Net Proceeds in any manner that is not prohibited by this Indenture.

 

(c)           Any Net Proceeds from Asset Sales or an Event of Loss that are not applied or invested as provided in Section 4.09(b) (it being understood that any portion of such Net Proceeds used to make an offer to purchase Notes as described in clauses (1) or (5) above shall be deemed to have been applied or invested whether or not such Notes Offer is accepted) will constitute “Excess Proceeds.” When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $20.0 million, within ten Business Days thereof, the Issuer will make an offer (an “Asset Sale Offer”) to all Holders and may make an offer to all holders of other Indebtedness that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral and that is pari passu with the Notes or any Note Guarantees with respect to offers to purchase, prepay or redeem with the proceeds of sales of assets or events of loss to purchase, prepay or redeem the maximum principal amount of Notes and such other pari passu Indebtedness (plus all accrued interest on the Indebtedness and the amount of all fees and expenses, including premiums, incurred in connection therewith) that may be purchased, prepaid or redeemed out of the Excess Proceeds. The offer price for the Notes in any Asset Sale Offer will be equal to 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Amounts, if any, to the date of purchase, prepayment or redemption, subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date, and will be payable in cash. If any Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Asset Sale Offer, the Issuer may use those Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes and such other pari passu Indebtedness tendered into (or to be prepaid or redeemed in connection with) such Asset Sale Offer exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, or if the aggregate amount of Notes tendered pursuant to a Notes Offer exceeds the amount of the Net Proceeds so applied, the Trustee will select the Notes and such other pari passu Indebtedness, if applicable, to be purchased on a pro rata basis (or in the manner provided in Section 3.03), based on the amounts tendered or required to be prepaid or redeemed. Upon completion of each Asset Sale Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset at zero.

 

The Issuer will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations (and rules of any exchange on which the Notes are then listed) to the extent those laws, regulations or rules are applicable in connection with each repurchase of Notes pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer or a Notes Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations or exchange rules conflict with the Asset Sale or Notes Offer provisions of this Indenture, the Issuer will comply with the applicable securities laws, regulations and rules and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Asset Sale or Notes Offer provisions of this Indenture by virtue of such compliance.

 

SECTION 4.10. Transactions with Affiliates.

 

(a)           The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor (each, an “Affiliate Transaction”) involving aggregate payments or consideration in excess of $5.0 million, unless:

 

(1)           the Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are, taken as a whole, no less favorable to the Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary with a Person who is not such an Affiliate; and

 

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(2)           the Parent Guarantor delivers to the Trustee:

 

(a)           with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $10.0 million, a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor set forth in an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with this Section 4.10 and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor (or in the event there is only one disinterested director, by such disinterested director, or, in the event there are no disinterested directors, by unanimous approval of the members of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor); and, in addition,

 

(b)           with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $25.0 million, an opinion of an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of international standing, or other recognized independent expert of international standing with experience appraising the terms and conditions of the type of transaction or series of related transactions for which an opinion is required, stating that the transaction or series of related transactions is (i) fair from a financial point of view taking into account all relevant circumstances or (ii) on terms not less favorable than might have been obtained in a comparable transaction at such time on an arm’s-length basis from a Person who is not an Affiliate.

 

(b)           Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following items will not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, will not be subject to the provisions of Section 4.10(a):

 

(1)           any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement, consulting agreement or employee benefit arrangements with any employee, consultant, officer or director of the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, including under any stock option, stock appreciation rights, stock incentive or similar plans, entered into in the ordinary course of business;

 

(2)           transactions between or among the Parent Guarantor and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(3)           transactions with a Person (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor) that is an Affiliate of the Parent Guarantor solely because the Parent Guarantor owns, directly or through a Restricted Subsidiary, an Equity Interest in, or controls, such Person;

 

(4)           payment of reasonable and customary fees, salaries, bonuses, compensation, other employee benefits and reimbursements of expenses (pursuant to indemnity arrangements or otherwise) of Officers, directors, employees or consultants of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

(5)           any issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Parent Guarantor to Affiliates of the Parent Guarantor or any issuance of Subordinated Shareholder Funding;

 

(6)           Restricted Payments that do not violate Section 4.08;

 

(7)           transactions pursuant to or contemplated by any agreement in effect on the Issue Date and transactions pursuant to any amendment, modification or extension to such agreement, so long as such amendment, modification or extension, taken as a whole, is not materially more disadvantageous to the Holders than the original agreement as in effect on the Issue Date;

 

(8)           Permitted Investments (other than Permitted Investments described in clauses (3), (4), (5), (15) and (16) of the definition thereof);

 

(9)           Management Advances;

 

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(10)         transactions with customers, clients, suppliers or purchasers or sellers of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business and otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture that are fair to the Parent Guarantor or the Restricted Subsidiaries in the reasonable determination of the members of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor or the senior management thereof, or are on terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time from an unaffiliated Person;

 

(11)         the granting and performance of any registration rights for the Parent Guarantor’s Capital

 

Stock;

 

(12)         any contribution to the capital of the Parent Guarantor;

 

(13)         pledges of Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries; and

 

(14)         transactions undertaken in good faith (as certified by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Parent Guarantor in an Officer’s Certificate) between the Parent Guarantor and any other Person or a Restricted Subsidiary and any other Person with which the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries files a consolidated tax return or which the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is part of a group for tax purposes that are effected for the purpose of improving the consolidated tax efficiency of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries and not for the purpose of circumventing any provision of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 4.11. Purchase of Notes upon a Change of Control.

 

(a)           If a Change of Control occurs at any time, then the Issuer shall make an offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder to purchase such Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price (the “Change of Control Purchase Price”) in cash in an amount equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase (the “Change of Control Purchase Date”) (subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant Record Dates to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).

 

(b)           Within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Issuer shall mail a notice to each Holder of the Notes at such Holder’s registered address or otherwise deliver a notice in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 3.04, which notice shall state:

 

(A)          that a Change of Control has occurred, and the date it occurred, and that a Change of Control Offer is being made;

 

(B)          the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such Change of Control (including, but not limited to, applicable information with respect to pro forma historical income, cash flow and capitalization after giving effect to the Change of Control);

 

(C)          the Change of Control Purchase Price and the Change of Control Purchase Date, which shall be a Business Day no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed or delivered, pursuant to the procedures required by this Indenture and described in such notice;

 

(D)          that any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control Purchase Date unless the Change of Control Purchase Price is not paid;

 

(E)           that any Note (or part thereof) not tendered shall continue to accrue interest; and

 

(F)           any other procedures that a Holder must follow to accept a Change of Control Offer or to withdraw such acceptance.

 

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(c)           On the Change of Control Purchase Date, the Issuer shall, to the extent lawful:

 

(1)         accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;

 

(2)         deposit with the paying agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered; and

 

(3)         deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being purchased by the Issuer.

 

(d)           The Paying Agent shall promptly mail (or cause to be delivered) to each Holder which has properly tendered and so accepted the Change of Control Offer for such Notes, and the Trustee (or an authenticating agent appointed by the Issuer) shall promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, if any. Any Note so accepted for payment will cease to accrue interest on or after the Change of Control Purchase Date. The Issuer shall publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Change of Control Purchase Date.

 

(e)           This Section 4.11 will be applicable whether or not any other provisions of this Indenture are applicable.

 

(f)            If the Change of Control Purchase Date is on or after an interest Record Date and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, any accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on such Record Date, and no additional interest shall be payable to Holders who tender pursuant to the Change of Control Offer.

 

(g)           The Issuer will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if (1) a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Issuer and purchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under the Change of Control Offer or (2) a notice of redemption has been given pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 6 of the Notes, unless and until there is a default in payment of the applicable redemption price. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, a Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control, conditioned upon the consummation of such Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time the Change of Control Offer is made.

 

(h)           The Issuer shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, and any other securities laws and regulations (and rules of any exchange on which the Notes are then listed) to the extent those laws, regulations or rules are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations or exchange rules conflict with the Change of Control provisions of this Indenture, the Issuer shall comply with the applicable securities laws, regulations and rules and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Indenture by virtue of such compliance.

 

SECTION 4.12. Additional Amounts.

 

(a)           All payments made by or on behalf of the Issuer or any of the Guarantors under or with respect to the Notes or any Note Guarantee shall be made free and clear of and without withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future Taxes unless the withholding or deduction of such Taxes is then required by law. If the Issuer, any Guarantor or any other applicable withholding agent is required by law to withhold or deduct any amount for, or on account of, any Taxes imposed or levied by or on behalf of (1) any jurisdiction in which the Issuer or any Guarantor is or was incorporated, engaged in business, organized or resident for tax purposes or any political subdivision thereof or therein or (2) any jurisdiction from or through which any payment is made by or on behalf of the Issuer or any Guarantor (including, without limitation, the jurisdiction of any Paying Agent) or any political sub-

 

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division thereof or therein (each of (1) and (2), a “Tax Jurisdiction”) in respect of any payments under or with respect to the Notes or any Note Guarantee, including, without limitation, payments of principal, redemption price, purchase price, interest or premium, the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor, as applicable, shall pay such additional amounts (the “Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received and retained in respect of such payments by each beneficial owner of Notes after such withholding or deduction will equal the respective amounts that would have been received and retained in respect of such payments in the absence of such withholding or deduction; provided, however, that no Additional Amounts shall be payable with respect to:

 

(1)           any Taxes, to the extent such Taxes would not have been imposed but for the holder or the beneficial owner of the Notes (or a fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, partner of, member or shareholder of, or possessor of a power over, the relevant holder, if the relevant holder is an estate, trust, nominee, partnership, limited liability company or corporation) being or having been a citizen or resident or national of, or incorporated, engaged in a trade or business in, or having or having had a permanent establishment in, the relevant Tax Jurisdiction or having any other present or former connection with the relevant Tax Jurisdiction, other than any connection arising from the acquisition, ownership or disposition of Notes, the exercise or enforcement of rights under such Note, this Indenture or a Note Guarantee, or the receipt of payments in respect of such Note or a Note Guarantee;

 

(2)           any Taxes, to the extent such Taxes were imposed as a result of the presentation of a Note for payment (where presentation is required) more than 30 days after the relevant payment is first made available for payment to the holder (except to the extent that the holder would have been entitled to Additional Amounts had the Note been presented on the last day of such 30 day period);

 

(3)           any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer, personal property or similar Taxes;

 

(4)           any Taxes payable other than by deduction or withholding from payments under, or with respect to, the Notes or any Note Guarantee;

 

(5)           any Taxes to the extent such Taxes would not have been imposed or withheld but for the failure of the holder or beneficial owner of the Notes, following the Issuer’s reasonable written request addressed to the holder at least 30 days before any such withholding or deduction would be imposed, to comply with any certification, identification, information or other reporting requirements, whether required by statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of a Tax Jurisdiction, as a precondition to exemption from, or reduction in the rate of deduction or withholding of, Taxes imposed by the Tax Jurisdiction (including, without limitation, a certification that the holder or beneficial owner is not resident in the Tax Jurisdiction), but in each case, only to the extent the holder or beneficial owner is legally eligible to provide such certification or documentation;

 

(6)           any Taxes imposed in connection with a Note presented for payment (where presentation is permitted or required for payment) by or on behalf of a holder or beneficial owner of the Notes to the extent such Taxes could have been avoided by presenting the relevant Note to, or otherwise accepting payment from, another Paying Agent;

 

(7)           any Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment by the Issuer or any of the Guarantors to the holder of the Notes if such holder is a fiduciary or partnership or any person other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent that such Taxes would not have been imposed on such payments had such holder been the sole beneficial owner of such Note;

 

(8)           any Taxes that are imposed pursuant to current Section 1471 through 1474 of the Code or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with, any regulations promulgated thereunder, any official interpretations thereof, any intergovernmental agreement between a non-U.S. jurisdiction and the United States (or any related law or administrative practices or procedures) implementing the foregoing or any agreements entered into pursuant to current Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code (or any amended or successor version described above); or

 

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(9)           any combination of clauses (1) through (8) above.

 

In addition to the foregoing, the Issuer and the Guarantors shall also pay and indemnify the holder for any present or future stamp, issue, registration, value added, transfer, court or documentary Taxes, or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies (including penalties, interest and additions to tax related thereto) which are levied by any jurisdiction on the execution, delivery, issuance, or registration of any of the Notes, this Indenture, any Note Guarantee or any other document referred to therein, or the receipt of any payments with respect thereto, or enforcement of, any of the Notes or any Note Guarantee (limited, solely in the case of Taxes attributable to the receipt of any payments, to any such Taxes imposed in a Tax Jurisdiction that are not excluded under clauses (1) through (3) or (5) through (9) above or any combination thereof).

 

(b)           If the Issuer or any Guarantor, as the case may be, becomes aware that it will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts with respect to any payment under or with respect to the Notes or any Note Guarantee, the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor, as the case may be, shall deliver to the Trustee on a date that is at least 30 days prior to the date of that payment (unless the obligation to pay Additional Amounts arises after the 30th day prior to that payment date, in which case the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor shall notify the Trustee promptly thereafter) an Officer’s Certificate stating the fact that Additional Amounts will be payable and the amount estimated to be so payable. The Officer’s Certificates must also set forth any other information reasonably necessary to enable the Paying Agents to pay Additional Amounts to Holders on the relevant payment date. The Issuer or the relevant Guarantor will provide the Trustee with documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee evidencing the payment of Additional Amounts. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely absolutely on an Officer’s Certificate as conclusive proof that such payments are necessary.

 

(c)           The Issuer or the relevant Guarantor, if it is the applicable withholding agent, shall make all withholdings and deductions (within the time period) required by law and shall remit the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Tax authority in accordance with applicable law. The Issuer or the relevant Guarantor shall use its reasonable efforts to obtain Tax receipts from each Tax authority evidencing the payment of any Taxes so deducted or withheld. The Issuer or the relevant Guarantor shall furnish to the Trustee (or to a Holder upon request), within 60 days after the date the payment of any Taxes so deducted or withheld is made, certified copies of Tax receipts evidencing payment by the Issuer or a Guarantor, as the case may be, or if, notwithstanding such entity’s efforts to obtain receipts, receipts are not obtained, other evidence of payments (reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee) by such entity.

 

(d)           Whenever in this Indenture or the Notes there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of amounts based upon the principal amount of the Notes or of principal, interest or of any other amount payable under, or with respect to, any of the Notes or any Note Guarantee, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof.

 

(e)           This Section 4.12 shall survive any termination, defeasance or discharge of this Indenture, any transfer by a holder or beneficial owner of its Notes, and will apply, mutatis mutandis, to any jurisdiction in which any successor Person to the Issuer (or any Guarantor) is incorporated, engaged in business, organized or resident for tax purposes, or any jurisdiction from or through which payment is made under or with respect to the Notes (or any Note Guarantee) by or on behalf of such Person and, in each case, any political subdivision thereof or therein.

 

SECTION 4.13. Additional Intercreditor Agreements and Amendments to the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

(a)           At the request of the Parent Guarantor, in connection with the incurrence or refinancing by the Parent Guarantor or its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness secured or permitted to be secured by the Collateral, the Parent Guarantor, the relevant Restricted Subsidiaries, the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Intercreditor Agent, as applicable, shall enter into an intercreditor or similar agreement or a restatement, amendment or other modification of the existing Intercreditor Agreement (an “Additional Intercreditor Agreement”) with the holders of such Indebtedness (or their duly authorized representatives) on substantially the same terms as the Intercreditor Agreement (or on terms that in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor are not materially less favorable to the Holders), including containing substantially the same terms with respect to the application of the proceeds of the Collateral held thereunder and the means of enforcement, it being understood that an

 

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increase in the amount of Indebtedness being subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement or Additional Inter-creditor Agreement shall not be deemed to be less favorable to the Holders and shall be permitted by this Section 4.13(a) if the incurrence of such Indebtedness and any Lien in its favor is permitted Section 4.06 and Section 4.07; provided that such Additional Intercreditor Agreement shall not impose any personal obligations on the Trustee or the Security Agent or, in the opinion of the Trustee or the Security Agent, adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee or the Security Agent under this Indenture or the Intercreditor Agreement. As used herein, the term “Intercreditor Agreement” shall include references to any Additional Intercreditor Agreement that supplements or replaces the Intercreditor Agreement.

 

(b)           At the written direction of the Parent Guarantor and without the consent of the Holders, the Trustee or the Security Agent or the Intercreditor Agent may from time to time enter into one or more amendments to any Intercreditor Agreement to: (i) cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency of any such agreement, (ii) increase the amount or types of Indebtedness covered by any such agreement that may be incurred by the Issuer and the Guarantors that is subject to any such agreement (provided that such Indebtedness is incurred in compliance with this Indenture), (iii) add Restricted Subsidiaries to the Intercreditor Agreement, (iv) further secure the Notes (including additional Notes issued in compliance with this Indenture), (v) make provision for equal and ratable pledges of the Collateral to secure additional Notes issued in compliance with this Indenture or to implement any Permitted Collateral Liens or (vi) make any other change to any such agreement that, in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor, does not adversely affect the Holders in any material respect. The Parent Guarantor shall not otherwise direct the Trustee or the Security Agent to enter into any amendment to any Intercreditor Agreement without the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, except as otherwise permitted under Article Nine or as permitted by the terms of such Intercreditor Agreement, and the Parent Guarantor may only direct the Trustee or the Security Agent to enter into any amendment to the extent such amendment does not impose any personal obligations on the Trustee or the Security Agent or, in the opinion of the Trustee or the Security Agent, adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee or the Security Agent under this Indenture or any Intercreditor Agreement.

 

(c)           Each Holder, by accepting such Note, shall be deemed to have:

 

(1)           appointed and authorized the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Intercreditor Agent from time to time to give effect to such provisions;

 

(2)           authorized each of the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Intercreditor Agent from time to time to become a party to any additional intercreditor arrangements described above;

 

(3)           agreed to be bound by such provisions and the provisions of any additional intercreditor arrangements described above; and

 

(4)           irrevocably appointed the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Intercreditor Agent to act on its behalf from time to time to enter into and comply with such provisions and the provisions of any additional intercreditor arrangements described above, in each case, without the need for the consent of any Holder of the Notes.

 

SECTION 4.14. Note Guarantees and Security Interests.

 

Subject to the Agreed Security Principles, the Issuer shall, and shall cause each Guarantor to, (i) complete all filings and other similar actions required in connection with the creation and perfection of the security interests in the Collateral owned by it in favor of the Holders, the Trustee (on its own behalf and on behalf of the Holders) and/or the Security Agent (on behalf of itself, the Trustee and the Holders), as applicable, as and to the extent contemplated by the Security Documents set forth on Schedule II attached hereto within the time periods set forth therein and deliver, and cause each Guarantor to deliver, such other agreements, instruments, certificates and opinions of counsel that may be reasonably requested by the Security Agent in connection therewith and (ii) take all actions necessary to maintain such security interests. For the avoidance of doubt, a Paying Agent shall be held harmless by the Company and have no liability with respect to payments or disbursements to be made by such Paying Agent for which payment instructions are not made or that are not otherwise deposited by the respective times set forth in this Indenture.

 

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SECTION 4.15. Limitation on Issuance of Guarantees of Indebtedness.

 

(a)           Subject to the Agreed Security Principles, the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Inter-creditor Agreement, the Parent Guarantor will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Immaterial Subsidiaries) that is not the Issuer or a Guarantor to Guarantee, directly or indirectly, the payment of any obligations of the Issuer or a Guarantor under the Revolving Credit Facility (or other Indebtedness that is incurred under Section 4.06(b)(2)) or any other Indebtedness of the Issuer or a Guarantor unless such Restricted Subsidiary simultaneously executes and delivers a Supplemental Indenture providing for the Note Guarantee of the payment of the Notes by such Restricted Subsidiary which Note Guarantee will be senior to or pari passu with such Restricted Subsidiary’s Guarantee of such other Indebtedness and with respect to any Guarantee of Indebtedness that is expressly contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or to any Note Guarantee by such Restricted Subsidiary, any such Guarantee will be subordinated to such Restricted Subsidiary’s Note Guarantee at least to the same extent as such subordinated Indebtedness is subordinated to the Notes.

 

Following the provision of any additional Note Guarantees as described in the immediately preceding paragraph, subject to the Agreed Security Principles, the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement (if such security is being granted in respect of the other Indebtedness), any such Guarantor shall accede to the Intercreditor Agreement and provide security over its material assets that are of the same type as any of the Issuer’s or the Guarantors’ assets that were a part of the Collateral as of the First Escrow Release Date (including Vessels, but excluding any assets of such Guarantor which are subject to a Permitted Lien at the time of the execution of such Supplemental Indenture (to the extent that such Permitted Lien was not created, incurred or assumed in contemplation thereof) if providing such security interest would not be permitted by the terms of such Permitted Lien or by the terms of any obligations secured by such Permitted Lien) to secure its Note Guarantee on a first-priority basis consistent with the Collateral.

 

This paragraph (a) will not be applicable to any Guarantees of any Restricted Subsidiary:

 

(1)           existing on the Issue Date;

 

(2)           that existed at the time such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary if the Guarantee was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary; or

 

(3)           arising solely due to granting of a Permitted Lien that would not otherwise constitute a Guarantee of Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor or any Guarantor.

 

(b)           Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parent Guarantor shall not be obligated to cause such Restricted Subsidiary to guarantee the Notes or provide security to the extent that such Note Guarantee or the grant of such security by such Restricted Subsidiary would be inconsistent with the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Inter-creditor Agreement or the Agreed Security Principles or would reasonably be expected to give rise to or result in (x) any liability for the officers, directors or shareholders of such Restricted Subsidiary, (y) any violation of applicable law that cannot be prevented or otherwise avoided through measures reasonably available to the Parent Guarantor or the Restricted Subsidiary or (z) any significant cost, expense, liability or obligation (including with respect to any Taxes) other than reasonable out-of-pocket expenses and other than reasonable expenses incurred in connection with any governmental or regulatory filings required as a result of, or any measures pursuant to clause (y) undertaken in connection with, such Note Guarantee which cannot be avoided through measures reasonably available to the Parent Guarantor or the Restricted Subsidiary.

 

(c)           Each additional Note Guarantee will be contractually limited as necessary to recognize certain defenses generally available to guarantors or sureties (including those that relate to fraudulent conveyance or transfer, voidable preference, financial assistance, corporate purpose, capital maintenance or similar laws, regulations or defenses affecting the rights of creditors generally) and other legal restrictions applicable to the Guarantors and their respective shareholders, directors and general partners.

 

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SECTION 4.16. Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries.

 

(a)         The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to:

 

(1)         pay dividends or make any other distributions on its Capital Stock to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary, or with respect to any other interest or participation in, or measured by, its profits, or pay any Indebtedness owed to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(2)         make loans or advances to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary; or

 

(3)         sell, lease or transfer any of its properties or assets to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

provided that (x) the priority of any preferred stock in receiving dividends or liquidating distributions prior to dividends or liquidating distributions being paid on common stock, (y) the subordination of (including the application of any standstill period to) loans or advances made to the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary to other Indebtedness incurred by the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary and (z) the provisions contained in documentation governing or relating to Indebtedness requiring transactions between or among the Parent Guarantor and any Restricted Subsidiary or between or among any Restricted Subsidiaries to be on fair and reasonable terms or on an arm’s-length basis, in each case, shall not be deemed to constitute such an encumbrance or restriction.

