Document:

Form of Indenture of U.S. Bank Trust National Association

 Exhibit 4.15 

 
  

 
 JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.

 AND 

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee 

 
  

INDENTURE 

Dated as of
                     
  

 
  

 
  

 JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 

Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and 

Indenture, dated as of _____________ 
  

			
	 Trust Indenture Act Section
	  	 Indenture Section

	 §310(a) (1)
	  	609
	         (a) (2)
	  	609
	         (a) (3)
	  	Not Applicable
	         (a) (4)
	  	Not Applicable
	         (b)
	  	608
		  	610
	 §311(a)
	  	613
	         (b)
	  	613
	 §312(a)
	  	701
		  	702(a)
	         (b)
	  	702(b)
	         (c)
	  	702(c)
	 §313(a)
	  	703(a)
	         (b)
	  	703(a)
	         (c)
	  	703(a)
	         (d)
	  	703(b)
	 §314(a)
	  	704
	         (b)
	  	Not Applicable
	         (c) (1)
	  	102
	         (c) (2)
	  	102
	         (c) (3)
	  	Not Applicable
	         (d)
	  	Not Applicable
	         (e)
	  	102
	 §315(a)
	  	601(a)
	         (b)
	  	602
		  	703(a)
	         (c)
	  	601(b)
	         (d)
	  	601(c)
	         (d) (1)
	  	 601(a) (1)
 601(a)
(2)

	         (d) (2)
	  	601(c) (2)
	         (d) (3)
	  	601(c) (3)
	         (e)
	  	514
	 §316(a) (1) (A)
	  	502
		  	512
	         (a) (1) (B)
	  	513
	         (a) (2)
	  	Not Applicable
	         (b)
	  	508
	         (c)
	  	Not Applicable
	 §317(a) (1)
	  	503
	         (a) (2)
	  	504
	         (b)
	  	1003
	 §318(a)
	  	107

  

Note: this reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture. 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 
  

 

					
	 	  	 	  	PAGE
	 ARTICLE ONE: DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
	  	1
			
	 Section 101.
	  	 Definitions
	  	1
	 Section 102.
	  	 Compliance Certificates and Opinions
	  	7
	 Section 103.
	  	 Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
	  	8
	 Section 104.
	  	 Acts of Holders
	  	8
	 Section 105.
	  	 Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company
	  	9
	 Section 106.
	  	 Notice to Holders; Waiver
	  	9
	 Section 107.
	  	 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
	  	10
	 Section 108.
	  	 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
	  	10
	 Section 109.
	  	 Successors and Assigns
	  	10
	 Section 110.
	  	 Separability Clause
	  	10
	 Section 111.
	  	 Benefits of Indenture
	  	10
	 Section 112.
	  	 Governing Law
	  	11
	 Section 113.
	  	 Legal Holidays
	  	11
	 Section 114.
	  	 No Recourse Against Others
	  	11
		
	 ARTICLE TWO: SECURITY FORMS
	  	11
			
	 Section 201.
	  	 Forms Generally
	  	11
	 Section 202.
	  	 Form of Face of Security
	  	12
	 Section 203.
	  	 Form of Reverse of Security
	  	13
	 Section 204.
	  	 Additional Provisions Required in Global Security
	  	18
	 Section 205.
	  	 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
	  	18
		
	 ARTICLE THREE: THE SECURITIES
	  	19
			
	 Section 301.
	  	 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series
	  	19
	 Section 302.
	  	 Denominations
	  	21
	 Section 303.
	  	 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
	  	21
	 Section 304.
	  	 Temporary Securities
	  	23
	 Section 305.
	  	 Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange
	  	24
	 Section 306.
	  	 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
	  	25
	 Section 307.
	  	 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved
	  	26
	 Section 308.
	  	 Persons Deemed Owners
	  	27
	 Section 309.
	  	 Cancellation
	  	27
	 Section 310.
	  	 Computation of Interest
	  	28
	 Section 311.
	  	 CUSIP Numbers
	  	28
		
	 ARTICLE FOUR: SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
	  	28
			
	 Section 401.
	  	 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
	  	28

  

Note: This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the Indenture. 

 

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	 	  	 	  	PAGE
	 Section 402.
	  	 Application of Trust Money
	  	29
		
	 ARTICLE FIVE: REMEDIES
	  	30
			
	 Section 501.
	  	 Events of Default
	  	30
	 Section 502.
	  	 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
	  	30
	 Section 503.
	  	 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
	  	32
	 Section 504.
	  	 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
	  	32
	 Section 505.
	  	 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
	  	33
	 Section 506.
	  	 Application of Money Collected
	  	33
	 Section 507.
	  	 Limitation on Suits
	  	34
	 Section 508.
	  	 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest
	  	34
	 Section 509.
	  	 Restoration of Rights and Remedies
	  	34
	 Section 510.
	  	 Rights and Remedies Cumulative
	  	35
	 Section 511.
	  	 Delay or Omission Not Waiver
	  	35
	 Section 512.
	  	 Control by Holders
	  	35
	 Section 513.
	  	 Waiver of Past Defaults
	  	36
	 Section 514.
	  	 Undertaking for Costs
	  	36
		
	 ARTICLE SIX: THE TRUSTEE
	  	36
			
	 Section 601.
	  	 Certain Duties and Responsibilities
	  	36
	 Section 602.
	  	 Notice of Defaults
	  	37
	 Section 603.
	  	 Certain Rights of Trustee
	  	38
	 Section 604.
	  	 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities
	  	38
	 Section 605.
	  	 May Hold Securities
	  	39
	 Section 606.
	  	 Money Held in Trust
	  	39
	 Section 607.
	  	 Compensation and Reimbursement
	  	39
	 Section 608.
	  	 Disqualifications; Conflicting Interests
	  	39
	 Section 609.
	  	 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
	  	40
	 Section 610.
	  	 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
	  	40
	 Section 611.
	  	 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
	  	41
	 Section 612.
	  	 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
	  	42
	 Section 613.
	  	 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
	  	42
	 Section 614.
	  	 Appointment of Authenticating Agent
	  	43
		
	 ARTICLE SEVEN: HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS
BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
	  	44
			
	 Section 701.
	  	 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders
	  	44
	 Section 702.
	  	 Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders
	  	44
	 Section 703.
	  	 Reports by Trustee
	  	45
	 Section 704.
	  	 Reports by Company
	  	45
		
	 ARTICLE EIGHT: CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE,
TRANSFER OR LEASE
	  	45
			
	 Section 801.
	  	 Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms
	  	45
	 Section 802.
	  	 Successor Corporation Substituted
	  	46

  

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	 	  	 	  	PAGE
	 ARTICLE NINE: SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
	  	46
			
	 Section 901.
	  	 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders
	  	46
	 Section 902.
	  	 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders
	  	47
	 Section 903.
	  	 Execution of Supplemental Indentures
	  	49
	 Section 904.
	  	 Effect of Supplemental Indentures
	  	49
	 Section 905.
	  	 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
	  	49
	 Section 906.
	  	 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
	  	49
		
	 ARTICLE TEN: COVENANTS
	  	49
			
	 Section 1001.
	  	 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest
	  	49
	 Section 1002.
	  	 Maintenance of Office or Agency
	  	50
	 Section 1003.
	  	 Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust
	  	50
	 Section 1004.
	  	 Corporate Existence
	  	52
	 Section 1005.
	  	 Statement as to Compliance
	  	52
	 Section 1006.
	  	 Waiver of Certain Covenants
	  	52
		
	 ARTICLE ELEVEN: REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
	  	53
			
	 Section 1101.
	  	 Applicability of Article
	  	53
	 Section 1102.
	  	 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
	  	53
	 Section 1103.
	  	 Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed
	  	53
	 Section 1104.
	  	 Notice of Redemption
	  	54
	 Section 1105.
	  	 Deposit of Redemption Price
	  	54
	 Section 1106.
	  	 Securities Payable on Redemption Date
	  	54
	 Section 1107.
	  	 Securities Redeemed in Part
	  	55
		
	 ARTICLE TWELVE: SINKING FUNDS
	  	55
			
	 Section 1201.
	  	 Applicability of Article
	  	55
	 Section 1202.
	  	 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities
	  	55
	 Section 1203.
	  	 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund
	  	56
		
	 ARTICLE THIRTEEN: DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT
DEFEASANCE
	  	56
			
	 Section 1301.
	  	 Applicability of Article; Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
	  	56
	 Section 1302.
	  	 Defeasance and Discharge
	  	56
	 Section 1303.
	  	 Covenant Defeasance
	  	57
	 Section 1304.
	  	 Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
	  	57
	 Section 1305.
	  	 Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions
	  	60
		
	 ARTICLE FOURTEEN: SUBORDINATION
	  	60
			
	 Section 1401.
	  	 Agreement that the Securities be Subordinated to the Extent Provided
	  	60

  

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	Section 1402.	  	Company Not to Make Payments with Respect to Securities in Certain Circumstances	  	61
	Section 1403.	  	Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Senior Indebtedness on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of the Company	  	61
	Section 1404.	  	Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Additional Senior Obligations on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of the Company	  	62
	Section 1405.	  	Obligation of the Company to Give Prompt Notice to Trustee; Trustee and Holders of Securities May Rely on Certificate of Liquidating Agent; Trustee May Require Further Evidence
as to Ownership of Senior Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations	  	64
	Section 1406.	  	Obligation of the Company Unconditional	  	65
	Section 1407.	  	No Fiduciary Duty to Holders of Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations	  	65
	Section 1408.	  	Notice to Trustee of Facts Prohibiting Payments	  	65
	Section 1409.	  	Application by Trustee of Moneys Deposited with It	  	66
	Section 1410.	  	Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of the Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations	  	66
	Section 1411.	  	Authorization of Trustees to Effectuate Subordination of the Securities	  	66
	Section 1412.	  	Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations	  	66
	Section 1413.	  	Article Fourteen Not to Prevent Defaults	  	66

  

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 INDENTURE, dated as of
            , between JPMORGAN CHASE & CO., a corporation 

duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the 

“Company”), having its principal office at 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, 

and U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 

a national banking association duly organized and existing under the laws of 

the United States, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”). 

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY 

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its
unsecured subordinated bonds, debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the “Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided. 

All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done. 

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: 

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

 DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS 

OF GENERAL APPLICATION 

Section 101. Definitions. 

For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires: 

(1) pronouns used herein shall be deemed to refer to the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter genders. 

(2) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as
the singular; 
 (3) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly or
by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein; and 
 (4) 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 or other subdivision. 

“Act,” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 104. 

 

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 “Additional Senior Obligations” means, whether outstanding on the date of
execution of this Indenture or thereafter created, assumed or incurred, all indebtedness of the Company for claims in respect of derivative products such as interest and foreign exchange rate contracts, commodity contracts and similar arrangements,
provided, however, that Additional Senior Obligations shall not include claims in respect of Senior Indebtedness or obligations which, by their terms, are expressly stated (x) to be not senior in right of payment to the Securities
or (y) to rank pari passu in right of payment with the Securities. For purposes of this definition, “claim” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Section 101(4) of the Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended and in effect on the
date of execution of this Indenture. 
 “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the
management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the
foregoing. 
 “Attorney-in-Fact” means an officer of the Bank who has been duly appointed as an attorney-in-fact by
the Company. 
 “Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities. 
 “Bank” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, a national banking association
duly organized and existing under the laws of the United States, and its successors (whether by consolidation, merger, conversion, transfer of all or substantially all their assets and business or otherwise) so long as JPMorgan Chase Bank, National
Association or any successor is a Subsidiary. 
 “Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the
Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder or any directors or officers of the Company or Attorneys-in-Fact to whom such board of directors or such committee shall have duly delegated its authority. 

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

“Business Day,” when used with respect to any Place of Payment, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301,
means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. 

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

 

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

“Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order delivered to the Trustee and signed in the name
of the Company by (i) the Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman, the President, its Chief Financial Officer, a Vice President, a Managing Director or any Attorney-in-Fact of the Company, and by (ii) any additional officer having any of
the foregoing titles or by the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company. 

“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, at which
at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, such office being currently located at 100 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005. 

“corporation” includes corporations, associations, companies and business trusts. 

“covenant defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1303. 

“default”, when used in Section 602, has the meaning specified in that section. 

“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 307. 

“defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 1302. 

“Depository” means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or
more Global Securities, the Person designated as Depository by the Company pursuant to Section 301. 
 “Excess
Proceeds” has the meaning specified in Section 1404. 
 “Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended from time to time. 
 “Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 501.

 “Global Security” means a Security in the form prescribed in Section 204 evidencing all or part of a series of
Securities, issued to the Depository for such series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depository or nominee. 

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

“Indebtedness for money borrowed,” when used with respect to the Company, means any obligation of, or any obligation guaranteed
by, the Company for the repayment of borrowed money, whether or not evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other written instruments. 
  

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 “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 and shall include the terms or particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section 301.

 “interest,” when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only
after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity. 
 “Interest Payment Date,” when used with respect to any
Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security. 
 “Maturity,” when used with
respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for
redemption or otherwise. 
 “Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate delivered to the Trustee and signed by
the Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, a Vice President, a Managing Director, the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary or any Attorney-in-Fact of the Company.

 “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel who may be an employee of the Company or other counsel to
the Company. 
 “Original Issue Discount Security” means any Security which provides for an amount less than the
principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502. 

