Document:

Amended and Restated Trust Agreement

 Exhibit 10.1 
 AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT 
 OF 
 WACCAMAW STATUTORY TRUST II 
 JULY
18, 2008 

 Table of Contents 
  

					
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	 ARTICLE I INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS
	  	1
			
	 SECTION 1.1
	  	DEFINITIONS	  	1
		
	 ARTICLE II TRUST INDENTURE ACT; LIST OF HOLDERS; REPORTS; DEFAULTS
	  	7
			
	 SECTION 2.1
	  	TRUST INDENTURE ACT; APPLICATION	  	7
	 SECTION 2.2
	  	LISTS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES	  	7
	 SECTION 2.3
	  	REPORTS BY THE PROPERTY TRUSTEE	  	8
	 SECTION 2.4
	  	PERIODIC REPORTS TO PROPERTY TRUSTE	  	9
	 SECTION 2.5
	  	EVENTS OF DEFAULT; WAIVER	  	10
	 SECTION 2.6
	  	EVENT OF DEFAULT; NOTICE	  	12
		
	 ARTICLE III ORGANIZATION
	  	12
			
	 SECTION 3.1
	  	NAME	  	12
	 SECTION 3.2
	  	OFFICE	  	12
	 SECTION 3.3
	  	PURPOSE	  	12
	 SECTION 3.4
	  	AUTHORITY	  	13
	 SECTION 3.5
	  	TITLE TO PROPERTY OF THE TRUST	  	13
	 SECTION 3.6
	  	POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES	  	13
	 SECTION 3.7
	  	PROHIBITION OF ACTIONS BY THE TRUST AND THE TRUSTEES
	  	15
	 SECTION 3.8
	  	POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE PROPERTY TRUSTEE	  	16
	 SECTION 3.9
	  	CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PROPERTY TRUSTEE	  	18
	 SECTION 3.10
	  	CERTAIN RIGHTS OF PROPERTY TRUSTEE	  	19
	 SECTION 3.11
	  	DELAWARE TRUSTEE	  	21
	 SECTION 3.12
	  	EXECUTION OF DOCUMENTS	  	22
	 SECTION 3.13
	  	NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES	  	22
	 SECTION 3.14
	  	DURATION OF TRUST	  	22
	 SECTION 3.15
	  	MERGERS	  	22
		
	 ARTICLE IV COMPANY
	  	24
			
	 SECTION 4.1
	  	COMPANY’S PURCHASE OF COMMON SECURITIES	  	24
	 SECTION 4.2
	  	RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COMPANY	  	24
	 SECTION 4.3
	  	RIGHT TO PROCEED	  	24
		
	 ARTICLE V TRUSTEES
	  	25
			
	 SECTION 5.1
	  	NUMBER OF TRUSTEES: APPOINTMENT OF CO-TRUSTEE	  	25
	 SECTION 5.2
	  	DELAWARE TRUSTEE	  	25
	 SECTION 5.3
	  	PROPERTY TRUSTEE; ELIGIBILITY	  	25
	 SECTION 5.4
	  	CERTAIN QUALIFICATIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES AND DELAWARE TRUSTEE
GENERALLY	  	26
	 SECTION 5.5
	  	ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES	  	26
	 SECTION 5.6
	  	DELAWARE TRUSTEE	  	27
	 SECTION 5.7
	  	APPOINTMENT, REMOVAL AND RESIGNATION OF TRUSTEES	  	27
	 SECTION 5.8
	  	VACANCIES AMONG TRUSTEES	  	29
	 SECTION 5.9
	  	EFFECT OF VACANCIES	  	29
	 SECTION 5.10
	  	MEETINGS	  	29
	 SECTION 5.11
	  	DELEGATION OF POWER	  	30
	 SECTION 5.12
	  	MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS	  	30
		
	 ARTICLE VI DISTRIBUTIONS
	  	30

  

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	 SECTION 6.1
	  	DISTRIBUTIONS	  	30
		
	 ARTICLE VII ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES
	  	31
			
	 SECTION 7.1
	  	GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING SECURITIES	  	31
	 SECTION 7.2
	  	EXECUTION AND AUTHENTICATION	  	31
	 SECTION 7.3
	  	FORM AND DATING	  	32
	 SECTION 7.4
	  	REGISTRAR AND PAYING AGENT	  	32
	 SECTION 7.5
	  	PAYING AGENT TO HOLD MONEY IN TRUST	  	33
	 SECTION 7.6
	  	REPLACEMENT SECURITIES	  	33
	 SECTION 7.7
	  	OUTSTANDING PREFERRED SECURITIES	  	33
	 SECTION 7.8
	  	PREFERRED SECURITIES IN TREASURY	  	34
	 SECTION 7.9
	  	TEMPORARY SECURITIES	  	34
	 SECTION 7.10
	  	CANCELLATION	  	34
	 SECTION 7.11
	  	CUSIP NUMBERS	  	34
		
	 ARTICLE VIII TERMINATION OF TRUST
	  	35
			
	 SECTION 8.1
	  	TERMINATION OF TRUST	  	35
	 SECTION 8.2
	  	LIQUIDATION	  	36
		
	 ARTICLE IX TRANSFER OF INTERESTS
	  	37
			
	 SECTION 9.1
	  	TRANSFER OF SECURITIES	  	37
	 SECTION 9.2
	  	TRANSFER PROCEDURES AND RESTRICTIONS	  	38
	 SECTION 9.3
	  	DEEMED SECURITY HOLDERS	  	39
	 SECTION 9.4
	  	RESTRICTION ON TRANSFERS	  	39
		
	 ARTICLE X LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES, TRUSTEES OR OTHERS
	  	39
			
	 SECTION 10.1
	  	LIABILITY	  	39
	 SECTION 10.2
	  	EXCULPATION	  	40
	 SECTION 10.3
	  	FIDUCIARY DUTY	  	40
	 SECTION 10.4
	  	INDEMNIFICATION	  	41
	 SECTION 10.5
	  	OUTSIDE BUSINESSES	  	44
		
	 ARTICLE XI ACCOUNTING
	  	45
			
	 SECTION 11.1
	  	FISCAL YEAR	  	45
	 SECTION 11.2
	  	CERTAIN ACCOUNTING MATTERS	  	45
	 SECTION 11.3
	  	BANKING	  	45
	 SECTION 11.4
	  	WITHHOLDING	  	46
		
	 ARTICLE XII AMENDMENTS AND MEETINGS
	  	46
			
	 SECTION 12.1
	  	AMENDMENTS	  	46
	 SECTION 12.2
	  	MEETINGS OF THE HOLDERS OF SECURITIES; ACTION BY WRITTEN
CONSENT	  	47
		
	 ARTICLE XIII REPRESENTATIONS OF PROPERTY TRUSTEE AND DELAWARE TRUSTEE
	  	49
			
	 SECTION 13.1
	  	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF PROPERTY TRUSTEE	  	49
	 SECTION 13.2
	  	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF DELAWARE TRUSTEE	  	49
		
	 ARTICLE XIV MISCELLANEOUS
	  	50
			
	 SECTION 14.1
	  	NOTICES	  	50
	 SECTION 14.2
	  	GOVERNING LAW	  	52
	 SECTION 14.3
	  	INTENTION OF THE PARTIES	  	52
	 SECTION 14.4
	  	HEADINGS	  	52
	 SECTION 14.5
	  	SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS	  	52
	 SECTION 14.6
	  	PARTIAL ENFORCEABILITY	  	52
	 SECTION 14.7
	  	COUNTERPARTS	  	52

  

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	 ANNEX I
	  	TERMS OF FLOATING RATE PREFERRED SECURITIES AND FLOATING RATE COMMON SECURITIES	  	I-1
	 EXHIBIT A-1
	  	FORM OF PREFERRED SECURITY CERTIFICATE	  	A1-1
	 EXHIBIT A-2
	  	FORM OF COMMON SECURITY CERTIFICATE	  	A2-1

  

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 AMENDED AND RESTATED 
 TRUST AGREEMENT 
 OF 
 WACCAMAW STATUTORY TRUST II 
 JULY 18, 2008 
 AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT (“Trust Agreement”) dated and effective as of July 18, 2008, by the Trustees (as defined herein), the
Company (as defined herein) and by the Holders (as defined herein), from time to time, of undivided beneficial interests in the Trust to be issued pursuant to this Trust Agreement; 
 WHEREAS, the Delaware Trustee and the Company established Waccamaw Statutory Trust II (the “Trust”), a statutory trust created under the
Delaware Statutory Trust Act pursuant to a Trust Agreement dated as of June 18, 2008 (the “Original Agreement”), and a Certificate of Trust filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on June 18, 2008, for the sole
purpose of issuing and selling certain securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust and investing the proceeds thereof in certain Notes of the Note Issuer (each as hereinafter defined); 
 WHEREAS, prior to the date hereof, no Trust Securities have been issued; 
 WHEREAS, all of the Trustees and the Company, by this Trust Agreement, amend and restate each and every term and provision of the Original Agreement; and 
 NOW, THEREFORE, it being the intention of the parties hereto to continue the Trust as a statutory trust under the Statutory Trust Act (as defined herein)
under the name “Waccamaw Statutory Trust II,” and that this Trust Agreement constitute the governing instrument of such statutory trust, the Trustees declare that all assets contributed to the Trust will be held in trust for the benefit of
the Holders (as defined herein), from time to time, of the securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust issued hereunder, subject to the provisions of this Trust Agreement. 
 ARTICLE I 
 INTERPRETATION AND
DEFINITIONS 
 SECTION 1.1 Definitions. 
 Unless the context otherwise requires: 
 (a) Capitalized terms used in this Trust Agreement but not defined
in the preamble above or elsewhere herein have the respective meanings assigned to them in this Section 1.1; 
 (b) a term defined
anywhere in this Trust Agreement has the same meaning throughout; 
  

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 (c) all references to “the Trust Agreement” or “this Trust Agreement” are to this
Trust Agreement (including Appendix I hereto and Exhibit A hereto) as modified, supplemented or amended from time to time; 
 (d) all
references in this Trust Agreement to Articles and Sections and Annexes and Exhibits are to Articles and Sections of and Annexes and Exhibits to this Trust Agreement unless otherwise specified; 
 (e) a term defined in the Indenture (as defined herein) has the same meaning when used in this Trust Agreement unless otherwise defined in this Trust
Agreement or the context otherwise requires; and 
 (f) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa. 
 “Administrative Trustee” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1. 
 “Affiliate” has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 under the Securities Act or any successor rule thereunder.

 “Agent” means any Paying Agent or Registrar. 
 “Authorized Officer” of a Person means any other Person that is authorized to legally bind such Person. 
 “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York,
Wilmington, Delaware or Whiteville, North Carolina are authorized or required by law or executive order to close. 
 “Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or any successor legislation. 
 “Commission” means
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as from time to time constituted, or if any time after the execution of this Trust Agreement such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under applicable Federal
securities laws, then the body performing such duties at such time. 
 “Common Securities” has the meaning specified in
Section 7.1(a). 
 “Company” means Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc., a North Carolina corporation, or any successor entity
resulting from any merger, consolidation, amalgamation or other business combination. 
 “Company Indemnified Person” means
(a) any Administrative Trustee; (b) any Affiliate of any Administrative Trustee; (c) any officers, directors, shareholders, members, partners, employees, representatives or agents of any Administrative Trustee; or (d) any
officer, employee or agent of the Trust or its Affiliates. 
  

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 “Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Property Trustee at which the corporate
trust business of the Property Trustee shall, at any particular time, be principally administered, which office at the date of execution of this Agreement is located at Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street,
Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attn: Corporate Trust Administration. 
 “Coupon Rate” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2(a) of Annex I hereto. 
 “Covered Person” means: (a) any trustee, officer, director, shareholder,
partner, member, representative, employee or agent of (i) the Trust or (ii) the Trust’s Affiliates; and (b) any Holders of Securities. 
 “Default” means an event, act or condition that with notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default. 
 “Definitive Preferred Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7.3. 
 “Delaware Trustee” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.2. 
 “Determination Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a) of Annex I hereto. 
 “Direct Action” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.8(e). 
 “Distribution” means a distribution payable to Holders of Securities in accordance with Section 6.1. 
 “Distribution Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) of Annex I hereto. 
 “Distribution Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a) of Annex I hereto. 
 “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, as amended. 
 “Event of Default” in respect of the Securities means an Event of Default (as defined in the Indenture) that has occurred and is
continuing in respect of the Notes. 
 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to
time, or any successor legislation. 
 “Extension Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) of Annex I hereto.

 “Fiduciary Indemnified Person” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.4(b). 
 “Guarantor” means Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc., a North Carolina corporation, or any successor entity resulting from any consolidation,
amalgamation, merger or other business combination in its capacity as guarantor under each of the Securities Guarantees, as the case may be. 
 “Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered, such Person being a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Statutory Trust Act. 
  

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 “Indemnified Person” means a Company Indemnified Person or a Fiduciary Indemnified
Person. 
 “Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of July 18, 2008, among the Note Issuer and the Note Trustee, as
amended from time to time. 
 “Investment Company” means an investment company as defined in the Investment Company Act.

 “Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended from time to time, or any successor
legislation. 
 “Legal Action” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.6(f). 
 “Like Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 3 of Annex I hereto. 
 “Liquidation Amount” with respect to any Security means the amount designated as such with respect thereto in Annex I hereto.

 “Majority in Liquidation Amount” means, with respect to the Trust Securities, except as provided in the terms of the
Preferred Securities, Holder(s) of outstanding Trust Securities voting together as a single class or, as the context may require, Holders of outstanding Preferred Securities or Holders of outstanding Common Securities voting separately as a class,
who are the record owners of more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount (including the stated amount that would be paid on prepayment, liquidation or otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid Distributions to the date upon which the voting
percentages are determined) of all outstanding Securities of the relevant class. 
 “Ministerial Action” has the meaning set
forth in Annex I hereto. 
 “Note Issuer” means Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc., a North Carolina corporation, or any
successor entity resulting from any consolidation, amalgamation, merger or other business combination, in its capacity as issuer of the Notes under the Indenture. 
 “Note Trustee” means Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee under the Indenture until a successor is appointed thereunder, and thereafter means such successor trustee. 
 “Notes” means the Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due October 1, 2038 of the Note Issuer issued pursuant to the Indenture.

 “Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by two of the following: the Chief
Executive Officer, the President, a Vice President, the Controller or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of such Person. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall include: 
 (a) a statement that each officer signing the Certificate has
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 (b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by each
officer in rendering the Certificate; 
 (c) a statement that each such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such
officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and 
 (d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with. 
 “Opinion of Counsel” shall mean a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Property Trustee. 
 “Paying Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 7.4. 
 “Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock
company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association, or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature. 
 “Plan Asset Entity” has the meaning specified in Section 7.12. 
 “Preferred Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 7.1(a). 
 “Preferred Securities Guarantee” means the guarantee agreement dated as of July 18, 2008 of the Guarantor in respect of the
Preferred Securities. 
 “Prepayment Price” has the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) of Annex I hereto. 
 “Private Offering Memorandum” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.6(b). 
 “Property Trustee” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3(a). 
 “Property Trustee Account” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.8(c). 
 “Quorum” means a majority of the Administrative Trustees or, if there are only two Administrative Trustees, both of them. 
 “Registrar” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.4. 
 “Related Party” means, with respect to the Company, any direct or indirect wholly owned subsidiary of the Company or any other Person
that owns, directly or indirectly, 100% of the outstanding voting securities of the Company. 
 “Responsible Officer” means,
with respect to the Property Trustee, any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office of the Property Trustee, including any managing director, vice president, assistant vice president, assistant treasurer, assistant secretary, financial services
officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers, and having direct responsibility for the 

  

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administration of this Trust Agreement and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred
because of that officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject. 
 “Rule 3a-5” means Rule 3a-5
under the Investment Company Act, or any successor rule or regulation. 
 “Securities” or “Trust
Securities” means the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities. 
 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended from time to time, or any successor legislation. 
 “Securities Guarantees” means the Preferred
Securities Guarantee. 
 “Stated Maturity” means October 1, 2038. 
 “Statutory Trust Act” means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code §3801 et seq., as it may be amended from time
to time or any successor legislation. 
 “Successor Delaware Trustee” has the meaning specified in Section 5.7(b)(ii).

 “Successor Entity” has the meaning specified in Section 3.15(b). 
 “Successor Property Trustee” has the meaning specified in Section 5.7(b)(i). 
 “Successor Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 3.15(b). 
 “Super Majority” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.5(a)(ii). 
 “3-Month LIBOR” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a) of Annex I hereto. 
 “10% in Liquidation Amount” means, with respect to the Trust Securities, except as provided in the terms of the Preferred Securities,
Holder(s) of outstanding Trust Securities voting together as a single class or, as the context may require, Holders of outstanding Preferred Securities or Holders of outstanding Common Securities voting separately as a class, who are the record
owners of 10% or more of the aggregate Liquidation Amount (including the stated amount that would be paid on prepayment, liquidation or otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid Distributions to the date upon which the voting percentages are determined) of
all outstanding Securities of the relevant class. 
 “Treasury Regulations” means the income tax regulations, including
temporary and proposed regulations, promulgated under the Code by the United States Treasury, as such regulations may be amended from time to time (including corresponding provisions of succeeding regulations). 
 “Trustee” or “Trustees” means each Person who has signed this Trust Agreement as a trustee (including the Property
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so long as such Person shall continue as a trustee of the Trust in accordance with the terms hereof, and all other Persons who may from time to time be duly
appointed, qualified and serving as Trustees in accordance with the provisions hereof, and references herein to a Trustee or the Trustees shall refer to such Person or Persons solely in their capacity as trustees hereunder. 
 ARTICLE II 
 TRUST INDENTURE ACT;
LIST OF HOLDERS; REPORTS; DEFAULTS 
 SECTION 2.1 Trust Indenture Act; Application. 
 This Trust Agreement is not subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act. 
 SECTION 2.2 Lists of Holders of Securities. 
 (a) Each of the Company and the Administrative Trustees
on behalf of the Trust shall provide the Property Trustee, unless the Property Trustee is Registrar for the Securities, (i) within 5 days after each record date for payment of Distributions, a list, in such form as the Property Trustee may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of the Securities (“List of Holders”) as of such record date, provided that neither the Company nor the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall be obligated to
provide such List of Holders at any time the List of Holders does not differ from the most recent List of Holders given to the Property Trustee by the Company and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust, and (ii) at any other time,
within 30 days of receipt by the Trust of a written request for a List of Holders as of a date no more than 14 days before such List of Holders is given to the Property Trustee. The Property Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, all information contained in Lists of Holders given to it or which it receives in the capacity as Paying Agent (if acting in such capacity), provided that the Property Trustee may destroy any List of Holders previously given
to it on receipt of a new List of Holders. 
 (b) Within five Business Days after the receipt by the Property Trustee of a written
application by three or more Holders stating that the applicants desire to communicate with other holders of Preferred Securities with respect to their rights under such Trust Agreement or under the Preferred Securities, and accompanied by a copy of
the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to transmit, and by reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Preferred Security for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such application, such
Property Trustee shall, at its election, either– 
 (1) Afford to such applicants access to all information so furnished
to or received by the Property Trustee; or 
 (2) Inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders according to
the most recent information so furnished to or received by the Property Trustee, and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other communication, if any, specified in such application. 
 If the Property Trustee shall elect not to afford to such applicants access to such information, the Property Trustee shall, upon the written request of
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request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Property Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the
reasonable expenses of such mailing, unless within five Business Days after such tender, the Property Trustee shall mail to such applicants, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Property Trustee, such mailing would be
contrary to the best interests of the Holders, or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. 
 SECTION 2.3 Reports by the Property Trustee 
 (a) Within 60 days after July 1 of each year, commencing July 1,
2009, the Property Trustee shall provide to the Holders a brief report with respect to any of the following events which may have occurred within the previous 12 months (but if no such event has occurred within such period no report need be
transmitted): 
 (1) The character and amount of any advances made by it, as Property Trustee, which remain unpaid on the date
of such report, and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Preferred Securities, on the trust estate or on property or funds held or collected by it as the Property Trustee, if such advances so
remaining unpaid aggregate more than one-half of one per centum of the principal amount of the Preferred Securities outstanding on such date; 
 (2) Any change to the amount, interest rate, and maturity date of all other indebtedness owning to it in its individual capacity, on the date of such report, by the Trust, with a brief description of any property held
as collateral security therefor; 
 (3) Any change to the property and funds physically in its possession as Property Trustee
on the date of such report; 
 (4) Any additional issue of Preferred Securities which it has not previously reported; and

