Document:

EX-4.15

 Exhibit 4.15 
  

 
  

THE PROSPERITY BANKING COMPANY, 

as Issuer 
 INDENTURE

 Dated as of June 30, 2006 

WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, 

as Trustee 
 FLOATING
RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES 
 DUE 2016 
  

 
  

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

									
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	 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS
	 	 	1	  
				
	 Section 1.1.
	 		    	Definitions	 	 	1	  
		
	 ARTICLE II. DEBENTURES
	 	 	5	  
				
	 Section 2.1.
	 		    	Authentication and Dating	 	 	5	  
	 Section 2.2.
	 		    	Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication	 	 	6	  
	 Section 2.3.
	 		    	Form and Denomination of Debentures	 	 	6	  
	 Section 2.4.
	 		    	Execution of Debentures	 	 	6	  
	 Section 2.5.
	 		    	Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Debentures	 	 	7	  
	 Section 2.6.
	 		    	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Debentures	 	 	9	  
	 Section 2.7.
	 		    	Temporary Debentures	 	 	9	  
	 Section 2.8.
	 		    	Payment of Interest and Additional Interest	 	 	10	  
	 Section 2.9.
	 		    	Cancellation of Debentures Paid, etc.	 	 	11	  
	 Section 2.10.
	 		    	Computation of Interest	 	 	11	  
	 Section 2.11.
	 		    	CUSIP Numbers	 	 	12	  
		
	 ARTICLE III. PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
	 	 	12	  
				
	 Section 3.1.
	 		    	Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest; Agreed Treatment of the Debentures	 	 	12	  
	 Section 3.2.
	 		    	Offices for Notices and Payments, etc.	 	 	13	  
	 Section 3.3.
	 		    	Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office	 	 	13	  
	 Section 3.4.
	 		    	Provision as to Paying Agent	 	 	13	  
	 Section 3.5.
	 		    	Certificate to Trustee	 	 	14	  
	 Section 3.6.
	 		    	Compliance with Consolidation Provisions	 	 	14	  
	 Section 3.7.
	 		    	Limitation on Dividends	 	 	14	  
		
	 ARTICLE IV.  SECURITYHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
	 	 	15	  
				
	 Section 4.1.
	 		    	Securityholders’ Lists	 	 	15	  
	 Section 4.2.
	 		    	Preservation and Disclosure of Lists	 	 	15	  
		
	 ARTICLE V.   REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS UPON AN EVENT
OF

                   
      DEFAULT
	 	 	16	  
				
	 Section 5.1.
	 		    	Events of Default	 	 	16	  
	 Section 5.2.
	 		    	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment	 	 	17	  
	 Section 5.3.
	 		    	Defaults	 	 	17	  
	 Section 5.4.
	 		    	Trustee May File Proof of Claims	 	 	18	  
	 Section 5.5.
	 		    	Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee	 	 	19	  
	 Section 5.6.
	 		    	Proceedings by Securityholders	 	 	19	  
	 Section 5.7.
	 		    	Proceedings by Trustee	 	 	20	  
	 Section 5.8.
	 		    	Remedies Cumulative and Continuing; Delay or Omission Not a Waiver	 	 	20	  
	 Section 5.9.
	 		    	Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Securityholders	 	 	20	  
	 Section 5.10.
	 		    	Notice of Defaults	 	 	21	  
	 Section 5.11.
	 		    	Undertaking to Pay Costs	 	 	21	  

  
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	 ARTICLE VI. CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
	  	 	21	  
				
	 Section 6.1.
	 		    	Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee	  	 	21	  
	 Section 6.2.
	 		    	Reliance on Documents, Opinions, etc.	  	 	22	  
	 Section 6.3.
	 		    	No Responsibility for Recitals, etc.	  	 	23	  
	 Section 6.4.
	 		    	Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer Agents or Registrar May Own Debentures	  	 	23	  
	 Section 6.5.
	 		    	Moneys to be Held in Trust	  	 	23	  
	 Section 6.6.
	 		    	Compensation and Expenses of Trustee	  	 	23	  
	 Section 6.7.
	 		    	Officers’ Certificate as Evidence	  	 	24	  
	 Section 6.8.
	 		    	Eligibility of Trustee	  	 	24	  
	 Section 6.9.
	 		    	Resignation or Removal of Trustee	  	 	25	  
	 Section 6.10.
	 		    	Acceptance by Successor Trustee	  	 	26	  
	 Section 6.11.
	 		    	Succession by Merger, etc.	  	 	26	  
	 Section 6.12.
	 		    	Authenticating Agents	  	 	27	  
		
	 ARTICLE VII. CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
	  	 	27	  
				
	 Section 7.1.
	 		    	Action by Securityholders	  	 	27	  
	 Section 7.2.
	 		    	Proof of Execution by Securityholders	  	 	28	  
	 Section 7.3.
	 		    	Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners	  	 	28	  
	 Section 7.4.
	 		    	Debentures Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding	  	 	28	  
	 Section 7.5.
	 		    	Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound	  	 	29	  
		
	 ARTICLE VIII. SECURITYHOLDERS’ MEETINGS
	  	 	29	  
				
	 Section 8.1.
	 		    	Purposes of Meetings	  	 	29	  
	 Section 8.2.
	 		    	Call of Meetings by Trustee	  	 	29	  
	 Section 8.3.
	 		    	Call of Meetings by Company or Securityholders	  	 	29	  
	 Section 8.4.
	 		    	Qualifications for Voting	  	 	30	  
	 Section 8.5.
	 		    	Regulations	  	 	30	  
	 Section 8.6.
	 		    	Voting	  	 	30	  
	 Section 8.7.
	 		    	Quorum; Actions	  	 	31	  
		
	 ARTICLE IX. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
	  	 	31	  
				
	 Section 9.1.
	 		    	Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Securityholders	  	 	31	  
	 Section 9.2.
	 		    	Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Securityholders	  	 	32	  
	 Section 9.3.
	 		    	Effect of Supplemental Indentures	  	 	33	  
	 Section 9.4.
	 		    	Notation on Debentures	  	 	33	  
	 Section 9.5.
	 		    	Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be Furnished to Trustee	  	 	33	  
		
	 ARTICLE X. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
	  	 	33	  
				
	 Section 10.1.
	 		    	Optional Redemption	  	 	33	  
	 Section 10.2.
	 		    	Notice of Redemption; Selection of Debentures	  	 	34	  
	 Section 10.3.
	 		    	Payment of Debentures Called for Redemption	  	 	34	  
		
	 ARTICLE XI. CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
	  	 	35	  
				
	 Section 11.1.
	 		    	Company May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms	  	 	35	  

  
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	 Section 11.2.
	 		    	Successor Entity to be Substituted	  	 	35	  
	 Section 11.3.
	 		    	Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee	  	 	35	  
		
	 ARTICLE XII. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
	  	 	35	  
				
	 Section 12.1.
	 		    	Discharge of Indenture	  	 	35	  
	 Section 12.2.
	 		    	Deposited Moneys to be Held in Trust by Trustee	  	 	36	  
	 Section 12.3.
	 		    	Paying Agent to Repay Moneys Held	  	 	36	  
	 Section 12.4.
	 		    	Return of Unclaimed Moneys	  	 	36	  
		
	 ARTICLE XIII. IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
	  	 	37	  
				
	 Section 13.1.
	 		    	Indenture and Debentures Solely Corporate Obligations	  	 	37	  
		
	 ARTICLE XIV. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
	  	 	37	  
				
	 Section 14.1.
	 		    	Successors	  	 	37	  
	 Section 14.2.
	 		    	Official Acts by Successor Entity	  	 	37	  
	 Section 14.3.
	 		    	Surrender of Company Powers	  	 	37	  
	 Section 14.4.
	 		    	Addresses for Notices, etc.	  	 	37	  
	 Section 14.5.
	 		    	Governing Law	  	 	37	  
	 Section 14.6.
	 		    	Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent	  	 	37	  
	 Section 14.7.
	 		    	Table of Contents, Headings, etc.	  	 	38	  
	 Section 14.8.
	 		    	Execution in Counterparts	  	 	38	  
	 Section 14.9.
	 		    	Separability	  	 	38	  
	 Section 14.10.
	 		    	Assignment	  	 	38	  
		
	 ARTICLE XV. SUBORDINATION OF DEBENTURES
	  	 	38	  
				
	 Section 15.1.
	 		    	Agreement to Subordinate	  	 	38	  
	 Section 15.2.
	 		    	Default on Senior Indebtedness	  	 	39	  
	 Section 15.3.
	 		    	Liquidation, Dissolution, Bankruptcy	  	 	39	  
	 Section 15.4.
	 		    	Subrogation	  	 	40	  
	 Section 15.5.
	 		    	Trustee to Effectuate Subordination	  	 	41	  
	 Section 15.6.
	 		    	Notice by the Company	  	 	41	  
	 Section 15.7.
	 		    	Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior Indebtedness	  	 	42	  
	 Section 15.8.
	 		    	Subordination May Not Be Impaired	  	 	42	  
		
	 Exhibit A            Form of Floating Rate Junior Subordinated
Debenture
	  			

  
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 THIS INDENTURE, dated as of June 30, 2006, between The Prosperity Banking
Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Florida (the “Company”), and Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as debenture trustee (the “Trustee”). 

WITNESSETH: 

WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance of its Floating Rate Junior
Subordinated Debentures due 2016 (the “Debentures”) under this Indenture to provide, among other things, for the execution and authentication, delivery and administration thereof, and the Company has duly authorized the execution of
this Indenture; and 
 WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement according to its
terms, have been done and performed; 
 NOW, THEREFORE, This Indenture Witnesseth: 

In consideration of the premises, and the purchase of the Debentures by the holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees
with the Trustee for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of the Debentures as follows: 

ARTICLE I. 

DEFINITIONS 

Section 1.1.       Definitions.  The terms defined in this
Section 1.1 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this
Section 1.1. All accounting terms used herein and not expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and the term “generally accepted accounting principles”
means such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States at the time of any computation. The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a
whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. 
 “Additional Interest” means
interest, if any, that shall accrue on any interest on the Debentures the payment of which has not been made on the applicable Interest Payment Date and which shall accrue at the Interest Rate, compounded quarterly (to the extent permitted by law).

 “Affiliate” has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 of the Securities Act or any
successor rule thereunder. 
 “Authenticating Agent” means any agent or agents of the Trustee which at the
time shall be appointed and acting pursuant to Section 6.12. 
 “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S.
Code, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors. 
 “Board of Directors” means the
board of directors or the executive committee or any other duly authorized designated officers of the Company. 

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

  
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 “Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or
any other day on which banking institutions in New York City or Wilmington, Delaware are permitted or required by any applicable law or executive order to close. 

“Certificate” means a certificate signed by any one of the principal executive officer, the principal
financial officer or the principal accounting officer of the Company. 
 “Company” means The Prosperity
Banking Company, a Florida corporation, and, subject to the provisions of Article XI, shall include its successors and assigns. 

“Coupon Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.8. 

“Debenture” or “Debentures” has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture.

 “Debenture Register” has the meaning specified in Section 2.5. 

“Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.3. 

“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.8. 

“Distribution Period” means (i) with respect to interest paid on the first Interest Payment Date, the
period beginning on (and including) the date of original issuance and ending on (but excluding) the Interest Payment Date in September 2006 and (ii) thereafter, with respect to interest paid on each successive Interest Payment Date, the period
beginning on (and including) the preceding Interest Payment Date and ending on (but excluding) such current Interest Payment Date. 

“Determination Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.10. 

“Event of Default” means any event specified in Section 5.1, continued for the period of time, if any,
and after the giving of the notice, if any, therein designated. 
 “FDIC” means the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation and any successor federal agency that is primarily responsible for insuring the deposit accounts of banks or supervising state banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve. 

“Federal Reserve” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or its designated district
bank, as applicable, and any successor federal agency that is primarily responsible for regulating the activities of bank holding companies. 

“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided,
as so amended or supplemented, or both. 
 “Interest Payment Date” means
March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year during the term of this Indenture, or if such day is not a Business Day, then the next succeeding Business Day, commencing in September 2006. 

“Interest Rate” means for the Distribution Period beginning on (and including) the date of original issuance
and ending on (but excluding) the Interest Payment Date in September 2006 the rate per annum of 7.25813%, and for each Distribution Period beginning on or after the Interest Payment Date in September 2006, the Coupon Rate for such Distribution
Period. 
 “Maturity Date” means September 15, 2016. 

  
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 “Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Vice Chairman, the President, any Managing Director or any Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Comptroller, an Assistant Comptroller, the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 14.6 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section. 

“Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or
counsel to the Company, or may be other counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 14.6 if and to the extent required by the provisions of such Section. 