 

(b)         The provisions of Section 4.16(a) above shall not apply to encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of:

 

(1)         agreements or instruments governing or relating to Indebtedness as in effect on the Issue Date (including pursuant to the Revolving Credit Facility and the related documentation) and any amendments, restatements, modifications, renewals, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings of those agreements; provided that the amendments, restatements, modifications, renewals, supplements, re-fundings, replacements or refinancings are not materially less favorable, taken as a whole, to the Holder with respect to such dividend and other payment restrictions than those contained in those agreements or instruments on the Issue Date (as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor);

 

(2)         this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees, the Revolving Credit Facility, the Inter-creditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents;

 

(3)         agreements or instruments governing other Indebtedness permitted to be incurred under Section 4.06 and any amendments, restatements, modifications, renewals, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings of those agreements; provided that the restrictions therein are not materially less favorable, taken as a whole, to the Holder than is customary in comparable financings (as determined in good faith by the Parent Guarantor) and the Parent Guarantor determines at the time of the incurrence of such Indebtedness that such encumbrances or restrictions will not adversely effect, in any material respect, the Parent Guarantor’s ability to make principal or interest payments on the Notes;

 

(4)         applicable law, rule, regulation or order or the terms of any license, authorization, concession or permit;

 

(5)         any agreement or instrument governing or relating to Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person acquired by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as in effect at the time of such acquisition (other than any agreement or instrument entered into in connection with or in contemplation of such acquisition), which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired; provided that, in the case of Indebtedness, such Indebtedness was permitted by the terms of this Indenture to be incurred;

 

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(6)         customary non-assignment and similar provisions in contracts, leases and licenses entered into in the ordinary course of business;

 

(7)         purchase money obligations for property acquired in the ordinary course of business and Capital Lease Obligations that impose restrictions on the property purchased or leased of the nature set forth in Section 4.16(a)(3) or any encumbrance or restriction pursuant to a joint venture agreement that imposes restrictions on the transfer of the assets of the joint venture;

 

(8)         any agreement for the sale or other disposition of the Capital Stock or all or substantially all of the property and assets of a Restricted Subsidiary that restricts distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary pending its sale or other disposition;

 

(9)         Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness; provided that the restrictions contained in the agreements or instruments governing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are not materially more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those contained in the agreements or instruments governing the Indebtedness being refinanced;

 

(10)       Liens permitted to be incurred under Section 4.07 that limit the right of the debtor to dispose of the assets subject to such Liens;

 

(11)       provisions limiting the disposition or distribution of assets or property in joint venture agreements, asset sale agreements, sale-leaseback agreements, stock sale agreements and other similar agreements (including agreements entered into in connection with a Restricted Investment) entered into with the approval of the Parent Guarantor’s Board of Directors, which limitation is applicable only to the assets that are the subject of such agreements;

 

(12)       restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers or suppliers or required by insurance, surety or bonding companies, in each case, under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business;

 

(13)       any customary Productive Asset Leases for Vessels and other assets used in the ordinary course of business; provided that such encumbrance or restriction only extends to the Vessel or other asset financed in such Productive Asset Lease;

 

(14)       any encumbrance or restriction existing with respect to any Unrestricted Subsidiary or the property or assets of such Unrestricted Subsidiary that is designated as a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with the terms of this Indenture at the time of such designation and not incurred in contemplation of such designation, which encumbrances or restrictions are not applicable to any Person other than such Unrestricted Subsidiary or the property or assets of such Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided that the encumbrances or restrictions are customary for the business of such Unrestricted Subsidiary and would not, at the time agreed to, be expected to affect the ability of the Issuer and the Guarantors to make payments under the Notes and this Indenture;

 

(15)       customary encumbrances or restrictions contained in agreements in connection with Hedging Obligations permitted under this Indenture; and

 

(16)       any encumbrance or restriction existing under any agreement that extends, renews, refinances, replaces, amends, modifies, restates or supplements the agreements containing the encumbrances or restrictions in the foregoing clauses (1) through (15), or in this clause (16); provided that the terms and conditions of any such encumbrances or restrictions are no more restrictive in any material respect than those under or pursuant to the agreement so extended, renewed, refinanced, replaced, amended, modified, restated or supplemented.

 

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SECTION 4.17. Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

 

(a)           The Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor may designate any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Issuer) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary if that designation would not cause a Default.

 

(b)           If a Restricted Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, the aggregate Fair Market Value of all outstanding Investments owned by the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the Subsidiary designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be deemed to be an Investment made as of the time of the designation and will reduce the amount available for Restricted Payments under Section 4.08 or under one or more clauses of the definition of “Permitted Investments,” as determined by the Parent Guarantor. The designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will only be permitted if the deemed Investment resulting from such designation would be permitted at that time and if the Restricted Subsidiary otherwise meets the definition of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

(c)           The Parent Guarantor may redesignate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary if that redesignation would not cause a Default.

 

(d)           Any designation of a Subsidiary of the Parent Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a copy of a resolution of the Board of Directors giving effect to such designation and an Officer’s Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the preceding conditions and was permitted by Section 4.08. If, at any time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet the preceding requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, it will thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture and any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary will be deemed to be incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary as of such date and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be incurred as of such date under Section 4.06, the Parent Guarantor will be in default of such Section 4.06. The Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor may at any time designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such designation will be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness by a Restricted Subsidiary of any outstanding Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary, and such designation will only be permitted if (i) such Indebtedness is permitted under Section 4.06, calculated on a pro forma basis as if such designation had occurred at the beginning of the applicable reference period; and (ii) no Default or Event of Default would be in existence following such designation.

 

SECTION 4.18. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims. The Parent Guarantor shall pay or discharge and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay or discharge, or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent (a) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon (i) the Parent Guarantor or any such Subsidiary, (ii) the income or profits of any such Subsidiary which is a corporation or (iii) the property of the Parent Guarantor or any such Subsidiary and (b) all material lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies that, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Parent Guarantor or any such Subsidiary; provided that the Parent Guarantor shall not be required to pay or discharge, or cause to be paid or discharged, any such tax, assessment, charge or claim, the amount, applicability or validity of which is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or for which adequate reserves have been established.

 

SECTION 4.19. Reports to Holders. So long as any Notes are outstanding, the Parent Guarantor shall furnish to the Trustee:

 

(a)           within 90 days (or, in the case of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016, 120 days) after the end of the Parent Guarantor’s fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016, annual reports containing the following information: (a) audited consolidated balance sheet of the Parent Guarantor as of the end of the two most recent fiscal years and audited consolidated income statements and statements of cash flow of the Parent Guarantor for the three most recent fiscal years, including complete footnotes to such financial statements and the report of the independent auditors on the financial statements; (b) pro forma income statement and balance sheet information of the Parent Guarantor, together with explanatory footnotes, for any material acquisitions, dispositions or recapitalizations that have occurred since the beginning of the most recently completed fiscal year as to which such annual report relates (unless such pro forma information has been provided in a previous report pursuant to clause (2) or (3) below) (provided that such pro forma financial information shall be provided only to the extent available without unreasonable expense); (c) a management’s discussion and analysis of the audited financial statements,

 

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including a discussion of the results of operations (including a discussion by business segment), financial condition and liquidity and capital resources, and a discussion of material commitments and contingencies and critical accounting policies with a level of detail that is substantially consistent and similar in scope to the Offering Memorandum with such changes as are necessary or appropriate to reflect such changes to the business and operations of the Parent Guarantor since the date of the Offering Memorandum; (d) a description of the business, management and shareholders of the Parent Guarantor, material affiliate transactions and material debt instruments; and (e) material risk factors and material recent developments; provided that any item of disclosure that complies in all material respects with the requirements applicable under Form 20-F under the Exchange Act for annual reports with respect to such item will be deemed to satisfy the Parent Guarantor’s obligations under this clause (1) with respect to such item;

 

(b)           within (i) 60 days following the end of each of the first and third fiscal quarters in each fiscal year of the Parent Guarantor and (ii) 75 days following the end of each second fiscal quarter in each fiscal year of the Parent Guarantor, beginning with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2015, quarterly reports containing the following information: (a) an unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet as of the end of such quarter and unaudited condensed statements of income and cash flow for the quarterly and year to date periods ending on the unaudited condensed balance sheet date, and the comparable prior year periods (which may be presented on a pro forma basis) for the Parent Guarantor, together with condensed footnote disclosure; (b) pro forma income statement and balance sheet information of the Parent Guarantor, together with explanatory footnotes, for any material acquisitions, dispositions or recapitalizations that have occurred since the beginning of the most recently completed fiscal quarter as to which such quarterly report relates (unless such pro forma information has been provided in a previous report pursuant to sub-clause (a) or (c) of this clause (2); provided that such pro forma financial information shall be provided only to the extent available without unreasonable expense); (c) a management’s discussion and analysis of the unaudited financial statements, including a discussion of the consolidated financial condition and results of operations of the Parent Guarantor and any material change between the current quarterly period and the corresponding period of the prior year; and (d) material recent developments; and

 

(c)           promptly after the occurrence of any material acquisition, disposition or restructuring of the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or any senior executive officer changes at the Parent Guarantor or change in auditors of the Parent Guarantor or any other material event that the Parent Guarantor announces publicly, a report containing a description of such event.

 

Contemporaneously with the furnishing of each such report discussed above, the Parent Guarantor will post such report to its website or on IntraLinks or any comparable password-protected online data system, which will require a confidentiality acknowledgement (but not restrict the recipients of such information in trading of securities of the Parent Guarantor or its Affiliates).

 

Within ten Business Days of the furnishing of each such report discussed above, the Parent Guarantor will hold a conference call related to the report. Details regarding access to such conference call will be posted at least 24 hours prior to the commencement of such call on the website, IntraLinks or other online data system on which the report is posted.

 

The annual report required by the preceding paragraph will include a presentation either on the face of the financial statements or in footnotes thereto of the assets and liabilities and operating results of the Guarantors separate from the assets and liabilities and operating results of the non-Guarantor Subsidiaries. In addition, if the Parent Guarantor has designated any of its Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries and such Subsidiaries are Significant Subsidiaries, then the quarterly and annual financial information required by the preceding paragraph will include a reasonably detailed presentation, either on the face of the financial statements or in the footnotes thereto, of the financial condition and results of operations of the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries separate from the financial condition and results of operations of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor.

 

All financial statements shall be prepared in accordance with IFRS, except for any departures from IFRS requirements consistent with industry practice, as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, all financial statements shall be prepared in accordance with IFRS on a consistent basis for the periods presented; provided, however, that the reports set forth in clauses (1),

 

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(2) and (3) above may, in the event of a change in applicable IFRS, present earlier periods on a basis that applied to such periods, subject to the provisions of this Indenture. Except as provided for above, no report need include separate financial statements for the Parent Guarantor or Subsidiaries of the Parent Guarantor or any disclosure with respect to the results of operations or any other financial or statistical disclosure not of a type included in the Offering Memorandum.

 

In addition, for so long as any Notes remain outstanding, the Parent Guarantor has agreed that it will furnish to the Holders and to securities analysts and prospective investors, upon their request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.

 

The Trustee shall have no duty to examine any of such reports, information or documents to ascertain whether they contain the information and otherwise comply with the foregoing; the sole duty of the Trustee in respect of same being to file the same and make them available to Holders during normal business hours upon reasonable prior written request. Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Parent Guarantor’s compliance with any of its covenants under this Indenture (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).

 

SECTION 4.20. Further Assurances. Subject to the Agreed Security Principles, the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries will, at their own expense, execute and do all such acts and things and provide such assurances as the Security Agent may reasonably require (i) for registering any of the Security Documents in any required register and for granting, perfecting, preserving or protecting the security intended to be afforded by such Security Documents and (ii) if such Security Documents have become enforceable, for facilitating the realization of all or any part of the assets which are subject to such Security Documents and for facilitating the exercise of all powers, authorities and discretions vested in the Security Agent or in any receiver of all or any part of those assets. Subject to the Agreed Security Principles, the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries will execute all transfers, conveyances, assignments and releases of that property whether to the Security Agent or to its nominees and give all notices, orders and directions which the Security Agent may reasonably request.

 

SECTION 4.21. [Reserved].

 

SECTION 4.22. Impairment of Security Interest. The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, take or omit to take any action, which action or omission would have the result of materially impairing the security interest with respect to the Collateral (it being understood that the incurrence of Permitted Collateral Liens shall under no circumstances be deemed to materially impair the security interest with respect to the Collateral) for the benefit of the Security Agent, the Trustee and the holders of the Notes, and the Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, grant to any Person other than the Security Agent, for the benefit of itself, the Trustee and the holders of the Notes and the other beneficiaries described in the Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement, any Lien over any of the Collateral that is prohibited by Section 4.07; provided that the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries may incur any Lien over any of the Collateral that is not prohibited by Section 4.07, including Permitted Collateral Liens, and the Collateral may be discharged or released in accordance with this Indenture, the applicable Security Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement.

 

Subject to the foregoing, the Security Documents may be amended, extended, renewed, restated or otherwise modified or released to (i) cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency therein; (ii) provide for Permitted Collateral Liens; (iii) add to the Collateral; or (iv) make any other change thereto that does not adversely affect the holders of the Notes in any material respect; provided, however, that (except where permitted by this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement or to effect or facilitate the creation of Permitted Collateral Liens for the benefit of the Security Agent and holders of other Indebtedness incurred in accordance with this Indenture) no Security Document may be amended, extended, renewed, restated or otherwise modified or released, unless contemporaneously with such amendment, extension, renewal, restatement or modification or release (followed by an immediate retaking of a Lien of at least equivalent ranking over the same assets), the Parent Guarantor delivers to the Security Agent and the Trustee, either (1) a solvency opinion, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent and the Trustee, from an accounting, appraisal or investment banking firm of international standing which confirms the solvency of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries, taken as a

 

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whole, after giving effect to any transactions related to such amendment, extension, renewal, restatement, modification or release, (2) a certificate from an Officer of the relevant Person which confirms the solvency of the Person granting such Lien after giving effect to any transactions related to such amendment, extension, renewal, restatement, modification or release (followed by an immediate retaking of a Lien of at least equivalent ranking over the same assets) or (3) an Opinion of Counsel (subject to any qualifications customary for this type of opinion of counsel), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, confirming that, after giving effect to any transactions related to such amendment, extension, renewal, restatement, modification or release (followed by an immediate retaking of a Lien of at least equivalent ranking over the same assets), the Lien or Liens created under the Security Document, so amended, extended, renewed, restated, modified or released and retaken, are valid and perfected Liens not otherwise subject to any limitation, imperfection or new hardening period, in equity or at law, that such Lien or Liens were not otherwise subject to immediately prior to such amendment, extension, renewal, restatement, modification or release and retake and to which the new Indebtedness secured by the Permitted Collateral Lien is not subject. In the event that the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries comply with the requirements of this Section 4.22, the Trustee and the Security Agent shall (subject to customary protections and indemnifications) consent to such amendments without the need for instructions from the Holders of the Notes.

 

SECTION 4.23. After-Acquired Property. Promptly following the acquisition by the Issuer or any Guarantor of any After-Acquired Property (but subject to the Agreed Security Principles, the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement), the Issuer or such Guarantor shall execute and deliver such mortgages, deeds of trust, security instruments, financing statements and certificates and opinions of counsel as shall be reasonably necessary to vest in the Security Agent a perfected security interest in such After-Acquired Property and to have such After-Acquired Property added to the Collateral and thereupon all provisions of this Indenture relating to the Collateral shall be deemed to relate to such After-Acquired Property to the same extent and with the same force and effect.

 

SECTION 4.24. Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions. The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, enter into any sale and leaseback transaction (including any French Tax Lease); provided that the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into a sale and leaseback transaction (including any French Tax Lease) if:

 

(1)           (a) the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, could have incurred Indebtedness in an amount equal to the Attributable Debt or Capital Lease Obligation relating to such sale and leaseback transaction under Section 4.06; and (b) the Parent Guarantor or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, could have incurred a Lien to secure such Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.07;

 

(2)           other than with respect to any French Tax Lease, the gross cash proceeds of that sale and leaseback transaction are at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the property that is the subject of that sale and leaseback transaction; and

 

(3)           the transfer of assets in that sale and leaseback transaction is permitted by, and the Parent Guarantor applies the proceeds of such transaction in compliance with, Section 4.09.

 

SECTION 4.25. Payments for Consent. The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration to or for the benefit of any Holder for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms of the provisions of this Indenture, the Notes, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement unless such consideration is offered to be paid and is paid to all Holders of the Notes that consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth in the solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be permitted, in any offer or payment of consideration for, or as an inducement to, any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture, the Notes, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement, to exclude Holders in any jurisdiction where (A)(i) the solicitation of such consent, waiver or amendment, including in connection with an offer to purchase for cash, or (ii) the payment of the consideration therefor would require the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to file a registration statement, prospectus or similar document under any applicable securities laws (including, but not limited to, the United States federal securities laws, the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the laws of the European Union or its member states), which the Parent Guarantor in its

 

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sole discretion determines (acting in good faith) would be materially burdensome (it being understood that it would not be materially burdensome to file the consent document(s) used in other jurisdictions, any substantially similar documents or any summary thereof with the securities or financial services authorities in such jurisdiction); or (B) such solicitation would otherwise not be permitted under applicable law in such jurisdiction.

 

SECTION 4.26. Maintenance of Listing. The Parent Guarantor shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) obtain the listing of the Notes on the Official List of the Channel Islands Securities Exchange Authority Limited as promptly as possible after the Issue Date and (ii) maintain such listing for so long as such Notes are outstanding; provided that if the Parent Guarantor is unable to obtain or if at any time the Parent Guarantor determines that it will not maintain such listing, the Parent Guarantor shall promptly obtain a listing of the Notes on another recognized stock exchange and thereafter the Parent Guarantor shall maintain such listing.

 

SECTION 4.27. Business Activities. The Parent Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, engage in any business other than a Permitted Business, except to such extent as would not be material to the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.

 

SECTION 4.28. Re-flagging of Vessels. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Restricted Subsidiary may reconstitute itself in another jurisdiction, or merge with or into another Restricted Subsidiary, for the purpose of re-flagging a vessel that it owns or bareboat charters so long as at all times each Restricted Subsidiary remains organized under the laws of any country recognized by the United States of America with an investment grade credit rating from either S&P or Moody’s or any Permitted Jurisdiction; provided that contemporaneously with the transactions required to complete the re-flagging of such vessel, to the extent that any Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes were released as provided for under Section 11.04, (x) the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary grants a Lien of at least equivalent ranking over the same assets and (y) the Parent Guarantor delivers to the Security Agent and the Trustee, either (1) a solvency opinion, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent and the Trustee, from an independent financial advisor or appraiser or investment bank which confirms the solvency of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, after giving effect to any transactions related to such re-flagging, (2) a certificate from an Officer of the relevant Person which confirms the solvency of the Person granting such Lien after giving effect to any transactions related to such re-flagging, or (3) an Opinion of Counsel (subject to any qualifications customary for this type of opinion of counsel), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, confirming that, after giving effect to any transactions related to such re-flagging, the Lien or Liens created under the Security Document, so released and retaken are valid and perfected Liens not otherwise subject to any limitation, imperfection or new hardening period, in equity or at law, that such Lien or Liens were not otherwise subject to immediately prior to such release and retake. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of Article Five will not apply to a reconstitution or merger permitted under this Section 4.28.

 

ARTICLE FIVE

MERGER, CONSOLIDATION OR SALE OF ASSETS

 

SECTION 5.01. Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets.

 

(a)           Neither the Parent Guarantor nor the Issuer will, directly or indirectly: (1) consolidate or merge with or into another Person (whether or not the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable) is the surviving corporation), or (2) sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, in one or more related transactions, to another Person, unless:

 

(1)           either: (a) the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable) is the surviving corporation; or (b) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable)) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition has been made is an entity organized or existing under the laws of any member state of the European Union as in effect on December 31, 2003, Bermuda, the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Switzerland, Canada, any state of the United States or the District of Columbia (the “Surviving Entity”);

 

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(2)           the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable)) or the Person to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition has been made assumes (a) by a Supplemental Indenture entered into with the Trustee, all the obligations of the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable) under the Notes and this Indenture (including the Parent Guarantor’s Note Guarantee, if applicable) and (b) all obligations of the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable) under the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercredi-tor Agreement and the Security Documents, subject to the Agreed Security Principles;

 

(3)           immediately after such transaction, no Default or Event of Default is continuing;

 

(4)           the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable) or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable)), or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition has been made would, on the date of such transaction after giving pro forma effect thereto and any related financing transactions as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in Section 4.06(a); and

 

(5)           the Parent Guarantor delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, in each case, stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer and, in the case in which a Supplemental Indenture is entered into, such Supplemental Indenture, comply with this Section 5.01 and that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been complied with.

 

Clauses (3) and (4) of this Section 5.01(a) shall not apply to any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets to or merger or consolidation of the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable) with or into a Guarantor and clause (4) of this Section 5.01(a) will not apply to any sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets to or merger or consolidation of the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable) with or into an Affiliate solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Parent Guarantor or the Issuer (as applicable) in another jurisdiction for tax reasons.

 

(b)         A Subsidiary Guarantor (other than a Subsidiary Guarantor whose Note Guarantee is to be released in accordance with the terms of the Note Guarantee, this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement as provided in Section 10.03) will not, directly or indirectly: (1) consolidate or merge with or into another Person (whether or not such Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving corporation), or (2) sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of such Subsidiary Guarantor and its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, in one or more related transactions, to another Person, unless:

 

(1)           immediately after giving effect to that transaction, no Default or Event of Default is con-tinuing;

 

(2)           either:

 

(a)                           the person acquiring the property in any such sale or disposition or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger assumes all the obligations of that Subsidiary Guarantor under its Note Guarantee and this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents to which such Subsidiary Guarantor is a party, pursuant to a Supplemental Indenture; or

 

(b)           the Net Proceeds of such sale or other disposition are applied in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture; and

 

(3)           the Parent Guarantor delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, in each case, stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer and, in the case in which a Supplemental

 

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Indenture is entered into, such Supplemental Indenture, comply with this Section 5.01 and that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been complied with.

 

(c)           Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (b) above, (x)(a) any Restricted Subsidiary may consolidate or merge with or into or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Guarantor and (b) any Guarantor may consolidate or merge with or into or sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of such Guarantor and its Subsidiaries which are Restricted Subsidiaries to another Guarantor and (y) any Guarantor may consolidate or merge with or into an Affiliate incorporated or organized for the purpose of changing the legal domicile of such Guarantor, reincorporating such Guarantor in another jurisdiction or changing the legal form of such Guarantor.

 

SECTION 5.02. Successor Substituted. Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the Parent Guarantor in accordance with Section 5.01 of this Indenture, any Surviving Entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Parent Guarantor is merged or to which such sale, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition is made, shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Parent Guarantor under this Indenture with the same effect as if such Surviving Entity had been named as the Parent Guarantor herein; provided that the Parent Guarantor shall not be released from its obligation to pay the principal of, premium, if any, or interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of its property and assets.

 

ARTICLE SIX

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

 

SECTION 6.01. Events of Default.

 

(a)         Each of the following shall be an “Event of Default”:

 

(1)           default for 30 days in the payment when due of interest or Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to the Notes;

 

(2)           default in the payment when due (at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise) of the principal of, or premium, if any, on, the Notes;

 

(3)           failure by the Issuer or relevant Guarantor to comply with Section 4.11 or Section 5.01;

 

(4)           failure by the Issuer or relevant Guarantor for 60 days after written notice to the Parent Guarantor by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding voting as a single class to comply with any of the agreements in this Indenture (other than a default in performance, or breach, or a covenant or agreement which is specifically dealt with in clause (1), (2) or (3) above);

 

(5)           default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is guaranteed by the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or Guarantee now exists, or is created after the Issue Date, if that default:

 

(a)           is caused by a failure to pay principal of such Indebtedness prior to the expiration of the grace period provided in such Indebtedness on the date of such default; or

 

(b)           results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its express maturity,

 

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and, in each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness that is due and has not been paid, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness that is due and has not been paid or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates $25.0 million or more;

 

(6)           failure by the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, to pay final judgments entered by a court or courts of competent jurisdiction aggregating in excess of $25.0 million (exclusive of any amounts for which a solvent insurance company has acknowledged liability), which judgments shall not have been discharged or waived and there shall have been a period of 60 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of an appeal, waiver or otherwise, shall not have been in effect;

 

(7)           any security interest under the Security Documents on any Collateral having a Fair Market Value in excess of $5.0 million shall, at any time, cease to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with the terms of the relevant Security Document, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional In-tercreditor Agreement and this Indenture) for any reason other than the satisfaction in full of all obligations under this Indenture or the release or amendment of any such security interest in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement, or such Security Document or any such security interest created thereunder shall be declared invalid or unenforceable in a final non-appealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction or the Parent Guarantor shall assert in writing that any such security interest is invalid or unenforceable and any such Default continues for ten

 

(10)         days;

 

(8)           except as permitted by this Indenture (including with respect to any limitations), any Note Guarantee of a Significant Subsidiary or any group of the Parent Guarantor’s Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary is held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or ceases for any reason to be in full force and effect, or any Guarantor which is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of its Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, or any Person acting on behalf of any such Guarantor, denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Note Guarantee and such Default continues for 30 days; or

 

(9)           (A) a court having jurisdiction over the Parent Guarantor or a Significant Subsidiary enters (x) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of its Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law or (y) a decree or order adjudging the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of its Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Parent Guarantor or any such Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries under any Bankruptcy Law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Parent Guarantor or any such Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days or (B) the Parent Guarantor or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of its Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary (i) commences a voluntary case under any Bankruptcy Law or consents to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case under any Bankruptcy Law, (ii) consents to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Parent Guarantor or any such Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries or for all or substantially all the property and assets of the Parent Guarantor or any such Subsidiary or group of Restricted Subsidiaries, (iii) effects any general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (iv) generally is not paying its debts as they become due.