 (5) Any action taken by it in the performance of its duties under the Trust Agreement which it has not previously reported
and which in its opinion materially affects the Preferred Securities or the trust estate. 
 (b) The Property Trustee shall transmit to the
Holders a brief report with respect to the character and amount of any advances made by it as such since the date of the last report transmitted pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) (or if no such report has yet been so transmitted,
since the date of execution of the Trust Agreement), for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Preferred Securities, on the trust estate or on property or funds held or collected by it as such
Property Trustee, and which it has not previously reported pursuant to this paragraph, if such advances remaining unpaid at any time aggregate more than 10 per centum of the principal amount of Preferred Securities outstanding at such time,
such report to be so transmitted within 90 days after such time. 
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 (1) To all registered holders of Preferred Securities, as the names and addresses of such
Holders appear upon the registration books of the Issuer; and 
 (2) To such holders of Preferred Securities as have, within
the two years preceding such transmission, filed their names and addresses with the Property Trustee for that purpose. 
 SECTION 2.4 Periodic Reports
to Property Trustee 
 (a) The Trust shall: 
 (1) File with the Property Trustee, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports which the Trust is
required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission or deliver to its shareholders, if any. Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Property Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Property Trustee’s
receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Trust’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Property
Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates); 
 (2) File with the Property Trustee,
such additional information, documents, and reports with respect to compliance by the Trust with the conditions and covenants provided for in the Trust Agreement, as may be required by such rules and regulations, including, in the case of annual
reports, if required by such rules and regulations, certificates or opinions of independent public accountants, conforming to the requirements of subsection (c) of this section, as to compliance with conditions or covenants, compliance with
which is subject to verification by accountants, but no such certificate or opinion shall be required as to any matter specified in clauses (A), (B), or (C) of Section 2.4(b)(3); 
 (3) Transmit to the Holders, in the manner and to the extent provided, such summaries of any information, documents, and reports required
to be filed by the Trust pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.4(a); and 
 (4) Furnish to the Property Trustee,
not less than annually, a brief certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the Trust’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under the Trust
Agreement. For purposes of this paragraph, such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under the Trust Agreement. 
 (b) The Trust shall furnish to the Property Trustee evidence of compliance with the conditions precedent, if any, provided for in the Trust Agreement
(including any covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) which relate to the satisfaction and discharge of the Trust Agreement, or to any other action to be taken by the Property Trustee at the request or upon the
application of such obligor. Such evidence shall consist of the following: 
 (1) Certificates or opinions made by officers of
the Trust who are specified in the Trust Agreement, stating that such conditions precedent have been complied with; 
  

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 (2) An opinion of counsel (who may be of counsel of the Trust) stating that in his
opinion such conditions precedent have been complied with; and 
 (3) In the case of conditions precedent compliance with
which is subject to verification by accountants (such as conditions with respect to the preservation of specified ratios, the amount of net quick assets, negative-pledge clauses, and other similar specific conditions), a certificate or opinion of an
accountant. No certificate or opinion need be made by any person other than an officer who, in case of any such conditions precedent to the authentication and delivery of Securities, and not otherwise, shall be an independent public accountant
selected or approved by the Property Trustee in the exercise of reasonable care, if the aggregate principal amount of such Preferred Securities and other Preferred Securities authenticated and delivered since the commencement of the then current
calendar (other than those with respect to which a certificate or opinion of an accountant is not required, or with respect to which a certificate or opinion of an independent public accountant has previously been furnished (is 10 per centum or
more of the aggregate amount of the Securities at the time outstanding; but no certificate or opinion need be made by any person other than an officer or employee of such obligor who is specified in the Guarantee, as to (A) dates or periods not
covered by annual reports required to be filed by the Trust, in the case of conditions precedent which depend upon a state of facts as of a date or dates or for a period or periods different from that required to be covered by such annual reports,
or (B) the amount and value of property additions, or (C) the adequacy of depreciation, maintenance or repairs. 
 (c) Each
certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in the Trust Agreement (other than certificates provided pursuant to subsection (a)(4) of this section) shall include (1) a statement that the person
making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition; (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 such person, 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 or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with. 
 SECTION 2.5 Events of
Default; Waiver. 
 (a) The Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of
all of the Preferred Securities, waive any past Event of Default in respect of the Preferred Securities and its consequences, provided that, if the underlying Event of Default under the Indenture: 
 (i) is not waivable under the Indenture, the Event of Default under the Trust Agreement shall also not be waivable; or 
 (ii) requires the consent or vote of greater than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the holders of the Notes (a “Super
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Securities that the relevant Super Majority represents of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding. 
 Upon such waiver, any such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default with respect to the Preferred Securities arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been
cured, for every purpose of this Trust Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or an Event of Default with respect to the Preferred Securities or impair any right consequent thereon. Any waiver by the Holders of
the Preferred Securities of an Event of Default with respect to the Preferred Securities shall also be deemed to constitute a waiver by the Holders of the Common Securities of any such Event of Default with respect to the Common Securities for all
purposes of this Trust Agreement without any further act, vote, or consent of the Holders of the Common Securities. 
 (b) The Holders of a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of all of the Common Securities, waive any past Event of Default with respect to the Common Securities and its consequences, provided that, if the
underlying Event of Default under the Indenture: 
 (i) is not waivable under the Indenture, except where the Holders of the
Common Securities are deemed to have waived such Event of Default under the Trust Agreement as provided below in this Section 2.5(b), the Event of Default under the Trust Agreement shall also not be waivable; or 
 (ii) requires the consent or vote of a Super Majority to be waived, except where the Holders of the Common Securities are deemed to have
waived such Event of Default under the Trust Agreement as provided below in this Section 2.5(b), the Event of Default under the Trust Agreement may only be waived by the vote of the Holders of at least the proportion in aggregate Liquidation
Amount of the Common Securities that the relevant Super Majority represents of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding; 
 provided
further, that each Holder of Common Securities will be deemed to have waived any such Event of Default and all Events of Default with respect to the Common Securities and its consequences if all Events of Default with respect to the Preferred
Securities have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, and until such Events of Default have been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee will be deemed to be acting solely on behalf of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities and only the Holders of the Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the Property Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Securities. Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.5(b), upon such waiver, any
such Default shall cease to exist and any Event of Default with respect to the Common Securities arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Trust Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other Default or Event of Default with respect to the Common Securities or impair any right consequent thereon. 
 (c) A waiver of an Event
of Default under the Indenture by the Property Trustee, at the written direction of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, constitutes a waiver of the corresponding Event of Default under this Trust Agreement. 
  

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 SECTION 2.6 Event of Default; Notice. 
 (a) The Property Trustee shall, within 90 days after a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee obtains actual knowledge of the occurrence of an Event
of Default, transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders of the Securities, Administrative Trustees and the Company, notices of all Defaults with respect to the Securities actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Property
Trustee unless such Defaults have been cured before the giving of such notice; provided that, except for a Default in the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any of the Notes, the Property Trustee shall be protected in
withholding such notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Securities. 
 (b) The Property Trustee shall not be deemed to have actual knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except: 
 (i) Default or Event of Default under Sections 5.01(a) and 5.01(b) of the Indenture; or 
 (ii) any Default or Event of Default as to which the Property Trustee shall have received written notice or of which a Responsible Officer
of the Property Trustee charged with the administration of the Trust Agreement shall have actual knowledge. 
 (c) The Company and
Administrative Trustees shall file annually with the Property Trustee a certification as to whether or not they are in compliance with all the conditions and covenants applicable to them under this Trust Agreement. 
 ARTICLE III 
 ORGANIZATION

 SECTION 3.1 Name. 
 The Trust is
named “Waccamaw Statutory Trust II” as such name may be modified from time to time by the Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Holders of Securities. The Trust’s
activities may be conducted under the name of the Trust or any other name deemed advisable by the Administrative Trustees. 
 SECTION 3.2 Office.

 The address of the principal office of the Trust is c/o Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc., 110 North JK Powell Boulevard, Whiteville, North
Carolina 28472. On ten Business Days written notice to the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Holders of Securities, the Administrative Trustees may designate another principal office. 
 SECTION 3.3 Purpose. 
 The exclusive purposes and
functions of the Trust are (a) to issue and sell Securities, (b) to use the gross proceeds from the sale of the Securities to acquire the Notes, and (c) except as otherwise limited herein, to engage in only those other activities
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incidental thereto. The Trust shall not borrow money, issue debt or reinvest proceeds derived from investments, mortgage or pledge any of its assets, or
otherwise undertake (or permit to be undertaken) any activity that would cause the Trust not to be classified for United States federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust. 
 SECTION 3.4 Authority. 
 Subject to the limitations provided in this Trust Agreement and to the
specific duties of the Property Trustee, the Administrative Trustees shall have exclusive and complete authority to carry out the purposes of the Trust. An action taken by the Administrative Trustees in accordance with their powers shall constitute
the act of and serve to bind the Trust and an action taken by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust in accordance with its powers shall constitute the act of and serve to bind the Trust. In dealing with the Trustees acting on behalf of the
Trust, no Person shall be required to inquire into the authority of the Trustees to bind the Trust. Persons dealing with the Trust are entitled to rely conclusively on the power and authority of the Trustees as set forth in this Trust Agreement. The
Administrative Trustees shall have only those ministerial duties set forth herein with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the trust and are not intended to be trustees or fiduciaries with respect to the Trust or the Holders. 
 SECTION 3.5 Title to Property of the Trust. 
 Except
as provided in Section 3.8 with respect to the Notes and the Property Trustee Account or as otherwise provided in this Trust Agreement, legal title to all assets of the Trust shall be vested in the Trust. The Holders shall not have legal title
to any part of the assets of the Trust, but shall have an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust. 
 SECTION 3.6 Powers and Duties of
the Administrative Trustees. 
 The Administrative Trustees shall have the exclusive power, duty and authority to cause the Trust to
engage in the following activities: 
 (a) to issue and sell the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities in accordance with this Trust
Agreement; provided, however, that except, in the case of (i) and (ii), as contemplated in Section 7.1(a), (i) the Trust may issue no more than one series of Preferred Securities and no more than one series of Common Securities,
(ii) there shall be no interests in the Trust other than the Securities, and (iii) the issuance of Securities shall be limited to a simultaneous issuance of both Preferred Securities and Common Securities; 
 (b) in connection with the issue and sale of the Preferred Securities, at the direction of the Company, to: 
 (i) execute, if necessary, a private offering memorandum (the “Private Offering Memorandum”) in preliminary and final form,
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 (ii) execute and file any documents prepared by the Company, or take any acts as
determined by the Company to be necessary in order to qualify or register all or part of the Preferred Securities in any State in which the Company has determined to qualify or register such Preferred Securities for sale; 
 (c) to acquire the Notes with the proceeds of the sale of the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities; provided, however, that the Administrative
Trustees shall cause legal title to the Notes to be held by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities and the Holders of Common Securities; 
 (d) to establish a record date with respect to all actions to be taken hereunder that require a record date be established, including and with respect to
Distributions, voting rights, prepayments and exchanges, and to issue relevant notices to the Holders of Preferred Securities and Holders of Common Securities as to such actions and applicable record dates; 
 (e) to take all actions and perform such duties as may be required of the Administrative Trustees pursuant to the terms of the Securities; 
 (f) to bring or defend, pay, collect, compromise, arbitrate, resort to legal action, or otherwise adjust claims or demands of or against the Trust
(“Legal Action”), unless pursuant to Section 3.8(e), the Property Trustee has the exclusive power to bring such Legal Action; 
 (g) to employ or otherwise engage employees and agents (who may be designated as officers with titles) and managers, contractors, advisors, and consultants and pay reasonable compensation for such services; 
 (h) to incur expenses that are necessary or incidental to carry out any of the purposes of the Trust; 
 (i) to act as, or appoint another Person to act as, Registrar for the Securities or to appoint a Paying Agent for the Securities as provided in
Section 7.4 except for such time as such power to appoint a Paying Agent is vested in the Property Trustee; 
 (j) to give prompt
written notice to the Property Trustee and to Holders of the Securities of any notice received from the Note Issuer of its election to defer payments of interest on the Notes by extending the interest payment period under the Indenture; 

(k) to execute all documents or instruments, perform all duties and powers, and do all things for and on behalf of the Trust in all matters necessary
or incidental to the foregoing; 
 (l) to take all action that may be necessary or appropriate for the preservation and the continuation of
the Trust’s valid existence, rights, franchises and privileges as a statutory trust under the laws of the State of Delaware and of each other jurisdiction in which such existence is necessary to protect the limited liability of the Holders of
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 (m) to take any action, not inconsistent with this Trust Agreement or with applicable law, that the
Administrative Trustees determine in their discretion to be necessary or desirable in carrying out the activities of the Trust as set out in this Section 3.6, including, but not limited to: 
 (i) causing the Trust not to be deemed to be an Investment Company required to be registered under the Investment Company Act; 

(ii) causing the Trust to be classified for United States federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust; and 
 (iii) cooperating with the Note Issuer to ensure that the Notes will be treated as indebtedness of the Note Issuer for United States
federal income tax purposes; and 
 (n) to take all action necessary to cause all applicable tax returns and tax information reports that are
required to be filed with respect to the Trust to be duly prepared and filed by the Administrative Trustees, on behalf of the Trust. 
 The
Administrative Trustees must exercise the powers set forth in this Section 3.6 in a manner that is consistent with the purposes and functions of the Trust set out in Section 3.3, and the Administrative Trustees shall not take any action
that is inconsistent with the purposes and functions of the Trust set forth in Section 3.3. 
 Subject to this Section 3.6, the
Administrative Trustees shall have none of the powers or the authority of the Property Trustee set forth in Section 3.8. 
 Any expenses
incurred by the Administrative Trustees pursuant to this Section 3.6 shall be reimbursed by the Company. 
 SECTION 3.7 Prohibition of Actions by the
Trust and the Trustees. 
 The Trust shall not, and the Trustees (including the Property Trustee) shall not cause the Trust to, engage in
any activity other than as required or authorized by this Trust Agreement. The Trust shall not: 
 (a) invest any proceeds received by the
Trust from holding the Notes, but shall distribute all such proceeds to Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement and of the Securities; 
 (b) acquire any assets other than as expressly provided herein; 
 (c) possess Trust property for other than
a Trust purpose; 
 (d) make any loans or incur any indebtedness other than loans represented by the Notes; 
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 (f) issue any securities or other evidences of beneficial ownership of, or beneficial interest in, the
Trust other than the Securities; or 
 (g) other than as provided in this Trust Agreement or Annex I, (A) direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding with respect to any remedy available to the Note Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Note Trustee with respect to the Notes, (B) waive any past default that is waivable under the
Indenture, (C) exercise any right to rescind or annul any declaration that the principal of all the Notes shall be due and payable, or (D) consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Notes where such
consent shall be required unless the Trust shall have received an opinion of a nationally recognized independent tax counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such amendment, modification or termination will not cause more than an
insubstantial risk that, for United States federal income tax purposes, the Trust will not be classified as a grantor trust. 
 SECTION 3.8 Powers and
Duties of the Property Trustee. 
 (a) The legal title to the Notes shall be held by the Property Trustee in trust for the benefit of the
Holders of the Securities. The right, title and interest of the Property Trustee to the Notes shall vest automatically in each Person who may hereafter be appointed as Property Trustee in accordance with Section 5.7. Such vesting and cessation
of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing documents with regard to the Notes have been executed and delivered. 
 (b) The
Property Trustee shall not transfer its right, title and interest in the Notes to the Administrative Trustees or to the Delaware Trustee (if the Property Trustee does not also act as Delaware Trustee). 
 (c) The Property Trustee shall: 
 (i) establish and maintain a segregated non-interest bearing trust account (the “Property Trustee Account”) in the name of and under the exclusive control of the Property Trustee on behalf of the Holders of the Securities and,
upon the receipt of payments of funds made in respect of the Notes held by the Property Trustee, deposit such funds into the Property Trustee Account and make, or cause any Paying Agent to make, payments to the Holders of the Preferred Securities
and Holders of the Common Securities from the Property Trustee Account in accordance with Section 6.1. Funds in the Property Trustee Account shall be held uninvested until disbursed in accordance with this Trust Agreement; 
 (ii) engage in such ministerial activities as shall be necessary or appropriate to effect the prepayment of the Preferred Securities and
the Common Securities to the extent the Notes are redeemed or mature; and 
 (iii) upon written notice of distribution issued
by the Administrative Trustees in accordance with the terms of the Securities, engage in such ministerial activities as shall be necessary or appropriate to effect the distribution of the Notes to Holders of Securities upon the occurrence of certain
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 (d) The Property Trustee shall take all actions and perform such duties as may be specifically required
of the Property Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the Securities. 
 (e) Subject to Section 3.9(a), the Property
Trustee shall take any Legal Action which arises out of or in connection with an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee has actual knowledge or the Property Trustee’s duties and obligations under this Trust
Agreement and if the Property Trustee shall have failed to take such Legal Action, the Holders of the Preferred Securities may take such Legal Action, to the same extent as if such Holders of Preferred Securities held an aggregate principal amount
of Notes equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of such Preferred Securities, without first proceeding against the Property Trustee or the Trust; provided, however, that if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and such
event is attributable to the failure of the Note Issuer to pay the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes on the date such principal, premium, if any, or interest is otherwise payable (or in the case of prepayment, on the
prepayment date), then a Holder of Preferred Securities may directly institute a proceeding for enforcement of payment to such Holder of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes having a principal amount equal to the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities of such Holder (a “Direct Action”) on or after the respective due date specified in the Notes. In connection with such Direct Action, the rights of the Holders of the Common Securities will be
subrogated to the rights of such Holder of Preferred Securities to the extent of any payment made by the Note Issuer to such Holder of Preferred Securities in such Direct Action. Except as provided in the preceding sentences, the Holders of
Preferred Securities will not be able to exercise directly any other remedy available to the holders of the Notes. 
 (f) The Property
Trustee shall continue to serve as a Trustee until either: 
 (i) the Trust has been completely liquidated and the proceeds of
the liquidation distributed to the Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms of the Securities; or 
 (ii) a Successor
Property Trustee has been appointed and has accepted that appointment in accordance with Section 5.7(b). 
 (g) The Property Trustee
shall have the legal power to exercise all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of Notes under the Indenture and, if an Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee occurs and is continuing, the
Property Trustee shall, for the benefit of Holders of the Securities, enforce its rights as holder of the Notes subject to the rights of the Holders pursuant to this Trust Agreement and the terms of the Securities. 
 (h) For such time as the Property Trustee is the Paying Agent, the Property Trustee may authorize one or more Persons to act as additional Paying Agents
and to pay Distributions, prepayment payments or liquidation payments on behalf of the Trust with respect to all securities. Any such additional Paying Agent may be removed by the Property Trustee at any time the Property Trustee remains as Paying
Agent and a successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agents may be (but are not required to be) appointed at any time by the Property Trustee. 
  

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 (i) Subject to this Section 3.8, the Property Trustee shall have none of the duties, liabilities,
powers or the authority of the Administrative Trustees set forth in Section 3.6. 
 The Property Trustee must exercise the powers set
forth in this Section 3.8 in a manner that is consistent with the purposes and functions of the Trust set out in Section 3.3, and the Property Trustee shall not take any action that is inconsistent with the purposes and functions of the
Trust set out in Section 3.3. 
 SECTION 3.9 Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the Property Trustee. 
 (a) The Property Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default that may have occurred,
shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement and in the Securities and no implied covenants shall be read into this Trust Agreement against the Property Trustee. In case an Event of Default has
occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.5) of which a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee has actual knowledge, the Property Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust
Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs. 
 (b) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Property Trustee from liability for its own grossly negligent action, its own
grossly negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
 (i) prior to the occurrence of an Event of
Default and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have occurred: 
 (A) the duties and
obligations of the Property Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Trust Agreement and in the Securities and the Property Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement and in the Securities, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Trust Agreement against the Property Trustee; and 
 (B) in the absence of willful misconduct on the part of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth
of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Property Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Trust Agreement; provided, however, that in the case of any such
certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of
this Trust Agreement; 
 (ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a
Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Property Trustee was grossly negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; 
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than a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Property Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement; 
 (iv) no
provision of this Trust Agreement shall require the Property Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such funds or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Trust Agreement or indemnity satisfactory to the Property Trustee against such risk or liability is not
reasonably assured to it; 
 (v) the Property Trustee’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safe keeping and physical
preservation of the Notes and the Property Trustee Account shall be to deal with such property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar property for its own account, subject to the protections and limitations on liability
afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement; 
 (vi) the Property Trustee shall have no duty or liability for
or with respect to the value, genuineness, existence or sufficiency of the Notes or the payment of any taxes or assessments levied thereon or in connection therewith; 
 (vii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received by it except as it may otherwise agree in writing
with the Company. Money held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held by it except in relation to the Property Trustee Account maintained by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 3.8(c)(i) and except to the extent
otherwise required by law; and 
 (viii) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the
Administrative Trustees or the Company with their respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for any default or misconduct of the Administrative Trustees, any other Trustees or the Company. 
 SECTION 3.10 Certain Rights of Property Trustee. 
 (a)
Subject to the provisions of Section 3.9: 
 (i) the Property Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully 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, sent or presented by the proper party or parties; 
 (ii) any direction or act of the
Company or the Administrative Trustees contemplated by this Trust Agreement may be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate; 
 (iii) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established before taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Property
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prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such
request, shall be promptly delivered by the Company or the Administrative Trustees; 
 (iv) the Property Trustee shall have no
duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any rerecording, refiling or reregistration thereof; 
 (v) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel or other experts of its selection and the advice or opinion of such counsel and experts
with respect to legal matters or advice within the scope of such experts’ area of expertise 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
accordance with such advice or opinion, such counsel may be counsel to the Company or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees. The Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the
administration of this Trust Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction; 
 (vi) the Property Trustee shall be under
no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or direction of any Holder, unless such Holder shall have provided to the Property Trustee security and indemnity, satisfactory to the Property
Trustee, against the costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses and the expenses of the Property Trustee’s agents, nominees or custodians) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such request or
direction, including such advances as may be requested by the Property Trustee; provided, that, nothing contained in this Section 3.10(a)(vi) shall be taken to relieve the Property Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its
obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement; 
 (vii) the Property 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 Property Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit; 
 (viii) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents, custodians, nominees or attorneys and the Property 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; 
 (ix) any action taken by the Property Trustee or its agents hereunder shall bind the Trust and the Holders of the Securities, and the signature of the Property Trustee or its agents alone shall be sufficient and effective to perform any
such action and no third party shall be required to inquire as to the authority of the Property Trustee to so act or as to its compliance with any of the terms and provisions of this Trust Agreement, both of which shall be conclusively evidenced by
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 (x) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall
deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders of the Securities which instructions may only be
given by the Holders of the same proportion in Liquidation Amount of the Securities as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the terms of the Securities in respect of such remedy, right or action, (ii) may refrain from
enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall be fully protected in conclusively relying on or acting in or accordance with such instructions; 
 (xi) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any
action that is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement; 
 (xii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable
for any action taken, suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith, without gross negligence, and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Trust Agreement; 

(xiii) when the Property Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default under Sections 5.01(d) or
5.01(e) of the Indenture, such expenses (including the fees and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for such services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy law or law relating to creditors rights
generally; 
 (xiv) in no event shall the Property Trustee be liable for the selection of investments or for investment losses
incurred thereon. The Property Trustee shall have no liability in respect of losses incurred as a result of the liquidation of any such investment prior to its stated maturity or the failure of the party directing such investment to provide timely
written investment direction. The Property Trustee shall have no obligation to invest or reinvest any amounts held hereunder in the absence of such written investment direction; and 
 (xv) in the event that the Property Trustee is also acting as Paying Agent, Registrar or exchange agent hereunder, the rights and
protections afforded to the Property Trustee pursuant to this Article Three shall also be afforded to such Paying Agent, Registrar or exchange agent. 
 (b) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Property Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it,
in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Property Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts, or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No
permissive power or authority available to the Property Trustee shall be construed to be a duty. 
 SECTION 3.11 Delaware Trustee. 
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have any of the duties and responsibilities of the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee described in this Trust Agreement. Except as set forth in
Section 5.2, the Delaware Trustee shall be a Trustee for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling the requirements of §3807 of the Statutory Trust Act and taking such actions as are required to be taken by the Delaware Trustee under the
Statutory Trust Act. In the event the Delaware Trustee shall at any time be required to take any action or perform any duty hereunder, the Delaware Trustee shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 3.9(b) and Section 3.10. No implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Trust Agreement against the Delaware Trustee. 
 SECTION 3.12 Execution of Documents. 
 Unless otherwise determined by the Administrative Trustees, and except as otherwise required by the Statutory Trust Act, any Administrative Trustee is
authorized to execute on behalf of the Trust any documents that the Administrative Trustees have the power and authority to execute pursuant to Section 3.6. 
 SECTION 3.13 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. 
 The recitals contained in this Trust Agreement and the
Securities shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustees do not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustees make no representations as to the value or condition of the property of the Trust or any part thereof.
The Trustees make no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Trust Agreement or the Securities. 
 SECTION 3.14 Duration of Trust.