“OTS” means the Office of Thrift Supervision and any successor federal agency that is primarily responsible
for regulating the activities of savings and loan holding companies. 
 The term “outstanding,” when used
with reference to Debentures, means, subject to the provisions of Section 7.4, as of any particular time, all Debentures authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent under this Indenture, except: 

(a)         Debentures theretofore canceled by the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; 
 (b)         Debentures,
or portions thereof, for the payment or redemption of which moneys in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any paying agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by
the Company (if the Company shall act as its own paying agent); provided, however, that, if such Debentures, or portions thereof, are to be redeemed prior to maturity thereof, notice of such redemption shall have been given as provided
in Section 10.3 or provision satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice; and 

(c)         Debentures paid pursuant to Section 2.6 or in lieu of or in
substitution for which other Debentures shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.6 unless proof satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee is presented that any such Debentures are held by bona fide
holders in due course. 
 “Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. 

“Predecessor Security” of any particular Debenture means every previous Debenture evidencing all or a portion
of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Debenture; and, for purposes of this definition, any Debenture authenticated and delivered under Section 2.6 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Debenture shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Debenture. 
 “Principal Office of the Trustee,” or other
similar term, means the office of the Trustee, at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which at the time of the execution of this Indenture shall be Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market
Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1600, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration. 
 “Redemption Date”
has the meaning set forth in Section 10.1. 
 “Redemption Price” means 100% of the principal amount of
the Debentures being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) on such Debentures to the Redemption Date. 

  
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 “Responsible Officer” means, with respect to the Trustee, any
officer within the Principal Office of the Trustee, including any vice-president, any assistant vice-president, any secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, any trust officer or other officer of the Principal Trust
Office of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular 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. 
 “Securities Act” means
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time or any successor legislation. 
 “Securityholder,”
“holder of Debentures,” or other similar terms, means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Debenture is registered on the register kept by the Company or the Trustee for that purpose in accordance with the terms hereof. 

“Senior Indebtedness” means, with respect to the Company, (i) the principal, premium, if any, and
interest in respect of (A) indebtedness of the Company for all borrowed and purchased money and (B) indebtedness evidenced by securities, debentures, notes, bonds or other similar instruments issued by the Company; (ii) all capital
lease obligations of the Company; (iii) all obligations of the Company issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all conditional sale obligations of the Company and all obligations of the Company under any title retention
agreement; (iv) all obligations of the Company for the reimbursement of any letter of credit, any banker’s acceptance, any security purchase facility, any repurchase agreement or similar arrangement, any interest rate swap, any other
hedging arrangement, any obligation under options or any similar credit or other transaction; (v) all obligations of the Company associated with derivative products such as interest and foreign exchange rate contracts, commodity contracts, and
similar arrangements; (vi) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (v) above of other Persons for the payment of which the Company is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise including, without
limitation, similar obligations arising from off-balance sheet guarantees and direct credit substitutes; and (vii) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (vi) above of other Persons secured by any lien on any
property or asset of the Company (whether or not such obligation is assumed by the Company), whether incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Senior Indebtedness” shall not
include (1) Debentures issued pursuant to this Indenture, (2) trade accounts payable of the Company arising in the ordinary course of business (such trade accounts payable being pari passu in right of payment to the Debentures), or
(3) obligations with respect to which (a) in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, it is provided that such obligations are pari passu, junior or otherwise not superior in right
of payment to the Debentures and (b) the Company, prior to the issuance thereof, has notified (and, if then required under the applicable guidelines of the regulating entity, has received approval from) the Federal Reserve (if the Company is a
bank holding company) or the OTS (if the Company is a savings and loan holding company). Senior Indebtedness shall continue to be Senior Indebtedness and be entitled to the subordination provisions irrespective of any amendment, modification or
waiver of any term of such Senior Indebtedness. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Senior Indebtedness shall not include: (i) the Company’s Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2032
issued to Prosperity Banking Company Statutory Trust I pursuant to an Indenture dated as of June 27, 2002 by and between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank National Association; (ii) the related guarantee of the Company with respect to the
securities of Prosperity Banking Company Statutory Trust I, issued pursuant to that certain Guarantee Agreement, dated as of June 27, 2002 by and between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank National Association; (iii) the Company’s
Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2033 issued to Prosperity Bank Statutory Trust II pursuant to an Indenture dated as of March 26, 2003 by and between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association;
(iv) the related guarantee of the Company with respect to the securities of Prosperity Bank Statutory Trust II, issued pursuant to that certain Guarantee Agreement, dated as of March 26, 2003 by and between the Company and U.S. Bank
National Association; (v) the Company’s Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2034 issued to 

  
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Prosperity Banking Capital Trust I pursuant to an Indenture dated as of June 24, 2004 by and between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas; (vi) the related guarantee of
the Company with respect to the securities of Prosperity Banking Capital Trust I, issued pursuant to that certain Guarantee Agreement, dated as of June 24, 2004 by and between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas; (vii) the
Company’s Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2036 issued to Prosperity Bank Statutory Trust III pursuant to an Indenture dated as of January 31, 2006 by and between the Company and Wilmington Trust
Company; and (viii) the related guarantee of the Company with respect to the securities of Prosperity Bank Statutory Trust III, issued pursuant to that certain Guarantee Agreement, dated as of January 31, 2006 by and between the Company
and Wilmington Trust Company. 
 “Subsidiary” means with respect to any Person, (i) any corporation at
least a majority of the outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, (ii) any general partnership, joint venture
or similar entity, at least a majority of the outstanding partnership or similar interests of which shall at the time be owned by such Person, or by one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries and
(iii) any limited partnership of which such Person or any of its Subsidiaries is a general partner. For the purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means shares, interests, participations or other equivalents in the equity
interest (however designated) in such Person having ordinary voting power for the election of a majority of the directors (or the equivalent) of such Person, other than shares, interests, participations or other equivalents having such power only by
reason of the occurrence of a contingency. 
 “3-Month LIBOR” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.10. 
 “Telerate Page 3750” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.10. 

“Trustee” means Wilmington Trust Company, and, subject to the provisions of Article VI hereof, shall also
include its successors and assigns as Trustee hereunder. 
 ARTICLE II. 

DEBENTURES 

Section 2.1.       Authentication and Dating.  Upon the
execution and delivery of this Indenture, or from time to time thereafter, Debentures in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of $15,000,000.00 may be executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee,
upon receipt of a written authentication order from the Company, shall thereupon authenticate and make available for delivery said Debentures to or upon the written order of the Company, signed by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief
Executive Officer, Vice Chairman, the President, one of its Managing Directors or one of its Vice Presidents without any further action by the Company hereunder. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Trustee shall be fully
protected in relying upon the aforementioned authentication order and written order in authenticating and delivering said Debentures. In authenticating such Debentures, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation
to such Debentures, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon: 

(a)         a copy of any Board Resolution or Board Resolutions relating thereto
and, if applicable, an appropriate record of any action taken pursuant to such resolution, in each case certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, as the case may be; and 

(b)         an Opinion of Counsel prepared in accordance with Section 14.6
which shall also state: 
 (1)         that such Debentures,
when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in each case in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of 

  
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Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, subject to or limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, conservatorship, receivership,
moratorium and other statutory or decisional laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights or the reorganization of financial institutions (including, without limitation, preference and fraudulent conveyance or transfer laws), heretofore or
hereafter enacted or in effect, affecting the rights of creditors generally; and 

(2)         that all laws and requirements in respect of the
execution and delivery by the Company of the Debentures have been complied with and that authentication and delivery of the Debentures by the Trustee will not violate the terms of this Indenture. 

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

 The definitive Debentures shall be typed, printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced
in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Debentures, as evidenced by their execution of such Debentures. 

Section 2.2.        Form of Trustee’s Certificate of
Authentication.  The Trustee’s certificate of authentication on all Debentures shall be in substantially the following form: 

This is one of the Debentures referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. 

 

					
	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee	  	
			
	By	 	  
	  	
	Authorized Signer	  	

 Section 2.3.         Form and
Denomination of Debentures.  The Debentures shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto. The Debentures shall be in registered, certificated form without coupons and in minimum denominations of $100,000.00 and
any multiple of $1,000.00 in excess thereof. Any attempted transfer of the Debentures in a block having an aggregate principal amount of less than $100,000.00 shall be deemed to be void and of no legal effect whatsoever. Any such purported
transferee shall be deemed not to be a holder of such Debentures for any purpose, including, but not limited to the receipt of payments on such Debentures, and such purported transferee shall be deemed to have no interest whatsoever in such
Debentures. The Debentures shall be numbered, lettered, or otherwise distinguished in such manner or in accordance with such plans as the officers executing the same may determine with the approval of the Trustee as evidenced by the execution and
authentication thereof. 
 Section 2.4.         Execution of
Debentures.  The Debentures shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature of its Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, Vice Chairman, President, one of its
Managing Directors or one of its Executive Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents or Vice Presidents. Only such Debentures as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form herein before recited, executed by the
Trustee or the Authenticating Agent by the manual signature of an authorized signer, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent upon any
Debenture executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Debenture so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. 

  
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 In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Debentures
shall cease to be such officer before the Debentures so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent, or disposed of by the Company, such Debentures nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or
disposed of as though the Person who signed such Debentures had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any Debenture may be signed on behalf of the Company by such Persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Debenture, shall
be the proper officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an officer. 

Every Debenture shall be dated the date of its authentication. 

Section 2.5.         Exchange and Registration of Transfer of
Debentures.  The Company shall cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained for the purpose of registration of transfer and for exchange as provided in Section 3.2, a register (the “Debenture
Register”) for the Debentures issued hereunder in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration and transfer of all Debentures as in this Article II provided. The Debenture
Register shall be in written form or in any other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time. 

Debentures to be exchanged may be surrendered at the Principal Office of the Trustee or at any office or agency to be
maintained by the Company for such purpose as provided in Section 3.2, and the Company shall execute, the Company or the Trustee shall register and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery in
exchange therefor the Debenture or Debentures which the Securityholder making the exchange shall be entitled to receive. Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of any Debenture at the Principal Office of the Trustee or at any office or
agency of the Company maintained for such purpose as provided in Section 3.2, the Company shall execute, the Company or the Trustee shall register and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery in
the name of the transferee or transferees a new Debenture for a like aggregate principal amount. Registration or registration of transfer of any Debenture by the Trustee or by any agent of the Company appointed pursuant to Section 3.2, and
delivery of such Debenture, shall be deemed to complete the registration or registration of transfer of such Debenture. 

All Debentures presented for registration of transfer or for exchange or payment shall (if so required by the Company or the
Trustee or the Authenticating Agent) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent duly executed by the holder or his
attorney duly authorized in writing. 
 No service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of transfer of
Debentures, but the Company or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. 

The Company or the Trustee shall not be required to exchange or register a transfer of any Debenture for a period of 15 days
next preceding the date of selection of Debentures for redemption. 
 Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
Debentures may not be transferred except in compliance with the restricted securities legend set forth below, unless otherwise determined by the Company, upon the advice of counsel expert in securities law, in accordance with applicable law: 

THIS SECURITY IS NOT A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR DEPOSIT AND IT IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE
UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION. 
 THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY OTHER 

  
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APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAW. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE
ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO
OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A SO LONG AS THIS SECURITY IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144A, (D) TO A NON-U.S. PERSON IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN
ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 903 OR RULE 904 (AS APPLICABLE) OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (A) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS
ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN INSTITUTIONAL 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, OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL,
CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INDENTURE, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE COMPANY. 

THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
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
THE SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR 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 IS NOT PROHIBITED BY SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THE 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 WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING
ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE, OR (ii) SUCH PURCHASE WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF
ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION. 
 THIS SECURITY
WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000.00 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000.00 IN EXCESS THEREOF. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000.00 SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. 

  
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 THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING
RESTRICTIONS. 
 Section 2.6.       Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Debentures.  In case any Debenture shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company shall execute, and upon its written request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Debenture bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated Debenture, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Debenture so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Debenture shall furnish to the
Company and the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company and the Trustee evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Debenture and of the ownership thereof. 
 The Trustee may
authenticate any such substituted Debenture and deliver the same upon the written request or authorization of any officer of the Company. Upon the issuance of any substituted Debenture, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses connected therewith. In case any Debenture which has matured or is about to mature or has been called for redemption in full shall become
mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, instead of issuing a substitute Debenture, pay or authorize the payment of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Debenture) if the applicant for such payment
shall furnish to the Company and the Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless and, in case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company and to the Trustee of the destruction,
loss or theft of such Debenture and of the ownership thereof. 
 Every substituted Debenture issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 2.6 by virtue of the fact that any such Debenture is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Debenture shall be
found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Debentures duly issued hereunder. All Debentures shall be held and owned upon the express condition that, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debentures and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or
statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender. 