 

(b)           If a Default or an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and is known to a responsible officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder notice of the Default or Event of Default within 15 Business Days after its occurrence by registered or certified mail or facsimile transmission of an Officer’s Certificate specifying

 

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such event, notice or other action, its status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. Except in the case of a Default or an Event of Default in payment of principal of, premium, if any, and Additional Amounts or interest on any Notes, the Trustee may withhold the notice to the Holders of such Notes if a committee of its Trust Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders. The Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of a Default unless a Trust Officer has actual knowledge of such Default. The Issuer and the Parent Guarantor shall also notify the Trustee within 15 Business Days of the occurrence of any Default stating what action, if any, they are taking with respect to that Default.

 

SECTION 6.02. Acceleration.

 

(a)           If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a)(9)) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes by written notice to the Issuer and the Parent Guarantor (and to the Trustee if such notice is given by the Holders) may and the Trustee shall, if so directed by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, declare all the Notes to be due and payable immediately. In the event a declaration of acceleration of the Notes pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(5) has occurred and is continuing, the declaration of acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically annulled if the event of default or payment default triggering such Event of Default pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(5) shall be remedied or cured, or waived by the Holders of the relevant Indebtedness, or the Indebtedness that gave rise to such Event of Default shall have been discharged in full, within 30 days after the declaration of acceleration with respect thereto and if the annulment of the acceleration of the Notes would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction.

 

(b)           In the case of an Event of Default arising under Section 6.01(a)(9), with respect to the Parent Guarantor, any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Significant Subsidiary or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, all outstanding Notes will become due and payable immediately without further action or notice.

 

(c)           The holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding by notice to the Trustee may, on behalf of the holders of all outstanding Notes, rescind acceleration or waive any existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences under this Indenture, except a continuing Default or Event of Default

 

(1)           in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, any Additional Amounts or interest on any Note held by a non-consenting holder (which may only be waived with the consent of each holder of Notes affected), or

 

(2)           for any Note held by a non-consenting holder, in respect of a covenant or provision which under this Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected by such modification or amendment.

 

Upon any such rescission or waiver, such Default shall cease to exist and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose under this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

 

(d)           Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the Trustee or in its exercise of any trust or power conferred on it. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with applicable law or this Indenture, that the Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of other holders of the Notes (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not any such directions are unduly prejudicial to such Holders) or that may involve the Trustee in personal liability. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of the Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest, except a Default or Event of Default relating to the payment of principal, interest or Additional Amounts or premium, if any.

 

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(e)          Subject to the provisions of Article Seven, in case an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under this Indenture at the request or direction of any Holders unless such Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense. Except (subject to the provisions of Article Nine) to enforce the right to receive payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest or Additional Amounts when due, no Holder of a Note may pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Notes unless:

 

(1)         such Holder has previously given the Trustee written notice that an Event of Default is continuing;

 

(2)         Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy;

 

(3)         such Holders have offered, and if requested, provide to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against any loss, liability or expense;

 

(4)         the Trustee has not complied with such request within 60 days after the receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity; and

 

(5)         Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes have not given the Trustee a direction inconsistent with such request within such 60-day period.

 

(f)          The Parent Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee annually a statement regarding compliance with this Indenture. Within 30 days of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, the Parent Guarantor is required to deliver to the Trustee a statement specifying such Default or Event of Default.

 

SECTION 6.03. Other Remedies. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy. Subject to the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustee may direct the Security Agent to take enforcement action with respect to the Collateral if any amount is declared or becomes due and payable pursuant to Section 6.02 (but not otherwise).

 

All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee, and all rights of action and claims under the Security Documents may be prosecuted or enforced under the Security Documents by the Security Agent (in consultation with the Trustee, where appropriate), without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee or the Security Agent shall be brought in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery ofjudgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee or the Security Agent, their agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

 

SECTION 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes may, by written notice to the Trustee, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, waive any past Default hereunder and its consequences, except a Default:

 

(a)         in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, Additional Amounts, if any, or interest on any Note; or

 

(b)         in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holders of each Note affected by such modification or amendment.

 

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Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.

 

SECTION 6.05. Control by Majority. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes 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 under this Indenture; provided that:

 

(a)           the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law, this Indenture or that the Trustee determines, without obligation, in good faith may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of Holders not joining in the giving of such direction;

 

(b)           the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders or would involve the Trustee in personal liability; and

 

(c)           the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction.

 

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

 

(a)           the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes shall have made a written request to the Trustee to pursue such remedy;

 

(b)           such Holder or Holders offer the Trustee indemnity and/or security (including by way of pre-funding) reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against any costs, liability or expense;

 

(c)           the Trustee does not comply with the request within 30 days after receipt of the request and the offer of indemnity and/or security (including by way of pre-funding); and

 

(d)           during such 30-day period, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes do not give the Trustee a direction that is inconsistent with the request.

 

The limitations in the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.06, however, do not apply to a suit instituted by a Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, Additional Amounts, if any, or interest, if any, on such Note on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note.

 

A Holder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of any other Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder.

 

SECTION 6.07. Unconditional Right of Holders to Bring Suit for Payment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to bring suit for the enforcement of payment of principal, premium, if any, Additional Amounts, if any, and interest, if any, on the Notes held by such Holder, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Notes shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

 

SECTION 6.08. Collection Suit by Trustee. The Issuer covenants that if default is made in the payment

 

of:

 

(a)           any installment of interest on any Note when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or

 

(b)           the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Note at the Stated Maturity thereof,

 

the Issuer shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on such Notes for principal (and premium, if any), Additional Amounts, if any

 

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and interest, and interest on any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and Additional Amounts, if any and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installment of interest, at the rate borne by the Notes, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the amounts provided for in Section 7.05 and such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

 

If the Issuer fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated.

 

SECTION 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the properly incurred compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.05) and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to any of the Issuer or Guarantors, their creditors or their property and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, may vote on behalf of the Holders at their direction in any election of a trustee in bankruptcy or other Person performing similar functions, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the properly incurred compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and its counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.05. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.05 hereof out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money securities and other properties which the Holders may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.

 

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to empower 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 Notes 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.

 

SECTION 6.10. Application of Money Collected. If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article Six, it shall pay out the money or property in the following order:

 

FIRST: to the Trustee, any Agent, and the Security Agent for amounts due under Section 7.05;

 

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

 

THIRD: to the Issuer, any Guarantor or any other obligors of the Notes, as their interests may appear, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.

 

The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10. At least 30 days before such record date, the Issuer shall mail to each Holder and the Trustee a notice that states the record date, the payment date and amount to be paid. This Section 6.10 is subject at all times to the provisions set forth in Section 11.02.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Security Agent shall apply the proceeds of the Collateral as directed by the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement.

 

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

 

SECTION 6.12. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or the Security Agent or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or the Security Agent or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Issuer, any Guarantor, the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

 

SECTION 6.13. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes in Section 2.07, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee, or the Security Agent or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

 

SECTION 6.14. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee, or the Security Agent or of any Holder of any Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article Six or by law to the Trustee, or the Security Agent or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.

 

SECTION 6.15. Record Date. The Issuer may set a record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders entitled to vote or to consent to any action by vote or consent authorized or permitted by Sections 6.04 and 6.05. Unless this Indenture provides otherwise, such record date shall be the later of 30 days prior to the first solicitation of such consent or the date of the most recent list of Holders furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.05 prior to such solicitation.

 

SECTION 6.16. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. Each Issuer covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it shall not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee or to the Security Agent, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.

 

ARTICLE SEVEN

TRUSTEE AND SECURITY AGENT

 

SECTION 7.01. Duties of Trustee and the Security Agent.

 

(a)           If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing of which a Trust Officer of the Trustee or the Security Agent has actual knowledge, the Trustee or the Security Agent shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.

 

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(b)           Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01(a), (i) the Trustee and the Security Agent undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents and no others and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee and the Security Agent; and (ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee and the Security Agent may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and the Security Agent and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercredi-tor Agreement and the Security Documents. In the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee or the Security Agent, the Trustee and the Security Agent, as applicable, shall examine same to determine whether they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).

 

(c)           The Security Agent shall execute and deliver, if necessary, and act as beneficiary under, the Security Documents on behalf of the Holders under this Indenture and shall take such other actions as may be necessary or advisable in accordance with the Security Documents. The Security Agent shall remit any proceeds recovered from enforcement of the Security Documents; provided that all necessary approvals are obtained from each relevant jurisdiction in which the Collateral is located.

 

(d)           Neither the Trustee nor the Security Agent shall be relieved from liability for its own grossly negligent action, its own grossly negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:

 

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

 

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

 

(iii)       the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 6.02 or 6.05;

 

(e)           The Trustee, any Paying Agent and the Security Agent shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee, any Paying Agent and the Security Agent may agree in writing with the Issuer or the Subsidiary Guarantors. Money held by the Trustee, the Principal Paying Agent or the Security Agent need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law and, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not be held in accordance with the UK Client Money Rules;

 

(f)            No provision of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement or the Security Documents shall require the Trustee, each Agent, the Principal Paying Agent or the Security Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not assured to it; and

 

(g)           Any provisions hereof or of the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement or of the Security Documents relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee, each Agent, or the Security Agent, as the case may be, shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 7.01.

 

SECTION 7.02. Certain Rights of Trustee and the Security Agent.

 

(a)           Subject to Section 7.01:

 

(i)         following the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default, the Trustee is entitled to require all Agents to act under its direction;

 

(ii)        the Trustee and the Security Agent may rely conclusively, and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting, upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,

 

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direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person;

 

(iii)         before the Trustee or the Security Agent act or refrain from acting, they may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both, which shall conform to Section 12.04. Neither the Trustee nor the Security Agent shall be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such certificate or opinion and such certificate or opinion will be equal to complete authorization;

 

(iv)        the Trustee and the Security Agent may act through their attorneys and agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any attorney or agent appointed with due care by them hereunder;

 

(v)         neither the Trustee nor the Security Agent shall be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee and the Security Agent security and/or indemnity (including by way of pre-funding) satisfactory to them against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by them in compliance with such request or direction;

 

(vi)        unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from the Issuer will be sufficient if signed by an officer of such Issuer;

 

(vii)       neither the Trustee nor the Security Agent shall be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers;

 

(viii)      whenever, in the administration of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents, the Trustee and the Security Agent shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee and the Security Agent (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s Certificate;

 

(ix)        neither the Trustee nor the Security Agent shall be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee and the Security Agent, in their discretion, individually, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee or the Security Agent shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Issuer personally or by agent or attorney;

 

(x)         neither the Trustee nor the Security Agent shall be required to give any bond or surety with respect to the performance of its duties or the exercise of its powers under this Indenture;

 

(xi)        in the event the Trustee or the Security Agent receives inconsistent or conflicting requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Holders, each representing less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee and the Security Agent, in their discretion, may determine what action, if any, will be taken and shall incur no liability for their failure to act until such inconsistency or conflict is, in their reasonable opinion, resolved;

 

(xii)       the permissive rights of the Trustee and the Security Agent to take the actions permitted by this Indenture will not be construed as an obligation or duty to do so;

 

(xiii)      delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee under Section 4.19 is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of the foregoing will not constitute actual or constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein,

 

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including the Parent Guarantor’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiary’s compliance with any of their covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates);

 

(xiv)        the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to each of the Trustee and the Security Agent in this Indenture, including, without limitation, its rights to be indemnified and compensated, are extended to, and will be enforceable by, the Trustee and the Security Agent in each of their capacities hereunder, by the Registrar, the Agents, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder;

 

(xv)         the Trustee and the Security Agent may consult with counsel or other professional advisors and the advice of such counsel or professional advisor or any Opinion of Counsel will, subject to Section 7.01(c), be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;

 

(xvi)        the Trustee and the Security Agent shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance of the covenants of the Parent Guarantor and/or its Restricted Subsidiaries in Article Four hereof;

 

(xvii)       the Trustee and the Security Agent shall not have any obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance, and shall not be responsible or liable for compliance with restrictions on transfer, exchange, redemption, purchase or repurchase, as applicable, of minimum denominations imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law or regulation with respect to any transfer, exchange, redemption, purchase or repurchase, as applicable, of any interest in any Notes, but may at its sole discretion, choose to do so;

 

(xviii)      in no event shall the Trustee or the Security Agent be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of, or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts that are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances; and

 

(xix)        neither the Trustee nor the Security Agent shall under any circumstance be liable for any indirect or consequential loss, special or punitive damages (including loss of business, goodwill or reputation, opportunity or profit of any kind) of the Issuer, any Guarantor or any Restricted Subsidiary even if advised of it in advance and even if foreseeable.

 

(b)         The Trustee and the Security Agent may request that the Issuer deliver an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the names of the individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officer’s Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.

 

(c)          The Security Agent shall accept without investigation, requisition or objection such right and title as the Issuer and any Guarantor may have to any of the Collateral and shall not be bound or concerned to examine or enquire into or be liable for any defect or failure in the right or title of the Issuer or any Guarantor to the Collateral or any part thereof whether such defect or failure was known to the Security Agent or might have been discovered upon examination or enquiry and whether capable of remedy or not and shall have no responsibility for the validity, value or sufficiency of the Collateral.

 

(d)         Without prejudice to the provisions hereof, the Security Agent shall not be under any obligation to insure any of the Collateral or any certificate, note, bond or other evidence in respect thereof, or to require any other person to maintain any such insurance and shall not be responsible for any loss, expense or liability which may be suffered as a result of any assets comprised in the Collateral being uninsured or inadequately insured.

 

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(e)           The Security Agent shall not be responsible for any loss, expense or liability occasioned to the Collateral, howsoever caused, by the Security Agent or by any act or omission on the part of any other person (including any bank, broker, depositary, warehouseman or other intermediary or by any clearing system or other operator thereof), or otherwise, unless such loss is occasioned by the willful misconduct or fraud of the Security Agent.

 

(f)            Beyond the exercise of reasonable care in the custody thereof, the Security Agent shall have no duty or liability as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or bailee or any income thereon or as to preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto and the Security Agent shall not be responsible for filing any financing or continuation statements or recording any documents or instruments in any public office at any time or times or otherwise perfecting or maintaining the perfection of any security interest in the Collateral. The Security Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody of the Collateral in its possession if the Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which it accords its own property and shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or diminution in the value of any of the Collateral by reason of the act or omission of any carrier, forwarding agency or other agent or bailee selected by the Security Agent in good faith.

 

(g)           Neither the Trustee nor the Security Agent is required to give any bond or surety with respect to the performance of its duties or the exercise of its powers under this Indenture or the Notes.

 

(h)           Neither the Trustee nor the Security Agent will be liable to any person if prevented or delayed in performing any of its obligations or discretionary functions under this Indenture by reason of any present or future law applicable to it, by any governmental or regulatory authority or by any circumstances beyond its control.

 

(i)            No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee or the Security Agent to do anything which, in its opinion, may be illegal or contrary to applicable law or regulation.

 

(j)            The Trustee and the Security Agent may refrain from taking any action in any jurisdiction if the taking of such action in that jurisdiction would, in its opinion, based upon legal advice in the relevant jurisdiction, be contrary to any law of that jurisdiction or, to the extent applicable, the State of New York and may without liability (other than in respect of actions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence) do anything which is, in its opinion, necessary to comply with any such law, directive or regulation.

 

(k)           Both the Trustee and the Security Agent may assume without inquiry in the absence of actual knowledge that the Issuer is duly complying with its obligations contained in this Indenture required to be performed and observed by it, and that no Default or Event of Default or other event which would require repayment of the Notes has occurred.

 

(l)            At any time that the security granted pursuant to the Security Documents has become enforceable and the Holders have given a direction to the Trustee to enforce such security, the Trustee is not required to give any direction to the Security Agent with respect thereto unless it has been indemnified and/or secured to its satisfaction in accordance with this Indenture. In any event, in connection with any enforcement of such security, the Trustee is not responsible for:

 

(i)                                     any failure of the Security Agent to enforce such security within a reasonable time or at all;

 

(ii)           any failure of the Security Agent to pay over the proceeds of enforcement of the security;

 

(iii)          any failure of the Security Agent to realize such security for the best price obtainable;

 

(iv)          monitoring the activities of the Security Agent in relation to such enforcement;

 

(v)           taking any enforcement action itself in relation to such security;

 

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(vi)          agreeing to any proposed course of action by the Security Agent which could result in the Trustee incurring any liability for its own account; or

 

(vii)         paying any fees, costs or expenses of the Security Agent.

 

SECTION 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee and the Security Agent. The Trustee, the Security Agent, any Transfer Agent, any Paying Agent, any Registrar or any other agent of the Issuer or of the Trustee or Security Agent, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and, may otherwise deal with the Issuer with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, the Security Agent, Paying Agent, Transfer Agent, Registrar or such other agent. The Trustee and the Security Agent may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust or other business with the Issuer or any of its Affiliates or Subsidiaries as if it were not performing the duties specified herein, in the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Inter-creditor Agreement and in the Security Documents, and may accept fees and other consideration from the Issuer for services in connection with this Indenture and otherwise without having to account for the same to the Trustee, the Security Agent or to the Holders from time to time.

 

SECTION 7.04. Disclaimer of Trustee and Security Agent. The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except for the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee and the Security Agent make no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Notes or the Security Documents. The Trustee and the Security Agent shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes or any money paid to the Issuer or upon the Issuer’s direction under any provision of this Indenture nor shall it be responsible for the use or application of any money received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee and the Security Agent and they will not be responsible for any statement or recital herein or any statement on the Notes or any other document in connection with the sale of the Notes or pursuant to this Indenture or the Intercreditor Agreement other than the Trustee’s certificate of authentication. The Security Agent shall not, nor shall any receiver appointed by or any agent of the Security Agent, by reason of taking possession of any Collateral or any part thereof or any other reason or on any basis whatsoever, be liable to account for anything expect actual receipts or be liable for any loss or damage arising from a realization of the Collateral or any part thereof or from any act, default or omission in relation to the Collateral or any part thereof or from any exercise or non-exercise by it of any power, authority or discretion conferred upon it in relation to the Collateral or any part thereof unless such loss or damage shall be caused by its own fraud or gross negligence. The Security Agent shall not have any responsibility or liability arising from the fact that the Collateral may be held in safe custody by a custodian. The Security Agent assumes no responsibility for the validity, sufficiency or enforceability (which the Security Agent has not investigated) of the Collateral purported to be created by any Supplemental Indenture or other document. In addition, the Security Agent has no duty to monitor the performance by the Issuer and the Guarantors of their obligations to the Security Agent nor is it obliged (unless indemnified and/or secured (including by way of prefunding to its satisfaction) to take any other action which may involve the Security Agent in any personal liability or expense).

 

SECTION 7.05. Compensation and Indemnity. The Issuer, failing which the Guarantors, shall pay to the Trustee and the Security Agent such compensation as shall be agreed in writing for their services hereunder. The Trustee’s and the Security Agent’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Issuer, failing which the Guarantors, shall reimburse the Trustee and the Security Agent promptly upon request for all properly incurred disbursements, advances or expenses incurred or made by them, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for their services. Such expenses shall include the properly incurred compensation, disbursements, charges, advances and expenses of the Trustee’s and the Security Agent’s agents and counsel.

 

The Issuer, failing which the Guarantors, shall indemnify the Trustee and the Security Agent against any and all loss, liability or expense (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by either of them without willful misconduct or gross negligence on their part arising out of or in connection with the administration of this trust and the performance of their duties hereunder (including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture, the Inter-creditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents against the Issuer and the Guarantors (including this Section 7.05) and defending themselves against any claim, whether asserted by the Issuer, the Guarantors, any Holder or any other Person, or liability in connection with the execution and performance of any of their powers and duties hereunder). The Trustee and the Security Agent shall notify the Issuer promptly of any

 

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claim for which they may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee or the Security Agent to so notify the Issuer shall not relieve the Issuer or any Guarantor of its obligations hereunder. The Issuer shall, at the sole discretion of the Trustee or Security Agent, as applicable, defend the claim and the Trustee and the Security Agent may cooperate and may participate at the Issuer’s expense in such defense. Alternatively, the Trustee and the Security Agent may at their option have separate counsel of their own choosing and the Issuer shall pay the properly incurred fees and expenses of such counsel. The Issuer need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent may not be unreasonably withheld. The Issuer shall not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Trustee through the Trustee’s own willful misconduct or gross negligence.

 

To secure the Issuer’s payment obligations in this Section 7.05, the Trustee and the Security Agent shall have a Lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, in their capacity as Trustee and the Security Agent, except money or property, including any proceeds from the sale of Collateral, held in trust to pay principal of, premium, if any, additional amounts, if any, and interest on particular Notes. Such Lien shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of all Notes under this Indenture.

 

When either the Trustee or the Security Agent incur expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 6.01(a)(9) with respect to the Issuer, the Guarantors, or any Restricted Subsidiary, the expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under Bankruptcy Law.

 

The Issuer’s obligations under this Section 7.05 and any claim or Lien arising hereunder shall survive the resignation or removal of any Trustee and the Security Agent, the satisfaction and discharge of the Issuer’s obligations pursuant to Article Eight and any rejection or termination under any Bankruptcy Law, and the termination of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 7.06. Replacement of Trustee or Security Agent. A resignation or removal of the Trustee and the Security Agent and appointment of a successor Trustee and successor Security Agent shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s and the successor Security Agent’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section 7.06.

 

The Trustee and, subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Security Agent as provided in this Section and the last paragraph of this Section 7.06, the Security Agent may resign at any time without giving any reason by so notifying the Issuer. The Holders of a majority in outstanding principal amount of the outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee and the Security Agent by so notifying the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Issuer. The Issuer shall remove the Trustee or the Security Agent if:

 

(a)           the Trustee or the Security Agent fails to comply with Section 7.09;

 

(b)           the Trustee or the Security Agent is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;

 

(c)           a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or the Security Agent or their property; or

 

(d)           the Trustee or the Security Agent otherwise becomes incapable of acting.

 

If the Trustee or the Security Agent resigns or is removed, or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee or the Security Agent for any reason, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or a successor Security Agent, as the case may be. Within one year after the successor Trustee or Security Agent takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may appoint a successor Trustee or Security Agent to replace the successor Trustee or Security Agent appointed by the Issuer. If the successor Trustee or Security Agent does not deliver its written acceptance required by the next succeeding paragraph of this Section 7.06 within 30 days after the retiring Trustee or Security Agent resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee or Security Agent, the Issuer or the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may, at the expense of the Issuer, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee or Security Agent.

 

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A successor Trustee or Security Agent shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee or Security Agent, as the case may be, and to the Issuer. Thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee or Security Agent shall become effective, and the successor Trustee or Security Agent shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee or the Security Agent under this Indenture. The successor Trustee or Security Agent shall mail a notice of its succession to Holders. The retiring Trustee or Security Agent shall, at the expense of the Issuer, promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee or Security Agent to the successor Trustee or Security Agent; provided that all sums owing to the Trustee or Security Agent hereunder have been paid and subject to the Lien provided for in Section 7.05.

 

If a successor Trustee or Security Agent does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee or Security Agent resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee or Security Agent, the Issuer or the Holders of at least 25% in outstanding principal amount of the Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee or Security Agent at the expense of the Issuer. Without prejudice to the right of the Issuer to appoint a successor Trustee or a successor Security Agent in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the retiring Trustee or Security Agent may appoint a successor Trustee or Security Agent at any time prior to the date on which a successor Trustee or Security Agent takes office.

 

If the Trustee or the Security Agent fails to comply with Section 7.09, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee or the Security Agent and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Security Agent.

 

In addition to the foregoing and notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, any resignation, removal or replacement of the Security Agent pursuant to this Section 7.06 shall not be effective until (a) a successor to the Security Agent has agreed to act under the terms of this Indenture and (b) all of the Security Interests in the Collateral has been transferred to such successor. Any replacement or successor Security Agent shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York or London, England, or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon acceptance of its appointment as Security Agent hereunder by a replacement or successor, such replacement or successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Security Agent hereunder, and the retiring Security Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder.

 

Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee or the Security Agent pursuant to this Section 7.06, the Is-suer’s and the Guarantors’ obligations under Section 7.05 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee or Security Agent.

 

SECTION 7.07. Successor Trustee or Security Agent by Merger. Any corporation into which the Trustee or the Security Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee or the Security Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee or the Security Agent, shall be the successor of the Trustee or the Security Agent hereunder; provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article Seven, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Notes shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Notes so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Notes. In case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee. In all such cases such certificates shall have the full force and effect which this Indenture provides for the certificate of authentication of the Trustee shall have; provided that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.

