Document:

Exhibit 10.4

 

GrowGeneration,
corp.

 

2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

STOCK OPTION AWARD AGREEMENT

 

Unless otherwise defined
herein, the terms defined in the GrowGeneration, Corp. 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) will have the
same defined meanings in this Stock Option Award Agreement (the “Award Agreement”).

 

I. NOTICE OF STOCK OPTION GRANT

 

Participant Name: __________________________________

 

Address: __________________________________________

 

You have been granted
an Option to purchase Common Stock of GrowGeneration, Corp. (the “Company”), subject to the terms and conditions
of the Plan and this Award Agreement, as follows:

 

	Grant Number	____________________________________________
	 	 
	Date of Grant	____________________________________________
	 	 
	Vesting Commencement Date	____________________________________________
	 	 
	Exercise Price per Share	____________________________________________
	 	 
	Total Number of Shares Granted	____________________________________________
	 	 
	Total Exercise Price	____________________________________________
	 	 
	Type of Option:	[  ] _____________ Incentive Stock Option
	 	 
	 	[  ] _____________ Nonstatutory Stock Option
	 	 
	Term/Expiration Date:	____________________________________________

 

Vesting Schedule:

 

Subject to any acceleration
provisions contained in the Plan or set forth herein, this Option shall vest and may be exercised, as follows:

 

		a.	_____________ options shall be immediately exerciseable

 

		b.	_____________ options shall become exerciseable commencing
_____________

 

		c.	_____________ options shall become exerciseable commencing
_____________

 

Termination Period:

 

This Option will be
exercisable for three months after Participant ceases to be a Service Provider, unless such termination is due to Participant’s
death or Disability, in which case this Option will be exercisable for six months after Participant ceases to be Service Provider.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event may this Option be exercised after the Term/Expiration Date as provided above and may
be subject to earlier termination as provided in Section 15 of the Plan.

 

     

    

    

 

By Participant’s
signature and the signature of the Company’s representative below, Participant and the Company agree that this Option is
granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Award Agreement, including the Terms and Conditions
of Stock Option Grant, attached hereto as Exhibit A, all of which are made a part of this document. Participant has reviewed
the Plan and this Award Agreement in their entirety, has had an opportunity to obtain the advice of counsel prior to executing
this Award Agreement and fully understands all provisions of the Plan and Award Agreement. Participant hereby agrees to accept
as binding, conclusive and final all decisions or interpretations of the Administrator upon any questions relating to the Plan
and Award Agreement. Participant further agrees to notify the Company upon any change in the residence address indicated below.

 

	PARTICIPANT:	 	GrowGeneration, corp.
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	Signature	 	By
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	Print Name	 	Title

 

	Residence Address:	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 
	 	 	 

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF STOCK OPTION
GRANT

 

1. Grant of Option.
The Company hereby grants to the Participant named in the Notice of Stock Option Grant (“Notice of Grant”) attached
as Part I of this Award Agreement (the “Participant”) an option (the “Option”) to purchase
the number of Shares, as set forth in the Notice of Grant, at the exercise price per Share set forth in the Notice of Grant (the
“Exercise Price”), subject to all of the terms and conditions in this Award Agreement and the Plan, which is
incorporated herein by reference. Subject to Section 20 of the Plan, in the event of a conflict between the terms and conditions
of the Plan and the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement, the terms and conditions of the Plan will prevail.

 

If designated in the
Notice of Grant as an Incentive Stock Option (“ISO”), this Option is intended to qualify as an ISO under Section
422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). However, if this Option is intended to be
an ISO, to the extent that it exceeds the $100,000 rule of Code Section 422(d) it will be treated as a Nonstatutory Stock Option
(“NSO”). Further, if for any reason this Option (or portion thereof) will not qualify as an ISO, then, to the
extent of such nonqualification, such Option (or portion thereof) shall be regarded as a NSO granted under the Plan. In no event
will the Administrator, the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary or any of their respective employees or directors have any liability
to Participant (or any other person) due to the failure of the Option to qualify for any reason as an ISO.

 

2. Vesting Schedule.
Except as provided in Section 3, the Option awarded by this Award Agreement will vest in accordance with the vesting provisions
set forth in the Notice of Grant. Shares scheduled to vest on a certain date or upon the occurrence of a certain condition will
not vest in Participant in accordance with any of the provisions of this Award Agreement, unless Participant will have been continuously
a Service Provider from the Date of Grant until the date such vesting occurs.

 

3. Administrator
Discretion. The Administrator, in its discretion, may accelerate the vesting of the balance, or some lesser portion of the
balance, of the unvested Option at any time, subject to the terms of the Plan. If so accelerated, such Option will be considered
as having vested as of the date specified by the Administrator.

 

4. Exercise of Option.

 

(a) Right to Exercise.
This Option may be exercised only within the term set out in the Notice of Grant, and may be exercised during such term only in
accordance with the Plan and the terms of this Award Agreement.

 

(b) Method of Exercise.
This Option is exercisable by delivery of an exercise notice, in the form attached as Exhibit B (the “Exercise
Notice”) or in a manner and pursuant to such procedures as the Administrator may determine, which will state the election
to exercise the Option, the number of Shares in respect of which the Option is being exercised (the “Exercised Shares”),
and such other representations and agreements as may be required by the Company pursuant to the provisions of the Plan. The Exercise
Notice will be completed by Participant and delivered to the Company. The Exercise Notice will be accompanied by payment of the
aggregate Exercise Price as to all Exercised Shares together with any applicable tax withholding. This Option will be deemed to
be exercised upon receipt by the Company of such fully executed Exercise Notice accompanied by such aggregate Exercise Price.