Section 2.7.       Temporary Debentures.  Pending the
preparation of definitive Debentures, the Company may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery temporary Debentures that are typed, printed or lithographed. Temporary Debentures shall be issuable in any authorized
denomination, and substantially in the form of the definitive Debentures in lieu of which they are issued but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Debentures, all as may be determined by the Company.
Every such temporary Debenture shall be executed by the Company and be authenticated by the Trustee upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the definitive Debentures. Without unreasonable delay the
Company will execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent definitive Debentures and thereupon any or all temporary Debentures may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at the principal corporate trust office of the Trustee or at any
office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose as provided in Section 3.2, and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange for such temporary Debentures a like aggregate
principal amount of such definitive Debentures. Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor except that in case of any such 

  
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exchange involving a registration of transfer the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto. Until
so exchanged, the temporary Debentures shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Debentures authenticated and delivered hereunder. 

Section 2.8.       Payment of Interest and Additional
Interest.  Interest at the Interest Rate and any Additional Interest on any Debenture that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Debentures shall be paid to the Person in whose
name said Debenture (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest installment except that interest and any Additional Interest payable on the Maturity Date shall be paid
to the Person to whom principal is paid. 
 Each Debenture shall bear interest for the period beginning on (and including)
the date of original issuance and ending on (but excluding) the Interest Payment Date in September 2006 at a rate per annum of 7.25813%, and shall bear interest for each successive Distribution Period beginning on or after the Interest Payment Date
in September 2006 at a rate per annum equal to the 3-Month LIBOR, determined as described in Section 2.10, plus 1.75% (the “Coupon Rate”), applied to the principal amount thereof, until the principal thereof becomes due and
payable, and on any overdue principal and to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law (without duplication) on any overdue installment of interest (including Additional Interest) at the Interest Rate in effect for
each applicable period compounded quarterly. Interest shall be payable quarterly in arrears on each Interest Payment Date with the first installment of interest to be paid on the Interest Payment Date in September 2006. 

Any interest on any Debenture, including Additional Interest, that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided
for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered holder on the relevant regular record date by virtue of having been such holder; and such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid by the Company to the Persons in whose names such Debentures (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall
be fixed in the following manner: the Company shall notify the Trustee in writing at least 25 days prior to the date of the proposed payment of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such Debenture and the date of the proposed
payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such
deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a special record date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall not be more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee
shall promptly notify the Company of such special record date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor to be mailed, first class
postage prepaid, to each Securityholder at its address as it appears in the Debenture Register, not less than 10 days prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor
having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names such Debentures (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered on such special record date and shall be no longer payable. 

The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on any Debentures in any other lawful manner after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment method; provided, however, the Trustee in its sole discretion deems such payment method to be practical. 

The term “regular record date” as used in this Section shall mean the close of business on the 15th Business Day preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date. 

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

Section 2.9.         Cancellation of Debentures Paid,
etc.  All Debentures surrendered for the purpose of payment, redemption, exchange or registration of transfer, shall, if surrendered to the Company or any paying agent, be surrendered to the Trustee and promptly canceled by it, or,
if surrendered to the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent, shall be promptly canceled by it, and no Debentures shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. All Debentures canceled by any
Authenticating Agent shall be delivered to the Trustee. The Trustee shall destroy all canceled Debentures unless the Company otherwise directs the Trustee in writing. If the Company shall acquire any of the Debentures, however, such acquisition
shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Debentures unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. 

Section 2.10.       Computation of Interest.  The amount of
interest payable for each Distribution Period will be calculated by applying the Interest Rate to the principal amount outstanding at the commencement of the Distribution Period on the basis of the actual number of days in the Distribution Period
concerned divided by 360. All percentages resulting from any calculations on the Debentures 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)). 

(a)         “3-Month LIBOR” means the London interbank offered interest
rate for three-month, U.S. dollar deposits determined by the Trustee in the following order of priority: 

(1)         the rate (expressed as a percentage per annum) for
U.S. dollar deposits having a three-month maturity that appears on Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the related Determination Date (as defined below). “Telerate Page 3750” means the display designated as “Page
3750” on the Moneyline 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 cannot be identified on the related
Determination Date, the 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 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; 

(3)         if fewer than two such quotations are provided as
requested in clause (2) above, the 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 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; and 

(4)         if fewer than two such quotations are provided as
requested in clause (3) above, 3-Month LIBOR will be a 3-Month LIBOR determined with respect to the Distribution Period immediately preceding such current Distribution Period. 

  
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 If the rate for U.S. dollar deposits having a three-month maturity that initially
appears on Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the related Determination Date is superseded on the Telerate Page 3750 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. 

(b)         The Interest Rate for any Distribution Period will at no time be
higher than the maximum rate then permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United States law. 

(c)         “Determination Date” means the date that is two London
Banking Days (i.e., a business 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. 

(d)         The Trustee shall notify the Company and any securities exchange or
interdealer quotation system on which the Debentures are listed, of the Coupon Rate and the Determination Date for each Distribution Period, in each case as soon as practicable after the determination thereof but in no event later than the thirtieth
(30th) day of the relevant Distribution Period. Failure to notify the Company or any securities exchange or interdealer quotation system, or any defect in said notice, shall not affect the obligation of the Company to make payment on the
Debentures at the applicable Coupon Rate. Any error in the calculation of the Coupon Rate by the Trustee may be corrected at any time by notice delivered as above provided. Upon the request of a holder of a Debenture, the Trustee shall provide the
Coupon Rate then in effect and, if determined, the Coupon Rate for the next Distribution Period. 

(e)         Subject to the corrective rights set forth above, all certificates,
communications, opinions, determinations, calculations, quotations and decisions given, expressed, made or obtained for the purposes of the provisions relating to the payment and calculation of interest on the Debentures by the Trustee will (in the
absence of willful default, bad faith and manifest error) be final, conclusive and binding on the Company and all of the holders of the Debentures, and no liability shall (in the absence of willful default, bad faith or manifest error) attach to the
Trustee in connection with the exercise or non-exercise by either of them or their respective powers, duties and discretion. 

Section 2.11.     CUSIP Numbers.  The Company in issuing the Debentures
may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Securityholders; provided, however, that any such notice may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Debentures or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Debentures, and
any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP numbers. 

ARTICLE III. 

PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY 

Section 3.1.       Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest; Agreed Treatment
of the Debentures. 
 (a)         The Company covenants and agrees that
it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of and premium, if any, and interest and any Additional Interest and other payments on the Debentures at the place, at the respective times and in the manner provided in this
Indenture and the Debentures. Each installment of interest on the Debentures may be paid (i) by mailing checks for such interest payable to the order of the holders of Debentures entitled thereto as they appear on the registry books of the
Company if a request for a wire transfer has not been received by the Company or (ii) by wire transfer to any account with a banking institution located in the United States designated in writing by such Person to the paying agent no later than
the related record date. 
 (b)         The Company will treat the Debentures
as indebtedness, and the amounts payable in respect of the principal amount of such Debentures as interest, for all United States federal income tax purposes. All payments in respect of such Debentures will be made free and clear of United States
withholding tax to any beneficial owner thereof that has provided an Internal Revenue Service Form W8 BEN (or any substitute or successor form) establishing its non-United States status for United States federal income tax purposes. 

  
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 Section 3.2.       Offices for
Notices and Payments, etc.  So long as any of the Debentures remain outstanding, the Company will maintain in Wilmington, Delaware, an office or agency where the Debentures may be presented for payment, an office or agency where
the Debentures may be presented for registration of transfer and for exchange as in this Indenture provided and an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Debentures or of this Indenture may be served. The
Company will give to the Trustee written notice of the location of any such office or agency and of any change of location thereof. Until otherwise designated from time to time by the Company in a notice to the Trustee, or specified as contemplated
by Section 2.5, such office or agency for all of the above purposes shall be the office or agency of the Trustee. In case the Company shall fail to maintain any such office or agency in Wilmington, Delaware, or shall fail to give such notice of
the location or of any change in the location thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the Principal Office of the Trustee. 

In addition to any such office or agency, the Company may from time to time designate one or more offices or agencies outside
Wilmington, Delaware, where the Debentures may be presented for registration of transfer and for exchange in the manner provided in this Indenture, and the Company may from time to time rescind such designation, as the Company may deem desirable or
expedient; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain any such office or agency in Wilmington, Delaware, for the purposes above mentioned. The Company
will give to the Trustee prompt written notice of any such designation or rescission thereof. 

Section 3.3.       Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s
Office.  The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.9, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder. 

Section 3.4.       Provision as to Paying Agent. 

(a)         If the Company shall appoint a paying agent other than the Trustee,
it will cause such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provision of this Section 3.4, 

(1)         that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent
for the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the Debentures (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any other obligor on the Debentures) in trust for the benefit of the holders of the
Debentures; 
 (2)         that it will give the Trustee prompt
written notice of any failure by the Company (or by any other obligor on the Debentures) to make any payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the Debentures when the same shall be due and payable; and 

(3)         that it will, at any time during the continuance of
any Event of Default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such paying agent. 

  
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 (b)         If the Company shall act
as its own paying agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest or other payments, if any, on the Debentures, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Debentures a
sum sufficient to pay such principal, premium, interest or other payments so becoming due and will notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company (or by any other obligor under the Debentures) to
make any payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest or other payments, if any, on the Debentures when the same shall become due and payable. 

Whenever the Company shall have one or more paying agents for the Debentures, it will, on or prior to each due date of the
principal of and premium, if any, or interest, if any, on the Debentures, deposit with a paying agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal, premium, interest or other payments so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto and (unless such paying agent is the Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its action or failure to act. 

(c)         Anything in this Section 3.4 to the contrary notwithstanding,
the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge with respect to the Debentures, or for any other reason, pay, or direct any paying agent to pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or any such
paying agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained. 

(d)         Anything in this Section 3.4 to the contrary notwithstanding,
the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section 3.4 is subject to Sections 12.3 and 12.4. 

Section 3.5.       Certificate to Trustee.  The Company will
deliver to the Trustee on or before 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, so long as Debentures are outstanding hereunder, a Certificate stating that in the course of the performance by the signers of their duties as officers of the Company
they would normally have knowledge of any default during such fiscal year by the Company in the performance of any covenants contained herein, stating whether or not they have knowledge of any such default and, if so, specifying each such default of
which the signers have knowledge and the nature and status thereof. 

Section 3.6.       Compliance with Consolidation
Provisions.  The Company will not, while any of the Debentures remain outstanding, consolidate with, or merge into, or merge into itself, or sell or convey all or substantially all of its property to any other Person unless the
provisions of Article XI hereof are complied with. 

Section 3.7.       Limitation on Dividends.  If there shall
have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default, then the Company shall not, and shall not allow any Affiliate of the Company to, (x) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire, or make a liquidation
payment with respect to, any of the Company’s capital stock or its Affiliates’ capital stock (other than payments of dividends or distributions to the Company) or make any guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing or (y) make
any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company or any Affiliate that rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the Debentures (other than,
with respect to clauses (x) and (y) above, (1) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for
the benefit of one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible
into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable Default, (2) as a result of any exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s capital stock
(or any capital stock of a subsidiary of the Company) for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock or of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock, (3) the
purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (4) any declaration

  
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of a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase
of rights pursuant thereto, or (5) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which
the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to such stock and any cash payments in lieu of fractional shares issued in connection therewith.) 

ARTICLE IV. 

SECURITYHOLDERS’ LISTS AND REPORTS 

BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE 

Section 4.1.       Securityholders’ Lists.  The Company
covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee: 

(a)         on each regular record date for the Debentures, a list, in such form
as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Securityholders of the Debentures as of such record date; and 

(b)         at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30
days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished; 

except that no such lists need be furnished under this Section 4.1 so long as the Trustee is in possession thereof by reason of its
acting as Debenture registrar. 
 Section 4.2.       Preservation and
Disclosure of Lists. 
 (a)         The Trustee shall preserve, in as
current a form as is reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the holders of Debentures (1) contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in Section 4.1 or (2) received by it in the
capacity of Debentures registrar (if so acting) hereunder. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 4.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished. 

(b)         In case three or more holders of Debentures (hereinafter referred to
as “applicants”) apply in writing to the Trustee and furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Debenture for a period of at least 6 months preceding the date of such application, and such application
states that the applicants desire to communicate with other holders of Debentures with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under such Debentures and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall within 5 Business Days after the receipt of such application, at its election, either: 

(1)          afford such applicants access to the
information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section 4.2, or 

(2)          inform such applicants as to the approximate
number of holders of Debentures whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section 4.2, and as to the approximate cost of mailing to
such Securityholders the form of proxy or other communication, if any, specified in such application. 
 If the Trustee
shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants, mail to each Securityholder whose name and address appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee
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this Section 4.2 a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed
and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within five days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, if permitted or required
by applicable law, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the holders of all Debentures, as the case may be,
or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If said Commission, as permitted or required by applicable law, after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified in the written
statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining one or more of such objections, said Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the
objections so sustained have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such Securityholders with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender;
otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their application. 