 

SECTION 7.08. Appointment of Security Agent and Supplemental Security Agents. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree, and each Holder by accepting the Notes acknowledges and agrees, that the Issuer hereby appoints Citibank, N.A., London Branch to act as Security Agent hereunder, and Citibank, N.A., London Branch accepts such appointment. Each Holder, by accepting the Notes, authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee and the Security Agent on such Holder’s behalf to enter into the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Intercredi-tor Agreement and the Trustee and the Holders acknowledge that the Security Agent will be acting in respect to the

 

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Security Documents and the security granted thereunder on the terms outlined therein (which terms in respect of the rights and protections of the Security Agent, in the event of an inconsistency with the terms of this Indenture, will prevail).

 

(a)           The Security Agent may perform any of its duties and exercise any of its rights and powers through one or more sub-agents or co-trustees appointed by it. The Security Agent and any such sub-agent or co-trustee may perform any of its duties and exercise any of its rights and powers through its affiliates. All of the provisions of this Indenture applicable to the Security Agent including, without limitation, its rights to be indemnified, shall apply to and be enforceable by any such sub-agent and affiliates of a Security Agent and any such sub-agent or co-trustee. All references herein to a “Security Agent” shall include any such sub-agent or co-trustee and affiliates of a Security Agent or any such sub-agent or co-trustee.

 

(b)           It is the purpose of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents that there shall be no violation of any Law of any jurisdiction denying or restricting the right of banking corporations or associations to transact business as agent or trustee in such jurisdiction. Without limiting paragraph (a) of this Section, it is recognized that in case of litigation under, or enforcement of, this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement or any of the Security Documents, or in case the Security Agent deems that by reason of any present or future law of any jurisdiction it may not exercise any of the rights, powers or remedies granted herein or in any of the Security Documents or take any other action which may be desirable or necessary in connection therewith, the Security Agent is hereby authorized to appoint an additional individual or institution selected by the Security Agent in its sole discretion as a separate trustee, co-trustee, administrative agent, Security Agent, administrative sub-agent or administrative co-agent (any such additional individual or institution being referred to herein individually as a “Supplemental Security Agent” and collectively as “Supplemental Security Agents”).

 

(c)           In the event that the Security Agent appoints a Supplemental Security Agent with respect to any Collateral, (i) each and every right, power, privilege or duty expressed or intended by this Indenture or any of the other Security Documents to be exercised by or vested in or conveyed to such Security Agent with respect to such Collateral shall be exercisable by and vest in such Supplemental Security Agent to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to enable such Supplemental Security Agent to exercise such rights, powers and privileges with respect to such Collateral and to perform such duties with respect to such Collateral, and every covenant and obligation contained in the Security Documents and necessary to the exercise or performance thereof by such Supplemental Security Agent shall run to and be enforceable by either such Security Agent or such Supplemental Security Agent, and (ii) the provisions of this Indenture (and, in particular, this Article Seven) that refer to the Security Agent shall inure to the benefit of such Supplemental Security Agent and all references therein to the Security Agent shall be deemed to be references to a Security Agent and/or such Supplemental Security Agent, as the context may require.

 

(d)           Should any instrument in writing from the Issuer or any other obligor be required by any Supplemental Security Agent so appointed by the Security Agent for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to him or it such rights, powers, privileges and duties, the Parent Guarantor shall, or shall cause the Issuer and relevant Guarantor to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon request by the Security Agent. In case any Supplemental Security Agent, or a successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Security Agent, to the extent permitted by Law, shall vest in and be exercised by the Security Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Security Agent.

 

SECTION 7.09. Eligibility; Disqualification. There will at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of England and Wales or the United States of America or of any state thereof that is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trustee power and which is generally recognized as a corporation which customarily performs such corporate trustee roles and provides such corporate trustee services in transactions similar in nature to the offering of the Notes as described in the Offering Memorandum.

 

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SECTION 7.10. Appointment of Co-Trustee.

 

(a)                                 It is the purpose of this Indenture that there shall be no violation of any law of any jurisdiction denying or restricting the right of banking corporations or associations to transact business as trustee in such jurisdiction. It is recognized that in case of litigation under this Indenture, and in particular in case of the enforcement thereof on Default, or in the case the Trustee deems that by reason of any present or future law of any jurisdiction it may not exercise any of the powers, rights or remedies herein granted to the Trustee or hold title to the properties, in trust, as herein granted or take any action which may be desirable or necessary in connection therewith, it may be necessary that the Trustee appoint an individual or institution as a separate or co-trustee. The following provisions of this Section 7.10 are adopted to these ends.

 

(b)                                 In the event that the Trustee appoints an additional individual or institution as a separate or co-trustee, each and every remedy, power, right, claim, demand, cause of action, immunity, estate, title, interest and Lien expressed or intended by this Indenture to be exercised by or vested in or conveyed to the Trustee with respect thereto shall be exercisable by and vest in such separate or co-trustee but only to the extent necessary to enable such separate or co-trustee to exercise such powers, rights and remedies, and only to the extent that the Trustee by the laws of any jurisdiction is incapable of exercising such powers, rights and remedies, and every covenant and obligation necessary to the exercise thereof by such separate or co-trustee shall run to and be enforceable by either of them.

 

(c)                                  Should any instrument in writing from the Issuer be required by the separate or co-trustee so appointed by the Trustee for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to him or it such properties, rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations, any and all such instruments in writing shall to the extent permitted by the laws of the State of New York and the jurisdictions of organization of the Issuer, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered by the Issuer; provided that if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if the Issuer do not execute any such instrument within 15 days after request therefor, the Trustee shall be empowered as an attorney-in-fact for the Issuer to execute any such instrument in the Issuer’s name and stead. In case any separate or co-trustee or a successor to either shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all the estates, properties, rights, powers, trusts, duties and obligations of such separate or co-trustee, so far as permitted by law, shall vest in and be exercised by the Trustee until the appointment of a new trustee or successor to such separate or co-trustee.

 

(d)                                 Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:

 

(i)                                all rights and powers, conferred or imposed upon the Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and may be exercised or performed by such separate trustee or co-trustee; and

 

(ii)                             no trustee hereunder shall be liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder.

 

(e)                                  Any notice, request or other writing given to the Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Indenture and the conditions of this Article Seven.

 

(f)                                   Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the Trustee as its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Trustee, to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successors trustee.

 

SECTION 7.11. Resignation of Agents.

 

(a)                                 Any Agent may resign its appointment hereunder at any time without the need to give any reason and without being responsible for any costs associated therewith by giving to the Issuer and the Trustee and (except

 

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in the case of resignation of the Principal Paying Agent) the Principal Paying Agent 30 days’ written notice to that effect (waivable by the Issuer and the Trustee); provided that in the case of resignation of the Principal Paying Agent no such resignation shall take effect until a new Principal Paying Agent (approved in advance in writing by the Trustee) shall have been appointed by the Issuer to exercise the powers and undertake the duties hereby conferred and imposed upon the Principal Paying Agent. Following receipt of a notice of resignation from any Agent, the Issuer shall promptly give notice thereof to the Holders in accordance with Section 12.02. Such notice shall expire at least 30 days before or after any due date for payment in respect of the Notes.

 

(b)                                 If any Agent gives notice of its resignation in accordance with this Section 7.11 and a replacement Agent is required and by the tenth day before the expiration of such notice such replacement has not been duly appointed, such Agent may itself appoint as its replacement any reputable and experienced financial institution. Immediately following such appointment, the Issuer shall give notice of such appointment to the Trustee, the remaining Agents and the Holders whereupon the Issuer, the Trustee, the remaining Agents and the replacement Agent shall acquire and become subject to the same rights and obligations between themselves as if they had entered into an agreement in the form mutatis mutandis of this Indenture.

 

(c)                                  Upon its resignation becoming effective the Principal Paying Agent shall forthwith transfer all moneys held by it hereunder hereof to the successor Principal Paying Agent or, if none, the Trustee or to the Trus-tee’s order, but shall have no other duties or responsibilities hereunder, and shall be entitled to the payment by the Issuer of its remuneration for the services previously rendered hereunder and to the reimbursement of all reasonable expenses (including legal fees) incurred in connection therewith.

 

SECTION 7.12. Agents General Provisions.

 

(a)                                 Actions of Agents. The rights, powers, duties and obligations and actions of each Agent under this Indenture are several and not joint or joint and several.

 

(b)                                 Agents of Trustee. The Issuer and the Agents acknowledge and agree that in the event of a Default or Event of Default, the Trustee may, by notice in writing to the Issuer and the Agents, require that the Agents act as agents of, and take instructions exclusively from, the Trustee. Prior to receiving such written notification from the Trustee, the Agents shall be the agents of the Issuer and need have no concern for the interests of the Holders.

 

(c)                                  Funds held by Agents. The Agents will hold all funds as banker subject to the terms of this Indenture and as a result, such money will not be held in accordance with the rules established by the Financial Conduct Authority in the Financial Conduct Authority’s Handbook of rules and guidance from time to time in relation to client money.

 

(d)                                 Publication of Notices. Any obligation the Agents may have to publish a notice to Holders of Global Notes on behalf of the Issuer will be met upon delivery of the notice to DTC.

 

(e)                                  Instructions. In the event that instructions given to any Agent are not reasonably clear, then such Agent shall be entitled to seek clarification from the Issuer or other party entitled to give the Agents instructions under this Indenture by written request promptly, and in any event within one Business Day of receipt by such Agent of such instructions. If an Agent has sought clarification in accordance with this Section 7.12, then such Agent shall be entitled to take no action until such clarification is provided, and shall not incur any liability for not taking any action pending receipt of such clarification.

 

(f)                                   No Fiduciary Duty. No Agent shall be under any fiduciary duty or other obligation towards, or have any relationship of agency or trust, for or with any person other than the Issuer.

 

(g)                                  Mutual Undertaking. Each party shall, within ten Business Days of a written request by another party, supply to that other party such forms, documentation and other information relating to it, its operations, or the Notes as that other party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other party’s compliance with applicable law and shall notify the relevant other party reasonably promptly in the event that it becomes aware that any of the forms, documentation or other information provided by such party is (or becomes) inaccurate in any material respect;

 

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provided, however, that no party shall be required to provide any forms, documentation or other information pursuant to this Section 7.12(g) to the extent that: (i) any such form, documentation or other information (or the information required to be provided on such form or documentation) is not reasonably available to such party and cannot be obtained by such party using reasonable efforts; or (ii) doing so would or might in the reasonable opinion of such party constitute a breach of any: (a) applicable law; (b) fiduciary duty; or (c) duty of confidentiality. For purposes of this Section 7.12(g), “applicable law” shall be deemed to include (i) any rule or practice of any regulatory or governmental authority by which any party is bound or with which it is accustomed to comply; (ii) any agreement between any Authorities; and (iii) any agreement between any regulatory or governmental authority and any party that is customarily entered into by institutions of a similar nature.

 

(h)                                 Tax Withholding.

 

(i)                                The Issuer shall notify each Agent in the event that it determines that any payment to be made by an Agent under the Notes is a payment which could be subject to FATCA Withholding if such payment were made to a recipient that is generally unable to receive payments free from FATCA Withholding, and the extent to which the relevant payment is so treated; provided, however, that the Issuer’s obligations under this Section 7.12(h) shall apply only to the extent that such payments are so treated by virtue of characteristics of the Issuer, the Notes, or both.

 

(ii)                             Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, each Agent shall be entitled to make a deduction or withholding from any payment which it makes under the Notes for or on account of any Tax, if and only to the extent so required by Applicable Law, in which event the Agent shall make such payment after such deduction or withholding has been made and shall account to the relevant Authority within the time allowed for the amount so deducted or withheld or, at its option, shall reasonably promptly after making such payment return to the Issuer the amount so deducted or withheld, in which case, the Issuer shall so account to the relevant Authority for such amount. For the avoidance of doubt, FATCA Withholding is a deduction or withholding which is deemed to be required by Applicable Law for the purposes of this Section 7.12(h)(ii).

 

ARTICLE EIGHT

DEFEASANCE; SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

SECTION 8.01. Issuer’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The Issuer may, at its option and at any time prior to the Stated Maturity of the Notes, by a resolution of its Board of Directors, elect to have either Section 8.02 or Section 8.03 be applied to all outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article Eight.

 

SECTION 8.02. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Issuer’s exercise under Section 8.01 of the option applicable to this Section 8.02, the Issuer and the Guarantors shall be deemed to have been discharged from their obligations with respect to the Notes on the date the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 are satisfied (hereinafter, “Legal Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Legal Defeasance means that the Issuer shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes and to have satisfied all their other obligations under the Notes and this Indenture (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 8.08 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and interest (including Additional Amounts) on such Notes when such payments are due, (b) the Issuer’s obligations with respect to the Notes concerning issuing temporary Notes, registration of Notes, mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and the maintenance of an office or agency for payment and money for security payments held in trust, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee and the Security Agent hereunder and the Issuer’s and the Guarantors’ obligations in connection therewith and (d) the provisions of this Article Eight. Subject to compliance with this Article Eight, the Issuer may exercise its option under this Section 8.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 8.03 below with respect to the Notes. If the Issuer exercises its Legal Defeasance option, payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default.

 

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SECTION 8.03. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Issuer’s exercise under Section 8.01 of the option applicable to this Section 8.03, the Issuer and the Guarantors shall be released from their obligations under any covenant contained in Sections 4.04 through 4.11, 4.13 through 4.17, 4.19 through 4.21, 4.24 and 5.01 with respect to the Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Covenant Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, the Issuer may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Notes shall be unaffected thereby.

 

SECTION 8.04. Conditions to Defeasance. In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance:

 

(1)                                 the Issuer must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and non-callable Government Securities, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of, or interest (including Additional Amounts and premium, if any) on the outstanding Notes on the stated date for payment thereof or on the applicable redemption date, as the case may be, and the Parent Guarantor must specify whether the Notes are being defeased to such stated date for payment or to a particular redemption date;

 

(2)                                 in the case of Legal Defeasance, the Issuer must deliver to the Trustee:

 

(a)                                 an opinion of United States counsel, which counsel is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, confirming that (i) the Issuer has received from, or there has been published by, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (ii) since the Issue Date, there has been a change in the applicable U.S. federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion of counsel will confirm that, the holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred; and

 

(b)                                 an Opinion of Counsel in the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Issuer, which counsel is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, to the effect that the holders of the Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for tax purposes of such jurisdiction as a result of such deposit and defeasance and will be subject to tax in such jurisdiction on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred;

 

(3)                                 in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the Issuer must deliver to the Trustee:

 

(a)                                 an opinion of United States counsel, which counsel is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, confirming that the holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred; and

 

(b)                                 an opinion of counsel in the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Issuer, which counsel is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, to the effect that the holders of the Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for tax purposes of such jurisdiction as a result of such deposit and defeasance and will be subject to tax in such jurisdiction on the same amounts and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred;

 

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(4)                                 no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit (and any similar concurrent deposit relating to other Indebtedness), and the granting of Liens to secure such borrowings);

 

(5)                                 such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, the Revolving Credit Facility or any other material agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture and the agreements governing any other Indebtedness being defeased, discharged or replaced) to which the Issuer or any of the Guarantors is a party or by which the Issuer or any of the Guarantors is bound;

 

(6)                                 the Issuer must deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Issuer with the intent of preferring the holders of Notes over the other creditors of the Issuer with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any creditors of the Issuer or others; and

 

(7)                                 the Issuer must deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant Defeasance have been complied with.

 

If the funds deposited with the Trustee to effect Covenant Defeasance are insufficient to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes when due because of any acceleration occurring after an Event of Default, then the Issuer and the Guarantors shall remain liable for such payments.

 

SECTION 8.05. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture, and the rights of the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes under the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents, shall be discharged and shall cease to be of further effect as to all Notes issued thereunder, when:

 

(1)                                 either:

 

(a)                                 all Notes that have been authenticated, except lost, stolen or destroyed Notes that have been replaced or paid and Notes for whose payment money has been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Issuer, have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

 

(b)                                 all Notes that have not been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable by reason of the mailing of a notice of redemption or otherwise or will become due and payable within one year and the Issuer or any Guarantor has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the holders, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and non-callable Government Securities, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized investment bank, appraisal firm or firm of independent public accountants, without consideration of any reinvestment of interest, to pay and discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Notes not delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for principal, premium and Additional Amounts, if any, and accrued interest to the date of maturity or redemption;

 

(2)                                 the Issuer or any Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by it under this Indenture;

 

(3)                                 the Issuer has delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee under this Indenture to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at maturity or on the redemption date, as the case maybe; and

 

(4)                                 the Issuer has delivered an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge have been satisfied; provided that any

 

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such counsel may rely on any Officer’s Certificate as to matters of fact (including as to compliance with the foregoing clauses (1), (2) and (3)).

 

SECTION 8.06. Survival of Certain Obligations. Notwithstanding Sections 8.01 and 8.03, any obligations of the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors in Sections 2.02 through 2.14, 6.07, 7.05 and 7.06 shall survive until the Notes have been paid in full. Thereafter, any obligations of the Issuer or the Parent Guarantor and the Subsidiary Guarantors in Section 7.05 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge. Nothing contained in this Article Eight shall abrogate any of the obligations or duties of the Trustee under this Indenture.

 

SECTION 8.07. Acknowledgment of Discharge by Trustee. Subject to Section 8.09, after the conditions of Section 8.02 or 8.03 have been satisfied, the Trustee upon written request shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of all of the Issuer’s, Parent Guarantor’s and Subsidiary Guarantor’s obligations under this Indenture except for those surviving obligations specified in this Article Eight.

 

SECTION 8.08. Application of Trust Money. Subject to Section 8.09, the Trustee shall hold in trust cash in U.S. dollars or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to this Article Eight. It shall apply the deposited cash or Government Securities through the Paying Agent and in accordance with this Indenture to the payment of principal of, premium, if any, interest, and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes; but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

 

SECTION 8.09. Repayment to Issuer. Subject to Sections 7.05, and 8.01 through 8.04, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuer upon request set forth in an Officer’s Certificate any excess money held by them at any time and thereupon shall be relieved from all liability with respect to such money. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Issuer upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal, premium, if any, interest or Additional Amounts, if any, that remains unclaimed for two years; provided that the Trustee or Paying Agent before being required to make any payment may cause to be published through the newswire service of Bloomberg or, if Bloomberg does not then operate, any similar agency or mail to each Holder entitled to such money at such Holder’s address (as set forth in the Security Register) notice that such money remains unclaimed and that after a date specified therein (which shall be at least 30 days from the date of such publication or mailing) any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Issuer. After payment to the Issuer, Holders entitled to such money must look to the Issuer for payment as general creditors unless an applicable law designates another Person, and all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.

 

SECTION 8.10. Indemnity for Government Securities. The Issuer or the Parent Guarantor shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee and the Paying Agent against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against deposited Government Securities or the principal, premium, if any, interest, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, received on such Government Securities.

 

SECTION 8.11. Reinstatement. If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply cash in dollars or Government Securities in accordance with this Article Eight by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Issuer’s and the Guarantors’ obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article Eight until such time as the Trustee or any such Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such cash or Government Securities in accordance with this Article Eight; provided that, if the Issuer has made any payment of principal of, premium, if any, interest, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, on any Notes because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Issuer shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the cash in dollars or Government Securities held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

 

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ARTICLE NINE

AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

 

SECTION 9.01. Without Consent of Holders.

 

(a)                                 The Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors (as evidenced by the delivery of such resolutions to the Trustee), the Guarantors, the Security Agent and the Trustee may modify, amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents without notice to or consent of any Holder:

 

(1)                                 to cure any ambiguity, omission, error, defect or inconsistency;

 

(2)                                 to provide for the assumption of the Issuer’s or a Guarantor’s obligations to Holders of Notes and Note Guarantees in the case of a consolidation or merger or sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Issuer’s or such Guarantor’s assets, as applicable;

 

(3)                                 to make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of Notes or that, in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor, does not adversely affect the legal rights under this Indenture of any such holder in any material respect;

 

(4)                                 to conform the text of this Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees to any provision of the section entitled “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum to the extent that such provision in the “Description of Notes” was intended to be a verbatim recitation of a provision of this Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees;

 

(5)                                 to provide for any Restricted Subsidiary to provide a Note Guarantee in accordance with Section 4.06 and Section 4.15 to add security to or for the benefit of the Notes or to confirm and evidence the release, termination, discharge or retaking of any Note Guarantee or Lien (including the Collateral and the Security Documents) or any amendment in respect thereof with respect to or securing the Notes when such release, termination, discharge or retaking or amendment is permitted under this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents;

 

(6)                                 in the case of the Security Documents, to mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or grant a security interest in favor of the Security Agent for the benefit of lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility, in any property which is required by the Revolving Credit Facility (as in effect on the First Escrow Release Date) to be mortgaged, pledged or hypothecated, or in which a security interest is required to be granted to the Security Agent, or to the extent necessary to grant a security interest for the benefit of any Person; provided that the granting of such security interest is not prohibited by this Indenture and Section 4.22 is complied with;

 

(7)                                 to provide for the issuance of additional Notes in accordance with the limitations set forth in this Indenture as of the Issue Date;

 

(8)                                 to allow any Guarantor to execute a Supplemental Indenture and a Note Guarantee with respect to the Notes;

 

(9)                                 to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of Definitive Registered Notes (provided that the uncertificated Notes are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Notes are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code); or

 

(10)                          to evidence and provide the acceptance of the appointment of a successor Trustee under this Indenture.

 

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(b)                                 In connection with any proposed amendment or supplement in respect of such matters, the Trustee will be entitled to receive, and rely conclusively on, an Opinion of Counsel and/or an Officer’s Certificate.

 

SECTION 9.02. With Consent of Holders.

 

(a)                                 Except as provided in Section 9.02(b) below and Section 6.04 and without prejudice to Section 9.01, this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes), and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with any provision of this Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes).

 

(b)                                 Without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

 

(1)                                 reduce the principal amount of Notes whose holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

 

(2)                                 reduce the principal of or change the fixed maturity of any Note or reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any such Note or change the time at which such Note may be redeemed;

 

(3)                                 reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest, including default interest, on any Note;

 

(4)                                 impair the right of any Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Notes or any Note Guarantee in respect thereof;

 

(5)                                 waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of, or interest, Additional Amounts or premium, if any, on, the Notes (except a rescission of acceleration of the Notes by the holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes and a waiver of the payment Default that resulted from such acceleration);

 

(6)                                 make any Note payable in money other than that stated in the Notes;

 

(7)                                 make any change in the provisions of this Indenture relating to waivers of past Defaults or the rights of holders of Notes to receive payments of principal of, or interest, Additional Amounts or premium, if any, on, the Notes;

 

(8)                                 waive a redemption payment with respect to any Note (other than a payment required by Section 4.09 or Section 4.11);

 

(9)                                 make any change to or modify the ranking of the Notes in a manner that would adversely affect the holders thereof;

 

(10)                          release any Guarantor from any of its obligations under its Note Guarantee or this Indenture, except in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement;

 

(11)                          release the security interest granted in the Collateral for the benefit of the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes, other than pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents or this Indenture, as applicable, except as permitted by the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement; or

 

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(12)                          make any change in the preceding amendment and waiver provisions.

 

(c)                                  The consent of the Holders shall not be necessary under this Indenture to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent. It is sufficient if such consent approves the substance of the proposed amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent. A consent to any amendment or waiver under this Indenture by any Holder given in connection with a tender of such Holder’s Notes will not be rendered invalid by such tender.

 

SECTION 9.03. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any Supplemental Indenture under this Article Nine, 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 theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.

 

SECTION 9.04. Notation on or Exchange of Notes. If an amendment, modification or supplement changes the terms of a Note, the Issuer or the Trustee may require the Holder to deliver it to the Trustee. The Trustee may place an appropriate notation on the Note and on any Note subsequently authenticated regarding the changed terms and return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Issuer so determines, the Issuer in exchange for the Note shall issue, and the Trustee shall authenticate, a new Note that reflects the changed terms. Failure to make the appropriate notation or to issue a new Note shall not affect the validity of such amendment, modification or supplement.

 

SECTION 9.05. [Reserved].

 

SECTION 9.06. Notice of Amendment or Waiver. Promptly after the execution by the Issuer and the Trustee of any Supplemental Indenture or waiver pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02, the Issuer shall give notice thereof to the Holders of each outstanding Note affected, in the manner provided for in Section 12.02(b), setting forth in general terms the substance of such Supplemental Indenture or waiver.