 The Trust, unless terminated pursuant to the provisions of Article VIII hereof, shall have existence up to June 18, 2043 (the
“Expiration Date”). 
 SECTION 3.15 Mergers. 
 (a) The Trust may not merge or convert with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, except as described
in Section 3.15(b). 
 (b) The Trust may, at the request of the Company, with the consent of the Administrative Trustees or, if there
are more than two, a majority of the Administrative Trustees and without the consent of the Holders of the Securities, the Delaware Trustee or the Property Trustee, merge or convert with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to, a trust organized as such under the laws of any State; provided that: 
 (i) such successor entity (the “Successor Entity”): 
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 (B) substitutes for the Securities other securities having substantially the same terms
as the Securities (the “Successor Securities”) so long as the Successor Securities rank the same as the Securities rank with respect to Distributions and payments upon liquidation, prepayment and otherwise; 
 (C) the Company expressly appoints a trustee of the Successor Entity that possesses the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee as
the holder of the Notes; 
 (D) the Successor Securities are listed or quoted, or any Successor Securities will be listed or
quoted upon notification of issuance, on any national securities exchange or with another organization on which the Preferred Securities are then listed or quoted, if any; 
 (E) such merger, conversion, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not cause the Preferred
Securities (including any Successor Securities) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization; 
 (F) such merger, conversion, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the Securities (including any Successor Securities) in
any material respect (other than with respect to any dilution of such Holders’ interests in the new entity); 
 (G) such
Successor Entity has a purpose identical to that of the Trust; and 
 (H) prior to such merger, conversion, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Company has received an opinion of an independent counsel to the Trust experienced in such matters to the effect that: 
 (1) such merger, conversion, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights,
preferences and privileges of the Holders of the Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect (other than with respect to any dilution of the Holders’ interest in the new entity); 
 (2) following such merger, conversion, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor the
Successor Entity will be required to register as an Investment Company under the Investment Company Act; 
 (3) following such
merger, conversion, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer, or lease, the Trust (or the Successor Entity) will continue to be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes; and 
 (4) the Company or any permitted successor or assignee owns all of the common securities of such Successor Entity and guarantees the
obligations of such Successor Entity under the Successor Securities at least to the extent provided by the Preferred Securities Guarantee. 
  

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 (c) Notwithstanding Section 3.15(b), the Trust shall not, except with the consent of all Holders of
the Securities in liquidation amount of the Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge or convert with or into, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to, any other
Person or permit any other Person to consolidate, amalgamate, merge or convert with or into, or replace it if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, conversion, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the Trust or the Successor
Entity not to be classified as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes. 
 (d) The Administrative Trustees shall
furnish to the Delaware Trustee at least five Business Days prior notice of the consummation of any merger, consolidation, amalgamation, or replacement; provided, however, that failure to provide such notice shall not effect the validity of any such
transaction. 
 ARTICLE IV 
 COMPANY 
 SECTION 4.1 Company’s Purchase of Common Securities. 
 At any issuance of Common Securities and Preferred Securities, the Company will purchase all of the Common Securities then issued by the Trust, in an
amount at least equal to 3% of the capital of the Trust, at the same time as the Preferred Securities are issued and sold. 
 SECTION 4.2 Responsibilities
of the Company. 
 In connection with the issue and sale of the Preferred Securities, the Company shall have the exclusive right and
responsibility to engage in the following activities: 
 (a) to prepare the Private Offering Memorandum, including any amendments or
supplements thereto; and 
 (b) to determine the States in which to take appropriate action to qualify or register for sale all or part of
the Preferred Securities and to do any and all such acts, other than actions which must be taken by the Trust, and advise the Trust of actions it must take, and prepare for execution and filing any documents to be executed and filed by the Trust, as
the Company deems necessary or advisable in order to comply with the applicable laws of any such States. 
 SECTION 4.3 Right to Proceed. 

The Company acknowledges the rights of the Holders of Preferred Securities, in the event that a failure of the Trust to pay Distributions on the
Preferred Securities is attributable to the failure of the Company to pay interest or principal on the Notes, to institute Direct Actions against the Note Issuer for enforcement of its payment obligations on the Notes. 
  

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 ARTICLE V 
 TRUSTEES 
 SECTION 5.1 Number of Trustees: Appointment of Co-Trustee. 
 The number of Trustees initially shall be five (5) and: 
 (a) at any time before the issuance of any Securities, the Company may, by written instrument, increase or decrease the number of Trustees; and 
 (b) after the issuance of any Securities, the number of Trustees may be increased or decreased by vote of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount
of the Common Securities voting as a class at a meeting of the Holders of the Common Securities; provided, however, that, the number of Trustees shall in no event be less than two (2); provided further, that (1) one
Trustee shall be the Delaware Trustee; (2) there shall be at least one Trustee who is an employee or officer of, or is affiliated with the Company (an “Administrative Trustee”); and (3) one Trustee shall be the Property Trustee,
and such Trustee may also serve as Delaware Trustee if it meets the applicable requirements. Notwithstanding the above, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, at any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal
requirements of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust’s property may at the time be located, the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities acting as a class at a meeting of the Holders of the Common
Securities, and the Administrative Trustees shall have power to appoint one or more Persons either to act as a co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of the Trust’s property, or to act as separate trustee of any such
property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such person or persons in such capacity any property, title, right or power deemed necessary or desirable, subject to the provisions of
this Trust Agreement. In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee alone shall have power to make any such appointment of a co-trustee. 
 SECTION 5.2 Delaware Trustee. 
 If required by the Statutory Trust Act, one Trustee (the
“Delaware Trustee”) shall be: 
 (a) a natural person who is a resident of the State of Delaware; or 
 (b) if not a natural person, an entity which has its principal place of business in the State of Delaware, and otherwise meets the requirements of
applicable law, 
 provided that, if the Property Trustee has its principal place of business in the State of Delaware and otherwise meets the
requirements of applicable law, then the Property Trustee shall also be the Delaware Trustee and Section 3.11 shall have no application to the Property Trustee in its capacity as Property Trustee. 
 SECTION 5.3 Property Trustee; Eligibility. 
 (a) There
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 (i) not be an Affiliate of the Company; 
 (ii) be a corporation or national banking association organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or any
State or Territory thereof or of the District of Columbia, or a corporation or Person permitted by the Commission to act as an institutional trustee under the Trust Indenture Act, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having
a combined capital and surplus of at least 50 million U.S. dollars ($50,000,000), and subject to supervision or examination by federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such corporation or national banking association
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the supervising or examining authority referred to above, then for the purposes of this Section 5.3(a)(ii), the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation or national banking association shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published; and 
 (iii) if the Property Trustee has or shall acquire any “conflicting interest” within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign. 
 (b) If at any time the Property Trustee shall
cease to be eligible to so act under Section 5.3(a), the Property Trustee shall immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set forth in Section 5.7(c). 
 (c) The initial Property Trustee shall be: 
 Wilmington Trust Company 
 Rodney Square North 
 1100 North Market Street 
 Wilmington, Delaware 19890 
 Attn: Corporate Trust Administration 
 Telecopier: (302) 636-4140 
 SECTION 5.4
Certain Qualifications of Administrative Trustees and Delaware Trustee Generally. 
 Each Administrative Trustee and the Delaware
Trustee (unless the Property Trustee also acts as Delaware Trustee) shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal entity that shall act through one or more Authorized Officers. 
 SECTION 5.5 Administrative Trustees. 
 (a) The initial
Administrative Trustees shall be: 
 James G. Graham 
 c/o Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc. 
 110 North JK Powell Boulevard 
 Whiteville, North Carolina 28472 
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 Telecopier: (910) 641-0041 
 Freda H. Gore 
 c/o Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc. 
 110 North JK Powell Boulevard 
 Whiteville, North Carolina 28472 
 Telephone: (910) 914-4202 
 Telecopier: (910) 642-5130 
 David A. Godwin 
 c/o Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc. 
 110 North JK Powell Boulevard 
 Whiteville, North Carolina 28472 
 Telephone: (910) 914-4215 
 Telecopier: (910) 641-0595 
 (b) Except as expressly set forth in this Trust Agreement and except if a meeting of the Administrative Trustees is called with respect to any matter
over which the Administrative Trustees have power to act, any power of the Administrative Trustees may be exercised by, or with the consent of, any one such Administrative Trustee. 
 SECTION 5.6 Delaware Trustee. 
 The initial Delaware Trustee shall be: 
 Wilmington Trust Company 
 Rodney Square North 
 1100 North Market Street 
 Wilmington, Delaware 19890 
 Attn: Corporate Trust Administration 
 Telecopier: (302) 636-4140 
 SECTION 5.7 Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Trustees. 
 (a) Subject to Section 5.7(b), any Trustee may be appointed or removed without cause at any time: 
 (i) until
the issuance of any Securities, by written instrument executed by the Company; 
 (ii) in the case of Administrative Trustees,
after the issuance of any Securities, by vote of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities voting as a class at a meeting of the Holders of the Common Securities; 
 (iii) in the case of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing after
the issuance of any Securities, by vote of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities voting as a class at a meeting of the Holders of the Common Securities; and 
  

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 (iv) in the case of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, if an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing after the issuance of the Securities, by vote of Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities voting as a class at a meeting of Holders of the Preferred Securities. 
 (b)(i) The Trustee that acts as Property Trustee shall not be removed in accordance with Section 5.7(a) until a successor Trustee possessing the
qualifications to act as Property Trustee under Section 5.3 (a “Successor Property Trustee”) has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor Property Trustee and delivered to the
removed Property Trustee, the Administrative Trustees and the Company; and 
 (ii) the Trustee that acts as Delaware Trustee
shall not be removed in accordance with this Section 5.7(a) until a successor Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as Delaware Trustee under Sections 5.2 and 5.4 (a “Successor Delaware Trustee”) has been appointed and has
accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor Delaware Trustee and delivered to the removed Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees and the Company. 
 (c) A Trustee appointed to office shall hold office until his successor shall have been appointed or until his death, removal or resignation. Any Trustee
may resign from office (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by an instrument in writing signed by the Trustee and delivered to the Company and the Trust, which resignation shall take effect upon such delivery or upon such later date as
is specified therein; provided, however, that: 
 (i) No such resignation of the Trustee that acts as the Property Trustee
shall be effective: 
 (A) until a Successor Property Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by
instrument executed by such Successor Property Trustee and delivered to the Administrative Trustees, the Company and the resigning Property Trustee; or 
 (B) until the assets of the Trust have been completely liquidated and the proceeds thereof distributed to the Holders of the Securities; and 
 (ii) no such resignation of the Trustee that acts as the Delaware Trustee shall be effective until a Successor Delaware Trustee has been
appointed and has accepted such appointment by instrument executed by such Successor Delaware Trustee and delivered to the Administrative Trustees, the Company and the resigning Delaware Trustee. 
 (d) The Holders of the Common Securities shall use their best efforts to promptly appoint a Successor Delaware Trustee or Successor Property Trustee, as
the case may be, if the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee delivers an instrument of resignation in accordance with this Section 5.7. 
 (e) If no Successor Property Trustee or Successor Delaware Trustee shall have been appointed and accepted appointment as provided in this Section 5.7 within 60 days after delivery of an instrument of resignation or removal, the
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or being removed, as applicable, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Property Trustee or Successor Delaware
Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a Successor Property Trustee or Successor Delaware Trustee, as the case may be. 
 (f) No Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee shall be liable for the acts or omissions of any Successor Property Trustee or Successor Delaware Trustee, as
the case may be. 
 (g) Any successor Delaware Trustee shall promptly file an amendment to the Certificate of Trust as required by the
Statutory Trust Act. 
 SECTION 5.8 Vacancies Among Trustees. 
 If a Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason and the number of Trustees is not reduced pursuant to Section 5.1, or if the number of Trustees is increased pursuant to Section 5.1, a vacancy shall occur.
A resolution certifying the existence of such vacancy by the Administrative Trustees or, if there are more than two, a majority of the Administrative Trustees, shall be conclusive evidence of the existence of such vacancy. The vacancy shall be
filled with a Trustee appointed in accordance with Section 5.7. 
 SECTION 5.9 Effect of Vacancies. 
 The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation, incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of a Trustee shall not
operate to annul the Trust. Whenever a vacancy in the number of Administrative Trustees shall occur, until such vacancy is filled by the appointment of an Administrative Trustee in accordance with Section 5.7, the Administrative Trustees in
office, regardless of their number, shall have all the powers granted to the Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon the Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement. 
 SECTION 5.10 Meetings. 
 If there is more than one
Administrative Trustee, meetings of the Administrative Trustees shall be held from time to time upon the call of any Administrative Trustee. Regular meetings of the Administrative Trustees may be held at a time and place fixed by resolution of the
Administrative Trustees. Notice of any in-person meetings of the Administrative Trustees shall be hand delivered or otherwise delivered in writing (including by facsimile or e-mail, with a hard copy by overnight courier) not less than 24 hours
before such meeting. Notice of any telephonic meetings of the Administrative Trustees or any committee thereof shall be hand delivered or otherwise delivered in writing (including by facsimile or e-mail, with a hard copy by overnight courier) not
less than 24 hours before a meeting. Notices shall contain a brief statement of the time, place and anticipated purposes of the meeting. The presence (whether in person or by telephone) of an Administrative Trustee at a meeting shall constitute a
waiver of notice of such meeting except where an Administrative Trustee attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any activity on the ground that the meeting has not been lawfully called or convened. Unless
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matter, provided that a Quorum is present, or without a meeting by the written consent of the Administrative Trustees. In the event there is only one
Administrative Trustee, any and all action of such Administrative Trustee shall be evidenced by a written consent of such Administrative Trustee. 
 SECTION
5.11 Delegation of Power. 
 (a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate to any
other natural person over the age of 21 his or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section 3.6; and 
 (b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from time to time to such of their number or to officers of the Trust the doing of such things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Trust or the names
of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the Administrative Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of the Trust, as set forth herein. 
 SECTION 5.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. 
 Any Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee or any Administrative Trustee that is not a natural person, as the case may be, may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or
any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of such Trustee, shall be the successor of such Trustee
hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, provided such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article. 
 ARTICLE VI 
 DISTRIBUTIONS

 SECTION 6.1 Distributions. 
 Each
Holder shall receive Distributions in accordance with the applicable terms of such Holder’s Securities. If and to the extent that the Note Issuer makes a payment of interest (including Compounded Interest (as defined in the Indenture) and
Additional Sums (as defined in the Indenture)), premium and/or principal or any other payments on the Notes held by the Property Trustee (the amount of any such payment being a “Payment Amount”), the Property Trustee shall and is directed,
to the extent funds are available for that purpose, to make a distribution (a “Distribution”) of the Payment Amount to Holders in accordance with the respective terms of the Securities held by them. 
  

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 ARTICLE VII 
 ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES 
 SECTION 7.1 General Provisions Regarding Securities. 
 (a) The Administrative Trustees shall on behalf of the Trust issue one class of Preferred Securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the
assets of the Trust having such terms as are set forth in Annex I (the “Preferred Securities”) and one class of Common Securities representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust having such terms as are set forth in
Annex I (the “Common Securities”). The Trust shall issue no securities or other interests in the assets of the Trust other than the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities. 
 (b) The Preferred Securities rank pari passu and payment thereon shall be made Pro Rata (as defined in Annex I hereto) with the Common Securities except
that, where an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the rights of Holders of the Common Securities to payment in respect of Distributions and payments upon liquidation, prepayment and otherwise are subordinated to the rights to payment
of the Holders of the Preferred Securities. 
 (c) The consideration received by the Trust for the issuance of the Securities shall
constitute a contribution to the capital of the Trust and shall not constitute a loan to the Trust. 
 (d) Upon issuance of the Securities as
provided in this Trust Agreement, the Securities so issued shall be deemed to be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. 
 (e) Every
Person, by virtue of having become a Holder in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement, shall be deemed to have expressly assented and agreed to the terms of, and shall be bound by, this Trust Agreement. 
 SECTION 7.2 Execution and Authentication. 
 The
Securities shall be signed on behalf of the Trust by an Administrative Trustee. Such signature may be by manual or facsimile signature. Typographical and other minor errors or defects in any reproduction of any such signature shall not affect the
validity of any Security. In case any Administrative Trustee who shall have signed any of the Securities shall cease to be such Administrative Trustee before the Securities so signed shall be delivered by the Trust, such Securities nevertheless may
be delivered as though the Person who signed such Securities had not ceased to be such Administrative Trustee; and any Securities may be signed on behalf of the Trust by such Persons who, at the actual date of execution of such Security, shall be
the Administrative Trustees of the Trust, although at the date of the execution and delivery of the Trust Agreement any such Person was not such an Administrative Trustee. 
 A Common Security shall be valid upon execution by an Administrative Trustee without any act of the Property Trustee. A Preferred Security shall not be
valid until authenticated by the manual signature of an authorized officer of the Property Trustee. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Preferred Security has been authenticated under this Trust Agreement. 
  

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 Upon a written order of the Trust signed by one Administrative Trustee, the Property Trustee shall
authenticate the Preferred Securities for original issue. The aggregate number of Preferred Securities outstanding at any time shall not exceed the number set forth in the Terms in Annex I hereto except as provided in Section 7.6. 