“Outstanding,” when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except: 
 (i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the
Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; 
 (ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in
the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such
Securities; provided that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; 

(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities
have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser in
whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company; and 
  

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 (iv) Securities as to which any property deliverable upon conversion thereof
has been delivered (or such delivery has been made available), or as to which any other particular conditions have been satisfied, in each case as may be provided for in such Securities as contemplated in Section 301; 

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (i) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and
payable as of the date of such determination upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, (ii) the principal amount of a Security denominated in a foreign currency or currency unit shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent,
determined as of the date of original issuance of such Security, of the principal amount of such Security (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security denominated in a foreign currency or currency unit, the U.S. dollar equivalent as of
the date of original issuance of such Security of the amount determined as provided in (i) above), (iii) the principal amount of a Security for which the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on such Security
may be determined with reference to an index shall be determined as of the date of original issuance of such Security and (iv) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities
which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee established to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor. 

“Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any
Securities on behalf of the Company. 
 “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. 

“Place of Payment,” when used with respect to the Securities of any series, means the place or places where the principal of
(and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as contemplated by Section 301. 

“Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as
that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security. 
 “Record Date” means a Regular Record
Date or a Special Record Date, as the case may be. 
  

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 “Redemption Date,” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means
the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture. 
 “Redemption Price,” when used with respect to
any Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture. 
 “Regular Record
Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 301. 

“Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Trustee, means the chairman or any vice-chairman of the board of
directors, the chairman or any vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the chairman of the trust committee, the president, any vice president, the secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant
treasurer, the cashier, any assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, the controller or any assistant controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the
above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporation trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. 

“Securities” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture. “Security” shall have a corresponding meaning. 
 “Security
Register” and “Security Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 305. 
 “Senior
Indebtedness” of the Company means the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on: (i) all indebtedness of the Company for money borrowed, whether outstanding on the date of execution of this Indenture or thereafter created,
assumed or incurred, except (A) the Securities; (B) all securities issued pursuant to the Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as of December 15, 1992, as amended by the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 8,
1996, and the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 29, 2000, between the Company (as successor-by-merger to The Chase Manhattan Corporation, a Delaware corporation) and U.S. Bank Trust National Association (formerly known as First
Trust of New York, National Association), a national banking association, as successor to Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, a New York banking corporation, as the same may be further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time; and (C) such other indebtedness of the Company as is by its terms expressly stated not to be senior in right of payment to, or to rank pari passu with, the Securities or the other securities referred to in clause (B); and (ii) any
deferrals, renewals or extensions of any such Senior Indebtedness. The term “indebtedness of the Company for money borrowed” means any obligation of, or any obligation guaranteed by, the Company for the repayment of money borrowed, whether
or not evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other written instruments, and any deferred obligation for the payment of the purchase price of property or assets. The Securities shall rank pari passu with the securities referred to in clause (i)(B)
above, subject to the subordination provisions of Article Fourteen. 
  

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 “Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed
by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307. 
 “Stated Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable. 

“Subsidiary” means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding Voting Stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by
the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. 
 “Trustee”
means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or
include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.

 “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as in force at the date as of which this instrument
was executed, except as provided in Section 905 and except that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 as so amended. 
 “U.S. Government Obligations” has the meaning specified in Section 1304(1).

 “Vice President,” when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not
designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president”. 
 “Voting
Stock” means stock of the class or classes having a general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a majority of the board of directors, managers or trustees of a corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time
stock of any other class or classes shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency). 
 Section 102.
Compliance Certificates and Opinions. 
 Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action
under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall, if requested by the Trustee, furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action
have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of
such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. 

Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include

  

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 (1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has
read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto; 
 (2) 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; 

(3) 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 

(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

 Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. 

In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of any specified Person, it is not necessary
that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more
other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents. 

Any certificate or opinion of an officer of, or Attorney-in-Fact for, the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters,
upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer or Attorney-in-Fact knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon
which his certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of, or an
Attorney-Fact or Attorneys-in-Fact for, the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. 
 Where any Person is required to make,
give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument. 

Section 104. Acts of Holders. 

(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or
taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes
referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to
Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section. 
  

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 (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may
be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to
him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient. 

(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register. 

(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company
in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security. 
 Section 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and
Company. 
 Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document
provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished in, or filed with, 
 (1) the Trustee
by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; or 

(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it, Attention: Secretary, at the address of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company. 
 Section 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver. 

Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date,
prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice
with respect to other Holders. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the
Person 
  

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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. 
 In case by reason
of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give one’s 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. 
 Where this Indenture provides for notice of any event to a Holder of a Global
Security, such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depository for such Security (or its designee), pursuant to the applicable procedures of the Depository, not later than the latest date, if any, and not earlier than the earliest
date, if any, prescribed for the giving of such notice in such procedures. 
 Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.

 If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under the
Trust Indenture Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, such Trust Indenture Act provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded,
such Trust Indenture Act provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be. 

Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. 

The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 Section 109. Successors and Assigns. 

All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

 Section 110. Separability Clause. 

In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 
 Section 111. Benefits of
Indenture. 
 Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the
parties hereto and their successors hereunder, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture. 

 

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 Section 112. Governing Law. 

This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. 

Section 113. Legal Holidays. 

In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place
of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding
Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest
Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be. 
 Section 114. No Recourse Against Others. 

A director, officer, employee, Attorney-in-Fact or stockholder as such of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of
the Company under the Securities or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Security, each Holder shall waive and release all such liability. This waiver and release
shall be part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities. 
 ARTICLE TWO: 

SECURITY FORMS 

Section 201. Forms Generally. 

The Securities of each series shall be substantially in the form set forth in this Article, or in such other form (including permanent
global form) as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers of the Company or any Attorney-in-Fact executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If the form of Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a
copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 303 for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities. If all of the Securities of any series established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a record of such action at the
time of issuance of each Security of such series, but an appropriate record of such action shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series. 

 

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 The Trustee’s certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the form set
forth in this Article. 
 The definitive Securities shall be printed or may be produced in any other manner (provided
that if any Securities are to be listed on any securities exchange, then in such manner as may be permitted by the rules of any such securities exchange), all as determined by the officers of the Company or any Attorney-in-Fact executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities. 
 Section 202. Form of Face of Security. 

[Insert any legend required by the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder] 

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 
  

 
  

				
	 No.             
	  	$	            

JPMORGAN CHASE & CO., a corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the
“Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to
                                        ,
or registered assigns, the principal sum of
                                         
                    Dollars on
                                        
[if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert —, and to pay interest thereon from             or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest
has been paid or duly provided for, [insert appropriate period] on                             
and                              in each year, commencing
                        , at the rate of         % per annum, until the
principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [if applicable, insert —, and (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of __% per annum on any overdue principal and premium [if
applicable, insert — and on any overdue installment of interest]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the              or
             as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. [In the event that any Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a business day, the interest
payment due on that date will be paid on the next day that is a business day, and interest shall be paid on that business day with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, without any interest or other payment with respect
to the delay. A “business day” is any day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day that, in New York City, banking institutions generally are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.] 

Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record
Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee,
notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days 
  

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prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may
be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture]. [If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert — The principal of this Security shall not bear
interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this Security shall bear interest at the rate of __% per annum (to the extent that
the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such default in payment to the date payment of such principal has been made or duly provided for. [Interest on any overdue principal shall be payable on
demand. Any such interest on any overdue principal that is not so paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of __% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of
such demand for payment to the date payment of such interest has been made or duly provided for, and such interest shall also be payable on demand].] 

Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert — any such] interest on this Security will be
made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in                     , in such coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts [unless otherwise specifically provided with respect to the Securities of the series, insert —; provided, however, that at the option of the
Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register]. 

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place. 
 Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof, or an Authenticating Agent, by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed. 

Dated: 
  

			
	
	 
		
	By	 	 

  

			
	Attest:
	
	 

 Section 203. Form of Reverse of Security.

 This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of subordinated debt securities of the Company (herein called the
“Securities”) of the series hereinafter specified, all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of
                     (herein called the 

 

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“Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), duly executed and delivered by the Company. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto for a description of the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Trustee, the Company, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. Terms defined
in the Indenture are used herein as so defined. The Securities may be issued in one or more series, which different series may be issued in various aggregate principal amounts, may mature at different times, may bear interest, if any at different
rates, may be subject to different redemption provisions, if any, may be subject to different sinking funds, if any, may be subject to different covenants and Events of Default and may otherwise vary as provided in the Indenture. This Security is
one of the series designated as the [            ] Subordinated Notes due [__] of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), which series shall have a current aggregate
principal amount of $[            ], which principal amount may be increased from time to time through the issuance of additional Notes. 

Interest on this Security shall be computed on the basis of [__]. 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (if any) on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency herein prescribed. 

[If applicable, insert — This Security is not redeemable prior to maturity and is not subject to any sinking fund.]

 [If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’
nor more than 60 days’ notice by mail [if applicable, insert — (1) on                      in any year commencing with
the year                      and ending with the year
                     through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and
(2)] at any time [on or after                     , 20__], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the following Redemption
Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [on or before                     , __%, and if redeemed] during the
12-month period beginning                      of the years indicated, 

 

							
	Year	  	Redemption
Price	  	Year	  	Redemption
Price

 

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 And thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to __% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such
redemption [if applicable, insert — (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will
be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.] 

[If applicable, insert — The Securities of this series are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 days’ nor more
than 60 days’ notice by mail (1) on                      in any year commencing with the year
             and ending with the year              through operation of the sinking fund for this series at the
Redemption Prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [on or after
                    ], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than through
operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning
                     of the years indicated, 
  

					
	 Year
	  	Redemption Price
For
Redemption
Through Operation
Of
the
Sinking Fund	  	Redemption Price For
Redemption
Otherwise
Than Through Operation
of the Sinking Fund

and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to __% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities,
of record at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.] 

[Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to
                        , redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [Clause (2) of] the preceding
paragraph as a part of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company (calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of
less than __% per annum.] 
  

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 [The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on
                     in each year beginning with the year              and
ending with the year              of [not less than] $             [(“mandatory sinking fund”) and not
more than $            ] aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. [Securities of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [mandatory]
sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made [if applicable, insert — in the inverse order in which they become due].] 

In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the
unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof. 
 [If applicable,
insert — The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of [(a)] [the entire indebtedness evidenced by this Security] [and (b)] certain restrictive covenants,] [in each case] upon compliance by the Company with certain
conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to this Security.] 
 The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to
the extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, and, in certain circumstances, to Additional Senior Obligations, as provided in the Indenture, and this
Security is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or
her behalf to take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided and (c) appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance
hereof, waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Indebtedness, whether now outstanding or hereafter created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed, and waives
reliance by each such holder upon said provisions. 
 [If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert
— If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the securities of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert — If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to — insert formula for determining the amount.] Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and
(ii) of interest on any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall terminate. 
 The Indenture permits, with certain
exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and
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the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities
of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any
such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu
hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security. 
 As provided in the Indenture and
subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (if any) on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder
hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of
$             and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a
like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same. 

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. 
 Prior to due presentment of this
Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue,
and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
 No recourse for the
payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on this Security or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in the Indenture or any
indenture supplemental thereto or in this Security, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of
any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company, or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statue or rule of law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being,
by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released by each holder of this Security. 
  

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 All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Indenture. 
 This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State
of New York 
 Section 204. Additional Provisions Required in Global Security. 

Any Global Security issued hereunder shall, in addition to the provisions contained in Sections 202 and 203, bear a legend in
substantially the following form: 
 “This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture
hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depository or its nominee only in the limited
circumstances described in the Indenture, and no transfer of this Security (other than a transfer of this Security as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of
the Depository) may be registered except in such limited circumstances.” 
 Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by
Section 301 with respect to any series of Securities, any Global Security shall provide, in addition to the provisions set forth in Sections 202 and 203 and the preceding paragraph, that the Depository will not sell, assign, transfer or
otherwise convey any beneficial interest in such Global Security unless such beneficial interest is in an amount equal to an authorized denomination for Securities of such series, and that the Depository, by accepting such Global Security, agrees to
be bound by such provision. 
 Section 205. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication. 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. 

 

			
	U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
		
	By:	 	 
		 	Authorized Officer
	  
 [or]

	  
 U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as
Trustee

	  
 By:
	 	THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
		 	Authenticating Agent
		
	By:	 	 
		 	Authorized Signatory

  

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 ARTICLE THREE: 

THE SECURITIES 

Section 301. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. 

The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. 

The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to
Section 303, set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officer’s Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series, 

(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall distinguish the Securities of the series from all other
Securities); 
 (2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount or the aggregate initial offering price of the
Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant
to Section 304, 305, 306, 906 or 1107 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 303, shall not have been issued and sold by the Company and are therefore deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);

 (3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series shall be payable, if other than the Person in
whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest; 

(4) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the series is payable; the provisions, if any, for
extension of such date or dates; 
 (5) the rate or rates (or the formula pursuant to which such rate or rates
shall be determined) at which the Securities of the series shall bear interest, if any, including the rate of interest applicable to overdue payments of principal, and the rate of interest, if any, applicable to overdue payments of interest if
different from the rate of interest stated in the title of the Security; the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date for the interest payable
on any Interest Payment Date; 
 (6) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be payable; 
 (7) if applicable, the period or periods
within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company; 

 

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 (8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase Securities
of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be
redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation; 
 (9) if other than denominations of
$1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series shall be issuable; 

(10) if other than the currency of the United States, the currency or currencies, including composite currencies, in which
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of the series shall be payable, which may be different for principal (and premium, if any) and interest; 

(11) if the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of the series are to be payable, at
the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in a currency or currencies other than that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the currency or currencies in which payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any,
on Securities of such series as to which such election is made shall be payable, and the period or periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made; 

(12) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of the series may be
determined with reference to an index, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined; 
 (13) if other
than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502; 

(14) any addition to, deletion from or change in the Events of Default specified in Section 501 which applies to the
Securities of the series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 502; 

(15) any addition to, deletion from or change in the covenants set forth in Article Ten which applies to Securities of the
series; 
 (16) the application, if any, of either or both of Section 1302 and Section 1303 to the
Securities of the series. 
 (17) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or in part in the
form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the Depository for such Global Security or Securities, which Depository shall be, if then required by applicable law or regulation, a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act;

 (18) if the Securities of the series are to be convertible into or exchangeable for cash and/or any securities
or other property of any Person (including the Company), the terms and conditions upon which such Securities will be so convertible or exchangeable and 
  

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 (19) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Indenture), including any covenants to be applicable to Securities of such series if not set forth herein. 

