Document:

Exhibit 4.3

  

  

    EXECUTION VERSION

  

  

    CENTENE CORPORATION

      

      $3,500,000,000

      

      4.625% Senior Notes due 2029

     

    INDENTURE

     

    Dated as of December 6, 2019

     

    THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.

     

    as Trustee

     

    
      
        

    

    
    TABLE OF CONTENTS

     

    	

          	
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            ARTICLE 1

          
	

          
	
            DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

          
	

          
	Section 1.01. 

          	
            Definitions.

          	
            1

          
	Section 1.02. 

          	
            Other Definitions.

          	
            21

          
	Section 1.03.	
            Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.

          	
            21

          
	Section 1.04.	
            Rules of Construction.

          	
            22

          
	

          	 
	
            ARTICLE 2

          
	

          
	
            THE NOTES

          
	

          
	Section 2.01.

          	
            Form Generally.

          	
            23

          
	Section 2.02.	
            Execution, Authentication Delivery and Dating.

          	
            23

          
	Section 2.03.	
            Notes in Global Form.

          	
            24

          
	Section 2.04.

          	
            Amount of Notes.

          	
            25

          
	Section 2.05.	
            Registrar and Paying Agent.

          	
            25

          
	Section 2.06.

          	
            Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust.

          	
            26

          
	Section 2.07.	
            Holder Lists.

          	
            26

          
	Section 2.08.

          	
            Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

          	
            26

          
	Section 2.09.

          	
            Replacement Notes.

          	
            28

          
	Section 2.10.

          	
            Outstanding Notes.

          	
            28

          
	Section 2.11.	
            Treasury Notes.

          	
            29

          
	Section 2.12.

          	
            Temporary Notes.

          	
            29

          
	Section 2.13.

          	
            Cancellation.

          	
            29

          
	Section 2.14.

          	
            Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest.

          	
            30

          
	Section 2.15.	
            CUSIP or ISIN Numbers.

          	
            30

          
	Section 2.16.	
            Additional Notes.

          	
            30

          
	Section 2.17.

          	
            Record Date.

          	
            31

          
	Section 2.18.

          	
            Persons Deemed Owners.

          	
            31

          
	Section 2.19.

          	
            Computation of Interest.

          	
            31

          
	

          
	
            ARTICLE 3

          
	

          
	
            REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT

          
	

          
	Section 3.01.

          	
            Notices to Trustee.

          	
            32

          
	Section 3.02.

          	
            Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed.

          	
            32

          
	Section 3.03.

          	
            Notice of Redemption.

          	
            32

          
	Section 3.04.

          	
            Effect of Notice of Redemption.

          	
            33

          
	Section 3.05.

          	
            Deposit of Redemption Price.

          	
            34

          
	Section 3.06.

          	
            Notes Redeemed in Part.

          	
            34

          

    

    

    
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    	Section 3.07.

          	
            Mandatory Redemption.

          	
            34

          
	Section 3.08.

          	
            Change of Control Offer.

          	
            34

          
	Section 3.09.

          	
            Special Mandatory Redemption.

          	
            37

          
	

          	 
	
            ARTICLE 4

          
	

          
	
            COVENANTS

          
	

          
	Section 4.01.

          	
            Payment of Notes.

          	
            38

          
	Section 4.02.

          	
            Maintenance of Office or Agency.

          	
            39

          
	Section 4.03.

          	
            SEC Reports.

          	
            39

          
	Section 4.04.

          	
            Compliance Certificate.

          	
            40

          
	Section 4.05.

          	
            Taxes.

          	
            40

          
	Section 4.06.

          	
            Stay, Extension and Usury Laws.

          	
            41

          
	Section 4.07.

          	
            Organizational Existence.

          	
            41

          
	Section 4.08.

          	
            Liens.

          	
            41

          
	Section 4.09.

          	
            Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

          	
            42

          
	Section 4.10.

          	
            Repurchase at the Option of Holders Upon a Change of Control.

          	
            42

          

    	

          
	
            ARTICLE 5

          
	

          
	
            SUCCESSORS

          
	

          
	Section 5.01.

          	
            Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets.

          	
            43

          
	Section 5.02.

          	
            Successor Corporation Substituted.

          	
            43

          
	

          
	
            ARTICLE 6

          
	

          
	
            DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

          
	

          
	Section 6.01.

          	
            Events of Default.

          	
            44

          
	Section 6.02.

          	
            Acceleration.

          	
            46

          
	Section 6.03.

          	
            Other Remedies.

          	
            46

          
	Section 6.04.

          	
            Waiver of Defaults.

          	
            46

          
	Section 6.05.

          	
            Control by Majority.

          	
            47

          
	Section 6.06.

          	
            Limitation on Suits.

          	
            47

          
	Section 6.07.

          	
            Rights of Holders to Receive Payment.

          	
            47

          
	Section 6.08.

          	
            Collection Suit by Trustee.

          	
            48

          
	Section 6.09.

          	
            Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

          	
            48

          
	Section 6.10.

          	
            Priorities.

          	
            48

          
	Section 6.11.

          	
            Undertaking for Costs.

          	
            49

          
	

          	 
	
            ARTICLE 7

          
	

          
	
            TRUSTEE

          
	

          
	Section 7.01.

          	
            Duties of Trustee.

          	
            49

          
	Section 7.02.

          	
            Rights of Trustee.

          	
            50

          

     

    

    
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    	Section 7.03.

          	
            Individual Rights of Trustee.

          	
            52

          
	Section 7.04.

          	
            Trustee’s Disclaimer.

          	
            52

          
	Section 7.05.

          	
            Notice of Defaults.

          	
            52

          
	Section 7.06.

          	
            Reports by Trustee to Holders.

          	
            52

          
	Section 7.07.

          	
            Compensation and Indemnity.

          	
            53

          
	Section 7.08.

          	
            Replacement of Trustee.

          	
            54

          
	Section 7.09.

          	
            Successor Trustee by Merger, etc.

          	
            55

          
	Section 7.10.

          	
            Eligibility; Disqualification.

          	
            55

          
	Section 7.11.

          	
            Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company.

          	
            56

          
	

          	 
	
            ARTICLE 8

          
	

          
	
            LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

          
	

          
	Section 8.01.

          	
            Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

          	
            56

          
	Section 8.02.

          	
            Legal Defeasance and Discharge.

          	
            56

          
	Section 8.03.

          	
            Covenant Defeasance.

          	
            57

          
	Section 8.04.

          	
            Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance.

          	
            57

          
	Section 8.05.

          	
            Deposited Cash and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

          	
            58

          
	Section 8.06.

          	
            Repayment to the Company.

          	
            59

          
	Section 8.07.

          	
            Reinstatement.

          	
            59

          
	

          
	
            ARTICLE 9

          
	

          
	
            AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER

          
	

          
	Section 9.01.

          	
            Without Consent of Holders of Notes.

          	
            60

          
	Section 9.02.

          	
            With Consent of Holders of Notes.

          	
            61

          
	Section 9.03.

          	
            Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.

          	
            62

          
	Section 9.04.

          	
            Revocation and Effect of Consents.

          	
            63

          
	Section 9.05.

          	
            Notation on or Exchange of Notes.

          	
            63

          
	Section 9.06.

          	
            Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc.

          	
            63

          
	

          
	
            ARTICLE 10

          
	

          
	
            SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

          
	

          
	Section 10.01.

          	
            Satisfaction and Discharge.

          	
            63

          
	Section 10.02.

          	
            Deposited Cash and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

          	
            64

          
	Section 10.03.

          	
            Repayment to the Company.

          	
            65

          
	

          
	
            ARTICLE 11

          
	

          
	
            MISCELLANEOUS

          
	

          
	Section 11.01.

          	
            Trust Indenture Act Controls.

          	
            65

          

     

    

    
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    	Section 11.02.

          	
            Notices.

          	
            65

          
	Section 11.03.

          	
            Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes.

          	
            67

          
	Section 11.04.

          	
            Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.

          	
            67

          
	Section 11.05.

          	
            Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.

          	
            67

          
	Section 11.06.

          	
            Rules by Trustee and Agents.

          	
            68

          
	Section 11.07.

          	
            No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders.

          	
            68

          
	Section 11.08.

          	
            Governing Law.

          	
            68

          
	Section 11.09.

          	
            No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.

          	
            68

          
	Section 11.10.

          	
            Successors.

          	
            68

          
	Section 11.11.

          	
            Severability.

          	
            68

          
	Section 11.12.

          	
            Counterpart Originals.

          	
            69

          
	Section 11.13.

          	
            Table of Contents, Headings, etc.

          	
            69

          
	Section 11.14.

          	
            Qualification of this Indenture.

          	
            69

          
	Section 11.15.

          	
            Waiver of Jury Trial.

          	
            69

          
	Section 11.16.

          	
            Force Majeure.

          	
            69

          
	Section 11.17.

          	
            Submission to Jurisdiction.

          	
            69

          
	Section 11.18.

          	
            FATCA Withholding.

          	
            70

          

    

    

    APPENDIX AND EXHIBITS

     

    	
            RULE 144A/REGULATION S APPENDIX

          	
            App.-1

          
	 	 
	
            EXHIBIT A Form of Note

          	
            A-1

            

          

     

      

    NOTE: This Table of Contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of this Indenture.

     

    
      

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    This INDENTURE dated as of December 6, 2019, is by and between Centene Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“Centene”), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust
      Company, N.A., a national banking association, as trustee.

     

    WHEREAS, all things and acts necessary to make this Indenture the legal, valid and binding obligation of Centene have been done.

     

    For and in consideration of the premises and purchase by the Holders (as defined herein) of (a) $3,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 4.625% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Initial Notes”) issued on the Issue Date under this Indenture, (b) any Additional Notes (as defined herein) that may be issued after the Issue Date and (c) if and when issued pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement
      (as defined herein), the Exchange Notes (as defined herein, and together with the Initial Notes and any Additional Notes, the “Notes”), it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal
      and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes, as follows:

     

    ARTICLE 1

      

      DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     

    Section 1.01.  Definitions.

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    “Additional Interest” means the additional interest that shall accrue on the Notes in accordance with the terms of a Registration Rights Agreement if a
      Registration Default (as defined in the applicable Registration Rights Agreement) occurs.

     

    “Additional Notes” means any additional 4.625% Senior Notes due 2029 issued from time to time after the Issue Date under the terms of this Indenture other than
      pursuant to Sections 2.08, 2.09, 2.12, 3.06 or 9.05 of this Indenture (it being understood that any Notes issued in exchange for or replacement of any Initial Note issued on the Issue Date shall not be an Additional Note, including any Exchange Notes
      issued in a registered exchange offer pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement).

     

    
      

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

     

    “Agent” means any Registrar, co-registrar, Paying Agent or additional paying agent.

     

    “Applicable Premium” means, with respect to any Note on any redemption date, the greater of:

     

    (1)  1.0% of the principal amount of such Note; or

     

    (2)  the excess, if any, of

     

    (a)          the present value at such redemption date of (i) the redemption price of such Note at December 15, 2024 (such redemption price being set forth in paragraph 5 of the Note), plus

      (ii) all required interest payments due on such Note through December 15, 2024 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date), computed by the Company using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate as of such
      redemption date plus 50 basis points; over

     

    (b)          the then outstanding principal amount of such Note, as calculated by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such Person as the Company shall designate.

     

    “Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer, redemption or exchange of or for beneficial interests in any Global Note, the rules and procedures
      of the Depositary that apply to such transfer, redemption or exchange.

     

    “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors, or the law of any other jurisdiction (domestic or
      foreign) relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, winding up, liquidation, reorganization or relief of debtors.

     

    “Beneficial Owner” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial
      ownership of any particular “person” or “group” (as those terms are used in Section 13(d)(3) and Section 14(d) of the Exchange Act, respectively), such “person” or “group,” as the case may be, will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all
      securities that such “person” or “group” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition.

     

    “BMOH Loan” means a certain construction loan, as amended, restated, replaced, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, in the original principal
      amount of $200,000,000, by and among BMO Harris Bank N.A., as administrative agent, lenders party thereto and Centene Forsyth Subsidiary.

     

    
      

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    “Board of Directors” means:

     

    (1)          with respect to a corporation, the board of directors of the corporation;

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    “Board Resolution” of a Person means a copy of a resolution certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary (or individual performing comparable duties) of
      the applicable Person to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Person and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.

     

    “Business Day” means each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York, New York, St. Louis, Missouri or in the
      jurisdiction of the place of any payment are permitted or required by law to close.

     

    “Capital Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a capital lease that would at that time
      be required to be capitalized on a balance sheet in accordance with GAAP, and the Stated Maturity thereof shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date upon which such lease may be
      prepaid by the lessee without payment of a penalty.  For the avoidance of doubt, Capital Lease Obligations shall not include any former operating leases which became capital leases solely as a result of changes in lease accounting under GAAP
      subsequent to February 11, 2016.

     

    “Capital Stock” means:

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

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

     

    
      

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    “Cash Equivalents” means:

     

    (1)          Dollars;

     

    (2)          securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States government (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support of those securities) having maturities of not more than one year from the date of acquisition;

     

    (3)          certificates of deposit, demand deposits and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances with maturities not exceeding
      one year and overnight bank deposits, in each case, with any commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess of $250.0 million;

     

    (4)          repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2), (3), (5) and (6) of this definition entered into with any
      financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) of this definition;

     

    (5)          commercial paper rated at least A-1 by S&P or at least P-1 by Moody’s or at least F-1 by Fitch, and in each case maturing within one year after the date of acquisition;

     

    (6)          readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States or any political subdivision thereof having one of the two highest rating categories obtainable from either
      Moody’s, S&P or Fitch (or, if at any time none of Moody’s, S&P or Fitch shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another internationally recognized ratings agency) with maturities of one year or less from the date of
      acquisition; and

     

    (7)          money market or mutual funds substantially all of the assets of which constitute Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (1) through (6) of this definition.

     

    “Centene Forsyth Project” means the development and construction of an office building complex project by the Centene Forsyth Subsidiary to be located at 7676
      of Forsyth Boulevard in Clayton, Missouri.

     

    “Centene Forsyth Subsidiary” means the wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company named Centene Center I LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

     

    “Centene Plaza Phase II Project” means the development and construction of an office building complex project by the Centene Plaza Phase II Subsidiary.

     

    
      

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    “Centene Plaza Phase II Subsidiary” means the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company that will be the initial developer of the Centene Plaza Phase II Project.

     

    “Centene Plaza Project” means the development and construction of an office building complex project by the Centene Plaza Subsidiary to be used as the Company’s
      headquarters and located at the 7700 block of Forsyth Boulevard in Clayton, Missouri.

     

    “Centene Plaza Subsidiary” means the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company named Centene Center LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

     

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

     

    (1)          the consummation of a transaction giving rise to the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series
      of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d)(3) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act,
      respectively);

     

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

     

    (3)          the consummation of any transaction (including any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” or “group” (as defined above) becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or
      indirectly, of more than 35.0% of the Voting Stock of the Company, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; or

     

    (4)          the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any Person, or any Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in
      which any of the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company or such other Person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the Voting Stock of the Company outstanding immediately prior
      to such transaction is converted into or exchanged for Voting Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the surviving or transferee Person constituting a majority of the outstanding shares of such Voting Stock of such surviving or transferee Person
      (immediately after giving effect to such issuance).

     

    Notwithstanding the above in this definition, the following shall not constitute a Change of Control: (i) the consummation of the Transactions or (ii) a transaction or series of transactions in which (x) the Company
      becomes a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of a holding company and (y) the direct or indirect Beneficial Owners of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following such transaction or transactions are substantially the same
      as the Beneficial Owners of the Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to such transaction or transactions.

     

    
      

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    “Company” means Centene, until a successor replaces Centene pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter the “Company” shall mean such
      successor.

     

    “Company Order” means a written order signed in the name of the Company by an Officer and delivered to the Trustee or, with respect to Sections 2.02, 2.08,
      2.09, 2.12 and 9.05 any other employee of the Company named in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee.

     

    “Consolidated Total Assets” means, as of the date of any determination thereof, the total assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries calculated in
      accordance with GAAP on a consolidated basis as of such date.

     

    “Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee” shall be at the address of the Trustee specified in Section 11.02 hereof, or such other address as to which the Trustee
      may give notice to the Company.

     

    “Custodian” means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the Person specified in Section 2.05 as Custodian with
      respect to the Notes, and any and all successors thereto appointed as custodian hereunder and having become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

     

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

     

    “Definitive Note” means a certificated Note registered in the name of the Holder thereof and issued in accordance with Sections 2.08 or 2.12 hereof, in
      substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto except that such Note shall not bear the Global Note legend set forth in Exhibit A and shall not have the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” attached thereto.

     

    “Depositary” means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, the Person specified in Section 2.05 hereof as the
      Depositary with respect to the Notes, and any and all successors thereto appointed as Depositary hereunder and having become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture.

     

    “Disqualified Stock” means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for which it is exchangeable,
      in each case at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the holder of the Capital
      Stock, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is 91 days after the date on which the Notes mature.

     

    “Dollars” and the sign “$” mean the lawful money of the United States of America.

     

    
      

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

     

    “Equity Offering” means any sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company to any Person other than a sale (a) of Capital Stock to any
      Subsidiary of the Company or (b) of Capital Stock pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8 or otherwise relating to Capital Stock issuable under any employee benefit plan of the Company.

     

    “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

     

    “Exchange Notes” means (a) the 4.625% Senior Notes due 2029 issued pursuant to this Indenture in exchange for, and in an aggregate principal amount equal to,
      the Initial Notes, pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement and (b) Additional Notes, if any, issued pursuant to this Indenture pursuant to a registration statement filed with the SEC under the Securities Act.

     

    “Fair Market Value” means the price that would be negotiated in an arm’s-length transaction for cash
      between a willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of which is under any compulsion to complete the transaction, as such price is determined in good faith by an officer of Centene.

     

    “First Merger” means the merger of Merger Sub I with and into WellCare, with WellCare continuing as the surviving corporation and a direct, wholly owned
      Subsidiary of Centene pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement.

     

    “Fitch” means Fitch, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

     

    “Foreign Restricted Subsidiary” means any Restricted Subsidiary that is not formed under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof.

     

    “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute
      of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, which are in
      effect on the Issue Date.

     

    “Global Note” or “Global Notes” means the Notes in the form established pursuant to Section 2.03
      hereof, evidencing all or part of the Notes issued to the Depositary or its nominee and registered in the name of such Depositary or nominee.

     

    “Government Securities” means direct Obligations of, or Obligations guaranteed by (or certificates representing an ownership interest in such Obligations), the
      United States of America (including any agency or instrumentality thereof) for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the Company’s option.

     

    
      

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    “Guarantee” means, with respect to any Person, any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness or
      other obligation of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person:

     

    (1)  to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or
      by agreements to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise); or

     

    (2)  entered into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in
      whole or in part);

     

    provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.  The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning.

     

    “Guarantor” means each Subsidiary of the Company, if any, that executes a Subsidiary Guarantee in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and its
      respective successors and assigns.

     

    “Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, the obligations of such Person under interest rate swap
      agreements, interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements and other agreements or arrangements designed to either (a) protect such Person against fluctuations in interest rates with respect to any floating rate Indebtedness that is
      permitted to be incurred under this Indenture or (b) transform fixed rate Indebtedness that is permitted to be incurred under this Indenture to a floating rate liability or obligation.

     

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

     

    “Increased Amount” means, with respect to any Indebtedness, any increase in the amount of such Indebtedness in connection with any accrual of interest, the
      accretion of accreted value, the amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, accretion of original issue discount or liquidation preference and increases in the amount
      of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies or increases in the value of property securing Indebtedness.

     

    “Indebtedness” means, with respect to any specified Person, any indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent:

     

    (1)  in respect of borrowed money;

     

    
      

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    (2)  evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit (or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof), but excluding letters of credit and surety bonds entered into in
      the ordinary course of business to the extent such letters of credit or surety bonds are not drawn upon;

     

    (3)  in respect of banker’s acceptances;

     

    (4)  representing Capital Lease Obligations;

     

    (5)  representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property or services, except any such balance that constitutes an accrued expense or Trade Payable;

     

    (6)  representing any Hedging Obligations; or

     

    (7)  Disqualified Stock of such Person or a Restricted Subsidiary in an amount equal to the greater of the maximum mandatory redemption or repurchase price (not including, in either case, any
      redemption or repurchase premium) or the liquidation preference thereof,

     

    if and to the extent any of the preceding items (other than letters of credit and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of the specified Person prepared in accordance with GAAP.  In addition, the term “Indebtedness”
      includes all Indebtedness of others secured by a Lien on any asset of the specified Person (whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by the specified Person) and, to the extent not otherwise included, the Guarantee by the specified Person of any
      Indebtedness of any other Person.  For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent any Indebtedness incurred in connection with the Centene Plaza Project, Centene Forsyth Project and the Centene Plaza Phase II Project appears as a liability on the balance
      sheet of the Company or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries and is non-recourse to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, such Indebtedness will not constitute “Indebtedness” for all purposes under this Indenture.

     

    The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be:

     

    (a)  the accreted value of the Indebtedness, in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount; and

     

    (b)  the principal amount of the Indebtedness, together with any interest on the Indebtedness that is more than 30 days past due, in the case of any other Indebtedness.

     

    “Indenture” means this instrument, as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended in accordance with Article 9 hereof.

     

    
      

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    “Indirect Obligation” means, with respect to any Person, each obligation and liability of such Person, and all such obligations and liabilities of such Person,
      incurred pursuant to any agreement, undertaking or arrangement by which such Person: (a) Guarantees, endorses or otherwise becomes or is contingently liable upon (by direct or indirect agreement, contingent or otherwise, to provide funds for payment,
      to supply funds to, or otherwise to invest in, a debtor, or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss) the indebtedness, dividend, obligation or other liability of any other Person in any manner (other than by endorsement of instruments in the
      course of collection), including any indebtedness, dividend or other obligation which may be issued or incurred at some future time; (b) Guarantees the payment of dividends or other distributions upon the Capital Stock of any other Person; (c)
      undertakes or agrees (whether contingently or otherwise): (i) to purchase, repurchase, or otherwise acquire any indebtedness, obligation or liability of any other Person or any property or assets constituting security therefor, (ii) to advance or
      provide funds for the payment or discharge of any indebtedness, obligation or liability of any other Person (whether in the form of loans, advances, stock purchases, capital contributions or otherwise), or to maintain solvency, assets, level of
      income, working capital or other financial condition of any other Person, or (iii) to make payment to any other Person other than for value received; (d) agrees to lease property or to purchase securities, property or services from such other Person
      with the purpose or intent of assuring the owner of such indebtedness or obligation of the ability of such other Person to make payment of the indebtedness or obligation; (e) to induce the issuance of, or in connection with the issuance of, any
      letter of credit for the benefit of such other Person; or (f) undertakes or agrees otherwise to assure a creditor against loss.  The amount of any Indirect Obligation shall (subject to any limitation set forth herein) be deemed to be the outstanding
      principal amount (or maximum permitted principal amount, if larger) of the indebtedness, obligation or other liability Guaranteed or supported thereby.