The Property Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Trust to authenticate Preferred Securities. An authenticating agent may
authenticate Preferred Securities whenever the Property Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Trust Agreement to authentication by the Property Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as the
Property Trustee to deal with the Company or an Affiliate. The Property Trustee will serve as the initial authenticating agent. 
 SECTION 7.3 Form and
Dating. 
 The Preferred Securities and the Property Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit A-1 and the Common Securities shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2, each of which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Trust Agreement. Certificates representing the Securities may be printed, lithographed
or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees, as evidenced by their execution thereof. The Securities may have letters, CUSIP or other numbers, notations or other marks of
identification or designation and such legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which the Trust is subject, if any, or usage (provided that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in a form acceptable to the
Administration Trustees, as evidenced by their execution thereof). The Trust at the direction of the Company shall furnish any such legend not contained in Exhibit A-1 to the Property Trustee in writing. Each Preferred Security shall be dated the
date of its authentication. The terms and provisions of the Securities set forth in Annex I and the forms of Securities set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 are part of the terms of this Trust Agreement and to the extent applicable, the Property
Trustee and the Company, by their execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. 
 The owners of the Preferred Securities will receive physical delivery of certificated Preferred Securities (sometimes referred to herein as “Definitive Preferred Securities”). 
 SECTION 7.4 Registrar and Paying Agent. 
 The Trust
shall maintain (i) an office or agency where Preferred Securities may be presented for registration of transfer (“Registrar”) and (ii) an office or agency where Preferred Securities may be presented for payment (“Paying
Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register of the Preferred Securities and of their transfer. The Trust may appoint the Registrar and the Paying Agent and may appoint one or more co-registrars, one or more additional paying agents in such
other locations as it shall determine. The term “Registrar” includes any additional registrar and the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent. The Trust may change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar
without prior notice to any Holder. The Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days’ written notice to the Property Trustee and the Company. The Trust shall notify the Property Trustee in writing of the name and
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or maintain another entity as Registrar or Paying Agent, the Property Trustee shall act as such. The Trust or any of its Affiliates may act as Paying Agent
or Registrar. The Property Trustee shall act as Paying Agent and Registrar for the Common Securities. 
 The Trust initially appoints the
Property Trustee as Registrar and Paying Agent for the Preferred Securities. 
 SECTION 7.5 Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust. 
 The Trust shall require each Paying Agent other than the Property Trustee to agree in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust for the benefit of
Holders or the Property Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of Liquidation Amounts or Distributions on the Securities, and will notify the Property Trustee in writing if there are insufficient funds for such purpose. While any
such insufficiency continues, the Property Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Property Trustee. The Trust at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Property Trustee and to account
for any money disbursed by it. Upon payment over to the Property Trustee the Paying Agent (if other than the Trust or an Affiliate of the Trust) shall have no further liability for the money. If the Trust or the Company or an Affiliate of the Trust
or the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders all money held by it as Paying Agent. 
 SECTION 7.6 Replacement Securities. 
 If the Holder of a Security claims that the Security has been lost, destroyed or
wrongfully taken or if such Security is mutilated and is surrendered to the Trust or in the case of the Preferred Securities to the Property Trustee, the Administrative Trustees shall execute and the Property Trustee shall authenticate a replacement
Security if the Property Trustee’s and the Administrative Trustees’ requirements, as the case may be, are met. An indemnity bond must be provided by the Holder which, in the judgment of the Property Trustee, is sufficient to protect the
Trustees, the Company or any authenticating agent from any loss which any of them may suffer if a Security is replaced. The Trust may charge such Holder for its expenses in replacing a Security. 
 Every replacement Security is an additional beneficial interest in the Trust. 
 SECTION 7.7 Outstanding Preferred Securities. 
 The Preferred Securities outstanding at any time are
all the Preferred Securities authenticated by the Property Trustee except for those cancelled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, and those described in this Section as not outstanding. 
 If a Preferred Security is replaced, paid or purchased pursuant to Section 7.6 hereof, it ceases to be outstanding unless the Property Trustee
receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced, paid or purchased Preferred Security is held by a bona fide purchaser. 
 If Preferred
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 Except as otherwise provided herein, a Preferred Security does not cease to be outstanding because one of
the Trustees, the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security. 
 SECTION 7.8 Preferred Securities in Treasury. 
 In determining whether the Holders of the required amount of Securities have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Preferred Securities owned by
the Trust, the Company or an Affiliate of the Company, as the case may be, shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Property Trustee shall be fully protected in relying on any
such direction, waiver or consent, only Preferred Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. 
 SECTION 7.9 Temporary Securities. 
 Until Definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Trust may
prepare and, in the case of the Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of Definitive Securities but may have variations that the Trust considers
appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Trust shall prepare and, in the case of the Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Securities in exchange for temporary Securities. 

SECTION 7.10 Cancellation. 
 The Trust at any time
may deliver Preferred Securities to the Property Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and Paying Agent shall forward to the Property Trustee any Preferred Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, prepayment, exchange or
payment. The Property Trustee shall promptly cancel all Preferred Securities surrendered for registration of transfer, prepayment, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation and shall dispose of canceled Preferred Securities in accordance with
its customary procedures unless any Administrative Trustee otherwise directs the Property Trustee in writing. The Trust may not issue new Preferred Securities to replace Preferred Securities that it has paid or that have been delivered to the
Property Trustee for cancellation or that any Holder has exchanged. 
 SECTION 7.11 CUSIP Numbers. 
 The Trust in issuing the Preferred Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Property Trustee shall use
“CUSIP” numbers in notices of prepayment as a convenience to Holders of Preferred Securities; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Preferred
Securities or as contained in any notice of a prepayment and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Preferred Securities, and any such prepayment shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such
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 SECTION 7.12 ERISA Investments. 
 Because the Preferred Securities may be deemed to be equity interests in the Trust for purposes of applying ERISA and Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code, the Preferred Securities may not be purchased or
held by any plan, as within the meaning of ERISA, any entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” by reason of any plan’s investment in the entity (a “Plan Asset Entity”) or any person investing “plan
assets” of any Plan, unless such purchaser or holder is eligible for the exemptive relief available under PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 or 84-14 or another applicable exemption. Any purchaser or holder of the Preferred Securities or any
interest therein will be deemed to have represented by its purchase and holding thereof that it either (a) is not a plan or (b) is eligible for the exemptive relief available under PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 or 84-14 or another
applicable exemption with respect to such purchase or holding. If a purchaser or holder of the Preferred Securities that is a plan or a Plan Asset Entity elects to rely on an exemption other than PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1, or 84-14, the Company
and the Trust may require a satisfactory opinion of counsel or other evidence with respect to the availability of such exemption for such purchase and holding. 
 ARTICLE VIII 
 TERMINATION OF TRUST 
 SECTION 8.1 Termination of Trust. 
 (a) The Trust
shall dissolve and its affairs wound up upon the earliest to occur of the following events: 
 (i) upon the bankruptcy of the
Company; 
 (ii) upon the filing of a certificate of dissolution or liquidation or its equivalent with respect to the Company,
or the revocation of the Company’s charter and the expiration of 90 days after the date of revocation without a reinstatement thereof; 
 (iii) following the distribution of a Like Amount of the Notes to the Holders of the Securities, provided that, the Property Trustee has received written notice and an Officer’s Certificate from the Company
directing the Property Trustee to terminate the Trust (which direction is optional and within the discretion of the Company); 
 (iv) upon the entry of a decree of judicial dissolution of the Trust by a court of competent jurisdiction; 
 (v)
when all of the Securities shall have been called for prepayment and the amounts necessary for prepayment thereof shall have been paid to the Holders in accordance with the terms of the Securities; or 
 (vi) the expiration of the term of the Trust provided in Section 3.14. 
 (b) As soon as is practicable after the occurrence of an event referred to in Section 8.1(a) and the completion of the winding up of the Trust and
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Administrative Trustees and the Delaware Trustee shall execute and file a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

 (c) The provisions of Article X shall survive the termination of the Trust. 
 SECTION 8.2 Liquidation. 
 (a) If an event specified in clause (i), (iii) or (iv) of
Section 8.1 occurs, or upon the Expiration Date, the Trust shall be liquidated by the Trustees as expeditiously as the Trustees determine to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by
applicable law, to each Securityholder a Like Amount of Notes, subject to Section 8.2(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid mailed not later than 30 nor more than 90 days prior to
the date upon which the Trust is liquidated (the “Liquidation Date”) to each Holder of Trust Securities at such Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of liquidation shall: 
 (i) state the Liquidation Date; 
 (ii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Preferred Securities certificates and/or Common Securities certificates surrendered for
exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Notes; and 
 (iii) provide such information with respect to the
mechanics by which Holders may exchange Preferred Securities certificates and/or Common Securities certificates for Notes, or if Section 8.2(d) applies receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee
shall deem appropriate. 
 (b) Except where Section 8.1(a)(v) or 8.2(d) applies, in order to effect the liquidation of the Trust and
distribution of the Notes to Securityholders, the Property Trustee, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish such procedures as it shall deem appropriate to effect the
distribution of Notes in exchange for the Outstanding Preferred Securities certificates and/or the Outstanding Common Securities certificates. 
 (c) Except where Section 8.1(a)(v) or 8.2(d) applies, after the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Notes will be issued to
holders of Preferred Securities certificates and/or Common Securities certificates, upon surrender of such certificates to the Administrative Trustees or their agent for exchange, (iii) any Preferred Securities certificates and/or Common
Securities certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Notes, accruing interest at the rate provided for in the Notes from the last Distribution Date on which a Distribution was made on such Preferred
Securities certificates and/or Common Securities certificates until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so surrendered, no payments of interest or principal will be made to Holders of Preferred Securities
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receive Notes upon surrender of Preferred Securities certificates and/or Common Securities certificates. 
 (d) In the event that, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 8.2, whether because of an order for dissolution entered by a court of
competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Notes in the manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee not to be practical, the property of the Trust shall be liquidated, and the Trust shall be dissolved, wound-up or
terminated, by the Property Trustee in such manner as the Property Trustee determines. In such event on the date of the dissolution, winding-up or other termination of the Trust, Securityholders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the
Trust available for distribution to Securityholders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions
thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the “Liquidation Distribution”). If, upon any such dissolution, winding up or termination, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the Trust has insufficient assets
available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the amounts payable by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The holder
of the Common Securities will be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such dissolution, winding-up or termination pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with Holders of Preferred Securities, except that, if an Indenture Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Preferred Securities shall have a priority over the Common Securities. Any such determination and liquidation by the Property Trustee shall be conclusive upon the Securityholders and the Property Trustee
shall have no liability in connection therewith, absent bad faith or willful misconduct. 
 ARTICLE IX 
 TRANSFER OF INTERESTS 
 SECTION 9.1 Transfer of
Securities. 
 (a) Securities may only be transferred, in whole or in part, in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this
Trust Agreement and in the terms of the Securities. Any transfer or purported transfer of any Security not made in accordance with this Trust Agreement shall be null and void. 
 (b) Subject to Section 3.15, the Company and any Related Party may only transfer the Common Securities to the Company or a Related Party after the
delivery to the Property Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate certifying that the transferee is either the Company or a Related Party. 
 (c) The Property Trustee shall provide for the registration of Securities and of the transfer of Securities, which will be effected without charge but only upon payment (with such indemnity as the Property Trustee may require) in respect of
any tax or other governmental charges that may be imposed in relation to it. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Securities, the Administrative Trustees shall execute and the Property Trustee shall cause one or more new Securities to
be issued in the name of the designated transferee or transferees. Every Security surrendered for registration of transfer shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Property Trustee duly executed by the
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Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Security surrendered for registration of transfer shall be delivered to the Property Trustee and
canceled in accordance with Section 7.10. A transferee of a Security shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Holder hereunder upon the receipt by such transferee of a Security. By acceptance of a Security, each
transferee shall be deemed to have agreed to be bound by this Trust Agreement. 
 SECTION 9.2 Transfer Procedures and Restrictions. 
 (a) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Preferred Securities. When Definitive Preferred Securities are presented to the Registrar or co-Registrar:

 (i) to register the transfer of such Definitive Preferred Securities, or 
 (ii) to exchange such Definitive Preferred Securities which became mutilated, destroyed, defaced, stolen or lost, for an equal number of
Definitive Preferred Securities, 
 the Registrar or co-Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable
requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Preferred Securities surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Property Trustee and the Registrar or co-Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. 
 (b) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Preferred Securities. 
 (i)
To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Trust shall execute and the Property Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Preferred Securities at the Registrar’s or co-Registrar’s request in accordance with the terms of this Trust
Agreement. 
 (ii) Registrations of transfers or exchanges will be effected without charge, but only upon payment (with such
indemnity as the Trust, the Property Trustee or the Company may require) in respect of any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation to it. 
 (iii) The Registrar or co-registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange (a) Preferred Securities during a
period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of mailing of a notice of prepayment or any notice of selection of Preferred Securities for prepayment and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing; or (b) any
Preferred Security so selected for prepayment in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Preferred Security being redeemed in part. 
 (iv) Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Preferred Security, the Trust, the Property Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar or any co-registrar may deem and treat the Person in whose
name a Preferred Security is registered as the absolute owner of such Preferred Security for the purpose of receiving Distributions on such Preferred Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Trust, the Property Trustee, the
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 (v) All Preferred Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange
pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement shall evidence the same security and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Trust Agreement as the Preferred Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. 

(c) No Obligation of the Property Trustee. 
 The Property Trustee and Registrar shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Trust Agreement or under applicable law with
respect to any transfer of any interest in any Preferred Security other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this
Trust Agreement, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof. 
 SECTION 9.3 Deemed
Security Holders. 
 The Trustees may treat the Person in whose name any Security shall be registered on the books and records of the
Property Trustee as the sole owner of such Security for purposes of receiving Distributions and for all other purposes whatsoever and, accordingly, shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such Security on the
part of any Person, whether or not the Trustees shall have actual or other notice thereof. 
 SECTION 9.4 Restriction on Transfers. 
 The Securities may not be transferred unless (i) the Property Trustee receives an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Property Trustee stating
that such transfer is exempt from registration under applicable state and federal securities laws, will not cause the Trust to be an “Investment Company” or under the “control” of an “Investment Company” within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and otherwise complies with the restrictions on transfer contained in this Trust Agreement, and (ii) the transferee certifies to the Property Trustee that it is not (x) an employee
benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (y) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (z) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by
reason of a plan’s investment in the Trust (each a “Benefit Plan”). By accepting and holding a Security the transferee thereof shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan. The Property Trustee shall
have no obligation to determine whether or not a transferee of a Security is or is not a Benefit Plan. 
 ARTICLE X 
 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES, 
 TRUSTEES OR OTHERS 
 SECTION 10.1 Liability. 
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 (i) personally liable for the return of any portion of the capital contributions (or any
return thereon) of the Holders of the Securities which shall be made solely from assets of the Trust; and 
 (ii) be required
to pay to the Trust or to any Holder of Securities any deficit upon dissolution of the Trust or otherwise. 
 (b) The Company shall be liable
for all of the fees, expenses, debts and obligations of the Trust (other than with respect to the Securities) to the extent not satisfied out of the Trust’s assets. 
 (c) Pursuant to § 3803(a) of the Statutory Trust Act, the Holders of the Preferred Securities shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations
for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, except as otherwise specifically set forth herein. 
 SECTION 10.2
Exculpation. 
 (a) No Indemnified Person shall be liable, responsible or accountable in damages or otherwise to the Trust or any
Covered Person for any loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith on behalf of the Trust and in a manner such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the
scope of the authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Trust Agreement or by law, except that an Indemnified Person shall be liable for any such loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of such Indemnified Person’s gross negligence
or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions. 
 (b) An Indemnified Person shall be fully protected in relying in good faith
upon the records of the Trust and upon such information, opinions, reports or statements presented to the Trust by any Person as to matters the Indemnified Person reasonably believes are within such other Person’s professional or expert
competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Trust, including information, opinions, reports or statements as to the value and amount of the assets, liabilities, profits, losses, or any other facts pertinent to
the existence and amount of assets from which Distributions to Holders of Securities might properly be paid. 
 (c) It is expressly
understood and agreed by the parties hereto that insofar as any document, agreement or certificate is executed on behalf of the Trust by any Trustee, such documents, agreement or certificate is executed and delivered by such Trustee, not in its
individual capacity, but solely as trustee under this Trust Agreement. 
 SECTION 10.3 Fiduciary Duty. 
 (a) To the extent that, at law or in equity, an Indemnified Person has duties (including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating thereto to the Trust
or to any other Covered Person, an Indemnified Person acting under this Trust Agreement shall not be liable to the Trust or to any other Covered Person for its good faith reliance on the provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions of this
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Indemnified Person otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the parties hereto to replace such other duties and liabilities of such Indemnified
Person; provided, however, nothing herein shall be construed to limit the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing. 
 (b) Unless
otherwise expressly provided herein: 
 (i) whenever a conflict of interest exists or arises between any Covered Persons; or

 (ii) whenever this Trust Agreement or any other agreement contemplated herein or therein provides that an Indemnified
Person shall act in a manner that is, or provides terms that are, fair and reasonable to the Trust or any Holder of Securities, 
 each Covered Person or
Indemnified Person shall resolve such conflict of interest, take such action or provide such terms, considering in each case the relative interest of each party (including its own interest) to such conflict, agreement, transaction or situation and
the benefits and burdens relating to such interests, any customary or accepted industry practices, and any applicable generally accepted accounting practices or principles. In the absence of willful misconduct by the Indemnified Person, the
resolution, action or term so made, taken or provided by the Indemnified Person shall not constitute a breach of this Trust Agreement or any other agreement contemplated herein or of any duty or obligation of the Indemnified Person at law or in
equity or otherwise. 
 (c) Whenever in this Trust Agreement an Indemnified Person is permitted or required to make a decision: 

(i) in its “discretion” or under a grant of similar authority, the Indemnified Person shall be entitled to consider such
interests and factors as it desires, including its own interests, and shall have no duty or obligation to give any consideration to any interest of or factors affecting the Trust or any other Person; or 
 (ii) in its “good faith” or under another express standard, the Indemnified Person shall act under such express standard and
shall not be subject to any other or different standard imposed by this Trust Agreement or by applicable law. 
 SECTION 10.4 Indemnification.

 (a)(i) The Company shall indemnify, to the full extent permitted by law, any Company Indemnified Person who was or is a party or is
threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Trust) by reason of the fact that he is or was
a Company Indemnified Person against expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in
good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Trust, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any
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presumption that the Company Indemnified Person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
interests of the Trust, and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful. 
 (ii) The Company shall indemnify, to the full extent permitted by law, any Company Indemnified Person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by
or in the right of the Trust to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a Company Indemnified Person against expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection
with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Trust and except that no such indemnification shall be made in respect of any
claim, issue or matter as to which such Company Indemnified Person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Trust unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall
determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such Person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which such Court of Chancery or such other court
shall deem proper. 
 (iii) To the extent that a Company Indemnified Person shall be successful on the merits or otherwise
(including dismissal of an action without prejudice or the settlement of an action without admission of liability) in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this Section 10.4(a), or in
defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified, to the full extent permitted by law, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith. 
 (iv) Any indemnification under paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this Section 10.4(a) (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by
the Company only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the Company Indemnified Person is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in paragraphs (i) and
(ii). Such determination shall be made (1) by the Administrative Trustees by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of such Administrative Trustees who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, (2) if such a quorum is not
obtainable, or, even if obtainable, if a quorum of disinterested Administrative Trustees so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (3) by the Common Security Holder of the Trust. 
 (v) Expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by a Company Indemnified Person in defending a civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this Section 10.4(a) shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt
of an undertaking by or on behalf of such Company Indemnified Person to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company as authorized in this Section 10.4(a). Notwithstanding the
foregoing, no advance shall be made by the Company if a determination is reasonably and promptly made (i) by the Administrative Trustees by a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested Administrative Trustees, (ii) if such a quorum is not
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Trustees so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion or (iii) the Common Security Holder of the Trust, that, based upon the facts
known to the Administrative Trustees, counsel or the Common Security Holder at the time such determination is made, such Company Indemnified Person acted in willful misconduct or in a manner that such Person did not believe to be in or not opposed
to the best interests of the Trust, or, with respect to any criminal proceeding, that such Company Indemnified Person believed or had reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. In no event shall any advance be made in instances where the
Administrative Trustees, independent legal counsel or Common Security Holder reasonably determine that such Person deliberately breached his duty to the Trust or its Common or Preferred Security Holders. 
 (vi) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other paragraphs of this
Section 10.4(a) shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification and advancement of expenses may be entitled under any agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors of the Company or
Preferred Security Holders of the Trust or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office. All rights to indemnification under this Section 10.4(a) shall be deemed to be
provided by a contract between the Company and each Company Indemnified Person who serves in such capacity at any time while this Section 10.4(a) is in effect. Any repeal or modification of this Section 10.4(a) shall not affect any rights
or obligations then existing. 
 (vii) The Company or the Trust may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any Person
who is or was a Company Indemnified Person against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify him against such
liability under the provisions of this Section 10.4(a). 
 (viii) For purposes of this Section 10.4(a), references
to “the Trust” shall include, in addition to the resulting or surviving entity, any constituent entity (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger, so that any Person who is or was a director,
trustee, officer or employee of such constituent entity, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent entity as a director, trustee, officer, employee or agent of another entity, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of
this Section 10.4(a) with respect to the resulting or surviving entity as he would have with respect to such constituent entity if its separate existence had continued. 
 (ix) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Section 10.4(a) shall, unless
otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a Person who has ceased to be a Company Indemnified Person and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a Person. 
 (b) The Company agrees to indemnify the (i) Property Trustee, (ii) the Delaware Trustee, (iii) any Affiliate of the Property Trustee or
the Delaware Trustee, and (iv) any officers, directors, shareholders, members, partners, employees, representatives, custodians, nominees or agents of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (each of the Persons in (i) through
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Indemnified Person harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, actions, suits, costs, disbursements, penalties, claim or expense including taxes
(other than taxes based on the income of such Fiduciary Indemnified Person) of any kind and nature whatsoever incurred without gross negligence or willful misconduct 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 (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of defending itself against or investigating any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers
or duties hereunder. The obligation to indemnify as set forth in this Section 10.4(b) shall survive the resignation or removal of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee and the satisfaction and discharge of this Trust Agreement.

 (c) The Company agrees to pay the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, from time to time, such compensation for all services
rendered by the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee hereunder including reasonable compensation expenses and disbursements as of its agents and counsel as may be mutually agreed upon in writing by the Company and the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee upon its or their request for all reasonable and documented expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of this Trust Agreement, except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its or their gross negligence
or willful misconduct. No Company may claim any liens or charge on any Trust Property as a result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 10.4. 
 SECTION 10.5 Outside Businesses. 
 Any Covered Person, the Company, the Delaware Trustee and the Property Trustee may engage
in or possess an interest in other business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or dissimilar to the business of the Trust, and the Trust and the Holders of Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this
Trust Agreement in and to such independent ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any such venture, even if competitive with the business of the Trust, shall not be deemed wrongful or improper. No Covered Person, the
Company, the Delaware Trustee, or the Property Trustee shall be obligated to present any particular investment or other opportunity to the Trust even if such opportunity is of a character that, if presented to the Trust, could be taken by the Trust,
and any Covered Person, the Company, the Delaware Trustee and the Property Trustee shall have the right to take for its own account (individually or as a partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular investment or other
opportunity. Any Covered Person, the Delaware Trustee and the Property Trustee may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Company or any Affiliate of the Company, or may act as depositary for, trustee or agent for, or
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 ARTICLE XI 
 ACCOUNTING 
 SECTION 11.1 Fiscal Year. 
 The fiscal year (“Fiscal Year”) of the Trust shall be the calendar year, or such other year as is required by the Code. 
 SECTION 11.2 Certain Accounting Matters. 
 (a) At all
times during the existence of the Trust, the Administrative Trustees shall keep, or cause to be kept, full books of account, records and supporting documents, which shall reflect in reasonable detail each transaction of the Trust. The books of
account shall be maintained on the accrual method of accounting, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied. The Trust shall use the accrual method of accounting for United States federal income tax purposes.