 

SECTION 9.07. Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc. The Trustee or the Security Agent, as the case may be, shall execute any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant and adopted in accordance with this Article Nine; provided that the Trustee or the Security Agent, as the case may be, may, but shall not be obligated to, execute any such amendment, supplement or waiver which affects the Trustee’s or Security Agent’s, as the case may be, own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture. The Trustee and the Security Agent shall be entitled to receive, if requested, an indemnity and/or security (including by way of pre-funding) satisfactory to it and to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and an Officer’s Certificate each stating that the execution of any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article Nine is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such amendment has been duly authorized, executed and delivered and is the legally valid and binding obligation of the Issuer and the Guarantors (if any) enforceable against them in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions. Such Opinion of Counsel shall be an expense of the Issuer.

 

SECTION 9.08. Additional Voting Terms; Calculation of Principal Amount.

 

(a)                                 All Notes issued under this Indenture shall vote and consent together on all matters (as to which any of such Notes may vote) as one class and no series of Notes will have the right to vote or consent as a separate series on any matter; provided, however, that if any amendment, waiver or other modification will only affect one series of Notes, only the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the affected series of Notes then outstanding (and not the consent of the Holders of at least a majority of all Notes), shall be required. Determinations as to whether Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent shall be made in accordance with this Article Nine and Section 9.08(b).

 

(b)                                 The aggregate principal amount of the Notes, at any date of determination, shall be the principal amount of the Notes at such date of determination. With respect to any matter requiring consent, waiver, approval or other action of the Holders of a specified percentage of the principal amount of all the Notes, such percentage shall be calculated, on the relevant date of determination, by dividing (i) the principal amount, as of such date of determination, of Notes, the Holders of which have so consented by (b) the aggregate principal amount, as of such

 

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date of determination, of the Notes then outstanding, in each case, as determined in accordance with the preceding sentence, Section 2.08 and Section 2.09 of this Indenture. Any such calculation made pursuant to this Section 9.08(b) shall be made by the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate.

 

ARTICLE TEN 
 GUARANTEE

 

SECTION 10.01. Note Guarantees.

 

(a)                                 The Guarantors, by execution of a Supplemental Indenture, fully and, subject to the limitations on the effectiveness and enforceability set forth in such Supplemental Indenture, unconditionally guarantee, on a joint and several basis to each Holder and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns on behalf of each Holder, the full payment of principal of, premium, if any, interest, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, on, and all other monetary obligations of the Issuer under this Indenture and the Notes (including obligations to the Trustee and the Security Agent and the obligations to pay Additional Amounts, if any) with respect to, each Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or its agent pursuant to and in accordance with this Indenture, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the “Obligations”). The Guarantors further agree that the Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from the Guarantors and that the Guarantors shall remain bound under this Article Ten notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Obligation. All payments under each Note Guarantee will be made in U.S. dollars.

 

(b)                                 The Guarantors hereby agree that their obligations hereunder shall be as if they were each principal debtor and not merely surety, unaffected by, and irrespective of, any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability of any Note or this Indenture, any failure to enforce the provisions of any Note or this Indenture, any waiver, modification or indulgence granted to the Issuer with respect thereto by the Holders or the Trustee, or any other circumstance which may otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor (except payment in full); provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, no such waiver, modification, indulgence or circumstance shall without the written consent of the Guarantors increase the principal amount of a Note or the interest rate thereon or change the currency of payment with respect to any Note, or alter the Stated Maturity thereof. The Guarantors hereby waive diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of merger or bankruptcy of the Issuer, any right to require that the Trustee pursue or exhaust its legal or equitable remedies against the Issuer prior to exercising its rights under a Note Guarantee (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any right which a Guarantor may have to require the seizure and sale of the assets of the Issuer to satisfy the outstanding principal of, interest on or any other amount payable under each Note prior to recourse against such Guarantor or its assets), protest or notice with respect to any Note or the Indebtedness evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever, and each covenant that their Note Guarantee will not be discharged with respect to any Note except by payment in full of the principal thereof and interest thereon or as otherwise provided in this Indenture, including Section 10.04. If at any time any payment of principal of, premium, if any, interest, if any, or Additional Amounts, if any, on such Note is rescinded or must be otherwise restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Issuer, the Guarantors’ obligations hereunder with respect to such payment shall be reinstated as of the date of such rescission, restoration or returns as though such payment had become due but had not been made at such times.

 

(c)                                  The Guarantors also agree to pay any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by the Trustee or any Holder in enforcing any rights under this Section 10.01.

 

SECTION 10.02. Subrogation.

 

(a)                                 Each Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid to such Holders by such Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of its Note Guarantee.

 

(b)                                 The Guarantors agree that they shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any Obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all Obligations. The Guarantors further agree that, as between them, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Section 6.02 for the purposes of the Note Guarantees herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Obligations guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Obligations 

 

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as provided in Section 6.02, such Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors for the purposes of this Section 10.02.

 

SECTION 10.03. Release of Note Guarantees. The Note Guarantee of a Subsidiary Guarantor shall automatically be released:

 

(1)                            in connection with any sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such Subsidiary Guarantor (including by way of merger, consolidation, amalgamation or combination) to a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, if the sale or other disposition does not violate Section 4.09;

 

(2)                            in connection with any sale or other disposition of Capital Stock of that Subsidiary Guarantor to a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, if the sale or other disposition does not violate Section 4.09 and the Subsidiary Guarantor ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the sale or other disposition;

 

(3)                            if the Parent Guarantor designates such Subsidiary Guarantor to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture;

 

(4)                            upon the full and final payment of the Notes and performance of all Obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantors under this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees;

 

(5)                            upon Legal Defeasance, Covenant Defeasance or satisfaction and discharge of the Notes, the Note Guarantees and this Indenture as provided under Article Eight;

 

(6)                            in connection with enforcement actions as provided under the Intercreditor Agreement; or

 

(7)                            as described under Article Nine;

 

provided that, in each case, such Subsidiary Guarantor has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to such release have been complied with.

 

The Note Guarantee of the Parent Guarantor shall automatically be released upon any of the circumstances described in clauses (4), (5), (6) and (7) of the immediately preceding paragraph; provided that, in each case, the Parent Guarantor has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to such release have been complied with.

 

The Trustee shall take all necessary actions, including the granting of releases or waivers under the Inter-creditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement, to effectuate any release of a Note Guarantee in accordance with these provisions. Each of the releases set forth above shall be effected by the Trustee without the consent of the Holders and will not require any other action or consent on the part of the Trustee.

 

SECTION 10.04. Limitation and Effectiveness of Note Guarantees. Each Note Guarantee is limited to (i) an amount not to exceed the maximum amount that can be guaranteed by the Guarantor that gave such Note Guarantee without rendering such Note Guarantee, as it relates to such Guarantor, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally or (ii) the maximum amount otherwise permitted by law. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary in this Indenture, the obligations and liabilities of the Guarantors under their respective Note Guarantees shall be limited by the applicable local provisions and laws set forth on Schedule IV attached hereto (as may be supplemented pursuant to a Supplemental Indenture in accordance with this Indenture).

 

SECTION 10.05. Notation Not Required. Neither the Issuer nor any Guarantor shall be required to make a notation on the Notes to reflect any Note Guarantee or any release, termination or discharge thereof.

 

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SECTION 10.06. Successors and Assigns. This Article Ten shall be binding upon the Guarantors and each of their successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Holders and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder or the Trustee or the Security Agent, the rights and privileges conferred upon that party in this Indenture and in the Notes shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assigns, all subject to the terms and conditions of this Indenture.

 

SECTION 10.07. No Waiver. Neither a failure nor a delay on the part of the Trustee, the Security Agent or the Holders in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Article Ten shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of any right, power or privilege. The rights, remedies and benefits of the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Holders herein expressly specified are cumulative and are not exclusive of any other rights, remedies or benefits which either may have under this Article Ten at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise.

 

SECTION 10.08. Modification. No modification, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Article Ten, nor the consent to any departure by any Guarantor therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Trustee, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. No notice to or demand on any Guarantor in any case shall entitle such Guarantor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstance.

 

ARTICLE ELEVEN 
 SECURITY

 

SECTION 11.01. Security; Security Documents.

 

(a)                                 The due and punctual payment of the principal of, interest on and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes and the Note Guarantees when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether on an Interest Payment Date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise, interest on the overdue principal of and interest (to the extent permitted by law), if any, on the Notes and Note Guarantees and performance of all other obligations under this Indenture, shall be secured as provided in the Security Documents. The Trustee, the Security Agent, the Issuer and the Guarantors hereby agree that, subject to Permitted Collateral Liens, the Security Agent shall hold the Collateral in trust for the benefit of itself, the Trustee and all of the Holders pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents, and shall act as mortgagee or security holder under all mortgages or standard securities, beneficiary under all deeds of trust and as secured party under the applicable security agreements.

 

(b)                                 Each Holder of the Notes, by its acceptance thereof, consents and agrees to the terms of the Security Documents (including, without limitation, the provisions providing for foreclosure and release of Collateral) as the same may be in effect or may be amended from time to time in accordance with their terms and authorizes and directs the Security Agent to perform its respective obligations and exercise its rights thereunder in accordance therewith.

 

(c)                                  The Trustee, the Security Agent and each Holder, by accepting the Notes and the Note Guarantees, acknowledges that, as more fully set forth in the Security Documents, the Collateral as now or hereafter constituted shall be held for the benefit of all the Holders under the Security Documents, and that the Lien of this Indenture and the Security Documents in respect of the Security Agent and the Holders is subject to and qualified and limited in all respects by the Security Documents and actions that may be taken thereunder.

 

(d)                                 Notwithstanding (i) anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Security Documents, the Notes, the Note Guarantees or any other instrument governing, evidencing or relating to any Indebtedness, (ii) the time, order or method of attachment of any Liens, (iii) the time or order of filing or recording of financing statements or other documents filed or recorded to perfect any Lien upon any Collateral, (iv) the time of taking possession or control over any Collateral or (v) the rules for determining priority under any law of any relevant jurisdiction governing relative priorities of secured creditors:

 

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(1)                                 the Liens will rank equally and ratably with all valid, enforceable and perfected Liens, whenever granted upon any present or future Collateral, but only to the extent such Liens are permitted under this Indenture to exist and to rank equally and ratably with the Notes and the Note Guarantees; and

 

(2)                                 all proceeds of the Collateral applied under the Security Documents shall be allocated and distributed as set forth in the Security Documents, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement.

 

(e)                                  The Collateral shall be granted within 30 days of the First Escrow Release Date. The Collateral located in Ecuador (including a mortgage over the Vessel known as the Silver Galapagos) shall be granted within 60 days of the First Escrow Release Date (or such longer period as may be agreed by the Security Agent in its sole discretion) and the mortgage over the Vessel known as the Silver Shadow (which will be repurchased as part of the unwinding of the existing sale and leaseback) shall be granted within 90 days of the First Escrow Release Date (or such longer period as may be agreed by the Security Agent in its sole discretion). The mortgage over the Vessel known as the Silver Muse shall be granted within 60 days of the Second Escrow Release Date (or such longer period as may be agreed by the Security Agent in its sole discretion).

 

SECTION 11.02. Authorization of Actions to Be Taken by the Security Agent Under the Security Documents. The Security Agent shall be the representative on behalf of the Holders and, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement, shall act upon the written direction of the Trustee (in turn, acting on written direction of the Holders) with regard to all voting, consent and other rights granted to the Trustee and the Holders under the Security Documents. Subject to the provisions of the Security Documents (including the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement), the Security Agent may, in its sole discretion and without the consent of the Holders, on behalf of the Holders, take all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to (a) enforce any of its rights or any of the rights of the Holders under the Security Documents and (b) receive any and all amounts payable from the Collateral in respect of the obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantors hereunder. Subject to the provisions of the Security Documents, the Security Agent shall have the power to institute and to maintain such suits and proceedings as it may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any acts of impairment that may be unlawful or in violation of the Security Documents or this Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Security Agent (after consultation with the Trustee, where appropriate) may deem reasonably expedient to preserve or protect its interest and the interests of the Holders in the Collateral (including power to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the security interest hereunder or be prejudicial to the interests of the Holders or the Security Agent). The Security Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized by each Holder of the Notes to effect any release of Liens or Collateral contemplated by Section 11.04 hereof or by the terms of the Security Documents.

 

Each Holder, by accepting a Note, shall be deemed (i) to have irrevocably appointed Citibank, N.A., London Branch as Security Agent and Intercreditor Agent, (ii) to have irrevocably authorized the Security Agent, the Intercreditor Agent and the Trustee to (i) perform the duties and exercise the rights, powers and discretions that are specifically given to each of them under the Intercreditor Agreement or other documents to which the Security Agent and/or the Trustee is a party, together with any other incidental rights, power and discretions and (ii) execute each document expressed to be executed by the Security Agent and/or the Trustee and/or the Intercreditor Agent on its behalf and (iii) to have accepted the terms and conditions of the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional In-tercreditor Agreement and each Holder of the Notes will also be deemed to have authorized the Security Agent, the Intercreditor Agent and the Trustee to enter into any such Additional Intercreditor Agreement.

 

SECTION 11.03. Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Security Agent Under the Security Documents. The Security Agent is authorized to receive and distribute any funds for the benefit of the Holders under the Security Documents, and to make further distributions of such funds to the Holders according to the provisions of this Indenture and the Security Documents.

 

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SECTION 11.04. Release of the Collateral.

 

(a)                                 To the extent a release is required by a Security Document, the Security Agent shall release, and the Trustee (as applicable) shall release and if so requested direct the Security Agent to release, without the need for consent of the Holders of the Notes, Liens on the Collateral securing the Notes:

 

(1)                                 upon payment in full of principal of, interest and all other Obligations on the Notes issued under this Indenture or discharge or defeasance thereof;

 

(2)                                 upon release of a Note Guarantee (with respect to the Liens securing such Note Guarantee granted by such Guarantor) in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture;

 

(3)                                 in connection with any disposition of Collateral to any Person (but excluding any transaction subject to Article Five); provided that if the Collateral is disposed of to the Parent Guarantor or a Restricted Subsidiary, the relevant Collateral becomes immediately subject to a substantially equivalent Lien in favor of the Security Agent securing the Notes; provided, further, that, in each case, such disposition is permitted by this Indenture and the Intercreditor Agreement;

 

(4)                                 if the Parent Guarantor designates any Subsidiary Guarantor to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture, the release of the property, assets and Capital Stock of such Unrestricted Subsidiary;

 

(5)                                 in connection with certain enforcement actions taken by the creditors under certain secured indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries as provided under the Intercreditor Agreement, or otherwise in compliance with the Intercreditor Agreement;

 

(6)                                 as may be permitted by Section 4.22 or Section 5.01;

 

(7)                                 in order to effectuate a (i) merger, consolidation, conveyance, transfer or other business combination conducted in compliance with Section 5.01 or (ii) a reconstitution or merger for the purpose of re-flagging a vessel in compliance with Section 4.28; and

 

(8)                                 upon the seizure, appropriation, nationalization or expropriation of any Collateral located or registered in Ecuador or any change in law by the government of Ecuador or any instrumentality thereof that renders it unlawful to permit a Lien against any Collateral in favor of the Security Agent, for the benefit of itself, the Trustee and the holders of the Notes.

 

Each of the foregoing releases shall be effected by the Security Agent without the consent of the Holders of the Notes or any action on the part of the Trustee.

 

(b)                                 Any release of Collateral made in compliance with this Section 11.04 shall not be deemed to impair the Lien under the Security Documents or the Collateral thereunder in contravention of the provisions of this Indenture or the Security Documents.

 

(c)                                  In the event that the Issuer or any Guarantor seeks to release Collateral, the Issuer or such Guarantor shall deliver an Officer’s Certificate (which the Trustee and Security Agent shall rely upon in connection with such release) to the Trustee and the Security Agent setting forth that the specified release complies with the terms of this Indenture. Upon receipt of the Officer’s Certificate and if so requested by the Issuer or such Guarantor, the Security Agent shall execute, deliver or acknowledge any necessary or proper instruments of termination, satisfaction or release to evidence the release of any Collateral permitted to be released pursuant to this Indenture.

 

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ARTICLE TWELVE 
 MISCELLANEOUS

 

SECTION 12.01. Notices.

 

(a)                                 Any notice or communication shall be in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first class mail or sent by facsimile transmission addressed as follows:

 

if to the Issuer or the Guarantors:

 

Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd.

c/o GTC Corporate Services Limited

Sassoon House

1378 Shirley Street & Victoria Avenue

PO Box SS-5383, Nassau, New Providence

The Bahamas

 

Facsimile: +1 954 763-1397 
 Attention: Mr. Ernesto Fara

 

with copies to:

 

Shearman & Sterling 
 9 Appold Street

London EC2A 2AP 
 United Kingdom

 

Facsimile: +44 (0)20 7655 5500 
 Attention: Mr. Trevor Ingram

 

if to the Trustee, Principal Paying Agent or Transfer Agent:

 

Citibank, N.A., London Branch

Citigroup Centre

25 Canada Square

Canary Wharf

London E14 5LB

United Kingdom

 

(i)        For the Trustee and Security Agent

 

Fax: +44 20 7500 5877 
 Attn: Trustee

 

(ii)     For the Principal Paying Agent

 

Fax: +353 1 622 4030 
 Attn: Agency and Trust

 

(iii)  For the Transfer Agent

 

Fax: +353 1 622 4030 
 Attn: Agency and Trust

 

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

 

(b)                                 Notices regarding the Notes shall be:

 

(i)                           delivered to Holders electronically or mailed by first-class mail, postage paid; and

 

(ii)                        in the case of Definitive Registered Notes, mailed to each Holder by first-class mail at such Holder’s respective address as it appears on the registration books of the Registrar.

 

Notices given by first-class mail shall be deemed given five calendar days after mailing and notices given by publication shall be deemed given on the first date on which publication is made. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

 

In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.

 

(c)                                  If and so long as the Notes are listed on any securities exchange instead of or in addition to the Channel Islands Stock Exchange, notices shall also be given in accordance with any applicable requirements of such alternative or additional securities exchange.

 

(d)                                 If and so long as the Notes are represented by Global Notes, notice to Holders, in addition to being given in accordance with Section 12.02(b) above, shall also be given by delivery of the relevant notice to DTC for communication.

 

(e)                                  Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

 

SECTION 12.02. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. Upon any request or application by the Issuer or any Guarantor to the Trustee or the Security Agent to take or refrain from taking any action under this Indenture (except in connection with the original issuance of the Original Notes on the date hereof), the Issuer or any Guarantor, as the case may be, shall furnish upon request to the Trustee or the Security Agent:

 

(a)                                 an Officer’s Certificate in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee or the Security Agent stating that, in the opinion of the Officer, 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 in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee or the Security Agent stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

 

Any Officer’s Certificate may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel, unless the Officer signing such certificate knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that such Opinion of Counsel with respect to the matters upon which such Officer’s Certificate is based are erroneous. Any Opinion of Counsel may be based and may state that it is so based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon certificates of public officials or an Officer’s Certificate stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Issuer, unless the counsel signing such Opinion of Counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the Officer’s Certificate with respect to the matters upon which such Opinion of Counsel is based are erroneous.

 

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SECTION 12.03. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion. Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

 

(a)                                 a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

 

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

 

(c)                                  a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

 

(d)                                 a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

 

SECTION 12.04. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar. The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of Holders. The Registrar and the Paying Agent may make reasonable rules for their functions.

 

SECTION 12.05. No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders. No director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder of the Issuer or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Issuer or the Guarantors under the Notes, this Indenture and the Note Guarantees or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each holder of Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.

 

SECTION 12.06. Legal Holidays. If an Interest Payment Date or other payment date is not a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period. If a Record Date is not a Business Day, the Record Date shall not be affected.

 

SECTION 12.07. Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

SECTION 12.08. Jurisdiction. The Issuer and each Guarantor agree that any suit, action or proceeding against the Issuer or any Guarantor brought by any Holder or the Trustee or the Security Agent arising out of or based upon this Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees may be instituted in any state or Federal court in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, and each of them irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of such courts in any suit, action or proceeding. Each of the Issuer and the Guarantors irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection to any suit, action, or proceeding that may be brought in connection with this Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees, including such actions, suits or proceedings relating to securities laws of the United States of America or any state thereof, in such courts whether on the grounds of venue, residence or domicile or on the ground that any such suit, action or proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum. The Issuer and the Guarantors agree that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Issuer or any Guarantor, as the case may be, and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which the Issuer or any Guarantor, as the case may be, are subject by a suit upon such judgment; provided that service of process is effected upon the Issuer or any Guarantor, as the case may be, in the manner provided by this Indenture. Each of the Issuer and the Guarantors not resident in the United States has appointed CT Corporation System, with offices on the date hereof at 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, New York 10011, or any successor so long as such successor is resident in the United States and can act for this purpose, as its authorized agent (the “Authorized Agent”), upon whom process may be served in any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees or the transactions contemplated herein which may be instituted in any state or Federal court in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York, by any Holder or the Trustee, and expressly accepts the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any such court in respect of any such suit, action or proceeding. CT Corporation System has hereby accepted such appointment and has agreed to act as said agent for service of process, and the Issuer and the Parent Guarantor

 

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agree to take any and all action, including the filing of any and all documents that may be necessary to continue such respective appointment in full force and effect as aforesaid. Service of process upon the Authorized Agent shall be deemed, in every respect, effective service of process upon the Issuer and the Parent Guarantor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any action involving the Issuer or the Parent Guarantor arising out of or based upon this Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees may be instituted by any Holder or the Trustee or the Security Agent in any other court of competent jurisdiction. The Issuer expressly consents to the jurisdiction of any such court in respect of any such action and waives any other requirements of or objections to personal jurisdiction with respect thereto and waives any right to trial by jury.

 

SECTION 12.09. No Recourse Against Others. A director, officer, employee, incorporator, member or shareholder, as such, of the Issuer or any Guarantor shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor under this Indenture, the Notes or any Note Guarantee or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Note, each Holder shall waive and release all such liability. The waiver and release shall be part of the consideration for the issue of the Notes. Such waiver and release may not be effective to waive liabilities under the U.S. federal securities laws.

 

SECTION 12.10. Successors. All agreements of the Issuer and any Guarantor in this Indenture and the Notes shall bind their respective successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.

 

SECTION 12.11. Counterparts. 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. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

 

SECTION 12.12. Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Sheet and Headings. The table of contents, cross-reference sheet and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not intended to be considered a part hereof and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.

 

SECTION 12.13. Severability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

SECTION 12.14. Currency Indemnity. Any payment on account of an amount that is payable in U.S. dollars (the “Required Currency”) which is made to or for the account of any holder or the Trustee in lawful currency of any other jurisdiction (the “Judgment Currency”), whether as a result of any judgment or order or the enforcement thereof or the liquidation of the Issuer or any Guarantor, shall constitute a discharge of the Issuer or the Guar-antor’s obligation under this Indenture and the Notes or Note Guarantee, as the case may be, only to the extent of the amount of the Required Currency with such holder or the Trustee, as the case may be, could purchase in the London foreign exchange markets with the amount of the Judgment Currency in accordance with normal banking procedures at the rate of exchange prevailing on the first Business Day following receipt of the payment in the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Required Currency that could be so purchased is less than the amount of the Required Currency originally due to such holder or the Trustee, as the case may be, the Issuer and the Guarantors shall indemnify and hold harmless the holder or the Trustee, as the case may be, from and against all loss or damage arising out of, or as a result of, such deficiency. This indemnity shall constitute an obligation separate and independent from the other obligations contained in this Indenture or the Notes, shall give rise to a separate and independent cause of action, shall apply irrespective of any indulgence granted by any holder or the Trustee from time to time and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any judgment or order for a liquidated sum in respect of an amount due hereunder or under any judgment or order.

 

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

 

 

	
 
    	
ISSUER:
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
SILVERSEA CRUISE FINANCE LTD.
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
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/s/ Roberto Martinoli
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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CITIBANK, N.A., LONDON BRANCH,
    
	
 
    	
as Trustee, Principal Paying Agent, Transfer   Agent
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By:
    	
/s/ Beth Kuhn
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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Beth Kuhn
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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/s/ Gabriele Fisch
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
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Schedule I

 

 

SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS

 

First Escrow Release Subsidiary Guarantors

 

	
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Silversea Cruises Ltd.
    	
 
    	
The Bahamas
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
Silver Cloud Shipping Co. Ltd.
    	
 
    	
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Silver Wind Shipping Ltd.
    	
 
    	
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Silver Shadow Shipping Co. Ltd.
    	
 
    	
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Silver Spirit Shipping Co. Ltd.
    	
 
    	
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Silversea New Build Six Ltd.
    	