     

    “Interest Payment Dates” shall have the meaning set forth in paragraph 1 of each Note.

     

    “Investments” means, with respect to any Person, all direct or indirect investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the forms of loans
      (including Guarantees or other obligations), advances or capital contributions (excluding commission, travel and similar advances, fees and compensation paid to officers, directors and employees made in the ordinary course of business), purchases or
      other acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other securities, together with all items that are or would be classified as investments on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP.

     

    “Issue Date” means December 6, 2019.

     

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

     

    
      

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    “Limited Originator Recourse” means a reimbursement obligation of the Company in connection with a drawing on a letter of credit, revolving loan commitment,
      cash collateral account or other such credit enhancement issued to support Indebtedness of a Securitization Subsidiary that the Company’s Board of Directors (or a duly authorized committee thereof) determines is necessary to effectuate a Qualified
      Securitization Transaction; provided that the available amount of any such form of credit enhancement at any time shall not exceed 10.0% of the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness at such time.

     

    “Merger” means the First Merger and the Second Merger.

     

    “Merger Agreement” means the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 26, 2019, among Centene, Merger Sub I, Merger Sub II and WellCare, as amended,
      restated or modified (in whole or in part) from time to time.

     

    “Merger Sub I” means Wellington Merger Sub I, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

     

    “Merger Sub II” means Wellington Merger Sub II, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

     

    “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

     

    “NML Loan” means a certain loan in the original principal amount of $80,000,000 from The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company to the Centene Plaza
      Subsidiary secured by various collateral, including but not limited to the interest of the Centene Plaza Subsidiary in the Centene Plaza Project.

     

    “Non-Recourse Debt” means Indebtedness:

     

    (1)  as to which neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) provides credit support of any kind (including any undertaking, agreement or instrument that would constitute
      Indebtedness), (b) is directly or indirectly liable as a guarantor or otherwise, or (c) constitutes the lender;

     

    (2)  no default with respect to which (including any rights that the holders thereof may have to take enforcement action against an Unrestricted Subsidiary) would permit upon notice, lapse of time or
      both, any holder of any other Indebtedness (other than the Notes) of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to declare a default on such other Indebtedness or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated or payable prior to its Stated
      Maturity; and

     

    (3)  as to which the lenders have been notified in writing that they will not have any recourse to the stock or assets of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

     

    
      

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    “Obligations” means any principal, premium, if any, interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of, or which would have accrued but for the
      filing of, any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Company whether or not a claim for post filing interest is allowed in such proceedings), penalties, fees, expenses, indemnifications, reimbursements (including reimbursement
      obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.

     

    “Offering Memorandum” means the Offering Memorandum dated November 21, 2019 related to the offer and sale of the Initial Notes.

     

    “Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, Treasurer, any Executive Vice President or any Senior Vice
      President of the Company.

     

    “Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by two Officers of the Company, at least one of whom shall be the principal executive officer or principal
      financial officer of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.

     

    “Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, from legal counsel, which meets the requirements of Section 11.05 hereof. 
      The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.

     

    “Permitted Liens” means:

     

    (1)  Liens in favor of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

     

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

     

    (3)  Liens for taxes or other governmental charges not at the time delinquent or thereafter payable without penalty or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; provided, in each case, that appropriate reserves required pursuant to GAAP have been made in respect thereof;

     

    (4)  Liens on any property or assets existing at the time of the acquisition thereof by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided that
      such Liens were in existence prior to such acquisition and not incurred or assumed in connection with, or in contemplation of, such acquisition and do not extend to any property or assets of the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary;

     

    (5)  Liens to secure the performance of statutory Obligations, surety or appeal bonds, government contracts, performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of
      business, including (i) Liens of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics and materialmen and other similar Liens imposed by law and (ii) Liens in the form of deposits or pledges incurred in connection with worker’s compensation, unemployment
      compensation and other types of social security (excluding Liens arising under Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974);

     

    
      

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    (6)  Liens existing on the Issue Date;

     

    (7)  Liens arising from Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings regarding operating leases entered into by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

     

    (8)  [Reserved];

     

    (9)  Liens securing Hedging Obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, which transactions or obligations are incurred in the ordinary course of business for bona fide hedging
      purposes (and not for speculative purposes) of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors or senior management of the Company);

     

    (10)  Liens to secure Indebtedness (including Capital Lease Obligations) of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries represented by Capital Lease Obligations, mortgage financings or purchase
      money obligations, in each case incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or cost of construction or improvement of property, plant or equipment used in the business of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in an
      aggregate principal amount not to exceed the greater of (x) $1,200.0 million and (y) 2.5% of Consolidated Total Assets at any time outstanding; provided that any such Lien (i) covers only the assets
      acquired, constructed or improved with such Indebtedness and (ii) is created within 270 days of such acquisition, construction or improvement;

     

    (11)  Liens to secure Indebtedness of the Company’s Foreign Restricted Subsidiaries which, when aggregated with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (11) and
      then outstanding, does not exceed the greater of (x) $1,500.0 million and (y) 3.25% of the Company’s Consolidated Total Assets; provided that any such Lien covers only the assets of such Foreign Restricted
      Subsidiaries;

     

    (12)  Liens securing (a) Real Estate Indebtedness not to exceed in the aggregate at any one time outstanding the greater of (x) $2,400.0 million or (y) 5.0% of the Company’s Consolidated Total Assets
      or (b) Indebtedness in respect of secured or unsecured letters of credit incurred by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $750.0 million;

     

    (13)  Liens required by any regulation, or order of or arrangement or agreement with any regulatory body or agency, so long as such Liens do not secure Indebtedness;

     

    (14)  Liens on assets transferred to a Securitization Subsidiary or on assets of a Securitization Subsidiary, in either case, incurred in connection with a Qualified Securitization Transaction;

     

    
      

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    (15)  other Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount, together with all
      Indebtedness incurred to refund, refinance or replace such Indebtedness (or refinancings, refundings or replacements thereof), that does not exceed 20.0% of the Company’s Consolidated Total Assets at any one time outstanding; and

     

    (16)  [Reserved];

     

    (17)  Liens securing Acquired Debt or other Indebtedness which, in the case of other Indebtedness, is incurred reasonably contemporaneously to finance an acquisition, merger, consolidation or
      amalgamation; provided, however, that any such Liens are limited to all or part of the same property or assets (plus improvements, accessions, proceeds or dividends
      or distributions in respect thereof, or replacements of any thereof), (a) acquired, or (b) of any Person acquired by or merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, in each case in any
      transaction to which such Indebtedness relates;

     

    (18)  Liens on earnest money deposits of cash or Cash Equivalents, escrow arrangements or similar arrangements made by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in connection with any
      letter of intent or purchase agreement in respect of any Investment permitted under the indenture;

     

    (19)  Liens to secure any modification, refinancing, refunding, restatement, exchange, extension, renewal or replacement (or successive refinancings, refundings, restatements, exchanges, extensions,
      renewals or replacements) as a whole, or in part, of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien referred to in clauses (2), (4), (6), (10), (11), (12), (15), (17), (18), (24), (29) and (31) of this definition; provided,
      however, that (a) any such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same property that secured the original Lien, plus accessions, additions and improvements on such property, including (i)
      after-acquired property that is affixed or incorporated into the property covered by such Lien, and (ii) after-acquired property subject to a Lien securing such Indebtedness, the terms of which Indebtedness require or include a pledge of
      after-acquired property (it being understood that such requirement shall not be permitted to apply to any property to which such requirement would not have applied but for such acquisition) and (b) the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at such time
      is not increased to any amount greater than the sum of (i) the outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed amount of the Indebtedness described under clauses (2), (4), (6), (10), (11), (12), (15), (17), (18), (24), (29) and (31) of this
      definition at the time the original Lien became a Permitted Lien under this Indenture, and (ii) an amount necessary to pay accrued but unpaid interest on such Indebtedness and any dividend, premium (including tender premiums), defeasance costs,
      underwriting discounts and any fees, costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, restatement, exchange, extension, renewal or replacement;

     

    
      

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    (20)  Liens given to a public utility or any municipality, regulatory or governmental authority when required by such utility or authority in connection with the operations of that Person;

     

    (21)  Liens securing Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed 1.50% of Consolidated Total Assets at any one time outstanding;

     

    (22)  Liens relating to the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds or relating to pooled deposit or sweep accounts to
      permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business;

     

    (23)  Liens of a collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code or any comparable or successor provision on items in the course of collection;

     

    (24)  Liens to secure Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, permitted to be incurred by this Indenture, covering only the assets and properties of such Subsidiary;

     

    (25)  Liens deemed to exist in connection with Investments in repurchase obligations permitted under clause (4) of the definition of “Cash Equivalents”;

     

    (26)  Liens arising by operation of law or contract on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof to secure the premiums with respect thereto, and Liens, pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of
      business securing liabilities for premiums or reimbursements or indemnification obligations of (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guaranty for the benefits of) insurance carriers;

     

    (27)  Liens on trusts, cash, Cash Equivalents or Investments used to satisfy and discharge, defease, repurchase or redeem Indebtedness or similar obligations; provided,
      however, that such satisfaction and discharge, defeasance, repurchase or redemption is otherwise permitted by this Indenture;

     

    (28)  Leases, licenses, subleases or sublicenses granted to others that do not (a) interfere in any material respect with the operation of the business of the Company or any of its Restricted
      Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (b) secure any Indebtedness;

     

    (29)  Liens securing the Notes and any Subsidiary Guarantees;

     

    (30)  Liens securing judgments, orders or awards for the payment of money attachments (or appeal or other surety bonds relating to such judgments) not giving rise to an Event of Default; and

     

    (31)  prior to the date on which an Investment is consummated, Liens arising from any escrow arrangement pursuant to which the proceeds of any equity issuance, debt issuance or Indebtedness or other
      funds (including any prefunded interest) used to finance all or a portion of such Investment are required to be held in escrow pending release to consummate such Investment.

     

    
      

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    For purposes of determining compliance with this definition, (A) a Lien need not be incurred solely by reference to one category of Permitted Liens described in this definition but is permitted to be
      incurred under any combination of categories (including in part under one such category and in part under any other such category), (B) in the event that a Lien (or any portion thereof) meets the criteria of one or more of the categories of Permitted
      Liens, the Company shall, in its sole discretion, classify or reclassify such Lien (or any portion thereof) in any manner that complies with this definition and (C) the amount of Indebtedness outstanding as of any date shall be (1) the accreted value
      thereof, in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount, (2) the principal amount thereof, in the case of any other Indebtedness, (3) in the case of the Guarantee by the specified Person of any indebtedness of any other Person,
      the maximum liability to which the specified Person may be subject upon the occurrence of the contingency giving rise to the obligation and (4) in the case of Indebtedness of others Guaranteed by means of a Lien on any asset of the specified Person,
      the lesser of (x) the Fair Market Value of such asset on the date on which Indebtedness is required to be determined pursuant to the applicable indenture and (y) the amount of the Indebtedness so secured.

     

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

     

    “Predecessor Note” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same Indebtedness as that evidenced by such particular
      Note; and any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.09 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same Indebtedness as the lost, destroyed or stolen Note.

     

    “Qualified Securitization Transaction” means any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of
      the Company pursuant to which (a) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to a Securitization Subsidiary its interests in Receivables and Related Assets and (b) such Securitization Subsidiary transfers to any
      other Person, or grants a security interest in, such Receivables and Related Assets, pursuant to a transaction which is customarily used to achieve a transfer of financial assets under GAAP.

     

    “Real Estate Indebtedness” means (a) any debt or obligations of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in whole or in part secured by interests in real
      property, including but not limited to the NML Loan, the BMOH Loan and extensions, renewals and refinancings of such Indebtedness and (b) Indirect Obligations of the Company with respect to any debt or obligations of the Centene Plaza Subsidiary, the
      Centene Forsyth Subsidiary or the Centene Plaza Phase II Subsidiary and extensions, renewals and refinancings of such Indebtedness of the Centene Plaza Subsidiary, the Centene Forsyth Subsidiary or the Centene Plaza Phase II Subsidiary; provided that such Indebtedness of the Centene Plaza Subsidiary, the Centene Forsyth Subsidiary or the Centene Plaza Phase II Subsidiary (with respect to which the Company has Indirect Obligations) is used solely
      to finance the Centene Plaza Project, Centene Forsyth Project or the Centene Plaza Phase II Project, as applicable.

     

    
      

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    “Receivables and Related Assets” means any account receivable (whether now existing or arising thereafter) of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
      Company, and any assets related thereto including all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and contract rights and all Guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable
      and other assets which are customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with asset securitization transaction involving accounts receivable.

     

    “Redemption Date” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, shall mean the date specified for redemption of such Note in accordance with the terms of
      such Note and this Indenture.

     

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

     

    “Registration Rights Agreement” means (a) with respect to the Initial Notes issued on the Issue Date, the Registration Rights Agreement dated December 6, 2019,
      among the Company and the representatives of the initial purchasers of the Notes and (b) with respect to each issuance of Additional Notes issued in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, the registration
      rights agreement, if any, among the Company and the Persons purchasing such Additional Notes under the related purchase agreement, in each case, as amended from time to time.

     

    “Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date means the applicable date specified as a “Record Date” on the face of the Note.

     

    “Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer within the Corporate Trust Department
      of the Trustee (or any successor group of the Trustee) with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because
      of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject, and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

     

    “Restricted Subsidiary” of a Person means any Subsidiary of such Person that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

     

    “S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

     

    “SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

     

    
      

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    “Second Merger” means the merger, after the effective time of the First Merger, of WellCare with and into Merger Sub II, with Merger Sub II continuing as the
      surviving corporation and a direct, wholly owned Subsidiary of Centene pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement.

     

    “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

     

    “Securitization Subsidiary” means a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company:

     

    (1)   that is designated a “Securitization Subsidiary” by the Board of Directors of the Company (or a duly authorized committee thereof);

     

    (2)   that does not engage in any activities other than Qualified Securitization Transactions and any activity necessary or incidental thereto;

     

    (3)   no portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligation, contingent or otherwise, of which:

     

    (a)  is Guaranteed by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or Limited Originator Recourse,

     

    (b)  is recourse to or obligates the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or Limited Originator Recourse, or

     

    (c)  subjects any property or asset of the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company, directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof other than pursuant to Standard
      Securitization Undertakings or Limited Originator Recourse;

     

    (4)   with respect to which neither the Company nor any other Subsidiary of the Company has any obligation to maintain or preserve its financial condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels
      of operating results; and

     

    (5)   with which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary of the Company has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms no less favorable to the Company or such
      Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of the Company, other than Standard Securitization Undertakings and fees payable in the ordinary course of business in connection with servicing accounts
      receivable of such entity.

     

    Any designation of a Subsidiary as a Securitization Subsidiary shall be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company giving effect to the designation and an
      Officers’ Certificate certifying that the designation complied with the preceding conditions.

     

    
      

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    “Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated
      pursuant to the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the Issue Date.

     

    “Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Notes means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.14 hereof.

     

    “Standard Securitization Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company
      that are reasonably customary in accounts receivable securitization transactions, as the case may be.

     

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

     

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

     

    (1)  any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50.0% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency
      and after giving effect to any voting agreement or stockholders’ agreement that effectively transfers voting power) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees of the corporation, association or other business entity is at the time
      owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination thereof); and

     

    (2)   any partnership (a) the sole general partner or the managing general partner of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person or (b) the only general partners of which are that Person or
      one or more Subsidiaries of that Person (or any combination thereof).

     

    “Subsidiary Guarantee” means a Guarantee by a Guarantor, if any, of the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and on the Notes, executed pursuant to this
      Indenture and any supplemental indenture hereto.

     

    “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.

     

    “Trade Payables” means, with respect to any Person, any accounts payable or any other indebtedness or monetary obligation to trade creditors, physicians,
      hospitals, health maintenance organizations or other health care providers created, assumed or Guaranteed by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the acquisition of goods and services.

     

    “Transactions” means, collectively, any or all of the following:

     

    
      

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    (1)  the entry into the Merger Agreement and the consummation of the First Merger, the Second Merger or both of the Mergers and the other transactions contemplated thereby; and

     

    (2)  all other transactions relating to any of the foregoing (including payment of fees, commissions and expenses related to the foregoing).

     

    “Treasury Rate” means, as of any redemption date, the yield to maturity of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published
      in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 that has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior to the Redemption Date or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published, any publicly available source of similar
      market data) most nearly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to December 15, 2024; provided, however, that if the period from the Redemption Date to December
      15, 2024 is not equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury security for which a weekly average yield is given, the Treasury Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the
      weekly average yields of United States Treasury securities for which such yields are given, except that if the period from the Redemption Date to December 15, 2024 is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States
      Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.

     

    “Trustee” means the Person named as the “trustee” in the Recitals of this Indenture, and its successors and assigns, until a successor trustee shall have become
      such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor trustee.

     

    “Unrestricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company that is designated by the Board of Directors of the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant
      to a Board Resolution of the Company, but only to the extent that such Subsidiary:

     

    (1)  has no Indebtedness other than Non-Recourse Debt;

     

    (2)  is a Person with respect to which neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has any direct or indirect obligation (a) to subscribe for additional Equity Interests or (b) to
      maintain or preserve such Person’s financial condition or to cause such Person to achieve any specified levels of operating results; and

     

    (3)  has not Guaranteed or otherwise directly or indirectly provided credit support for any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

     

    “Voting Stock” of any Person as of any date means all classes of Capital Stock of such Person then outstanding and normally entitled to vote in the election of
      the Board of Directors of such Person.

     

    “WellCare” means WellCare Health Plans, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

     

    
      

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    Section 1.02.  Other Definitions.

     

    
      	
              Term

            	
              Defined in

                Section

            
	
              Acceleration Notice

            	
              6.02

            
	
              Appendix

            	
              2.01

            
	
              Applicable Law

            	
              11.18

            
	
              Centene

            	
              Preamble

            
	
              Change of Control Amount

            	
              4.10(a)

            
	
              Change of Control Offer

            	
              4.10(a)

            
	
              Covenant Defeasance

            	
              8.03

            
	
              Defaulted Interest

            	
              2.14

            
	
              defeasance trust

            	
              8.04(a)

            
	
              DTC

            	
              2.05

            
	
              Event of Default

            	
              6.01

            
	
              indenture securities

            	
              1.03(b)

            
	
              indenture security holder

            	
              1.03(b)

            
	
              indenture to be qualified

            	
              1.03(b)

            
	
              indenture trustee

            	
              1.03(b)

            
	
              institutional trustee

            	
              1.03(b)

            
	
              Initial Notes

            	
              Recitals

            
	
              Legal Defeasance

            	
              8.02

            
	
              losses

            	
              7.07

            
	
              Note Register

            	
              2.05

            
	
              Notes

            	
              Recitals

            
	
              obligor

            	
              1.03(b)

            
	
              Offer Amount

            	
              3.08(c)(2)

            
	
              Offer Period

            	
              3.08(d)

            
	
              Outside Date

            	
              3.09(a)

            
	
              Paying Agent

            	
              2.05

            
	
              Payment Default

            	
              6.01(g)(A)

            
	
              Purchase Date

            	
              3.08(d)

            
	
              Purchase Price

            	
              3.08(c)(2)

            
	
              Registrar

            	
              2.05

            
	
              Special Mandatory Redemption

            	
              3.09(a)

            
	
              Special Mandatory Redemption Date

            	
              3.09(a)

            
	
              Special Mandatory Redemption Price

            	
              3.09(a)

            
	
              Surviving Entity

            	
              5.01(a)(1)(B)

            

    

    

    

    Section 1.03.  Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.

     

    (a)          Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this
        Indenture.

     

    (b)          The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:

     

    
      

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    “indenture securities” means the Notes and the Subsidiary Guarantees, if any;

     

    “indenture security holder” means a Holder of a Note;

     

    “indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture;

     

    “indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee; and

     

    “obligor” on the Notes means the Company and any successor obligor upon the Notes.

     

    (c)          All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule
        under the TIA and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings so assigned to them either in the TIA, by another statute or SEC rule, as applicable.

     

    Section 1.04.  Rules of Construction.

     

    (a)          Unless the context otherwise requires:

     

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

     

    (2)           an accounting term not otherwise defined herein has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;

     

    (3)           “or” is not exclusive;

     

    (4)           words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;

     

    (5)           all references in this instrument to “Articles,” “Sections” and other subdivisions are to the designated Articles,
        Sections and subdivisions of this instrument as originally executed;

     

    (6)           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.

     

    (7)           “including” means “including without limitation;”

     

    (8)           provisions apply to successive events and transactions;

     

    (9)           references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or the TIA shall be deemed to
        include substitute, replacement or successor sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to time thereunder;

     

    (10)         “principal” of a security means the principal of the security plus the premium, if any, payable on the security
        which is due or overdue or is to become due at the relevant time;

     

    
      

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    (11)         the principal amount of any preferred stock shall be (i) the maximum liquidation value of such preferred stock or
        (ii) the maximum mandatory redemption or mandatory repurchase price with respect to such preferred stock, whichever is greater; and

     

    (12)         all references to any amount of “interest” or any other amount payable on or with respect to any of the Notes shall
        be deemed to include payment of any Additional Interest pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement, if applicable.

     

    ARTICLE 2

      

      THE NOTES

     

    Section 2.01.  Form Generally.

     

    Provisions relating to the Notes are set forth in the Rule 144A/Regulation S Appendix hereto (the “Appendix”), which is hereby incorporated in and expressly
      made part of this Indenture.  The Notes shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations (including, for the avoidance of doubt, transfer restriction
      legends) as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as
      may, consistently herewith, be determined by the Officers executing such Notes as evidenced by their execution of the Notes.

     

    The certificated Notes shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods or may be produced in any other manner, provided that such
      method is permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which such Notes may be listed, all as determined by the Officers executing such Notes as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.