 (b) The Administrative Trustees shall cause to be prepared and delivered to each of the Holders of Securities, within 90 days after the
end of each Fiscal Year of the Trust, annual financial statements of the Trust, including a balance sheet of the Trust as of the end of such Fiscal Year, and the related statements of income or loss. 
 (c) The Administrative Trustees shall cause to be duly prepared and delivered to each of the Holders of Securities, any annual United States federal
income tax information statement, required by the Code, containing such information with regard to the Securities held by each Holder as is required by the Code and the Treasury Regulations. Notwithstanding any right under the Code to deliver any
such statement at a later date, the Administrative Trustees shall endeavor to deliver all such information statements within 30 days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Trust. 
 (d) The Administrative Trustees shall cause to be duly prepared and filed with the appropriate taxing authority, an annual United States federal income
tax return, on a Form 1041 or such other form required by United States federal income tax law, and any other annual income tax returns required to be filed by the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust with any state or local taxing
authority. 
 SECTION 11.3 Banking. 
 The
Trust shall maintain one or more bank accounts in the name and for the sole benefit of the Trust; provided, however, that all payments of funds in respect of the Notes held by the Property Trustee shall be made directly to the Property Trustee
Account and no other funds of the Trust shall be deposited in the Property Trustee Account. The sole signatories for such accounts shall be designated by the Administrative Trustees; provided, however, that the Property Trustee shall designate the
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 SECTION 11.4 Withholding. 
 The Trust and the Administrative Trustees shall comply with all withholding requirements under United States federal, state and local law. The Trust shall request, and the Holders shall provide to the Trust, such
forms or certificates as are necessary to establish an exemption from withholding with respect to each Holder, and any representations and forms as shall reasonably be requested by the Trust to assist it in determining the extent of, and in
fulfilling, its withholding obligations. The Administrative Trustees shall file required forms with applicable jurisdictions and, unless an exemption from withholding is properly established by a Holder, shall remit amounts withheld with respect to
the Holder to applicable jurisdictions. To the extent that the Trust is required to withhold and pay over any amounts to any authority with respect to Distributions or allocations to any Holder, the amount withheld shall be deemed to be a
Distribution in the amount of the withholding to the Holder. In the event of any claimed over withholding, Holders shall be limited to an action against the applicable jurisdiction. If the amount required to be withheld was not withheld from actual
Distributions made, the Trust may reduce subsequent Distributions by the amount of such withholding. 
 ARTICLE XII 
 AMENDMENTS AND MEETINGS 
 SECTION 12.1
Amendments. 
 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Trust Agreement or by any applicable terms of the Securities, this Trust
Agreement may only be amended by a written instrument approved and executed by: 
 (i) the Administrative Trustees (or if
there are more than two Administrative Trustees a majority of the Administrative Trustees); 
 (ii) if the amendment affects
the rights, powers, duties, obligations or immunities of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee; and 
 (iii) if the
amendment affects the rights, powers, duties, obligations or immunities of the Delaware Trustee, the Delaware Trustee. 
 (b) No amendment
shall be made, and any such purported amendment shall be void and ineffective unless, in the case of any proposed amendment, the Property Trustee shall have first received an: 
 (A) an Officers’ Certificate from the Company and an Administrative Trustee’s Certificate from the Trust that such amendment is
permitted by, and conforms to, the terms of this Trust Agreement (including the terms of the Securities); and 
 (B) an
opinion of counsel (who may be counsel to the Company or the Trust) that (w) such amendment is permitted by, and conforms to, the terms of this Trust Agreement (including the terms of the Securities), (x) the result of such amendment will
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deemed to be an Investment Company required to be registered under the Investment Company Act and (z) all conditions precedent to the execution and
delivery of such amendment have been satisfied, provided, however, that the Property Trustee shall not be required to sign any such amendment to the extent the result of such amendment would be to reduce or otherwise adversely affect
the powers of the Property Trustee. 
 (c) At such time after the Trust has issued any Securities that remain outstanding, any amendment that
would adversely affect the rights, privileges or preferences of any Holder of Securities may be effected only with such additional requirements as may be set forth in the terms of such Securities; 
 (d) Section 10.1(c) and this Section 12.1 shall not be amended without the consent of all of the Holders of the Securities; 
 (e) Article IV shall not be amended without the consent of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities; 
 (f) The rights of the Holders of the Common Securities under Article V to increase or decrease the number of, and appoint and remove Trustees shall not
be amended without the consent of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities; and 
 (g) Notwithstanding
Section 12.1(c), this Trust Agreement may be amended without the consent of the Holders of the Securities to: 
 (i) cure
any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision in this Trust Agreement that may be inconsistent with any other provision of this Trust Agreement or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust
Agreement which shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of the Trust Agreement; and 
 (ii) to modify, eliminate
or add to any provisions of the Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary to (A) ensure that the Trust will be classified for United States federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust at all times that any Securities are
outstanding, (B) to ensure that the Trust will not be required to register as an Investment Company under the Investment Company Act, or (C) to ensure that the proceeds from the sale of the Securities will constitute “tier 1
capital” under capital adequacy requirements which may be applicable to the Company; 
 provided, however, that in the case of clause (i),
such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the Holders of the Securities, and any amendments of this Trust Agreement shall become effective when notice thereof is given to the Holders of the Securities.

 SECTION 12.2 Meetings of the Holders of Securities; Action by Written Consent. 
 (a) Meetings of the Holders of any class of Securities may be called at any time by the Administrative Trustees (or as provided in the terms of the
Securities) to consider and act on any matter on which Holders of such class of Securities are entitled to act under the terms of this Trust Agreement, the terms of the Securities or the rules of any stock exchange on which the Preferred Securities
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meeting of the Holders of such class if directed to do so by the Holders of at least 10% in Liquidation Amount of such class of Securities. Such direction
shall be given by delivering to the Administrative Trustees one or more notices in a writing stating that the signing Holders of Securities wish to call a meeting and indicating the general or specific purpose for which the meeting is to be called.
Any Holders of Securities calling a meeting shall specify in writing the Security Certificates held by the Holders of Securities exercising the right to call a meeting and only those Securities specified shall be counted for purposes of determining
whether the required percentage set forth in the second sentence of this paragraph has been met. 
 (b) Except to the extent otherwise
provided in the terms of the Securities, the following provisions shall apply to meetings of Holders of Securities: 
 (i)
notice of any such meeting shall be given to all the Holders of Securities having a right to vote thereat at least seven days and not more than 60 days before the date of such meeting. Whenever a vote, consent or approval of the Holders of
Securities is permitted or required under this Trust Agreement or the rules of any stock exchange on which the Preferred Securities are listed or admitted for trading, such vote, consent or approval may be given at a meeting of the Holders of
Securities. Any action that may be taken at a meeting of the Holders of Securities may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing setting forth the action so taken is signed by the Holders of Securities owning not less than the minimum
amount of Securities in Liquidation Amount that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all Holders of Securities having a right to vote thereon were present and voting. Prompt notice of the taking of action without
a meeting shall be given to the Holders of Securities entitled to vote who have not consented in writing. The Administrative Trustees may specify that any written ballot submitted to the Security Holder for the purpose of taking any action without a
meeting shall be returned to the Trust within the time specified by the Administrative Trustees; 
 (ii) each Holder of a
Security may authorize any Person to act for it by proxy on all matters in which a Holder of Securities is entitled to participate, including waiving notice of any meeting, or voting or participating at a meeting. No proxy shall be valid after the
expiration of 11 months from the date thereof unless otherwise provided in the proxy. Every proxy shall be revocable at the pleasure of the Holder of Securities executing it. Except as otherwise provided herein, all matters relating to the giving,
voting or validity of proxies shall be governed by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware relating to proxies, and judicial interpretations thereunder, as if the Trust were a Delaware corporation and the Holders of the Securities were
stockholders of a Delaware corporation; 
 (iii) each meeting of the Holders of the Securities shall be conducted by the
Administrative Trustees or by such other Person that the Administrative Trustees may designate; and 
 (iv) unless the
Statutory Trust Act, this Trust Agreement, the terms of the Securities, or the listing rules of any stock exchange on which the Preferred Securities are then listed or trading, otherwise provides, the Administrative Trustees, in their sole
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Securities, waiver of any such notice, action by consent without a meeting, the establishment of a record date, quorum requirements, voting in person or by
proxy or any other matter with respect to the exercise of any such right to vote. 
 ARTICLE XIII 
 REPRESENTATIONS OF PROPERTY TRUSTEE 
 AND DELAWARE TRUSTEE 
 SECTION 13.1 Representations and Warranties of Property Trustee. 
 The Trustee that acts as initial Property Trustee represents and warrants to the Trust and to the Company at the date of this Trust Agreement, and each
Successor Property Trustee represents and warrants to the Trust and the Company at the time of the Successor Property Trustee’s acceptance of its appointment as Property Trustee that: 
 (a) The Property Trustee is a Delaware banking corporation validly existing, in good standing and with trust powers and authority to execute and deliver,
and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of, this Trust Agreement; 
 (b) The execution, delivery and performance by the
Property Trustee of this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by the Property Trustee. This Trust Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Property Trustee and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Property
Trustee, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, moratorium, insolvency, and other similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity and the
discretion of the court (regardless of whether the enforcement of such remedies is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); 
 (c)
The execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement by the Property Trustee does not conflict with or constitute a breach of the charter or by-laws of the Property Trustee; and 
 (d) No consent, approval or authorization of or registration with or notice to, any state or federal banking authority governing the trust powers of the
Property Trustee is required for the execution, delivery or performance by the Property trustee of this Trust Agreement. 
 SECTION 13.2 Representations
and Warranties of Delaware Trustee. 
 The Trustee that acts as initial Delaware Trustee represents and warrants to the Trust and to the
Company at the date of this Trust Agreement, and each Successor Delaware Trustee represents and warrants to the Trust and the Company at the time of the Successor Delaware Trustee’s acceptance of its appointment as Delaware Trustee that:

 (a) The Delaware Trustee is a Delaware banking corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
State of Delaware with trust power and authority to execute and deliver, and to carry out and perform its obligations under the terms of, this Trust Agreement; 
  

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 (b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Delaware Trustee of this Trust Agreement has been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Delaware Trustee and does not conflict with or constitute a breach of the charter or by-laws of the Delaware Trustee. This Trust Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the
Delaware Trustee and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Delaware Trustee, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, moratorium, insolvency, and other similar laws
affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity and the discretion of the court (regardless of whether the enforcement of such remedies is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); 
 (c) No consent, approval or authorization of, or registration with or notice to, any federal or Delaware banking authority is required for the execution,
delivery or performance by the Delaware Trustee of this Trust Agreement; 
 (d) The Delaware Trustee is a natural person who is a resident of
the State of Delaware or, if not a natural person, an entity which has its principal place of business in the State of Delaware; and 
 (e)
The execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement by the Delaware Trustee does not conflict with or constitute a breach of the charter or by laws of the Delaware Trustee. 
 ARTICLE XIV 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 SECTION 14.1 Notices. 
 All notices provided for in
this Trust Agreement shall be in writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and shall be delivered, telecopied or mailed by first class mail, as follows: 
 (a) if given to the Trust, in care of the Administrative Trustees at the Trust’s mailing address set forth below (or such other address as the Trust may give notice of to the Holders of the Securities):

 Waccamaw Statutory Trust II 
 c/o Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc. 
 110 North J.K. Powell Boulevard 
 Whiteville, North Carolina 
 Attn: James G. Graham 
 Telephone: (910) 914-4200 
 Telecopier: (910) 641-0041 
 (b) if given to the Delaware Trustee, at the mailing address set forth below (or such other address as Delaware Trustee may give notice of to the Holders of the Securities): 
 Wilmington Trust Company 
 Rodney Square North 
  

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 1100 North Market Street 
 Wilmington, Delaware 19890 
 Attn: Corporate Trust Administration 
 Telephone: (302) 636-6000 
 Telecopier: (302) 636-4140 
 With a copy to: 
 Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A. 
 One Rodney Square 
 920 North King Street 
 Wilmington, Delaware 19801 
 Attn: Doneene Keemer Damon, Esq. 
 Telephone: (302) 651-7526 
 Telecopier: (302) 498-7526 
 (c) if given to the Property Trustee, at the Property Trustee’s mailing address set forth below (or such other address as the Property Trustee may
give notice of to the Holders of the Securities): 
 Wilmington Trust Company 
 Rodney Square North 
 1100 North Market Street 
 Wilmington, Delaware 19890 
 Attn: Corporate Trust Administration 
 Telephone: (302) 636-6000 
 Telecopier: (302) 636-4140 
 (d) if given to the Holder of the Common Securities, at the mailing address of the Company set forth below (or such other address as the Holder of the
Common Securities may give notice to the Trust): 
 Waccamaw Statutory Trust II 
 c/o Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc. 
 110 North J.K. Powell Boulevard 
 Whiteville, North Carolina 
 Attn: James G. Graham 
 Telephone: (910) 914-4200 
 Telecopier: (910) 641-0041 
 (e) if given to any other Holder, at the address set forth on the books and records of the Registrar. 
 All such notices shall be deemed to have been given when received in person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail, postage
prepaid except that if a notice or other document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date of such refusal
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 SECTION 14.2 Governing Law. 
 This Trust Agreement and the rights of the parties hereunder shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware and all rights and remedies shall be governed by such laws without
regard to principles of conflict of laws. 
 SECTION 14.3 Intention of the Parties. 
 It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Trust be classified for United States federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust. The provisions of
this Trust Agreement shall be interpreted to further this intention of the parties. 
 SECTION 14.4 Headings. 
 Headings contained in this Trust Agreement are inserted for convenience of reference only and do not affect the interpretation of this Trust Agreement or
any provision hereof. 
 SECTION 14.5 Successors and Assigns. 
 Whenever in this Trust Agreement any of the parties hereto is named or referred to, the successors and assigns of such party shall be deemed to be included, and all covenants and agreements in this Trust Agreement by
the Company and the Trustees shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns, whether or not so expressed. 
 SECTION 14.6
Partial Enforceability. 
 If any provision of this Trust Agreement, or the application of such provision to any Person or
circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Trust Agreement, or the application of such provision to Persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. 
 SECTION 14.7 Counterparts. 
 This Trust Agreement may
contain more than one counterpart of the signature page and this Trust Agreement may be executed by the affixing of the signature of each of the Trustees to one of such counterpart signature pages. All of such counterpart signature pages shall be
read as though one, and they shall have the same force and effect as though all of the signers had signed a single signature page. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused these presents to be executed as of the day and year first
above written. 
  

	
	/s/ James G. Graham
	 James G. Graham, solely in his capacity as
 Administrative Trustee

  

	
	/s/ Freda H. Gore
	Freda H. Gore, solely in her capacity as Administrative Trustee

  

	
	/s/ David A. Godwin
	David A. Godwin, solely in his capacity as Administrative Trustee

  

			
	 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
 as Delaware
Trustee

		
	By:	 	/s/ Geoffrey J. Lewis
	Name:	 	Geoffrey J. Lewis
	Title: 	 	Senior Financial Services Officer

  

			
	 WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
 as Property
Trustee

		
	By:	 	/s/ Geoffrey J. Lewis
		 	Geoffrey J. Lewis
		 	Senior Financial Services Officer

  

			
	 WACCAMAW BANKSHARES, INC.,
 as
sponsor

		
	By:	 	/s/ James G. Graham
	Printed Name: James G. Graham
	Its: President and Chief Executive Officer

  

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 ANNEX I 
 TERMS OF 
 FLOATING RATE PREFERRED SECURITIES 
 FLOATING RATE COMMON SECURITIES 
 Pursuant to Section 7.1 of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of July 18, 2008 (as amended from time to time, the “Trust Agreement”), the designation, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and
other terms and provisions of the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities (collectively, the “Securities”) are set out below (each capitalized term used but not defined herein has the meaning set forth in the Trust Agreement or, if
not defined in such Trust Agreement, as defined in the Indenture): 
  

	 	1.	Designation and Number. 

 (a) Preferred
Securities. Up to 4,000 Preferred Securities of the Trust with an aggregate liquidation amount with respect to the assets of the Trust of Four Million and No/100 Dollars ($4,000,000) and each with a liquidation amount with respect to the assets
of the Trust of $1,000 per security, are hereby designated for the purposes of identification only as “Floating Rate Preferred Securities” (the “Preferred Securities”). The certificates evidencing the Preferred Securities shall
be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 to the Trust Agreement, with such changes and additions thereto or deletions therefrom as may be required by ordinary usage, custom or practice or to conform to the rules of any stock exchange or quotation
system on which the Preferred Securities are listed or quoted. 
 (b) Common Securities. Up to 124 Common Securities of the Trust with
an aggregate liquidation amount with respect to the assets of the Trust of One Hundred Twenty Four Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($124,000) and a liquidation amount with respect to the assets of the Trust of $1,000 per security, are hereby designated
for the purposes of identification only as “Floating Rate Common Securities” (the “Common Securities”). The certificates evidencing the Common Securities shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2 to the Trust Agreement,
with such changes and additions thereto or deletions therefrom as may be required by ordinary usage, custom or practice. 
  

	 	2.	Distributions. 

 (a) Distributions will be payable
on each Security for the period beginning on (and including) the date of original issuance and ending on (but excluding) October 1, 2008, at the Coupon Rate, as defined below, and shall bear interest for each successive period beginning on (and
including) October 1, 2008, and each succeeding Distribution Date, and ending on (but excluding) the next succeeding Distribution Date or date on which the Securities are otherwise paid (each, a “Distribution Period”) at a rate
per annum equal to the 3-Month LIBOR, determined as described below, plus 4.00% (the “Coupon Rate”), applied to the stated liquidation amount thereof, such rate being the rate of interest payable on the Notes to be held by the
Property Trustee. 
 In the event that the 3-Month LIBOR is indeterminable by the methods described below, the Coupon Rate shall equal the
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Date (whether or not 3-Month LIBOR for such period was in fact determined on such Determination Date) plus 4.00%. 
 Distributions in arrears for more than one quarterly period will bear interest thereon compounded quarterly at the applicable Coupon Rate (to the extent
permitted by law). A Distribution is payable only to the extent that payments are made in respect of the Notes held by the Property Trustee and to the extent the Property Trustee has funds available therefor. In the event that any date on which a
Distribution is payable on the Securities is not a Business Day, then payment of interest payable on such date shall be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay),
with the same force and effect as if made on the date such payment was originally payable. The amount of interest payable for any Distribution Period will be calculated by applying the Coupon Rate to the principal amount outstanding at the
commencement of the Distribution Period and multiplying each such amount by the actual number of days in the Distribution Period concerned divided by 360. All percentages resulting from any calculations on the Securities will be rounded, if
necessary, to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upward (e.g., 9.876545% or .09876545 being rounded to 9.87655% or .0987655), and all dollar amounts used in or resulting
from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upward). 
 “3-Month LIBOR”
means the London interbank offered rate for three-month, U.S. dollar deposits determined by the Note Trustee in the following order of priority: 
 (1) the rate (expressed as a percentage per annum) for U.S. dollar deposits of an amount equal or comparable to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Notes having a three-month maturity that appears on Telerate Page
3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the particular Determination Date (as defined below). “Telerate Page 3750” means the display designated as “Page 3750” on the Dow Jones Telerate Service or such other page as may
replace Page 3750 on that service or such other service or services as may be nominated by the British Bankers’ Association as the information vendor for the purpose of displaying London interbank offered rates for U.S. dollar deposits;

 (2) if such rate does not appear on Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Determination Date, 3-Month
LIBOR will be the arithmetic mean of the rates (expressed as percentages per annum) for U.S. dollar deposits of an amount equal or comparable to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Notes having a three-month maturity that appear on Reuters
Monitor Money Rates Page LIBO (“Reuters Page LIBO”) as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Determination Date; 
 (3) if such rate does not appear on Reuters Page LIBO as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the related Determination Date, the Note Trustee will request the principal London offices of four leading banks in the London interbank market to
provide such banks’ offered quotations (expressed as percentages per annum) to prime banks in the London interbank market for U.S. dollar deposits of an amount equal or comparable to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Notes having a
three-month maturity as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Determination Date. If at least two quotations are provided, 3-Month LIBOR will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations; and 
  