The Securities shall be subordinate and junior in right of payment to Senior Indebtedness and, in certain circumstances, to Additional
Senior Obligations, as provided in Article Fourteen. 
 All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except
as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to the Board Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 303) set forth in the Officer’s Certificate referred to above or in any such indenture supplemental
hereto. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at one time, and unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened for issuances of additional Securities of such series. 

Unless otherwise specifically provided with respect to the Securities of a series, at the option of the Company, interest on the
Securities of any series that bears interest may be paid by mailing a check to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register. 

If any of the terms of Securities of a series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate
record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officer’s Certificate setting forth the terms of the Securities of such series.
If all of the Securities of any series established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution are not to be issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver a record of such action at the time of issuance of each Security of such series,
but an appropriate record of such action shall be delivered at or before the time of issuance of the first Security of such series. 

Section 302. Denominations. 

The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in such denominations as shall be specified as
contemplated by Section 301. In the absence of any such provisions with respect to the Securities of any particular series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.

 Section 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. 

The Securities shall be executed, by facsimile or otherwise on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, one of its Vice
Chairman, its President, its Chief Financial Officer or one of its Vice Presidents, Managing Directors or Attorneys-in-Fact and by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. 

Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices a the date of such Securities. 

 

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 At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the Company to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and make available for delivery such Securities. If all of the Securities of any series are not to be issued at one time and if the Board Resolution or supplemental
indenture establishing such series shall so permit, such Company Order may set forth procedures acceptable to the Trustee for the issuance of such Securities and determining the terms of particular Securities of such series, such as interest rate,
maturity date, date of issuance and date from which interest shall accrue. In authenticating Securities of any series, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent, as the case may be, shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating, 

(a) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by
Section 201, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; 
 (b)
if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by Section 301, that such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and 

(c) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and
subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equitable principles (whether considered a proceeding in equity or at law) and, if applicable, to provisions of law which may require
that a judgment for money damages rendered by a court in the United States be expressed in United States dollars. 
 If such forms or terms have
been so established, the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent, as the case may be, shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee’s or the Authenticating
Agent’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent. 

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 301 and of the preceding paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally
issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officer’s Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 301 or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior
to the time of authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the time of authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series

  

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to be issued. After the original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued, any separate request by the Company that the Trustee authenticate Securities of such series for
original issuance will be deemed to be a certification by the Company that it is in compliance with all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the authentication and delivery of such Securities. 

Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. 

No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such
Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued
and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 309 together with a written statement (which need not comply with Section 102 and need not be accompanied by an
Opinion of Counsel) stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture. 
 Section 304. Temporary Securities. 

Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, reproduced or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu
of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities. 

If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at
the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series and tenor of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary Securities of any series shall in all
respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series. 
  

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 Section 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. 

The Company shall cause to be kept at the corporate trust office of the Security Registrar designated pursuant to this Section 305 a
register (the register maintained in such office being herein sometimes referred to as the “Security Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of
Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Bank of New York Mellon is hereby initially appointed “Security Registrar” for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided. 

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any series at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for that series,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like
tenor and aggregate principal amount. 
 At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for other
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 

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

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

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906 or 1107 not involving any transfer.

 The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security during a period
beginning at the opening of business 15 days before any selection for redemption of Securities of like tenor and of the series of which such Security is a part and ending at the close of business on the earliest date on which the relevant notice of
redemption is deemed to have been given to all Holders of Securities of such series to be redeemed, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of
any Security being redeemed in part. 
 Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Global Security representing a series of Securities
shall be exchangeable pursuant to this Section 305 for Securities registered in the names of Persons other than the Depository or its nominee only if (i) subject to any other terms of the

  

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series applicable to such Global Security, such Depository notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for such Global Security or if at any time such Depository
ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act at a time when such Depository is required to be so registered to act as such Depository, (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order that such Global
Security shall be so exchangeable or (iii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default or an event which, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default with respect to the
Securities. Any Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as such Depository shall direct. 

Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, a Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository with
respect to such Global Security to a nominee of such Depository or by a nominee of such Depository to such Depository or another nominee of such Depository. Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with respect to any series of
Securities evidenced in whole or in part by a Global Security, the Depository may not sell, assign, transfer or otherwise convey any beneficial interest in a Global Security evidencing all or part of the Securities of such series unless such
beneficial interest is in an amount equal to an authorized denomination for Securities of such series. 
 Section 306. Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. 
 If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. 

If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of
any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a
bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding. 
 In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security of the same series, pay such Security. 

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

Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
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 The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all
other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities. 
 Section 307.
Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. 
 Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 301 with
respect to any series of Securities, interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities)
is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest. 
 Any interest on any Security of any
series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of
having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below: 

(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Person or Persons in whose names the Securities
of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days
prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense
of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of such series at his address as it appears in the
Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment 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 Securities of such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2). 

 

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

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

Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners. 

Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Security, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee, or any agent
of the Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a Depository or impair, as between a Depository and holders of beneficial interests in any Global Security, the operation of
customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the Depository as Holder of such Global Security. 
 Section 309.
Cancellation. 
 All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or for credit
against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for cancellation any Securities previously
authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in
this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities held by the Trustee shall be destroyed by the Trustee and a certificate of destruction shall be delivered to the Company. 

 

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 Section 310. Computation of Interest. 

Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series
shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. 
 Section 311. CUSIP Numbers. 

The Company in issuing any series of the Securities may use “CUSIP” or “ISIN” numbers and/or other similar numbers to
identify such Securities, if then generally in use, and thereafter with respect to such series, the Trustee may use such numbers in any notice of redemption with respect to such series; provided that any such notice may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities of such series or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Securities of such series, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. 
 ARTICLE
FOUR: 
 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE 

Section 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. 

This Indenture shall upon request by the Company cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of Securities (except as to any
surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities of such series herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, upon Company Request and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series, when 
 (1) either 

(A) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and
thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or 

(B) all such Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation 

(i) have become due and payable, or 

(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or 

 

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 (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company, 

and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust
funds in trust for the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest to the date of such
deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be; 

(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company with respect to such series;
and 
 (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each
stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to such series have been complied with. 

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to such series, the obligations of the Company to the
Trustee under Section 607, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 614 and, if money or U.S. Government Obligations shall have been deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the conditions
of Section 609) in accordance with Section 1302, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) under the fourth paragraph of Section 1305, and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant
to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive with respect to such series. 

Section 402. Application of Trust Money. 

Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401
shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the applicable series of Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent)
as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee; but such money need not be segregated from other funds
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 ARTICLE FIVE: 

REMEDIES 

Section 501. Events of Default. 

Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to Section 301 for Securities of any series, “Event of Default,” wherever
used herein with respect to Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article Fourteen or be voluntary or involuntary or be
effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body): 

(1) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the
Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of all or substantially all 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 90 consecutive days; or 
 (2) the commencement by the Company of a
voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or the consent by the Company to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Company or of all or substantially all of its property, or the making by the Company of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Company in
writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or 

(3) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series. 

Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. 

Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to Section 301 for Securities of any series, if an Event of Default with respect to
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount
(or, if the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of all of the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a
notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) shall become immediately due and payable, except that no such declaration shall be required upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Section 501(2). If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(2) with respect to the Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of
such series (or, if the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series), together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, shall
automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable. Upon payment of such amount, all obligations of the Company in respect of the payment of principal and interest
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 Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to Section 301 for Securities of any
series, at any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article
provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, and any Event of Default giving rise
to such declaration shall not be deemed to have occurred, if 
 (1) the Company has paid or deposited with the
Trustee a sum sufficient to pay (A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that series, (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of
acceleration and interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest, if any, upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
Securities, and (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and 

(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the non-payment of the principal of
Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513 or otherwise remedied. 

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon. 

Upon receipt by the Trustee of any written notice declaring such an acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, with respect to
Securities of a series all or part of which is represented by a Global Security, a record date shall be established for determining Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such notice, which record date shall be at the
close of business on the day the Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such
record date; provided, that unless such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined in such notice prior to the day which is 90
days after such record date, such notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph
shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new written notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission or annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a written notice
which has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section 502. 

 

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 Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. 

The Company covenants that if: 

(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such
default continues for a period of 30 days, 
 (2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof, or 
 (3) default is made in the making or satisfaction of any
sinking fund payment or analogous obligation when the same becomes due pursuant to the terms of any Security and such default continues for 5 days; 

the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal, including any sinking fund payment or analogous obligations (and premium, if any) and interest and, to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal including
any sinking fund payment or analogous obligations (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel. 

If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and 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 Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the moneys
adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated. 

If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series 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. 

Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. 

In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or
other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be
due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention
in such proceeding or otherwise, 
 (i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and premium,
if any) and interest, if any, owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities of all series and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have 

 

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the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such
judicial proceeding, and 
 (ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on
any such claims and to distribute the same; 
 and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar
official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any
amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607. 

Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding. 

Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities. 

All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment
shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has
been recovered. 
 Section 506. Application of Money Collected. 

Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall, subject to the subordination provisions set forth in Article Fourteen
hereof, be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, upon presentation of the Securities and the
notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid: 

FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607; and 

SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest, if any, on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, respectively. 
  

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 Section 507. Limitation on Suits. 

No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless 
 (1) such
Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default or an event which, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that series;

 (2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall
have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder; 

(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to
be incurred in compliance with such request; 
 (4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and 
 (5) no direction inconsistent
with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series; 

it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the
manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders. 
 Section 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to
Receive Principal, Premium and Interest. 
 Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307) interest, if any, on such Security on the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in
such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. 

Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. 

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

 

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 Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. 

Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last
paragraph of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. 
 Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. 

No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities 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 or by law to the Trustee 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 512. Control by Holders.

 The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that 

(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and 

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

 Upon receipt by the Trustee of any written notice directing the time, method or place of conducting any such proceeding or
exercising any such trust or power with respect to Securities of a series all or part of which is represented by a Global Security, a record date shall be established for determining Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join
in such notice, which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice,
whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that unless Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have joined in such notice prior to the day which is 90 days
after such record date, such notice shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such
90-day period, a new notice identical to a notice which has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section 512. 

 

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 Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults. 

The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of
all the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Security of such series.

 The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to
waive any past default hereunder. If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to waive any default hereunder, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after
such record date; provided, that unless such majority in principal amount shall have waived such default prior to the date which is 90 days after such record date, any such waiver of such default previously given shall automatically and
without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. 
 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 impair any right consequent thereon. 

Section 514. Undertaking for Costs. 

In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess reasonable costs against any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided
in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company. 

ARTICLE SIX: 

THE TRUSTEE 

Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. 

(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, 

(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture,
and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and 
 (2) in the
absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements
of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
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 (b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise
such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs. 

(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own wilful misconduct, except that 
 (1) this Subsection shall not be
construed to limit the effect of Subsection (a) of this Section; 
 (2) the Trustee shall not be liable for
any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; 

(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, determined as provided in Section 512, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series; and 

(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any
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 reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it. 
 (d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. 

Section 602. Notice of Defaults. 

Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder known to the Trustee with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee
shall give the Holders of Securities of such series notice of such default as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of
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 Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee. 

Subject to the provisions of Section 601: 

(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, 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 party or
parties; 
 (b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or
Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution; 
 (c) whenever
in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed)
may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s Certificate; 
 (d) the Trustee may consult with
counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon; 

(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction; 
 (f) the Trustee shall not 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, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or
by agent or attorney; and 
 (g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder
either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder. 

Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. 

The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the
statements of the Company, and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee or any
Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof. 
  

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 Section 605. May Hold Securities. 

The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or
any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security
Registrar or such other agent. 
 Section 606. Money Held in Trust. 

Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee
shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company. 
 Section 607.
Compensation and Reimbursement. 
 The Company agrees 

(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); 

(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement
or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and 
 (3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to
hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses
of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. 

Section 608. Disqualifications; Conflicting Interests. 

If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either
eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have
a conflicting interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one series or any other indenture between the Trustee and the Company. 

 

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 Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. 

There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America, any State or Territory thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by
Federal, State, Territorial or District of Columbia authority and having its Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article. 

Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. 

(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective
until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611. 

(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series. 
 (c) The
Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. 

(d) If at any time: 

(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or 
 (2) the Trustee shall cease to be
eligible under Section 609 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or 

(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee
or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, 

then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Trustee with respect to all securities, or (ii) subject to
Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect
to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees. 
  

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 (e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those
series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular
series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of
such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security
of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series. 

(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and
each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office. 

Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. 