 

5. Method of Payment.
Payment of the aggregate Exercise Price will be by any of the following, or a combination thereof, at the election of Participant.

 

(a) cash;

 

(b) check;

 

(c) consideration received
by the Company under a formal cashless exercise program adopted by the Company in connection with the Plan; or

 

(d) surrender of other
Shares which have a Fair Market Value on the date of surrender equal to the aggregate Exercise Price of the Exercised Shares, provided
that accepting such Shares, in the sole discretion of the Administrator, will not result in any adverse accounting consequences
to the Company.

 

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6. Tax Obligations.

 

(a) Withholding Taxes.
Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Award Agreement, no certificate representing the Shares will be issued to Participant,
unless and until satisfactory arrangements (as determined by the Administrator) will have been made by Participant with respect
to the payment of income, employment and other taxes which the Company determines must be withheld with respect to such Shares.
To the extent determined appropriate by the Company in its discretion, it will have the right (but not the obligation) to satisfy
any tax withholding obligations by reducing the number of Shares otherwise deliverable to Participant. If Participant fails to
make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of any required tax withholding obligations hereunder at the time of the Option
exercise, Participant acknowledges and agrees that the Company may refuse to honor the exercise and refuse to deliver Shares if
such withholding amounts are not delivered at the time of exercise.

 

(b) Notice of Disqualifying
Disposition of ISO Shares. If the Option granted to Participant herein is an ISO, and if Participant sells or otherwise disposes
of any of the Shares acquired pursuant to the ISO on or before the later of (i) the date two (2) years after the Date of Grant,
or (ii) the date one (1) year after the date of exercise, Participant will immediately notify the Company in writing of such disposition.
Participant agrees that Participant may be subject to income tax withholding by the Company on the compensation income recognized
by Participant.

 

(c) Code Section 409A.
Under Code Section 409A, an option that vests after December 31, 2004 (or that vested on or prior to such date but which was materially
modified after October 3, 2004) that was granted with a per share exercise price that is determined by the Internal Revenue Service
(the “IRS”) to be less than the Fair Market Value of a Share on the date of grant (a “Discount Option”)
may be considered “deferred compensation.” A Discount Option may result in (i) income recognition by Participant
prior to the exercise of the option, (ii) an additional twenty percent (20%) federal income tax, and (iii) potential penalty and
interest charges. The Discount Option may also result in additional state income, penalty and interest charges to the Participant.
Participant acknowledges that the Company cannot and has not guaranteed that the IRS will agree that the per Share exercise price
of this Option equals or exceeds the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Date of Grant in a later examination. Participant agrees
that if the IRS determines that the Option was granted with a per Share exercise price that was less than the Fair Market Value
of a Share on the date of grant, Participant will be solely responsible for Participant’s costs related to such a determination.

 

7. Rights as Stockholder.
Neither Participant nor any person claiming under or through Participant will have any of the rights or privileges of a stockholder
of the Company in respect of any Shares deliverable hereunder unless and until certificates representing such Shares will have
been issued, recorded on the records of the Company or its transfer agents or registrars, and delivered to Participant. After such
issuance, recordation and delivery, Participant will have all the rights of a stockholder of the Company with respect to voting
such Shares and receipt of dividends and distributions on such Shares.

 

8. No Guarantee
of Continued Service. PARTICIPANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE VESTING OF SHARES PURSUANT TO THE VESTING SCHEDULE HEREOF
IS EARNED ONLY BY CONTINUING AS A SERVICE PROVIDER AT THE WILL OF THE COMPANY (OR THE PARENT OR SUBSIDIARY EMPLOYING OR RETAINING
PARTICIPANT) AND NOT THROUGH THE ACT OF BEING HIRED, BEING GRANTED THE OPTION OR ACQUIRING SHARES HEREUNDER. PARTICIPANT FURTHER
ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THIS AWARD AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER AND THE VESTING SCHEDULE SET FORTH HEREIN
DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN EXPRESS OR IMPLIED PROMISE OF CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT AS A SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE VESTING PERIOD, FOR ANY PERIOD,
OR AT ALL, AND WILL NOT INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH PARTICIPANT’S RIGHT OR THE RIGHT OF THE COMPANY (OR THE PARENT OR SUBSIDIARY
EMPLOYING OR RETAINING PARTICIPANT) TO TERMINATE PARTICIPANT’S RELATIONSHIP AS A SERVICE PROVIDER AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT
CAUSE.

 

9. Address for Notices.
Any notice to be given to the Company under the terms of this Award Agreement will be addressed to the Company, in care of its
Chief Financial Officer at GrowGeneration, Corp, or at such other address as the Company may hereafter designate in writing.

 

10. Non-Transferability
of Option. This Option may not be transferred in any manner otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent or distribution
and may be exercised during the lifetime of Participant only by Participant.