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 (4) if fewer than two such quotations are provided as requested in clause (3) above,
the Note Trustee will request four major New York City banks to provide such banks’ offered quotations (expressed as percentages per annum) to leading European banks for loans in U.S. dollars of an amount equal or comparable to the aggregate
liquidation amount of the Notes as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Determination Date. If at least two such quotations are provided, 3-Month LIBOR will be the arithmetic mean of such quotations. 
 If the rate for U.S. dollar deposits of an amount equal or comparable to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Notes having a three-month maturity that
initially appears on Telerate Page 3750 or Reuters Page LIBO, as the case may be, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the related Determination Date is superseded on the Telerate page 3750 or Reuters Page LIBO, as the case may be, by a corrected rate
by 12:00 noon (London time) on such Determination Date, then the corrected rate as so substituted on the applicable page will be the applicable 3-Month LIBOR for such Determination Date. 
 (5) The Coupon Rate for any Distribution Period will at no time be higher than the maximum rate then permitted by North Carolina law as
the same may be modified by United States law. 
 “Determination Date” means the date that is two London Banking Days (i.e.,
a day in which dealings in deposits in U.S. dollars are transacted in the London interbank market) preceding the particular Distribution Period for which a Coupon Rate is being determined. 
 On each Determination Date, the Note Trustee shall notify, in writing, the Company and the Paying Agent of the applicable Coupon Rate in effect for the
related Distribution Period. The Note Trustee shall, upon the request of the Holder of any Securities, provide the Coupon Rate then in effect. All calculations made by the Note Trustee in the absence of manifest error shall be conclusive for all
purposes and binding on the Company and the Holders of the Securities. The Paying Agent shall be entitled to rely on information received from the Note Trustee or the Company as to the Coupon Rate. The Company shall, from time to time, provide any
necessary information to the Paying Agent relating to any original issue discount and interest on the Securities that is included in any payment and reportable for taxable income calculation purposes. 
 (b) Distributions on the Securities will be cumulative, will accumulate from the most recent date to which Distributions have been paid or, if no
Distributions have been paid, from the date of original issuance, and will be payable quarterly in arrears on April 1, July 1, October 1 and January 1 of each year, commencing on October 1, 2008 (each a
“Distribution Date”), except as otherwise described below. As long as no Event of Default pursuant to Section 5.01 (c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture, the Note Issuer has the right
under the Indenture to defer payments of interest by extending the interest payment period at any time and from time to time on the Notes for a period not exceeding 20 consecutive quarterly periods, including the first such quarterly period during
such period (each an “Extension Period”), provided that no Extension Period shall extend beyond the stated maturity date of the Notes (the “Stated Maturity”). Upon any such election, written notice of which will be given to
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Extension Period. Notwithstanding such deferral, Distributions to which Holders of Securities are entitled shall continue to accumulate with additional
Distributions thereon (to the extent permitted by applicable law but not at a rate greater than the rate at which interest is then accruing on the Notes) at the Coupon Rate compounded quarterly from the relevant Distribution Date, during any such
Extension Period. Prior to the expiration of any such Extension Period, the Note Issuer may further defer payments of interest by further extending such Extension Period; provided that such Extension Period, together with all such previous and
further extensions within such Extension Period, may not exceed 20 consecutive quarterly periods, including the first quarterly period during such Extension Period, or extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the Notes. Upon the expiration of any
Extension Period and the payment of all amounts then due, the Note Issuer may commence a new Extension Period, subject to the above requirements and provided that no Event of Default pursuant to Section 5.01 (c), (e), (f), (g) or
(h) has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture. 
 (c) Distributions on the Securities will be payable to the Holders thereof as
they appear on the books and records of the Registrar at the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day) of the month next preceding the relevant Distribution Date. Subject to any applicable laws and regulations and the
provisions of the Trust Agreement, each such payment in respect of the Preferred Securities will be made by check mailed or wired to the address of the Holder thereof as reflected in the records of the Registrar unless otherwise agreed by the Trust.
The relevant record dates for the Common Securities shall be the same as the record dates for the Preferred Securities. Distributions payable on any Securities that are not punctually paid on any Distribution Date, as a result of the Note Issuer
having failed to make a payment under the Notes, will cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant record date, and such defaulted Distribution will instead be payable to the Person in whose name such Securities are registered on the special
record date or other specified date determined in accordance with the Indenture. 
 (d) In the event that there is any money or other
property held by or for the Trust that is not accounted for hereunder, such property shall be distributed Pro Rata (as defined herein) pursuant to Section 8 among the Holders of the Securities. 
  

	 	3.	Liquidation Distribution Upon Dissolution. 

 In the
event of any termination of the Trust or the Company otherwise gives notice of its election to liquidate the Trust pursuant to Section 8.1(a)(iii) of the Trust Agreement, the Trust shall be liquidated by the Administrative Trustees as
expeditiously as the Administrative Trustees determine to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by applicable law, to the Holders of the Securities a Like Amount (as defined below) of
the Notes, unless such distribution is determined by the Property Trustee not to be practicable, in which event such Holders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Trust legally available for distribution to Holders, after satisfaction
of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the aggregate of the Liquidation Amount of $1,000 per Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the
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 “Like Amount” means (i) with respect to a prepayment of the Securities, Securities having
a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal amount of Notes to be paid in accordance with their terms and (ii) with respect to a distribution of Notes upon the liquidation of the Trust, Notes having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation
Amount of the Securities of the Holder to whom such Notes are distributed. 
 If, upon any such liquidation, the Liquidation Distribution can
be paid only in part because the Trust has insufficient assets on hand legally available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then the amounts payable directly by the Trust on the Securities shall be paid on a Pro Rata basis as set
forth in Section 8. 
  

	 	4.	Prepayment and Distribution. 

 (a) Upon the
repayment of the Notes on the Stated Maturity thereof or prepayment thereof prior thereto in accordance with the terms thereof, the proceeds from such repayment or prepayment shall be simultaneously applied by the Property Trustee (subject to the
Property Trustee having received notice no later than 45 days prior to such repayment or prepayment) to redeem a Like Amount of the Securities at a prepayment price equal to 100% of the Liquidation Amount of the Securities, plus accumulated and
unpaid Distributions thereon, if any, to the date of such prepayment (the “Prepayment Price”). Holders will be given not less than 30 nor more than 60 days notice of such prepayment. 
 (b) Subject to the approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (the “Federal Reserve”) on any Distribution Date, the Note Issuer
shall have the right to prepay the Notes in whole or in part, from time to time, and simultaneous with such prepayment, to cause a Like Amount of the Securities to be redeemed by the Trust at the Prepayment Price on a Pro Rata basis. 
 (c) On and from the date fixed by the Administrative Trustees for any distribution of Notes and liquidation of the Trust: (i) the Securities will no
longer be deemed to be outstanding, (ii) any certificates representing Securities will be deemed to represent beneficial interests in a Like Amount of Notes until such certificates are presented to the Administrative Trustees or their agent for
cancellation, whereupon the Note Issuer will issue to such holder, and the Note Trustee will authenticate, a certificate representing such Notes. 
 (d) The procedure with respect to prepayments of Securities, or distributions of Notes in exchange therefor, shall be as follows: 
 (i) If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected on a pro rata basis (as determined in accordance with paragraph 8 below), or by such other method as
the Property Trustee deems fair and appropriate, not more than 60 days prior to the date of prepayment by the Property Trustee from the outstanding Securities not previously called for prepayment. 
 (ii) Notice of any prepayment of, or notice of distribution of Notes in exchange for, the Securities (a “Prepayment/Distribution
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prepayment, will be the date fixed for repayment or prepayment of the Notes. For purposes of the calculation of the date of prepayment or exchange and the
dates on which notices are given pursuant to this Section 4(d)(i), a Prepayment/Distribution Notice shall be deemed to be given on the day such notice is first mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to Holders of Securities. Each
Prepayment/Distribution Notice shall be addressed to the Holders of Securities at the address of each such Holder appearing in the books and records of the Registrar. No defect in the Prepayment/Distribution Notice or in the mailing of either
thereof with respect to any Holder shall affect the validity of the prepayment or exchange proceedings with respect to any other Holder. 
 (iii) If Securities are to be redeemed and the Trust gives a Prepayment/Distribution Notice, (which notice will be irrevocable), then provided that the Note Issuer has paid the Property Trustee a sufficient amount of
cash in connection with the related maturity or prepayment of the Notes, the Property Trustee will pay the relevant Prepayment Price to the Holders of such Securities by check mailed or wired to the address of the relevant Holder appearing on the
books and records of the Trust on the prepayment date. If a Prepayment/Distribution Notice shall have been given and funds deposited as required and Notes have been presented, if applicable, then immediately prior to the close of business on the
date of such deposit, or on the prepayment date, as applicable, Distributions will cease to accumulate on the Securities so called for prepayment and all rights of Holders of such Securities so called for prepayment will cease, except the right of
the Holders of such Securities to receive the Prepayment Price, but without interest on such Prepayment Price, and such Securities shall cease to be outstanding. 
 (iv) Payment of accumulated and unpaid Distributions on the Prepayment Date of the Securities will be subject to the rights of Holders of
Securities on the close of business on a regular record date in respect of a Distribution Date occurring on or prior to such Prepayment Date. 
 (v) Neither the Administrative Trustees nor the Trust shall be required to register or cause to be registered the transfer of (i) any Securities beginning on the opening of business 15 days before the day of
mailing of a notice of prepayment or any notice of selection of Securities for prepayment or (ii) any Securities selected for prepayment. If any date fixed for prepayment of Securities is not a Business Day, then payment of the Prepayment Price
payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), with the same force and effect as if made on such date fixed for prepayment. If payment of
the Prepayment Price in respect of any Securities is improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by the Property Trustee or the Paying Agent or by the Company as guarantor pursuant to the relevant Securities Guarantee, Distributions on such
Securities will continue to accumulate from the original prepayment date to the actual date of payment, in which case the actual payment date will be considered the date fixed for prepayment for purposes of calculating the Prepayment Price.

 (vi) Prepayment/Distribution Notices shall be sent by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust to (A) in respect of
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 (vii) Subject to the foregoing and applicable law (including, without limitation, United
States federal securities laws and banking laws), provided the acquiror is not the Holder of the Common Securities or the obligor under the Indenture, the Company or any of its Affiliates may at any time and from time to time purchase outstanding
Preferred Securities by tender, in the open market or by private agreement. 
  

	 	5.	Voting Rights - Preferred Securities. 

 (a) Except
as provided under Sections 5(b) and 7 and as otherwise required by law and the Trust Agreement, the Holders of the Preferred Securities will have no voting rights. 
 (b) So long as any Notes are held by the Property Trustee, the Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Note Trustee, or executing any
trust or power conferred on such Note Trustee with respect to the Notes, (ii) waive any past default that is waivable under Section 5.07 of the Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration of acceleration of
the maturity of the principal of the Notes or (iv) consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Notes, where such consent shall be required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of
a Majority in Liquidation Amount of all outstanding Preferred Securities; provided, however, that where a consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each holder of Notes affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the Property
Trustee without the prior approval of each Holder of the Preferred Securities. The Trustees shall not revoke any action previously authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of the Preferred Securities except by subsequent vote of such Holders.
The Property Trustee shall notify each Holder of Preferred Securities of any notice of default with respect to the Notes. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of such Holders of the Preferred Securities, prior to taking any of the
foregoing actions, the Trustees shall obtain an opinion of counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that the Trust will not be classified as an association taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes on account of
such action. 
 If an Event of Default under the Trust Agreement has occurred and is continuing and such event is attributable to the failure
of the Note Issuer to pay principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes on any due date (including any Interest Payment Date or prepayment date or Stated Maturity), then a Holder of Preferred Securities may directly institute a
proceeding for enforcement of payment to such Holder of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on a Like Amount of Notes (a “Direct Action”) on or after the respective due date specified in the Notes. In connection with such
Direct Action, the rights of the Common Securities Holder will be subrogated to the rights of such Holder of Preferred Securities to the extent of any payment made by the Note Issuer to such Holder of Preferred Securities in such Direct Action.
Except as provided in the second preceding sentence, the Holders of Preferred Securities will not be able to exercise directly any other remedy available to the holders of the Notes. 
 Any approval or direction of Holders of Preferred Securities may be given at a separate meeting of Holders of Preferred Securities convened for such
purpose, at a meeting of all of the Holders of Securities in the Trust or pursuant to written consent. The Property Trustee will cause a notice of any meeting at which Holders of Preferred Securities are entitled to vote, or of any matter upon which
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each Holder of record of Preferred Securities. Each such notice will include a statement setting forth (i) the date of such meeting or the date by which
such action is to be taken, (ii) a description of any resolution proposed for adoption at such meeting on which such Holders are entitled to vote or of such matter upon which written consent is sought and (iii) instructions for the
delivery of proxies or consents. 
 No vote or consent of the Holders of the Preferred Securities will be required for the Trust to redeem
and cancel Preferred Securities or to distribute the Notes in accordance with the Trust Agreement and the terms of the Securities. 
 Notwithstanding that Holders of Preferred Securities are entitled to vote or consent under any of the circumstances described above, any of the Preferred Securities that are owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall not be
entitled to vote or consent and shall, for purposes of such vote or consent, be treated as if they were not outstanding. 
  

	 	6.	Voting Rights - Common Securities. 

 (a) Except as
provided under Sections 6(b), 6(c), and 7 as otherwise required by law and the Trust Agreement, the Holders of the Common Securities will have no voting rights. 
 (b) Unless a Note Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, any Trustee may be removed at any time by the Holder of the Common Securities. If a Note Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee may be removed at such time by the holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the outstanding Preferred Securities. In no event will the Holders of the Preferred Securities have the right to vote to
appoint, remove or replace the Administrative Trustees, which voting rights are vested exclusively in the Company as the holder of the Common Securities. No resignation or removal of a Trustee and no appointment of a successor trustee shall be
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee in accordance with the provisions of the Trust Agreement. 
 (c) So
long as any Notes are held by the Property Trustee, the Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Note Trustee, or executing any trust or power conferred on such Note
Trustee with respect to the Notes, (ii) waive any past default that is waivable under Section 5.07 of the Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration of acceleration of the maturity of the principal of the
Notes or (iv) consent to any amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Notes, where such consent shall be required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of
all outstanding Common Securities; provided, however, that where a consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each holder of Notes affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the Property Trustee without the prior approval of
each Holder of the Common Securities. The Trustees shall not revoke any action previously authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of the Common Securities except by subsequent vote of such Holders. The Property Trustee shall notify each
Holder of Common Securities of any notice of default with respect to the Notes. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of such Holders of the Common Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Trustees shall obtain an
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in such matters to the effect that the Trust will not be classified as an association taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes
on account of such action. 
 If an Event of Default under the Trust Agreement has occurred and is continuing and such event is attributable
to the failure of the Note Issuer to pay principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes on the due date (including any Interest Payment Date or prepayment date or Stated Maturity) (or in the case of prepayment, on the prepayment date),
then a Holder of Common Securities may institute a Direct Action for enforcement of payment to such Holder of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on a Like Amount of Notes on or after the respective due date specified in the Notes. In
connection with Direct Action, the rights of the Holders of Preferred Securities will be subrogated to the rights of such Holder of Common Securities to the extent of any payment made by the Note Issuer to such Holder of Common Securities in such
Direct Action. Except as provided in the second preceding sentence, the Holders of Common Securities will not be able to exercise directly any other remedy available to the holders of the Notes. 
 Any approval or direction of Holders of Common Securities may be given at a separate meeting of Holders of Common Securities convened for such purpose,
at a meeting of all of the Holders of Securities in the Trust or pursuant to written consent. The Administrative Trustees will cause a notice of any meeting at which Holders of Common Securities are entitled to vote, or of any matter upon which
action by written consent of such Holders is to be taken, to be mailed to each Holder of record of Common Securities. Each such notice will include a statement setting forth (i) the date of such meeting or the date by which such action is to be
taken, (ii) a description of any resolution proposed for adoption at such meeting on which such Holders are entitled to vote or of such matter upon which written consent is sought and (iii) instructions for the delivery of proxies or
consents. 
 No vote or consent of the Holders of the Common Securities will be required for the Trust to redeem and cancel Common Securities
or to distribute the Notes in accordance with the Trust Agreement and the terms of the Securities. 
  

	 	7.	Amendments to Trust Agreement and Indenture. 

 In
addition to the requirements set out in Section 12.1 of the Trust Agreement, the Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Company and the Trustees, without the consent of the Holders of the Securities (i) to cure any
ambiguity, correct or supplement any provisions in the Trust Agreement that may be inconsistent with any other provisions, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under the Trust Agreement which shall not be
inconsistent with the other provisions of the Trust Agreement, or (ii) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of the Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary (A) to ensure that the Trust will be classified for United
States federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust at all times that any Securities are outstanding, (B) to ensure that the Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act, or
(C) to ensure that the proceeds from the sale of the Securities will constitute “tier 1 capital” under capital adequacy requirements which may be applicable to the Company; provided, however, that in the case of clause
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Agreement pursuant to the foregoing shall become effective when notice thereof is given to the holders of the Securities. The Trust Agreement also may be
amended by the Trustees and the Company with (i) the consent of Holders representing a Majority in Liquidation Amount of all outstanding Securities, and (ii) receipt by the Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such
amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Trustees in accordance with such amendment will not affect the Trust’s status as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes or the Trust’s exemption from status as an
investment company under the Investment Company Act, provided that, without the consent of each Holder of Trust Securities, the Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any Distribution on the Trust
Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a specified date or (ii) restrict the right of a Holder of Securities to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment on or after such date. 
  

	 	8.	Pro Rata. 

 A reference in these terms of the
Securities to any payment, distribution or treatment as being “Pro Rata” shall mean pro rata to each Holder of Securities according to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Securities held by the relevant Holder in relation to the
aggregate Liquidation Amount of all Securities outstanding unless, in relation to a payment, an Event of Default under the Trust Agreement has occurred and is continuing, in which case any funds available to make such payment shall be paid first to
each Holder of the Preferred Securities pro rata according to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities held by the relevant Holder relative to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all Preferred Securities outstanding, and only after
satisfaction of all amounts owed to the Holders of the Preferred Securities, to each Holder of Common Securities pro rata according to the aggregate liquidation amount of Common Securities held by the relevant Holder relative to the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of all Common Securities outstanding. 
  

	 	9.	Ranking. 

 The Preferred Securities rank pari passu
with the Common Securities and payment thereon shall be made Pro Rata with the Common Securities, except that, if an Event of Default under the Trust Agreement occurs and is continuing, no payments in respect of Distributions on, or payments upon
liquidation, prepayment or otherwise with respect to, the Common Securities shall be made until the Holders of the Preferred Securities shall be paid in full the Distributions, Prepayment Price, Liquidation Distribution and other payments to which
they are entitled at such time. 
  

	 	10.	Acceptance of Securities Guarantee and Indenture. 

 Each Holder of Preferred Securities and Common Securities, by the acceptance thereof, agrees to the provisions of the Preferred Securities Guarantee, including the subordination provisions therein and to the provisions of the Indenture.

  

	 	11.	No Preemptive Rights. 

  

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 The Holders of the Securities shall have no preemptive rights or similar rights to subscribe for any
additional securities. 
  

	 	12.	Miscellaneous. 

 These terms constitute a part of
the Trust Agreement. 
 The Company will provide a copy of the Trust Agreement, the Guarantee (as may be appropriate) and the Indenture
(including any supplemental indenture) to a Holder without charge on written request to the Company at its principal place of business. 
  

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 EXHIBIT A-1 
 FORM OF PREFERRED SECURITY CERTIFICATE 
 [FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY] 
  

									
	Certificate Number	 		 		 		  	Number of Preferred Securities
	________	 		 		 		  	________

 Certificate Evidencing Preferred Securities 
 of 
 WACCAMAW STATUTORY TRUST II 
 Floating Rate Preferred Securities 
 (Liquidation Amount $1,000 per Preferred Security)

 WACCAMAW STATUTORY TRUST II, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Trust”), hereby certifies
that                      (the “Holder”) is the registered owner of
                     Preferred Securities of the Trust representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust designated the
Floating Rate Preferred Securities (Liquidation Amount $1,000 per Preferred Security) (the “Preferred Securities”). The Preferred Securities are transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized
attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer. The designation, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Preferred Securities represented hereby are issued and
shall in all respects be subject to the provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of July 18, 2008, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), including the designation of
the terms of the Preferred Securities as set forth in Annex I to the Trust Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning given them in the Trust Agreement. The Company will provide a copy of the Trust Agreement, the
Preferred Securities Guarantee and the Indenture to a Holder without charge upon written request to the Trust at its principal place of business. 
 Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder and to the benefits of the Preferred Securities Guarantee to the extent provided therein. 
 By its acceptance hereof, the Holder agrees to treat, for United States federal income tax purposes, the Notes as indebtedness and the Preferred
Securities as evidence of indirect beneficial ownership in the Notes. 
 The Preferred Securities are not deposits and are not insured by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any governmental agency. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, an Administrative Trustee on behalf of the Trust has duly executed this certificate.

  

									
	Date:                  , 2008	 		 	WACCAMAW STATUTORY TRUST II
					
		 		 		 	By:	 	 
		 		 		 	Name:	 	 
		 		 		 	Administrative Trustee

 PROPERTY TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 
 This is one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Trust Agreement. 
  