     

    Section 2.02.  Execution, Authentication Delivery and Dating.

     

    Two Officers shall sign the Notes for the Company by manual, facsimile or electronic signature.  If an Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the time a Note is authenticated, the Note shall
      nevertheless be valid.

     

    A Note shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual, facsimile or electronic signature of the Trustee.  The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture.

     

    At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
      authentication and delivery of such Notes; and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes.

     

    
      

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    No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein duly
      executed by the Trustee by manual, facsimile or electronic signature of an authorized signatory, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered
      hereunder.  The Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:

     

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

     

    	 	 	
            The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee

          
	 	 	 	 
	
            Date:

          	 	 	
            By:

          	 
	 	 	 	
            Authorized Signatory

          

     

    Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.

     

    With respect to Notes that are not to be originally issued at one time, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the authorization by the Company of any of such Notes, the forms and terms thereof and the legality,
      validity, binding effect and enforceability thereof, upon the Opinion of Counsel and the other documents delivered pursuant to this Section 2.02, as applicable, in connection with the first authentication of Notes.

     

    Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Note shall have been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Note to the Trustee for cancellation as
      provided in Section 2.13 hereof together with a written statement stating that such Note has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Note shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered
      hereunder and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.

     

    Section 2.03.  Notes in Global Form.

     

    Notes issued as a Global Note shall represent such of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time
      endorsed thereon or otherwise notated on the books and records of the Registrar and that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges and
      redemptions.  Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the aggregate principal amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given by the
      Holder thereof.

     

    
      

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    Global Notes may be issued in either registered or bearer form and in either temporary or permanent form.  Permanent Global Notes will be issued in definitive form.

     

    The provisions of the last sentence of Section 2.02 hereof shall apply to any Note represented by a Global Note if such Note was never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company delivers to the Trustee the Note in
      global form together with written instructions with regard to the reduction in the principal amount of Notes represented thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last sentence of Section 2.02 hereof.

     

    Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 2.02 and 2.14 hereof, payment of principal of and any interest on any Global Note shall be made to the person or persons specified therein.

     

    None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a
      Global Note or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

     

    Section 2.04.  Amount of Notes.

     

    On the Issue Date, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, pursuant to a Company Order, $3,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.625% Senior Notes due December 15, 2029 and, at any time and from time to time
      thereafter, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Notes for original issue in an aggregate principal amount specified in a Company Order.  Such order shall specify the amount of the Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the original
      issue of Notes is to be authenticated.  The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.  The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rules
      or usage.  The Notes shall be in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

     

    All Notes shall be substantially identical except as to the date from which interest shall accrue, any applicable transfer restrictions and except as may otherwise be provided in any indenture supplemental hereto.

     

    If any of the terms of the Notes are established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of any appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
      Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the Notes.

     

    Section 2.05.  Registrar and Paying Agent.

     

    The Company shall maintain, with respect to the Notes, an office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (“Registrar”)

      and an office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment (“Paying Agent”) in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York.  The Registrar shall keep a register (the “Note Register”) of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange.  The Company may appoint one or more co-registrars and one or more additional paying agents.  The term “Registrar” includes any
      co-registrar and the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent.  The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any Agent
      not a party to this Indenture.  If the Company fails to appoint or maintain another entity as Registrar of Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such.  The Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

     

    
      

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    The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) to act as Depositary with respect to the Global Notes.

     

    The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Registrar and Paying Agent and to act as Custodian with respect to the Global Notes, and the Trustee hereby agrees so to initially act.

     

    Section 2.06.  Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust.

     

    The Company shall require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust for the benefit of Holders or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the
      payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes, and will notify the Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment.  While any such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all funds held
      by it relating to the Notes to the Trustee.  The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all funds held by it to the Trustee.  Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary)
      shall have no further liability for such funds.  If the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders all funds held by it as Paying Agent.  Upon any Event
      of Default under Sections 6.01(i) and (j) hereof relating to the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for the Notes.

     

    Section 2.07.  Holder Lists.

     

    The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of all Holders and shall otherwise comply with TIA §312(a).  If the Trustee is
      not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee at least seven Business Days before each Interest Payment Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date
      as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders and the Company shall otherwise comply with TIA §312(a).

     

    Section 2.08.  Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

     

    The Notes shall be transferable only in compliance with the Appendix.  Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Notes at an office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02 hereof for such
      purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount.  The Company
      shall not charge a service charge for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to pay all taxes, assessments or other governmental charges that may be imposed in connection with the transfer or
      exchange of the Notes from the Holder requesting such transfer or exchange (other than any exchange of a temporary Note for a permanent Note not involving any change in ownership or any exchange pursuant to Sections 2.12, 3.06 or 9.05 hereof, not
      involving any transfer).

     

    
      

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    Notwithstanding any other provisions (other than the provisions set forth in the fourth paragraph) of this Section 2.08, a Global Note representing all or a portion of the Notes may not be transferred except as a whole
      by the Depositary to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor
      Depositary.

     

    Each Global Note is exchangeable for Notes in certificated form only if (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Notes or if at any time the
      Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and the Company fails within 90 days thereafter to appoint a successor Depositary, (ii) the Company in its sole discretion determines that such Global Note shall be
      exchangeable or (iii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to the Notes represented by such Global Notes.  In any such event the Company will issue, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the
      authentication and delivery of certificated Notes, will authenticate and deliver Notes in certificated form in exchange for such Global Note.  In any such instance, an owner of a beneficial interest in either Global Note will be entitled to physical
      delivery in certificated form of Notes equal in principal amount to such beneficial interest and to have such Notes registered in its name.  Notes so issued in certificated form will be issued in denominations of $2,000 or any larger amount that is
      an integral multiple of $1,000, will be issued in registered form only, without coupons, and will bear transfer restriction legends when required by the Appendix.

     

    Upon the exchange of a Global Note for Notes in certificated form, such Global Note shall be cancelled by the Trustee.  All cancelled Notes held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the Trustee and, upon written
      request by the Company, a certificate of their disposal delivered to the Company.  Definitive Notes issued in exchange for a Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.08 hereof shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as
      the Depositary for such Note in global form, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee in writing.  The Trustee shall deliver such Notes as instructed in writing by the Depositary.

     

    At the option of the Holders of certificated Notes, certificated Notes may be exchanged for other certificated Notes of any authorized denomination or denominations of like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon
      surrender of the certificated Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency.  Whenever any certificated Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the certificated Notes which
      the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

     

    
      

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

     

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

     

    The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Notes during a period beginning 15 Business Days before any selection of Notes to be redeemed and ending at the close of business
      on the day of the sending of the relevant notice of redemption or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Note so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

     

    Section 2.09.  Replacement Notes.

     

    If any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or the Company and the Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of a
      Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note.  If required by the Trustee or the Company, the Holder of such Note shall provide indemnity that is sufficient, in the judgment of the Trustee or the Company, to protect the Company,
      the Trustee, any Agent and any authenticating agent from any loss that any of them may suffer in connection with such replacement.  If required by the Company, such Holder shall reimburse the Company for its reasonable expenses in connection with
      such replacement.

     

    Every replacement Note issued in accordance with this Section 2.09 shall be the valid obligation of the Company, evidencing the same debt as the destroyed, lost or stolen Note, and shall be entitled to all of the
      benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

     

    Section 2.10.  Outstanding Notes.

     

    The Notes outstanding at any time shall be the entire principal amount of Notes represented by all of the Global Notes and Definitive Notes authenticated by the Trustee except for those cancelled by it, those delivered
      to it for cancellation, those subject to reductions in beneficial interests effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof, and those described in this Section 2.10 as not outstanding.  Except as set forth in Section 2.11 hereof, a
      Note shall not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Note.

     

    If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof, it shall cease to be outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Note is held by a bona fide purchaser.

     

    
      

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    If the principal amount of any Note is considered paid under Section 4.01 hereof, it shall cease to be outstanding and interest on it shall cease to accrue.

     

    If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of any thereof) holds, on a Redemption Date, a Purchase Date or a maturity date, funds sufficient to pay Notes payable on that date, then on and
      after that date such Notes shall be deemed to be no longer outstanding and shall cease to accrue interest.

     

    Section 2.11.  Treasury Notes.

     

    In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned by the Company, or by any Affiliate of the Company, shall be disregarded and
      deemed not to be outstanding, except that for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Notes that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so
      disregarded.

     

    Section 2.12.  Temporary Notes.

     

    Until certificates representing Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and, upon receipt of a Company Order in accordance with Section 2.02 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes. 
      Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form of Definitive Notes but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.  Without unreasonable delay, the Company
      shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate Global Notes or Definitive Notes in exchange for temporary Notes, as applicable.  After preparation of Definitive Notes, the temporary Note will be exchangeable for Definitive Notes upon surrender of
      the temporary Notes.

     

    Holders of temporary Notes shall be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture as permanent Notes.

     

    Section 2.13.  Cancellation.

     

    The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation.  The Registrar and Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. 
      The Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation and shall dispose of cancelled Notes (subject to the record retention requirement of the Exchange Act or other
      applicable laws) unless by written order, signed by an Officer of the Company, the Company directs them to be returned to it.

     

    Certification of the disposal of all cancelled Notes shall be delivered to the Company from time to time upon request.  The Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid or that have been delivered to
      the Trustee for cancellation.

     

    
      

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    Section 2.14.  Payment of Interest; Defaulted Interest.

     

    Interest on any Note which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the person in whose name that Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the
      close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

     

    If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes which is payable (“Defaulted Interest”), it shall pay the Defaulted Interest in any lawful manner
      plus, to the extent lawful, interest payable on the Defaulted Interest, to the Persons who are Holders on a subsequent Special Record Date, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes.  The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount
      of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on such Notes and the date of the proposed payment.  The Company shall fix or cause to be fixed each such Special Record Date and payment date; provided that no such
      Special Record Date shall be less than 10 days prior to the related payment date for such Defaulted Interest.  At least 15 days before the Special Record Date, the Company (or, upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee in the name and at
      the expense of the Company) shall send or cause to be sent to Holders a notice that states the Special Record Date, the related payment date and the amount of such interest to be paid.

     

    Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.14 and Section 2.08 hereof, each Note delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the
      rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Note.

     

    Section 2.15.  CUSIP or ISIN Numbers.

     

    The Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” and/or “ISIN” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” and/or “ISIN” numbers in notices of redemption or Offers to Purchase as a
      convenience to Holders; 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 Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption or notice of a Change of Control Offer and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption or Change of Control Offer shall not
      be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.  The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the “CUSIP” and/or “ISIN” numbers.

     

    Section 2.16.  Additional Notes.

     

    The Company shall be entitled to issue Additional Notes under this Indenture which shall have identical terms as the Initial Notes issued on the date hereof, other than with respect to the date of issuance and issue
      price and any applicable transfer restrictions.  The Initial Notes issued on the date hereof and any Additional Notes shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Indenture, including directions, waivers, amendments, consents,
      redemptions and Offers to Purchase; provided, however, that if Additional Notes are issued following the Merger, such Additional Notes shall not be subject to Section
      3.09; provided, further, that in the event that any Additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes for federal income tax purposes, such non-fungible
      Additional Notes shall be issued with a separate CUSIP number and ISIN so they are distinguishable from the Initial Notes.

     

    
      

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    With respect to any Additional Notes, the Company shall set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, a copy of each of which shall be delivered to the Trustee, the following information:

     

    (1)           the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to be authenticated and delivered pursuant to this
        Indenture;

     

    (2)           the issue price, the issue date and the CUSIP and/or ISIN number of such Additional Notes; and

     

    (3)           whether such Additional Notes shall be Transfer Restricted Notes.

     

    Section 2.17.  Record Date.

     

    The record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders of Notes entitled to vote or consent to any action by vote or consent or permitted under this Indenture shall be determined as provided
      for in TIA §316(c).

     

    Section 2.18.  Persons Deemed Owners.

     

    Prior to due presentment of a Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the person in whose name such Note is registered as the owner of such Note
      for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (except as otherwise specified as contemplated by the first paragraph of Section 2.04 hereof and subject to Sections 2.07 and 2.13 hereof) interest on such Note and for all other purposes
      whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

     

    None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a
      Note in global form or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.

     

    Section 2.19.  Computation of Interest.

     

    Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.  Interest on the Initial Notes will accrue from December 6, 2019 or, if interest has already been paid, from the
      date it was most recently paid.

     

    
      

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    ARTICLE 3

      

      REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT

     

    Section 3.01.  Notices to Trustee.

     

    Except as set forth in paragraph 5 of the Notes set forth in Exhibit A, the Company will not be entitled to redeem the Notes at its option prior to their Stated Maturity.

     

    If the Company elects to redeem Notes, it shall furnish to the Trustee, at least 5 days (or such shorter period as may be acceptable to the Trustee) but not more than 60 days before the date a notice of redemption is
      sent to each Holder, an Officers’ Certificate setting forth (a) the applicable section of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption shall occur, (b) the Redemption Date, (c) the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed and (d) the Redemption
      Price.

     

    Section 3.02.  Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed.

     

    If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time, such Notes to be redeemed shall be selected in accordance with the operating procedures of the Depositary.  The Trustee shall not be responsible for any
      actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

     

    The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Note selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.  Notes and portions
      of Notes selected shall be in amounts of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000; except that if all of the Notes of a Holder are to be redeemed, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held by such Holder, even if not an integral multiple of $1,000,
      shall be redeemed.  Except as provided in the preceding sentence, provisions of this Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption also apply to portions of Notes called for redemption.

     

    Section 3.03.  Notice of Redemption.

     

    At least 15 days but not more than 60 days prior to a Redemption Date, the Company shall send or cause to be sent, by electronic transmission (for Global Notes) or first class mail, a notice of redemption to each Holder
      whose Notes are to be redeemed at such Holder’s registered address appearing in the Note Register, except that redemption notices may be sent more than 60 days prior to a Redemption Date if the notice is issued in connection with a defeasance
      pursuant to Article 8 hereof, a satisfaction and discharge pursuant to Article 10 hereof or a redemption of the Notes subject to one or more conditions precedent.

     

    The notice shall identify the Notes to be redeemed and shall state:

     

    (a)          the Redemption Date;

     

    
      

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    (b)          the appropriate method for calculation of the redemption price, but need not include the Redemption Price itself; the actual Redemption
        Price shall be set forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee no later than two (2) Business Days prior to the Redemption Date.

     

    (c)          if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed and that, after the Redemption
        Date upon surrender of such Note, if applicable, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion shall be issued upon cancellation of the original Note;

     

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

     

    (e)          that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent at the address specified in such notice to collect the
        Redemption Price;

     

    (f)          that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption payment, interest on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and
        after the Redemption Date;

     

    (g)          the applicable section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Notes called for redemption are being redeemed; and

     

    (h)          the CUSIP and/or ISIN numbers, if any, printed on the Notes; provided, however, that such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers.

     

    At the Company’s request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at its expense; provided, however,
      that the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee, at least 15 days (or such shorter period allowed by the Trustee), prior to the Redemption Date, an Officers’ Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice (in the name and at the
      expense of the Company) and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided in this Section 3.03.

     

    Section 3.04.  Effect of Notice of Redemption.

     

    Subject to the following paragraph, once notice of redemption is sent in accordance with Section 3.03 hereof, Notes called for redemption shall become irrevocably due and payable on the Redemption Date at the Redemption
      Price.

     

    Any redemption of the Notes may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent.  In addition, if such redemption or notice is subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent,
      such notice shall state that, in the Company’s discretion, the Redemption Date may be delayed until such time as any or all of such conditions shall be satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion), or such redemption may not occur and
      such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the Redemption Date, or by the Redemption Date so delayed.

     

    
      

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    Section 3.05.  Deposit of Redemption Price.

     

    On or prior to 11:00 a.m. Eastern time on the Business Day prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is
      the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust) money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and, if applicable, accrued and unpaid interest on all Notes to be redeemed on that date.  The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall promptly, and in any
      event within two (2) Business Days after the Redemption Date, return to the Company any money deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by the Company in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the Redemption Price of, and accrued and unpaid
      interest, if any, on, all Notes to be redeemed.

     

    If the Company complies with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on and after the Redemption Date, interest shall cease to accrue on the Notes or the portions of Notes called for purchase or redemption in
      accordance with Section 2.08 hereof, whether or not such Notes are presented for payment.  If a Note is redeemed on or after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the related Interest Payment Date, then any accrued and unpaid interest, if any,
      shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note was registered at the close of business on such Regular Record Date.  If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender for redemption because of the failure of the Company to
      comply with the preceding paragraph, interest shall be paid on the unpaid principal from the Redemption Date until such principal is paid, and to the extent lawful on any interest not paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at the rate provided
      in the Notes and in Section 4.01 hereof.

     

    Section 3.06.  Notes Redeemed in Part.

     

    Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed in part, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of a Company Order in accordance with Section 2.02 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder at the expense of the
      Company a new Note equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered.

     

    Section 3.07.  Mandatory Redemption.

     

    Except as set forth in Sections 3.09 and 4.10 hereof, the Company shall not be required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to, or offer to purchase, the Notes.

     

    Section 3.08.  Change of Control Offer.

     

    (a)          In the event that, pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof, the Company shall be required to commence a Change of Control Offer, it shall
        follow the procedures specified in this Section 3.08.

     

    (b)          The Company shall cause a notice of the Change of Control Offer to be sent at least once to the Dow Jones News Service or similar
        business news service in the United States.

     

    
      

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    (c)          The Company shall commence the Change of Control Offer by sending, by electronic transmission (for Global Notes) or first-class mail,
        with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder at such Holder’s address appearing in the Note Register, a notice the terms of which shall govern the Change of Control Offer stating:

     

    (1)           that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 3.08 and Section 4.10, that a Change of
        Control has occurred and the circumstances and relevant facts regarding the Change of Control;

     

    (2)           the principal amount of Notes required to be purchased pursuant to Section 4.10 (the “Offer Amount”), the purchase price set forth in Sections 4.10 (the “Purchase Price”), the Offer Period and the Purchase Date (each as defined below);

     

    (3)           except as provided in clause (9), that all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn shall be accepted for payment;

     

    (4)           that any Note not tendered or accepted for payment shall continue to accrue interest;

     

    (5)           that, unless the Company defaults in making such payment, any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of
        Control Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Purchase Date;

     

    (6)           that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer may elect to have Notes
        purchased equal to $2,000 or in integral multiples of $1,000 only;

     

    (7)           that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Change of Control Offer shall be required to
        surrender the Note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Note completed, or transfer by book-entry transfer, to the Company, the Depositary, if appointed by the Company, or a Paying Agent at the address
        specified in the notice before the close of business on the third Business Day before the Purchase Date;

     

    (8)           that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Company, the Depositary or the Paying Agent, as
        the case may be, receives, not later than the expiration of the Offer Period, a telegram, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Note (or portions thereof) the Holder delivered for
        purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased;

     

    (9)           [Reserved];

     

    (10)         that Holders whose Notes were purchased in part shall be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the
        unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered (or transferred by book-entry transfer); and

     

    
      

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    (11)         any other procedures the Holders must follow in order to tender their Notes (or portions thereof) for payment and
        the procedures that Holders must follow in order to withdraw an election to tender Notes (or portions thereof) for payment.

     

    (d)          The Change of Control Offer shall remain open for a period of at least five (5) Business Days but no more than 60 days following its
        commencement, except to the extent that a longer period is required by applicable law (the “Offer Period”).  No later than five (5) Business Days (and in any event no later than the 60th
        day following the Change of Control) after the termination of the Offer Period (the “Purchase Date”), the Company shall purchase the Offer Amount or, if less than the Offer Amount has been
        tendered, all Notes tendered in response to the Change of Control Offer.  Payment for any Notes so purchased shall be made in the same manner as interest payments are made.  The Company shall publicly announce the results of the Change of Control
        Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Purchase Date.

     

    (e)          On or prior to the Purchase Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:

     

    (1)           accept for payment the Offer Amount of Notes or portions of Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to
        the Change of Control Offer, or if less than the Offer Amount has been tendered, all Notes tendered;

     

    (2)           deposit with the Paying Agent funds in an amount equal to the Purchase Price in respect of all Notes or portions
        of Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn; and

     

    (3)           deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate
        stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being purchased by the Company and that such Notes or portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Company in accordance with the terms of this Section 3.08.

     

    (f)          The Paying Agent (or the Company, if acting as the Paying Agent) shall promptly (but not later than 60 days from the date of the Change
        of Control) deliver to each tendering Holder the Purchase Price deposited with the Paying Agent by the Company.  In the event that any portion of the Notes surrendered is not purchased by the Company, the Company shall promptly execute and issue a
        new Note in a principal amount equal to such unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered, and, upon receipt of a Company Order in accordance with Section 2.02 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (or cause to be transferred by
        book-entry) such new Note to such Holder, in a principal amount equal to any unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered; provided, however, that each such new Note
        shall be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000.  Any Note not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the Holder thereof.

     

    (g)          If the Purchase Date is on or after a Regular Record Date and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, any accrued and unpaid
        interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on such Regular Record Date.

     

    
      

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    (h)          The Company shall comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities
        laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the Change of Control Offer.  To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with Section 4.10, this
        Section 3.08 or other provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall comply with applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under Section 4.10, this Section 3.08 or such other provision by
        virtue of such compliance.

     

    (i)           If Holders of not less than 90.0% of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes validly tender and do not withdraw such
        Notes in a Change of Control Offer and the Company (or any third party making a Change of Control Offer in lieu of the Company as described in Section 4.10(b)) purchases all of the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the
        Company or such third party, as the case may be, shall have the right, upon at least 15 but not more than 60 days prior notice, given not more than 30 days following such initial purchase, to purchase all of the Notes that remain outstanding
        following such initial purchase at a price equal to the price offered to each other Holder in the applicable Change of Control Offer, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of such second purchase (subject to the
        rights of Holders of the Notes of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date falling prior to such second purchase date).

     

    (j)           Other than as specifically provided in this Section 3.08, any purchase pursuant to this Section 3.08 shall be made in accordance with
        the provisions of Sections 3.01 through 3.06 hereof.

     

    Section 3.09.  Special Mandatory Redemption.

     

    (a)          If (i) the Merger is not completed on or before September 26, 2020, or (ii) on a date prior to September 26, 2020, the Merger Agreement
        is terminated or the Company notifies the Trustee or otherwise announces that the Merger Agreement has been or will be terminated or that the Company has determined that the Merger will not otherwise be pursued (the earlier of such dates, the “Outside Date”), then the Company shall, no later than three Business Days following the Outside Date (the “Special Mandatory Redemption
          Date”), redeem the Notes (the “Special Mandatory Redemption”) at a redemption price equal to 100.0% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid
        interest, if any, from the Issue Date to, but not including, the Special Mandatory Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date falling prior to the Special
        Mandatory Redemption Date) (the “Special Mandatory Redemption Price”).