 

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11. Binding Agreement.
Subject to the limitation on the transferability of this grant contained herein, this Award Agreement will be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the heirs, legatees, legal representatives, successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

 

12. Additional Conditions
to Issuance of Stock. If at any time the Company will determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration or qualification
of the Shares upon any securities exchange or under any state or federal law, or the consent or approval of any governmental regulatory
authority is necessary or desirable as a condition to the issuance of Shares to Participant (or his or her estate), such issuance
will not occur unless and until such listing, registration, qualification, consent or approval will have been effected or obtained
free of any conditions not acceptable to the Company. The Company will make all reasonable efforts to meet the requirements of
any such state or federal law or securities exchange and to obtain any such consent or approval of any such governmental authority.
Assuming such compliance, for income tax purposes the Exercised Shares will be considered transferred to Participant on the date
the Option is exercised with respect to such Exercised Shares.

 

13. Plan Governs.
This Award Agreement is subject to all terms and provisions of the Plan. In the event of a conflict between one or more provisions
of this Award Agreement and one or more provisions of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan will govern. Capitalized terms used
and not defined in this Award Agreement will have the meaning set forth in the Plan.

 

14. Administrator
Authority. The Administrator will have the power to interpret the Plan and this Award Agreement and to adopt such rules for
the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith and to interpret or revoke any such
rules (including, but not limited to, the determination of whether or not any Shares subject to the Option have vested). All actions
taken and all interpretations and determinations made by the Administrator in good faith will be final and binding upon Participant,
the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the Administrator will be personally liable for any action, determination
or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or this Award Agreement.

 

15. Electronic Delivery.
The Company may, in its sole discretion, decide to deliver any documents related to Options awarded under the Plan or future options
that may be awarded under the Plan by electronic means or request Participant’s consent to participate in the Plan by electronic
means. Participant hereby consents to receive such documents by electronic delivery and agrees to participate in the Plan through
any on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or another third party designated by the Company.

 

16. Captions.
Captions provided herein are for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of this Award
Agreement.

 

17. Agreement Severable.
In the event that any provision in this Award Agreement will be held invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be severable
from, and such invalidity or unenforceability will not be construed to have any effect on, the remaining provisions of this Award
Agreement.

 

18. Modifications
to the Agreement. This Award Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties on the subjects covered. Participant
expressly warrants that he or she is not accepting this Award Agreement in reliance on any promises, representations, or inducements
other than those contained herein. Modifications to this Award Agreement or the Plan can be made only in an express written contract
executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Plan or this Award Agreement,
the Company reserves the right to revise this Award Agreement as it deems necessary or advisable, in its sole discretion and without
the consent of Participant, to comply with Code Section 409A or to otherwise avoid imposition of any additional tax or income recognition
under Code Section 409A in connection to this Option.

 

19. Amendment, Suspension
or Termination of the Plan. By accepting this Award, Participant expressly warrants that he or she has received an Option under
the Plan, and has received, read and understood a description of the Plan. Participant understands that the Plan is discretionary
in nature and may be amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time.

 

20. Governing Law.
This Award Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles
thereof. For purposes of litigating any dispute that arises under this Option or this Award Agreement, the parties hereby submit
to and consent to the jurisdiction of the State of Colorado, and agree that such litigation will be conducted in the courts of
Colorado, or the federal courts for the United States for Colorado, and no other courts, where this Option is made and/or to be
performed.

 

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EXHIBIT B

 

GrowGeneration,
corp.

 

2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

EXERCISE NOTICE

 

Attention:
GrowGeneration, Corp.

 

1. Exercise of Option.
Effective as of today, ________________, _____, the undersigned (“Purchaser”) hereby elects to purchase ______________
shares (the “Shares”) of the Common Stock of GrowGeneration, Corp. (the “Company”) under
and pursuant to the 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and the Stock Option Award Agreement dated ________
(the “Award Agreement”). The purchase price for the Shares will be $_____________, as required by the Award
Agreement.

 

2. Delivery of Payment.
Purchaser herewith delivers to the Company the full purchase price of the Shares and any required tax withholding to be paid in
connection with the exercise of the Option.

 

3. Representations
of Purchaser. Purchaser acknowledges that Purchaser has received, read and understood the Plan and the Award Agreement and
agrees to abide by and be bound by their terms and conditions.

 

4. Rights as Stockholder.
Until the issuance (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of
the Company) of the Shares, no right to vote or receive dividends or any other rights as a stockholder will exist with respect
to the Shares subject to the Option, notwithstanding the exercise of the Option. The Shares so acquired will be issued to Purchaser
as soon as practicable after exercise of the Option. No adjustment will be made for a dividend or other right for which the record
date is prior to the date of issuance, except as provided in Section 15 of the Plan.

 

5. Tax Consultation.
Purchaser understands that Purchaser may suffer adverse tax consequences as a result of Purchaser’s purchase or disposition
of the Shares. Purchaser represents that Purchaser has consulted with any tax consultants Purchaser deems advisable in connection
with the purchase or disposition of the Shares and that Purchaser is not relying on the Company for any tax advice.

 

6. Entire Agreement;
Governing Law. The Plan and Award Agreement are incorporated herein by reference. This Exercise Notice, the Plan and the Award
Agreement constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede in their entirety
all prior undertakings and agreements of the Company and Purchaser with respect to the subject matter hereof, and may not be modified
adversely to the Purchaser’s interest except by means of a writing signed by the Company and Purchaser. This agreement is
governed by the internal substantive laws, but not the choice of law rules, of the State of Colorado.

 

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Submitted by:

 

	PURCHASER:	 
	 	 
	 	 
	Signature	 
	 	 
	 	 
	Print Name	 
	 	 
	Residence Address:	 
	 	 
	 	 
	 	 
	 	 

 

******* FOLLOWING PORTION TO BE COMPLETED
BY THE COMPANY *******

 

	 	 
	Date Received 	 

 

Accepted by:

 

	Growgeneration, corp.	 
	 	 	 