			
	 WILMINGTON TRUST,
 as Property
Trustee

		
	By:	 	 
	Name: 	 	 
	Authorized Officer

  

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 [FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY] 
 Distributions will be payable on each Preferred Security for the period beginning on (and including) the date of original issuance and ending on (but
excluding) October 1, 2008 at the Coupon Rate, as defined below. Thereafter, distributions payable on each Preferred Security will be fixed at a variable rate per annum of 3-Month LIBOR (as defined in the Trust Agreement) plus 4.00% (the
“Coupon Rate”) of the Liquidation Amount of $1,000 per Preferred Security reset quarterly, such rate being the rate of interest payable on the Notes to be held by the Property Trustee. Distributions in arrears for more than one quarterly
period will bear interest thereon compounded quarterly at the Coupon Rate (to the extent permitted by applicable law). The Coupon Rate for any quarterly period will be determined for that period on the second business day immediately preceding the
first day of each quarterly period. The term “Distributions,” as used herein, includes such cash distributions and any such interest payable unless otherwise stated. A Distribution is payable only to the extent that payments are made in
respect of the Notes held by the Property Trustee and to the extent the Property Trustee has funds on hand legally available therefor. 
 Distributions on the Preferred Securities will be cumulative, will accumulate from the most recent date to which Distributions have been paid or, if any Distributions have not been paid, from the date of original issuance, and will be
payable quarterly in arrears, on April 1, July 1, October 1 and January 1 of each year, commencing on October 1, 2008, except as otherwise described below and in the Trust Agreement. Distributions for any
Distribution Period (as defined in the Trust Agreement) will be calculated by applying the Coupon Rate to the principal amount outstanding at the commencement of the Distribution Period, and multiplying each such amount by the actual number of days
in the Distribution Period concerned divided by 360. As long as no Event of Default pursuant to Section 5.01 (c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture, the Note Issuer has the right under the
Indenture to defer payments of interest by extending the interest payment period at any time and from time to time on the Notes for a period not exceeding 20 consecutive calendar quarterly periods, including the first such quarterly period during
such extension period (each an “Extension Period”), provided that no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the Notes. As a consequence of such deferral, Distributions will also be deferred. Despite such deferral,
quarterly Distributions will continue to accumulate with interest thereon (to the extent permitted by applicable law, but not at a rate exceeding the rate of interest then accruing on the Notes) at the Coupon Rate compounded quarterly during any
such Extension Period. Prior to the termination of any such Extension Period, the Note Issuer may further defer payments of interest by further extending such Extension Period; provided that such Extension Period, together with all such previous and
further extensions within such Extension Period, may not exceed 20 consecutive quarterly periods, including the first quarterly period during such Extension Period, or extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the Notes. Payments of Distributions that
have accumulated but not been paid during any Extension Period will be payable to Holders as they appear on the books and records of the Trust on the records of the Trust on the record date for the first scheduled Distribution payment date following
the expiration of such first record date after the end of the Extension Period. Upon the expiration of any Extension Period and the payment of all amounts then due, the Note Issuer may commence a new Extension Period, subject to the above
requirements and provided that no Event of Default pursuant to Section 5.01 (c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture. 
  

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 Subject to certain conditions set forth in the Trust Agreement and the Indenture, the Property Trustee
shall, at the direction of the Company, at any time liquidate the Trust and cause the Notes to be distributed to the holders of the Securities in liquidation of the Trust or, simultaneous with any prepayment of the Notes, cause a Like Amount of the
Securities to be redeemed by the Trust. 
 The Preferred Securities shall be redeemable as provided in the Trust Agreement. 
  

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 THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION
THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT. 
 THE HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH
PREFERRED SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE TRUST, (II) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT)
IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (III) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (a) (1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING THE
SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR,” FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (IV) PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (V) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER
APPLICABLE JURISDICTION AND, IN THE CASE OF (III) OR (V), SUBJECT TO THE RIGHT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR TO REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL AND OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF
ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE. 
 THE PREFERRED SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED
ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF LESS
THAN $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH PREFERRED
SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF OR DISTRIBUTIONS ON SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, AND SUCH 

  

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PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES. 
 THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE
“CODE”) (EACH A “PLAN”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER
APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, ARE NOT PROHIBITED BY SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PURCHASE AND HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED
SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT EITHER (i) IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR OTHER PLAN TO WHICH TITLE I OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A
TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF ANY SUCH EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY SUCH EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE, OR (ii) SUCH PURCHASE OR
HOLDING WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE FOR WHICH FULL EXEMPTIVE RELIEF IS NOT AVAILABLE UNDER AN APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION. 
 THIS OBLIGATION IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
(THE “FDIC”). 
  

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 ASSIGNMENT 
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred Security Certificate to: 
 ______________________________________________

 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ 
 (Insert assignee’s social security or tax identification number) 
 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ 
 (Insert address and zip code of assignee) 
 and irrevocably appoints

 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ agent to transfer this Preferred Security
Certificate on the books of the Trust. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her. 
 Date:
                     
 Signature:
                                         
                            
 (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred Security Certificate) 
 Signature Guarantee*:
                                         
                            
  

	*	Signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” that is a bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union meeting the requirements of
the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to,
or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

  

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 EXHIBIT A-2 
 FORM OF COMMON SECURITY CERTIFICATE 
 THIS COMMON SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”) OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAW. 
  

					
	Certificate Number	 		  	Number of Common Securities
	        ________        	 		  	________

 Certificate Evidencing Common Securities 
 of 
 WACCAMAW STATUTORY TRUST II 
 Floating Rate Common Securities 
 (Liquidation Amount $1,000.00 per Common Security)

 WACCAMAW STATUTORY TRUST II, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Trust”), hereby certifies
that Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc. (the “Holder”) is the registered owner of                  common securities of the Trust representing undivided
beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust designated the Floating Rate Common Securities (liquidation amount $1,000.00 per Common Security) (the “Common Securities”). The Common Securities are transferable on the books and records of
the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer. The designation, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Common
Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the provisions of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of July 18, 2008, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Trust
Agreement”), including the designation of the terms of the Common Securities as set forth in Annex I to the Trust Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning given them in the Trust Agreement. The Company
will provide a copy of the Trust Agreement and the Indenture (including any supplemental indenture) to a Holder without charge upon written request to the Company at its principal place of business. 
 Upon receipt of this certificate, the Company is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder. 
 By its acceptance hereof, the Holder agrees to treat, for United States federal income tax purposes, the Notes as indebtedness and the Common Securities
as evidence of indirect beneficial ownership in the Notes. 
 This Security is not a deposit and is not insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation or any governmental agency. 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, an Administrative Trustee on behalf of the Trust has duly executed
this certificate. 
  

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	Date:                     	 		 	WACCAMAW STATUTORY TRUST II
					
		 		 		 	By:	 	 
		 		 		 	Name:	 	 
		 		 		 	Administrative Trustee

  

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 [FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY] 
 Distributions will be payable on each Common Security for the period beginning on (and including) the date of original issuance and ending on (but
excluding) October 1, 2008, at the Coupon Rate, as defined below. Thereafter, distributions payable on each Common Security will be fixed at a variable rate per annum of 3-Month LIBOR (as defined in the Trust Agreement) plus 4.00% (the
“Coupon Rate”) of the liquidation amount of $1,000 per Common Security reset quarterly, such rate being the rate of interest payable on the Notes to be held by the Property Trustee. Distributions in arrears for more than one quarterly
period will bear interest thereon compounded quarterly at the Coupon Rate (to the extent permitted by applicable law). The Coupon Rate for any quarterly period will be determined for that period on the second business day immediately preceding the
first day of such quarterly period. The term “Distributions”, as used herein, includes such cash distributions and any such interest payable unless otherwise stated. A Distribution is payable only to the extent that payments are made in
respect of the Notes held by the Property Trustee and to the extent the Property Trustee has funds available therefor. 
 Distributions on
the Common Securities will be cumulative, will accrue from the most recent date to which Distributions have been paid or, if no Distributions have been paid, from the date of original issuance, and will be payable quarterly in arrears
April 1, July 1, October 1 and January 1 of each year, commencing on October 1, 2008, except as otherwise described below and in the Trust Agreement. Distributions for any Distribution Period (as defined in the
Trust Agreement) will be calculated by applying the Coupon Rate to the principal amount at the commencement of the Distribution Period, and multiplying each such amount by the actual number of days in the Distribution Period concerned divided by
360. As long as no Event of Default pursuant to Section 5.01 (c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture, the Note Issuer has the right under the Indenture to defer payments of interest by extending
the interest payment period at any time and from time to time on the Notes for a period not exceeding 20 consecutive calendar quarterly periods, including the first such quarterly period during such extension period (each an “Extension
Period”), provided that no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the Notes. As a consequence of such deferral, Distributions will also be deferred. Despite such deferral, Distributions will continue to accumulate with
interest thereon (to the extent permitted by applicable law, but not at a rate exceeding the rate of interest then accruing on the Notes) at the Coupon Rate compounded quarterly during any such Extension Period. Prior to the termination of any such
Extension Period, the Note Issuer may further defer payments of interest by further extending such Extension Period; provided that such Extension Period, together with all such previous and further extensions within such Extension Period, may not
exceed 20 consecutive quarterly periods, including the first quarterly period during such Extension Period, or extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the Notes. Payments of Distributions that have accumulated will be payable to Holders as they appear
on the books and records of the Trust on the record date for the first Distribution Date following the expiration of such Extension Period. Upon the expiration of any Extension Period and the payment of all amounts then due, the Note Issuer may
commence a new Extension Period, subject to the above requirements and provided that no Event of Default pursuant to Section 5.01 (c), (e), (f), (g) or (h) has occurred and is continuing under the Indenture. 
  

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 Subject to certain conditions set forth in the Trust Agreement and the Indenture, the Property Trustee
shall, at the direction of the Company, at any time liquidate the Trust and cause the Notes to be distributed to the holders to the Securities in liquidation of the Trust or, simultaneous with any prepayment of the Notes, cause a Like Amount of the
Securities to be redeemed by the Trust. 
 The Common Securities shall be redeemable as provided in the Trust Agreement. 
 THIS COMMON SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT TO WACCAMAW BANKSHARES, INC. OR A RELATED PARTY (AS DEFINED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT). 
  

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 ASSIGNMENT 
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Common Security Certificate to: 
 ______________________________________________

 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ 
 (Insert assignee’s social security or tax identification number) 
 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ 
 (Insert address and zip code of assignee) 
 and irrevocably appoints

 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ 
 ______________________________________________ agent to transfer this Common Security Certificate
on the books of the Trust. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her. 
 Date:
                     
 Signature:
                                         
                                        

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Common Security Certificate) 
 Signature Guarantee*:
                                         
                                        

 

	*	Signature must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” that is a bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union meeting the requirements of
the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to,
or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 

  

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 Exhibit 10.2 
 GUARANTEE AGREEMENT 
 WACCAMAW BANKSHARES, INC. 
 JULY 18, 2008 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
	 ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
	  	1
			
	 SECTION 1.1
	  	 DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
	  	1
		
	 ARTICLE II TRUST INDENTURE ACT
	  	4
			
	 SECTION 2.1
	  	 TRUST INDENTURE ACT; APPLICATION
	  	4
	 SECTION 2.2
	  	 LISTS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES
	  	4
	 SECTION 2.3
	  	 REPORTS BY THE GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
	  	5
	 SECTION 2.4
	  	 PERIODIC REPORTS TO GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
	  	6
	 SECTION 2.5
	  	 EVIDENCE OF COMPLIANCE WITH CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

	  	8
	 SECTION 2.6
	  	 EVENTS OF DEFAULT; WAIVER
	  	8
	 SECTION 2.7
	  	 EVENT OF DEFAULT; NOTICE
	  	8
		
	 ARTICLE III POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
	  	9
			
	 SECTION 3.1
	  	 POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE GUARANTEE
TRUSTEE
	  	9
	 SECTION 3.2
	  	 CERTAIN RIGHTS OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
	  	10
	 SECTION 3.3
	  	 NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE
OF GUARANTEE
	  	12
		
	 ARTICLE IV GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
	  	12
			
	 SECTION 4.1
	  	 APPOINTMENT, REMOVAL AND RESIGNATION OF GUARANTEE
TRUSTEE
	  	12
	 SECTION 4.2
	  	 GURANTEE TRUSTEE; ELIGIBILITY
	  	13
		
	 ARTICLE V GUARANTEE
	  	13
			
	 SECTION 5.1
	  	 GUARANTEE
	  	13
	 SECTION 5.2
	  	 WAIVER OF NOTICE AND DEMAND
	  	14
	 SECTION 5.3
	  	 OBLIGATIONS NOT AFFECTED
	  	14
	 SECTION 5.4
	  	 RIGHTS OF HOLDERS
	  	15
	 SECTION 5.5
	  	 GUARANTEE OF PAYMENT
	  	15
	 SECTION 5.6
	  	 SUBROGATION
	  	15
	 SECTION 5.7
	  	 INDEPENDENT OBLIGATIONS
	  	15
		
	 ARTICLE VI LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS; SUBORDINATION
	  	16
			
	 SECTION 6.1
	  	 LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS
	  	16
	 SECTION 6.2
	  	 RANKING
	  	16
		
	 ARTICLE VII TERMINATION
	  	17
			
	 SECTION 7.1
	  	 TERMINATION
	  	17
		
	 ARTICLE VIII INDEMNIFICATION
	  	17
			
	 SECTION 8.1
	  	 EXCULPATION
	  	17
	 SECTION 8.2
	  	 INDEMNIFICATION
	  	18
		
	 ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS
	  	18
			
	 SECTION 9.1
	  	 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
	  	18
	 SECTION 9.2
	  	 AMENDMENTS
	  	18
	 SECTION 9.3
	  	 NOTICES
	  	18
	 SECTION 9.4
	  	 BENEFIT
	  	19
	 SECTION 9.5
	  	 GOVERNING LAW
	  	19
	 SECTION 9.6
	  	 COUNTERPARTS
	  	20

  

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 GUARANTEE AGREEMENT 
 This GUARANTEE AGREEMENT (the “Guarantee”), dated as of July 18, 2008, is executed and delivered by Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc., a North Carolina corporation (the “Guarantor”), and Wilmington
Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee (the “Guarantee Trustee”), for the benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) from time to time of the Preferred Securities (as defined herein) of Waccamaw Statutory Trust II, a
Delaware statutory business trust (the “Issuer”). 
 WHEREAS, pursuant to an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (the “Trust
Agreement”), dated as of July 18, 2008, among the trustees of the Issuer, the Guarantor, and the holders from time to time of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer, the Issuer (i) is issuing on the date hereof up
to 4,000 preferred securities, having an aggregate liquidation amount of up to $4,000,000, such preferred securities being designated the Floating Rate Preferred Securities (collectively, the “Preferred Securities”). 
 WHEREAS, as incentive for the Holders to purchase the Preferred Securities, the Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally to agree, to the extent
set forth in this Guarantee, to pay to the Holders of the Preferred Securities the Guarantee Payments (as defined below). The Guarantor agrees to make certain other payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each Holder of Preferred Securities, which purchase the Guarantor hereby acknowledges shall benefit
the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee for the benefit of the Holders. 
 ARTICLE I 
 DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION 
 SECTION 1.1
Definitions and Interpretation 
 In this Guarantee, unless the context otherwise requires: 
 (a) capitalized terms used in this Guarantee but not defined in the preamble above have the respective meanings assigned to them in this
Section 1.1; 
 (b) terms defined in the Trust Agreement as of the date of execution of this Guarantee have the same meaning when used
in this Guarantee unless otherwise defined in this Guarantee; 
 (c) a term defined anywhere in this Guarantee has the same meaning
throughout; 
 (d) all references to “the Guarantee” or “this Guarantee” are to this Guarantee as modified, supplemented
or amended from time to time; 
  

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 (e) all references in this Guarantee to Articles and Sections are to Articles and Sections of this
Guarantee, unless otherwise specified; and 
 (f) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa. 
 As used in this Guarantee Agreement, the terms set forth below shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings: 
 “Affiliate” has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor rule
thereunder. 
 “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday, or a day on which banking institutions in the
City of New York, Wilmington, Delaware or Whiteville, North Carolina are authorized or required by law or executive order to close. 
 “Common Securities” means the securities representing common undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer. 
 “Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Guarantee Trustee at which the corporate trust business of the Guarantee Trustee shall, at any particular time, be principally administered, which office at the date of
execution of this Agreement is located at Wilmington Trust Company, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration. 
 “Covered Person” means any Holder or beneficial owner of Preferred Securities. 
 “Event of Default” means a default by the Guarantor on any of its payment or other obligations under this Guarantee; provided, that
except with respect to a default in payment of any Guarantee Payments, the Guarantor shall have received notice of default from the Guarantee Trustee and shall not have cured such default within thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice.

 “Guarantee Payments” means the following payments or distributions, without duplication, with respect to the Preferred
Securities, to the extent not paid or made by the Issuer: (i) any accumulated and unpaid Distributions (as defined in the Trust Agreement) that are required to be paid on such Preferred Securities to the extent the Issuer has funds on hand
legally available therefor at such time, (ii) the prepayment price, including all accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the date of prepayment (the “Prepayment Price”) to the extent the Issuer has funds on hand legally available
therefor at such time, with respect to any Preferred Securities called for prepayment by the Issuer, and (iii) upon a voluntary or involuntary termination and liquidation of the Issuer (other than in connection with the distribution of Notes to
the Holders in exchange for Preferred Securities as provided in the Trust Agreement), the lesser of (a) the aggregate of the liquidation amount and all accumulated and unpaid Distributions on the Preferred Securities to the date of payment, to
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to Holders in liquidation of the Issuer after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer in accordance with applicable law. 
 “Guarantee Trustee” means Wilmington Trust, until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment
pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee and thereafter means each such Successor Guarantee Trustee. 
 “Holder” shall mean
any holder, as registered on the books and records of the Issuer, of any Preferred Securities; provided, however, that, in determining whether the holders of the requisite percentage of Preferred Securities have given any request, notice, consent or
waiver hereunder, “Holder” shall not include the Guarantor or any Affiliate of the Guarantor. 
 “Indemnified
Person” means the Guarantee Trustee, any Affiliate of the Guarantee Trustee, or any officers, directors, shareholders, members, partners, employees, representatives, nominees, custodians or agents of the Guarantee Trustee. 
 “Indenture” means the Indenture dated as of July 18, 2008, between the Guarantor (the “Note Issuer”) and Wilmington
Trust, as trustee, pursuant to which the Notes are to be issued to the Property Trustee of the Issuer. 
 “Majority in liquidation
amount of the Preferred Securities” means a vote by Holder(s) of Preferred Securities, voting separately as a class, of more than 50% of the aggregate liquidation amount (including the stated amount that would be paid on prepayment,
liquidation or otherwise, plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the date upon which the voting percentages are determined) of all Preferred Securities. 
 “Notes” means the series of subordinated debt securities of the Guarantor designated the Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Notes due October 1, 2038 held by the Property
Trustee (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the Issuer. 
 “Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any
person, a certificate signed by two of the following: the Chairman, a Vice Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, a Vice President, the Controller, the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of the
Guarantor. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Guarantee shall include: 
 (a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto; 
 (b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering the Officer’s Certificate;

 (c) a statement that each such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in such officer’s opinion, is necessary to
enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and 
  

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 (d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such officer, such condition or covenant has been
complied with. 
 “Other Notes” means all junior subordinated notes issued by the Guarantor from time to time and sold to
trusts to be established by the Guarantor (if any), in each case similar to the Issuer. 
 “Other Guarantees” means all
guarantees hereafter issued by the Guarantor with respect to preferred securities (if any) similar to the Preferred Securities issued by other trusts to be established by the Guarantor (if any), in each case similar to the Issuer. 
 “Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock
company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association, or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature. 
 “Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Guarantee Trustee, any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office with direct
responsibility for administration of the Trust, including any Managing Director, Vice President, Assistant Vice President, Assistant Treasurer, Assistant Secretary or any other officer of the Guarantee Trustee customarily performing functions
similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of that officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject. 
 “Successor Guarantee Trustee” means a successor Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as
Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1. 
 “Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

 “Trust Securities” means the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities. 
 ARTICLE II 
 TRUST INDENTURE ACT 

 SECTION 2.1 Trust Indenture Act; Application 
 This Guarantee is not subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act. 
 SECTION 2.2 Lists of Holders of
Securities 
 (a) The Guarantor shall provide the Guarantee Trustee (unless the Guarantee Trustee is otherwise the registrar of the
Preferred Securities) with a list, in such form as the Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of the Preferred Securities (“List of Holders”) as of such date, (i) within one Business Day
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a written request for a List of Holders as of a date no more than 14 days before such List of Holders is given to the Guarantee Trustee; provided, that the
Guarantor shall not be obligated to provide such List of Holders at any time the List of Holders does not differ from the most recent List of Holders given to the Guarantee Trustee by the Guarantor. The Guarantee Trustee may destroy any List of
Holders previously given to it on receipt of a new List of Holders. 
 (b) Within five Business Days after the receipt by the Guarantee
Trustee of a written application by three or more Holders stating that the applicants desire to communicate with other holders of Preferred Securities with respect to their rights under such Guarantee or under the Preferred Securities, and
accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to transmit, and by reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Preferred Security for a period of at least six months preceding the date of
such application, such Guarantee Trustee shall, at its election, either: 
 (1) Afford to such applicants access to all
information so furnished to or received by the Guarantee Trustee; or 
 (2) Inform such applicants as to the approximate
number of Holders according to the most recent information so furnished to or received by the Guarantee Trustee, and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other communication, if any, specified in such
application. 
 If the Guarantee Trustee shall elect not to afford to such applicants access to such information, the Guarantee Trustee
shall, upon the written request of such applicants, mail to all such Holders copies of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Guarantee Trustee of the material to
be mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of such mailing, unless within five Business Days after such tender, the Guarantee Trustee shall mail to such applicants, a written statement to the effect that, in
the opinion of the Guarantee Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the Holders, or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. 
 SECTION 2.3 Reports by the Guarantee Trustee 
 (a) Within 60 days after July 1 of each year, commencing July 1, 2009, the Guarantee Trustee shall provide to the Holders a brief report with respect to any of the following events which may have occurred within the previous 12
months (but if no such event has occurred within such period no report need be transmitted): 
 (1) The character and amount
of any advances made by it, as Guarantee Trustee, which remain unpaid on the date of such report, and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Preferred Securities, on the trust estate or on
property or funds held or collected by it as the Guarantee Trustee, if such advances so remaining unpaid aggregate more than one-half of one per centum of the principal amount of the Preferred Securities outstanding on such date; 
  