     

    (b)          Notice of the Special Mandatory Redemption shall be sent by the Company no later than the next Business Day following the Outside Date
        to each Holder of the Notes and the Trustee.

     

    
      

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    (c)          All notices of the Special Mandatory Redemption shall state:

     

    (1)           the Special Mandatory Redemption Date;

     

    (2)           the Special Mandatory Redemption Price;

     

    (3)           that on the Special Mandatory Redemption Date, the Special Mandatory Redemption Price shall become due and
        payable;

     

    (4)           the place or places where the Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Special Mandatory Redemption Price;

     

    (5)           that the Notes shall cease to bear interest on and after the Special Mandatory Redemption Date; and

     

    (6)           the CUSIP and/or ISIN numbers, if any, printed on the Notes; provided, however, that such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers.

     

    (d)          The Notes shall, on the Special Mandatory Redemption Date, become due and payable, and shall be paid by the Company, at the Special
        Mandatory Redemption Price.

     

    (e)          The provisions of Section 3.05 hereof shall apply to any redemption pursuant to this Section 3.09, except to the extent that any
        provision of Section 3.05 hereof conflicts with any provision of Section 3.09(a) through (d) hereof, in which case the provisions of Section 3.09(a) through (d) hereof shall control.

     

    ARTICLE 4

      

      COVENANTS

     

    Section 4.01.  Payment of Notes.

     

    The Company shall pay or cause to be paid the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in this Indenture and the Notes.  Principal, premium, if any, and interest
      shall be considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent, if other than the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, holds as of 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the due date money deposited by the Company in immediately available funds and designated for and
      sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, and interest then due.  Such Paying Agent shall return to the Company promptly, and in any event, no later than five (5) Business Days following the date of payment, any money (including accrued
      interest) that exceeds such amount of principal, premium, if any, and interest paid on the Notes.  If a payment date is not a Business Day at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, and
      no interest shall accrue on such payment for the intervening period.

     

    
      

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    The Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on demand at a rate that is 1.0% per annum in
      excess of the rate then in effect; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods), from time to time on demand
      at the same rate to the extent lawful.

     

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

     

    Section 4.02.  Maintenance of Office or Agency.

     

    (a)          The Company shall maintain an office or agency (which may be an office or drop facility of the Trustee or an Affiliate of the Trustee,
        Registrar or co-registrar) where Notes may be presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served.  The Company shall
        give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency.  If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the
        address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices
        and demands.

     

    (b)          The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered
        for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations.  The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or
        agency.

     

    (c)          The Company hereby designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, as one such office, drop facility or agency of the Company in
        accordance with Section 2.05 hereof.

     

    Section 4.03.  SEC Reports.

     

    (a)          Whether or not required, so long as the Notes are outstanding the Company will file with the SEC (unless the SEC will not accept such
        filing), within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and regulations and deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after the filing of the same would be required by the SEC, copies of the quarterly and annual reports and of the information,
        documents and other reports, if any, which the Company would be required to file with the SEC if subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.  Notwithstanding that the Company may not be subject to the reporting
        requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, so long as the Notes are outstanding the Company will file with the SEC, to the extent permitted, and provide the Trustee with such annual reports and such information, documents and other
        reports specified in Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and regulations.  The Company will be deemed to have furnished such reports referred to in this section to the Trustee and the
        Holders of the Notes if the Company has filed such reports with the SEC via the EDGAR filing system or any successor system and such reports are publicly available.

     

    
      

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    (b)          Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such
        shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely
        exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).

     

    Section 4.04.  Compliance Certificate.

     

    (a)          The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, commencing with the fiscal year ending
        December 31, 2019, an Officers’ Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year, has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether
        the Company and its Subsidiaries have kept, observed, performed and fulfilled their obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge the Company and
        its Subsidiaries have kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (or, if a
        Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she may have knowledge and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto) and that to the best of his or
        her knowledge no event has occurred and remains in existence by reason of which payments on account of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes is prohibited or if such event has occurred, a description of the event and what
        action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

     

    (b)          The Company shall otherwise comply with TIA §314(a)(2).

     

    (c)          The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after the occurrence or becoming aware thereof, written notice in the form of
        an Officers’ Certificate of any event that with the giving of notice and/or the lapse of time would become an Event of Default, its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

     

    Section 4.05.  Taxes.

     

    The Company shall pay, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay, prior to delinquency, all material taxes, assessments and governmental levies, except such as are being contested in good faith and by appropriate
      proceedings or where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders.

     

    
      

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    Section 4.06.  Stay, Extension and Usury Laws.

     

    The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law
      wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law,
      and covenants that it shall not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

     

    Section 4.07.  Organizational Existence.

     

    Subject to Article 5 hereof, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect (i) its organizational existence, and that of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries,
      in accordance with the respective organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company and its
      Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise, or the organizational existence
      of any Restricted Subsidiary, if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

     

    Section 4.08.  Liens.

     

    (a)          The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur or assume or
        otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual Liens of any kind (other than Permitted Liens) against or upon any of their respective properties or assets, now owned or hereafter acquired, or any proceeds, income or profit
        therefrom or assign or convey any right to receive income therefrom, to secure any Indebtedness of the Company unless prior to, or contemporaneously therewith, the Notes are equally and ratably secured by a Lien on such property, assets, proceeds,
        income or profit; provided, however, that if such Indebtedness is expressly subordinated to the Notes, the Lien securing such Indebtedness will be subordinated and
        junior to the Lien securing the Notes with the same relative priority as such Indebtedness has with respect to the Notes.

     

    (b)          Any Lien created for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes pursuant to Section 4.08(a) shall provide by its terms that such Lien
        should be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon the release and discharge of the Lien that gave rise to the obligation to secure the Notes.

     

    (c)          With respect to any Lien securing Indebtedness that was permitted under this Section 4.08 to secure such Indebtedness at the time of
        the incurrence of such Indebtedness, such Lien shall also be permitted to secure any Increased Amount of such Indebtedness.

     

    
      

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    Section 4.09.  Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.

     

    (a)          The Company’s Board of Directors may designate any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary if that designation
        would not cause a Default and if that designation otherwise is consistent with the definition of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

     

    (b)          Any designation of a Subsidiary of the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the
        Trustee a certified copy of a Board Resolution of the Company giving effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the preceding conditions.  If, at any time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary
        would fail to meet the preceding requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, it will thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture.  The Board of Directors of the Company may at any time designate any Unrestricted
        Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided that such designation will only be permitted if no Default or Event of Default would be in existence following such designation.

     

    (c)          Any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall also be deemed an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

     

    Section 4.10.  Repurchase at the Option of Holders Upon a Change of Control.

     

    (a)          Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall, within 30 days following the date upon which a Change of Control
        occurred, make an offer (the “Change of Control Offer”) pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 3.08.  Each Holder shall have the right to accept such offer and require the Company
        to repurchase all or any portion (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000) of such Holder’s Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer at a purchase price, in cash (the “Change of
          Control Amount”), equal to 101.0% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased, to, but excluding, the Purchase Date (subject to the right of Holders of record
        on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date falling prior to the Purchase Date).

     

    (b)          The Company will not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change of Control if (i) a third party makes the Change of
        Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture applicable to the Company and purchases all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under the Change of Control Offer or (ii) a
        notice of redemption of all outstanding Notes has been given pursuant to this Indenture as provided in Section 3.03, unless and until there is a Default in the payment of the Redemption Price on the applicable Redemption Date or the redemption is
        not consummated due to the failure of a condition precedent contained in the applicable redemption notice to be satisfied.  A Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control and may be conditional upon the occurrence of a
        Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time the Change of Control Offer is made.

     

    
      

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    ARTICLE 5

      

      SUCCESSORS

     

    Section 5.01.  Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets.

     

    (a)          The Company may not, directly or indirectly, consolidate or merge with or into another Person (whether or not the Company is the
        surviving corporation) or sell, assign, transfer, convey, lease, divide or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties or assets in one or more related transactions, to another Person, unless:

     

    (1)           either:

     

    (A)          the Company is the surviving Person or

     

    (B)          the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Company) or to which such
        sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance, division or other disposition has been made (the “Surviving Entity”) is a Person organized or existing under the laws of the United States of
        America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia; provided, however, that, in the case that the Surviving Entity is not a corporation, a corporation organized
        or existing under such laws is a co-obligor under the Notes and this Indenture;

     

    (2)           the Surviving Entity expressly assumes, pursuant to agreements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, all the
        Obligations of the Company under the Notes, this Indenture and the Registration Rights Agreement; and

     

    (3)           immediately after giving effect to such transaction no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

     

    (b)          The sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance, division or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or
        assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company, which properties or assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall
        be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company.

     

    Section 5.02.  Successor Corporation Substituted.

     

    The Surviving Entity shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of the Company or a Guarantor, as applicable, under this Indenture; provided,
      however, that the predecessor entity shall not be released from any of the obligations or covenants under this Indenture, including with respect to the payment of the Notes and obligations under a Subsidiary
      Guarantee, if any, in the case of:

     

    
      

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    (a)          a sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance, division or other disposition (unless such sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, division
        or other disposition is of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, taken as a whole), or

     

    (b)          a lease.

     

    ARTICLE 6

      

      DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

     

    Section 6.01.  Events of Default.

     

    Each of the following constitutes an “Event of Default” with respect to the Notes:

     

    (a)          default for 30 consecutive days in the payment when due and payable of interest on the Notes;

     

    (b)          default in the payment when due and payable of the principal of or premium, if any, on the Notes (upon maturity, redemption, required
        repurchase or otherwise);

     

    (c)          failure by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to comply with Section 5.01;

     

    (d)          failure by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries for 30 consecutive days after notice to comply with the provisions
        described under Section 4.10 hereof;

     

    (e)          failure by the Company for 120 days after notice to comply with the provisions described under Section 4.03;

     

    (f)          failure by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries for 60 consecutive days after notice to the Company by the Trustee or the
        Holders of at least 25.0% in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, voting as a single class, to comply with any of its other covenants or agreements in this Indenture or the Notes;

     

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

     

    (A)          is caused by a failure to pay principal of such Indebtedness at its express maturity prior to the expiration of any
        applicable grace period (a “Payment Default”); or

     

    
      

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

     

    and, in each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there has been a Payment Default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates to $300.0
      million or more;

     

    (h)          failure by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to pay final non-appealable judgments entered by a court or courts of
        competent jurisdiction aggregating in excess of $300.0 million, which judgments are not paid, discharged or stayed for a period of 90 days;

     

    (i)          the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or any group of its Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a Significant
        Subsidiary pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:

     

    (A)          commences a voluntary case or gives notice of intention to make a proposal under any Bankruptcy Law;

     

    (B)          consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case or consents to its dissolution or
        winding up;

     

    (C)          consents to the appointment of a receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, liquidator, trustee or custodian
        of it or for all or substantially all of its property;

     

    (D)          makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or

     

    (E)          admits in writing its inability to pay its debts as they become due or otherwise admits its insolvency;

     

    (j)          a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:

     

    (A)          is for relief against the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of its Subsidiaries that, when
        taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case; or

     

    (B)          appoints a receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, liquidator, trustee or custodian of the Company or any
        of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that, when taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary or for all or substantially all of the property of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of
        Subsidiaries that, when taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary; or

     

    
      

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    (C)          orders the liquidation of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that, when
        taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary;

     

    and such order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 consecutive days; and

     

    (k)          the failure by the Company to pay or cause to be paid the Special Mandatory Redemption Price on the Special Mandatory Redemption Date,
        if required under Section 3.09.

     

    Section 6.02.  Acceleration.

     

    If any Event of Default (other than those of the type described in Section 6.01(i) or (j) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may, and the Trustee upon the request of Holders of 25.0% in aggregate principal amount of
      the outstanding Notes shall, or the Holders of at least 25.0% in aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes may, declare the principal, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, of all the outstanding Notes, to be due and payable
      by notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee specifying the respective Event of Default and that such notice is a notice of acceleration (the “Acceleration Notice”), and the same
      shall become immediately due and payable.

     

    In the case of an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j), the principal, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, of all of the outstanding Notes shall become due and payable immediately
      without any further action or notice on the part of the Trustee or the Holders.  Holders may not enforce this Indenture or the Notes except as provided in this Indenture.

     

    Section 6.03.  Other Remedies.

     

    If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision
      of the Notes or this Indenture.

     

    The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding.  A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy
      accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default.  All remedies shall be cumulative to the extent permitted by law.

     

    Section 6.04.  Waiver of Defaults.

     

    (a)          The Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding by notice to the Trustee may on behalf
        of the Holders of all of the Notes (i) waive any existing Default or Event of Default, and its consequences, except a continuing Default or Event of Default (A) in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest, on the Notes and (B)
        in respect of a covenant or provision which under this Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Note affected by such modification or amendment and (ii) rescind any acceleration and its consequences with
        respect to the Notes.

     

    
      

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

     

    Section 6.05.  Control by Majority.

     

    Subject to Sections 7.01, 7.02(f) (including the Trustee’s receipt of the security or indemnification described therein) and 7.07 hereof, in case an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the Holders of a
      majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then 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 the Notes.

     

    Section 6.06.  Limitation on Suits.

     

    No Holder shall have any right to institute any proceeding with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any remedy hereunder, unless:

     

    (a)          such Holder has previously given to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default or the Trustee receives the notice from
        the Company;

     

    (b)          Holders of at least 25.0% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding have made written request and offered indemnity
        to the Trustee reasonably satisfactory to it to institute such proceeding as Trustee; and

     

    (c)          the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding a
        direction inconsistent with such request and shall have failed to institute such proceeding within 60 days.

     

    The preceding limitations shall not apply to a suit instituted by a Holder for enforcement of payment of principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on, a Note on or after the respective due dates for such payments
      set forth in such Note.

     

    Section 6.07.  Rights of Holders to Receive Payment.

     

    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture (including Section 6.06), the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes held by such Holder, on or after the
      respective due dates expressed in the Notes (including in connection with a Change of Control Offer), or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of
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    Section 6.08.  Collection Suit by Trustee.

     

    If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a) or (b) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole
      amount of principal of, premium, if any, and interest then due and owing (together with interest on overdue principal and, to the extent lawful, interest) and such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection,
      including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.

     

    Section 6.09.  Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

     

    The Trustee shall be authorized 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 the reasonable compensation,
      expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes), its assets or its property and shall be entitled and
      empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and any custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee, and in the
      event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and
      any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07 hereof.  To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section
      7.07 hereof out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, moneys, securities and any other properties that the Holders
      may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on
      behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

     

    Section 6.10.  Priorities.

     

    If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article 6, it shall pay out the money in the following order:

     

    First: to the Trustee, its agents and attorneys for amounts due under Section 7.07 hereof, including payment of all compensation, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all
      advances made, by the Trustee and the costs and expenses of collection;

     

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

     

    
      

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    Third: to the Company or to such party as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct in writing.

     

    The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10.

     

    Section 6.11.  Undertaking for Costs.

     

    In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as a Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any
      party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and the court in its discretion may 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 the party litigant.  This Section 6.11 shall not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by the Company, a suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 6.07 hereof, or a suit by Holders of more than
      10.0% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes.

     

    ARTICLE 7

      

      TRUSTEE

     

    Section 7.01.  Duties of Trustee.

     

    (a)          If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
        Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent Person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such Person’s own affairs.

     

    (b)          Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:

     

    (1)           the duties of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture and the Trustee
        need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

     

    (2)           in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and
        the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture.  However, in the case of certificates or opinions specifically required by any provision
        herein to be furnished to it, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or
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    (c)          The Trustee may not be relieved from liabilities for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
        misconduct, except that:

     

    (1)           this clause (c) does not limit the effect of clause (b) of this Section;

     

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

     

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

     

    (d)          Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to
        clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 7.01.

     

    (e)          No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or incur any liability.

     

    (f)          The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company. 
        Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

     

    Section 7.02.  Rights of Trustee.

     

    Subject to TIA §315:

     

    (a)          The Trustee may conclusively rely upon any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
        Person.  The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall
        determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional
        liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.

     

    (b)          Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both.  The Trustee
        shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.  The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of
        Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon.

     

    (c)          The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within the
        rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.

    

    
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      (d)          Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from the Company shall be
          sufficient if signed by an Officer of the Company.

       

      (e)          The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless written notice of any event which is in fact
          such a Default or Event of Default is received by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee from the Company or the Holders of 25.0% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes, and such notice
          references the specific Default or Event of Default, the Notes and this Indenture.

       

      (f)          The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its power and duties hereunder.

       

      (g)          The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance of the Company’s covenants herein.

       

      (h)          The Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents
          or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.

       

      (i)          The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
          direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in
          compliance with such request or direction.

       

      (j)          In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind
          whatsoever (including but not limited to loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

       

      (k)          [Reserved].

       

      (l)           The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including its right to be indemnified, are
          extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

       

      (m)         The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
          instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into
          such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the
          sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.

       

      
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      (n)          None of the provisions of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise to incur any
          liability, financial or otherwise, in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or indemnity satisfactory to it
          against such risk or liability is not assured to it.

       

      Section 7.03.  Individual Rights of Trustee.

       

      The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or any Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not
        Trustee.  However, in the event that the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest it must eliminate such conflict within 90 days or resign.  Any Agent may do the same with like rights and duties.  The Trustee shall also be subject to Sections 7.10
        and 7.11 hereof.

       

      Section 7.04.  Trustee’s Disclaimer.

       

      The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Notes or
        any money paid to the Company or upon the Company’s direction under any provision of this Indenture, it shall not be responsible for the use or application of any money received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee, and it shall not be
        responsible for any statement or recital herein or any statement in the Notes or any other document in connection with the sale of the Notes or pursuant to this Indenture other than its certificate of authentication.

       

      Section 7.05.  Notice of Defaults.

       

      If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall send to Holders a notice of the Default or Event of Default within 90 days after
        it occurs.  Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith
        determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders.

       

      Section 7.06.  Reports by Trustee to Holders.

       

      Within 60 days after each May 15 beginning with the May 15 following the Issue Date, and for so long as Notes remain outstanding, the Trustee shall send to the Holders a brief report dated as of such reporting date
        that complies with TIA §313(a) (but if no event described in TIA §313(a) has occurred within one year preceding the reporting date, no report need be transmitted), if so required by TIA §313(a).  The Trustee also shall comply with TIA §313(b)(2). 
        The Trustee shall also send all reports as required by TIA §313(c).

       

      
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        A copy of each report at the time of its sending to the Holders shall be sent to the Company and filed with the SEC and each stock exchange on which the Notes are listed in accordance with TIA
          §313(d).  The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange and any delisting thereof.

      

       

      

      Section 7.07.  Compensation and Indemnity.

       

      The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its acceptance of this Indenture and services hereunder.  The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of
        a trustee of an express trust.  The Company shall reimburse the Trustee promptly upon request for all reasonable disbursements, advances and expenses incurred or made by it in addition to the compensation for its services.  Such expenses shall
        include the reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel.

       

      The Company, and the Guarantors, if any, shall, jointly and severally, indemnify the Trustee, its directors, officers, employees or agents or any predecessor Trustee against any and all losses, claims, damages,
        penalties, fines, liabilities or expenses, including incidental and out-of-pocket expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses (for purposes of this Section 7.07, “losses”)
        incurred by it arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of its duties under this Indenture, including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture against the Company (including this Section 7.07) and defending
        itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company or any Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, except to the extent such losses have been determined
        to have been caused by its own gross negligence or willful misconduct.  The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim of which a Responsible Officer has received written notice and for which it may seek indemnity.  Failure by the
        Trustee to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of its obligations under this Section 7.07.  The Company shall defend the claim, and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense.  The Trustee may have separate counsel if the Trustee
        has been reasonably advised by counsel that there may be one or more legal defenses available to it that are different from or additional to those available to the Company and in the reasonable judgment of such counsel it is advisable for the
        Trustee to engage separate counsel, and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel.  The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.  The Company
        need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss incurred by the Trustee through the Trustee’s own willful misconduct or gross negligence.

       

      The obligations of the Company and the Guarantors, if any, under this Section 7.07 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the resignation or removal of the Trustee and payment in full of the
        Notes.

       

      To secure the Company’s and Guarantors’, if any, payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in
        trust to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest on particular Notes.  Such Lien shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.

       

      
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      When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or (j) hereof occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services (including the fees and expenses of
        its agents and counsel) are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.

       

      Section 7.08.  Replacement of Trustee.

       

      A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section 7.08.

       

      The Trustee may resign in writing at any time upon 30 days’ prior notice to the Company and be discharged from the trust hereby created by so notifying the Company.  The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
        amount of the then outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Company in writing.  The Company may remove the Trustee if:

       

      (a)          the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof;

       

      (b)          the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;

       

      (c)          a custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

       

      (d)          the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.

       

      If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein as the retiring Trustee), the Company shall promptly appoint a
        successor Trustee.

       

      Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the
        Company.

       

      If a successor Trustee does not take office within 30 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company, or the Holders of at least 10.0% in aggregate principal amount of the then
        outstanding Notes may, at the expense of the Company, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

       

      If the Trustee, after written request by any Holder who has been a Holder for at least six months, fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof, such Holder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal
        of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

       

      
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      A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company and enter into a supplemental indenture with the retiring Trustee and the Company in which it assumes
        the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture.  Thereupon, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under
        this Indenture.  The successor Trustee shall send a notice of its succession to Holders.  Subject to the Lien provided for in Section 7.07 hereof, the retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor
        Trustee; provided, however, that all sums owing to the Trustee hereunder shall have been paid.  Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section
        7.08, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.07 hereof shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.

       

      In the case of an appointment hereunder of a separate or successor Trustee with respect to the Notes, the Company, any retiring Trustee and each successor or separate Trustee with respect to the Notes shall execute and
        deliver a supplemental indenture hereto (1) which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of any retiring Trustee with respect to the Notes have been assumed
        by a successor Trustee and in the case where any retiring Trustee is retiring only with respect to some of the Notes that the rights, powers, trusts and duties of any retiring Trustee with respect to the Notes as to which any such retiring Trustee
        is not retiring shall continue to be vested in such retiring Trustee and (2) that shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
        than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustee co-trustees of the same trust and that each such separate, retiring or successor Trustee shall be Trustee of a trust or trusts
        hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any such other Trustee.