	By: 	                                      	 
	Name: 	 	 
	Title: 	 	 

 

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 Exhibit 4.1 

EXECUTION VERSION 
  

 
 TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON
(PUBL) 
  
  

INDENTURE 
 Dated as of
May 9, 2012 
  
  

Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas 

Trustee 
  

 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 

 

							
	 	    	 	  	Page	 
		
	 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
	  	 	1	 
	 Section 1.1.
	    	 Definitions
	  	 	1	 
	 Section 1.2.
	    	 Other Definitions
	  	 	5	 
	 Section 1.3.
	    	 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
	  	 	6	 
	 Section 1.4.
	    	 Rules of Construction
	  	 	6	 
		
	 ARTICLE II. THE SECURITIES
	  	 	7	 
	 Section 2.1.
	    	 Issuable in Series
	  	 	7	 
	 Section 2.2.
	    	 Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities
	  	 	7	 
	 Section 2.3.
	    	 Execution and Authentication
	  	 	9	 
	 Section 2.4.
	    	 Registration
	  	 	10	 
	 Section 2.5.
	    	 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
	  	 	11	 
	 Section 2.6.
	    	 Securityholder Lists
	  	 	11	 
	 Section 2.7.
	    	 Registration of Transfer and Exchange
	  	 	11	 
	 Section 2.8.
	    	 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
	  	 	13	 
	 Section 2.9.
	    	 Outstanding Securities
	  	 	14	 
	 Section 2.10.
	    	 Treasury Securities
	  	 	14	 
	 Section 2.11.
	    	 Temporary Securities
	  	 	15	 
	 Section 2.12.
	    	 Cancellation
	  	 	15	 
	 Section 2.13.
	    	 Defaulted Interest
	  	 	15	 
	 Section 2.14.
	    	 Global Securities
	  	 	15	 
	 Section 2.15.
	    	 CUSIP Numbers
	  	 	17	 
		
	 ARTICLE III. REDEMPTION
	  	 	17	 
	 Section 3.1.
	    	 Notice to Trustee
	  	 	17	 
	 Section 3.2.
	    	 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed
	  	 	17	 
	 Section 3.3.
	    	 Notice of Redemption
	  	 	18	 
	 Section 3.4.
	    	 Effect of Notice of Redemption
	  	 	18	 
	 Section 3.5.
	    	 Deposit of Redemption Price
	  	 	19	 
	 Section 3.6.
	    	 Securities Redeemed in Part
	  	 	19	 
	 Section 3.7.
	    	 Redemption upon Changes in Withholding Taxes
	  	 	19	 
		
	 ARTICLE IV. COVENANTS
	  	 	20	 
	 Section 4.1.
	    	 Payment of Principal and Interest
	  	 	20	 
	 Section 4.2.
	    	 SEC Reports
	  	 	20	 
	 Section 4.3.
	    	 Compliance Certificate
	  	 	20	 
	 Section 4.4.
	    	 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws
	  	 	21	 
	 Section 4.5.
	    	 Corporate Existence
	  	 	21	 
	 Section 4.6.
	    	 Additional Amounts
	  	 	21	 
	 Section 4.7.
	    	 Maintenance of Office or Agency; Paying Agent
	  	 	23	 
	 Section 4.8.
	    	 To Hold Payment in Trust
	  	 	24	 
	 Section 4.9.
	    	 Limitation on Liens
	  	 	25	 
	 Section 4.10.
	    	 Calculation of Original Issue Discount
	  	 	25	 

  
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	 ARTICLE V. SUCCESSORS
	  	 	26	 
	 Section 5.1.
	    	 When Company May Merge, Etc.
	  	 	26	 
	 Section 5.2.
	    	 Successor Corporation Substituted
	  	 	26	 
		
	 ARTICLE VI. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
	  	 	26	 
	 Section 6.1.
	    	 Events of Default
	  	 	26	 
	 Section 6.2.
	    	 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
	  	 	28	 
	 Section 6.3.
	    	 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
	  	 	29	 
	 Section 6.4.
	    	 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
	  	 	30	 
	 Section 6.5.
	    	 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
	  	 	30	 
	 Section 6.6.
	    	 Application of Money or Property Collected
	  	 	31	 
	 Section 6.7.
	    	 Limitation on Suits
	  	 	31	 
	 Section 6.8.
	    	 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest
	  	 	32	 
	 Section 6.9.
	    	 Restoration of Rights and Remedies
	  	 	32	 
	 Section 6.10.
	    	 Rights and Remedies Cumulative
	  	 	32	 
	 Section 6.11.
	    	 Delay or Omission Not Waiver
	  	 	32	 
	 Section 6.12.
	    	 Control by Holders
	  	 	32	 
	 Section 6.13.
	    	 Waiver of Past Defaults
	  	 	33	 
	 Section 6.14.
	    	 Undertaking for Costs
	  	 	33	 
		