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 (2) Any change to the amount, interest rate, and maturity date of all other indebtedness
owning to it in its individual capacity, on the date of such report, by the Guarantor, with a brief description of any property held as collateral security therefor; 
 (3) Any change to the property and funds physically in its possession as Guarantee Trustee on the date of such report; 
 (4) Any additional issue of Preferred Securities which it has not previously reported; and 
 (5) Any action taken by it in the performance of its duties under the Guarantee which it has not previously reported and which in its
opinion materially affects the Preferred Securities or the trust estate. 
 (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall transmit to the Holders a brief
report with respect to the character and amount of any advances made by it as such since the date of the last report transmitted pursuant to the provisions of subsection (a) (or if no such report has yet been so transmitted, since the date of
execution of the Guarantee), for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Preferred Securities, on the trust estate or on property or funds held or collected by it as such Guarantee Trustee, and which
it has not previously reported pursuant to this paragraph, if such advances remaining unpaid at any time aggregate more than 10 per centum of the principal amount of Preferred Securities outstanding at such time, such report to be so
transmitted within 90 days after such time. 
 (c) Reports pursuant to this section shall be transmitted by mail: 
 (1) To all registered holders of Preferred Securities, as the names and addresses of such Holders appear upon the registration books of
the Issuer; and 
 (2) To such holders of Preferred Securities as have, within the two years preceding such transmission,
filed their names and addresses with the Guarantee Trustee for that purpose. 
 SECTION 2.4 Periodic Reports to Guarantee Trustee 

(a) The Guarantor shall: 
 (1) File with the Guarantee Trustee copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports which the Guarantor is required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission or delivery to its shareholders.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Guarantee Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Guarantee Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the Guarantor’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Guarantee Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates);

  

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 (2) File with the Guarantee Trustee, such additional information, documents, and reports
with respect to compliance by the Guarantor with the conditions and covenants provided for in the Guarantee, as may be required by such rules and regulations, including, in the case of annual reports, if required by such rules and regulations,
certificates or opinions of independent public accountants, conforming to the requirements of subsection (c) of this section, as to compliance with conditions or covenants, compliance with which is subject to verification by accountants, but no
such certificate or opinion shall be required as to any matter specified in clauses (A), (B), or (C) of Section 2.4(b)(3); 
 (3) Transmit to the Holders, in the manner and to the extent provided, such summaries of any information, documents, and reports required to be filed by the Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.4(a); and 

(4) Furnish to the Guarantee Trustee, not less than annually, a brief certificate from the principal executive officer, principal
financial officer or principal accounting officer as to his or her knowledge of the Guarantor’s compliance with all conditions and covenants under the Guarantee. For purposes of this paragraph, such compliance shall be determined without regard
to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided under the Guarantee. 
 (b) Upon the request of the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantor
shall furnish to the Guarantee Trustee evidence of compliance with the conditions precedent, if any, provided for in the Guarantee (including any covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent) which relate to the satisfaction and
discharge of the Guarantee, or to any other action to be taken by the Guarantee Trustee at the request or upon the application of such obligor. Such evidence shall consist of the following: 
 (1) Certificates or opinions made by officers of the Guarantor who are specified in the Guarantee, stating that such conditions precedent
have been complied with; 
 (2) An opinion of counsel (who may be of counsel of the Guarantor) stating that in his opinion
such conditions precedent have been complied with; and 
 (3) In the case of conditions precedent compliance with which is
subject to verification by accountants (such as conditions with respect to the preservation of specified ratios, the amount of net quick assets, negative-pledge clauses, and other similar specific conditions), a certificate or opinion of an
accountant. No certificate or opinion need be made by any person other than an officer or employee of the Guarantor who is specified in the Guarantee, as to (A) dates or periods not covered by annual reports required to be filed by the
Guarantor, in the case of conditions precedent which depend upon a state of facts as of a date or dates or for a period or periods different from that required to be covered by such annual reports, or (B) the amount and value of property
additions, or (C) the adequacy of depreciation, maintenance or repairs. 
 (c) Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance
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(a)(4) of this section) shall include (1) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition; (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 such person, 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 or not, in the opinion of such person, such
condition or covenant has been complied with. 
 SECTION 2.5 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent 
 The Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such evidence of compliance with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Guarantee
that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 2.4 hereof. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section 2.4 hereof may be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate. 
 SECTION 2.6 Events of Default; Waiver 
 The
Holders of a Majority in liquidation amount of Preferred Securities may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of all of the Preferred Securities, waive any past Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such Event of Default shall
cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Guarantee, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereon. 
 SECTION 2.7 Event of Default; Notice 
 (a) The Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to this Guarantee known to a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee, mail by first class postage prepaid,
to all Holders of the Preferred Securities, notices of all defaults actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee, unless such defaults have been cured before the giving of such notice, provided, that, except in the case of
default in the payment of any Guarantee Payment, the Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of
the Guarantee Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Preferred Securities. 
 (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless the Guarantee Trustee shall have received written notice, or a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee charged with the administration of
the Trust Agreement shall have obtained actual knowledge, of such Event of Default. 
  

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 ARTICLE III 
 POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF 
 GUARANTEE TRUSTEE 
 SECTION 3.1 Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee 
 (a) This Guarantee shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this Guarantee to any Person except a Holder of Preferred Securities
exercising his or her rights pursuant to Section 5.4(b) or to a Successor Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its appointment to act as Successor Guarantee Trustee. The right, title and interest of the
Guarantee Trustee shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee Trustee, and such vesting and succession of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the appointment of such
Successor Guarantee Trustee. 
 (b) If an Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee has occurred and
is continuing, the Guarantee Trustee shall enforce this Guarantee for the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities. 
 (c) The
Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Guarantee, and no implied
covenants shall be read into this Guarantee against the Guarantee Trustee. In case an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.6) and is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee
Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
conduct of his or her own affairs. 
 (d) No provision of this Guarantee shall be construed to relieve the Guarantee Trustee from liability
for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
 (i) prior to
the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have occurred: 
 (A) the duties and obligations of the Guarantee Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Guarantee, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Guarantee, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Guarantee against the Guarantee Trustee; and 
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and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Guarantee Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Guarantee; 
 (ii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith
by a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Guarantee Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon which such judgment was made; 
 (iii) the Guarantee 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 liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee; and 
 (iv) no provision of this Guarantee shall require the
Guarantee Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Guarantee Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that the repayment of such funds or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Guarantee or indemnity, reasonably satisfactory to the Guarantee Trustee, against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

 SECTION 3.2 Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee 
 (a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1: 
 (i) The Guarantee Trustee may
conclusively rely, and shall be fully 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, sent or presented by the proper party or parties. 
 (ii) Any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by this Guarantee may be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate. 
 (iii) Whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee, the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or
established before taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, request and conclusively rely
upon an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor. 
 (iv)
The Guarantee Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument (or any rerecording, refiling or registration thereof). 
  

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 (v) The Guarantee Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and the advice or
opinion of such counsel with respect to legal matters 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 accordance with such advice or opinion. Such
counsel may be counsel to the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may include any of its employees. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Guarantee from any court of
competent jurisdiction. 
 (vi) The Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers
vested in it by this Guarantee at the request or direction of any Holder, unless such Holder shall have provided to the Guarantee Trustee such security and indemnity, satisfactory to the Guarantee Trustee, against the costs, expenses (including
attorneys’ fees and expenses and the expenses of the Guarantee Trustee’s agents, nominees or custodians) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be
requested by the Guarantee Trustee; provided that, nothing contained in this Section 3.2(a)(vi) shall be taken to relieve the Guarantee Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation to exercise the rights and powers
vested in it by this Guarantee. 
 (vii) The Guarantee 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 Guarantee Trustee, in its
discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit. 
 (viii) The
Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents, nominees, custodians or attorneys, and the Guarantee 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. 
 (ix) Any action taken by the
Guarantee Trustee or its agents hereunder shall bind the Holders of the Preferred Securities, and the signature of the Guarantee Trustee or its agents alone shall be sufficient and effective to perform any such action. No third party shall be
required to inquire as to the authority of the Guarantee Trustee to so act or as to its compliance with any of the terms and provisions of this Guarantee, both of which shall be conclusively evidenced by the Guarantee Trustee’s or its
agent’s taking such action. 
 (x) Whenever in the administration of this Guarantee, the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it
desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (i) may request and shall be entitled to receive, instructions from the Holders of a Majority in
liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities, (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall be fully protected in conclusively relying on or acting
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 (xi) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or omitted
to be taken by it in good faith, without negligence, and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Guarantee. 
 (b) No provision of this Guarantee shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any
right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts or
to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be a duty. 
 SECTION 3.3. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Guarantee 
 The recitals contained in this Guarantee shall be
taken as the statements of the Guarantor, and the Guarantee Trustee does not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The Guarantee Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Guarantee. 
 ARTICLE IV 
 GUARANTEE TRUSTEE 

 SECTION 4.1 Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Guarantee Trustee 
 (a) Subject to Section 4.1(b), the Guarantee Trustee may be appointed or removed without cause at any time by the Guarantor except during an Event of
Default. 
 (b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be removed in accordance with Section 4.1(a) until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has
been appointed and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor. 
 (c) The Guarantee Trustee shall hold office until a Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed or until its removal or resignation. The Guarantee Trustee may resign from office (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by
an instrument in writing executed by the Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor, which resignation shall not take effect until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by instrument in writing
executed by such Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor and the resigning Guarantee Trustee. 
 (d) If no Successor
Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.1 within 60 days after delivery of an instrument of removal or resignation, the Guarantee Trustee resigning or being removed may petition, at the
expense of the Guarantor, any court of competent jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Guarantee Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee.

  

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 (e) No Guarantee Trustee shall be liable for the acts or omissions to act of any Successor Guarantee
Trustee. 
 (f) Upon termination of this Guarantee or removal or resignation of the Guarantee Trustee pursuant to this Section 4.1, the
Guarantor shall pay to the Guarantee Trustee all amounts due to the Guarantee Trustee accrued to the date of such termination, removal or resignation. 
 SECTION 4.2 Gurantee Trustee; Eligibility 
 (a) There shall at all times be a Guarantee Trustee which shall:

 (i) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and 
 (ii) be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or any State thereof, authorized to exercise
corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority and having an office within the United States. If such corporation
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of such supervising or examining authority, then, for th purposes of this Section 4.2, 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. 
 (b) If at any time the Guarantee
Trustee shall cease to be eligible to so act under Section 4.2(a), the Guarantee Trustee shall immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.1(c). 
 (c) If the Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any “conflicting interest” within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture
Act, the Guarantee Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.1(c). 
 ARTICLE V 
 GUARANTEE 
 SECTION 5.1 Guarantee 
 The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay in full on a subordinated basis to
the extent set forth in this Guarantee to the Holders the Guarantee Payments (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by or on behalf of the Issuer), as and when due, regardless of any defense (except for the defense of payment by the
Issuer), right of set-off or counterclaim that the Issuer may have or assert. The Guarantor’s obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by direct payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by causing the
Issuer to pay such amounts to the Holders. The Guarantors shall notify the Guarantee Trustee of any such payment in writing. 
  

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 SECTION 5.2 Waiver of Notice and Demand 
 The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Guarantee and of any liability to which it applies or may apply, presentment, demand for payment,
any right to require a proceeding first against the Issuer or any other Person before proceeding against the Guarantor, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of prepayment and all other notices and demands. 
 SECTION 5.3 Obligations Not Affected 
 The
obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor under this Guarantee shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any of the following: 
 (a) the release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of the performance or observance by the Issuer of any express or implied agreement,
covenant, term or condition relating to the Preferred Securities to be performed or observed by the Issuer; 
 (b) the extension of time for
the payment by the Issuer of all or any portion of the Distributions, Prepayment Price, Liquidation Distribution or any other sums payable under the terms of the Preferred Securities or the extension of time for the performance of any other
obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with, the Preferred Securities (other than an extension of time for payment of Distributions, Prepayment Price, Liquidation Distribution or other sum payable that results from the extension of any
interest payment period on the Notes permitted by the Indenture); 
 (c) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of the
Holders to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Holders pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities, or any action on the part of the Issuer granting indulgence or extension of any kind;

 (d) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for
the benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Issuer or any of the assets of the Issuer; 
 (e) any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in, the Preferred Securities; 
 (f) the settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed hereby or hereby incurred; or 
 (g) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor, it being the intent of
this Section 5.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor with respect to the Guarantee Payments shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances. 
  

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 There shall be no obligation of the Holders to give notice to, or obtain consent of, the Guarantor with
respect to the happening of any of the foregoing. 
 SECTION 5.4 Rights of Holders 
 (a) The Holders of a Majority in liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this Guarantee or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee. 
 (b) If the Guarantee Trustee fails to enforce such Guarantee, any Holder of Preferred Securities may institute a legal proceeding directly against the
Guarantor to enforce the Guarantee Trustee’s rights under this Guarantee, without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Issuer, the Guarantee Trustee or any other person or entity. The Guarantor waives any right or remedy to require
that any action be brought first against the Issuer or any other person or entity before proceeding directly against the Guarantor. 
 SECTION 5.5
Guarantee of Payment 
 This Guarantee creates a guarantee of payment and not of collection. 
 SECTION 5.6 Subrogation 
 The Guarantor shall
be subrogated to all (if any) rights of the Holders of Preferred Securities against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid to such Holders by the Guarantor under this Guarantee; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not (except to the
extent required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any right that it may acquire by way of subrogation or any indemnity, reimbursement or other agreement, in all cases as a result of payment under this Guarantee, if,
at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due and unpaid under this Guarantee. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence, the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in trust for the Holders and to pay
over such amount to the Holders. 
 SECTION 5.7 Independent Obligations 
 The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are independent of the obligations of the Issuer with respect to the Preferred Securities, and
that the Guarantor shall be liable as principal and as debtor hereunder to make Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee notwithstanding the occurrence of any event referred to in subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, of
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 ARTICLE VI 
 LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS; SUBORDINATION 
 SECTION 6.1 Limitation of Transactions 
 So long as any Preferred Securities remain outstanding, the Guarantor shall not (i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem,
purchase, acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Guarantor’s capital stock (which includes common and preferred stock) (other than (a) dividends or distributions in shares of, or options, warrants, rights to
subscribe for or purchase shares of, common stock of the Guarantor, (b) any declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation of a stockholder’s rights plan, or the issuance of stock under any such plan in the future, or the
prepayment or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto, (c) payments under the Guarantee, (d) as a result of a reclassification of the Guarantor’s capital stock or the exchange or the conversion of one class or series of the
Guarantor’s capital stock for another class or series of the Guarantor’s capital stock, (e) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Guarantor’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such
capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, and (f) purchases or issuances of common stock in connection with any of the Guarantor’s stock option, stock purchase, stock loan or other benefit plans for its directors,
officers or employees or any of the Guarantor’s dividend reinvestment plans, in each case as now existing or hereafter established or amended) or (ii) make any payment of principal, interest or premium, if any, on, or repay or repurchase
or redeem any debt securities of the Guarantor (including any Other Notes) that rank pari passu with or junior in right of payment to the Notes or (iii) make any guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Guarantor of the debt
securities of any subsidiary of the Guarantor (including Other Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks pari passu or junior in right of payment to the Notes (other than payments under the Guarantee with respect to the Preferred Securities), if at such
time (i) there shall have occurred any event of which the Guarantor has actual knowledge that (a) is, or with the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, would be an Event of Default and (b) in respect of which the Guarantor
shall not have taken reasonable steps to cure, (ii) if such Notes are held by the Property Trustee, the Guarantor shall be in default with respect to its payment of any obligations under this Guarantee or (iii) the Guarantor shall have
given notice of its election of the exercise of its right to extend the interest payment period pursuant to Section 16.01 of the Indenture and any such extension shall be continuing. 
 SECTION 6.2 Ranking 
 This Guarantee will
constitute an unsecured obligation of the Guarantor and will rank (i) subordinate and junior in right of payment to Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture), to the same extent and in the same manner that the Notes are subordinated to Senior
Debt pursuant to the Indenture (except as indicated below), it being understood that the terms of Article XV of the Indenture shall apply to the obligations of the Guarantor under this Guarantee as if (x) such Article XV were set forth herein
in full and (y) such obligations were substituted for the term “Securities” appearing in such Article XV, except that with respect to Section 15.03 of the 

  

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Indenture only, the term “Senior Debt” shall mean all liabilities of the Guarantor, whether or not for money borrowed (other than obligations in
respect of Other Guarantees), (ii) pari passu with any Other Guarantee (as defined herein) and (iii) senior to any obligations in respect of any class of the Guarantor’s capital stock. 
 ARTICLE VII 
 TERMINATION

 SECTION 7.1 Termination 
 This Guarantee shall terminate and be of no further force and effect (i) upon full payment of the Prepayment Price (as defined in the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement) of all Preferred Securities, or (ii) upon liquidation of
the Issuer, the full payment of the amounts payable in accordance with the Trust Agreement or the distribution of the Notes to the Holders of all of the Preferred Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Guarantee will continue to be
effective or will be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder of Preferred Securities must restore payment of any sums paid under the Preferred Securities or under this Guarantee. 
 ARTICLE VIII 
 INDEMNIFICATION 

 SECTION 8.1 Exculpation 
 (a) No
Indemnified Person shall be liable, responsible or accountable in damages or otherwise to the Guarantor or any Covered Person for any loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted by such Indemnified Person in
good faith in accordance with this Guarantee and in a manner that such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the scope of the authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Guarantee or by law, except that an Indemnified Person
shall be liable for any such loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of such Indemnified Person’s gross negligence or willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions. 
 (b) An Indemnified Person shall be fully protected in relying in good faith upon the records of the Guarantor and upon such information, opinions,
reports or statements presented to the Guarantor by any Person as to matters the Indemnified Person reasonably believes are within such other Person’s professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on
behalf of the Guarantor, including information, opinions, reports or statements as to the value and amount of the assets, liabilities, profits, losses, or any other facts pertinent to the existence and amount of assets from which Distributions to
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 SECTION 8.2 Indemnification 
 The Guarantor agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person for, and to hold each Indemnified Person harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or expense incurred without gross negligence or willful
misconduct 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 (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of defending itself against, or
investigating, any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The obligation to indemnify as set forth in this Section 8.2 shall survive the termination of this Guarantee.

 ARTICLE IX 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 SECTION 9.1 Successors and Assigns 
 All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee shall bind the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of the Guarantor and
shall inure to the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities then outstanding. 
 SECTION 9.2 Amendments 
 Except with respect to any changes that do not materially adversely affect the rights of Holders (in which case no consent of Holders will be required),
this Guarantee may be amended only with the prior approval of the Holders of a Majority in liquidation amount of the Securities (including the stated amount that would be paid on prepayment, liquidation or otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid
Distributions to the date upon which the voting percentages are determined). The provisions of Section 12.2 of the Trust Agreement with respect to meetings of Holders of the Securities apply to the giving of such approval. 
 SECTION 9.3 Notices 
 All notices provided for
in this Guarantee shall be in writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and shall be delivered, telecopied or mailed by first class mail, as follows: 
 (a) If given to the Issuer, in care of the Administrative Trustee at the Issuer’s mailing address set forth below (or such other address as the Issuer may give notice of to the Holders of the Common Securities):

 Waccamaw Statutory Trust II I 
 c/o Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc. 
 110 North J.K. Powell Boulevard 
 Whiteville, North Carolina 28472 
 Attn: James G. Graham 
 Telephone: (910) 914-4200 
  

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 Telecopier: (910) 641-0041 
 (b) If given to the Guarantee Trustee, at the Guarantee Trustee’s mailing address set forth below (or such other address as the Guarantee Trustee may
give notice of to the Holders of the Preferred Securities): 
 Wilmington Trust Company 
 Rodney Square North 
 1100 North Market Street 
 Wilmington, Delaware 19890 
 Attn: Corporate Trust Administration 
 Telecopier: (302) 636-4140 
 (c) If given to the Guarantor, at the Guarantor’s mailing address set
forth below (or such other address as the Guarantor may give notice of to the Holders of the Preferred Securities): 
 Waccamaw Bankshares, Inc. 
 110 North J.K. Powell Boulevard 
 Whiteville, North Carolina 28472 
 Attn: James G. Graham 
 Telephone: (910) 914-4200 
 Telecopier: (910) 641-0041 
 (d) If given to any Holder of Preferred Securities, at the address set forth on the books and records of the Issuer. 
 All such
notices shall be deemed to have been given when received in person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid except that if a notice or other document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a
changed address of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date of such refusal or inability to deliver. 
 SECTION 9.4 Benefit 
 This Guarantee is solely for the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities and is not separately transferable from the Preferred Securities. 
 SECTION 9.5 Governing Law 
 THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE RIGHTS
(INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INDEMNIFICATION RIGHTS), DUTIES, STANDARDS OF CARE, QUALIFICATIONS, PROTECTIONS, PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES OF THE TRUSTEE SHALL BE 

  

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GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE IN WHICH THE CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE IS LOCATED. 
 SECTION 9.6 Counterparts 
 This Guarantee may
be executed in one or more counterparts, which shall together constitute a valid and binding agreement. 
  

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 THIS Guarantee is executed as of the day and year first above written. 
  

			
	WACCAMAW BANKSHARES, INC.,
	as Guarantor
		
	By:	 	/s/ James G. Graham
		 	Printed Name: James G. Graham
		 	Its: President and Chief Executive Officer
	
	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Guarantee Trustee
		
	By:	 	/s/ Geoffrey J. Lewis
		 	Printed Name: Geoffrey J. Lewis
		 	Its: Senior Financial Services Officer

  

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