       

      Section 7.09.  Successor Trustee by Merger, etc.

       

      If the Trustee consolidates, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation or banking association, the successor corporation or banking
        association without any further act shall, if such successor corporation or banking association is otherwise eligible hereunder, be the successor Trustee.

       

      Section 7.10.  Eligibility; Disqualification.

       

      There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a Person organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state thereof that is authorized under such laws to exercise
        corporate trustee power, that is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities and that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50.0 million (or a wholly-owned subsidiary of a bank or trust company, or of a bank
        holding company, the principal subsidiary of which is a bank or trust company having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50.0 million) as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition.

       

      
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      This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of TIA §310(a)(1), (2) and (5).  The Trustee is subject to TIA §310(b).

       

      Section 7.11.  Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company.

       

      The Trustee is subject to TIA §311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA §311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA §311(a) to the extent indicated therein.

       

      ARTICLE 8

       

      LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE

       

      Section 8.01.  Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

       

      The Company may, at its option and at any time, elect to have either Sections 8.02 or 8.03 hereof be applied to all outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth in this Article 8.  Any such election
        shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution set forth in an Officers’ Certificate.

       

      Section 8.02.  Legal Defeasance and Discharge.

       

      Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 8.01 of the option applicable to this Section 8.02, the Company shall, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04, be deemed to have been
        discharged from its Obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes on the date the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 are satisfied (hereinafter, “Legal Defeasance”) and each
        Guarantor, if any, shall be released from all of its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee.  For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the
        outstanding Notes, which shall thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 8.05 and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in (a) and (b) of this Section 8.02, and to have satisfied all its other Obligations
        under the Notes and this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions which shall survive until otherwise terminated or
        discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive solely from the trust fund described in Section 8.04, and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest
        on such Notes when such payments are due, (b) the Company’s Obligations with respect to such Notes under Article 2 and Sections 4.01 and 4.02, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Company’s and the
        Guarantor’s, if any, Obligations in connection therewith and (d) this Article 8.  If the Company exercises under Section 8.01 the option applicable to this Section 8.02, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04,
        payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default.  Subject to compliance with this Article 8, the Company may exercise its option under this Section 8.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 8.03.

       

      
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      Section 8.03.  Covenant Defeasance.

       

      Upon the Company’s exercise under Section 8.01 of the option applicable to this Section 8.03, the Company shall, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04, be released from its Obligations
        under the covenants contained in Sections 4.08 and 4.10 hereof), with respect to the outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 are satisfied (hereinafter, “Covenant

          Defeasance”) and each Guarantor, if any, shall be released from all of its Obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee with respect to such covenants in connection with such outstanding Notes and the Notes shall thereafter be deemed not
        “outstanding” for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other purposes
        hereunder (it being understood that such Notes shall not be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes).  For this purpose, Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no
        liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any
        other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 6.01, but, except as specified above in this Section 8.03, the remainder of this Indenture and such
        Notes shall be unaffected thereby.  If the Company exercises under Section 8.01 the option applicable to this Section 8.03, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04, payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because
        of an Event of Default specified in clause (d) (with respect to the covenants contained in Section 4.10 hereof), clause (f) (with respect to the covenants contained in Section 4.08 hereof), and clauses (g), (h), (i) and (j) (but in the case of (i)
        and (j) of Section 6.01, with respect to Significant Subsidiaries only) of Section 6.01.

       

      Section 8.04.  Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance.

       

      The following shall be the conditions to the application of either Section 8.02 or 8.03 to the outstanding Notes.

       

      The Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance may be exercised only if:

       

      (a)          the Company irrevocably deposits with the Trustee, in trust (the “defeasance
            trust”), for the benefit of the Holders, cash in Dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination of cash in Dollars and non-callable Government Securities, in amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
          recognized firm of independent public accountants (a copy of which shall be provided to the Trustee), to pay the principal, premium, if any, and interest on the outstanding Notes on the Stated Maturity or on the next Redemption Date, as the case
          may be, and the Company shall specify whether the Notes are being defeased to maturity or to such particular Redemption Date;

       

      
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      (b)          in the case of Legal Defeasance, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel confirming that (i) the Company has
          received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (ii) subsequent to the Issue Date, there has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such
          Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same
          amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred;

       

      (c)          in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the
          Trustee confirming that the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the
          same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;

       

      (d)          no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default
          resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to make such deposit and the grant of any Lien securing such borrowing);

       

      (e)          such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any
          material agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries are bound;

       

      (f)          the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the
          intent of preferring the Holders over other creditors of the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding such other creditors; and

       

      (g)          the Company delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent
          relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant Defeasance have been complied with.

       

      Section 8.05.  Deposited Cash and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

       

      Subject to Section 8.06, all cash and non-callable Government Securities (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 8.05, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 8.04 in respect of the outstanding Notes shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and this Indenture, to
        the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and interest
        but such cash and securities need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

       

      
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      The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or non-callable Government Securities deposited pursuant to Section 8.04 hereof or the
        principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes.

       

      Anything in this Article 8 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the request of the Company any cash or non-callable Government Securities held by it as
        provided in Section 8.04 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the certification delivered under Section
        8.04(a)), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.

       

      Section 8.06.  Repayment to the Company.

       

      The Trustee shall promptly, and in any event, no later than five (5) Business Days, pay to the Company after request therefor, any excess money held with respect to the Notes at such time in excess of amounts required
        to pay any of the Company’s Obligations then owing with respect to the Notes.

       

      Any cash or non-callable Government Securities deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal, premium, if any, or interest on any Note and
        remaining unclaimed for one year after such principal, premium, if any, or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on its request or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder shall
        thereafter, as an unsecured creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such cash and securities, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
        cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be
        published once, in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (national edition), notice that such cash and securities remains unclaimed and that, after a
        date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed balance of such cash and securities then remaining shall be repaid to the Company.

       

      Section 8.07.  Reinstatement.

       

      If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any cash or non-callable Government Securities in accordance with Sections 8.02 or 8.03, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or
        governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Sections 8.02
        or 8.03 until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such cash and securities in accordance with Sections 8.02 or 8.03, as the case may be; provided, however, that, if the Company makes any payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note following the reinstatement of its Obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders to receive such
        payment from the cash and securities held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

       

      
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      ARTICLE 9

       

      AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER

       

      Section 9.01.  Without Consent of Holders of Notes.

       

      Notwithstanding Section 9.02 of this Indenture, the Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes without notice to or the consent of any Holder:

       

      (1)          to cure any ambiguity, omission, mistake, defect, error or inconsistency;

       

      (2)          to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes;

       

      (3)          to provide for the assumption of the Company’s obligations to Holders of Notes in the case of a merger or
          consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets or any other transaction that complies with this Indenture;

       

      (4)          to make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of Notes or that the
          Company determines in good faith (as certified in an Officers’ Certificate) does not materially and adversely affect the legal rights under this Indenture of any such Holder;

       

      (5)          to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in accordance with this Indenture; or

       

      (6)          to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under
          the Trust Indenture Act;

       

      (7)          to allow any Guarantor to execute a supplemental indenture and/or a Subsidiary Guarantee with respect to the
          Notes;

       

      (8)          to evidence and provide the acceptance of the appointment of a successor trustee under this Indenture;

       

      (9)          to mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or grant a security interest in favor of the trustee for the benefit of the
          Holders as additional security for the payment and performance of the Company’s or a Guarantor’s Obligations under this Indenture in property or assets;

       

      
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      (10)        to comply with the rules of any applicable Depositary;

       

      (11)        to release a Guarantor from its Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to the terms of any applicable supplemental indenture
          and/or Subsidiary Guarantee with respect to the Notes;

       

      (12)        to conform the text of this Indenture, the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees, if any, to the corresponding
          provision of the “Description of the 2027 and 2029 Notes” in the Offering Memorandum to the extent that such provision in the “Description of the 2027 and 2029 Notes” was intended to be a substantially verbatim recitation of a provision of this
          Indenture, the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees, if any; or

       

      (13)        to comply with Section 5.01.

       

      Section 9.02.  With Consent of Holders of Notes.

       

      Except as provided below in this Section 9.02, the Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture and the Notes with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of
        the Notes then outstanding voting as a single class (including consents obtained in connection with a purchase of or tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes), and, subject to Sections 6.04 and 6.07, any existing Default or Event of Default or
        compliance with any provision of this Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding voting as a single class (including consents obtained in
        connection with a purchase of or tender offer or exchange offer for the Notes).

       

      Without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):

       

      (1)          reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

       

      (2)          reduce the principal of or change the Stated Maturity of any Note or alter the provisions with respect to the
          redemption or repurchase of any Note (other than provisions relating to Section 4.10 (and any applicable definitions));

       

      (3)          reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest on any Note;

       

      (4)          waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on the Notes
          (except a rescission of acceleration of the Notes by the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes and a waiver of the Payment Default that resulted from such acceleration);

       

      
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      (5)          make any Note payable in money other than that stated in the Notes;

       

      (6)          make any change in the provisions (including applicable definitions) of this Indenture relating to waivers of past
          Defaults or the rights of Holders of Notes to receive payments of principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on the Notes (other than provisions relating to Section 4.10 (and any applicable definitions));

       

      (7)          waive a redemption or repurchase payment with respect to any Note (other than a payment required by Section 4.10
          hereof);

       

      (8)          make any material change in the provisions of Section 3.09 of this Indenture;

       

      (9)          [Reserved]; or

       

      (10)        make any change in the preceding amendment and waiver provisions.

       

      The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to consent to any supplemental indenture.  If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record
        date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to consent to such supplemental indenture, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that
        unless such consent shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having been obtained prior to the date which is 120 days after such record date, any such consent previously given shall automatically and without further action
        by any Holder be cancelled and of no further effect.

       

      It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the
        substance thereof.

       

      After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02 becomes effective, the Company shall send to the Holder of each Note affected thereby to such Holder’s address appearing in the Note Register a notice
        briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver.  Any failure of the Company to send such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such amended or supplemental indenture or waiver.

       

      Section 9.03.  Compliance with Trust Indenture Act.

       

      Every amendment or supplement to this Indenture or the Notes shall be set forth in an amended or supplemental indenture that complies with the TIA as then in effect.

       

      
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      Section 9.04.  Revocation and Effect of Consents.

       

      Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder of a Note and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion thereof that evidences the same
        debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Note.  However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to its Note or portion thereof if the Trustee receives written notice of
        revocation before the date the waiver, supplement or amendment becomes effective.  An amendment, supplement or waiver shall become effective in accordance with its terms and thereafter shall bind every Holder.

       

      Section 9.05.  Notation on or Exchange of Notes.

       

      The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment, supplement or waiver on any Note thereafter authenticated.  The Company in exchange for all Notes may issue and, upon receipt of a Company Order in
        accordance with Section 2.02 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate new Notes that reflect the amendment, supplement or waiver.

       

      Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note shall not affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver.

       

      Section 9.06.  Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc.

       

      The Trustee shall sign any amended or supplemental indenture authorized pursuant to this Article 9 if the amendment or supplement does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. 
        The Company may not sign an amendment or supplemental indenture until its Board of Directors (or committee serving a similar function) approves it.  In executing any amended or supplemental indenture, the Trustee shall be provided with and (subject
        to Section 7.01 hereof) shall be fully protected in relying upon an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such
        amended or supplemental indenture is the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions and that such amended or supplemental indenture complies with the
        provisions hereof.

       

      ARTICLE 10

       

      SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

       

      Section 10.01.  Satisfaction and Discharge.

       

      This Indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further effect, as to all Notes issued hereunder, when:

       

      (a)          either:

       

      
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      (1)          all Notes that have been authenticated, except lost, stolen or destroyed Notes that have been replaced or paid and
          Notes for whose payment money has been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Company, have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

       

      (2)          all Notes that have not been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable by reason of
          the sending of a notice of redemption or otherwise or will become due and payable or redeemable within one year, and the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit
          of the Holders, cash in Dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination of cash in Dollars and non-callable Government Securities, in such amounts as will be sufficient without consideration of any reinvestment of interest, to pay
          and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Notes not delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for principal, premium, if any, and accrued interest to the date of maturity or redemption;

       

      (b)          no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of the deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default
          resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such deposit) or will occur as a result of the deposit and the deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other material instrument (other than
          resulting from borrowing of funds to be applied to make such deposit) to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound;

       

      (c)          the Company has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by it under this Indenture; and

       

      (d)          the Company has delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at
          maturity or the Redemption Date, as the case may be.

       

      In addition, the Company must deliver an Officers’ Certificate and an opinion of counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge have been satisfied.

       

      Section 10.02.  Deposited Cash and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.

       

      Subject to Section 10.03, all cash and non-callable Government Securities (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section 10.02, the “Trustee”) pursuant to Section 10.01 hereof in respect of the outstanding Notes shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and this
        Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal,
        premium, if any, and interest but such cash and securities need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.

       

      
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      Section 10.03.  Repayment to the Company.

       

      Any cash or non-callable Government Securities deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Note and
        remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, and premium, if any, or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on its request or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder
        shall thereafter, as an unsecured creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such cash and securities, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall
        thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause
        to be published once, in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (national edition), notice that such cash and securities remains unclaimed and that, after
        a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed balance of such cash and securities then remaining shall be repaid to the Company.

       

      ARTICLE 11

       

      MISCELLANEOUS

       

      Section 11.01.  Trust Indenture Act Controls.

       

      If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision which is required to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, the provision required by the TIA shall control.

       

      Section 11.02.  Notices.

       

      Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the other is duly given if in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested) or overnight
        air courier guaranteeing next-day delivery, to the other’s address:

       

      If to the Company:

       

      Centene Corporation

      7700 Forsyth Boulevard

      St. Louis, MO 63105

      Attention: Chief Financial Officer

       

      
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      If to the Trustee:

       

      

      The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.

      2 North LaSalle Street, Suite 700

      Chicago, Illinois 60602

      Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

       

      The Company or the Trustee, by notice to the other, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

       

      All notices and communications (other than those sent to the Trustee or Holders) shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited
        in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; and the next Business Day after timely delivery to the courier, if sent by overnight air courier guaranteeing next-day delivery.  All notices and communications to the Trustee or Holders shall be deemed duly
        given and effective only upon receipt.

       

      Any notice or communication to a Holder shall be mailed by first class mail, certified or registered, return receipt requested, or by overnight air courier guaranteeing next-day delivery to its address shown on the
        Note Register.

       

      Any notice or communication shall also be so mailed to any Person described in TIA §313(c), to the extent required by the TIA. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect
        its sufficiency with respect to other Holders.

       

      If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

       

      If the Company sends a notice or communication to Holders, it shall send a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.

       

      The Trustee agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, pdf, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods, provided, however, that the Trustee shall have received an incumbency certificate listing persons designated to give such instructions or directions and containing
        specimen signatures of such designated persons, which such incumbency certificate shall be amended and replaced whenever a person is to be added or deleted from the listing.  If the Company elects to give the Trustee e-mail or facsimile
        instructions (or instructions by a similar electronic method) and the Trustee in its discretion elects to act upon such instructions, the Trustee’s understanding of such instructions shall be deemed controlling.  The Trustee shall not be liable for
        any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Trustee’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions notwithstanding such instructions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent written instruction.  The Company
        agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of such electronic methods to submit instructions and directions to the Trustee, including the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk or interception and misuse by
        third parties.

       

      
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      Section 11.03.  Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes.

       

      Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA §312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of
        TIA §312(c).

       

      Section 11.04.  Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.

       

      Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:

       

      (a)          an Officers’ Certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth
          in Section 11.05 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent and covenants, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

       

      (b)          an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth in
          Section 11.05 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent and covenants have been complied with.

       

      Section 11.05.  Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.

       

      Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to TIA §314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of TIA
        §314(e) and shall include:

       

      (a)          a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

       

      (b)          a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in
          such certificate or opinion are based;

       

      (c)          a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such
          Person to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

       

      (d)          a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

       

      With respect to matters of fact, an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officers’ Certificate, certificates of public officials or reports or opinions of experts.

       

      
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      Section 11.06.  Rules by Trustee and Agents.

       

      The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of Holders.  The Registrar or Paying Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.

       

      Section 11.07.  No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Stockholders.

       

      No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder, member, manager or partner of the Company or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any Obligations of the Company or of
        the Guarantors, if any, under the Notes, this Indenture, any supplemental indenture, the Subsidiary Guarantees, if any, or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such Obligations or their creation.  Each Holder of Notes by
        accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.  The waiver and release may not be effective to waive or release liabilities under the federal securities
        laws.

       

      Section 11.08.  Governing Law.

       

      THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS INDENTURE AND THE NOTES WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE
        LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

       

      Section 11.09.  No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.

       

      This Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or its Subsidiaries or of any other Person.  Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to
        interpret this Indenture.

       

      Section 11.10.  Successors.

       

      All covenants and agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Notes shall bind its successors.  All covenants and agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors.

       

      Section 11.11.  Severability.

       

      In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired
        thereby.

       

      
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      Section 11.12.  Counterpart Originals.

       

      The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.

       

      Section 11.13.  Table of Contents, Headings, etc.

       

      The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and Headings in this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Indenture and shall in no way modify or restrict
        any of the terms or provisions hereof.

       

      Section 11.14.  Qualification of this Indenture.

       

      The Company shall qualify this Indenture under the TIA to the extent required by, and in accordance with the terms of, the Registration Rights Agreement related to the Initial Notes and shall pay all reasonable costs
        and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses for the Company, the Trustee and the Holders) incurred in connection therewith, including costs and expenses of qualification of this Indenture and the Notes and printing this
        Indenture and the Notes. The Trustee shall be provided with any such Officers’ Certificates, Opinions of Counsel or other documentation as it may reasonably request in connection with any such qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.

       

      Section 11.15.  Waiver of Jury Trial.

       

      EACH OF THE ISSUER, THE HOLDERS AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO
        THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

       

      Section 11.16.  Force Majeure.

       

      In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including
        strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware)
        services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

       

      Section 11.17.  Submission to Jurisdiction.

       

      The parties irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any New York State or federal court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, over any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or
        relating to this Indenture.  To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the parties irrevocably waive and agree not to assert, by way of motion, as a defense or otherwise, any claim that it is not subject to the jurisdiction of any such
        court, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court and any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in
        an inconvenient forum.

       

      
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      Section 11.18.  FATCA Withholding.

       

      In order to comply with applicable tax laws, rules and regulations (inclusive of directives, guidelines and interpretations promulgated by competent authorities) in effect from time to time (“Applicable Law”) that a foreign financial institution, the Company, Trustee, Paying Agent, Holder or other institution is or has agreed to be subject to related to this Indenture and the Notes, the Company agrees
        (a) to provide to the Trustee and/or any other Paying Agent upon its request information in the Company’s possession about applicable parties and/or transactions (including any modification to the terms of such transactions) so that the Trustee or
        any other Paying Agent can determine whether it has tax related obligations under Applicable Law, and (b) that the Trustee and/or any other Paying Agent shall be entitled to make any withholding or deduction from payments under this Indenture to
        the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Law for which the Trustee or any other Paying Agent shall not have any liability to the Company for its withholding or deduction from payment under this Indenture to the extent necessary to comply with
        Applicable Law.

       

      [Signatures on following page]

       

      
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      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Indenture to be duly executed.

       

      	 	
              Issuer:

              CENTENE CORPORATION

            
	 	 
	
              Dated:    December 6, 2019

            	
              By:

            	
              /s/ Jeffrey Schwaneke

            
	 	 	
              Name: Jeffrey Schwaneke

            
	 	 	
              Title:  Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

            

      

      

      [Signature Page to 2029 Notes Indenture]

       

      

      
        
          

      

      	 	
              Trustee:

              THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.

            
	 	 
	
              Dated:    December 6, 2019

            	
              By:

            	
              /s/ Julie Hoffman-Ramos

            
	 	 	
              Name: Julie Hoffman-Ramos

            
	 	 	
              Title: Vice President

            

       

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      RULE 144A / REGULATION S APPENDIX

       

      PROVISIONS RELATING TO NOTES

       

      
        
          	1.	
                  Definitions

                

        

      

       

      
        
          	

                	1.1	
                  Definitions.

                

        

      

       

      For the purposes of this Appendix the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below:

       

      “QIB” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A.

       

      “Registered Exchange Offer” means an offer by the Company, pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement, to certain Holders of Transfer Restricted Notes to
        issue and deliver to such Holders in exchange for such Notes a like aggregate principal amount of Exchange Notes registered under the Securities Act.

       

      “Resale Restriction Termination Date” means, in the case of Restricted Notes sold in reliance on Rule 144A, the expiration of the applicable holding period
        with respect to such Notes set forth in Rule 144(d)(i) of the Securities Act and, in the case of Restricted Notes sold in reliance on Regulation S, 40 days after the later of the original issue date of such Notes and the date on which such Notes
        (or any predecessor of such Notes) was first offered to persons other than distributors (as defined in Rule 902 of Regulation S) in reliance on Regulation S.

       

      “Shelf Registration Statement” means a registration statement filed by the Company in connection with the offer and sale of Transfer Restricted Notes pursuant
        to a Registration Rights Agreement.

       

      “Transfer Restricted Notes” means Initial Notes or Additional Notes that bear or are required to bear the transfer restrictions legend set forth in Section

          2.3(d)(i) hereof.

       

      “Unrestricted Notes” means any Notes that are not Transfer Restricted Notes.

       

      
        
          	

                	1.2	
                  Other Definitions.

                

        

      

       

      	
              
                Term

              

            	 	
              
                Defined in Section:

              

            
	
              “Permanent Regulation S Global Note”

            	 	
              2.1(b)

            
	
              “Regulation S”

            	 	
              2.1(a)

            
	
              “Regulation S Global Note”

            	 	
              2.1(b)

            
	
              “Restricted Global Note”

            	 	
              2.1(a)

            
	
              “Restricted Period”

            	 	
              2.1(b)

            
	
              “Rule 144A”

            	 	
              2.1(a)

            
	
              “Rule 144A Global Note”

            	 	
              2.1(a)

            
	
              “Temporary Regulation S Global Note”

            	 	
              2.1(a)

            

      

      

      
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           2.