(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed
shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without
any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring
Trustee hereunder. 
 (b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or
more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
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successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to
or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees cotrustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and
delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such
retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates. 
 (c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more
fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section, as the case may be. 

(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article. 
 Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. 

Any corporation into which the Trustee 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 shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities 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 Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee
had itself authenticated such Securities. 
 Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company. 

If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of any series), the
Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company. 
  

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 Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. 

As of the date of the Indenture and at any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating
Agent or Agents (which may be an Affiliate or Affiliates of the Company) with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original
issuance, exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if
authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall
at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State or Territory thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal, State, Territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or
to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in
this Section. 
 Any corporation into which an Authenticating 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 such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating
Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

 An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The
Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice or resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time
such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of such
appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent
upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be
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 The Company agrees to pay each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services under this Section. 
 The Bank of New York Mellon is initially designated as the Authenticating
Agent for the Securities. 
 ARTICLE SEVEN: 

HOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE
AND COMPANY 
 Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders. 

If and for so long as the Trustee shall not be the Security Registrar for the Securities of any series, the Company will furnish or cause
to be furnished to the Trustee 
 (a) semi-annually, not more than fifteen days after each Regular Record Date,
or, in the case of any series of Securities on which no interest is payable, not more than fifteen days after each coupon date or other date specified by the Trustee, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Holders of such series as of such Record Date, and 
 (b) at such other times as the Trustee may
request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished. 

Section 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders. 

(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the
most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee if and so long as it is acting as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. 
 (b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other
Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities of any series, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act. 

(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor
the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act. 

 

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 Section 703. Reports by Trustee. 

(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto. 
 (b) A copy of each such report
shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed
on any stock exchange. 
 Section 704. Reports by Company. 

The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports as may
be required by the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or reports filed electronically with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be deemed filed with, and delivered to,
the Trustee and transmitted to the Holders at the same time as filed with the Commission. Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee and transmission thereof to the Holders is for informational purposes only and shall not
constitute a representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the reports, information or documents. The Trustee’s receipt of such reports, information or documents shall not constitute constructive notice of any information
contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on an Officer’s
Certificate). 
 ARTICLE EIGHT: 

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR
LEASE 
 Section 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms. 

Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to Section 301 for Securities of any series, the Company shall not consolidate or merge
with any other Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any other Person, unless: 

(1) the Person formed by such consolidation or merger or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which
leases, all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia and such successor Person (if
not the Company) shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all the
Securities and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed; 
  

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 (2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default
and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default shall have happened and be continuing; and 

(3) if requested by the Trustee, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been
complied with. 
 Section 802. Successor Corporation Substituted. 

Upon any such consolidation or merger with any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all the
properties and assets of the Company in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or merger or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise
every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all
obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities. 
 ARTICLE NINE: 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES 

Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. 

Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes: 

(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company and the assumption by any such successor of the
covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities; or 
 (2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the
benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of fewer than all series of Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such series) or to
surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or 
 (3) to add any additional Events of
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 (4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in
certificated form or global form; or 
 (5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture in respect of all or any Securities of any series (and if such addition, change or elimination is to apply with respect to less than all Securities of any series, stating that it is expressly being made to apply solely with respect to such
Securities within such series), provided that any such addition, change or elimination (A) shall neither (i) apply to any Security issued prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such
provision nor (ii) modify the rights of any Holder of any such Security with respect to such provision or (B) shall become effective only when there is no such Security Outstanding; or 

(6) to conform the text of this Indenture or the Securities of any series to any provision of the section entitled
“Description of Debt Securities” or any similarly captioned section in the prospectus, as supplemented by any applicable prospectus supplement, relating to the offering of such series of Securities; or 

(7) to secure the Securities of any series or provide for guarantees of the Securities of any series; or 

(8) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301; or 

(9) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of
Section 611(b); or 
 (10) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision in the Indenture
which may be inconsistent with any other provision in the Indenture, or to make any other provisions as the Company may find necessary or desirable, provided such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any
series in any material respect. 
 Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. 

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by
such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange for Securities), by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the
Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby, 

 

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 (1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of
principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of, or method of computation of the rate of, interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal of
an Original Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502, or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or
analogous obligation, or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium of the interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after
the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or 
 (2) reduce
the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain
provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or 

(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or Section 1006, except to increase any such
percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby, provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to
require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to the “Trustee,” and concomitant changes in this Section and Section 1006, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections
611(b) and 901(9). 
 A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has expressly
been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights
under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series. 
 The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a
record date for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to consent to any indenture supplemental hereto. If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record date or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to
consent to such supplemental indenture, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that unless such consent shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having been obtained prior to the
date which is 90 days after such record date, any such consent previously given shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. 

It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
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 Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. 

In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications
thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee may receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. 

Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. 

Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby. 

Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. 

Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in
effect. 
 Section 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures. 

Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and
shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion
of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series. 

ARTICLE TEN: 

COVENANTS 

Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. 

The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture. 

The Company shall have the right to require a Holder, in connection with the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest, if any, on a Security, to present at the office or agency of the Company at which such payment is made a certificate, in such form as the Company may from time to time prescribe, to enable the Company to determine its duties and
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required to deduct or withhold therefrom under any present or future law of the United States of America or of any State, County, Municipality or taxing authority therein, and the Company shall
be entitled to determine its duties and liabilities with respect to such deduction or withholding on the basis of information contained in such certificate or, if no such certificate shall be so presented, on the basis of any presumption created by
any such law, and shall be entitled to act in accordance with such determination. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Company or the Paying Agent may, to the extent it is required to do so by law, deduct or
withhold taxes imposed by the United States of America or other domestic or foreign taxing authorities from the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest payments hereunder. 

Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency. 

The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and in each Place of Payment for any series of
Securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment (provided, however, that, unless otherwise provided with respect to any series of Securities, at the option of the Company payment of
interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register), where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices
and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company initially appoints The Bank of New York Mellon as its agent for purposes of presentation and surrender of Securities for
payment, registration of transfer or exchange and for service of notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of a series and this Indenture. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and
any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. 

The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be
presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an
office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York and in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and
of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. 
 Section 1003. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in
Trust. 
 If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on
or before each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if
any) or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. 

 

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 Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it
will, prior to each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum to be
held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. 

The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will: 

(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that
series in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided; 

(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the
making of any payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of that series; and 

(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent. 
 The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the
same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.

 Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or
(if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured subordinated creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease. 
  

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 Section 1004. Corporate Existence. 

Except as permitted by the provisions of Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep
in full force and effect its corporate existence and material rights (charter and statutory) and material franchises of the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if the
Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material
respect to the Holders. 
 Section 1005. Statement as to Compliance. 

The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company commencing with the fiscal year
ending December 31, 2010, or, if later, December 31 of the first year during which Securities are Outstanding under this Indenture, a written statement, which need not comply with Section 102, signed by an Officer of the Company
stating that 
 (1) a review of the activities of the Company during such year and of performance under this
Indenture has been made under his supervision, and 
 (2) to the best of his knowledge, based on such review,
(a) the Company has fulfilled all its obligations under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each such default known to him and the nature and status thereof,
and (b) no event has occurred and is continuing which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default, or, if such an event has occurred and is continuing, specifying each such event known to him and the nature
and status thereof. 
 Section 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants. 

The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, covenant or condition set forth in Sections 1004 and 1005 with
respect to the Securities of any series if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such term, covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the
obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, covenant or condition shall remain in full force and effect. 

The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to waive any such
term, provision or condition. If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record date or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to waive any such term, provision or condition hereunder, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date; provided, that unless the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have waived such term, provision or condition prior to the date which is 90
days after such record date, any such waiver previously given shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. 
  

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 ARTICLE ELEVEN: 

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES 

Section 1101. Applicability of Article. 

Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except
as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article. 
 Section 1102.
Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. 
 The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by a
Board Resolution or an Officer’s Certificate or in another manner specified as contemplated by Section 301 for such Securities. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of fewer than all the Securities of any series, the
Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the tenor, if applicable, of the Securities to be
redeemed, and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in
this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officer’s Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction. 

Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed. 

If fewer than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all of the Securities of a specified tenor are to be redeemed),
the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series subject to such redemption and not previously called for redemption, by such
method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate (but subject to compliance with the rules of any securities exchange on which the securities of such series may be listed) and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions
(equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of
that series. If fewer than all of the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the
Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence. 

The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities
selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. 
 For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the
context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is
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 Section 1104. Notice of Redemption. 

Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register. 
 All notices
of redemption shall state: 
 (1) the Redemption Date, 

(2) the Redemption Price, 

(3) if fewer than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of
partial redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed, 
 (4) the CUSIP or ISIN
number of the Securities to be redeemed, 
 (5) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date, 

(6) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price, and 

(7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case. 

Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company. 
 Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price. 

Prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own
Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities
which are to be redeemed on that date. 
 Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. 

Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and
payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such
Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest whose Stated
Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the
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 If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for
redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security. 

Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part. 

Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the
Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered. If a Global Security is so surrendered, such new Security so issued shall be a new Global Security. 

ARTICLE TWELVE: 

SINKING FUNDS 

Section 1201. Applicability of Article. 

The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 301 for Securities of such series. 
 The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment
provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment,” and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to
as an “optional sinking fund payment”. If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 1202. Each sinking fund payment shall be
applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such series. 
 Section 1202.
Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities. 
 The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a
series (other than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of
permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of such series required to be made pursuant to the terms of
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Securities as provided for by the terms of such series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited; provided further that, in the case of (1) above,
with respect to any Outstanding Securities so delivered, and in the case of (2) above, with respect to any such Securities so credited, such Outstanding Securities or Securities, as the case may be, be Securities subject to the sinking fund
payment required to be made with respect to the Securities of such series. Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the
sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. 
 Section 1203. Redemption of Securities for
Sinking Fund. 
 Not less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company
will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash
and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to Section 1202 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 45 days before each
such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 1103 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the
expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 1104. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 1106 and 1107. 

ARTICLE THIRTEEN: 

DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE 

Section 1301. Applicability of Article; Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. 

If pursuant to Section 301 provision is made for either or both of (a) defeasance of the Securities of a series under
Section 1302 or (b) covenant defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section 1303, then the provisions of such Section or Sections, as the case may be, together with the other provisions of this Article Thirteen, shall be
applicable to the Securities of such series, and the Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to the Securities of such series, elect to have either Section 1302 (if applicable) or Section 1303 (if
applicable) be applied to the Outstanding Securities of such series upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article Thirteen. 

Section 1302. Defeasance and Discharge. 

Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section, the Company shall be deemed to have been discharged from
its obligations, and the provisions of Article Fourteen shall cease to be effective, with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series on and after the date the conditions precedent set forth below are satisfied but subject to satisfaction
of the conditions subsequent set forth below (hereinafter, “defeasance”). For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged 

 

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the entire indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Securities of such series and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such
Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (A) the rights
of Holders of the series of Securities defeased pursuant to this Section 1302 to receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 1304 and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments of the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on such Securities when such payments are due, (B) the Company’s obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003 and such obligations as shall be ancillary thereto, (C) the rights,
powers, trusts, duties, immunities and other provisions in respect of the Trustee hereunder and (D) this Article Thirteen. Subject to compliance with this Article Thirteen, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 1302
notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 1303 with respect to the Securities of such series. Following a defeasance, payment of the Securities of such series may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default.

 Section 1303. Covenant Defeasance. 

Upon the Company’s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section, (1) the Company shall be released from its
obligations under Section 1004 (and any other Sections applicable to such Securities that are determined pursuant to Section 301 to be subject to this provision) and (2) the provisions of Article Fourteen shall cease to be effective,
in each case with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series on and after the date the conditions precedent set forth below are satisfied but subject to satisfaction of the conditions subsequent set forth below (hereinafter, “covenant
defeasance”). For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set
forth in any such Section, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of
this Indenture and such Securities shall be unaffected thereby. Following a covenant defeasance, payment of the Securities of such series may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified by reference to such Sections as are specified
above in this Section 1303. 
 Section 1304. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. 

The following shall be the conditions precedent or, as specifically noted below, subsequent to application of either Section 1302 or
Section 1303 to the Outstanding Securities of such series: 
 (1) The Company shall irrevocably have
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 609 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article Thirteen applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose
of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment
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later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient, without reinvestment, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, (i) the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Outstanding Securities of such series to maturity or redemption, as the case may be, and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable to the Outstanding Securities of such series
on the due dates thereof. Before such a deposit the Company may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of Securities at a future date or dates in accordance with Article Eleven, which shall be given effect in applying the
foregoing. For this purpose, “U.S. Government Obligations” means securities that are (x) direct obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (y) obligations of a
Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either
case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian with respect to any
such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of principal of or interest on any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of such depository receipt, provided that (except as required by
law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal
of or interest on the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt. 
 (2) No Event of Default
or event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series shall have occurred and be continuing (A) on the date of such deposit or (B) insofar as Sections 501(1) and
501(2) are concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that the condition in this clause (B) is a condition subsequent and shall not be deemed satisfied until the
expiration of such 90 day period). 
 (3) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not (A) cause the
Trustee for the Securities of such series to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act or for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any securities of the Company or (B) result in the trust arising
from such deposit to constitute, unless it is qualified as, a regulated investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. 

(4) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under,
this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. 
  

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 (5) In the case of an election under Section 1302, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (x) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (y) since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in
the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax
purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred. 

(6) In the case of an election under Section 1303, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same
amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred. 