	 ARTICLE VII. TRUSTEE
	  	 	34	 
	 Section 7.1.
	    	 Duties of Trustee
	  	 	34	 
	 Section 7.2.
	    	 Rights of Trustee
	  	 	35	 
	 Section 7.3.
	    	 Individual Rights of Trustee
	  	 	36	 
	 Section 7.4.
	    	 Trustee’s Disclaimer
	  	 	37	 
	 Section 7.5.
	    	 Notice of Defaults
	  	 	37	 
	 Section 7.6.
	    	 Reports by Trustee to Holders
	  	 	37	 
	 Section 7.7.
	    	 Compensation and Indemnity
	  	 	37	 
	 Section 7.8.
	    	 Replacement of Trustee
	  	 	38	 
	 Section 7.9.
	    	 Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc.
	  	 	39	 
	 Section 7.10.
	    	 Eligibility; Disqualification
	  	 	39	 
	 Section 7.11.
	    	 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
	  	 	39	 
		
	 ARTICLE VIII. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE
	  	 	39	 
	 Section 8.1.
	    	 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
	  	 	39	 
	 Section 8.2.
	    	 Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification
	  	 	40	 
	 Section 8.3.
	    	 Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series
	  	 	41	 
	 Section 8.4.
	    	 Covenant Defeasance
	  	 	42	 
	 Section 8.5.
	    	 Repayment to Company
	  	 	44	 
	 Section 8.6.
	    	 Reinstatement
	  	 	44	 
		
	 ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
	  	 	45	 
	 Section 9.1.
	    	 Without Consent of Holders
	  	 	45	 
	 Section 9.2.
	    	 With Consent of Holders
	  	 	45	 
	 Section 9.3.
	    	 Limitations
	  	 	46	 
	 Section 9.4.
	    	 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act
	  	 	46	 
	 Section 9.5.
	    	 Revocation and Effect of Consents
	  	 	46	 

  
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	 Section 9.6.
	    	 Notation on or Exchange of Securities
	  	 	47	 
	 Section 9.7.
	    	 Trustee Protected
	  	 	47	 
	 Section 9.8.
	    	 Effect of Execution of Supplemental Indenture
	  	 	47	 
	 Section 9.9.
	    	 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
	  	 	48	 
		
	 ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS
	  	 	48	 
	 Section 10.1.
	    	 Trust Indenture Act Controls
	  	 	48	 
	 Section 10.2.
	    	 Notices
	  	 	48	 
	 Section 10.3.
	    	 Communication by Holders with Other Holders
	  	 	49	 
	 Section 10.4.
	    	 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent
	  	 	50	 
	 Section 10.5.
	    	 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion
	  	 	50	 
	 Section 10.6.
	    	 Rules by Trustee and Agents
	  	 	50	 
	 Section 10.7.
	    	 Legal Holidays
	  	 	50	 
	 Section 10.8.
	    	 No Recourse Against Others
	  	 	50	 
	 Section 10.9.
	    	 Counterparts
	  	 	51	 
	 Section 10.10.
	    	 Governing Laws
	  	 	51	 
	 Section 10.11.
	    	 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements
	  	 	51	 
	 Section 10.12.
	    	 Successors
	  	 	51	 
	 Section 10.13.
	    	 Severability
	  	 	51	 
	 Section 10.14.
	    	 Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.
	  	 	51	 
	 Section 10.15.
	    	 Securities in a Foreign Currency
	  	 	51	 
	 Section 10.16.
	    	 Judgment Currency
	  	 	52	 
	 Section 10.17.
	    	 Force Majeure
	  	 	52	 
	 Section 10.18.
	    	 Appointment of Agent for Service
	  	 	53	 
	 Section 10.19.
	    	 USA PATRIOT Act Section 326 Customer Identification Program
	  	 	53	 
		
	 ARTICLE XI. SINKING FUNDS
	  	 	53	 
	 Section 11.1.
	    	 Applicability of Article
	  	 	53	 
	 Section 11.2.
	    	 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities
	  	 	54	 
	 Section 11.3.
	    	 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund
	  	 	54	 

  
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 TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) 

Reconciliation and tie between Trust Indenture Act of 1939 and 

Indenture, dated as of May 9, 2012 
  

					
	§ 310(a)(1)	 		  	7.10
	(a)(2)	 		  	7.10
	(a)(3)	 		  	Not Applicable
	(a)(4)	 		  	Not Applicable
	(a)(5)	 		  	7.10
	(b)	 		  	7.10
	§ 311(a)	 		  	7.11
	(b)	 		  	7.11
	(c)	 		  	Not Applicable
	§ 312(a)	 		  	2.6
	(b)	 		  	10.3
	(c)	 		  	10.3
	§ 313(a)	 		  	7.6
	(b)(1)	 		  	7.6
	(b)(2)	 		  	7.6
	(c)(1)	 		  	7.6
	(d)	 		  	7.6
	§ 314(a)	 		  	4.2, 10.5
	(b)	 		  	Not Applicable
	(c)(1)	 		  	10.4
	(c)(2)	 		  	10.4
	(c)(3)	 		  	Not Applicable
	(d)	 		  	Not Applicable
	(e)	 		  	10.5
	(f)	 		  	Not Applicable
	§ 315(a)	 		  	7.1
	(b)	 		  	7.5
	(c)	 		  	7.1
	(d)	 		  	7.1
	(e)	 		  	6.14
	§ 316(a)	 		  	2.10
	(a)(1)(A)	 		  	6.12
	(a)(1)(B)	 		  	6.13
	(b)	 		  	6.8
	§ 317(a)(1)	 		  	6.3
	(a)(2)	 		  	6.4
	(b)	 		  	4.8
	§ 318(a)	 		  	10.1

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

  
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 Indenture dated as of May 9, 2012 between TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL), a public
limited liability company organized under the laws of the Kingdom of Sweden (“Company”), and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (together with its successors and assigns, the
“Trustee”). 
 Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the
Holders of the Securities issued under this Indenture. 
 ARTICLE I. 