           

          

          	

                	2.1	
                  The Notes.

                

        

      

       

      (a)          Form and Dating.  Initial Notes offered and sold to QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”) (“Rule 144A Global Notes”) shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent Global Notes in definitive, fully registered form, and Notes offered
        and sold in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act (“Regulation S”), shall be issued initially in the form of one or more temporary Global Notes in fully registered form (“Temporary Regulation S Global Notes”), in each case, without interest coupons and with the Global Notes legend set forth in Exhibit A and the Restricted Notes legend set forth in Section

          2.3(d) hereof (each security, unless and until becoming an Unrestricted Note, a “Restricted Global Note”), which shall be deposited on behalf of the holders of the Notes represented
        thereby with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary (or with such other custodian as the Depositary may direct), and registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by
        the Trustee as hereinafter provided.  Additional Notes offered and sold to QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent Rule 144A Global Notes, and Additional Notes offered and sold in reliance on
        Regulation S shall be issued initially in the form of one or more Temporary Regulation S Global Notes or Permanent Regulation S Global Notes, in each case, without interest coupons and with the Global Notes legend set forth in Exhibit A and
        the Restricted Notes legend set forth in Section 2.3(d) hereof, which shall be deposited on behalf of the holders of the Notes represented thereby with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary (or with such other custodian as the
        Depositary may direct), and registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.  Exchange Notes shall be
          issued (i) in the form of one or more permanent Global Notes in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons and with the Global Notes legend set forth in Exhibit A, and shall be deposited on behalf of the holders of
        the Notes represented thereby with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary (or with such other custodian as the Depositary may direct), and registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, duly executed by the Company
        and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided or (ii) in definitive form as provided in Section 2.4 hereof.

       

      (b)          Book-Entry Provisions.  This Section 2.1(b) shall apply only to a Global Note deposited with or on behalf of the Depositary.

       

      The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.1(b), authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Notes that (a) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary
        for such Global Note or Global Notes or the nominee of such Depositary and (b) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary’s instructions or held by the Trustee as custodian for the Depositary.  Separate
        Global Notes shall be issued to represent Rule 144A Global Notes and Regulation S Global Notes so long as required by law or the Depositary.

       

      
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      Except as set forth in this Section 2.1(b), beneficial interests in a Temporary Regulation S Global Note will not be exchangeable for interests in a Rule 144A Global Note, a permanent global note (the “Permanent Regulation S Global Note” and, together with the Temporary Regulation S Global Note, the “Regulation S Global Note”) or
        any other Note prior to the expiration of the period through and including the 40th day after the later of the commencement of the offering of the Initial Note or Additional Note represented by such Temporary Regulation S Global Note and the
        closing of such offering (such period, the “Restricted Period”) and then, after the expiration of the Restricted Period, may be exchanged for interests in a Rule 144A Global Note or the
        Permanent Regulation S Global Note only upon certification in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee that beneficial ownership interests in such Temporary Regulation S Global Note are owned either by non-U.S. persons or U.S.
        persons who purchased such interests in a transaction that did not require registration under the Securities Act.

       

      Prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, beneficial interests in a Temporary Regulation S Global Note may be exchanged for beneficial interests in the Rule 144A Global Note only if (i) such exchange occurs in
        connection with a transfer of the Notes pursuant to Rule 144A, (ii) the transferor first delivers to the Trustee a written certificate to the effect that the beneficial interest in the Temporary Regulation S Global Note is being transferred to a
        Person who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB and is purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB, in each case in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (iii) the transfer is in accordance with all
        applicable securities laws of the states of the United States and other jurisdictions.  After the expiration of the Restricted Period, such certification requirements shall not apply to such transfers of beneficial interests in a Restricted Global
        Note representing Regulation S Global Notes.

       

      Beneficial interests in a Rule 144A Global Note that is a Transfer Restricted Note may be transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in the Regulation S Global Note, whether before or after
        the expiration of the Restricted Period, only if the transferor first delivers to the Trustee a written certificate to the effect that such transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 903 or 904 of Regulation S or Rule 144 (if available).

       

      The aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depositary or its nominee as provided herein and in this
        Indenture.

       

      (c)          Definitive Notes.  Except as provided in Section 2.3 or 2.4 hereof, owners of beneficial interests in Restricted Global Notes shall not be
        entitled to receive Definitive Notes.  Definitive Notes shall be exchangeable for beneficial interests in Global Notes only as provided in Section 2.3 hereof.

       

      2.2         Authentication of Exchange Notes. The Trustee shall authenticate and deliver at any time or from time to time, Exchange Notes for issue in a Registered
        Exchange Offer pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement for a like principal amount of Transfer Restricted Notes upon delivery of a Company Order.

       

      
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                	2.3	
                  Transfer and Exchange.

                

        

      

       

      (a)          Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes.   The transfer and exchange of Global Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary,
        in accordance with this Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein, if any) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor.  A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver to the Registrar a
        written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in the Global Note.  The Registrar shall, in accordance with
        such instructions, instruct the Depositary to credit to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note and to debit the account of the Person making the transfer the beneficial interest in the
        Global Note being transferred.

       

      (i)           Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Appendix, a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of
        the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

       

      (ii)          In the event that a Restricted Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes pursuant to Section 2.4 hereof prior to the consummation
        of a Registered Exchange Offer or the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Notes, such Notes may be exchanged only in accordance with such procedures as are substantially consistent with the provisions of this Section

          2.3 (including the certification requirements set forth on the reverse of the Transfer Restricted Notes intended to ensure that such transfers comply with Rule 144A or Regulation S or another applicable exemption under the Securities Act, as
        the case may be) and such other procedures as may from time to time be adopted by the Company.

       

      (b)          Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes.  When Definitive Notes are presented to the Registrar with a request (x) to register the transfer of such
        Definitive Notes or (y) to exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive Notes of other authorized denominations, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its requirements for such
        transaction are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange:

       

      (i)           shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar,
        duly executed by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing; and

       

      (ii)          if such Definitive Notes are required to bear a Restricted Notes legend, they are being transferred or exchanged pursuant to an effective
        registration statement under the Securities Act, pursuant to Section 2.3(c) hereof or pursuant to clause (A), (B) or (C) below, and are accompanied by the following additional information and documents, as applicable:

       

      
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      (A)          if such Definitive Notes are being delivered to the Registrar by a Holder for registration in the name of such Holder, without transfer, a
        certification from such Holder to that effect; or

       

      (B)          if such Definitive Notes are being transferred to the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, a certification to that effect; or

       

      (C)          if such Definitive Notes are being transferred (x) pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance with Rule 144A, Regulation S or
        Rule 144 under the Securities Act; or (y) in reliance upon another exemption from the requirements of the Securities Act: (I) a certification to that effect and (II) if the Company so requests, an opinion of counsel or other evidence reasonably
        satisfactory to it as to the compliance with the restrictions set forth in the legend set forth in Section 2.3(d)(i) hereof.

       

      (c)          Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Note for a Beneficial Interest in a Global Note.  A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest
        in a Rule 144A Global Note or a Permanent Regulation S Global Note except upon satisfaction of the requirements set forth below.  Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instruments of transfer,
        in form satisfactory to the Trustee, together with:

       

      (i)           certification that such Definitive Note is either (A) being transferred to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A, or (B) being transferred after
        expiration of the Restricted Period by a Person who initially purchased such Note in reliance on Regulation S to a buyer who elects to hold its interest in such Note in the form of a beneficial interest in the Permanent Regulation S Global Note;
        and

       

      (ii)          written instructions directing the Trustee to make, or directing the Custodian to make, an adjustment on its books and records with respect to
        such Rule 144A Global Note (in the case of a transfer pursuant to clause (c)(i)(A)) or Permanent Regulation S Global Note (in the case of a transfer pursuant to clause (c)(i)(B)) to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes
        represented by the Rule 144A Global Note or Permanent Regulation S Global Note, as applicable, such instructions to contain information regarding the Depositary account to be credited with such increase,

       

      
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      then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Note and cause, or direct the Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, the aggregate principal amount of
        Notes represented by the Rule 144A Global Note or Permanent Regulation S Global Note, as applicable, to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of the Definitive Note to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to be credited to the account of
        the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note or Permanent Regulation S Global Note, as applicable, equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Note so canceled.  If no Rule 144A Global Notes or
        Permanent Regulation S Global Notes, as applicable, are then outstanding, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon receipt of a Company Order, a new Rule 144A Global Note or Permanent Regulation S Global Note, as applicable,
        in the appropriate principal amount.

       

      (d)          Legend.

       

      (i)           Except as permitted by the following subclauses (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v), each Note certificate evidencing the Restricted Global Notes (and
        all Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

       

      For each Rule 144A Global Note:

       

      THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD
        OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM.  EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE
        SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.  THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT, UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THE APPLICABLE HOLDING PERIOD WITH RESPECT TO THIS NOTE SET FORTH IN RULE 144(D)(I) OF THE SECURITIES ACT,
        (A) THIS NOTE MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (I) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE
        REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (II) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (III) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE
        144 THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE) OR (IV) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH OF CASES (I) THROUGH (IV) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND (B) THE
        HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.

       

      
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      For each Regulation S Global Note:

       

      THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED IN THE UNITED STATES
        OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, ANY U.S. PERSON EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ALL APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.  TERMS USED ABOVE HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM
        IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.  THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT IT WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE FOREGOING RESALE RESTRICTIONS.

       

      Each Definitive Note shall also bear the following additional legend:

       

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

       

      Each Temporary Regulation S Global Note shall also bear the following legend:

       

      THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE, AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING (I) THE EXCHANGE OF BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE FOR INTERESTS IN THE
        PERMANENT REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE OR RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE AND (II) THE TRANSFER OF INTERESTS IN THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE, ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

       

      (ii)          The Company, acting in its discretion, may remove the Restricted Notes legend set forth in clause (d)(i) above from any Transfer Restricted
        Note at any time on or after the Resale Restriction Termination Date applicable to such Transfer Restricted Note.  Without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, the Company may effect such removal by issuing and delivering, in exchange
        for such Transfer Restricted Note, an Unrestricted Note without such legend, registered to the same Holder and in an equal principal amount, and upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company Order stating that the Resale Restriction Termination Date
        applicable to such Transfer Restricted Note has occurred and requesting the authentication and delivery of an Unrestricted Note in exchange therefor given at least three Business Days in advance of the proposed date of exchange specified therein
        (which shall be no earlier than such Resale Restriction Termination Date), the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver such Unrestricted Note to the Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary’s instructions or hold such Note as Custodian and shall
        request the Depositary to, or, if the Trustee is custodian of such Transfer Restricted Note, shall itself, surrender such Transfer Restricted Note in exchange for such Unrestricted Note without such legend and thereupon cancel such Transfer
        Restricted Note so surrendered, all as directed in such order.

       

      
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      For purposes of this Section 2.3(d)(ii), all provisions relating to the removal of the legend set forth in clause (d)(i) above shall relate, if the Resale Restriction Termination Date has occurred only with respect to a portion of the
        Notes evidenced by a Transfer Restricted Note, to such portion of the Notes so evidenced as to which the Resale Restriction Termination Date has occurred.

       

      Each holder of any Notes evidenced by any Restricted Global Note, by its acceptance thereof, (A) authorizes and consents to, (B) appoints the Company as its agent for the sole purpose of delivering such electronic messages, executing and
        delivering such instruments and taking such other actions, on such holder’s behalf, as the Depositary or the Trustee may require to effect, and (C) upon the request of the Company, agrees to deliver such electronic messages, execute and deliver
        such instruments and take such other actions as the Depositary or the Trustee may require, or as shall otherwise be necessary to effect, the removal of the legend set forth in Section 2.3(d)(i) hereof (including by means of the exchange of
        all or the portion of such Restricted Global Note evidencing such Note for a certificate evidencing such Note that does not bear such legend) at any time after the Resale Restriction Termination Date.

       

      (iii)        Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Note pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the Registrar shall permit the transferee
        thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Note for a Note that does not bear the legend set forth in clause (d)(i) above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Note, if the transferor thereof certifies in writing
        to the Registrar that, and if the Company or the Trustee so request, delivers an opinion of counsel to the effect that, such sale or transfer was made in reliance on Rule 144 (such certification to be in the form set forth on the reverse of the
        Note).

       

      (iv)         After a transfer of any Transfer Restricted Notes pursuant to and during the period of the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement with
        respect to such Notes, all requirements pertaining to transfer restriction legends on such Notes will cease to apply, and an Exchange Note in global form, without restrictive transfer legends, will be available to the transferee of the Holder of
        such Notes upon exchange of such transferring Holder’s Definitive Notes or directions to transfer such Holder’s interest in the Global Note, as applicable.

       

      
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      (v)          Upon the consummation of a Registered Exchange Offer with respect to Transfer Restricted Notes, Exchange Notes in global form will be available
        to Holders that exchange such Transfer Restricted Notes in such Registered Exchange Offer.

       

      (e)          Restrictions on Transfer of Temporary Regulation S Global Notes.  During the Restricted Period, beneficial ownership interests in Temporary Regulation S
        Global Notes may only be sold, pledged or transferred in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary and only (i) to the Company, (ii) in an offshore transaction in accordance with Regulation S (other than a transaction resulting in
        an exchange for an interest in a Permanent Regulation S Global Note) or (iii) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, in each case, in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United
        States.

       

      (f)          Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Note.  At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes,
        redeemed, purchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned to the Company for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee.  At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for
        Definitive Notes, redeemed, purchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the Custodian for such Global
        Note) with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, to reflect such reduction.

       

      (g)          No Obligation of the Trustee.  The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on
        transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to
        require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to
        form with the express requirements hereof.

       

      2.4          Definitive Notes.

       

      (a)          A Global Note deposited with the Depositary or with the Trustee as custodian for the Depositary pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof shall be transferred to the
        beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Note, in exchange for such Global Note, only in the circumstances described in Section 2.08 of this Indenture
        and only if such transfer complies with Section 2.3 hereof.

       

      
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      (b)         Any Global Note that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be surrendered by the Depositary or the Custodian
        located at its Corporate Trust Office to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal
        amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations.  Any portion of a Global Note transferred pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in denominations equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of
        $1,000 in excess thereof, and registered in such names as the Depositary shall direct.  Any Definitive Note delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Note shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.3 hereof, bear the
        Restricted Notes legend and Definitive Notes legend.

       

      (c)          In no event shall beneficial interests in the Temporary Regulation S Global Note be transferred or exchanged for Definitive Notes prior to (x) the expiration of
        the Restricted Period and (y) the receipt by the Registrar of any certificates required pursuant to Rule 903(b)(3)(ii)(B) of Regulation S under the Securities Act.

       

      
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      EXHIBIT A

       

      [Form of Face of Note]

       

      [UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
        EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS
        REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

       

      TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE
        LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.]

       

      [Rule 144A Restricted Note Legend]

       

      THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD
        OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM.  EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE
        SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.  THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT, UNTIL THE EXPIRATION OF THE APPLICABLE HOLDING PERIOD WITH RESPECT TO THIS NOTE SET FORTH IN RULE 144(D)(I) OF THE SECURITIES ACT,
        (A) THIS NOTE MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (I) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE
        REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (II) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (III) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE
        144 THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE) OR (IV) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH OF CASES (I) THROUGH (IV) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND (B) THE
        HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.

       

      
        

      
         

          

        1 Note:  To be included in a Global Note.

      

       

      
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        [Regulation S Restricted Note Legend]

      

       

      THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED IN THE UNITED STATES
        OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, ANY U.S. PERSON EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ALL APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.  TERMS USED ABOVE HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM
        IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.  THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT IT WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE FOREGOING RESALE RESTRICTIONS.

       

      [Temporary Regulation S Restricted Note Legend]

       

      THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED IN THE UNITED STATES
        OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, ANY U.S. PERSON EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ALL APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.  TERMS USED ABOVE HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM
        IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.  THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT IT WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE FOREGOING RESALE RESTRICTIONS.

       

      
        THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE, AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING (I) THE EXCHANGE OF BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE FOR INTERESTS IN THE
          PERMANENT REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE OR RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE AND (II) THE TRANSFER OF INTERESTS IN THIS TEMPORARY REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE, ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.

         

        
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        GLOBAL NOTE

        

        

      

      4.625% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2029

       

      CUSIP ______

       

      ISIN ______

       

      No. _______ $

       

      

       CENTENE CORPORATION

       

      

      promises to pay to CEDE & CO., INC. or registered assigns, the principal sum of ___________Dollars ($________) on December 15, 2029.

       

      Interest Payment Dates: June 15 and December 15, commencing June 15, 2020.

       

      Record Dates: June 1 and December 1

       

      Dated:_________________, 20__

       

      
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      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer.

       

      	 	
              CENTENE CORPORATION

            

      

      

      	 	
              By:

            	 
	 	 	
              Name:

            
	 	 	
              Title:

            

      

      

      	 	
              By:

            	 
	 	 	
              Name:

            
	 	 	
              Title:

            

      

      

      
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      This is one of the

      Notes referred to in the

      within-mentioned Indenture:

       

      THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A. as Trustee

       

      	
              By:

            	 	 
	 	
              Authorized Signatory

            	 
	  	 
	
              Dated _________ __, 20__

            	 

       

      
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      (Back of Note)

       

      4.625% Senior Notes due 2029

       

      Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

       

      1.            Interest.  Centene Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay interest on the
        principal amount of this Note at 4.625% per annum until maturity.  The Company shall pay interest semi-annually on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing June 15, 2020, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding
        Business Day (each an “Interest Payment Date”).  Interest shall accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid on the Notes (or one or more Predecessor Notes) or, if no interest has been
        paid, from December 6, 2019.  The Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time at a rate that is 1.0% per annum in excess of the
        interest rate then in effect under the Indenture and this Note; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace
        periods), from time to time at the same rate to the extent lawful. [The Company shall pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above; provided, however, that if a Registration Default (as defined in the
        Registration Rights Agreement) occurs, additional interest (“Additional Interest”) shall accrue on this Note in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement.]  Interest
        shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

       

      2.            Method of Payment.  The Company shall pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons in whose name this Note (or one or
        more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the June 1 or December 1 next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are cancelled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as
        provided in Section 2.14 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest.  The Notes shall be payable as to principal, premium, if any, and interest at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose, or, at the option of the
        Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the Note Register; provided, however, that payment by wire
        transfer of immediately available funds shall be required with respect to principal of and interest and premium, if any, on, all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which shall have provided wire transfer instructions to the Company or
        the Paying Agent.  Such payment shall be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

      
         

        
          

         

      

      
         

          

        2 Note: All references to “Additional Interest” in the Note shall be deleted in an Exchange Note unless if, at the date of issuance of
          the Exchange Note, any Registration Default (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) has occurred with respect to the related Transfer Restricted Notes during the interest period in which such date of issuance occurs.

         

        

      

      
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      3.            Paying Agent and Registrar.  Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., the Trustee under the Indenture, shall act as Paying
        Agent and Registrar.  The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder.  The Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.

       

      4.            Indenture.  The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as of December 6, 2019 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and the Trustee.  The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code
        §§77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms.  To the extent any provision of this Note conflicts with the express provisions of the Indenture, the
        provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be controlling.

       

      5.           Optional Redemption.

       

      (a)          Except as set forth in clauses (b) and (c) of this paragraph 5 and as provided in Section 3.08(i) of the Indenture, the Notes shall not be redeemable at the option of the Company prior to December 15,
        2024.

       

      (b)          At any time prior to December 15, 2024, the Company may redeem all or a portion of the Notes, at once or over time, upon notice as described in Section 3.03 of the Indenture at a Redemption Price equal to
        100.0% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed, plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the rights of Holders of record on the relevant record date to
        receive interest due on an interest payment date falling prior to the Redemption Date).

       

      (c)          At any prior to December 15, 2024, the Company may redeem the Notes, at once or over time, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed 40.0% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes (which includes
        Additional Notes, if any) issued prior to the Redemption Date upon notice as described in Section 3.03 of the Indenture at a Redemption Price equal to 104.625% of the principal amount of the Notes redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any,
        to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the rights of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date falling prior to the Redemption Date), with an amount equal to or less than the net
        cash proceeds from one or more Equity Offerings to the extent such net cash proceeds are received by or contributed to the Company; provided, however, that:

       

      (i)           at least 50.0% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Initial Notes remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of each such redemption (with any Notes held by the Company or its
        Restricted Subsidiaries being deemed to be not outstanding for the purposes of such calculation); and

       

      (ii)          each such redemption occurs within 180 days after the closing date of the related Equity Offering.

       

      
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      (d) On or after December 15, 2024, the Company may redeem all or any portion of the Notes, at once or over time, upon notice as described in Section 3.03 of the Indenture.  The Notes may be redeemed at the Redemption
        Prices set forth below, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the rights of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date falling prior to
        the Redemption Date).  The following prices are for Notes redeemed during the 12 month period commencing on December 15 of the years set forth below, and are expressed as percentages of principal amount.

       

      	
              
                Year

              

            	 	
              
                Redemption

                Price

              

            	 
	
              2024

            	 	 	
              102.313

            	
              %

            
	
              2025

            	 	 	
              101.542

            	
              %

            
	
              2026

            	 	 	
              100.771

            	
              %

            
	
              2027 and thereafter

            	 	 	
              100.000

            	
              %

            

      

      

      6.            Mandatory Redemption.

       

      Except as set forth in Section 3.09 and 4.10 of the Indenture, the Company shall not be required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes.

       

      7.            Repurchase at Option of Holder Upon a Change of Control.

       

      Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, Article 3 and Section 4.10 of the Indenture shall apply to the extent applicable.

       

      8.            Notice of Redemption.

       

      (a)          Notice of redemption shall be sent at least 15 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address (or electronically for
        Global Notes).  Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of the Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed.  On and after the Redemption Date interest ceases to accrue on
        Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

       

      (b)          Notice of a Special Mandatory Redemption shall be sent in accordance with Section 3.09 of the Indenture.

       

      9.            Denominations, Transfer, Exchange.  The Notes are in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of
        $1,000.  This Note shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed hereon and the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented hereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate,
        to reflect exchanges and redemptions.  The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture.  The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and
        transfer documents and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture.  The Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption,
        except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.  Also, the Company need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a
        record date and the corresponding Interest Payment Date.

       

      
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      10.          Persons Deemed Owners.  The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as its owner for all purposes.

       

      11.          Amendment, Supplement and Waiver.  The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes in accordance with Article 9 of
        the Indenture.

       

      12.          [Reserved].