 
    	
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SG Expeditions Cyprus Limited
    	
 
    	
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Canodros C.L.
    	
 
    	
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SG Expeditions SAGL
    	
 
    	
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SG Cruises GmbH
    	
 
    	
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Silversea Cruises (Europe) Limited
    	
 
    	
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Schedule II
    

 

 

SECURITY DOCUMENTS

 

 

Within 30 days of the First Escrow Release Date (or (i) with respect to the Silver Galapagos only, within 60 days of the First Escrow Release Date and (ii) with respect to the Silver Shadow only, within 90 days of the First Escrow Release Date), the Security Agent shall have received, in form and substance as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent and its counsel, (a) with respect to each Collateral Vessel, a certified copy of all flag, classification, trading and custody transfer certificates showing such Collateral Vessel to be in class without recommendation, condition or qualification; (b) evidence that (i) the title to each of the Collateral Vessels that is owned by a Guarantor is owned by the applicable Guarantor free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims, rights of detention, mortgages, security interests and defects and imperfections of title, except for Permitted Liens, and (ii) each of the Collateral Vessels has been duly registered in the name of its owner under the laws and regulations and flag of the nation of its registration; and (c) a certified copy of all current insurance policies in respect of each Collateral Vessel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent.

 

In addition, within 30 days of the First Escrow Release Date, the Security Agent shall have received, in form and substance as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent and its counsel, the following duly executed additional security documents:

 

1.                                      Bahamian law debenture encompassing all assets by and among Silversea Cruises Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

2.                                      Bahamian law debenture encompassing all assets by and among the Parent Guarantor and the Security Agent;

 

3.                                      Bahamian law debenture encompassing all assets by and among the Issuer and the Security Agent;

 

4.                                      Bahamian law debenture encompassing all assets by and among Silver Cloud Shipping Co. Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

5.                                      Bahamian law debenture encompassing all assets by and among Silver Wind Shipping Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

6.                                      Bahamian law debenture encompassing all assets by and among Silver Shadow Shipping Co. Ltd and the Security Agent;

 

7.                                      Bahamian law debenture encompassing all assets by and among Silver Spirit Shipping Co. Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

8.                                      Bahamian law debenture encompassing all assets by and among Silversea New Build Six Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

9.                                      Bahamian law share pledge over the shares of the Issuer by and among the Parent Guarantor and the Security Agent;

 

10.                               Bahamian law share pledge over the shares of Silversea Cruises Ltd. by and among the Issuer and the Security Agent;

 

11.                               Bahamian law share pledge over the shares of Silver Cloud Shipping Co. Ltd. by and among the Issuer and the Security Agent;

 

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12.                               Bahamian law share pledge over the shares of Silver Wind Shipping Ltd. by and among the Issuer and the Security Agent;

 

13.                               Bahamian law share pledge over the shares of Silver Shadow Shipping Co. Ltd. by and among the Issuer and the Security Agent;

 

14.                               Bahamian law share pledge over the shares of Silver Spirit Shipping Co. Ltd. by and among the Issuer and the Security Agent;

 

15.                               Bahamian law share pledge over the shares of Silversea New Build Six Ltd. by and among the Issuer and the Security Agent;

 

16.                               Cypriot share pledge over the shares of SG Expeditions Cyprus Ltd. by and among Silversea Cruises Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

17.                               English law all-asset debenture, including a share pledge over the shares in Silversea Cruises (UK) Ltd. by and among Silversea Cruises (UK) Limited, Silversea Cruises (Europe) Limited and the Security Agent;

 

18.                               English law share pledge over the shares of Silversea Cruises (Europe) Limited by and among Sil-versea Cruises Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

19.                               English law general assignment agreement and deed of covenants, including an assignment of insurances in respect of Collateral Vessels, intercompany receivables and relevant contracts by and among Silversea Cruises Ltd, Silver Cloud Shipping Co. Ltd., Silver Wind Shipping Ltd., Silver Shadow Shipping Co. Ltd., Canodros C.L., Silver Spirit Shipping Co. Ltd., the Parent Guarantor, the Issuer, SG Expeditions Cyprus Limited, SG Expeditions SAGL, Silversea Cruises (Europe) Limited, Silversea Cruises (UK) Limited, Silversea New Build Six Ltd., SG Cruises GmbH and the Security Agent;

 

20.                               English law bank account charge agreement by and among the Issuer and the Security Agent;

 

21.                               English law bank account charge agreement by and among Silversea Cruises Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

22.                               New York law security agreement over bank accounts by and among Silversea Cruises Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

23.                               Swiss quota pledge over the shares in SG Expeditions SAGL by and among SG Expeditions Cyprus Ltd. and the Security Agent;

 

24.                               Swiss law Charge over bank accounts claims in Switzerland by and among SG Cruises GmbH and the Security Agent;

 

25.                               Swiss law quota pledge over the shares in SG Cruises GmbH by and among SG Expeditions SAGL and the Security Agent; and

 

26.                               Swiss law Charge over bank accounts claims in Switzerland by and among SG Expeditions SAGL and the Security Agent.

 

Within 60 days of the First Escrow Release Date, the Security Agent shall have received, in form and substance as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent and its counsel, a power of attorney pertaining to all the issued shares of Canodros C.L..

 

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Vessel Mortgages

 

(A)                               Within 30 days of the First Escrow Release Date (or, with respect to the Silver Shadow only, within 90 days of the First Escrow Release Date), the Security Agent shall have received, in form and substance as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent and its counsel, with respect to each Collateral Vessel registered under the laws and regulations and flag of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, (x) a duly executed original first priority ship mortgage granted by the relevant Guarantor in favor of the Security Agent and deed of covenant collateral thereto, together with evidence that such mortgage has been duly recorded in the applicable shipping registry of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and that all taxes and fees payable in respect of such Collateral Vessel and mortgage have been paid in full; (y) a duly executed first priority assignment of, amongst other things, earnings, insurances and any requisition compensation granted by the relevant Guarantor in favor of the Security Agent; and (z) duly executed and, where necessary, notarized notices of assignment of the insurances and requisition compensation pertaining to such Collateral Vessel.

 

(B)                               Within 60 days of the First Escrow Release Date the Security Agent shall have received, in form and substance as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent and its counsel, with respect to the Silver Galapagos, (x) a duly executed original first priority ship mortgage granted by Canodros C.L. in favor of the Security Agent and deed of covenant collateral thereto, together with evidence that such mortgage has been duly recorded in the applicable shipping registry of the Republic of Ecuador and that all taxes and fees payable in respect of such Collateral Vessel and mortgage have been paid in full; (y) a duly executed first priority assignment of, amongst other things, earnings, insurances and any requisition compensation granted by Canodros C.L. in favor of the Security Agent; and (z) duly executed and, where necessary, notarized notices of assignment of the insurances and requisition compensation pertaining to such Collateral Vessel.

 

(C)                               Within 60 days of the Second Escrow Release Date, the Security Agent shall have received, in form and substance as shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent and its counsel, with respect to the Silver Muse, (x) a duly executed original first priority ship mortgage granted by Silversea New Build Six Ltd. in favor of the Security Agent and deed of covenant collateral thereto, together with evidence that such mortgage has been duly recorded in the applicable shipping registry of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and that all taxes and fees payable in respect of such Collateral Vessel and mortgage have been paid in full; (y) a duly executed first priority assignment of, amongst other things, earnings, insurances and any requisition compensation granted by Silversea New Build Six Ltd. in favor of the Security Agent; and (z) duly executed and, where necessary, notarized notices of assignment of the insurances and requisition compensation pertaining to such Collateral Vessel.

 

Post-Closing Legal Opinions

 

Concurrently with the receipt of the applicable security documents listed above, the Security Agent shall have received opinions, addressed to the Security Agent, the Trustee and the Initial Purchasers, of (i) Higgs & Johnson, counsel for the Initial Purchasers as to matters of Bahamian law, (ii) Polakis Sarris & Co LLC, counsel for the Issuer and the Guarantors as to matters of Cypriot law, (iii) Walder Wyss Ltd., counsel for the Issuer and the Guarantors as to matters of Swiss law, (vi) Allen & Overy LLP, counsel for the Initial Purchasers as to matters of English law, and (v) Gómez-Lince & Cia, counsel for the Initial Purchasers as to matters of Ecuadorian law, in each case, with respect to such matters as the Security Agent and the Trustee may reasonably request and in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Security Agent and the Trustee.

 

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Schedule III

 

 

AGREED SECURITY PRINCIPLES

 

 

1.                                      AGREED SECURITY PRINCIPLES

 

The guarantees and security to be provided under and in connection with this Indenture will be given in accordance with the security and guarantee principles set out in this Schedule III (the “Agreed Security Principles”).

 

2.                                      GENERAL PRINCIPLES

 

2.1                               The Agreed Security Principles embody a recognition by all parties that there may be certain legal and practical difficulties in obtaining effective guarantees and security from the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries (collectively, the “Group”) in certain jurisdictions. In particular:

 

(a)                                 general statutory limitations, capital maintenance, financial assistance, corporate benefit, fraudulent preference, “thin capitalisation” rules, retention of title claims, regulatory restrictions and similar principles may limit the ability of a member of the Group to provide a guarantee or security or may require that the guarantee and/or security be limited by an amount or otherwise; provided that the Group will use reasonable efforts to assist in demonstrating that adequate corporate benefit accrues to the Group and each relevant Guarantor, it being acknowledged that reasonable efforts shall not require the payment by the Parent Guarantor or the relevant company of any monetary consent or waiver excluding any reasonable legal fees that may be payable. If any such limit applies, the guarantees and security provided will be limited to the maximum amount which the relevant member of the Group may provide having regard to applicable law;

 

(b)                                 a factor in determining whether or not security shall be taken is the applicable cost which shall not be disproportionate to the benefit to the Holders (or any other beneficiary of the security) of obtaining such security. For these purposes, “cost” includes, but is not limited to, income or corporate tax cost, registration taxes payable on the creation or enforcement or for the continuance of any security, notary costs, stamp duties, out-of-pocket expenses and other fees and expenses directly incurred by the relevant grantor of security or any of its direct or indirect owners, subsidiaries or Affiliates;

 

(c)                                  except in the case of the Guarantors, unless each consent required bylaw, statute, the terms of any applicable contract, instrument or constitutional document or otherwise from the minority shareholders in, or any relevant corporate body of, any member of the Group which is not wholly owned (directly or indirectly) by another member of the Group is obtained, such member shall not be required to grant guarantees and security; provided that the relevant company and the Parent Guarantor have used reasonable efforts to obtain such consent, it being acknowledged that reasonable efforts shall not require the payment by the Parent Guarantor or the relevant company of any monetary consent or waiver excluding any reasonable legal fees that may be payable;

 

(d)                                 guarantees should not be granted and security shall not be created or perfected to the extent that it would result in a risk to the directors or officers of the relevant grantor of such guarantee and security being in contravention of any statutory duty in such capacity or their fiduciary duties and/or which could reasonably be expected to result in personal, civil or criminal liability on the part of any such director or officer; provided that the relevant member of the Group shall use reasonable efforts to overcome any such obstacle, it being acknowledged that reasonable efforts shall not require the payment by the Parent Guarantor or the relevant company of any monetary consent or waiver;

 

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(e)                                  any assets (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, any Collateral Vessels) subject to third party arrangements (including shareholder agreements or joint venture agreements) which are permitted by the terms of the Indenture and which would prevent or prohibit those assets from being subject to legal, valid, binding and enforceable security will be excluded from the security created by any relevant security document; provided that the relevant member of the Group has used reasonable efforts to obtain any necessary consent or waiver if the asset is material, it being acknowledged that reasonable efforts shall not require the payment by the Parent Guarantor or the relevant company of any monetary consent or waiver excluding any reasonable legal fees that may be payable;

 

(f)                                   where a class of assets to be secured includes material and immaterial assets, if the cost of granting security over the immaterial assets is disproportionate to the benefit of such security, security will be granted over the material assets only;

 

(g)                                  the giving of a guarantee, the granting of security or the perfection of the security granted will not be required if:

 

(i)                                     it has or is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the ability of the relevant member of the Group to conduct its operations and business in the ordinary course as otherwise permitted by the Indenture; or

 

(ii)                                  it has or is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the tax arrangements of the Group or any member of the Group,

 

provided that, in each case, the relevant member of the Group shall use reasonable efforts to overcome such obstacle. The secured and guaranteed obligations will be limited where necessary to prevent any material additional tax liability of any member of the Group;

 

(h)                                 in the case of any security granted by any member of the Group, no fixed security will be given over inventory, receivables (other than receivables in respect of intra-group loans, hedging and insurance (excluding for these purposes any insurance policy in relation to a Collateral Vessel which are addressed in paragraph 8.2 of these Agreed Security Principles below)) or non-material intellectual property rights which instead in each case shall be subject to floating security to the extent applicable under the laws of the jurisdiction governing the relevant security agreement. Nothing in this paragraph will restrict any provision permitting the crystallisation of any floating charge in certain circumstances as set out in the Security Documents; and

 

(i)                                     other than in respect of (i) the registration of the mortgages in respect of the Collateral Vessels with the relevant ship registry and (ii) any other notifications expressly contemplated in these Agreed Security Principles, no perfection action will be required in jurisdictions in which Guarantors are not located.

 

3.                                      GUARANTEES AND SECURITY

 

Each guarantee will be an upstream, cross-stream and downstream guarantee and each guarantee and security will be for all liabilities of the relevant members of the Group under the Notes and the Indenture, in accordance with, and subject to, the requirements of the Agreed Security Principles in each relevant jurisdiction.

 

4.                                      TERMS OF SECURITY DOCUMENTS

 

4.1                               Security will be first ranking, to the extent possible.

 

4.2                               Security shall (to the extent legally possible, subject to the general principles above) be created in favor of the Security Agent, the Trustee and the Holders or the Security Agent on behalf of or as trustee for the Trustee and the Holders (as considered appropriate by counsel to the Security Agent), to secure all of the

 

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obligations of the party giving the relevant security as well as all liabilities under the Indenture and the Notes (to the extent permitted by local law) and provided that “parallel debt” provisions may be used where necessary.

 

4.3                               The security documents should only operate to create security rather than to impose new commercial obligations. Accordingly, representations and undertakings (such as in respect of insurance, maintenance of assets, information or the payment of costs) shall be strictly limited to those necessary for the creation and/or perfection of the security, will not unreasonably interfere with the normal running of the business and shall not be included to the extent the subject matter thereof is the same as a corresponding undertaking in the Agreement and shall not operate so as to prevent transactions which are otherwise permitted under the Agreement or to require additional consents or authorizations or to impose commercial obligations.

 

4.4                               If a member of a Group grants security over any asset it shall, subject to the terms of the Indenture and the Notes, be free to deal with that asset in the ordinary course of its business until a Declared Default (as defined below) has occurred.

 

4.5                               The following principles will be reflected in the terms of any security taken as part of this transaction:

 

(a)                                 security will not be enforceable in respect of the Notes until an Event of Default has occurred in respect of which the Notes are being accelerated (a “Declared Default”);

 

(b)                                 information, such as lists of assets, will be provided if, in the opinion of counsel to the Security Agent, these are required by local law to be provided to perfect or register the security or to ensure the security can be enforced and, unless in the opinion of counsel to the Security Agent required to be provided by local law more frequently, be provided annually or, following an Event of Default which is continuing, on the Security Agent’s reasonable request; and

 

(c)                                  each of the Trustee, the Security Agent and the Holders should only be able to exercise any power of attorney granted to it under the security documents: (i) following a Declared Default; or (ii) if the relevant chargor has failed to perform an obligation under a security document and such failure has not been remedied within ten (10) Business Days of the Security Agent requiring it to be so remedied.

 

5.                                      BANK ACCOUNTS

 

5.1                               Subject to paragraph 5.3 below, if required by local law to perfect the security, notice of the security will be served on the account bank within ten (10) Business Days of the security being granted and the relevant member of the Group shall use its reasonable efforts to obtain an acknowledgement of that notice within twenty (20) Business Days of service. If the relevant member of the Group has used its reasonable efforts but has not been able to obtain acknowledgement its obligation to obtain acknowledgement shall cease on the expiry of that twenty (20) Business Day period. Irrespective of whether notice of the security is required for perfection, if the service of notice would prevent the relevant member of the Group from using a bank account in the ordinary course of its business no notice of security shall be served until a Declared Default has occurred. There will be no restriction on the closure of any bank accounts which are no longer required by the Group.

 

5.2                               Any security over bank accounts shall be subject to any prior security interests in favor of the account bank which are created either by law or in the standard terms and conditions of the account bank. The notice of security may request these are waived or subordinated by the account bank but the Guarantor shall not be required to change its banking arrangements if these security interests are not waived or subordinated or only partially waived or subordinated.

 

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to the extent the Security Agent deems such notification reasonably necessary for protecting and pursuing the Security Agent’s rights and the Liens created under such Security Document.

 

6.                                      REAL ESTATE

 

6.1                               No fixed security will be given over leasehold interests of less than ten (10) years unless there is an option to acquire the freehold and where the freehold will have a value in excess of $1,000,000 (or its equivalent

 

in other currencies), in which case security will be given at the time of the exercise of that option.

 

6.2                               There will be no obligation to investigate title, provide surveys or other insurance or environmental due diligence.

 

6.3                               There will be no obligation to obtain any landlord’s consent required to grant security over real estate.

 

7.                                      VESSEL MORTGAGES

 

7.1                               Each mortgage in respect of a Collateral Vessel must be accompanied by a deed of covenants collateral thereto and be duly recorded in the relevant ship registry of a Permitted Jurisdiction as soon as possible following the Relevant Date (as defined below) but no later than two (2) Business Days thereafter and all related taxes and fees must be paid at least one (1) Business Day prior to the Relevant Date or such other period as requested by the mortgagee.

 

7.2                               In addition to the mortgage and deed of covenants over a Collateral Vessel, the vessel security shall include: (i) an assignment of insurances, earnings and requisition compensation, (ii) a deed of charge over the shares in the owner and its immediate holding company, (iii) a deed of assignment and subordination entered into by the bareboat charterer, (iv) for those Collateral Vessels with a manager, a managers undertaking letter addressed to the mortgagee (in a form typical for the Collateral Vessel which shall include an assignment of the manager’s interest in any insurances and a subordination of any claims of the manager against the owner following a Declared Default) and (v) a letter of instruction to the classification society (in a form typical for the Collateral Vessel).

 

7.3                               The earnings of the Collateral Vessels shall be assigned under a general assignment and if a ship is operated under a time or bareboat charterparty or capacity purchase agreement or similar agreement (excluding any space allotment agreement or time charter of one hundred and twenty (120) days or less), the general assignment shall include an assignment of the rights of the owner, or charterparty as the case may be, under that charterparty. The charterer of a ship may be instructed to pay the hire due to the Guarantor directly to the Security Agent following receipt of a notice from the Security Agent after a Declared Default.

 

7.4                               In this paragraph 7: 

 

“Relevant Date” means:

 

(a)                                      in respect of the mortgages of the Collateral Vessels known as Silver Cloud, Silver Wind, and Silver Spirit, the Issue Date;

 

(b)                                      in respect of the mortgage of the Collateral Vessel known as Silver Galapagos, twenty-five (25) Business Days after the Issue Date;

 

(c)                                       in respect of a mortgage in respect of the Silver Shadow, the date that the Silver Shadow is acquired by a Group Member; and

 

(d)                                      in respect of any other mortgage, the delivery date of the Vessel or the date on which the Vessel is re-flagged (as applicable).

 

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8.                                      INSURANCE POLICIES

 

8.1                               The insurance policies over a Collateral Vessel will cover marine risks to its hull and machinery, war risks and liability risks on an agreed value basis for an amount which is greater from time to time of (A) the relevant Vessel’s full market value and (B) an amount which (when aggregated with the amounts for which all other Collateral Vessels which are similarly insured) equals one hundred and twenty per cent (120%) of the aggregate amount of the Credit Facility Commitments, the Bond And Other Secured Debt Liabilities and all other drawn amounts under any other Credit Facility Documents and Bond And Other Secured Debt Documents (in each case as such term is defined in the Intercreditor Agreement). These policies shall be assigned and the insurers instructed to pay out claims proceeds into a blocked account (with the relevant withdrawal permissions) held in the name of the relevant debtor situated in England or, with the prior written consent of the Security Agent, to the debtor. Each Collateral Vessel shall remain entered in a protection and indemnity association in both protection and indemnity classes, or remain otherwise insured against protection and indemnity risk and liabilities.

 

8.2                               In relation to any insurance policy other than those relating to a Collateral Vessel:

 

(a)                                 if required by local law to perfect the security or to exclude the possibility that the debtor pays to the relevant member of the Group with discharging effect, notice of the security will be served on the insurance provider within ten (10) Business Days of the security being granted and the relevant member of the Group shall use its reasonable efforts to obtain an acknowledgement of that notice within twenty (20) Business Days of service. If the relevant member of the Group has used its reasonable efforts but has not been able to obtain acknowledgement its obligation to obtain acknowledgement shall cease on the expiry of that twenty (20) Business Day period; and

 

(b)                                 no loss payee or other endorsement shall be made on the insurance policy.

 

8.3                               In relation to any insurance policy relating to a Vessel:

 

(a)                                 notice of the security will be served on the insurance provider within ten (10) Business Days of the security being granted;

 

(b)                                 the relevant member of the Group shall use its reasonable efforts to obtain a loss payee or other endorsement or, in the case of entries in a protection and indemnity association, a note of the as-signee’s interest made on the insurance policy; and

 

(c)                                  the relevant member of the Group shall use its reasonable efforts to obtain a letter of undertaking issued to the assignee by the broker(s) through whom the relevant policy is placed (or, in the case of entries in protection and indemnity or war risks associations, by their managers).

 

If the relevant member of the Group has used its reasonable efforts to ensure the obligation in either (b) or (c) of this paragraph 8.3 for a period of six (6) weeks from the serving of the notice as required by (a) above but its obligation remains unfulfilled, such obligation to obtain the loss payee endorsement, note of assignment or letter of undertaking (as applicable) shall cease on the expiry of six (6) week period.

 

9.                                      INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

 

9.1                               No security shall be granted over any intellectual property which cannot be secured under the terms of the relevant licensing agreement. No notice shall be prepared or given to any third party from whom intellectual property is licensed until a Declared Default has occurred.

 

9.2                               The security documents will not provide for registration of the security over intellectual property outside of the jurisdiction of incorporation of the relevant obligor unless otherwise agreed.

 

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10.                               TRADE RECEIVABLES

 

10.1                        Subject to paragraph 10.2 below, no notice of security may be prepared or served until the occurrence of a Declared Default.

 

10.2                        The Security Agent shall be entitled, at any time, to notify the relevant debtors of the security interest in the trade receivables where such security is granted under a Security Document governed by Swiss law, if and to the extent the Security Agent deems such notification reasonably necessary for protecting and pursuing the Security Agent’s rights and the security interest created under such Security Document.

 

10.3                        No security will be granted over any trade receivables which cannot be secured under the terms of the relevant contract.

 

11.                               SHARES AND PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS

 

11.1                        Until a Declared Default has occurred, the securing person will be permitted to retain dividends and other payments to which they may be entitled as shareholders or partners and to exercise voting rights to any shares or partnership interests pledged by it in a manner which does not adversely affect the validity or enforceability of the security or cause an Event of Default to occur and the company whose shares or partnership interests have been pledged will, subject to the terms of the Indenture, be permitted to pay dividends.

 

11.2                        Unless the restriction is required or advisable by law, the constitutional documents of the company whose shares have been charged will be amended to remove any restriction on the transfer or the registration of the transfer of the shares on enforcement of the security granted over them and/or pre-emption rights to the extent these would materially and adversely affect the security interests created under the Security Documents.

 

13.                               FIXED DOCUMENTS

 

13.1                        If a Group Member grants a security interest over its fixed assets it shall be free to deal with those assets, subject to the terms of the Indenture, in the course of its business until a Declared Default.

 

13.1                        No notice whether to third parties or by attaching a notice to the fixed assets shall be prepared or given until a Declared Default.

 

14.                               INTERCOMPANY RECEIVABLES

 

If required by local law to perfect the security, notice of the security will be served on the relevant lender within ten (10) Business Days of the security being granted and the relevant member of the Group shall use its best endeavors to obtain an acknowledgement of that notice with twenty (20) Business Days of service. If the relevant member of the Group has used its reasonable efforts but has not been able to obtain acknowledgement its obligation to obtain acknowledgement shall cease on the expiry of that twenty (20) Business Day period. If the service of notice would prevent the member of the Group from dealing with an intercompany receivable in the course of its business no notice of security shall be served until the occurrence of a Declared Default.