(c)         Each and every holder of Debentures, by receiving and holding the
same, agrees with Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any paying agent shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the holders of Debentures in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section 4.2, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a
request made under said subsection (b). 
 ARTICLE V. 

REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS 

UPON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT 

Section 5.1.       Events of Default.  “Event of
Default,” wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or
order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body): 

(a)         a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises
shall have been entered adjudging the Company bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, readjustment, arrangement, composition or similar relief for the Company under the Bankruptcy Law, or any other
similar applicable law of any governmental unit, domestic or foreign, and such decree or order shall have continued undischarged or unstayed for a period of 90 days; or a decree or order or other decision of a court or agency or supervisory
authority having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of any Person to act as a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of a substantial part of its property, or for the involuntary
winding up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered and such decree or order shall have remained in force undischarged and unstayed for a period of 90 days; or, under the provisions of any insolvency, bankruptcy, or other law for the
relief or aid of creditors, any court, or agency or supervisory authority having jurisdiction in the premises shall assume custody or control of the Company or of a substantial part of its property, and such custody and control shall not be
terminated or stayed within 90 days from the date of assumption of such custody or control; or any substantial part of the property of the Company shall be sequestered or attached and shall not be returned to the possession of the Company or
released from such attachment within 90 days thereafter; or 
 (b)         the
Company shall institute proceedings to be adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt, or shall consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization, readjustment, arrangement,
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consent to the filing of any such petition or shall consent to the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of it or of a substantial part of its
property, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or if corporate action shall be taken by the Company in furtherance of any of the aforesaid
purposes. 
 Section 5.2.       Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment.  If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Debentures, then, and in each and every such case, unless the principal of the Debentures shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee
or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding hereunder, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Securityholders), may declare the entire principal of the Debentures
and the interest accrued thereon, if any, to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become immediately due and payable, subject to the receipt by the Company of prior approval from the Federal Reserve (if the
Company is a bank holding company) or the OTS (if the Company is a savings and loan holding company) for payment of such amounts, if then required under applicable capital guidelines, regulations or policies of the Federal Reserve or the OTS. Upon
payment of such amounts, all obligations of the Company in respect of the payment of principal of and interest on the Debentures shall terminate. 

The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition that if, at any time after the principal of the Debentures
shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, (i) the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest upon all the Debentures and the principal of and premium, if any, on the Debentures which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon such principal and premium, if
any, and Additional Interest) and such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other amounts due to the Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.6, if any, and (ii) all Defaults under this Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on Debentures which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or otherwise
remedied as provided herein, then and in every such case the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all defaults and rescind and annul
such declaration and its consequences, but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent thereon. 

In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been
discontinued or abandoned because of such rescission or annulment or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Debentures shall be
restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Debentures shall continue as though no such proceeding had been taken. 

Section 5.3.       Defaults.  “Default,”
wherever used herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any
order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body): 

(a)         an Event of Default has occurred; 

(b)         the Company fails to pay the principal of any Debenture at the
Maturity Date and such failure is continued for six days, whether or not such payment is prohibited by Article XV hereof; or 

  
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 (c)         the Company fails to pay
any installment of interest on an Interest Payment Date and such failure is continued for 30 days, whether or not such payment is prohibited by Article XV hereof. 

The Company covenants that, if a Default shall occur, it will, upon demand of the Trustee and subject to the approval of the
Federal Reserve (if the Company is a bank holding company) or the OTS (if the Company is a savings and loan holding company), if then required, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Securityholders, the entire amount then due and payable on the
Debentures (x) in the case of a Default specified in clause (a) or (b) above, for the principal and interest, if any, and interest upon the overdue principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally
enforceable, upon overdue installments of interest, at the Interest Rate, and (y) in the case of a Default specified in clause (c) above, for the interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon
overdue installments of interest, at the Interest Rate; and in each case, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel. 
 If the Company fails to pay such amount forthwith upon such demand
and if the necessary Federal Reserve or OTS approval, if any, has been obtained, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute
such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Debentures, and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Company or any other obligor upon the Debentures wherever situated. 
 If a Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee
may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Securityholders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy. 

Section 5.4. Trustee May File Proof of Claims.  In case there shall be pending proceedings
for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Debentures under Bankruptcy Law, or in case a receiver or trustee shall have been appointed for the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the case
of any other similar judicial proceedings relative to the Company or other obligor upon the Debentures, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Debentures shall
then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.4, shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, 
 (i)          to file and
prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Debentures, 

(ii)         in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim
and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and
counsel, and for reimbursement of all other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.6), and of the Securityholders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on the Debentures, or to the creditors or
property of the Company or such other obligor, unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the holders of the Debentures in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation or
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 (iii)       to collect and receive any moneys
or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and 
 (iv)       to
distribute the same after the deduction of its charges and expenses. 
 Any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or
reorganization is hereby authorized by each of the Securityholders to make such payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such
amounts as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.6. 

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf
of any Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Debentures or the rights of any holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any such
proceeding. 
 All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Debentures, may be
enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Debentures, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as
trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall be for the ratable benefit of the holders of the Debentures. 

In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this
Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all the holders of the Debentures, and it shall not be necessary to make any holders of the Debentures parties to any such proceedings. 

Section 5.5.       Application of Moneys Collected by
Trustee.  Any moneys collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article V shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such moneys, upon presentation of the several
Debentures in respect of which moneys have been collected, and stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof if fully paid: 

First:  To the payment of costs and expenses incurred by, and reasonable fees of, the Trustee, its agents, attorneys
and counsel, and of all other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.6; 
 Second:  To the payment of all
Senior Indebtedness of the Company if and to the extent required by Article XV; 
 Third:  To the payment of the
amounts then due and unpaid upon Debentures for principal (and premium, if any), and interest on the Debentures, in respect of which or for the benefit of which money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
to the amounts due on such Debentures (including Additional Interest); and 
 Fourth:  The balance, if any, to the
Company. 
 Section 5.6.       Proceedings by
Securityholders.  No holder of any Debenture shall have any right to institute any suit, action or proceeding for any remedy hereunder, unless such holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of a Default with
respect to the Debentures and unless the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding shall have given the Trustee a written request to institute such action, suit or proceeding and shall have offered
to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred thereby, and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to
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 Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, however, the right of any
holder of any Debenture to receive payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, on such Debenture when due, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such
holder and by accepting a Debenture hereunder it is expressly understood, intended and covenanted by the taker and holder of every Debenture with every other such taker and holder and the Trustee, that no one or more holders of Debentures shall have
any right in any manner whatsoever by virtue or by availing itself of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of the holders of any other Debentures, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to
any other such holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all holders of Debentures. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this
Section, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity. 

Section 5.7.       Proceedings by Trustee.  In case of a
Default hereunder the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights,
either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture,
or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law. 

Section 5.8.       Remedies Cumulative and Continuing; Delay or Omission Not a
Waiver.  Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.6, all powers and remedies given by this Article V to the Trustee or to the Securityholders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of
any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the holders of the Debentures, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture or otherwise
established with respect to the Debentures, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any holder of any of the Debentures to exercise any right, remedy or power accruing upon any Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any
such right, remedy or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 5.6, every power and remedy given by this Article V or by law to the Trustee or to the
Securityholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee (in accordance with its duties under Section 6.1) or by the Securityholders. 

Section 5.9.       Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority
of Securityholders.  The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures affected (voting as one class) at the time outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method, and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to such Debentures; provided, however, that (subject to the provisions of Section 6.1) the Trustee shall
have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee shall determine that the action so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the holders not taking part in such direction or if the Trustee being advised by counsel determines
that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be taken or if a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall determine that the action or proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability. 

The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures at the time outstanding may on behalf of the holders
of all of the Debentures waive (or modify any previously granted waiver of) any past default, and its consequences, except a default (a) in the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any of the Debentures or (b) in
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modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each Debenture affected. Upon any such waiver, the default covered thereby shall be deemed to be cured for all purposes of this Indenture
and the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Debentures shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Whenever any default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section, said default shall for all purposes of the Debentures and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing. The term “default” for the
purpose of this Section 5.9 and Section 5.10 is defined to be the events specified in Section 5.1 and Section 5.3, not including periods of grace, if any, provided for therein. 

Section 5.10.     Notice of Defaults.  The Trustee shall, within 90 days
after the actual knowledge by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of the occurrence of a default with respect to the Debentures, mail to all Securityholders, as the names and addresses of such holders appear upon the Debenture Register, notice of
all defaults with respect to the Debentures known to the Trustee, unless such defaults shall have been cured before the giving of such notice; provided, however, that, except in the case of default in the payment of the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on any of the Debentures, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests
of the Securityholders. 
 Section 5.11.     Undertaking to Pay
Costs.  All parties to this Indenture agree, and each holder of any Debenture by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or
remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant;
provided, however, that the provisions of this Section 5.11 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder, or group of Securityholders, holding in the aggregate more than 10%
in principal amount of the Debentures outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Debenture against the Company on or after the same
shall have become due and payable. 
 ARTICLE VI. 

CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE 

Section 6.1.       Duties and Responsibilities of
Trustee.  With respect to the holders of Debentures issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of a Default with respect to the Debentures and after the curing or waiving of all Defaults which may have occurred, with
respect to the Debentures, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. In case a Default with respect to the
Debentures has occurred (which has not been cured or waived), the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or
use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs. 
 No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to
relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: 

(a)         prior to the occurrence of a Default with respect to Debentures and
after the curing or waiving of all Defaults which may have occurred 

(1)         the duties and obligations of the Trustee with
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except for the performance of such duties and obligations with respect to the Debentures as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read
into this Indenture against the Trustee, and 
 (2)         in
the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the 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 Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to
determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture; 

(b)         the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and 

(c)         the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith, in accordance with the direction of the Securityholders pursuant to Section 5.7, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising
any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture. 
 None of the provisions contained in this Indenture
shall require the 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 there is ground for believing that the repayment
of such funds or liability is not assured to it under the terms of this Indenture or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against such risk is not reasonably assured to it. 

Section 6.2.         Reliance on Documents, Opinions,
etc.  Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.1: 

(a)         the 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, consent, order, bond, note, debenture or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties; 
 (b)         any request,
direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any Board Resolution may be evidenced to
the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company; 

(c)         the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and any advice
or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel; 

(d)         the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or direction of any of the Securityholders, pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby; 

(e)         the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by it
in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture; nothing contained herein shall, however, relieve the Trustee of the obligation, upon the occurrence of a Default with
respect to the Debentures (that has not been cured or waived) to exercise with respect to Debentures such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and to use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would
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 (f)         the Trustee shall not be
bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, coupon or other paper or document, unless requested
in writing to do so by the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Debentures affected thereby; provided, however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs,
expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require
reasonable indemnity against such expense or liability as a condition to so proceeding; 

(g)         the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents (including any Authenticating Agent) or attorneys, and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney appointed by
it with due care; and 
 (h)         with the exceptions of Defaults under
Sections 5.3(b) or 5.3(c), the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Default with respect to the Debentures unless a written notice of such Default shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company or any other obligor on the
Debentures or by any holder of the Debentures. 
 Section 6.3.       No
Responsibility for Recitals, etc.  The recitals contained herein and in the Debentures (except in the certificate of authentication of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and
the Trustee and the Authenticating Agent assume no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee and the Authenticating Agent make no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Debentures. The Trustee
and the Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Debentures or the proceeds of any Debentures authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture. 
 Section 6.4.       Trustee, Authenticating
Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer Agents or Registrar May Own Debentures.  The Trustee or any Authenticating Agent or any paying agent or any transfer agent or any Debenture registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may
become the owner or pledgee of Debentures with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, paying agent, transfer agent or Debenture registrar. 

Section 6.5.       Moneys to be Held in Trust.  Subject to the
provisions of Section 12.4, all moneys received by the Trustee or any paying agent shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purpose for which they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law. The Trustee and any paying agent shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company. So long as no Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, all interest allowed on any such moneys shall be paid from time to time upon the written order of the Company, signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, a Managing
Director, a Vice President, the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of the Company. 

Section 6.6.       Compensation and Expenses of Trustee.  The
Company covenants and agrees to pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence or willful

  
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misconduct. For purposes of clarification, this Section 6.6 does not contemplate the payment by the Company of acceptance or annual administration fees owing to the Trustee pursuant to the
services to be provided by the Trustee under this Indenture or the fees and expenses of the Trustee’s counsel in connection with the closing of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture. The Company also covenants to indemnify each of the
Trustee or any predecessor Trustee (and its officers, agents, directors and employees) for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claim, liability or expense including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee)
incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim of
liability. The obligations of the Company under this Section 6.6 to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder. Such
additional indebtedness shall be secured by a lien prior to that of the Debentures upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of the holders of particular Debentures. 

Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee incurs expenses or
renders services in connection with a Default, the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable federal or
state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law. 
 The provisions of this Section shall survive the resignation or
removal of the Trustee and the defeasance or other termination of this Indenture. 
 Notwithstanding anything in this
Indenture or any Debenture to the contrary, the Trustee shall have no obligation whatsoever to advance funds to pay any principal of or interest on or other amounts with respect to the Debentures or otherwise advance funds to or on behalf of the
Company. 
 Section 6.7.       Officers’ Certificate as
Evidence.  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 6.1 and 6.2, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved
and established by an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate, in the absence of negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by
it under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof. 

Section 6.8.       Eligibility of Trustee.  The Trustee
hereunder shall at all times be a corporation 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 other Person authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, having (or whose obligations under this Indenture are guaranteed by an affiliate having) a combined capital and surplus of at least 50 million U.S. dollars ($50,000,000.00) and subject to supervision or
examination by federal, state, territorial, or District of Columbia authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for
the purposes of this Section 6.8 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 records of condition so published. 

The Company may not, nor may any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the
Company, serve as Trustee. 
 In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions
of this Section 6.8, the Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.9. 

  
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 If the Trustee has or shall acquire any “conflicting interest” within
the meaning of §310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner described by this Indenture. 

Section 6.9.       Resignation or Removal of Trustee 

(a)         The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at
any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company and by mailing notice thereof, at the Company’s expense, to the holders of the Debentures at their addresses as they shall appear on the Debenture Register. Upon
receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor trustee or trustees by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of its Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the
resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor Trustee. If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 30 days after the mailing of such notice of resignation to the affected Securityholders, the resigning
Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee, or any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Debenture or Debentures for at least six months may, subject to the provisions of
Section 5.11, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a
successor Trustee. 
 (b)         In case at any time any of the following
shall occur -- 
 (1)         the Trustee shall fail to comply
with the provisions of Section 6.8 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Debenture or Debentures for at least 6 months, or 

(2)         the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of Section 6.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Securityholder, or 

(3)         the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or
shall be adjudged as bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation, 
 then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor Trustee
by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section 5.11,
any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Debenture or Debentures for at least 6 months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and
the appointment of a successor Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint successor Trustee. 

(c)         Upon prior written notice to the Company and the Trustee, the holders
of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures at the time outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor Trustee, which shall be deemed appointed as successor Trustee unless within 10 Business Days after such
nomination the Company objects thereto, in which case, or in the case of a failure by such holders to nominate a successor Trustee, the Trustee so removed or any Securityholder, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in subsection
(a) of this Section 6.9 provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor. 

(d)         Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee as provided in Section 6.10. 

 

  
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 Section 6.10.     Acceptance by Successor
Trustee.  Any successor Trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.9 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations with respect to the Debentures of
its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor Trustee, the Trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amounts then due it
pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights and powers of the Trustee so ceasing to act and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee
all property and money held by such retiring Trustee thereunder. Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
Trustee all such rights and powers. Any Trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a lien upon all property or funds held or collected by such Trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6. 

If a successor Trustee is appointed, the Company, the retiring Trustee and the successor Trustee shall execute and deliver an
indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Debentures as to which the predecessor
Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trust hereunder by more
than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be Trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart
from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee. 
 No successor Trustee shall accept appointment
as provided in this Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 6.8. 

In no event shall a retiring Trustee be liable for the acts or omissions of any successor Trustee hereunder. 

Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Trustee as provided in this Section 6.10, the Company shall mail notice of
the succession of such Trustee hereunder to the holders of Debentures at their addresses as they shall appear on the Debenture Register. If the Company fails to mail such notice within 10 Business Days after the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee, the successor Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Company. 

Section 6.11.     Succession by Merger, etc.  Any corporation into which
the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all
of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the 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 corporation shall be
otherwise eligible and qualified under this Article. 
 In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to
the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Debentures shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee, and deliver such Debentures so
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to the Trustee may authenticate such Debentures either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the
full force which it is anywhere in the Debentures or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or
authenticate Debentures in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation. 

Section 6.12.     Authenticating Agents.  There may be one or more
Authenticating Agents appointed by the Trustee upon the request of the Company with power to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of Debentures issued upon exchange or registration of transfer thereof as
fully to all intents and purposes as though any such Authenticating Agent had been expressly authorized to authenticate and deliver Debentures; provided, however, that the Trustee shall have no liability to the Company for any acts or
omissions of the Authenticating Agent with respect to the authentication and delivery of Debentures. Any such Authenticating Agent shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or of any state
or territory thereof or of the District of Columbia authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000.00 and being subject to supervision or examination by federal, state,
territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually pursuant to law or the requirements of such authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.12 the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions
of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect herein specified in this Section. 
 Any
corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of any Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, if such successor corporation is otherwise eligible under this
Section 6.12 without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or such Authenticating Agent. 

Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The
Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent with respect to the Debentures by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such
a termination, or in case at any time any Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section 6.12, the Trustee may, and upon the request of the Company shall, promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent eligible under this
Section 6.12, shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and shall mail notice of such appointment to all holders of Debentures as the names and addresses of such holders appear on the Debenture Register. Any successor
Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and responsibilities with respect to the Debentures of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as
Authenticating Agent herein. 
 The Company agrees to pay to any Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services. Any Authenticating Agent shall have no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it as such in accordance with the directions of the Trustee. 

ARTICLE VII. 

CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS 

Section 7.1.       Action by Securityholders.  Whenever in
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(including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action) the fact that at the time of taking any such action the holders of
such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by such Securityholders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the record
of such holders of Debentures voting in favor thereof at any meeting of such Securityholders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article VIII, or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record
of such a meeting of such Securityholders or (d) by any other method the Trustee deems satisfactory. 
 If the Company
shall solicit from the Securityholders any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation of the same, the Company may, at its option, as evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate, fix in advance a
record date for such Debentures for the determination of Securityholders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation of the same, but the Company shall have no obligation to
do so. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation of the same may be given before or after the record date, but only the Securityholders of record at the
close of business on the record date shall be deemed to be Securityholders for the purposes of determining whether Securityholders of the requisite proportion of outstanding Debentures have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation of the same, and for that purpose the outstanding Debentures shall be computed as of the record date; provided, however, that no such authorization,
agreement or consent by such Securityholders on the record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than 6 months after the record date. 

Section 7.2.       Proof of Execution by
Securityholders.  Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, 6.2 and 8.5, proof of the execution of any instrument by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules
and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The ownership of Debentures shall be proved by the Debenture Register or by a certificate of the Debenture registrar. The Trustee may
require such additional proof of any matter referred to in this Section as it shall deem necessary. 
 The record of any
Securityholders’ meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 8.6. 

Section 7.3.       Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners.  Prior to
due presentment for registration of transfer of any Debenture, the Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any paying agent, any transfer agent and any Debenture registrar may deem the Person in whose name such Debenture shall be registered
upon the Debenture Register to be, and may treat him as, the absolute owner of such Debenture (whether or not such Debenture shall be overdue) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest
on such Debenture and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent nor any paying agent nor any transfer agent nor any Debenture registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such
payments so made to any holder for the time being or upon his order shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any such Debenture. 

Section 7.4.       Debentures Owned by Company Deemed Not
Outstanding.  In determining whether the holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Debentures have concurred in any direction, consent or waiver under this Indenture, Debentures which are owned by the Company or any
other obligor on the Debentures or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or any other obligor on the Debentures shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
outstanding for the purpose of any such determination; provided, however, that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent or waiver, only Debentures which a
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disregarded. Debentures so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this Section 7.4 if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction
of the Trustee the pledgee’s right to vote such Debentures and that the pledgee is not the Company or any such other obligor or Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the
Company or any such other obligor. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full protection to the Trustee. 

Section 7.5.       Revocation of Consents; Future Holders
Bound.  At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 7.1, of the taking of any action by the holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures specified in
this Indenture in connection with such action, any holder (in cases where no record date has been set pursuant to Section 7.1) or any holder as of an applicable record date (in cases where a record date has been set pursuant to
Section 7.1) of a Debenture (or any Debenture issued in whole or in part in exchange or substitution therefor) the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included in the Debentures the holders of which have consented to such
action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at the Principal Office of the Trustee and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 7.2, revoke such action so far as concerns such Debenture (or so far as concerns the principal amount
represented by any exchanged or substituted Debenture). Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the holder of any Debenture shall be conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon all future holders and owners of such Debenture, and of any
Debenture issued in exchange or substitution therefor or on registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Debenture or any Debenture issued in exchange or substitution therefor.

 ARTICLE VIII. 

SECURITYHOLDERS’ MEETINGS 

Section 8.1.       Purposes of Meetings.  A meeting of
Securityholders may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article VIII for any of the following purposes: 

(a)         to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee, or to give any
directions to the Trustee, or to consent to the waiving of any default hereunder and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by Securityholders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article V; 

(b)         to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant to
the provisions of Article VI; 
 (c)         to consent to the execution of an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.2; or 

(d)         to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of
the holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of such Debentures under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law. 

Section 8.2.       Call of Meetings by Trustee.  The Trustee
may at any time call a meeting of Securityholders to take any action specified in Section 8.1, to be held at such time and at such place as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Securityholders, setting forth the time and
the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be mailed to holders of Debentures affected at their addresses as they shall appear on the Debentures Register and, if the Company is not a holder
of Debentures, to the Company. Such notice shall be mailed not less than 20 nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting. 

Section 8.3.       Call of Meetings by Company or
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Debentures, as the case may be, then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Securityholders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed
to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have mailed the notice of such meeting within 20 days after receipt of such request, then the Company or such Securityholders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call
such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 8.1, by mailing notice thereof as provided in Section 8.2. 

Section 8.4.       Qualifications for Voting.  To be entitled
to vote at any meeting of Securityholders a Person shall (a) be a holder of one or more Debentures with respect to which the meeting is being held or (b) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a holder of one or more
such Debentures. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Securityholders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and
any representatives of the Company and its counsel. 

Section 8.5.       Regulations.  Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Securityholders, in regard to proof of the holding of Debentures and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the
appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit. 

The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have
been called by the Company or by Securityholders as provided in Section 8.3, in which case the Company or the Securityholders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a
permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by majority vote of the meeting. 
 Subject to the provisions of
Section 7.4, at any meeting each holder of Debentures with respect to which such meeting is being held or proxy therefor shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000.00 principal amount of Debentures held or represented by him;
provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Debenture challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no
right to vote other than by virtue of Debentures held by him or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating him as the Person to vote on behalf of other Securityholders. Any meeting of Securityholders duly called pursuant to the provisions
of Section 8.2 or 8.3 may be adjourned from time to time by a majority of those present, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice. 

Section 8.6.       Voting.  The vote upon any resolution
submitted to any meeting of holders of Debentures with respect to which such meeting is being held shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of such holders or of their representatives by proxy and the serial number or
numbers of the Debentures held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the
secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of Securityholders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be
attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said
notice was mailed as provided in Section 8.2. The record shall show the serial numbers of the Debentures voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and
secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. 

  
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 Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters
therein stated. 
 Section 8.7.       Quorum; Actions.  The
Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Securityholders; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such meeting with respect to
a consent, waiver, request, demand, notice, authorization, direction or other action which may be given by the holders of not less than a specified percentage in principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding, the Persons holding or
representing such specified percentage in principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding will constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the
request of Securityholders, be dissolved. In any other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the permanent chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence of a
quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the permanent chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting. Notice of the
reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in Section 8.2, except that such notice need be given only once not less than 5 days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening
of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding which shall constitute a quorum. 

Except as limited by the provisos in the first paragraph of Section 9.2, any resolution presented to a meeting or
adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding; provided, however, that, except as
limited by the provisos in the first paragraph of Section 9.2, any resolution with respect to any consent, waiver, request, demand, notice, authorization, direction or other action which this Indenture expressly provides may be given by the
holders of not less than a specified percentage in principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid only by the affirmative vote of
the holders of a not less than such specified percentage in principal amount of the Debentures then outstanding. 
 Any
resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of holders of Debentures duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on all the Securityholders, whether or not present or represented at the meeting. 

ARTICLE IX. 