       

      13.          Trustee Dealings with the Company.  Subject to certain limitations, the Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
        pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or any Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

       

      14.          No Recourse Against Others.  No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder, member, manager or partner of the
        Company or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any Obligations of the Company or of the Guarantors, if any, under this Note, the Indenture, any supplemental indenture, the Subsidiary Guarantees, if any, or for any claim based on,
        in respect of, or by reason of, such Obligations or their creation.  Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.

       

      15.          Authentication.  This Note shall not be valid until authenticated by manual, facsimile or electronic signature of the Trustee or an
        authenticating agent.

       

      16.          Abbreviations.  Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (=
        tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).

       

      17.          CUSIP Numbers.  Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused
        CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and has directed the Trustee to use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders.  No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as
        contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon.

       

      18.         Governing Law.  THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS NOTE WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE
        PRINCIPALS OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

       

      
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      The Company shall furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture.  Requests may be made to:

       

      Centene Corporation

      7700 Forsyth Boulevard

      St. Louis, MO 63105

      Attention: General Counsel

       

      
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      OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

       

      If you want to elect to have all or part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.10 of the Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased: $__________

       

      	
              Date:  

              

            	 	 	
              Your Signature:          

            
	 	 	 	 
	 	
              (Sign exactly as your name appears on the Note)

            
	 	 
	 	
              Tax Identification No.:

            
	 	 
	 	
              SIGNATURE GUARANTEE

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

            

      

      

      
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      ASSIGNMENT FORM

       

      To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

       

      I or we assign and transfer this Note to

       

      	 
	
              (Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

            

      

      

      	 
	
              (Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

            
	 
	
              and irrevocably appoint                                     agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company.  The agent may substitute another to act for him.

            
	 	 	 
	
              Date:

            	 	
              Your signature:

            	 
	 	 	 	
              Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.

            
	 
	
              Signature Guarantee:

            
	 	 
	
              (Signature must be guaranteed)

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

            
	 
	 
	
              [Include the following only if the Restricted Notes legend is included hereon]

            
	 
	
              In connection with any transfer of any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the applicable holding period with respect to the Notes set forth in Rule 144(d)(i) of the Securities Act (or, in the
                case of Regulation S Notes, prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period), the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with their terms:

            
	 

      	
              CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

            
	 
	
              (1)

            	☐	
              to the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company; or

            
	 	 	 
	
              (2)

            	☐	
              pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933; or

            
	 	 	 
	
              (3)

            	☐	
              for so long as the Notes are eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a person who the undersigned reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933) that is
                purchasing for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the
                Securities Act of 1933; or

            

      

      

      
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              (4)

            	☐	
              pursuant to offers and sales to non-U.S. persons that occur outside the United States within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act in compliance with Rule 904 under the Securities Act of 1933; or

            
	 	 	 
	
              (5)

            	☐	
              pursuant to another exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (other than Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933).

            
	 	 	 
	
              Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (4) or (5) is
                checked, the Company and the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as each of the Company and the Trustee has reasonably
                requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933.

            

      	 	 
	
              Signature

            

       

      

      
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      TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

       

      The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified
        institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company and any
        Subsidiary Guarantors as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim
        the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

       

      	
              Dated:

            	 	 	 
	 	 	 	
              Notice:  To be executed by an executive officer

            

       

      

      
        A-14

        
          

      

      SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE

       

      The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for an interest in another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or exchanges of a part of another Global Note or Definitive Note for an interest in this Global Note, have been made:

       

      	
              
                Date of Exchange

              

            	 	
              
                Amount of

                decrease in

                Principal

                Amount of

                this Global Note

              

            	 	
              
                Amount of

                increase in

                Principal

                Amount of

                this Global Note

              

            	 	
              
                Principal

                Amount of

                this Global

                Note

                following

                Such

                decrease

                (or increase)

              

            	 	
              
                Signature of

                authorized

                signatory of

                Trustee or

                Custodian

              

            
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

       

      

      
        A-15

        
          

      

      
      CROSS REFERENCE TABLE

      

      

      	
              
                TIA Section Reference

              

            	
               

              

            	Indenture Section	
              
                

                

              

            

      	310	
              (a) (1)

            	
              7.10

            	 
	 	
              (a) (2)

            	
              7.10

            	 
	 	
              (a) (3)

            	
              N.A.

            	 
	 	
              (a) (4)

            	
              N.A.

            	 
	 	
              (a) (5)

            	
              7.10

            	 
	 	
              (b)

            	
              7.03, 7.08, 7.10

            	 
	311 	
              (a)

            	
              7.11

            	 
	 	
              (b)

            	
              7.11

            	 
	312	
              (a)

            	
              2.07

            	 
	 	
              (b)

            	
              11.03

            	 
	 	
              (c)

            	
              11.03

            	 
	313	
              (a)

            	
              7.06

            	 
	 	
              (b)(1)

            	
              N.A.

            	 
	 	
              (b)(2)

            	
              7.07

            	 
	 	
              (c)

            	
              7.06, 11.02

            	 
	 	
              (d)

            	
              7.06

            	 
	314	
              (a)

            	
              4.03, 4.04, 11.02

            	 
	 	
              (b)

            	
              N.A.

            	 
	 	
              (c) (1)

            	
              11.04

            	 
	 	
              (c) (2)

            	
              11.04

            	 
	 	
              (c) (3)

            	
              N.A.

            	 
	 	
              (d)

            	
              N.A.

            	 
	 	
              (e)

            	
              11.05

            	 
	315	
              (a)

            	
              7.01

            	 
	 	
              (b)

            	
              7.05, 11.02

            	 
	 	
              (c)

            	
              7.01

            	 
	 	
              (d)

            	
              7.01

            	 
	 	
              (e)

            	
              6.11

            	 
	316	
              (a) (last sentence)

            	
              2.11

            	 
	 	
              (a) (1) (A)

            	
              6.05

            	 
	 	
              (a) (1) (B)

            	
              6.04

            	 
	 	
              (a) (2)

            	
              N.A.

            	 
	 	
              (b)

            	
              6.07

            	 
	317	
              (a) (1)

            	
              6.08

            	 
	 	
              (a) (2)

            	
              6.09

            	 
	 	
              (b)

            	
              6.09

            	 
	318	
              (a)

            	
              11.01

            	 

      

      

      N.A. means Not Applicable.

      Note:  This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be part of this Indenture.Exhibit 4.4

      

      

    

    
      EXECUTION VERSION

       

      

    

    
      REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

       

      4.75% Senior Notes due 2025

       

      This REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT dated December 6, 2019 (this “Agreement”), is entered into by and among Centene Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Barclays Capital Inc., J.P.
        Morgan Securities LLC, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, and BofA Securities, Inc., as representatives (the “Representatives”) of the initial purchasers listed in Schedule I to the Purchase Agreement (as defined
        below) (the “Initial Purchasers”).

       

      The Company and the Representatives, for themselves and on behalf of the several Initial Purchasers, are parties to the purchase agreement dated November 21, 2019 (the “Purchase Agreement”), which provides for
        the sale by the Company to the Initial Purchasers of $1,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.75% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Securities”), $2,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.25% Senior Notes due
        2027 (the “2027 Securities”), and $3,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.625% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Securities” and, together with the 2027 Securities, the “Other Securities”).

       

      As an inducement to the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to provide to the Initial Purchasers and their direct and indirect transferees the registration rights set forth
        in this Agreement.  The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the closing under the Purchase Agreement.

       

      In consideration of the foregoing, the parties hereto agree as follows:

       

      1.           Definitions.  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

       

      “2027 Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

       

      “2029 Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

       

      “Acquired Business” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a)(xvii) hereof.

       

      “Acquisition” shall mean the Company’s proposed acquisition of WellCare Health Plans, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

       

      “Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

       

      “Blackout Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(d) hereof.

       

      “Business Day” shall mean any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

       

      
        
          

      

      
      “Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble and shall also include the Company’s successors.

       

      “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.

       

      “Exchange Dates” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(ii) hereof.

       

      “Exchange Offer” shall mean the exchange offer by the Company of Exchange Securities for Registrable Securities pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.

       

      “Exchange Offer Registration” shall mean a registration under the Securities Act effected pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.

       

      “Exchange Offer Registration Statement” shall mean an exchange offer registration statement on Form S-4 (or, if applicable, on another appropriate form) and all amendments and supplements to such registration
        statement, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

       

      “Exchange Securities” shall mean senior notes issued by the Company under the Existing 2025 Notes Indenture and constituting “Additional Notes” (as defined in the Existing 2025 Notes Indenture) under the
        Existing 2025 Notes Indenture and containing terms identical to the Securities (except that the Exchange Securities will be issued under the Existing 2025 Indenture and the Exchange Securities will not be subject to restrictions on transfer or to
        any increase in annual interest rate for failure to comply with this Agreement), to be offered to Holders of Securities in exchange for Securities pursuant to the Exchange Offer.

       

      “Existing 2025 Notes” shall mean the Company’s 4.75% senior notes due 2025 issued pursuant to the Existing 2025 Notes Indenture.

       

      “Existing 2025 Notes Indenture” shall mean the indenture dated November 9, 2016 between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee.

       

      “FINRA” means the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

       

      “Free Writing Prospectus” means each free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) prepared by or on behalf of the Company or used or referred to by the Company in connection with the
        sale of the Securities or the Exchange Securities.

       

      “Holders” shall mean the Initial Purchasers, for so long as they own any Registrable Securities, and each of their successors, assigns and direct and indirect transferees who become owners of Registrable
        Securities under the Indenture; provided that, for purposes of Section 4 and Section 5 hereof, the term “Holders” shall include Participating Broker-Dealers.

       

      
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      “Indemnified Person” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c) hereof.

       

      “Indemnifying Person” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(c) hereof.

       

      “Indenture” shall mean the Indenture relating to the Securities dated as of December 6, 2019, between the Company and the Trustee, and as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time in accordance
        with the terms thereof.

       

      “Initial Purchasers” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

       

      “Inspector” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a)(xiv) hereof.

       

      “Issuer Information” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(a) hereof.

       

      “Majority Holders” shall mean the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities; provided that whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a
        specified percentage of Registrable Securities is required hereunder, any Registrable Securities owned directly or indirectly by the Company or any of its affiliates shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by
        the Holders of such required percentage or amount; and provided, further, that if the Company shall issue any additional Securities under the Indenture prior to consummation of the Exchange Offer or, if applicable, the effectiveness
        of any Shelf Registration Statement, such additional Securities and the Registrable Securities to which this Agreement relates shall be treated together as one class for purposes of determining whether the consent or approval of Holders of a
        specified percentage of Registrable Securities has been obtained.

       

      “Notice and Questionnaire” shall mean a notice of registration statement and selling security holder questionnaire distributed to any Holder by the Company upon receipt of a Shelf Request from such Holder.

       

      “Other Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

       

      “Participating Broker-Dealers” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) hereof.

       

      “Participating Holder” shall mean any Holder of Registrable Securities that has returned a completed and signed Notice and Questionnaire to the Company in accordance with Section 2(b) hereof.

       

      “Person” shall mean an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust or unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or political subdivision thereof.

       

      “Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in, or, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities Act, deemed a part of, a Registration Statement, including any preliminary prospectus, and any such
        prospectus as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, including a prospectus supplement with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement, and by all other
        amendments and supplements to such prospectus, and in each case including any document incorporated by reference therein.

       

      
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      “Purchase Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

       

      “Registrable Securities” shall mean the Securities; provided that the Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities (i) when a Registration Statement with respect to such Securities has become
        effective under the Securities Act and such Securities have been exchanged or disposed of pursuant to such Registration Statement, (ii) when such Securities cease to be outstanding or (iii) except in the case of Securities that otherwise remain
        Registrable Securities and that are held by an Initial Purchaser and that are ineligible to be exchanged in the Exchange Offer, when the Exchange Offer is consummated.

       

      “Registration Default” shall mean the occurrence of any of the following: (i) the Exchange Offer is not completed on or prior to the Target Registration Date, (ii) the Shelf Registration Statement, if required
        pursuant to Section 2(b)(i) or Section 2(b)(ii) hereof, has not become effective on or prior to the Target Registration Date, (iii) if the Company receives a Shelf Request pursuant to Section 2(b)(iii), the Shelf Registration Statement required to
        be filed thereby has not become effective by the later of (a) the Target Registration Date and (b) 90 days after delivery of such Shelf Request, (iv) the Shelf Registration Statement, if required by this Agreement, has become effective and
        thereafter ceases to be effective or the Prospectus contained therein ceases to be usable for resales of Registrable Securities, in each case whether or not permitted by this Agreement, at any time during the Shelf Effectiveness Period, and such
        failure to remain effective or usable for resales of Registrable Securities exists for more than 45 days (whether or not consecutive) in any 12-month period or (v) the Shelf Registration Statement, if required by this Agreement, has become
        effective and thereafter, on more than two occasions in any 12-month period during the Shelf Effectiveness Period, the Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be effective or the Prospectus contained therein ceases to be usable, in each case whether
        or not permitted by this Agreement.

       

      “Registration Expenses” shall mean any and all expenses incident to performance of or compliance by the Company with this Agreement, including without limitation: (i) all SEC, stock exchange or FINRA
        registration and filing fees, (ii) all fees and expenses incurred in connection with compliance with state securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for any Underwriters or Holders in connection with blue
        sky qualification of any Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities), (iii) all expenses of any Persons in preparing or assisting in preparing, word processing, printing and distributing any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free
        Writing Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, any underwriting agreements, securities sales agreements or other similar agreements and any other documents relating to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, (iv) all
        rating agency fees, (v) all fees and disbursements relating to the qualification of the Indenture under applicable securities laws, (vi) the reasonable fees and disbursements of the Trustee and its counsel, (vii) the fees and disbursements of
        counsel for the Company and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the fees and disbursements of one counsel for the Participating Holders (which counsel shall be selected by the Participating Holders holding a majority of the aggregate
        principal amount of Registrable Securities held by such Participating Holders and which counsel may also be counsel for the Initial Purchasers) and (viii) the fees and disbursements of the independent registered public accountants of the Company,
        including the expenses of any special audits or “comfort” letters required by or incident to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, but excluding fees and expenses of counsel to the Underwriters (other than fees and expenses set
        forth in clause (ii) above) or the Holders and underwriting discounts and commissions, brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of Registrable Securities by a Holder.

       

      
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      “Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement of the Company that covers any of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement and all amendments
        and supplements to any such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

       

      “Representatives” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

       

      “SEC” shall mean the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

       

      “Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

       

      “Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

       

      “Shelf Effectiveness Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

       

      “Shelf Registration” shall mean a registration effected pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof.

       

      “Shelf Registration Statement” shall mean a “shelf” registration statement of the Company that covers all or a portion of the Registrable Securities (but no other securities other than the Other Securities
        unless approved by a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities held by the Participating Holders) on an appropriate form under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC, and all
        amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference
        therein.

       

      “Shelf Request” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

       

      “Staff” shall mean the staff of the SEC.

       

      
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      “Target Registration Date” shall mean the date that is the later of (i) the three-month anniversary of the consummation of the Acquisition and (ii) May 15, 2020.

       

      “Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended from time to time.

       

      “Trustee” shall mean with respect to the Indenture, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. until a successor replaces it and, thereafter, means the successor.

       

      “Underwriter” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(e) hereof.

       

      “Underwritten Offering” shall mean an offering in which Registrable Securities are sold to an Underwriter for reoffering to the public.

       

      2.            Registration Under the Securities Act.  (a)  To the extent not prohibited by any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to (x)
        cause to be filed an Exchange Offer Registration Statement covering an offer to the Holders to exchange all the Registrable Securities for Exchange Securities, provided that the Exchange Offer Registration Statement covering the Registrable
        Securities may also cover the Other Securities that are Registrable Securities (as such term is defined in the respective registration rights agreements related to the Other Securities), and (y) have such Registration Statement become and remain
        effective until 180 days after the last Exchange Date for use by one or more Participating Broker-Dealers.  Unless not permitted by applicable law or SEC policy, the Company shall commence the Exchange Offer promptly after the Exchange Offer
        Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC and use its reasonable best efforts to complete the Exchange Offer not later than 60 days after such effective date.

       

      After the Exchange Offer Registration Statement has become effective, the Company shall commence the Exchange Offer by mailing or making available the related Prospectus, appropriate letters of transmittal and other
        accompanying documents to each Holder stating, in addition to such other disclosures as are required by applicable law, substantially the following:

       

      
        
          	(i)	
                  that the Exchange Offer is being made pursuant to this Agreement and that all Registrable Securities validly tendered and not properly withdrawn will be accepted for exchange;

                

        

      

       

      
        
          	(ii)	
                  the dates of acceptance for exchange (which shall be a period of at least 20 Business Days from the date such notice is mailed or made available) (the “Exchange Dates”);

                

        

      

       

      
        
          	(iii)	
                  that any Registrable Security not tendered will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest but will not retain any rights under this Agreement, except as otherwise specified herein;

                

        

      

       

      
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          	(iv)	
                  that any Holder electing to have a Registrable Security exchanged pursuant to the Exchange Offer will be required to (A) surrender such Registrable Security, together with the appropriate letters of transmittal, to the institution
                    and at the address and in the manner specified in the notice, or (B) effect such exchange otherwise in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for such Registrable Security, in each case prior to the close of
                    business on the last Exchange Date; and

                

        

      

       

      
        
          	(v)	
                  that any Holder will be entitled to withdraw its election, not later than the close of business on the last Exchange Date, by (A) sending to the institution and at the address specified in the notice, a telegram, facsimile
                    transmission or letter setting forth the name of such Holder, the principal amount of Registrable Securities delivered for exchange and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Securities exchanged or (B)
                    effecting such withdrawal in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for the Registrable Securities.

                

        

      

       

      As a condition to participating in the Exchange Offer, a Holder will be required to represent to the Company that (1) any Exchange Securities to be received by it will be acquired in the ordinary course of its
        business, (2) at the time of the commencement of the Exchange Offer it has no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in the distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the Exchange Securities in violation of the
        provisions of the Securities Act, (3) it is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company and (4) if such Holder is a broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange
        for Registrable Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities, then such Holder will deliver a Prospectus (or, to the extent permitted by law, make available a Prospectus to purchasers) in connection with
        any resale of such Exchange Securities.

       

      As soon as practicable after the last Exchange Date, the Company shall:

       

      
        
          	(I)	
                  accept for exchange Registrable Securities or portions thereof validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to the Exchange Offer; and

                

        

      

       

      
        
          	(II)	
                  deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee for cancellation all Registrable Securities or portions thereof so accepted for exchange by the Company and issue, and cause the Trustee to promptly authenticate and deliver to each
                    Holder, Exchange Securities equal in principal amount to the principal amount of the Registrable Securities tendered by such Holder.

                

        

      

       

      The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to complete the Exchange Offer as provided above and shall comply with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and other applicable laws and
        regulations in connection with the Exchange Offer.  The Exchange Offer shall not be subject to any conditions, other than that the Exchange Offer does not violate any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff.

       

      
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      (b)          In the event that (i) the Company determines that the Exchange Offer Registration provided for in Section 2(a) hereof is not available or the Exchange Offer may not be completed as soon as practicable
        after the last Exchange Date because it would violate any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff, (ii) the Exchange Offer is not for any other reason completed by the Target Registration Date or (iii) upon receipt of a written
        request (a “Shelf Request”) from any Initial Purchaser representing that it holds Registrable Securities that are or were ineligible to be exchanged in the Exchange Offer, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be
        filed as soon as practicable after such determination date or Shelf Request, as the case may be, a Shelf Registration Statement providing for the sale of all the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof and to have such Shelf Registration
        Statement become effective; provided that no Holder will be entitled to have any Registrable Securities included in any Shelf Registration Statement, or be entitled to use the prospectus forming a part of such Shelf Registration Statement,
        until such Holder shall have delivered a completed and signed Notice and Questionnaire and provided such other information regarding such Holder to the Company as is contemplated by Section 3(b) hereof, and provided further that the
        Shelf Registration Statement covering the Registrable Securities may also cover the Other Securities that are Registrable Securities (as such term is defined in the respective registration rights agreements related to the Other Securities).

       

      In the event that the Company is required to file a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to clause (iii) of the preceding paragraph, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file and have become effective
        both an Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof with respect to all Registrable Securities and a Shelf Registration Statement (which may be a combined Registration Statement with the Exchange Offer Registration
        Statement) with respect to offers and sales of Registrable Securities held by the Initial Purchasers after completion of the Exchange Offer.

       

      The Company agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective, except during any Blackout Period permitted by Section 3(d) hereof, until the earlier to occur of
        (i) the date when the Securities cease to be Registrable Securities and (ii) one year following the date when such Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective (the “Shelf Effectiveness Period”).  The Company further agrees to supplement
        or amend the Shelf Registration Statement, the related Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Shelf Registration Statement or
        by the Securities Act or by any other rules and regulations thereunder or if reasonably requested in writing by a Participating Holder of Registrable Securities with respect to information relating to such Holder, and to use its reasonable best
        efforts to cause any such amendment to become effective, if required, and such Shelf Registration Statement, Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, to become usable as soon as thereafter practicable.  The Company agrees to
        furnish to the Participating Holders copies of any such supplement or amendment promptly after its being used or filed with the SEC.

       

      
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      (c)          The Company shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any registration pursuant to Section 2(a) or Section 2(b) hereof.  Each Holder shall pay all underwriting discounts and commissions,
        brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of such Holder’s Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement.

       

      (d)          An Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC.  A Shelf Registration Statement
        pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC or is automatically effective upon filing with the SEC as provided by Rule 462 under the Securities Act.

       

      If a Registration Default occurs, the interest rate on the Registrable Securities will be increased by (i) 0.25% per annum for the first 90-day period beginning on the day immediately following such Registration
        Default and (ii) an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until and including the date such Registration Default ends, up to a maximum increase of 0.50% per annum.  A Registration Default ends when
        the Securities cease to be Registrable Securities or, if earlier, (1) in the case of a Registration Default under clause (i) of the definition thereof, when the Exchange Offer is completed, (2) in the case of a Registration Default under clause
        (ii) or clause (iii) of the definition thereof, when the Shelf Registration Statement becomes effective or (3) in the case of a Registration Default under clause (iv) or clause (v) of the definition thereof, when the Shelf Registration Statement
        again becomes effective or the Prospectus again becomes usable.  If at any time more than one Registration Default has occurred and is continuing, then, until the next date that there is no Registration Default, the increase in interest rate
        provided for by this paragraph shall apply as if there occurred a single Registration Default that begins on the date that the earliest such Registration Default occurred and ends on such next date that there is no Registration Default.  The
        parties hereto agree that the additional interest provided for in this Section 2(d) is intended to constitute the sole remedy for monetary damages in connection with any Registration Default.