(7) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in compliance with any additional terms, conditions or
limitations which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section 301. 
 (8) No
event or condition shall exist that, pursuant to the provisions of Article Fourteen, would prevent the Company from making payments of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities of such series on the date of such deposit or
at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th day). 

(9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating
that all conditions precedent provided for relating to either the defeasance under Section 1302 or the covenant defeasance under Section 1303 (as the case may be) have been complied with. 

(10) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel substantially to the effect that (x) the
trust funds deposited pursuant to this Section will not be subject to any rights of holders of Senior Indebtedness, including those arising under Article Fourteen, and (y) after the 90th day following the deposit, the trust funds will not be
subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, except that if a court were to rule under any such law in any case or proceeding that the trust funds remained
property of the Company, no opinion is given as to the effect of such laws on the trust funds except the following: (A) assuming such trust funds remained in the possession of the trustee with whom such funds were deposited prior to such court
ruling to the extent not paid to Holders of such Securities, such trustee would hold, for the benefit of such Holders, a valid and perfected security interest in such trust funds that is not avoidable in bankruptcy or otherwise, (B) such
Holders would be entitled to receive adequate protection of their interests in such trust funds if such trust funds were used and (C) no property, rights in property or other interests granted to such trustee for the Trustee or such Holders in
exchange for or with respect to any such funds would be subject to any prior rights of holders of Senior Indebtedness, including those arising under Article Fourteen. 

 

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 Section 1305. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other
Miscellaneous Provisions. 
 Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all money and U.S.
Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee — collectively, for purposes of this Section 1305, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 1304 in respect of the
Outstanding Securities of such series shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (but not including the
Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest, but such money need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law. 
 The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1304 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof. 

Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request
any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 1304 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are
in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant defeasance. 

Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, if and to the extent the deposited money or U.S. Government Obligations (or the proceeds
thereof) either (i) cannot be applied by the Trustee in accordance with this Section because of a court order or (ii) are for any reason insufficient in amount, then the Company’s obligations to pay principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities of such series shall be reinstated to the extent necessary to cover the deficiency on any due date for payment. In any case specified in clause (i), the Company’s interest in the deposited money and U.S.
Government Obligations (and proceeds thereof) shall be reinstated to the extent the Company’s payment obligations are reinstated. 

ARTICLE FOURTEEN: 

SUBORDINATION 

Section 1401. Agreement that the Securities be Subordinated to the Extent Provided. 

The Company, for itself, its successors and assigns, covenants and agrees, and each holder of a Security likewise covenants and agrees by
his acceptance thereof, that the obligation of the Company to make any payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on each and all of the Securities is hereby expressly subordinated, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set
forth, to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness and, under the circumstances described in Section 1404, all Additional Senior Obligations. Subject to the provisions of this Article, all Securities will rank pari passu in right of
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 Section 1402. Company Not to Make Payments with Respect to Securities in Certain Circumstances.

 No payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities shall be made and no holder of the Securities
shall be entitled to demand or receive any such payment (i) unless all amounts of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest then due on all Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full or duly provided for, or (ii) if, at the
time of such payment or immediately after giving effect thereto, there shall exist with respect to any Senior Indebtedness any event of default permitting the holders thereof to accelerate the maturity thereof or any event which, with notice or
lapse of time or both, would become such an event of default. 
 Section 1403. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Senior
Indebtedness on Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of the Company. 
 Upon any distribution of the assets of the
Company in connection with the dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshalling of the
assets and liabilities of the Company or otherwise), the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall first be entitled to receive payment in full in accordance with the terms of such Senior Indebtedness of the principal thereof (and premium, if any) and
the interest due thereon before the holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment on the Securities. Upon any such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any
kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the holders of the Securities would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article, including any such payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason
of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities, shall be made by the liquidating trustee or agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, whether a trustee in bankruptcy, a
receiver or liquidating trustee or otherwise, directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative or representatives or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior
Indebtedness may have been issued, ratably according to the aggregate amounts remaining unpaid on account of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including interest accruing subsequent to the commencement of any proceeding for the
bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar law now or hereafter in effect) on the Senior Indebtedness held or represented by each, to the extent necessary to pay in full all such Senior
Indebtedness remaining unpaid, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness. 

If the holders of the Securities, or any of them, shall fail to file a proper claim in the form required in any proceeding referred to in
the first paragraph of this Section, prior to 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such claim or claims pursuant to the authority granted to the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of Section 504, then the holders of Senior
Indebtedness are hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim or claims for and on behalf of the holders of the Securities in the form required in any such proceeding. 
  

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 In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, upon any such dissolution, winding up,
liquidation or reorganization, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any such payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the
payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities, shall be received by the Trustee, any paying agent or the holders of the Securities before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full, then, subject
to the receipt by the Trustee or any paying agent of notice pursuant to Section 1408, such payment or distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of and shall be paid over to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness or their
representative or representatives or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, ratably as aforesaid for application to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness remaining unpaid until all such Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness. 

Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders
of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of assets of the Company applicable to such Senior Indebtedness until the Securities shall be paid in full, and none of the payments or distributions to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness to which the holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article or of payments over, pursuant to the provisions of this Article, to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness by the holders
of the Securities or the Trustee shall, as between the Company, its creditors other than the holders of such Senior Indebtedness and the holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to or on account of such Senior
Indebtedness; it being understood that the provisions of Section 1402 and this Section are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the holders of the Securities, on the one hand, and the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness, on the other hand. 
 Section 1404. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All Additional Senior Obligations on
Dissolution, Liquidation or Reorganization of the Company. 
 Upon the occurrence of any of the events specified in the
first paragraph of Section 1403, the provisions of that Section shall be given effect to determine the amount of cash, property or securities which may be payable or deliverable as between the holders of Securities, on the one hand, and the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand. If after giving effect to the provisions of Section 1403, any amount of cash, property or securities shall be available for payment or distribution in respect of the Securities, including,
without limitation, any such amount that shall be available pursuant to the rights of subrogation set forth in the final paragraph of Section 1403 (“Excess Proceeds”), then such Excess Proceeds shall be made available by the
liquidating trustee or agent or other Person making such payment or distribution of assets, whether a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver or liquidating trustee or otherwise, for the ratable benefit of the Securities; provided, that if any
creditors in respect of Additional Senior Obligations shall not have received payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on or in respect of Additional Senior Obligations (and provision shall not have been made for such

  

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payment in money or money’s worth), then the amount of Excess Proceeds available for payment or distribution in respect of Securities shall first be applied to pay or provide for the ratable
payment of Additional Senior Obligations remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all Additional Senior Obligations in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution in respect of Additional Senior Obligations. Any
Excess Proceeds originally available in respect of Securities remaining after the payment (or provision for payment) in full of all Additional Senior Obligations shall continue to be available for payment or distribution in respect of Securities.

 If the holders of Securities, or any of them, shall fail to file a proper claim in the form required in any proceeding
referred to in the first paragraph of Section 1403, prior to 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such claim or claims pursuant to the authority granted to the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of Section 504, then the
holders of Additional Senior Obligations are hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim or claims for and on behalf of the holders of Securities in the form required in any such proceeding. 

If after giving effect to the provisions of Section 1403, in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section 1404, upon the occurrence of any of the events described in the first paragraph of Section 1403, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character in respect of the Securities, whether in cash, property
or securities, including any such payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities, shall be received by the Trustee,
any paying agent or the holders of the Securities before all Additional Senior Obligations are paid in full, then, subject to receipt by the Trustee or any paying agent of notice pursuant to Section 1408, such payment or distribution shall be
held in trust for the benefit of and shall be paid over to the holders of such Additional Senior Obligations or their representative or representatives, ratably as aforesaid for application to the payment of all Additional Senior Obligations
remaining unpaid until all such Additional Senior Obligations shall have been paid in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of such Additional Senior Obligations. 

Subject to the payment in full of all Additional Senior Obligations, the holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of
the holders of such Additional Senior Obligations to receive payments or distributions of assets of the Company applicable to such Additional Senior Obligations until the Securities shall be paid in full, and none of the payments or distributions to
the holders of such Additional Senior Obligations to which the holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article or of payments over, pursuant to the provisions of this Article, to the holders of
such Additional Senior Obligations by the holders of the Securities or the Trustee shall, as between the Company, its creditors other than the holders of such Additional Senior Obligations and the holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment
by the Company to or on account of such Additional Senior Obligations; it being understood by the parties hereto that the provisions of this Section are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the holders of the
Securities, on the one hand, and the holders of the Additional Senior Obligations, on the other hand. 
  

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 Section 1405. Obligation of the Company to Give Prompt Notice to Trustee; Trustee and Holders of
Securities May Rely on Certificate of Liquidating Agent; Trustee May Require Further Evidence as to Ownership of Senior Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations. 

The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company
within the meaning of this Article. The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled to assume that no such event has occurred unless the Company or any one or more holders of Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior
Obligations or any trustee therefor (who shall have been certified or otherwise established to the satisfaction of the Trustee to be such a holder or trustee) has given written notice thereof to the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office in
accordance with Section 1408. 
 Upon any distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article, the Trustee
and the holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction in which such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization proceedings are pending for the purpose of ascertaining
the persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon, and all other facts
pertinent thereto or to this Article, and the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article Six, and the holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon a certificate of the liquidating trustee or agent or other Person making any
distribution to the Trustee or to the holders of the Securities for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations, the amount thereof or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article. In the absence of notice from any liquidating trustee, agent or other Person to the contrary, the Trustee shall be entitled
to rely upon a written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations (or a trustee or representative on behalf of such holder), as the case may be, as evidence that such Person is a
holder of Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations (or is such a trustee or representative), as the case may be. 

In the event that the Trustee determines, in good faith, that further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person, as a
holder of Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations, as the case may be, to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this Section, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the
Trustee as to the amount of such Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations, as the case may be, held by such Person, as to the extent to which such Person is entitled to participation in such payment or distribution, and as to other facts
pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Section, and if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such person pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment. 

 

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 Section 1406. Obligation of the Company Unconditional. 

Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as between the
Company and the holders of the Securities, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including interest accruing subsequent to the
commencement of any proceeding for the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, or similar law now or hereafter in effect) on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in
accordance with the terms thereof when required pursuant to the Securities and this Indenture, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or the holder of any Securities from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to
the rights, if any, under this Article of the holders of Senior Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy. 

Section 1407. No Fiduciary Duty to Holders of Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations. 

The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations, as the
case may be, but shall have only such obligations to such holders as are expressly set forth in Sections 1403 and 1404. 
 Section 1408.
Notice to Trustee of Facts Prohibiting Payments. 
 Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Article or any other
provision of this Indenture, neither the Trustee nor any paying agent shall at any time be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment of moneys to or by the Trustee or any such paying agent,
when required pursuant to the Securities and this Indenture, unless and until the Trustee or any such paying agent shall have received at its Corporate Trust Office written notice thereof from the Company or from one or more holders of Senior
Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor or from any holder of Additional Senior Obligations, or, if applicable, from any trustee therefor, who shall have been certified by the Company or otherwise established to the reasonable satisfaction of the
Trustee to be such a holder or trustee; and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee or any paying agent, subject to the provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no such facts exist;
provided, however, that, if prior to the fifth Business Day preceding the date upon which by the terms hereof any such moneys may become payable for any purpose, or in the event of the execution of an instrument pursuant to
Section 1302 acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, then if prior to the second Business Day preceding the date of such execution, the Trustee or any paying agent shall not have received with respect to such moneys or such
execution the notice provided for in this Section, then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee or any paying agent may, in its discretion, receive such moneys and/or apply the same to the purpose for which they were
received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary, which may be received by it on or after either such date, as the case may be; provided, however, no such application shall affect the obligations under this Article of
the Persons receiving such moneys from the Trustee or any paying agent. 
  

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 Section 1409. Application by Trustee of Moneys Deposited with It. 

Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, any deposit of moneys by the Company with the Trustee or any paying agent
(whether or not in trust) for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on Securities shall, except as provided in Section 1408, be subject to the provisions of Sections 1401, 1402, 1403 and 1404. 

Section 1410. Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions of the Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior
Obligations. 
 No right of any present or future holders of any Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations to
enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by
the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof which any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with. The holders of Senior Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations may at any
time or from time to time and in their absolute discretion, change the manner, place or terms of payment, change or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, any such Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations, or amend or
supplement any instrument pursuant to which any such Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations is issued or by which it may be secured, or release any security therefor, or exercise or refrain from exercising any other of their rights
under the Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations, including, without limitation, the waiver of default thereunder, all without notice to or assent from the holders of the Securities or the Trustee and without affecting the obligations
of the Company, the Trustee or the holders of the Securities under this Article. 
 Section 1411. Authorization of Trustees to
Effectuate Subordination of the Securities. 
 Each holder of a Security, by his acceptance thereof, authorizes and
expressly directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate, as between the holders of Securities and the holders of Senior Indebtedness and Additional Senior Obligations, the subordination
provided in this Article. 
 Section 1412. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations.

 The Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in this Article in respect of any Senior Indebtedness or
Additional Senior Obligations at any time held by it to the same extent as any other holder of such Senior Indebtedness or Additional Senior Obligations, as the case may be, and nothing in this Indenture shall be construed to deprive the Trustee of
any of its rights as such holder. 
 Section 1413. Article Fourteen Not to Prevent Defaults. 

The failure to make a payment pursuant to the Securities by reason of any provision in this Article shall not be construed as preventing
the occurrence of a default or an Event of Default. 
  