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES 

Section 9.1.       Supplemental Indentures without Consent of
Securityholders.  The Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto, without the consent of the Securityholders, for
one or more of the following purposes: 
 (a)         to evidence the
succession of another Person to the Company, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor Person of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company, pursuant to Article XI hereof; 

(b)         to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants,
restrictions or conditions for the protection of the holders of Debentures as the Board of Directors shall consider to be for the protection of the holders of such Debentures, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a
default in any of such additional covenants, restrictions or conditions a default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set forth; provided,
however, that in respect of any such additional covenant restriction or condition such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of
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 (c)         to cure any ambiguity or
to correct or supplement any provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture, or to make such other provisions in regard to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture; provided that any such action shall not materially adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Debentures; 

(d)         to add to, delete from, or revise the terms of Debentures, including,
without limitation, any terms relating to the issuance, exchange, registration or transfer of Debentures (for purposes of assuring that no registration of Debentures is required under the Securities Act); provided, however, that any
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Debentures then outstanding; 

(e)         to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder
by a successor Trustee with respect to the Debentures and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; 

(f)         to make any change (other than as elsewhere provided in this
paragraph) that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder in any material respect; or 

(g)         to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and
conditions of the Debentures, to establish the form of any certifications required to be furnished pursuant to the terms of this Indenture or the Debentures, or to add to the rights of the holders of Debentures. 

The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any
further appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the conveyance, transfer and assignment of any property thereunder, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to, but may in its discretion, enter into any
such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. 

Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section 9.1 may be executed by the Company and the
Trustee without the consent of the holders of any of the Debentures at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 9.2. 

Section 9.2.       Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Securityholders.  With the consent (evidenced as provided in Section 7.1) of the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures at the time outstanding affected by such supplemental
indenture (voting as a class), the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Debentures; provided, however, that no such supplemental
indenture shall without the consent of the holders of each Debenture then outstanding and affected thereby (i) change the fixed maturity of any Debenture, or reduce the principal amount thereof or any premium thereon, or reduce the rate or
extend the time of payment of interest thereon, or reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof or make the principal thereof or any interest or premium thereon payable in any coin or currency other than that provided in the Debentures, or impair
or affect the right of any Securityholder to institute suit for payment thereof or impair the right of repayment, if any, at the option of the holder, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Debentures the holders of which are required to
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 Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a Board Resolution authorizing the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Securityholders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such
supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture. 

Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Section, the Trustee shall transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, a notice, prepared by the Company, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental indenture, to the Securityholders as their names and addresses appear upon
the Debenture Register. Any failure of the Trustee to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture. 

It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of
any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof. 

Section 9.3.       Effect of Supplemental Indentures.  Upon
the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article IX, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties
and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Company and the holders of Debentures shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments and all the terms and
conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes. 

Section 9.4.       Notation on Debentures.  Debentures
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article IX may bear a notation as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Trustee shall so
determine, new Debentures so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the Company, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company,
authenticated by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent and delivered in exchange for the Debentures then outstanding. 

Section 9.5.       Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be
Furnished to Trustee.  The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall, in addition to the documents required by Section 14.6, receive an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive
evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this Article IX. The Trustee shall receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this
Article IX is authorized or permitted by, and conforms to, the terms of this Article IX and that it is proper for the Trustee under the provisions of this Article IX to join in the execution thereof. 

ARTICLE X. 

REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES 

Section 10.1.     Optional Redemption.  The Company shall have the right
(subject to the receipt by the Company of prior approval (i) if the Company is a bank holding company, from the Federal Reserve, if then required under applicable capital guidelines or policies of the Federal Reserve or (ii) if the Company
is a savings and loan holding company, from the OTS, if then required under applicable capital guidelines or policies of the OTS) to redeem the Debentures, in whole or in part, but in all cases in a principal amount with integral multiples of
$1,000.00, on any Interest Payment Date on or after the Interest Payment Date in September 2011 (the “Redemption Date”) at the Redemption Price. 

  
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 Section 10.2.     Notice of Redemption;
Selection of Debentures.  In case the Company shall desire to exercise the right to redeem all, or, as the case may be, any part of the Debentures, it shall cause to be mailed a notice of such redemption at least 30 and not more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to the holders of Debentures so to be redeemed as a whole or in part at their last addresses as the same appear on the Debenture Register. Such mailing shall be by first class mail. The notice if mailed in
the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the notice to the holder of any Debenture designated
for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Debenture. 

Each such notice of redemption shall specify the CUSIP number, if any, of the Debentures to be redeemed, the Redemption Date,
the Redemption Price at which Debentures are to be redeemed, the place or places of payment, that payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Debentures, that interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption will be paid as
specified in said notice, and that on and after said date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue. If less than all the Debentures are to be redeemed the notice of redemption shall specify the numbers of the
Debentures to be redeemed. In case the Debentures are to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon
surrender of such Debenture, a new Debenture or Debentures in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued. 

Prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more
paying agents an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the Redemption Date all the Debentures so called for redemption at the appropriate Redemption Price. 

If all, or less than all, the Debentures are to be redeemed, the Company will give the Trustee notice not less than 45 nor
more than 60 days, respectively, prior to the Redemption Date, as to the aggregate principal amount of Debentures to be redeemed and the Trustee shall select, in such manner as in its sole discretion it shall deem appropriate and fair, the
Debentures or portions thereof (in integral multiples of $1,000.00) to be redeemed. 

Section 10.3.     Payment of Debentures Called for Redemption.  If
notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 10.2, the Debentures or portions of Debentures with respect to which such notice has been given shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the place or places stated in
such notice at the applicable Redemption Price (unless the Company shall default in the payment of such Debentures at the Redemption Price) interest on the Debentures or portions of Debentures so called for redemption shall cease to accrue. On
presentation and surrender of such Debentures at a place of payment specified in said notice, such Debentures or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price. 

Upon presentation of any Debenture redeemed in part only, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
make available for delivery to the holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Debenture or Debentures of authorized denominations, in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Debenture so presented. 

  
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 ARTICLE XI. 

CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE 

Section 11.1.     Company May Consolidate, etc., on Certain
Terms.  Nothing contained in this Indenture or in the Debentures shall prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other Person (whether or not affiliated with the Company) or successive consolidations or
mergers in which the Company or its successor or successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of the property or capital stock of the Company or its successor or successors as an
entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other Person (whether or not affiliated with the Company, or its successor or successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, that the Company hereby
covenants and agrees that, upon any such consolidation, merger (where the Company is not the surviving corporation), sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
on all of the Debentures in accordance with their terms, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be kept or performed by the Company, shall be expressly
assumed by supplemental indenture satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the Trustee by the entity formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company shall have been merged, or by the entity which shall have acquired such
property. 
 Section 11.2.     Successor Entity to be Substituted.  In
case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition and upon the assumption by the successor entity, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the
due and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on all of the Debentures and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed or observed by the
Company, such successor entity shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the Company, and thereupon the predecessor entity shall be relieved of any further liability or obligation
hereunder or upon the Debentures. Such successor entity thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue in its own name, any or all of the Debentures issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the
Trustee or the Authenticating Agent; and, upon the order of such successor entity instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall
authenticate and deliver any Debentures which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company, to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for authentication, and any Debentures which such successor entity thereafter
shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for that purpose. All the Debentures so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Debentures theretofore or
thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Debentures had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. 

Section 11.3.     Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee.  The
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, shall receive, in addition to the Opinion of Counsel required by Section 9.5, an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or
other disposition, and any assumption, permitted or required by the terms of this Article XI complies with the provisions of this Article XI. 

ARTICLE XII. 

SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE 

Section 12.1.     Discharge of Indenture.  When 

 

	 	(a)	 the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all Debentures theretofore authenticated (other than any Debentures which shall have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.6) and not theretofore canceled, or 

  
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	 	(b)	 all the Debentures not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms
to become due and payable within 1 year or are to be called for redemption within 1 year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and the Company shall deposit with the Trustee, in trust, funds, which
shall be immediately due and payable, sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption all of the Debentures (other than any Debentures which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 2.6) not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and premium, if any, and interest due or to become due to such date of maturity or redemption date, as the case may be, but excluding,
however, the amount of any moneys for the payment of principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on the Debentures (1) theretofore repaid to the Company in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.4, or (2) paid to any state or
to the District of Columbia pursuant to its unclaimed property or similar laws, 

 and if in the case of either clause
(a) or clause (b) the Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect except for the provisions of Sections 2.5, 2.6, 2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4,
6.6, 6.8, 6.9 and 12.4 hereof shall survive until such Debentures shall mature and be paid. Thereafter, Sections 6.6 and 12.4 shall survive, and the Trustee, on demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with, and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture. The Company agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Debentures. 

Section 12.2.     Deposited Moneys to be Held in Trust by
Trustee.  Subject to the provisions of Section 12.4, all moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 12.1 shall be held in trust in a non-interest bearing account and applied by it to the payment, either
directly or through any paying agent (including the Company if acting as its own paying agent), to the holders of the particular Debentures for the payment of which such moneys have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and to become due
thereon for principal, and premium, if any, and interest. 
 Section 12.3.     Paying
Agent to Repay Moneys Held.  Upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture all moneys then held by any paying agent of the Debentures (other than the Trustee) shall, upon demand of the Company, be repaid to it or paid to
the Trustee, and thereupon such paying agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such moneys. 

Section 12.4.     Return of Unclaimed Moneys.  Any moneys deposited with
or paid to the Trustee or any paying agent for payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on Debentures and not applied but remaining unclaimed by the holders of Debentures for 2 years after the date upon which the principal of,
and premium, if any, or interest on such Debentures, as the case may be, shall have become due and payable, shall, subject to applicable escheatment laws, be repaid to the Company by the Trustee or such paying agent on written demand; and the holder
of any of the Debentures shall thereafter look only to the Company for any payment which such holder may be entitled to collect, and all liability of the Trustee or such paying agent with respect to such moneys shall thereupon cease. 

  
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 ARTICLE XIII. 

IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, 

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS 

Section 13.1.     Indenture and Debentures Solely Corporate
Obligations.  No recourse for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Debenture, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant
or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture, or in any such Debenture, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, officer or
director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor Person of the Company, either directly or through the Company or any successor Person of the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by
the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of
the Debentures. 
 ARTICLE XIV. 

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 

Section 14.1.     Successors.  All the covenants, stipulations, promises
and agreements of the Company in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns whether so expressed or not. 

Section 14.2.     Official Acts by Successor Entity.  Any act or
proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or officer of the Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the like board, committee, officer or
other authorized Person of any entity that shall at the time be the lawful successor of the Company. 

Section 14.3.     Surrender of Company Powers.  The Company by
instrument in writing executed by authority of at least 2/3 (two-thirds) of its Board of Directors and delivered to the Trustee may surrender any of the powers reserved to the Company and thereupon such power so surrendered shall terminate both as
to the Company, and as to any permitted successor. 
 Section 14.4.     Addresses for
Notices, etc.  Any notice, consent, direction, request, authorization, waiver or demand which by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given, made, furnished or served by the Trustee or by the
Securityholders on or to the Company may be given or served in writing by being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed (until another address is filed by the Company, with the Trustee for the
purpose) to the Company, 790 North Ponce de Leon Boulevard, St. Augustine, Florida 32084, Attention: Randy Peterson. Any notice, consent, direction, request, authorization, waiver or demand by any Securityholder or the Company to or upon the Trustee
shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or made in writing at the office of the Trustee, addressed to the Trustee, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890-1600, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration. Any notice, consent, direction, request, authorization, waiver or demand on or to any Securityholder shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or made in writing at the
address set forth in the Debenture Register. 
 Section 14.5.     Governing
Law.  This Indenture and each Debenture shall be deemed to be a contract made under the law of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of said State, without regard
to conflict of laws principles thereof. 
 Section 14.6.     Evidence of Compliance with
Conditions Precedent.  Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating
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conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all
such conditions precedent have been complied with. 
 Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and
delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture 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 14.7.     Table of Contents,
Headings, etc.  The table of contents and the titles and headings of the articles and sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way
modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof. 
 Section 14.8.     Execution
in Counterparts.  This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. 

Section 14.9.     Separability.  In case any one or more of the
provisions contained in this Indenture or in the Debentures shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Indenture
or of such Debentures, but this Indenture and such Debentures shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or therein. 

Section 14.10.   Assignment.  The Company will have the right at all times to
assign any of its rights or obligations under this Indenture to a direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company, provided that, in the event of any such assignment, the Company will remain liable for all such obligations. Subject to the
foregoing, this Indenture is binding upon and inures to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This Indenture may not otherwise be assigned by the parties hereto. 

ARTICLE XV. 