       

      3.           Registration Procedures.  (a) In connection with its obligations pursuant to Section 2(a) and Section 2(b) hereof, the Company shall as expeditiously as possible:

       

      (i)          prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement on the appropriate form under the Securities Act, which form (A) shall be selected by the Company, (B) shall, in the case of a Shelf Registration, be
        available for the sale of the Registrable Securities by the Holders thereof and (C) shall comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the applicable form and include or incorporate by reference all financial statements
        required by the SEC to be filed therewith; and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective for the applicable period in accordance with Section 2 hereof, except during any Blackout
        Period permitted by Section 3(d) hereof;

       

      
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      (ii)          prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective amendments to each Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement effective for the applicable period in
        accordance with Section 2 hereof, except during any Blackout Period permitted by Section 3(d) hereof, and cause each Prospectus to be supplemented by any required prospectus supplement and, as so supplemented, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under
        the Securities Act; and keep each Prospectus current during the period described in Section 4(3) of and Rule 174 under the Securities Act that is applicable to transactions by brokers or dealers with respect to the Registrable Securities or
        Exchange Securities;

       

      (iii)         to the extent any Free Writing Prospectus is used, file with the SEC any Free Writing Prospectus that is required to be filed by the Company with the SEC in accordance with the Securities Act and to
        retain any Free Writing Prospectus not required to be filed;

       

      (iv)         in the case of a Shelf Registration, furnish to each Participating Holder, to counsel for the Initial Purchasers, to counsel for such Participating Holders and to each Underwriter of an Underwritten
        Offering of Registrable Securities, if any, without charge, as many copies of each Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto, as such Participating Holder, counsel or Underwriter may
        reasonably request in order to facilitate the sale or other disposition of the Registrable Securities thereunder; and, subject to Section 3(c) hereof, the Company consents to the use of such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or such Free Writing
        Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law by each of the Participating Holders and any such Underwriters in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by and in the manner
        described in such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or such Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law;

       

      (v)          use its reasonable best efforts to register or qualify the Registrable Securities under all applicable state securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as any Participating Holder shall reasonably
        request in writing by the time the applicable Registration Statement becomes effective; cooperate with such Participating Holders in connection with any filings required to be made with FINRA; and do any and all other acts and things that may be
        reasonably necessary or advisable to enable each Participating Holder to complete the disposition in each such jurisdiction of the Registrable Securities owned by such Participating Holder; provided that neither the Company nor any of its
        subsidiaries shall be required to (1) qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to so qualify, (2) file any general consent to service of process
        in any such jurisdiction or (3) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not so subject;

       

      
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      (vi)         notify counsel for the Initial Purchasers and, in the case of a Shelf Registration, notify each Participating Holder and counsel for such Participating Holders promptly and, if requested in writing by any
        such Participating Holder or counsel, confirm such advice in writing (1) when a Registration Statement has become effective (other than as a result of an amendment that is comprised solely of an annual report on Form 10-K that is filed by the
        Company), when any post-effective amendment thereto has been filed and becomes effective, when any Free Writing Prospectus has been filed or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus has been filed, (2) of any
        request by the SEC or any state securities authority for amendments and supplements to a Registration Statement, Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus or for additional information after the Registration Statement has become effective, (3) of
        the issuance by the SEC or any state securities authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, including the receipt by the Company of any notice of
        objection of the SEC to the use of a Shelf Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act, (4) if, between the applicable effective date of a Shelf Registration Statement and the
        closing of any sale of Registrable Securities covered thereby, the representations and warranties of the Company contained in any underwriting agreement, securities sales agreement or other similar agreement, if any, relating to an offering of such
        Registrable Securities cease to be true and correct in all material respects or if the Company receives any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the
        initiation of any proceeding for such purpose, (5) of the happening of any event during the period a Registration Statement is effective that makes any statement made in such Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any Free Writing
        Prospectus untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus in order to make the statements therein not misleading and (6) of any determination by
        the Company that a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus would be appropriate;

       

      (vii)        use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or, in the case of a Shelf Registration, the resolution of any objection of
        the SEC pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act, including by filing an amendment to such Registration Statement on the proper form, at the earliest possible moment and provide immediate notice to each Holder or Participating Holder of
        the withdrawal of any such order or such resolution;

       

      (viii)       in the case of a Shelf Registration, furnish to each Participating Holder, without charge, upon request in writing, at least one conformed copy of each Registration Statement and any post-effective
        amendment thereto (without any documents incorporated therein by reference or exhibits thereto, unless requested);

       

      (ix)         in the case of a Shelf Registration, cooperate with the Participating Holders to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities to be sold and not
        bearing any restrictive legends and enable such Registrable Securities to be issued in such denominations and registered in such names (consistent with the provisions of the Indenture) as such Participating Holders may reasonably request in writing
        at least one Business Day prior to the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities;

       

      
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      (x)          subject to the Company’s right to, pursuant to Section 3(d), suspend the disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement, upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section
        3(a)(vi)(5) hereof, use its reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the SEC a supplement or post-effective amendment to the applicable Exchange Offer Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any
        Free Writing Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered (or, to the extent permitted by law, made available) to purchasers of the Registrable Securities, such
        Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
        made, not misleading; and the Company shall notify the Participating Holders (in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement) and the Initial Purchasers and any Participating Broker-Dealers known to the Company (in the case of an Exchange Offer
        Registration Statement) to suspend use of the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus as promptly as practicable after the occurrence of such an event, and such Participating Holders, such Participating Broker-Dealers and the Initial Purchasers,
        as applicable, hereby agree to suspend use of the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, until the Company has amended or supplemented the Prospectus or the Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, to correct such
        misstatement or omission;

       

      (xi)         a reasonable time prior to the filing of any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus, any amendment to a Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to a Prospectus or a
        Free Writing Prospectus or of any document that is to be incorporated by reference into a Registration Statement, a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus after initial filing of a Registration Statement, provide copies of such document to the
        Initial Purchasers and their counsel (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, to the Participating Holders and their counsel) and make such of the representatives of the Company as shall be reasonably requested in writing by the Initial
        Purchasers or their counsel (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Participating Holders or their counsel) available for discussion of such document; and the Company shall not, at any time after initial filing of a Registration
        Statement, use or file any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus, any amendment of or supplement to a Registration Statement or a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus, or any document that is to be incorporated by reference into a Registration
        Statement, a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus, of which the Initial Purchasers and their counsel (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Participating Holders and their counsel) shall not have previously been advised and
        furnished a copy or to which the Initial Purchasers or their counsel (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Participating Holders or their counsel) shall reasonably object; provided that this paragraph (xi) shall not apply
        to the filing of any periodic report or current report with the SEC (a copy of which has been previously furnished as provided in this sentence) not relating to any offer covered by a Registration Statement and that the Company in good faith
        reasonably believes to be required by applicable law;

       

      
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      (xii)        obtain a CUSIP number for all Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be, not later than the initial effective date of a Registration Statement (which CUSIP number shall, in the case
        of the Exchange Securities, be the same CUSIP number applicable to the Existing 2025 Notes);

       

      (xiii)       cause the Indenture to be, and the Existing 2025 Notes Indenture to continue to be, qualified under the Trust Indenture Act in connection with the registration of the Exchange Securities or Registrable
        Securities, as the case may be; cooperate with the Trustee and the Holders to effect such changes to the Indenture or the Existing 2025 Notes Indenture, as applicable, as may be required for the Indenture or the Existing 2025 Notes Indenture, as
        applicable, to be or continue to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the Trust Indenture Act; and execute, and use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Trustee to execute, all documents as may be required to effect such changes
        and all other forms and documents required to be filed with the SEC to enable the Indenture or the Existing 2025 Notes Indenture, as applicable, to be or continue to be so qualified in a timely manner;

       

      (xiv)       in the case of a Shelf Registration, make available for inspection by a representative of the Participating Holders (an “Inspector”), any Underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to such
        Shelf Registration Statement, any attorneys and accountants designated by a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities held by the Participating Holders to be covered by such Shelf Registration and any attorneys and
        accountants designated by such Underwriter, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, all pertinent financial and other records, documents and properties of the Company and its subsidiaries, and cause the respective officers, directors and
        employees of the Company to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector, Underwriter, attorney or accountant in connection with a Shelf Registration Statement; provided that if any such information is identified by the
        Company as being confidential or proprietary, each Person receiving such information shall take such actions as are reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality of such information to the extent such action is otherwise not inconsistent
        with, an impairment of or in derogation of the rights and interests of any Inspector, Holder or Underwriter;

       

      (xv)        [Reserved]

       

      (xvi)       if reasonably requested in writing by any Participating Holder, promptly include or incorporate by reference in a Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such information with respect to such
        Participating Holder as such Participating Holder reasonably requests in writing to be included therein and make all required filings of such Prospectus supplement or such post-effective amendment as soon as the Company has received notification of
        the matters to be so included in such filing;

       

      
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      (xvii)      in the case of a Shelf Registration, enter into such customary agreements and take all such other actions in connection therewith (including those requested in writing by the Participating Holders of a
        majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement) in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities including, but not limited to, an Underwritten Offering and in
        such connection, (1) to the extent possible, make such representations and warranties to the Participating Holders and any Underwriters of such Registrable Securities with respect to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries and the
        Registration Statement, Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus and documents incorporated by reference or deemed incorporated by reference, if any, in each case, in form, substance and scope as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in
        underwritten offerings and confirm the same if and when requested, (2) obtain opinions of counsel to the Company (which counsel and opinions, in form, scope and substance, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Participating Holders and such
        Underwriters and their respective counsel) addressed to each Participating Holder and Underwriter of Registrable Securities, covering the matters customarily covered in opinions requested in underwritten offerings, (3) obtain “comfort” letters from
        the independent registered public accountants of the Company (and, if necessary, any other registered public accountant of any subsidiary of the Company or of any business acquired or to be acquired by the Company (an “Acquired Business”) or
        any of its subsidiaries, including any business acquired or to be acquired by an Acquired Business, for which financial statements and financial data are or are required to be included in the Registration Statement) addressed to each Participating
        Holder (to the extent permitted by applicable professional standards) and Underwriter of Registrable Securities, such letters to be in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in “comfort” letters in connection with
        underwritten offerings, including but not limited to financial information contained in any preliminary prospectus, Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus and (4) deliver such documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested in writing by
        the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities being sold or the Underwriters, and which are customarily delivered in underwritten offerings, to evidence the continued validity of the representations and warranties of
        the Company made pursuant to clause (1) above and to evidence compliance with any customary conditions contained in an underwriting agreement; and

       

      (xviii)     [Reserved]

       

      (b)          In the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Company may require each Participating Holder to furnish to the Company a Notice and Questionnaire, and any amendments or supplements thereto, and such
        other information regarding such Holder and the proposed disposition by such Holder of such Registrable Securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably request in writing.

       

      (c)          Each Participating Holder agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(a)(vi)(3) or Section 3(a)(vi)(5) hereof, such
        Participating Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement until such Participating Holder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus and any Free
        Writing Prospectus contemplated by Section 3(a)(x) hereof and, if so directed by the Company, such Participating Holder will deliver to the Company all copies in its possession, other than permanent file copies then in such Participating Holder’s
        possession, of the Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that is current at the time of receipt of such notice.

       

      
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      (d)          If the Company shall give any notice to suspend the disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement (a “Blackout Period”), the Company shall extend the period during which
        such Registration Statement shall be maintained effective pursuant to this Agreement by the number of days during the Blackout Period from and including the date of the giving of such notice to and including the date when the Holders of such
        Registrable Securities shall have received copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus necessary to resume such dispositions. The Company may give any such notice only twice during any 365-day period and any such
        Blackout Periods shall not exceed an aggregate of 90 days during any 365-day period.

       

      (e)          The Participating Holders who desire to do so may sell such Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering.  In any such Underwritten Offering, the investment bank or investment banks and manager or
        managers (each an “Underwriter”) that will administer the offering will be selected by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities included in such offering; provided that such Underwriters shall be
        reasonably acceptable to the Company.

       

      4.            Participation of Broker-Dealers in Exchange Offer.  (a)  The Staff has taken the position that any broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account in the Exchange Offer in
        exchange for Securities that were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making or other trading activities (a “Participating Broker-Dealer”) may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and
        must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.

       

      The Company understands that it is the Staff’s position that if the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement includes a plan of distribution containing a statement to the above effect and the
        means by which Participating Broker-Dealers may resell the Exchange Securities, without naming the Participating Broker-Dealers or specifying the amount of Exchange Securities owned by them, such Prospectus may be delivered by Participating
        Broker-Dealers (or, to the extent permitted by law, made available to purchasers) to satisfy their prospectus delivery obligation under the Securities Act in connection with resales of Exchange Securities for their own accounts, so long as the
        Prospectus otherwise meets the requirements of the Securities Act.

       

      (b)          In light of the above, and notwithstanding the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company agrees to amend or supplement the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement for a
        period of up to 180 days after the last Exchange Date (as such period may be extended pursuant to Section 3(d) hereof), in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of any Exchange Securities by Participating Broker-Dealers consistent with
        the positions of the Staff recited in Section 4(a) above.  The Company further agrees that Participating Broker-Dealers shall be authorized to deliver such Prospectus (or, to the extent permitted by law, make available) during such period in
        connection with the resales contemplated by this Section 4.

       

      
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      (c)          The Initial Purchasers shall have no liability to the Company or any Holder with respect to any request that they may make pursuant to Section 4(b) hereof.

       

      5.            Indemnification and Contribution.  (a)  The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Initial Purchaser and each Holder, their respective affiliates, directors and officers and each
        Person, if any, who controls any Initial Purchaser or any Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without
        limitation, legal fees and other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred), joint or several, that arise out of, or are based upon, (1) any untrue statement or
        alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not
        misleading, or (2) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus or any “issuer information” (“Issuer Information”) filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule
        433(d) under the Securities Act, or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case
        except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any
        Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing through the Representatives or information relating to any Holder furnished to the Company in writing (including, without limitation, a Notice and Questionnaire of such Holder) through any
        selling Holder, respectively, expressly for use therein.  In connection with any Underwritten Offering permitted by Section 3, the Company will also indemnify the Underwriters, if any, selling brokers, dealers and similar securities industry
        professionals participating in the distribution, their respective affiliates and each Person who controls such Persons (within the meaning of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act) to the same extent as provided above with respect to the
        indemnification of the Holders, if requested in connection with any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus or any Issuer Information.

       

      (b)          Each Holder agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Initial Purchasers and the other selling Holders, the directors of the Company and, if applicable, each
        officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement and each Person, if any, who controls the Company, any Initial Purchaser and any other selling Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange
        Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or
        omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to such Holder furnished to the Company in writing by such Holder expressly for use in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus.

       

      
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      (c)          If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any Person in respect of which indemnification may be sought
        pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such Person (the “Indemnified Person”) shall promptly notify the Person against whom such indemnification may be sought (the “Indemnifying Person”) in writing; provided that the
        failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under paragraph (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (including through the forfeiture of substantive rights
        or defenses) by such failure; and provided, further, that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under paragraph (a) or (b)
        above.  If any such proceeding shall be brought or asserted against an Indemnified Person and it shall have notified the Indemnifying Person thereof, the Indemnifying Person shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person to
        represent the Indemnified Person and any others entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Section 5 that the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such proceeding and shall pay the
        fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding, as incurred.  In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such
        Indemnified Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the
        Indemnified Person; (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any
        such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between
        them.  It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying Person shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceeding in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any
        local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred.  Any such separate firm (x) for any Initial Purchaser, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control Persons of such
        Initial Purchaser shall be designated in writing by the Representatives, (y) for any Holder, its directors and officers and any control Persons of such Holder shall be designated in writing by the Majority Holders and (z) in all other cases shall
        be designated in writing by the Company.  The Indemnifying Person shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its prior written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the
        plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment.  Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have
        requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this paragraph, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written
        consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request and (ii) the Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemni-fied Person in accordance with such request prior to
        the date of such settlement.  No Indemnifying Person shall, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been
        a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (A) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified
        Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (B) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.

       

      
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      (d)          If the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) above is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein,
        then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i)
        in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company from the offering of the Securities and the Exchange Securities, on the one hand, and by the Holders from receiving Securities or Exchange Securities
        registered under the Securities Act, on the other hand, or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i)
        but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Holders on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable
        considerations.  The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Holders on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged
        omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Holders and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

       

      (e)          The Company and the Holders agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 5 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders were treated
        as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above.  The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses,
        claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with any such action
        or claim for which such Indemnified Person would be entitled to Indemnification hereunder.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5, in no event shall a Holder be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total
        price at which the Securities or Exchange Securities sold by such Holder exceeds the amount of any damages that such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.  No
        Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.  The Holders’ obligations to
        contribute pursuant to this Section 5 are several and not joint.

       

      
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      (f)          The remedies provided for in this Section 5 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies that may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.

       

      (g)          The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 5 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by
        or on behalf of the Initial Purchasers or any Holder or any Person controlling any Initial Purchaser or any Holder, or by or on behalf of the Company or the officers or directors of or any Person controlling the Company, (iii) acceptance of any of
        the Exchange Securities and (iv) any sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement

       

      6.            General.

       

      (a)          No Inconsistent Agreements.   The Company represents, warrants and agrees that (i) the rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict with and
        are not inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of any other outstanding securities issued or guaranteed by the Company under any other agreement and (ii) except for the registration rights agreements related to the Other Securities,
        the Company has not entered into, or on or after the date of this Agreement will not enter into, any agreement that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders of Registrable Securities in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the
        provisions hereof.

       

      (b)          Amendments and Waivers.   The provisions of this Agreement, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or
        consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given unless the Company has obtained the written consent of Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities affected by such
        amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent; provided that no amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent to any departure from the provisions of Section 5 hereof shall be effective as against any Holder of Registrable
        Securities unless consented to in writing by such Holder.  Any amendments, modifications, supplements, waivers or consents pursuant to this Section 6(b) shall be by a writing executed by each of the parties hereto.

       

      (c)          Notices.  All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, registered first-class mail,
        telecopier, or any courier guaranteeing overnight delivery (i) if to a Holder, at the most current address given by such Holder to the Company by means of a notice given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c), which address
        initially is, with respect to the Initial Purchasers, the address set forth in the Purchase Agreement; (ii) if to the Company, at the Company’s address set forth in the Purchase Agreement, notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions
        of this Section 6(c); and (iii) to such other persons at their respective addresses as provided in the Purchase Agreement and thereafter at such other address, notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c).  All
        such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; three Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is acknowledged, if
        telecopied or emailed; and on the next Business Day if timely delivered to an air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery.  Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be concurrently delivered by the Person giving the same to
        the Trustee, at the address specified in the Indenture.

       

      
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      (d)          Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors, assigns and transferees of each of the parties, including,
        without limitation and without the need for an express assignment, subsequent Holders; provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to permit any assignment, transfer or other disposition of Registrable Securities in violation of the terms
        of the Purchase Agreement or the Indenture.  If any transferee of any Holder shall acquire Registrable Securities in any manner, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Registrable Securities shall be held subject to all the terms of this
        Agreement, and by taking and holding such Registrable Securities such Person shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to perform all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement and such Person shall be entitled to receive
        the benefits hereof.  The Initial Purchasers (in their capacity as Initial Purchasers) shall have no liability or obligation to the Company with respect to any failure by a Holder to comply with, or any breach by any Holder of, any of the
        obligations of such Holder under this Agreement.

       

      (e)          Third Party Beneficiaries.  Each Holder shall be a third party beneficiary to the agreements made hereunder between the Company, on the one hand, and the Initial
        Purchasers, on the other hand, and shall have the right to enforce such agreements directly to the extent it deems such enforcement necessary or advisable to protect its rights or the rights of other Holders hereunder.  In addition, the
        representations, warranties, indemnities and agreements of the Company contained in this Agreement shall also be deemed to be for the benefit of each Holder’s and each Initial Purchaser’s respective affiliates, directors and officers and each
        Person, if any, who controls any Initial Purchaser or any Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act.

       

      (f)          Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall
        be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement by facsimile, email or other electronic transmission (i.e., “pdf”)
        shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

       

      (g)          Headings.  The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, are not a part of this Agreement and shall not limit or otherwise affect the
        meaning hereof.

       

      
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      (h)          Governing Law.  This Agreement, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement, shall be governed by and construed in accordance
        with the laws of the State of New York.

       

      (i)          Waiver of Jury Trial.  THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
        PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

       

      (j)           Entire Agreement; Severability.  This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all oral
        statements and prior writings with respect thereto.  If any term, provision, covenant or restriction contained in this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable or against public policy, the
        remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions contained herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated.  The Company and the Initial Purchasers shall endeavor in good faith
        negotiations to replace the invalid, void or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which  comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, void or unenforceable provisions.

       
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      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

       

      	 	
              CENTENE CORPORATION

            
	 	 	 
	 	
              By:

            	
              /s/ Jeffrey A. Schwaneke

            

      	 	
              Name: Jeffrey A. Schwaneke

            
	 	
              Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

            

      
         

        

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        Confirmed and accepted as of the date first above written:

         

        

      

      	
              Barclays Capital Inc.

            	 
	 	 	 
	
              By

            	
              /s/ Benjamin Burton

            	 

      	 	
              Authorized Signatory

            	 

      	 
	
              For itself and on behalf of the Initial Purchasers

            

      
         

        

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              J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

            	 
	 	 
	
              By

            	
              /s/ Andreas Pierroutsakos

            	

            

      	 	
              Authorized Signatory

            	 

      

      

      	

            
	
              For itself and on behalf of the Initial Purchasers

            

      
         

        

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              SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

            
	 	 	 
	
              By

            	/s/ William G. Monroe	 

      	 	
              Authorized Signatory

            	 

      	 
	
              For itself and on behalf of the Initial Purchasers

            

      
         

        

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              Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

            
	 	 	 
	
              By 

            	/s/ Mitchell Williams	 

      	 	
              Authorized Signatory

            	 

      	 
	
              For itself and on behalf of the Initial Purchasers

            

      
         

        

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              BofA Securities, Inc.

            
	 

      	
              By

            	/s/ James C. Brett	 

      	 	
              Authorized Signatory

            	 
	 	 	 

      	
              For itself and on behalf of the Initial Purchasers

            

      

      

      
        

        

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