 

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Schedule IV

 

GUARANTEE LIMITATIONS

 

None.

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

 

[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]

 

SILVERSEA CRUISE FINANCE LTD.

 

 

[If Regulation S Global Note – CUSIP Number [·]1 / ISIN [·]2] 

[If Restricted Global Note – CUSIP Number [·]3 / ISIN [·]4] 

No. [·]

 

[Include if Global Note — UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY 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.

 

THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF DTC OR A NOMINEE OF DTC OR A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. THIS NOTE IS NOT EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN DTC OR ITS NOMINEE EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE OF DTC TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY DTC OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.]

 

THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “U.S. SECURITIES ACT”) OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION. NEITHER THIS NOTE NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT.

 

THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER”(AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS A NON-U.S. PERSON ACQUIRING THIS NOTE IN AN “OFFSHORE TRANSACTION” PURSUANT TO RULE 144A OR RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED NOTES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH NOTE, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) WHICH IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: ONE YEAR AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST

 

1                                           Issue Date Regulation S CUSIP: P9000L AA5

2                                           Issue Date Regulation S ISIN: USP9000LAA54

3                                           Issue Date Rule 144A CUSIP: 82845L AA8

4                                           Issue Date Rule 144A ISIN: US82845LAA89

 

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DATE ON WHICH THE ISSUER OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE ISSUER WAS THE OWNER OF THIS NOTE (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF THIS NOTE)] [IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS AFTER THE LATER OF THE DATE WHEN THE NOTES WERE FIRST OFFERED TO PERSONS OTHER THAN DISTRIBUTORS IN RELIANCE ON REGULATION S AND THE DATE OF THE COMPLETION OF THE DISTRIBUTION] ONLY (A) TO THE ISSUER OR THE PARENT GUARANTOR, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER”AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES TO ANY REQUIREMENT OF LAW THAT THE DISPOSITION OF ITS PROPERTY OR THE PROPERTY OF SUCH INVESTOR ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS BE AT ALL TIMES WITHIN ITS OR THEIR CONTROL AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND ANY APPLICABLE LOCAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS AND FURTHER SUBJECT TO THE ISSUER’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHTS PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER (I) PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM AND (II) IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES, TO REQUIRE THAT A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS NOTE IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE TRUSTEE AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND.

 

THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES THAT IT SHALL NOT TRANSFER THE SECURITIES IN AN AMOUNT LESS THAN $2,000.

 

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7.250% SENIOR SECURED NOTE DUE 2025

 

Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, for value received, promises to pay to [·] or registered assigns the principal sum of $[·] (as such amount may be increased or decreased as indicated in Schedule A (Schedule of Principal Amount in the Global Note) of this Note) on February 1, 2025.

 

From [·], 20[·] or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or provided for, cash interest on this Note will accrue at 7.250%, payable semi-annually on February 1 and August 1 of each year, beginning on [·], to the Person in whose name this Note (or any predecessor Note) is registered at the close of business on the preceding January 15 or July 15, as the case may be.

 

THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW RULES THEREOF.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature of an authorized signatory, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof and to the provisions of the Indenture, which provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd. has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized signatory.

 

Dated: [·], 20[·]

 

	
 
    	
SILVERSEA   CRUISE FINANCE LTD.
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
By:
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Name:
    
	
 
    	
 
    	
Title:
    
					

 

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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Notes referred to in the Indenture.

 

CITIBANK, N.A., LONDON BRANCH,

as Trustee

 

 

	
By:
    	
 
    	
 
    
	
 
    	
Authorized   Officer
    	
 
    

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF NOTE]

 

7.250% Senior Secured Note due 2025

 

1.              Interest

 

Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (together with it successors and assigns under the Indenture, the “Issuer”), for value received, promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note from [·], 20[·] at the rate per annum shown above. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal at the interest rate borne by the Notes compounded semi-annually, and it shall pay interest on other overdue amounts at the same rate to the extent lawful. Any interest paid on this Note shall be increased to the extent necessary to pay Additional Amounts as set forth in this Note.

 

2.              Additional Amounts

 

(a)         All payments made by or on behalf of the Issuer or any of the Guarantors under or with respect to the Notes or any Note Guarantee will be made free and clear of and without withholding or deduction for, or on account of, any present or future Taxes unless the withholding or deduction of such Taxes is then required by law. If the Issuer, any Guarantor or any other applicable withholding agent is required by law to withhold or deduct any amount for, or on account of, any Taxes imposed or levied by or on behalf of (1) any jurisdiction in which the Issuer or any Guarantor is or was incorporated, engaged in business, organized or resident for tax purposes or any political subdivision thereof or therein or (2) any jurisdiction from or through which any payment is made by or on behalf of the Issuer or any Guarantor (including, without limitation, the jurisdiction of any Paying Agent) or any political subdivision thereof or therein (each of (1) and (2), a “Tax Jurisdiction”) in respect of any payments under or with respect to the Notes or any Note Guarantee, including, without limitation, payments of principal, redemption price, purchase price, interest or premium, the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor, as applicable, will pay such additional amounts (the “Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received and retained in respect of such payments by each beneficial owner of Notes after such withholding or deduction will equal the respective amounts that would have been received and retained in respect of such payments in the absence of such withholding or deduction; provided, however, that no Additional Amounts will be payable with respect to:

 

(1)         any Taxes, to the extent such Taxes would not have been imposed but for the Holder or the beneficial owner of the Notes (or a fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, partner of, member or shareholder of, or possessor of a power over, the relevant Holder, if the relevant Holder is an estate, trust, nominee, partnership, limited liability company or corporation) being or having been a citizen or resident or national of, or incorporated, engaged in a trade or business in, or having or having had a permanent establishment in, the relevant Tax Jurisdiction or having any other present or former connection with the relevant Tax Jurisdiction, other than any connection arising from the acquisition, ownership or disposition of Notes, the exercise or enforcement of rights under such Note, the Indenture or a Note Guarantee, or the receipt of payments in respect of such Note or a Note Guarantee;

 

(2)         any Taxes, to the extent such Taxes were imposed as a result of the presentation of a Note for payment (where presentation is required) more than 30 days after the relevant payment is first made available for payment to the Holder (except to the extent that the Holder would have been entitled to Additional Amounts had the Note been presented on the last day of such 30 day period);

 

(3)         any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer, personal property or similar Taxes;

 

(4)         any Taxes payable other than by deduction or withholding from payments under, or with respect to, the Notes or any Note Guarantee;

 

(5)         any Taxes to the extent such Taxes would not have been imposed or withheld but for the failure of the Holder or beneficial owner of the Notes, following the Issuer’s reasonable written request addressed to the Holder at least 30 days before any such withholding or deduction would be imposed, to comply

 

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with any certification, identification, information or other reporting requirements, whether required by statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of a Tax Jurisdiction, as a precondition to exemption from, or reduction in the rate of deduction or withholding of, Taxes imposed by the Tax Jurisdiction (including, without limitation, a certification that the Holder or beneficial owner is not resident in the Tax Jurisdiction), but in each case, only to the extent the Holder or beneficial owner is legally eligible to provide such certification or documentation;

 

(6)         any Taxes imposed in connection with a Note presented for payment (where presentation is permitted or required for payment) by or on behalf of a Holder or beneficial owner of the Notes to the extent such Taxes could have been avoided by presenting the relevant Note to, or otherwise accepting payment from, another Paying Agent;

 

(7)         any Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment by the Issuer or any of the Guarantors to the Holder if such Holder is a fiduciary or partnership or any person other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to the extent that such Taxes would not have been imposed on such payments had such Holder been the sole beneficial owner of such Note;

 

(8)         any Taxes that are imposed pursuant to current Section 1471 through 1474 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with, any regulations promulgated thereunder, any official interpretations thereof, any intergovernmental agreement between a non-U.S. jurisdiction and the United States (or any related law or administrative practices or procedures) implementing the foregoing or any agreements entered into pursuant to current Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code (or any amended or successor version described above); or

 

(9)         any combination of clauses (1) through (8) above.

 

In addition to the foregoing, the Issuer and the Guarantors will also pay and indemnify the Holder for any present or future stamp, issue, registration, value added, transfer, court or documentary Taxes, or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies (including penalties, interest and additions to tax related thereto) which are levied by any jurisdiction on the execution, delivery, issuance, or registration of any of the Notes, the Indenture, any Note Guarantee or any other document referred to therein, or the receipt of any payments with respect thereto, or enforcement of, any of the Notes or any Note Guarantee (limited, solely in the case of Taxes attributable to the receipt of any payments, to any such Taxes imposed in a Tax Jurisdiction that are not excluded under clauses (1) through (3) or (5) through (9) above or any combination thereof).

 

(b)           If the Issuer or any Guarantor, as the case may be, becomes aware that it will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts with respect to any payment under or with respect to the Notes or any Note Guarantee, the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor, as the case may be, will deliver to the Trustee on a date that is at least 30 days prior to the date of that payment (unless the obligation to pay Additional Amounts arises after the 30th day prior to that payment date, in which case the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor shall notify the Trustee promptly thereafter) an Officer’s Certificate stating the fact that Additional Amounts will be payable and the amount estimated to be so payable. The Officer’s Certificate must also set forth any other information reasonably necessary to enable the Paying Agents to pay Additional Amounts to Holders on the relevant payment date. The Issuer or the relevant Guarantor will provide the Trustee with documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee evidencing the payment of Additional Amounts. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely absolutely on an Officer’s Certificate as conclusive proof that such payments are necessary.

 

(c)           The Issuer or the relevant Guarantor, if it is the applicable withholding agent, will make all withholdings and deductions (within the time period) required by law and will remit the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Tax authority in accordance with applicable law. The Issuer or the relevant Guarantor will use its reasonable efforts to obtain Tax receipts from each Tax authority evidencing the payment of any Taxes so deducted or withheld. The Issuer or the relevant Guarantor will furnish to the Trustee (or to a Holder upon request), within 60 days after the date the payment of any Taxes so deducted or withheld is made, certified copies of Tax receipts evidencing payment by the Issuer or a Guarantor, as the case may be, or if, notwithstanding such entity’s efforts

 

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to obtain receipts, receipts are not obtained, other evidence of payments (reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee) by such entity.

 

(d)           Whenever in the Indenture or this Note there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of amounts based upon the principal amount of the Notes or of principal, interest or of any other amount payable under, or with respect to, any of the Notes or any Note Guarantee, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof.

 

(e)           The preceding obligations will survive any termination, defeasance or discharge of the Indenture, any transfer by a Holder or beneficial owner of its Notes, and will apply, mutatis mutandis, to any jurisdiction in which any successor Person to the Issuer (or any Guarantor) is incorporated, engaged in business, organized or resident for tax purposes, or any jurisdiction from or through which payment is made under or with respect to the Notes (or any Note Guarantee) by or on behalf of such Person and, in each case, any political subdivision thereof or therein.

 

3.             Method of Payment

 

The Issuer shall pay interest on this Note (except defaulted interest) to the Holder at the close of business on the Record Date for the next Interest Payment Date even if this Note is cancelled after the Record Date and on or before the Interest Payment Date. The Issuer shall pay principal and interest in dollars in immediately available funds that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Issuer by check mailed to the Holder.

 

The amount of payments in respect of interest on each Interest Payment Date shall correspond to the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by this Note, as established by the Registrar at the close of business on the relevant Record Date. Payments of principal shall be made upon surrender of this Note to the Paying Agent.

 

4.             Paying Agent and Registrar

 

Initially, Citibank, N.A., London Branch or one of its affiliates will act as Principal Paying Agent and Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG will act as Registrar. The Issuer or any of its Affiliates may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar.

 

5.             Indenture

 

The Issuer issued this Note under an indenture dated as of January 30, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), among, inter alios, the Issuer and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as trustee (the “Trustee”) and as Security Agent. The terms of this Note include those stated in the Indenture. Terms defined in the Indenture and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. To the extent any provision of this Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling.

 

The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the Issuer, the Guarantors and their Affiliates, including, without limitation, limitations on the incurrence of indebtedness and issuance of stock, the payment of dividends and other payment restrictions affecting the Parent Guarantor and its Restricted Subsidiaries, the sale of assets, transactions with and among Affiliates of the Parent Guarantor and the Restricted Subsidiaries, Change of Control and Liens.

 

6.             Optional Redemption

 

(a)           At any time prior to February 1, 2020, the Issuer may on any one or more occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes issued under the Indenture, upon giving not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at a redemption price equal to 107.250% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Amounts, if any, to the date of redemption (subject to the rights of Holders

 

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of the Notes on the relevant Record Date to receive interest on the relevant Interest Payment Date), with the net cash proceeds of an Equity Offering; provided that: (1) at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes originally issued under the Indenture (excluding Notes held by the Parent Guarantor and its Subsidiaries) remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of such redemption; and (2) the redemption occurs within 120 days of the date of the closing of such Equity Offering.

 

(b)             At any time prior to February 1, 2020, the Issuer may on any one or more occasions redeem all or a part of the Notes, upon giving not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed, plus the Applicable Premium (as calculated by the Issuer) as of, and accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Amounts, if any, to, the date of redemption, subject to the rights of Holders of the Notes on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date.

 

“Applicable Premium” means, with respect to any Note on any redemption date, the greater of: (1) 1.0% of the principal amount of the Note; and (2) the excess of: (a) the present value at such redemption date of (i) the redemption price of the Note at February 1, 2020, (such redemption price being set forth in the table appearing below in paragraph (d)) plus (ii) all required interest payments due on the Note through February 1, 2020 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest to the redemption date), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate as of such redemption date plus 50 basis points; over (b) the principal amount of the Note. Calculation of the Applicable Premium is not an obligation or duty of the Trustee or the Registrar or any Paying Agent under the Indenture.

 

“Treasury Rate” means, as of any redemption date, the weekly average rounded to the nearest 1/100th of a percentage point (for the most recently completed week for which such information is available as of the date that is two Business Days prior to the redemption date) of the yield to maturity of United States Treasury Securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 with respect to each applicable day during such week or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar market data) most nearly equal to the period from the redemption date to February 1, 2020; provided, however, that if the period from the redemption date to February 1, 2020 is not equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury Security for which such a yield is given, the Treasury Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the weekly average yields of United States Treasury Securities for which such yields are given, except that if the period from the redemption date to February 1, 2020 is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury Securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.

 

(c)             Except as provided in paragraphs (a) and (b) above and except pursuant to paragraph 7 of this Note, the Notes are not redeemable at the Issuer’s option prior to February 1, 2020.

 

(d)             On or after February 1, 2020, the Issuer may on any one or more occasions redeem all or a part of the Notes, upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth below, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes redeemed, to the applicable date of redemption, if redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on February 1 of the years indicated below, subject to the rights of Holders of the Notes on the relevant Record Date to receive interest on the relevant Interest Payment Date:

 

	
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2020
    	
105.438%
    
	
2021
    	
103.625%
    
	
2022
    	
101.813%
    
	
2023 and   thereafter
    	
100.000%
    

 

Unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the redemption price, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption on the applicable redemption date.

 

Any redemption and notice may, in the Issuer’s discretion, be subject to the satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent.

 

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7.             Redemption for Changes in Taxes

 

The Issuer may redeem the Notes, in whole but not in part, at its discretion at any time upon giving not less than 10 nor more than 60 days’ prior written notice to the Holders of the Notes (which notice shall be irrevocable and given in accordance with the procedures set forth under Section 3.04 of the Indenture), at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, together with accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date fixed by the Issuer for redemption (a “Tax Redemption Date”) and all Additional Amounts (if any) then due or which will become due on the Tax Redemption Date as a result of the redemption or otherwise (subject to the right of Holders on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date and Additional Amounts (if any) in respect thereof), if on the next date on which any amount would be payable in respect of the Notes or Note Guarantee, the Issuer or any Guarantor is or would be required to pay Additional Amounts (but, in the case of a Guarantor, only if the payment giving rise to such requirement cannot be made by the Issuer or another Guarantor without the obligation to pay Additional Amounts), and the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor cannot avoid any such payment obligation by taking reasonable measures available (including, for the avoidance of doubt, appointment of a new Paying Agent but excluding the reincorporation or reorganization of the Issuer or any Guarantor), and the requirement arises as a result of: (1) any change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) of the relevant Tax Jurisdiction which change or amendment is announced and becomes effective after the date of the Offering Memorandum (or if the applicable Tax Jurisdiction became a Tax Jurisdiction on a date after the date of the Offering Memorandum, after such later date); or (2) any change in, or amendment to, the official application, administration or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings (including by virtue of a holding, judgment or order by a court of competent jurisdiction or a change in published practice), which change or amendment is announced and becomes effective after the date of the Offering Memorandum (or if the applicable Tax Jurisdiction became a Tax Jurisdiction on a date after the date of the Offering Memorandum, after such later date) (each of the foregoing clauses (1) and (2), a “Change in Tax Law”).

 

The Issuer shall not give any such notice of redemption earlier than 60 days prior to the earliest date on which the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor would be obligated to make such payment or Additional Amounts if a payment in respect of the Notes or Note Guarantee were then due and at the time such notice is given, the obligation to pay Additional Amounts must remain in effect. Prior to the mailing of any notice of redemption of the Notes pursuant to the foregoing, the Issuer shall deliver the Trustee an opinion of independent tax counsel of recognized standing qualified under the laws of the relevant Tax Jurisdiction (which counsel shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee) to the effect that there has been a Change in Tax Law which would entitle the Issuer to redeem the Notes hereunder. In addition, before the Issuer mails notice of redemption of the Notes as described above, it shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to the effect that it cannot avoid its obligation to pay Additional Amounts by the Issuer or the relevant Guarantor taking reasonable measures available to it.

 

The Trustee will accept and shall be entitled to rely on such Officer’s Certificate and opinion of counsel as sufficient evidence of the existence and satisfaction of the conditions as described above, in which event it will be conclusive and binding on all of the Holders.

 

The foregoing provisions of this paragraph 7 will apply, mutatis mutandis, to any successor of the Issuer (or any Guarantor) with respect to a Change in Tax Law occurring after the time such Person becomes successor to the Issuer (or any Guarantor).

 

8.             Notice of Redemption

 

Notice of redemption will be mailed first-class postage prepaid at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to the Holder of this Note to be redeemed at the addresses contained in the Security Register, except that redemption notices may be mailed more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a defeasance of the Notes or a satisfaction and discharge of the Indenture. If this Note is in a denomination larger than $2,000 of principal amount at maturity it may be redeemed in part but only in integral multiples of $1,000 at maturity. In the event of a redemption of less than all of the Notes, the Notes for redemption will be chosen by the Trustee in accordance with the Indenture. If this Note is redeemed subsequent to a Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date specified above, then any accrued interest will be paid to the Holder at the close of business on such Record Date. If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on all Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date is deposited with the applicable Paying

 

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Agent on or before the Redemption Date and certain other conditions are satisfied, interest ceases to accrue on such Notes (or such portions thereof) called for redemption on or after such date.

 

9.             Repurchase at the Option of Holders

 

If a Change of Control occurs at anytime, the Holder of this Note will have the right to require the Issuer to repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of this Note pursuant to a Change of Control Offer on the terms set forth in the Indenture. In the Change of Control Offer, the Issuer shall offer a payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes repurchased to the Change of Control Purchase Date, subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date; provided that the Issuer will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if (1) a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in the Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Issuer and purchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under the Change of Control Offer or (2) a notice of redemption has been given pursuant to paragraph 6 above, unless and until there is a default in payment of the applicable redemption price. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Indenture, a Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control, conditioned upon the consummation of such Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time the Change of Control Offer is made. The Issuer shall purchase all Notes properly and timely tendered in the Change of Control Offer and not withdrawn in accordance with the procedures set forth in such notice. The Change of Control Offer will state, among other things, the procedures that Holders of the Notes must follow to accept the Change of Control Offer.

 

When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $20.0 million, within ten Business Days thereof, the Issuer will make an offer (an “Asset Sale Offer”) to all Holders and may make an offer to all holders of other Indebtedness that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral and that is pari passu with the Notes or any Note Guarantees with respect to offers to purchase, prepay or redeem with the proceeds of sales of assets or events of loss to purchase, prepay or redeem the maximum principal amount of Notes and such other pari passu Indebtedness (plus all accrued interest on the Indebtedness and the amount of all fees and expenses, including premiums, incurred in connection therewith) that may be purchased, prepaid or redeemed out of the Excess Proceeds. The offer price for the Notes in any Asset Sale Offer will be equal to 100% of the principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Amounts, if any, to the date of purchase, prepayment or redemption, subject to the rights of Holders on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date, and will be payable in cash.

 

If any Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Asset Sale Offer, the Issuer may use those Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by the Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes and such other pari passu Indebtedness tendered into (or to be prepaid or redeemed in connection with) such Asset Sale Offer exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, or if the aggregate amount of Notes tendered pursuant to a Notes Offer exceeds the amount of the Net Proceeds so applied, the Trustee will select the Notes and such other pari passu Indebtedness, if applicable, to be purchased on a pro rata basis (or in the manner provided in the Indenture), based on the amounts tendered or required to be prepaid or redeemed. Upon completion of each Asset Sale Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset at zero.

 

10.          Denominations

 

The Notes (including this Note) are in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof of principal amount at maturity. The transfer of Notes (including this Note) may be registered, and Notes (including this Note) may be exchanged, as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture.

 

11.          Unclaimed Money

 

All moneys paid by the Issuer or the Guarantors to the Trustee or a Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, this Note or any other Note that remain unclaimed at the end of two years after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable may be repaid to the Issuer or the Guarantors,

 

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subject to applicable law, and the Holder of such Note thereafter may look only to the Issuer or the Guarantors for payment thereof.

 

12.            Discharge and Defeasance

 

Subject to certain conditions, the Issuer at any time may terminate some or all of its obligations and the obligations of the Guarantors under this Note and each other Note, the Note Guarantees and the Indenture if the Issuer irrevocably deposit with the Trustee U.S. dollars or Government Securities for the payment of principal and interest on the Notes to redemption or maturity, as the case may be.

 

13.            Amendment, Supplement and Waiver

 

(a)         The Issuer, when authorized by a resolution of its Board of Directors (as evidenced by the delivery of such resolutions to the Trustee), the Guarantors, the Security Agent and the Trustee may modify, amend or supplement the Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents without notice to or consent of any Holder:

 

(1)           to cure any ambiguity, omission, error, defect or inconsistency;

 

(2)           to provide for the assumption of the Issuer’s or a Guarantor’s obligations to Holders of Notes and Note Guarantees in the case of a consolidation or merger or sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Issuer’s or such Guarantor’s assets, as applicable;

 

(3)           to make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of Notes or that, in the good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Parent Guarantor, does not adversely affect the legal rights under this Indenture of any such holder in any material respect;

 

(4)           to conform the text of the Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees to any provision of the section entitled “Description of Notes” in the Offering Memorandum to the extent that such provision in the “Description of Notes” was intended to be a verbatim recitation of a provision of the Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees;

 

(5)           to provide for any Restricted Subsidiary to provide a Note Guarantee in accordance with Section 4.06 of the Indenture and Section 4.15 of the Indenture to add security to or for the benefit of the Notes or to confirm and evidence the release, termination, discharge or retaking of any Note Guarantee or Lien (including the Collateral and the Security Documents) or any amendment in respect thereof with respect to or securing the Notes when such release, termination, discharge or retaking or amendment is permitted under the Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents;

 

(6)           in the case of the Security Documents, to mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or grant a security interest in favor of the Security Agent for the benefit of lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility, in any property which is required by the Revolving Credit Facility (as in effect on the First Escrow Release Date) to be mortgaged, pledged or hypothecated, or in which a security interest is required to be granted to the Security Agent, or to the extent necessary to grant a security interest for the benefit of any Person; provided that the granting of such security interest is not prohibited by the Indenture and Section 4.22 of the Indenture is complied with;

 

(7)           to provide for the issuance of additional Notes in accordance with the limitations set forth in the Indenture as of the Issue Date;

 

(8)           to allow any Guarantor to execute a Supplemental Indenture and a Note Guarantee with respect to the Notes;

 

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(9)                            to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of Definitive Registered Notes (provided that the uncertificated Notes are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the uncertificated Notes are described in Section 163(f)(2)(B) of the Code); or

 

(10)                     to evidence and provide the acceptance of the appointment of a successor Trustee under the Indenture.

 

In connection with any proposed amendment or supplement in respect of such matters, the Trustee will be entitled to receive, and rely conclusively on, an Opinion of Counsel and/or an Officer’s Certificate.

 

(b)                                 Except as provided in Section 9.02(b) of the Indenture and Section 6.04 of the Indenture and without prejudice to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Additional Intercreditor Agreement and the Security Documents may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes), and any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with any provision of the Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes).