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE 
  

	 	Section 1.1.	Definitions. 

 “Additional Amounts” means any additional amounts which
are required hereby or by any Security, under circumstances specified herein or therein, to be paid by the Company in respect of certain taxes imposed on Holders specified herein or therein and which are owing to such Holders. 

“Affiliate” of any specified person means any other person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under
common control with such specified person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any
person, shall mean 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 or by agreement or otherwise. 

“Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent. 

“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee thereof. 

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

“Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture
hereto for a particular Series, any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New York (or in connection with any payment, the Place of Payment) on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or
executive order to close. 
 “Capital Markets Indebtedness” means any obligation for the payment of borrowed money which is
in the form of, or represented or evidenced by, a certificate of indebtedness or in the form of, or represented or evidenced by bonds, notes or other debt securities, which are capable of being listed or traded on a stock exchange or other
recognized securities market. For the purposes of avoiding any doubt in respect of asset-backed financings originated by the Company, the expressions “assets” and “obligations for the payment of

 
borrowed money” as used in this definition do not include assets and obligations of the Company which, pursuant to the requirements of IFRS, need not, and are not, reflected in the balance
sheet of the Company. 
 “Capital Stock” means any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents
(however designated) of corporate stock. 
 “Company” means the party named as such above until a successor replaces it and
thereafter means the successor. 
 “Company Order” means a written order signed in the name of the Company by an Officer.

 “Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business
related to this Indenture shall be principally administered. 
 “Default” means any event which is, or after notice or
passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default. 
 “Depositary” means, with respect to the Securities of any Series
issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the person designated as Depositary for such Series by the Company, which Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act; and if at any
time there is more than one such person, “Depositary” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Securities of such Series. 

“Discount Security” means any Security that provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due
and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2, and such discount, the “Original Issue Discount.” 

“Dollars” and “$” means the currency of The United States of America. 

“Encumbrance” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest or lien. 

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

“Foreign Currency” means any currency or currency unit issued by a government other than the government of The United States
of America. 
 “Foreign Government Obligations” means, with respect to Securities of any Series that are denominated in a
Foreign Currency, direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed by, the government that issued or caused to be issued such currency for the payment of which obligations its full faith and credit is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable
at the option of the issuer thereof. 
 “Global Security” or “Global Securities” means a Security or
Securities, as the case may be, in the form established pursuant to Section 2.2 evidencing all or part of a Series of Securities, issued to the Depositary for such Series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depositary or nominee.

  
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 “Holder” or “Securityholder” means a person in whose name a
Security is registered. 
 “IFRS” means international financial reporting standards in the form promulgated by the
International Accounting Standards Board. 
 “Indenture” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time
and shall include the form and terms of particular Series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder. 
 “Indirect
Participant” means a person who holds a beneficial interest in a Global Security through a Participant. 

“interest” with respect to any Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity, and with respect to any other Security, means the amount of all interest accruing on such Security, including any default interest and any interest accruing after any Event of Default that would have accrued but for the
occurrence of such Event of Default, whether or not a claim for such interest would otherwise be allowable under applicable law. 

“Interest Payment Date”, when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on
such Security. 
 “Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such
Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise. 

“Officer” means the Chief Executive Officer, President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer or any Assistant
Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, and any Vice President of the Company. 
 “Officer’s Certificate”
means a certificate signed by any Officer which meets the requirements of clause (a) of Section 10.4 hereof. 
 “Opinion
of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company. 

“outstanding” has the meaning described in Section 2.9. 

“Participant” means a person who has an account with the Depositary. 

“person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, limited liability company, joint-stock
company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. 

  
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 “Place of Payment” means, with respect to the Securities of any Series, the
place or places where the principal of, and interest, if any, on the Securities of that Series are payable as specified pursuant to Section 2.2. 

“principal” of a Security means the principal of the Security plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on, and any
Additional Amounts in respect of, the Security. 
 “Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Security of a Series to
be redeemed, means the date on which such Security is to be redeemed as determined pursuant to Section 2.2. 
 “Redemption
Price”, when used with respect to any Security of a Series to be redeemed, means the price at which such Security is to be redeemed as determined pursuant to Section 2.2. 

“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the Securities of a Series means the date
specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 2.2. 
 “Responsible Officer” means any officer of the Trustee
in its Corporate Trust Office having responsibility for administration of this Indenture and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his or her
knowledge of and familiarity with a particular subject. 
 “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

“Securities” means the debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Company of any Series authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture. 
 “Series” or “Series of Securities” means each series of debentures, notes or
other debt instruments of the Company created pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.2 hereof. 
 “Stated Maturity” when used with
respect to any Security, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or interest is due and payable. 

“Subsidiary” of any specified person means any corporation, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of
the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such
person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that person or a combination thereof. 
 “TIA” means the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent
required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act as so amended and then in effect. 

  
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 “Trustee” means the person named as the “Trustee” in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at
any time there is more than one such person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that Series. 

“U.S. Government Obligations” means securities which are direct obligations of, or guaranteed by, The United States of
America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with
respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the Holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as
required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the Holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such
depository receipt. 
  

	 	Section 1.2.	Other Definitions. 