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 This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed
shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 
  

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

			
	JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.
		
	By	 	 
		 	

  

	
	Attest:
	
	  

  

			
	U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
		
	By	 	 
		 	

  

	
	Attest:
	
	  

  

 68Exhibit 10.1

 Exhibit 10.1 

EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT 

THIS EXECUTIVE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is effective as of the 12th day of October 2010 (the “Effective
Date”), by and between Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated (“Company”) and Peter D. Aquino (“Executive”). 

WHEREAS, Executive desires to serve as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and in exchange for the
protection and other consideration set forth in this Agreement, is willing to give the Company, under certain circumstances, his covenant not to compete, and the Company desires to so employ Executive. 

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the mutual agreements contained herein, the Company and Executive hereby agree as
follows: 
 ARTICLE I 

Definitions 
 1.1
Definitions. As used herein, the following terms shall have the following meanings. 
  

	 	(a)	“Board” means the board of directors of the Company. 

  

	 	(b)	“Cause” means the occurrence of any of the following: (i) the willful and continued failure by the Executive to substantially perform his material duties
to the Company (other than due to Executive’s Disability) after written notice from the Company, (ii) the Executive has engaged in misconduct that has resulted in demonstrable damage to the business or reputation of the Company or its
subsidiaries, (iii) the Executive has been convicted of, or pleaded nolo contendere to, (A) a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or (B) a felony, (iv) the Executive has engaged in fraud against the Company or misappropriated
Company property (other than incidental property) or (v) the Executive has materially violated any written policy of the Company or its subsidiaries that has been distributed to the Executive, including any written code of conduct applicable to
senior executives of the Company or members of the Board. 

  

	 	(c)	 “Change of Control” means (a) sale of more than 50% of the outstanding capital stock of the Company in a single or related series of
transactions, (b) the merger or consolidation of the Company with or into any other corporation or entity, other than a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, where the Company is not the surviving entity, or (c) a sale of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company to an unrelated entity; provided, however, that a “Change of Control” shall not include any sale, merger, consolidation or other transaction (x) in which all or substantially all of the
beneficial owners of the outstanding capital stock of the Company immediately prior to the consummation thereof continue to own more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock of the Company immediately following the consummation
thereof or (y) resulting from an exchange of debt securities of the Company for equity securities of the Company. Further, in the case of any item of income under this Agreement to which the foregoing

  

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definition would otherwise apply with the effect that the income tax under Section 409A of the Code would apply or be imposed on income under this Agreement, but where such tax would
not apply or be imposed if the meaning of the term “Change of Control” met the requirements of Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(v) of the Code, then the term “Change of Control” herein shall mean, but only with respect to the income so
affected, a transaction, circumstance or event that constitutes a “Change of Control” (as defined above) and that also constitutes a “change in control event” within the meaning of Treas. Reg. §1.409A-3(i)(5).

  

	 	(d)	“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and applicable administrative guidance issued thereunder. 

 

	 	(e)	“Confidential Information” as used in Sections 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 of this Agreement shall mean all technical and business information of the Company, or which
is learned or acquired by the Company from others with whom the Company has a business relationship in which, and as a result of which, similar information is revealed to the Company, whether patentable or not, which is of a confidential, trade
secret and/or proprietary character and which is either developed by Executive (alone or with others) or to which Executive shall have had access during his employment. Confidential Information shall include (among other things) all confidential
data, designs, plans, notes, memoranda, work sheets, formulas, processes, and Customer and supplier lists. 

  

	 	(f)	“Customer” means any Person or entity to whom the Company has sold any products or services (i) in the case of on-going employment, during the
twenty-four (24) calendar months immediately preceding any dispute under Section 2.7 of this Agreement, and (ii) in the case of the employment having ended, the twenty-four (24) calendar months preceding Executive’s
termination of employment. 

  

	 	(g)	“Disability” means a disability of the Executive as determined in accordance with the disability insurance policy described in Section 2.3(b) hereof, as
maintained from time to time, which entitles the Executive or his beneficiary, applicable, to payment on account of disability under such policy. 

  

	 	(h)	 “Good Reason” when used with reference to a voluntary termination by the Executive from his employment with Company, shall mean (i) a
material reduction in the Executive’s salary as in effect on the date hereof, or as the same may be increased from time to time, during the Employment Period; or (ii) a material reduction in Executive’s status, position,
responsibilities or duties during the Employment Period; or (iii) a material breach of the Agreement by the Company; or (iv) involuntary relocation to a principal location of employment more than fifty (50) miles outside of Northern
Virginia, provided, in each case, that the Executive has not consented to or waived compliance with, as applicable, any of the foregoing. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive may not resign his employment for Good Reason unless (x) the
Executive provides the Company with at least thirty (30) days prior written notice of his intent to resign for Good Reason setting forth in reasonable detail why the Executive believes Good Reason exists (which notice is provided not later than
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Executive becomes aware of the initial occurrence of the event constituting Good Reason) and (y) the Company does not remedy the alleged violation(s) within such thirty (30)-day period.

  

	 	(i)	“Person” means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, an association, a joint stock company, a limited liability company, a trust, a joint venture, an
unincorporated organization or a governmental entity or any department, agency or political subdivision thereof. 

  

	 	(j)	“Potential Customer” shall mean any Person or entity who, during the twenty-four (24) month period prior to the period to which Section 2.7(e)
applies, has (i) been involved in discussions or negotiations with the Company for products sold by the Company; (ii) initiated contact with the Company in order to obtain information regarding products sold by the Company; (iii) been
the subject of repeated person contacts by Executive and/or any other Company employee for purposes of soliciting business for the Company; or (iv) been the subject of the Company’s efforts to gather, learn or evaluate information which
may help the Company obtain any future order from such Person or entity. 

  

	 	(k)	“Stub Period” shall mean the Start Date (as defined below) until December 31, 2010. Thereafter, the Executive shall serve a three (3) year three
(3) month term until March 31, 2014. 

 ARTICLE II 

Employment 
 2.1
Employment. Company agrees to employ Executive and Executive hereby accepts such employment with the Company upon the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, for the period beginning on October     ,
2010 (“Start Date”) and ending as provided in Section 2.5 of this Agreement (the “Employment Period”). 
 2.2
Position and Duties. 
  

	 	(a)	Commencing on the Start Date and continuing during the Employment Period, Executive shall serve as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. As
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Executive, subject to the control of the Board, shall have general supervision and control over the business, property and affairs for the Company and perform such duties as may be assigned to him by
the Board. Executive shall serve as Chairman of the Board. 

  

	 	(b)	 Executive shall devote his best efforts and his full business time and attention (except for permitted vacation periods and reasonable periods of
illness or other incapacity) to the business and affairs of the Company. The Executive shall perform his duties and responsibilities to the best of his abilities in a diligent, trustworthy, businesslike and efficient manner. In the performance of
his duties hereunder, Executive shall at all times report and be subject to the lawful direction of the Board and perform his duties hereunder subject to and in accordance with the resolutions or any other determinations

  

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of the Board and the certificate of incorporation and by-laws of the Company and applicable law. Executive also agrees to serve, without additional compensation, as the chairman, president, chief
executive officer and/or director of any subsidiary, division or affiliate of the Company if so requested by the Board. During the Employment Period, Executive shall not become an employee or provide consulting or advisory services for the financial
or non-financial benefit of any Person or entity other than the Company. Executive may serve on such public company boards of directors and such non-profit and private company boards to the extent such participation does not interfere with the
Executive’s time and attention to the Company; provided, however, that service on public company boards of directors and non-profit boards shall require the advance written consent of the Board. Executive’s service on the board of
directors of TiVo Inc. and the board of trustees of the United Way of America is hereby acknowledged and consented to by the Company. 

2.3 Base Salary, Bonus and Benefits. 
  

	 	(a)	Subject to the terms of this Agreement, in consideration of Executive’s agreements contained herein, for the period beginning on the Start Date, Executive’s
base salary shall be Six Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($650,000.00) prorated for the Stub Period and for year 1 or 2011, Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars ($700,000.00) in year 2 or 2012, and Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($750,000.00) in year
3 or 2013 and, on a pro-rated basis, for the period from January 1, 2014 through March 31, 2014 (“Base Salary”), which shall be payable in accordance with the Company’s regular payroll cycle during the year and shall be
subject to deductions for required withholdings, including, without limitation, federal and state withholding taxes and social security taxes. 

  

	 	(b)	Executive shall be entitled to the opportunity to earn annual calendar year performance bonuses, with a target cash bonus of 100% of Base Salary (“Target Bonus
Amount”) in accordance with performance objectives established by the Board’s compensation committee. If no such objectives are established, Executive will be entitled to receive the Target Bonus Amount. Executive shall qualify for a
prorated Target Bonus Amount for the Stub Period and for the period from January 1, 2014 through March 31, 2014 (for the avoidance of doubt, the Board’s compensation committee will establish performance objectives applicable to the
Stub Period and for the period from January 1, 2014 through March 31, 2014). All bonus payments shall be subject to deductions for required withholdings, including, without limitation, federal and state withholding taxes and social
security taxes. The bonus shall be payable in the calendar year following the calendar year in which the performance objectives for such bonus are measured. 

 

	 	(c)	 The Board’s compensation committee shall have the ability to increase, but not decrease, Executive’s Base Salary and Target Bonus Amount to
account for significant changes in Executive’s responsibilities and duties to the Company. Executive shall be entitled, during the Employment Period, to participate in all retirement, disability, pension, savings, health, medical, dental,
insurance and other fringe benefits or plans of the Company, if any, generally available to senior executives, and such insurance shall include travel insurance (provided, however, if the insurance policies of the Company do

  

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not include travel insurance as of the date hereof, the Company shall have a period of ninety (90) days to obtain such insurance in favor of Executive). 

 

	 	(d)	During the Employment Period, the Company will reimburse the Executive for up to Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) in out of pocket medical expenses and financial
planning services per year. In addition, during the Employment Period, the Company shall pay the premiums on a disability insurance policy to pay two-thirds of the Executive’s Base Salary in the event of disability, subject to all terms and
conditions of the policy, such policy to be obtained by Executive for his benefit or the benefit of such other beneficiary as he shall name therein. The Company will reimburse the Executive for up to Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00) in out of
pocket legal expenses for the negotiation of this Agreement. The reimbursement to be paid pursuant to this Section 2.3(d) shall be subject to the submission to the Company by the Executive of appropriate documentation and/or vouchers in
accordance with the customary procedures of the Company for expense reimbursement, as such procedures may be revised by the Company from time to time. 

  

	 	(e)	Executive shall be entitled to five (5) weeks of paid vacation time during a calendar year (prorated for the Stub Period and for the period from January 1,
2014 to March 31, 2014) and such other leave (excluding vacation) in accordance with Company policies. 

 2.4 Equity
Awards, Incentive Compensation Plans, Special Bonuses. 
  

	 	(a)	The Board has approved an initial grant to the Executive, as of the Effective Date, of an award of restricted stock (the “Initial Award”) with respect to
164,500 shares of common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (“Stock”), which award shall be made in accordance with the terms of the Company’s 2009 Management Compensation Plan. The shares subject to the Initial Award
shall vest, provided the Executive is employed by the Company on each such vesting date, as follows: 

  

			
	 Date
	  	Shares Vested
	 January 1, 2011:
	  	54,833
	 January 1, 2012:
	  	54,833
	 January 1, 2013:
	  	54,834

 The terms and
conditions of the Initial Award are set forth in, and subject to, that certain Restricted Stock Award Agreement dated as of the date hereof between Executive and the Company. 

 

	 	(b)	 The Board has approved an initial long term incentive award (the “Initial Long Term Incentive Award”) covering the period commencing on the
Effective Date through June 30, 2011, to reflect a significant and substantial increase above the trailing 60 day average share price of the Company’s Stock prior to the Effective Date. The Executive is granted a potential award, comprised
of three tranches, equal to the applicable Target Closing Price (set forth below) multiplied by the number of shares in each tranche as set forth below. At the option of the Company, the Company has the right at any time to issue restricted stock
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2.4(b). Each respective tranche shall be paid on June 30, 2011, to the extent the applicable Target Closing Price is attained, or shall be forfeited to the extent such Target Closing Price
is not attained prior to July 1, 2011, as follows: 

  

											
	Tranches	  	Target Closing Price	  	Cash Award	  	 	  	Shares Vested
	1	  	$	12.00	  	$	657,996	  	Or	  	54,833
	2	  	$	14.00	  	$	767,662	  	Or	  	54,833
	3	  	$	16.00	  	$	877,344	  	Or	  	54,834

  

	 	(c)	The Board has also approved a second long term incentive award (the “Second Long Term Incentive Award” and, together with the Initial Long Term Incentive
Award, the “Long Term Incentive Award”) covering the period commencing on July 1, 2011 through March 31, 2014. Each tranche of this award (represented by the respective Target Closing Prices—$12.00, $14.00, and $16.00) will
only be granted pursuant to this Second Long Term Incentive Award to the extent that prior to July 1, 2011, the Stock price did not close above the respective tranche’s applicable Target Closing Price. Provided that prior to July 1,
2011, the Stock price did not close above the respective tranche’s applicable Target Closing Price, the Executive is granted a potential award equal to the Target Closing Price (set forth below) multiplied by the number of shares in each
tranche as set forth below. At the option of the Company, the Company has the right at any time to issue restricted stock units in lieu of the obligation to pay cash pursuant to this Section 2.4(c). The Second Long Term Incentive Award shall be
paid within thirty (30) days after the Target Closing Price with respect to an applicable tranche is attained, or shall be forfeited to the extent such Target Closing Price is not attained prior to March 31, 2014, as follows:

  

											
	Tranches	  	Target Closing Price	  	Cash Award	  	 	  	Shares Vested
	1	  	$	12.00	  	$	657,996	  	Or	  	54,833
	2	  	$	14.00	  	$	767,662	  	Or	  	54,833
	3	  	$	16.00	  	$	877,344	  	Or	  	54,834

 For the avoidance of
doubt, no amounts are payable pursuant to the Second Long Term Incentive Award that would be duplicative of any amounts paid pursuant to the Initial Long Term Incentive Award. 