 

(c)                                  Without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

 

(1)         reduce the principal amount of Notes whose holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

 

(2)         reduce the principal of or change the fixed maturity of any Note or reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any such Note or change the time at which such Note may be redeemed;

 

(3)         reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest, including default interest, on any Note;

 

(4)         impair the right of any holder of Notes to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such holder’s Notes or any Note Guarantee in respect thereof;

 

(5)         waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of, or interest, Additional Amounts or premium, if any, on, the Notes (except a rescission of acceleration of the Notes by the holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes and a waiver of the payment Default that resulted from such acceleration);

 

(6)                            make any Note payable in money other than that stated in the Notes;

 

(7)         make any change in the provisions of the Indenture relating to waivers of past Defaults or the rights of holders of Notes to receive payments of principal of, or interest, Additional Amounts or premium, if any, on, the Notes;

 

(8)         waive a redemption payment with respect to any Note (other than a payment required by Section 4.09 of the Indenture or Section 4.11 of the Indenture);

 

(9)         make any change to or modify the ranking of the Notes in a manner that would adversely affect the holders thereof;

 

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(10)                     release any Guarantor from any of its obligations under its Note Guarantee or the Indenture, except in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement;

 

(11)                     release the security interest granted in the Collateral for the benefit of the Trustee and the holders of the Notes, other than pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents or the Indenture, as applicable, except as permitted by the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement; or

 

(12)                     make any change in the preceding amendment and waiver provisions.

 

(ii)                             The consent of the Holders will not be necessary under the Indenture to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent. It is sufficient if such consent approves the substance of the proposed amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent. A consent to any amendment or waiver under the Indenture by any Holder given in connection with a tender of such Holder’s Notes will not be rendered invalid by such tender.

 

14.                               Defaults and Remedies

 

This Note and the other Notes have the Events of Default as set forth in Section 6.01 of the Indenture. If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a)(9) of the Indenture) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the registered Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding by written notice to the Issuer and the Parent Guarantor (and to the Trustee if such notice is given by the Holders), subject to certain limitations, may, and the Trustee, upon the written request of such Holders shall, declare this Note and the other Notes, and any Additional Amounts and accrued interest, to be due and payable immediately. Certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default and shall result in this Note and the other Notes being due and payable immediately upon the occurrence of such Events of Default.

 

Holders may not enforce the Indenture, this Note, the other Notes or the Security Documents except as provided in the Indenture and subject to the Intercreditor Agreement and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement. The Trustee and the Security Agent may refuse to enforce the Indenture, this Note or the other Notes unless it receives security and/or indemnity (including by way of pre-funding) satisfactory to it. Subject to certain limitations and the Intercreditor Agreement (and any Additional Intercreditor Agreement), the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes may direct the Trustee and the Security Agent in its exercise of any trust or power. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding by written notice to the Trustee may rescind any acceleration and its consequence if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of principal, premium, if any, or interest that has become due solely because of such acceleration. The above description of Events of Default and remedies is qualified by reference, and subject in its entirety, to the provisions of the Indenture.

 

15.                               Ranking

 

This Note and the other Notes will be general obligations of each Issuer and will rank senior in right of payment to any and all of each Issuer’s existing and future Indebtedness that is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes, rank equally in right of payment with all of each Issuer’s existing and future Indebtedness that is not subordinated in right of payment to the Notes, and be structurally subordinated to all existing and future Indebtedness of the Parent Guarantor’s Subsidiaries that do not provide Note Guarantees.

 

16.                               Security

 

This Note and the other Notes will be secured by the Security Interests in the Collateral, subject to Permitted Collateral Liens. Reference is made to the Indenture for terms relating to such security, including the release, termination and discharge thereof. The Security Documents and the Collateral will be administered by the Security Agent (or in certain circumstances a sub-agent) pursuant to the Security Documents, including the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement for the benefit of all Holders and holders of certain Indebtedness

 

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permitted to be secured on the Collateral. The Issuer shall not be required to make any notation on this Note to reflect any grant of such security or any such release, termination or discharge. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, shall be deemed to have agreed to and accepted the terms and conditions of the Intercreditor Agreement or any Additional Intercreditor Agreement (whether then entered into or entered into in the future pursuant to the provisions described herein).

 

17.                               Trustee and Security Agent Dealings with the Issuer

 

The Trustee and the Security Agent under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Issuer, the Guarantors or any of their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee or the Security Agent. Any Paying Agent, Registrar, co-Registrar or co-Paying Agent may do the same with like rights.

 

18.                               No Recourse Against Others

 

A director, officer, employee, incorporator, member or shareholder, as such, of the Issuer or the Guarantors shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Issuer or the Guarantors under this Note, the other Notes, the Note Guarantees or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Note, each Holder shall waive and release all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.

 

19.                               Authentication

 

This Note shall not be valid until an authorized officer of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Note.

 

20.                               Abbreviations

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder 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 Gifts to Minors Act).

 

21.                               ISIN and/or CUSIP Numbers

 

The Issuer may cause ISIN and/or CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes, and if so the Trustee shall use ISIN and/or CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption, and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed on the Notes.

 

22.                               Governing Law

 

THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW RULES THEREOF.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign and transfer this Note, fill in the form below:

 

(I) or (the Issuer) assign and transfer this Note to

 

	
 
    
	
(Insert   assignee’s social security or tax I.D. no.)
    

 

	
 
    
	
(Print or type   assignee’s name, address and postal code)
    

 

and irrevocably appoint                                                                                  agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Issuer. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

Your Signature:

 

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

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

(Participant in a recognized signature guarantee medallion program)

 

Date:

 

Certifying Signature:

 

In connection with any transfer of any Notes evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the date that is one year after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which the Notes were owned by the Issuer or any of its Affiliates, the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in such Notes and:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

 

(1)                                 o          to the Parent Guarantor or any Subsidiary; or

 

(2)                                 o          pursuant to an effective registration statement under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933; or

 

(3)                                 o          pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933; or

 

(4)                                 o          pursuant to and in compliance with Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933; or

 

(5)                                 o          pursuant to another available exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.

 

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (3) is checked, by executing this form, the Transferor is deemed to have certified that such Notes are being transferred to a person it reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 who has received notice that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A; if box (4) is checked, by executing this form, the Transferor is deemed to have certified that such transfer is made pursuant to an offer and sale that occurred outside the United States in compliance with Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act; and if box (5) is checked, the Trustee may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Issuer reasonably requests to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.

 

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Signature:

 

Signature Guarantee:

 

(Participant in a recognized signature guarantee medallion program)

 

Certifying Signature:                                            Date:                                          

 

Signature Guarantee:                                                                                                                    

 

(Participant in a recognized signature guarantee medallion program)

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

 

 

If you want to elect to have this Note or a portion thereof repurchased pursuant to Section 4.09 or 4.11 of the Indenture, check the box: o

 

If the purchase is in part, indicate the portion (in denominations of $2,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) to be purchased:

 

Your Signature:

 

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

 

Date:

 

Certifying Signature:

 

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SCHEDULE A

 

SCHEDULE OF PRINCIPAL AMOUNT IN THE GLOBAL NOTE

 

The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for a De-
  finitive Registered Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global Note or Definitive Registered Note for an interest 
 in this Global Note, have been made:

 

	
Date   of Decrease/
                Increase            
    	
Amount   of
   Decrease in
    Principal Amount
    	
Amount   of
   Increase in
    Principal Amount
    	
Principal   Amount
   Following such
       Decrease/Increase   
    	
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   authorized officer of
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Schedule A-1

 

EXHIBIT B

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER FROM RESTRICTED 
 GLOBAL NOTE TO REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE5

 

 

(Transfers pursuant to § 2.06(b)(ii) of the Indenture)

 

 

Citibank, N.A., London Branch

Citigroup Centre

25 Canada Square

Canary Wharf

London E14 5LB

United Kingdom

 

Attention: Transfer Agent

 

Re: 7.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”)

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture dated as of January 30, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”) among, inter alios, Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, as Issuer, and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as Trustee and as Security Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Indenture.

 

This letter relates to $                          aggregate principal amount of Notes that are held as a beneficial interest in the form of the Restricted Global Note (CUSIP No.: [·]6; ISIN No: [·]7) with DTC in the name of [name of transferor] (the “Transferor”). The Transferor has requested an exchange or transfer of such beneficial interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note (CUSIP No.: [·]8; ISIN No: [·]9).

 

In connection with such request, the Transferor does hereby certify that such transfer has been effected in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Notes and:

 

(a)                                 with respect to transfers made in reliance on Regulation S (“Regulation S”) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”), does certify that:

 

(i)                                the offer of the Notes was not made to a person in the United States;

 

(ii)                             either (i) at the time the buy order is originated the transferee is outside the United States or the Transferor and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believe that the transferee is outside the United States; or (ii) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market described in paragraph (b) of Rule 902 of Regulation S and neither the Transferor nor any person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States;

 

5                                           If the Note is a Definitive Registered Note, appropriate changes need to be made to the form of this transfer certificate.

6                                           Issue Date Rule 144A CUSIP: 82845L AA8

7                                           Issue Date Rule 144A ISIN: US82845LAA89

8                                           Issue Date Regulation S CUSIP: P9000L AA5

9                                           Issue Date Regulation S ISIN: USP9000LAA54

 

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(iii)                               no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States by the Transferor, an affiliate thereof or any person their behalf in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903 or 904 of Regulation S, as applicable;

 

(iv)                              the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act; and

 

(v)                                 the Transferor is not the Issuer, a distributor of the Notes, an affiliate of the Issuer or any such distributor (except any officer or director who is an affiliate solely by virtue of holding such position) or a person acting on behalf of any of the foregoing.

 

(b)                                      with respect to transfers made in reliance on Rule 144 the Transferor certifies that the Notes are being transferred in a transaction permitted by Rule 144 under the U.S. Securities Act.

 

You, the Issuer, the Guarantors and the Trustee are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this certificate have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.

 

	
 
    	
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EXHIBIT C

 

 

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER FROM REGULATION S 
 GLOBAL NOTE TO RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE

 

 

(Transfers pursuant to § 2.06(b)(iii) of the Indenture)

 

 

Citibank, N.A., London Branch

Citigroup Centre

25 Canada Square

Canary Wharf

London E14 5LB

United Kingdom

 

Attention: Transfer Agent

 

Re: 7.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”)

 

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture dated as of January 30, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”) among, inter alios, Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, as Issuer, and Citibank, N.A., London Branch, as Trustee and as Security Agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given them in the Indenture.

 

This letter relates to $                          aggregate principal amount at maturity of Notes that are held in the form of the Regulation S Global Note with DTC (CUSIP No.: [·]10; ISIN No.: [·]11) in the name of [name of transferor] (the “Transferor”) to effect the transfer of the Notes in exchange for an equivalent beneficial interest in the Restricted Global Note (CUSIP No.: [·]12; ISIN No.: [·]13).

 

In connection with such request, and in respect of such Notes the Transferor does hereby certify that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Notes and that:

 

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW:

 

o                                      the Transferor is relying on Rule 144A under the Securities Act for exemption from such Act’s registration requirements; it is transferring such Notes to a person it reasonably believes is a QIB as defined in Rule 144A that purchases for its own account, or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer, and to whom the Transferor has given notice that the transfer is made in reliance on Rule 144A and the transfer is being made in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States; or

 

o                                      the Transferor is relying on an exemption other than Rule 144A from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, subject to the Issuer’s and the Trustee’s right prior to any such offer, sale or transfer to require the delivery of an Opinion of Counsel, certification and/or other information satisfactory to each of them.

10             Issue Date Regulation S CUSIP: P9000L AA5

11             Issue Date Regulation S ISIN: USP9000LAA54

12             Issue Date Rule 144A CUSIP: 82845L AA8

13             Issue Date Rule 144A ISIN: US82845LAA89

 

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You, the Issuer, the Guarantors, and the Trustee are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

	
 
    	
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EXHIBIT D

 

FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as of [•], 20[•] (this “Supplemental Indenture”) by and among Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd. (the “Issuer”), the other parties listed as New Guarantors on the signature pages hereto (each, a “New Guarantor” and, collectively, the “New Guarantors”) and Citibank N.A., London Branch, as trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”).

 

W I T N E S SETH

 

WHEREAS, the Issuer, the Trustee and the other parties thereto have heretofore executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of January 30, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance of 7.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 of the Issuer (the “Notes”), initially in the aggregate principal amount of $550,000,000;

 

[WHEREAS, it is a condition to the First Escrow Release Date that the New Guarantors execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the New Guarantors shall unconditionally guarantee (the “Note Guarantees”) all of the Issuer’s Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on the terms and conditions set forth herein and under the Indenture;]

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Issuer and the Trustee are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture; and

 

WHEREAS, all necessary acts have been done to make this Supplemental Indenture a legal, valid and binding agreement of each New Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders as follows:

 

ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS

 

SECTION 1.1 Capitalized Terms. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

ARTICLE II

 

AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

 

SECTION 2.1 Agreement to Guarantee. The New Guarantor acknowledges that it has received and reviewed a copy of the Indenture and all other documents it deems necessary to review in order to enter into this Supplemental Indenture, and acknowledges and agrees to (i) join and become a party to the Indenture as indicated by its signature below; (ii) be bound by the Indenture, as of the date hereof, as if made by, and with respect to, each signatory hereto; and (iii) perform all obligations and duties required of a Guarantor pursuant to the Indenture. The New Guarantor hereby agrees to provide a Note Guarantee on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Indenture, including, but not limited to, Article Ten thereof.

 

SECTION 2.2 Execution and Delivery. The New Guarantor agrees that the Note Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the endorsement of any notation of such Note Guarantee on the Notes.

 

[SECTION 2.3 Guarantee Limitations. Schedule IV of the Indenture is hereby amended by adding the following:

 

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[New Guarantee Limitation Language].]

 

ARTICLE III
 MISCELLANEOUS

 

SECTION 3.1 Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

SECTION 3.2 Severability. In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

SECTION 3.3 Ratification. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder heretofore or hereafter shall be bound hereby. The Trustee makes no representation or warranty as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

SECTION 3.4 Counterparts. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. One signed copy is enough to prove this Supplemental Indenture. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

 

SECTION 3.5 Effect of Headings. The headings herein are convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

SECTION 3.6 The Trustee. The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the New Guarantor.

 

SECTION 3.7 Benefits Acknowledged. The New Guarantor’s Note Guarantee is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture. The New Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture and that the guarantee and waivers made by it pursuant to its Note Guarantee and this Supplemental Indenture are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.

 

SECTION 3.8 Successors. All agreements of the New Guarantor in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors, except as otherwise provided in this Supplemental Indenture. All agreements of the Trustee in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors.

 

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

 

	
 
    	
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D-3Exhibit

Exhibit 4.8

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as of February 1, 2017 (this “Supplemental Indenture”) by and among Silversea Cruise Finance Ltd. (the “Issuer”), the other parties listed as New Guarantors on the signature pages hereto (each, a “New Guarantor” and, collectively, the “New Guarantors”) and Citibank N.A., London Branch, as trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”).
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Issuer, the Trustee and the other parties thereto have heretofore executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of January 30, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance of 7.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 of the Issuer (the “Notes”), initially in the aggregate principal amount of $550,000,000;
WHEREAS, it is a condition to the First Escrow Release Date that the New Guarantors execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the New Guarantors shall unconditionally guarantee (the “Note Guarantees”) all of the Issuer’s Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on the terms and conditions set forth herein and under the Indenture;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Issuer and the Trustee are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all necessary acts have been done to make this Supplemental Indenture a legal, valid and binding agreement of each New Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Supplemental Indenture.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders as follows:
ARTICLE I  
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1 Capitalized Terms. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
ARTICLE II
AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND
SECTION 2.1 Agreement to Guarantee. Each New Guarantor acknowledges that it has received and reviewed a copy of the Indenture and all other documents it deems necessary to review in order to enter into this Supplemental Indenture, and acknowledges and agrees to (i) join and become a party to the Indenture as indicated by its signature below; (ii) be bound by the Indenture, as of the date hereof, as if made by, and with respect to, each signatory hereto; and (iii) perform all obligations and duties required of a Guarantor pursuant to the Indenture. Each New Guarantor hereby agrees to provide a Note Guarantee on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Indenture, including, but not limited to, Article Ten thereof.
SECTION 2.2 Execution and Delivery. Each New Guarantor agrees that its Note Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the endorsement of any notation of such Note Guarantee on the Notes.
SECTION 2.3 Guarantee Limitations. Schedule IV of the Indenture is hereby amended by adding the following:
Switzerland 

(i)    The obligations of any New Guarantor incorporated under the laws of Switzerland (each a “Swiss Debtor”) under this Supplemental Indenture and the Indenture (the “Swiss Debtor Obligations”) shall be subject to the following limitations:
(a)if and to the extent that a Swiss Debtor Obligation guarantees or otherwise secures obligations other than obligations of one of the Swiss Debtor's direct and indirect Subsidiaries (i.e. obligations of its direct or indirect parent companies (up-stream liabilities) or sister companies (cross-stream liabilities)) (the “Restricted Obligations”) and that performing the relevant Swiss Debtor Obligation with respect to Restricted Obligations would not be permitted under Swiss corporate law then applicable, then such obligations and payment amount shall from time to time be limited to the amount permitted to be paid under applicable Swiss law; provided that such limited amount shall at no time be less than the relevant Swiss Debtor's distributable capital (presently being the balance sheet profits and any reserves available for distribution) at the time or times performance of the relevant Swiss Debtor Obligation is due or requested from such Swiss Debtor; and provided, further, such limitation (as may apply from time to time or not) shall not (generally or definitively) release the relevant Swiss Debtor from its Swiss Debtor Obligations in excess thereof, but merely postpone the payment date therefore until such times as payment is again permitted notwithstanding such limitation;
(b)in case a Swiss Debtor who must make a payment in respect of Restricted Obligations under this Agreement is obliged to withhold any taxes imposed under the Swiss Federal Act on the Withholding Tax of 13 October 1965 (Bundesgesetz über die Verrechnungs-steuer) (together with the related ordinances, regulations and guidelines, all as amended and applicable from time to time, the “Swiss Withholding Tax Act”) in respect of such payment (“Swiss Withholding Tax”), such Swiss Debtor shall:
(A)procure that such payments can be made without deduction of Swiss Withholding Tax, or with deduction of Swiss Withholding Tax at a reduced rate, by discharging the liability to such tax by notification pursuant to applicable law (including double tax treaties) rather than payment of the tax;
(B)if the notification procedure pursuant to sub-paragraph (A) above does not apply, deduct Swiss Withholding Tax at the rate of 35 per cent. (or such other rate as in force from time to time), or if the notification procedure pursuant to sub-paragraph (A) above applies for a part of the Swiss Withholding Tax only, deduct Swiss Withholding Tax at the reduced rate resulting after the discharge of part of such tax by notification under applicable law, from any payment made by it in respect of Restricted Obligations and promptly pay any such taxes to the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (Eidgenössische Steuerverwaltung);
(C)notify the Trustee that such notification, or as the case may be, deduction has been made and provide the Trustee with evidence that such a notification of the Swiss Federal Tax Administration has been made or, as the case may be, such taxes deducted have been paid to the Swiss Federal Tax Administration;
(D)in the case of a deduction of Swiss Withholding Tax:
(I)use its best efforts to ensure that any person other than the Trustee which is entitled to a full or partial refund of the Swiss Withholding Tax deducted from such payment in respect of Restricted Obligations, will, as soon as possible after such deduction (y) request a refund of the Swiss Withholding Tax under applicable law (including tax treaties) and (z) pay to the Trustee upon receipt any amounts so refunded; and
(II)if a Holder is entitled to a full or partial refund of the Swiss Withholding Tax deducted from such payment, and if requested by the Trustee,

provide the Trustee those documents that are required by law and applicable tax treaties to be provided by the payer of such tax, for each relevant Holder, to prepare a claim for refund of Swiss Withholding Tax; and
(c)    if a Swiss Debtor is obliged to withhold Swiss Withholding Tax in accordance with paragraph (a)0 above, the Trustee shall be entitled to further enforce the Swiss Debtor Obligation assumed by such Swiss Debtor and apply proceeds therefrom against the Restricted Obligations up to an amount which is equal to that amount which would have been obtained if no withholding of Swiss Withholding Tax were required, whereby such further enforcements shall always be limited to the maximum amount of the freely distributable reserves of such Swiss Debtor as set out in paragraph (a)0 above. In case the proceeds irrevocably received by the Trustee and/or the Holders pursuant to paragraph (a)0) above and this paragraph have the effect that the proceeds received by the Holder and/or any Holder exceed the Obligations, then the Trustee or the relevant other Holder shall return such overcompensation to the relevant Swiss Debtor.
(ii)    If and to the extent requested by the Trustee and if and to the extent this is from time to time required under Swiss law, in order to allow the Trustee and any Holder to obtain a maximum benefit under this Supplemental Agreement and the Indenture, the relevant Swiss Debtor shall, and any parent company of such Swiss Debtor being a party to this Supplemental Indenture or the Indenture shall procure that such Swiss Debtor will, promptly implement all such measures and/or to promptly procure the fulfilment of all prerequisites allowing the prompt fulfilment of the Swiss Debtor Obligations and allowing the relevant Swiss Debtor to promptly perform its obligations and make the (requested) payment(s) hereunder from time to time, including the following:
(a)preparation of an up-to-date audited balance sheet of the relevant Swiss Debtor;
(b)confirmation of the auditors of the relevant Swiss Debtor that the relevant amount represents (the maximum of) freely distributable capital of the relevant Swiss Debtor;
(c)approval by a shareholders meeting of the relevant Swiss Debtor of the capital distribution;
(d)if the enforcement of Restricted Obligations would be limited due to the effects referred to in this Section, then the relevant Swiss Debtor shall to the extent permitted by applicable law write up or realize any of its assets that are shown in its balance sheet with a book value that is significantly lower than the market value of the assets, in case of realization, however, only if such assets are not necessary for the relevant Swiss Debtor's business (nicht betriebsnotwendig); and
(e)all such other measures necessary or useful to allow payment under the Swiss Debtor Obligation and to allow the relevant Swiss Debtor to make the payments and perform the obligations agreed hereunder with a minimum of limitations.
ARTICLE III
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 3.1 Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
SECTION 3.2 Severability. In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 3.3 Ratification. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder heretofore or 

hereafter shall be bound hereby. The Trustee makes no representation or warranty as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION 3.4 Counterparts. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. One signed copy is enough to prove this Supplemental Indenture. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
SECTION 3.5 Effect of Headings. The headings herein are convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 3.6 The Trustee. The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the New Guarantors.
SECTION 3.7 Benefits Acknowledged. Each New Guarantor’s Note Guarantee is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture. Each New Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture and that the guarantee and waivers made by it pursuant to its Note Guarantee and this Supplemental Indenture are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
SECTION 3.8 Successors. All agreements of each New Guarantor in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors, except as otherwise provided in this Supplemental Indenture. All agreements of the Trustee in this Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the date first above written.
ISSUER: 
 
SILVERSEA CRUISE FINANCE LTD.
By:     /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director
NEW GUARANTORS: 
 
SILVERSEA CRUISE HOLDING LTD.
By:     /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director
SILVERSEA CRUISES LTD.
By:     /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director
SILVER CLOUD SHIPPING CO. LTD.
By: /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director
SILVER WIND SHIPPING CO. LTD.
By:     /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director

SILVER SPIRIT SHIPPING CO. LTD.
By: /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director
SILVER SHADOW SHIPPING CO.  LTD.
By:     /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director
SILVERSEA NEW BUILD SIX LTD.
By:     /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director
SILVERSEA CRUISES (EUROPE) LIMITED
By:     /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director
SILVERSEA CRUISES (UK) LIMITED
By:     /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director

SG EXPEDITIONS CYPRUS LIMITED
By: /s/ Roberto Martinoli     
    Name:     Roberto Martinoli     
    Title:    Director
SG EXPEDITIONS SAGL
By:     /s/ Pietro Soldati     
    Name:     Pietro Soldati     
    Title:    Authorized Signatory
SG CRUISES GMBH
By:     /s/ Pietro Soldati     
    Name:     Pietro Soldati     
    Title:    Authorized Signatory
CANODROS C.L.
By:     /s/ Alex Santiago Dunn Suarez     
    Name:     Alex Santiago Dunn Suarez     
    Title:    Authorized Signatory
TRUSTEE: 
 
CITIBANK N.A., LONDON BRANCH, as Trustee
By:     /s/ Beth Kuhn     
    Name:     Beth Kuhn 
    Title:    Vice President

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture)

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