SUBORDINATION OF DEBENTURES 

Section 15.1.     Agreement to Subordinate.  The Company covenants and
agrees, and each holder of Debentures by such Securityholder’s acceptance thereof likewise covenants and agrees, that all Debentures shall be issued subject to the provisions of this Article XV; and each holder of a Debenture, whether upon
original issue or upon transfer or assignment thereof, accepts and agrees to be bound by such provisions. 
 The payment by
the Company of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on all Debentures shall, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth, be subordinated and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness
of the Company, whether outstanding at the date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred. Not in limitation of anything to the contrary contained herein, the payment by the Company of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all Debentures
shall be senior in right of payment to: (i) the Company’s Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2032 issued to Prosperity Banking Company Statutory Trust I pursuant to an Indenture dated as of June 27,
2002 by and between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank National Association; (ii) the related guarantee of the Company with respect to the securities of Prosperity Banking Company Statutory Trust I, issued pursuant to that certain Guarantee
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Company and Wells Fargo Bank National Association; (iii) the Company’s Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2033 issued to Prosperity Bank Statutory
Trust II pursuant to an Indenture dated as of March 26, 2003 by and between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association; (iv) the related guarantee of the Company with respect to the securities of Prosperity Bank Statutory Trust II,
issued pursuant to that certain Guarantee Agreement, dated as of March 26, 2003 by and between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association; (v) the Company’s Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2034
issued to Prosperity Banking Capital Trust I pursuant to an Indenture dated as of June 24, 2004 by and between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas; (vi) the related guarantee of the Company with respect to the securities
of Prosperity Banking Capital Trust I, issued pursuant to that certain Guarantee Agreement, dated as of June 24, 2004 by and between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas; (vii) the Company’s Floating Rate Junior
Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2036 issued to Prosperity Bank Statutory Trust III pursuant to an Indenture dated as of January 31, 2006 by and between the Company and Wilmington Trust Company; (viii) the related guarantee
of the Company with respect to the securities of Prosperity Bank Statutory Trust III, issued pursuant to that certain Guarantee Agreement, dated as of January 31, 2006 by and between the Company and Wilmington Trust Company, each of which shall
be junior and subordinate to the Debentures, and (ix) any debt securities (or guarantees in respect thereof) issued by the Company after the date hereof, to any trust, or a trustee of a trust, partnership or other entity affiliated with the
Company that is, directly or indirectly, a finance subsidiary (as that term is defined in Section 3a-5 of the Investment Company Act of 1940) or other financing vehicle of the Company or any subsidiary thereof, in connection with the issuance
by that entity of preferred securities or other securities that are eligible to qualify as Tier 1 capital (or its then equivalent) for the Company under the capital adequacy guidelines of the Federal Reserve, or that would so qualify but for
limitations on the amount of such securities includable in Tier 1 capital under such guidelines. 
 No provision of this
Article XV shall prevent the occurrence of any default or Event of Default hereunder. 

Section 15.2.     Default on Senior Indebtedness.  In the event and
during the continuation of any default by the Company in the payment of principal, premium, interest or any other payment due on any Senior Indebtedness of the Company following any grace period, or in the event that the maturity of any Senior
Indebtedness of the Company has been accelerated because of a default and such acceleration has not been rescinded or canceled and such Senior Indebtedness has not been paid in full, then, in either case, no payment shall be made by the Company with
respect to the principal (including redemption) of, or premium, if any, or interest on the Debentures. 
 In the event that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment shall be received by the Trustee when such payment is prohibited by the preceding paragraph of this Section 15.2, such payment shall, subject to Section 15.7, be held in trust for the benefit of,
and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their respective representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their
respective interests may appear, but only to the extent that the holders of the Senior Indebtedness (or their representative or representatives or a trustee) notify the Trustee in writing within 90 days of such payment of the amounts then due and
owing on the Senior Indebtedness and only the amounts specified in such notice to the Trustee shall be paid to the holders of Senior Indebtedness. 

Section 15.3.     Liquidation, Dissolution, Bankruptcy.  Upon any
payment by the Company or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors upon any dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or reorganization of the Company, whether voluntary or
involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other proceedings, all amounts due upon all Senior Indebtedness of the Company shall first be paid in full, or payment thereof provided for in money in accordance with its terms, before any
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principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the Debentures. Upon any such dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or reorganization, any payment by the Company, or distribution of assets of
the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the Securityholders or the Trustee would be entitled to receive from the Company, except for the provisions of this Article XV, shall be paid by the Company, or
by any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, or by the Securityholders or by the Trustee under this Indenture if received by them or it, directly to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness (pro rata to such holders on the basis of the respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by such holders, as calculated by the Company) or their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, to the extent necessary to pay such Senior Indebtedness in full, in money or money’s worth, after
giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution is made to the Securityholders or to the Trustee. 

In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities, prohibited by the foregoing, shall be received by the Trustee before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full, or provision is made for such payment in money in accordance with its terms, such
payment or distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of and shall be paid over or delivered to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness or their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant
to which any instruments evidencing such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, as calculated by the Company, for application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness, remaining unpaid to the extent
necessary to pay such Senior Indebtedness in full in money in accordance with its terms, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness. 

For purposes of this Article XV, the words “cash, property or securities” shall not be deemed to include shares of
stock of the Company as reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which is subordinated at least to the extent provided in this Article
XV with respect to the Debentures to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness, that may at the time be outstanding, provided that (i) such Senior Indebtedness is assumed by the new corporation, if any, resulting from any such reorganization or
readjustment, and (ii) the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness are not, without the consent of such holders, altered by such reorganization or readjustment. The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company into,
another corporation or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the conveyance or transfer of its property as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to another corporation upon the terms and conditions provided for in Article
XI of this Indenture shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization for the purposes of this Section if such other corporation shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the
conditions stated in Article XI of this Indenture. Nothing in Section 15.2 or in this Section shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 6.6 of this Indenture. 

Section 15.4.     Subrogation.  Subject to the payment in full of all
Senior Indebtedness, the Securityholders shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of cash, property or securities of the Company, applicable to such Senior Indebtedness until
the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Debentures shall be paid in full. For the purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which
the Securityholders or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article XV, and no payment over pursuant to the provisions of this Article XV to or for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness by Securityholders
or the Trustee, shall, as between the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the holders of the Debentures be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of

  
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such Senior Indebtedness. It is understood that the provisions of this Article XV are and are intended solely for the purposes of defining the relative rights of the holders of the Securities, on
the one hand, and the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand. 
 Nothing contained in this Article XV or
elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Debentures is intended to or shall impair, as between the Company, its creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the holders of the Debentures, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute
and unconditional, to pay to the holders of the Debentures the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Debentures as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the
relative rights of the holders of the Debentures and creditors of the Company, other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the Trustee or the holder of any Debenture from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article XV of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company, received upon the
exercise of any such remedy. 
 Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article XV,
the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article VI of this Indenture, and the Securityholders shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such dissolution, winding-up,
liquidation or reorganization proceedings are pending, or a certificate of the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidation trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Securityholders, for
the purposes of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon
and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article XV. 

Section 15.5.     Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.  Each
Securityholder by such Securityholder’s acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee on such Securityholder’s behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this Article
XV and appoints the Trustee such Securityholder’s attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. 

Section 15.6.     Notice by the Company.  The Company shall give prompt
written notice to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Principal Office of the Trustee of any fact known to the Company that would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in respect of the Debentures pursuant to the
provisions of this Article XV. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article XV or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment of
monies to or by the Trustee in respect of the Debentures pursuant to the provisions of this Article XV, unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Principal Office of the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Company or a holder or holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and before the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article VI of this Indenture, shall be entitled in all respects to
assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section at least 2 Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may become
payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Debenture), then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and
authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the purposes for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be received by it within 2 Business Days prior to such date. 

The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article VI of this Indenture, shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the delivery
to it of a written notice by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee or representative on behalf of such holder), to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of such Senior Indebtedness or a
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holders. In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of such Senior Indebtedness to participate in
any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article XV, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of such Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, the extent to which
such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article XV, and, if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending
judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment. 

Section 15.7.     Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior
Indebtedness.  The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article XV in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder. 
 With respect
to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article XV, and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders
of such Senior Indebtedness shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness and, subject to the provisions of Article VI of this Indenture,
the Trustee shall not be liable to any holder of such Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or deliver to Securityholders, the Company or any other Person money or assets to which any holder of such Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue
of this Article XV or otherwise. 
 Nothing in this Article XV shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under
or pursuant to Section 6.6. 
 Section 15.8.     Subordination May Not Be
Impaired.  No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the
Company, or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company, with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or
otherwise be charged with. 
 Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the holders of Senior
Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Securityholders, without incurring responsibility to the Securityholders and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in
this Article XV or the obligations hereunder of the holders of the Debentures to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or
renew or alter, such Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner such Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which such Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange,
release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing such Senior Indebtedness; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for the collection of such Senior Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights against the Company, and any other Person. 
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly
executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the day and year first above written 
  

									
		 		 	THE PROSPERITY BANKING COMPANY
				
		 		 	By	 	/s/ Randy Peterson
		 		 		 	Name:  Randy Peterson
		 		 		 	Title:  Executive Vice President
			
		 		 	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee
				
		 		 	By	 	/s/ Christopher J. Monigle
		 		 		 	Name:  Christopher J. Monigle
		 		 		 	Title:  Vice President

  
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 EXHIBIT A 

FORM OF FLOATING RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBENTURE 

[FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY] 

THIS SECURITY IS NOT A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR DEPOSIT AND IT IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY AGENCY OR FUND OF THE
UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION. 
 THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAW. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED,
PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THE HOLDER
OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) TO A
PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A SO LONG AS THIS SECURITY IS ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144A, (D) TO A NON-U.S. PERSON IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 903 OR RULE 904 (AS APPLICABLE) OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE
MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (A) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN INSTITUTIONAL 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, OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH
OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INDENTURE, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE COMPANY. 

THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
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
THE SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR 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
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PURCHASE OR HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THE 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 WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE
ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE, OR (ii) SUCH PURCHASE WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR
ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION. 
 THIS SECURITY WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING AN AGGREGATE
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000.00 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000.00 IN EXCESS THEREOF. ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000.00 SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL
EFFECT WHATSOEVER. 
 THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES THAT IT WILL COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS. 

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER
INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY THE INDENTURE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS. 

[CUSIP NO. [                ] **To be
inserted at the request of a subsequent transferee] 
 Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debenture 

of 
 The Prosperity Banking
Company 
 June 30, 2006 

The Prosperity Banking Company, a Florida corporation (the “Company” which term includes any successor Person under
the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received promises to pay to First Tennessee Bank National Association or registered assigns, the principal sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000.00) on September 15, 2016, and to pay
interest on said principal sum from June 30, 2006, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date (as defined below) to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, quarterly in arrears on
March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year or if such day is not a Business Day, then the next succeeding Business Day (each such date, an “Interest Payment Date”) (it being understood that
interest accrues for any such non-Business Day), commencing on the Interest Payment Date in September 2006, at an annual rate equal to 7.25813% beginning on (and including) the date of original issuance and ending on (but excluding) the Interest
Payment Date in September 2006 and at an annual rate for each successive period beginning on (and including) the Interest Payment Date in September 2006, and each succeeding Interest Payment Date, and ending on (but excluding) the next succeeding
Interest Payment Date (each a “Distribution Period”), equal to 3-Month LIBOR, determined as described below, plus 1.75% (the “Coupon Rate”), applied to the principal amount hereof, until the principal hereof is paid or duly
provided for or made available for payment, and on any overdue principal and (without duplication and to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) on any overdue installment of interest (including Additional
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Rate in effect for each applicable period, compounded quarterly, from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. The amount of interest payable for any
period will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the Distribution Period concerned divided by 360. The interest installment so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in
the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Debenture (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest installment, which shall be fifteen Business Days prior to
the day on which the relevant Interest Payment Date occurs. Any such interest installment not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such regular record date and may be paid to the Person in
whose name this Debenture (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a special record date. 

“3-Month LIBOR” as used herein, means the London interbank offered interest rate for three-month U.S. dollar
deposits determined by the Trustee in the following order of priority: (i) the rate (expressed as a percentage per annum) for U.S. dollar deposits having a three-month maturity that appears on Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time)
on the related Determination Date (“Telerate Page 3750” means the display designated as “Page 3750” on the Moneyline 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); (ii) if such rate cannot be identified on the related Determination
Date, the 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 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; (iii) if fewer than two such
quotations are provided as requested in clause (ii) above, the 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 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; and (iv) if fewer than two such quotations are provided as requested
in clause (iii) above, 3-Month LIBOR will be a 3-Month LIBOR determined with respect to the Distribution Period immediately preceding such current Distribution Period. If the rate for U.S. dollar deposits having a three-month maturity that
initially appears on Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the related Determination Date is superseded on the Telerate Page 3750 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. As used herein, “Determination Date” means the date that is two London Banking Days (i.e., a business day in which dealings in deposits
in U.S. dollars are transacted in the London interbank market) preceding the commencement of the relevant Distribution Period. 

The Interest Rate for any Distribution Period will at no time be higher than the maximum rate then permitted by New York law
as the same may be modified by United States law. 
 All percentages resulting from any calculations on the Debentures 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)). 
 The
principal of and interest on this Debenture shall be payable at the office or agency of the Trustee (or other paying agent appointed by the Company) maintained for that purpose in any coin or 

  
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currency of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that payment of interest may be made
by check mailed to the registered holder at such address as shall appear in the Debenture Register if a request for a wire transfer by such holder has not been received by the Company or by wire transfer to an account appropriately designated by the
holder hereof. 
 The indebtedness evidenced by this Debenture is, to the extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate and
junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, and this Debenture is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each holder of this Debenture, by accepting the same, (a) agrees
to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination so provided and (c) appoints the
Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. Each holder hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof, hereby waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder
of Senior Indebtedness, whether now outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said provisions. 