 

	 	(d)	The Board has approved a short term incentive award to the Executive (the “Short Term Incentive Award”) to begin on January 1, 2011. The Executive is
granted a cash award of up to $5,040,000.00 calculated in accordance with the formulas set forth below. At the option of the Company, the Company has the right at any time to issue restricted stock units in lieu of the obligation to pay cash
pursuant to this Section 2.4(d). The Short Term Incentive Award shall vest over a three (3) year period, and shall be divided into three (3) tranches, each to be awarded on January 1, 2011, January 1, 2012 and
January 1, 2013. 

  

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	 Tranche
	  	Tranche 	  	Cash Amount or Share Award
	  	  	Date	  	Cash Amount	  	 	  	 Share Award

	 1
	  	1/1/2011	  	$	1,560,000	  	or	  	 $1,560,000

Trailing 10 day average Stock

closing price

	 2
	  	1/1/2012	  	$	1,680,000	  	or	  	 $1,680,000

Trailing 10 day average Stock

closing price

	 3
	  	1/1/2013	  	$	1,800,000	  	or	  	 1,800,000

Trailing 10 day average Stock

closing price

The criteria for payment or vesting shall be based on time and performance. Each tranche shall be payable or vest as
follows: one-half ( 1/2) based on continued
employment with the Company (the “Time Portion”); and one-half
( 1/2) subject to the achievement of certain
operational objectives in each year established by the Board’s compensation committee (the “Performance Portion”). With respect to the Performance Portion, the Board’s compensation committee shall also have the discretion to
consider upper and lower boundaries in respect to achievement of operational objectives. If no such objectives are established, it shall be deemed that Executive achieved all performance objectives. Each cash payment or vesting shall be in the
following year, on or about March 31 of such year or following release of the Company’s Form 10-K, so long as the Executive is employed by the Company at the time of payment or vesting, as applicable, and the applicable vesting criteria is
met as of such time. Cash payments or shares shall be issued to the Executive as follows: Tranche 1 shall be payable or vest, in equal amounts, over a three year period on March 31, 2012, March 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014;
Tranche 2 shall be payable or vest, in equal amounts, over a two year period on March 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014, and Tranche 3 shall be payable or vest on March 31, 2014. Any awards subject to vesting on a particular vesting day
shall be forfeited if not vested on such vesting day. 
 By way of example and for the sake of clarity: 

Tranche 1 – January 1, 2011 – $1,560,000 or $1,560,000/trailing 10 day stock price 

Assumption: Stock Price = $10.00 per share; Potential Share Award=156,000 

On March 31, 2012, following release of the Company’s 10-K, it is determined that Executive met 90% of the operational objectives set by the
Board’s compensation committee. Hence, the Executive would receive the following over the next three years: 
 Time portion: 

$780,000 payable or 78,000 shares as follows: 
  

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	March 31, 2012	  	$260,000 or 26,000 shares vested
	March 31, 2013	  	$260,000 or 26,000 shares vested
	March 31, 2014	  	$260,000 or 26,000 shares vested

 Performance portion:

 $780,000 * 90% achievement = $702,000 or 78,000 shares * 90% achievement = 70,200 shares 

 

			
	March 31, 2012	  	$234,000 or 23,400 shares vested
	March 31, 2013	  	$234,000 or 23,400 shares vested
	March 31, 2014	  	$234,000 or 23,400 shares vested

 Tranche 2 –
January 1, 2012 – $1,680,000 or $1,680,000/trailing 10 day stock price 
 Assumption: Stock Price = $12.00 per share; Potential
Share Award = 140,000 
 On March 31, 2013, following release of the Company’s 10-K, it is determined that Executive met 90% of the
operational objectives set by the Board’s compensation committee. Hence, the Executive would receive the following over the next two years: 

Time portion: 
 $840,000 payable or 70,000
shares as follows: 
  

			
	March 31, 2013	  	$420,000 or 35,000 shares vested
	March 31, 2014	  	$420,000 or 35,000 shares vested

 Performance portion:

 $840,000 * 90% achievement = $756,000 or 70,000 shares * 90% achievement = 63,000 

 

			
	March 31, 2013	  	$378,000 or 31,500 shares vested
	March 31, 2014	  	$378,000 or 31,500 shares vested

 Tranche 3 –
January 1, 2013 – $1,800,000 or $1,800,000/trailing 10 day stock price 
 Assumption: Stock Price = $16.00 per share; Potential
Share Award = 112,500 shares 
 On March 31, 2014, following release of the Company’s 10-K, it is determined that Executive met 100%
of the operational objectives set by the Board’s compensation committee. Hence, the Executive would receive the Time Portion and Performance Portion immediately. 
  

	 	(e)	Except as provided in Section 2.5(c)(ii) and without limiting anything set forth in this Section 2.4, any bonuses, restricted stock units or other awards
pursuant to this Section 2.4 which are not vested as of the date of termination of Executive’s employment shall be forfeited. 

  

	 	(f)	 If the Company issues, during the period of ten (10) months following the date hereof, shares of Stock other than in connection with (x) the
exercise, conversion or exchange of previously issued equity securities or previously issued or subsequently issued debt securities or securities issued pursuant to clauses (y) or (z) below, (y) grants to employees and consultants of
the company and (z) any public offering (the “New Shares”) and the number of New Shares so issued exceeds 1,288,000 shares of Stock, then the Executive shall be entitled to increases in the number of shares of Stock subject to the
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and the Long Term Incentive Award as set forth below (the “Gross-Up Award”). The number of shares of Stock granted pursuant to the Gross-Up Award shall equal five percent (5%) of
the New Shares, as long as the number of New Shares is greater than 1,288,000 (the “Gross-Up Share Amount”). If the Executive is entitled to a Gross-Up Award, then (x) the shares of Stock subject to the Initial Award shall be
increased by fifty percent (50%) of the Gross-Up Share Amount and (y) the aggregate number of shares of Stock subject to the Long Term Incentive Award shall be increased by fifty percent (50%) of the Gross-Up Share Amount. Any
increases in the number of shares of Stock subject to an Initial Award and the Long Term Incentive Award pursuant to a Gross-Up Award shall be deemed to have been made as of the date hereof, and the Company and Executive shall enter into award
agreements, as applicable, setting forth the terms of any such awards (such award agreements to be on the same terms and conditions, other than with respect to the amount of shares subject to such award, of the corresponding awards prior to
application of the Gross-Up Award). Any increases in the number of shares of Stock subject to an Initial Award and the Long Term Incentive Award shall be divided pro rata among the various vesting tranches pertaining to the Initial Award and the
Long Term Incentive Award (for instance, if a Gross-Up Award is to be made and the Gross-Up Share Amount is 6,000, then the Initial Award would increase by 3,000 shares of Stock, of which 1,000 shares would vest on January 1, 2011, 1,000 shares
would vest on January 1, 2012 and 1,000 shares would vest on January 2013 (or, in each case as applicable, shall have vested), and the Long Term Incentive Award would increase by 3,000 shares of Stock, of which 1,000 shares of Stock would vest
as set forth in Tranche 1, 1,000 shares of Stock would vest as set forth in Tranche 2 and 1,000 shares of Stock would vest as set forth in Tranche 3 (or, in each case as applicable, shall have vested). 

 

	 	(g)	In the event that the number of shares of Stock increases or is reduced on account of a stock split, stock dividend, reverse split or similar corporate event, then the
number of shares of Stock to which the Executive is entitled pursuant to any award under this Agreement and, as applicable, the Target Closing Price in connection with the Long Term Incentive Award, shall be appropriately adjusted to prevent
dilution or enlargement of the rights of the Executive pursuant to this Agreement. 

 2.5 Term. 

 

	 	(a)	General Term. This Agreement shall commence on October     , 2010 and shall continue until March 31, 2014, unless terminated by
either party by written notice of termination given to the other party at least six months in advance of such termination or unless otherwise terminated hereunder. 

 

	 	(b)	 Termination for Cause or Voluntary Termination. If the Executive is terminated by the Company for Cause or if the Executive voluntarily
terminates his employment in any manner (other than for Good Reason) prior to the end of the Employment Period, the Executive shall be entitled only to his Base Salary, benefits and unreimbursed business expenses through the date of termination, but
shall not be entitled to any further Base Salary or benefits for that year or any future year, except as may be required under the 

 

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terms of an applicable benefit plan or program or by applicable law, or to any severance compensation of any kind, nature or amount. 

 

	 	(c)	Termination for Non-Renewal, Without Cause, for Good Reason or upon a Change of Control. 

 

	 	(i)	If the Executive’s employment is not renewed by the Company at the end of the term of this Agreement, Executive shall be entitled to severance pay equal to one
year of Base Salary in the year prior to termination and continued participation in the welfare benefit plans of the Company during the one-year period following such termination (the “Severance Period”) that the Executive participated in
prior to his termination, to the extent permitted by the terms of the applicable benefit plan and applicable law. If the Executive chooses not to renew this Agreement at the end of the term of this Agreement, Executive shall not be entitled any
severance pay and shall cease to participate in the welfare benefit plans of the Company. All accrued and earned, but unpaid, Base Salary through the date of termination shall be paid to Executive on the next, regularly scheduled pay day, in
accordance with the Company’s regular payroll practices. 

  

	 	(ii)	If the Executive is involuntarily terminated by the Company prior to the end of the Employment Period without Cause (other than on an account of death or Disability),
or if the Executive is determined to have terminated for Good Reason prior to the end of the Employment Period or upon a Change of Control, the Executive shall be entitled to (A) all previously earned and accrued but unpaid Base Salary as of
the date of termination (which shall be paid to Executive on the next, regularly scheduled pay day, in accordance with the Company’s regular payroll practices), plus an amount equal to the Target Bonus Amount prorated for the year, as if
Executive met all objectives, through the date of termination, and (B) severance pay equal to two (2) times the sum of Base Salary plus the Target Bonus Amount in the year of termination, (C) all outstanding stock options, and other
equity grants, as applicable, granted to the Executive shall become 100% vested, as if Executive met all set objectives, and shall be exercisable in accordance with their terms, plus (D) continued participation in the welfare benefit plans of
the Company during the Severance Period that the Executive participated in prior to his termination, to the extent permitted by terms of an applicable benefit plan or program and applicable law; provided, however, that in the event that the
continued participation in welfare benefit plans of the Company during the Severance Period would subject the Executive to adverse tax consequences under Section 409A of the Code, the Company shall pay to Executive its portion of any premium
under such plans during such period in a cash lump sum, less applicable withholding, and the Executive may then elect to continue participation in Company welfare benefit plans during the Severance Period, to the extent permitted by the applicable
benefit plan or program and applicable law, by paying the entire premium due under such plans, including both the employee and employer portions of such premium. 

 

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	 	(iii)	Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, no payment, benefit or compensation, other than Base Salary earned and accrued through the date of such
termination and any benefits required to be paid or delivered otherwise by an applicable benefit plan or program or applicable law, that would otherwise become payable by reason of the termination of Executive’s employment or Change of Control,
shall be owed or paid unless Executive delivers to the Company a separation and release agreement (or, if in connection with a Change of Control, a release agreement) which includes a waiver of all claims against the Company, in form, content and
effect acceptable to the Company, that is signed, binding and irrevocable within fifty (50) days of the date of Executive’s termination of employment or Change of Control. The Company shall deliver the form of separation and release
agreement (or release agreement, as applicable) for Executive’s review and execution within ten (10) days of Executive’s termination of employment or Change of Control. If, and only if, the conditions of the preceding sentence are
timely satisfied, and subject to Section 3.16 and exclusive of continued participation in welfare benefit plans, the Company will pay to the Executive all severance pay and other amounts otherwise payable hereunder by reason of termination of
employment of the Executive or Change of Control (other than Base Salary earned and accrued through the date of such termination and any benefits required to be paid or delivered otherwise by of an applicable benefit plan or program or applicable
law) in a lump sum amount to be paid on the 60th day following the Executive’s termination of employment with the Company or Change of Control. All payments shall be subject to deductions for required withholdings, including, without
limitation, federal and state withholding taxes and social security taxes. 

  

	 	(d)	Severance Forfeiture. Executive agrees that the Executive shall be entitled to the severance pay and benefits as set forth in this Agreement only if the
Executive has not materially breached as of the date of termination any provisions of this Agreement and does not materially breach such provisions at any time during the period for which such payments are to be made. The Company’s obligation
to make such payments or provide such benefits will terminate upon the occurrence of any such material breach during the severance period. Executive agrees that Executive shall be entitled to the severance pay and benefits as set forth in this
Agreement only if Executive has entered into a separation and release agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Company. 

  

	 	(e)	No Additional Severance. Executive hereby agrees that no severance compensation of any kind, nature or amount shall be payable to Executive, except as expressly
set forth in this Section 2.5, and Executive hereby irrevocably waives any claim for any other severance compensation. 