  

							
	 TERM
	  	
DEFINED IN
SECTION
	 	  	 
			
	“Bankruptcy Law”	  	 	6.1  	 	  	
	“Change in Tax Law”	  	 	3.7  	 	  	
	“Covenant Defeasance”	  	 	8.4  	 	  	
	“Custodian”	  	 	6.1  	 	  	
	“EU Savings Directive”	  	 	4.6  	 	  	
	“Event of Default”	  	 	6.1  	 	  	
	“Judgment Currency”	  	 	10.16	 	  	
	“Legal Defeasance”	  	 	8.3  	 	  	
	“Legal Holiday”	  	 	10.7  	 	  	
	“mandatory sinking fund payment”	  	 	11.1  	 	  	
	“New York Banking Day”	  	 	10.16	 	  	
	“Notice Agent”	  	 	4.7  	 	  	
	“optional sinking fund payment”	  	 	11.1  	 	  	
	“Original Issue Discount”	  	 	1.1  	 	  	
	“Paying Agent”	  	 	4.7  	 	  	
	“Registrar”	  	 	4.7  	 	  	
	“Register”	  	 	2.4  	 	  	
	“Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction”	  	 	4.6  	 	  	
	“Required Currency”	  	 	10.16	 	  	
	“successor person”	  	 	5.1  	 	  	
	“Taxes”	  	 	4.6  	 	  	

  
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	 	Section 1.3.	Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. 

 Whenever this Indenture refers to a
provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings: 

“Commission” means the SEC. 

“indenture securities” means the Securities. 

“indenture security holder” means a Securityholder. 

“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture. 

“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee. 

“obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company and any successor obligor upon the Securities. 

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 are used herein as so defined. 
  

	 	Section 1.4.	Rules of Construction. 

 Unless the context otherwise requires: 

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

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

(c) “or” is not exclusive; 

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

(e) references to payments on any Security shall include Additional Amounts payable pursuant to Section 4.6 and Defaulted
Interest pursuant to Section 2.13, if any; and 
 (f) unless otherwise specified, references to days shall mean calendar
days. 

  
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 ARTICLE II. 

THE SECURITIES 
  

	 	Section 2.1.	Issuable in Series. 

 The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or more Series. All Securities of a Series shall be identical except as may be set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution,
supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution. In the case of Securities of a Series to be issued from time to time, the Board Resolution,
Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution may provide for the method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity date,
regular record date or date from which interest shall accrue) are to be determined. Securities may differ between Series in respect of any matters, provided that all Series of Securities shall be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the
Indenture. 
  

	 	Section 2.2.	Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities. 

 At or prior to the issuance of any
Securities within a Series, the following shall be established (as to the Series generally, in the case of Subsection 2.2.1 and, either as to such Securities within the Series or as to the Series generally, in the case of Subsections 2.2.2 through
2.2.23) by or pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution, and set forth or determined in the manner provided in a Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate: 2.2.1. the title (which shall distinguish
the Securities of that particular Series from the Securities of any other Series) and ranking (including the terms of any subordination provisions) of the Series; 

2.2.2. the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) at which the Securities of the Series will be issued;

 2.2.3. any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the Series which may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the Series pursuant to Sections 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6); 

2.2.4. the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the Series is payable; 

2.2.5. the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) per annum or, if applicable, the method used to determine such rate or rates
(including, but not limited to, any commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index) at which the Securities of the Series shall bear interest, if any; the date or dates from which such interest, if any, shall accrue; the date or
dates on which such interest, if any, shall commence and be payable; and any regular record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date; 

2.2.6. the place or places where the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series shall be payable (and the method of
such payment, if by wire transfer, mail, or other means), where the Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such
Series and this Indenture may be delivered, and the method of such notice or demand; 

  
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 2.2.7. if applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the
terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the Series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company; 
 2.2.8.
the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase the Securities of the Series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which
and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the Series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation; 

2.2.9. the dates, if any, on which and the price or prices at which the Securities of the Series will be repurchased by the Company at the
option of the Holders thereof and other detailed terms and provisions of such repurchase obligations; 
 2.2.10. if other than denominations
of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, the denominations in which the Securities of the Series shall be issuable; 
 2.2.11. the forms
of the Securities of the Series and whether the Securities will be issuable as Global Securities; 
 2.2.12. if other than the principal
amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of the Securities of the Series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2; 

2.2.13. the currency of denomination of the Securities of the Series, which may be Dollars or any Foreign Currency, and if such currency of
denomination is a composite currency, the agency or organization, if any, responsible for overseeing such composite currency; 
 2.2.14. the
designation of the currency, currencies or currency units in which payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be made; 

2.2.15. if payments of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series are to be made in one or more currencies or currency
units other than that or those in which such Securities are denominated, the manner in which the exchange rate with respect to such payments will be determined; 

2.2.16. the manner in which the amounts of payment of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be determined, if
such amounts may be determined by reference to an index based on a currency or currencies other than that in which the Securities of the Series are denominated or designated to be payable, or by reference to a commodity, commodity index, stock
exchange index or financial index; 
 2.2.17. the provisions, if any, relating to any security provided for the Securities of the Series;

  
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 2.2.18. any addition to, deletion of or change in the Events of Default which applies to any
Securities of the Series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 6.2; 

2.2.19. any addition to, deletion of or change in the covenants set forth in Articles IV or V which applies to Securities of the Series; 

2.2.20. any Depositaries, interest rate calculation agents, exchange rate calculation agents or other agents with respect to Securities of
such Series if other than those appointed herein; 
 2.2.21. the provisions, if any, relating to conversion or exchange of any Securities of
such Series, including if applicable, the conversion or exchange price, the conversion or exchange period, provisions as to whether conversion or exchange will be mandatory, at the option of the Holders thereof or at the option of the Company, the
events requiring an adjustment of the conversion price or exchange price and provisions affecting conversion or exchange if such Series of Securities are redeemed; 

2.2.22. whether the Securities of the Series are to be issued as Discount Securities and the amount of Original Issue Discount with which such
Securities may be issued; and 
 2.2.23. any other terms of the Series (which may supplement, modify or delete any provision of this
Indenture insofar as it applies to such Series), including any terms that may be required under applicable law or regulations or advisable in connection with the marketing of Securities of that Series. 