This Debenture shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, be valid or become obligatory
for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by or on behalf of the Trustee. 
 The
provisions of this Debenture are continued on the reverse side hereof and such provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place. 

Signatures appear on the following page 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has duly executed this certificate. 

 

					
		 	THE PROSPERITY BANKING COMPANY
			
		 	By	 	 
		 		 	Name:
		 		 	Title:

 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 

This is one of the Debentures referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. 

 

					
		 	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee
			
		 	By:	 	 
		 		 	Authorized Officer

  
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 [FORM OF REVERSE OF DEBENTURE] 

This Debenture is one of the floating rate junior subordinated debentures of the Company, all issued or to be issued under and
pursuant to the Indenture dated as of June 30, 2006 (the “Indenture”), duly executed and delivered between the Company and the Trustee, to which Indenture reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of
rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the holders of the Debentures. The Debentures are limited in aggregate principal amount as specified in the Indenture. 

The Company shall have the right to redeem the Debentures, in whole or in part, but in all cases in a principal amount with
integral multiples of $1,000.00, on any Interest Payment Date on or after the Interest Payment Date in September 2011, at the Redemption Price. 

Prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more
paying agents an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the Redemption Date all the Debentures so called for redemption at the appropriate Redemption Price. 

If all, or less than all, the Debentures are to be redeemed, the Company will give the Trustee notice not less than 45 nor
more than 60 days, respectively, prior to the Redemption Date as to the aggregate principal amount of Debentures to be redeemed and the Trustee shall select, in such manner as in its sole discretion it shall deem appropriate and fair, the Debentures
or portions thereof (in integral multiples of $1,000.00) to be redeemed. 
 Notwithstanding the foregoing, any redemption of
Debentures by the Company shall be subject to the receipt of any and all required regulatory approvals. 
 In case an Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, upon demand of the Trustee, the principal of all of the Debentures shall become due and payable in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture, including the
receipt of any and all required regulatory approvals. 
 The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the
Trustee, with the consent of the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debentures at the time outstanding, to execute supplemental indentures for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Debentures; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall without the
consent of the holders of each Debenture then outstanding and affected thereby (i) change the fixed maturity of any Debenture, or reduce the principal amount thereof or any premium thereon, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of
interest thereon, or reduce any amount payable on redemption thereof or make the principal thereof or any interest or premium thereon payable in any coin or currency other than that provided in the Debentures, or impair or affect the right of any
Securityholder to institute suit for payment thereof or impair the right of repayment, if any, at the option of the holder, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Debentures the holders of which are required to consent to any such
supplemental indenture. 
 The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Debentures at the time outstanding on behalf of the holders of all of the Debentures to waive (or modify any previously granted waiver of) any past default or Default, and its consequences, except a default (a) in the
payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any of the Debentures or (b) in respect of covenants or provisions hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each Debenture affected. Upon any such
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holders of the Debentures shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Default or impair
any right consequent thereon. Whenever any default or Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by the Indenture, said default or Default shall for all purposes of the Debentures and the Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be
not continuing. The term “default” for the purpose of this paragraph is defined to be the events specified in Section 5.1 and Section 5.3 of the Indenture, not including periods of grace, if any, provided for therein. 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Debenture or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the
obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest, including Additional Interest, on this Debenture at the time and place and at the rate and in the money herein prescribed.

 The Company has agreed that if there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default, then the Company shall
not, and shall not allow any Affiliate of the Company to, (x) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company’s capital stock or its
Affiliates’ capital stock (other than payments of dividends or distributions to the Company) or make any guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing or (y) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company or any Affiliate that rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the Debentures (other than, with respect to clauses (x) and (y) above, (1) repurchases,
redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants,
in connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an
acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable Event of Default, if any, (2) as a result of any exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Company’s capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of the
Company) for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock or of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock, (3) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of
the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (4) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any stockholders’ rights plan, or
the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any stockholders’ rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (5) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend
stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to such stock and any cash payments in lieu of fractional
shares issued in connection therewith. 
 The Debentures are issuable only in registered, certificated form without coupons
and in minimum denominations of $100,000.00 and any multiple of $1,000.00 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to the transfer restrictions and limitations as may be contained herein and therein from time to time, this
Debenture is transferable by the holder hereof on the Debenture Register of the Company. Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of any Debenture at the Principal Office of the Trustee or at any office or agency of the Company maintained
for such purpose as provided in Section 3.2 of the Indenture, the Company shall execute, the Company or the Trustee shall register and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery in the name of the
transferee or transferees a new Debenture for a like aggregate principal amount. All Debentures presented for registration of transfer or for exchange or payment shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent) be
duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to, the Company and the Trustee or the Authenticating 

  
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Agent duly executed by the holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of transfer of Debentures, but the Company or the
Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. 

Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Debenture, the Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent,
any paying agent, any transfer agent and any Debenture registrar may deem the Person in whose name such Debenture shall be registered upon the Debenture Register to be, and may treat him as, the absolute owner of such Debenture (whether or not such
Debenture shall be overdue) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Debenture and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent
nor any paying agent nor any transfer agent nor any Debenture registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any holder for the time being or upon his order shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or
sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable upon any such Debenture. 
 No recourse
for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Debenture, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in the Indenture
or in any supplemental indenture, or in any such Debenture, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of
the Company or of any successor Person of the Company, either directly or through the Company or any successor Person of the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty
or otherwise, it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of the Indenture and the issue of the Debentures. 

Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Debenture shall have the meanings assigned in the Indenture dated as of the
date of original issuance of this Debenture between the Trustee and the Company. 
 THE INDENTURE AND THE DEBENTURES SHALL
BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF. 

  
 A-8EX-4.16

 Exhibit 4.16 

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE 

THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE dated as of December 23, 2013 is by and among Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware
trust company, as Trustee (herein, together with its successors in interest, the “Trustee”), Ameris Bancorp, a Georgia corporation (the “Successor Company”), and The Prosperity Banking Company, a Florida corporation (the
“Company”), under the Indenture referred to below. 
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by the parties hereto, the Trustee, the Company and the Successor Company hereby agree as follows: 

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS 

The Trustee and the Company are parties to that certain Indenture dated as of June 30, 2006 (the “Indenture”),
pursuant to which the Company issued U.S. $15,000,000 of its Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debentures due 2016. 
 As
permitted by the terms of the Indenture, the Company, simultaneously with the effectiveness of this First Supplemental Indenture, shall merge (referred to herein for purposes of Article VIII of the Indenture as the “Merger”) with and into
the Successor Company with the Successor Company as the surviving corporation. The parties hereto are entering into this First Supplemental Indenture pursuant to, and in accordance with, Articles IX and XI of the Indenture. 

SECTION 1.   Definitions.    All capitalized terms used herein that are
defined in the Indenture, either directly or by reference therein, shall have the respective meanings assigned them in the Indenture except as otherwise provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires. 

SECTION 2.  Interpretation. 
  

	 	(a)	  In this First Supplemental Indenture, unless a clear contrary intention appears: 

 

	 	 (i)	 the singular number includes the plural number and vice versa; 

 

	 	 (ii)	 reference to any gender includes the other gender; 

  

	 	 (iii)	 the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this First Supplemental
Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Section or other subdivision; 

  

	 	 (iv)	 reference to any Person includes such Person’s successors and assigns but, if applicable, only if such successors and assigns are permitted by
this First Supplemental Indenture or the Indenture, 

	 	 
and reference to a Person in a particular capacity excludes such Person in any other capacity or individually provided that nothing in this clause (iv) is intended to authorize any
assignment not otherwise permitted by this First Supplemental Indenture or the Indenture; 

  

	 	(v)	 reference to any agreement, document or instrument means such agreement, document or instrument as amended, supplemented or modified and in effect
from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and, if applicable, the terms hereof, as well as any substitution or replacement therefor and reference to any note includes modifications thereof and any note issued in extension or renewal
thereof or in substitution or replacement therefor; 

  

	 	(vi)	 reference to any Section means such Section of this First Supplemental Indenture; and 

 

	 	(vii)	 the word “including” (and with correlative meaning “include”) means including without limiting the generality of any
description preceding such term. 

  

	 	(b)	 No provision in this First Supplemental Indenture shall be interpreted or construed against any Person because that Person or its legal
representative drafted such provision. 

 SECTION 3.  Assumption of Obligations.

  

	 	(a)	 Pursuant to, and in compliance and accordance with, Section 11.1 and Section 11.2 of the Indenture, the Successor Company hereby
expressly assumes the due and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on all of the Debentures in accordance with their terms, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the
covenants and conditions of the Indenture to be kept, performed, or observed by the Company under the Indenture. 

  

	 	(b)	 Pursuant to, and in compliance and accordance with, Section 11.2 of the Indenture, the Successor Company succeeds to and is substituted for
the Company, with the same effect as if the Successor Company had originally been named in the Indenture as the Company. 

SECTION 4.  Representations and Warranties.   The Successor Company represents and
warrants that (a) it has all necessary power and authority to execute and deliver this First Supplemental Indenture and to perform the Indenture, (b) that it is the successor of the Company pursuant to the Merger effected in accordance
with applicable law, (c) that it is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Georgia, (d) that both immediately before and after giving effect to the Merger and this First Supplemental Indenture, no Default or Event of

  
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Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, has occurred and is continuing and (e) that this First Supplemental Indenture is
executed and delivered pursuant to Section 9.1 and Article XI of the Indenture and does not require the consent of the Securityholders. 

SECTION 5.   Conditions of Effectiveness.   This First Supplemental Indenture
shall become effective simultaneously with the effectiveness of the Merger, provided, however, that: 
  

	 	(a)	 the Trustee shall have executed a counterpart of this First Supplemental Indenture and shall have received one or more counterparts of this First
Supplemental Indenture executed by the Successor Company and the Company; 

  

	 	(b)	 the Trustee shall have received an Officers’ Certificate stating that (i) this First Supplemental Indenture complies with the
requirements of Article IX of the Indenture; and (ii) in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in the Indenture relating to the Merger and this First Supplemental Indenture have been complied with;

  

	 	(c)	 the Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture relating
to the Merger and this First Supplemental Indenture have been complied with; (ii) the Merger and this First Supplemental Indenture comply with Articles IX and XI of the Indenture; (iii) this First Supplemental Indenture is authorized or
permitted by, and conforms to, the terms of Article IX of the Indenture; and (iv) it is proper for the Trustee, under the provisions of Article IX of the Indenture, to join in the execution of this First Supplemental Indenture; and

  

	 	(d)	 the Successor Company and the Company shall have duly executed and filed with the Department of the State of the State of Florida and the Secretary
of State of the State of Georgia articles of merger in connection with the Merger. 

 SECTION
6.  Reference to the Indenture. 
  

	 	(a)	 Upon the effectiveness of this First Supplemental Indenture, each reference in the Indenture to “this Indenture,” “hereunder,”
“herein” or words of like import shall mean and be a reference to the Indenture, as affected, amended and supplemented hereby. 

  

	 	(b)	 Upon the effectiveness of this First Supplemental Indenture, each reference in the Debentures to the Indenture including each term defined by
reference to the Indenture shall mean and be a reference to the Indenture or such term, as the case may be, as affected, amended and supplemented hereby. 

  

	 	(c)	 The Indenture, as amended and supplemented hereby shall remain in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed.

  
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 SECTION 7.  Execution in
Counterparts.   This First Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an
original and all of which when taken together shall constitute but one and the same instrument. 
 SECTION
8.   Governing Law; Binding Effect.    This First Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York and shall be binding upon the parties
hereto and their respective successors and assigns. 
 SECTION 9.     The
Trustee.    The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this First Supplemental Indenture or the due execution thereof by the Company or the Successor
Company. The recitals of fact contained herein shall be taken as the statements solely of the Company or the Successor Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. 

[Signatures on following page] 

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

							
		 	THE PROSPERITY BANKING COMPANY	 	
				
		 	By:	 	   /s/ James E. Creamer, Jr.
	 	
		 		 	James E. Creamer, Jr.	 	
		 		 	President and Chief Operating Officer	 	
			
		 	AMERIS BANCORP	 	
				
		 	By:	 	   /s/ Edwin W. Hortman, Jr.
	 	
		 		 	Edwin W. Hortman, Jr.	 	
		 		 	President and Chief Executive Officer	 	
		
		 	WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee
				
		 	By:	 	   /s/ Michael H. Wass
	 	
		 	Name:	 	Michael H. Wass	 	
		 	Title:	 	Assistant Vice President	 	

  
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