  

	 	(f)	 Death or Disability. The Company’s obligation under this Agreement terminates on the last day of the month in which the Executive’s
death occurs or on the date as of which Executive become entitled to receive disability benefits under the Company’s long-term disability plan. The Company shall pay to Executive or the Executive’s estate all previously earned and accrued
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lump sum payment. Thereafter, the Executive or his estate shall not be entitled to any further Base Salary, bonus or benefits for that year or any subsequent year, except as may be provided in an
applicable benefit plan or program or as required by applicable law. 

  

	 	(g)	Stock Options. Upon Executive’s voluntary termination of employment for Good Reason or termination by the Company without Cause, the Executive may exercise
any options granted to him within one hundred (180) days following his termination of employment (or such earlier date to the extent required by the plan pursuant to which such options are issued), and any stock options granted to him shall so
provide. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any stock options which are granted to the Executive shall not be exercisable beyond the latest date permitted under Section 409A of the Code without causing adverse tax consequences thereunder and
without any such extension being deemed to be the granting of a new stock right. 

  

	 	(h)	Board of Director Position. Upon Executive’s termination of employment, Executive shall automatically tender his resignation from the Board, provided that,
the Board may request Executive to remain on the Board following termination of employment. 

 2.6 Confidential
Information. 
  

	 	(a)	Executive recognizes that the Company is engaged in the business of research, development and sale of telecommunications services in several countries throughout the
world ( the “Company’s Business”), which business requires for its successful operation the fullest security of its Confidential Information of which Executive will acquire knowledge during the course of his employment.

  

	 	(b)	Executive shall use his best efforts and diligence both during and after his employment with the Company, regardless of how, when or why Executive’s employment
ends, to protect the confidential, trade secret and/or proprietary character of all Confidential Information. Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, use (for himself or another) or disclose any Confidential Information, for so long as it shall
remain proprietary or protectable as confidential or trade secret information, except as may be necessary for the performance of Executive’s duties for the Company. 

 

	 	(c)	Executive shall promptly deliver to the Company, at the termination of the Employment Period or at any other time at the Company’s request, without retaining any
copies, all documents, information and other material in Executive’s possession or control containing, reflecting and/or relating, directly or indirectly, to any Confidential Information. 

 

	 	(d)	Executive’s obligations under this Section 2.6 shall also extend to the confidential, trade secret and proprietary information learned or acquired by
Executive during his employment from others with whom the Company has a business relationship. 

  

	 	(e)	 Executive’s material and intentional breach of Section 2.6 of this Agreement shall relieve Company of its obligations (if any) to pay any
further severance benefits under this 

  

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Agreement. 

 2.7 Competitive Activity. 

 

	 	(a)	Executive shall not, directly or indirectly (whether as owner, partner, consultant, employee or otherwise), at anytime during his employment with the Company and for a
period of one (1) year following his employment with the Company, regardless of how, when or why Executive’s employment terminates, seek employment with a material or significant direct competitor of the Company in the United States,
Canada, Australia or Brazil. 

  

	 	(b)	Following expiration of the one-year period in Section 2.7(a) of this Agreement, Executive shall continue to be obligated under Section 2.6 of this Agreement
not to use or to disclose Confidential Information so long as it shall remain proprietary or protectable as confidential or trade secret information. 

  

	 	(c)	Following termination of Executive’s employment with the Company for any reason, Executive agrees to advise the Company of his new employer, work location and job
responsibilities within three (3) days after accepting new employment if such new employment commences within one (1) year following Executive’s termination of employment with the Company. Executive further agrees to keep the Company
so advised of any change in his employment for one (1) year following the termination of his employment with the Company. 

  

	 	(d)	Executive understands that the intention of Sections 2.6 and 2.7 of this Agreement is not to prevent the Executive from earning a livelihood and Executive agrees
nothing in this Agreement would prevent Executive from earning a livelihood utilizing his general purchasing, sales, professional or technical skills in any of the businesses or facilities of companies which are not directly or indirectly in
competition with the Company. 

  

	 	(e)	Executive agrees that during his employment with the Company and for a period of one (1) year following Executive’s termination of employment, regardless of
how, when or why employment ceased, Executive shall not in any manner or in any capacity, directly or indirectly, for himself or any other Person or entity, actually or attempt to: (i) solicit any Customer or Potential Customer of the Company
for the purpose of selling any products competitive with products sold by the Company, or otherwise interfere with or take away any Customer or Potential Customer of the Company or the business of any such Customer or Potential Customer; or
(ii) interfere with the Company’s relationship with any Customer or supplier of the Company. 

  

	 	(f)	 During Executive’s employment with the Company and for a period of one (1) year following Executive’s termination of employment,
regardless of how, why or when employment ceased, Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit for employment, hire or offer employment to, or otherwise aid or assist (by disclosing information about

  

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employees or otherwise) any other person or entity other than the Company in soliciting for employment, hiring or offering employment to, any employee of the Company.

  

	 	(g)	Executive’s breach of Section 2.7 of this Agreement shall relieve Company of its obligations (if any) to pay any further severance benefits under this
Agreement. 

 2.8 Ideas, Inventions and Discoveries. 

 

	 	(a)	Executive shall promptly disclose to the Company any ideas, inventions or discoveries, whether or not patentable, which Executive may conceive or make (alone or with
others) during the Employment Period, whether or not during working hours, and which, directly or indirectly (i) relate to matters within the scope of Executive’s duties or field of responsibility during Executive’s employment with
the Company, or (ii) are based on Executive’s knowledge of the actual or anticipated business or interest of the Company; or (iii) are aided by the use of time, materials, facilities or information of the Company.

  

	 	(b)	Executive hereby assigns to the Company or its designee, without further compensation, all of the right, title and interest in all such ideas, inventions or discoveries
in all countries of the world except for patents currently held by Executive developed outside of employment with the Company. 

  

	 	(c)	Without further compensation but at the Company’s expense, Executive shall give all testimony and execute all patent applications, rights of priority, assignments
and other documents and in general do all lawful things requested of Executive by the Company to enable the Company to obtain, maintain and enforce protection of such ideas, inventions and discoveries for and in the name of the Company or its
designee, as the case maybe, in all countries of the world. 

  

	 	(d)	Executive’s breach of Section 2.8 of this Agreement shall relieve Company of its obligations (if any) to pay any further severance benefits under this
Agreement. 

 ARTICLE III 

Miscellaneous 
 3.1
Executive’s Representations. Executive hereby represents and warrants to the Company that (i) Executive’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement do not and shall not conflict with, breach, violate or cause a
default under any contract, agreement, instrument, order, judgment or decree to which Executive is a party or by which he is bound, (ii) Executive is not a party to or bound by any employment agreement, noncompete agreement or confidentiality
agreement with any other person or entity other than RCN Corporation, TiVo Inc. and the United Way of America and (iii) upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the Company, this Agreement shall be the valid and binding obligation
of Executive, enforceable in accordance with its terms. Executive hereby acknowledges and represents that he fully understands the terms and conditions contained herein. 
  

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 3.2 Survival. Sections 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 and Sections 3.3 through 3.12 shall survive and
continue in full force in accordance with their terms notwithstanding any termination of the Employment Period. 
 3.3 Notices.
All notices, demands or other communications to be given or delivered under or by reason of the provisions of this Agreement will be in writing and will be deemed to have been given when delivered personally, sent by electronic mail, mailed by
certified or registered mail, return receipt requested and postage prepaid, or sent via a nationally recognized overnight courier, or sent via facsimile to the recipient Such notices, demands and other communications will be sent to the address
indicated below: 
 To the Company: 

Thomas Hickey, Esq. 

General Counsel 

Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated 

7901 Jones Branch Road, 9th Floor 

McLean, Virginia 22102 

e-mail: tdhickey@primustel.com 

To Executive: 

Peter D. Aquino 

11630 Cedar Chase Road 

Herndon, Virginia 20170 

Email: pa411@aol.com 
 or such
other address or to the attention of such other person as the recipient party shall have specified by prior written notice to the sending party. 

3.4 Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement will be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under
applicable law. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under any applicable law or rule in any jurisdiction, (a) the parties agree that such provision(s) will be enforced to the maximum
extent permissible under the applicable law, and (b) any invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of a particular provision will not affect any other provision of this Agreement. 

3.5 Successors and Assigns. Except as otherwise provided herein, all covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement shall bind and
inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Company, and their respective successors and assigns. This Agreement is personal to Executive and except as otherwise specifically provided herein, this Agreement, including the obligations and
benefits hereunder, may not be assigned to any party by Executive. 
 3.6 Descriptive Headings. The descriptive headings of this
Agreement are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a part of this Agreement. 
  

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 3.7 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more identical counterparts, each
of which shall be deemed an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. 
 3.8 Waiver.
Neither any course of dealing nor any failure or neglect of either party hereto in any instance to exercise any right, power or privilege hereunder or under law shall constitute a waiver of such right, power or privilege or of any other right, power
or privilege or of the same right, power or privilege in any other instance. All waivers by either party hereto must be contained in a written instrument signed by the party to be charged therewith, and, in the case of Company, by its duly
authorized officer. 
 3.9 Entire Agreement. This instrument constitutes the entire agreement of the parties in this matter and
shall supersede any other agreement between the parties, oral or written, concerning the same subject matter including, but not limited to, any prior employment and severance agreements. 

3.10 Amendment. This Agreement may be amended only by a writing which makes express reference to this Agreement as the subject of such
amendment and which is signed by Executive and by a duly authorized officer of the Company. 
 3.11 Governing Law. This Agreement
shall be signed by the parties in McLean, Virginia. All questions concerning the construction, validity and interpretation of this Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the domestic law of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the Commonwealth of Virginia or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the Commonwealth of
Virginia. Any litigation relating to or arising out of this Agreement shall be filed and litigated exclusively in the Commonwealth of Virginia. 

3.12 Remedies. Each of the parties to this Agreement will be entitled to enforce its rights under this Agreement specifically, to recover
damages and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) caused by any breach of any provision of this Agreement and to exercise all other rights existing in its favor. The parties hereto agree and acknowledge that money damages may not be an
adequate remedy for any breach of the provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, Sections 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 hereof, and that any party may in its sole discretion apply to any court of law or equity of competent jurisdiction (without
posting any bond or deposit) for specific performance and/or other injunctive relief in order to enforce or prevent any violations of the provisions of this Agreement 

3.13 Exit Interview. To ensure a clear understanding of this Agreement, Executive agrees, at the time of termination of Employee’s
employment, to engage in a one-hour exit interview with the Company at a time and a local place designated by the Company and at the Company’s expense. Executive understands and agrees that during said exit interview, Executive maybe required
to confirm that he will comply with his on-going obligations under this Agreement. The Company may elect, at its option, to conduct the exit interview by telephone. 

 

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 3.14 Future Employment. Executive shall disclose the existence of this Agreement to any new
employer or potential new employer which offers products or services that may compete with the Company’s Business if such new employment commences within one (1) year following Executive’s termination of employment with the Company.
Executive consents to the Company informing any subsequent employer of Executive, or any entity which the Company in good faith believes is, or is likely to be, considering employing Executive, of the existence and terms of this Agreement if such
subsequent employment commences (or is expected to commence) within one (1) year following the Executive’s termination of employment with the Company. 

3.15 No Guarantee of Tax Consequences. The Executive shall be solely responsible for and liable for any tax consequences (including but not
limited to any interest or penalties) that are incurred as a result of this Agreement. Neither the Board, nor the Company nor the Committee nor any of their employees makes any commitment or guarantee that any federal, state or local tax treatment
will apply or be available to Executive hereunder and assumes no liability whatsoever for the tax consequences to the Executive. Executive understands and agrees that the Company is not providing any tax or legal advice. 

3.16 Time of Payment. 
  

	 	(a)	Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in the event that the Executive is determined to be a specified employee in accordance with Section 409A of the
Code for purposes of any severance pay payment under this Agreement, such severance payments shall be made or begin, as applicable, on the first payroll date which is more than six months following the date of separation from service, to the extent
required to avoid the adverse tax consequences to the Executive under Section 409A of the Code. 

  

	 	(b)	For all purposes of this Agreement, Executive’s employment with the Company shall be considered to have terminated if and when Executive permanently ceases to
provide services for compensation to the Company and all its affiliates in any capacity and incurs a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Code. 

 

	 	(c)	Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, to the extent that any reimbursement (whether direct or indirect) under this Agreement would result in taxable
income to Executive, (i) any such amount eligible for reimbursement or any payment of any reimbursement of any item for or in one calendar year shall not affect the amount eligible for reimbursement of any other amount or item for or in the
same or any other calendar year, except as otherwise provided under section 409A of the Code, (ii) Executive’s right to reimbursement shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for any other benefit, (iii) in no event shall
Executive be entitled to reimbursement for any expenses incurred after the date of Executive’s termination of employment, and (iv) all such reimbursements shall be paid, but only if properly requested and documents in accordance with
Company polices, no later than the calendar year following the year in which the expense or payment to be reimbursed was paid or incurred by Executive. 

 

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 3.17 Third Quarter 2010 Director Payment. The execution of this Agreement shall not affect the
right of Executive to receive his independent director fee for the third quarter of 2010 in accordance with the Company’s director fee payment practices. 

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Employment Agreement this 12th day
of October 2010. 
 PRIMUS TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP, INCORPORATED 

 

			
	By:	 	  

	Name:	 	Neil Subin
	Title:	 	Chairman, Compensation Committee 
	
	EXECUTIVE
		
	By:	 	  

	Name:	 	Peter D. Aquino

  

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