All Securities of any one Series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this
Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate referred to above. Any additional Securities so issued will have the same terms as the Securities of the same Series in all
respects (except for the issuance date, the date upon which interest begins accruing and, in some cases, the first interest payment on the new Securities of such Series and the issuance price), so that such additional Securities will be consolidated
and form a single Series with the existing Securities of the same Series. 
 Unless otherwise specified in the establishing Board
Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate, the Securities will constitute direct, unsecured, unsubordinated obligations of the Company and shall rank pari passu with all of the Company’s other unsecured and
unsubordinated indebtedness. 
  

	 	Section 2.3.	Execution and Authentication. 

 An Officer shall sign the Securities for the Company by
manual or facsimile signature. 

  
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 If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the
Security is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless be valid. 
 A Security shall not be valid unless there appears on such Security
a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided in Section 2.5, executed by the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent. Such certificate of authentication shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has
been authenticated under this Indenture. 
 The Trustee shall at any time, and from time to time, authenticate Securities for original issue
in the principal amount provided in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate, upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company Order. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. 

The aggregate principal amount of Securities of any Series outstanding at any time may not exceed any limit upon the maximum principal amount
for such Series set forth in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2, except as provided in Section 2.8. 

Prior to the issuance of Securities of any Series, the Trustee shall have received and (subject to Section 7.2) shall be fully protected
in relying on: (a) the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate establishing the form of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series and the terms of the Securities of that Series or of
Securities within that Series, (b) an Officer’s Certificate complying with Section 10.4, and (c) an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.4. 

The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities of such Series: (a) if the Trustee, being advised
by counsel, determines that such action may not be taken lawfully; or (b) if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or trustees, executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or vice-presidents or a committee of
Responsible Officers shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any then outstanding Series of Securities. 

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate
Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or an Affiliate of
the Company. 
  

	 	Section 2.4.	Registration. 

 With respect to each Series of Securities, the Company shall cause to be
kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register (a “Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities of such Series and of
transfers of Securities of such Series as provided herein. The Company or any of its Affiliates may serve as Registrars. 

  
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	 	Section 2.5.	Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication. 

 The Trustee’s certificates
of authentication shall be substantially in the following form: 
 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 

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

Dated: 
  

			
	DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee
		
	By:	 	Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
		
	By:	 	  

	Name:
	Title:
		
	By:	 	  

	Name:
	Title:

  

	 	Section 2.6.	Securityholder 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 Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise comply with TIA § 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee at least ten 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 Securityholders
of each Series of Securities. 
  

	 	Section 2.7.	Registration of Transfer and Exchange. 

 Where Securities of a Series are presented to
the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of the same Series, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements for such
transactions are met. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities upon receipt of a Company Order or at the Registrar’s request. 

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any Series at the office or agency in a Place of Payment for that Series, the
Company will execute, and the Trustee 

  
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will authenticate, upon receipt of a Company Order, and deliver in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same Series, of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor. 
 Prior to due presentment for the registration of a transfer of any
Security, the Trustee, any Agent and the Company may deem and treat the person in whose name any Security is registered as the absolute owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Securities and
for all other purposes, and none of the Trustee, any Agent or the Company shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
 Every Security
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange will (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer, in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Company and the Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. 
 No service charge shall be
made for any registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith
(other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.11, 3.6 or 9.6). 
 All
Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities will be valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange. 
 Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer
of, or exchange Securities of any Series for the period beginning at the opening of business 15 days immediately preceding the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of that Series selected for redemption and ending at the close of business
on the day of such mailing, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any Series selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Securities selected, called or being called
for redemption in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part. 
 The Trustee shall have no responsibility or
obligation to any Participant or Indirect Participant or any other person with respect to the accuracy of the books or records, or the acts or omissions, of the Depositary or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any
ownership interest in the Securities or with respect to the delivery to any Participant or Indirect Participant or other person (other than the Depositary) of any notice (including any notice of redemption) or the payment of any amount, under or
with respect to such Securities. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Securities shall be given or made only to or upon the order of the registered Holders (which shall be the
Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Security). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Security shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the customary procedures of the Depositary. The Trustee may rely and shall
be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its Participants or Indirect Participants. 

  
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 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 Security (including any transfers between or among Participants or Indirect Participants in any Global
Security) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine
substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof. 
  

	 	Section 2.8.	Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. 

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

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

Every new Security of any Series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities of that Series duly issued hereunder. 
 The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities. 

  
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	 	Section 2.9.	Outstanding Securities. 

 The Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities
authenticated by the Trustee except for (i) those canceled by it, (ii) those delivered to it for cancellation, (iii) those reductions in the interest on a Global Security effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions
hereof, (iv) Securities of a Series as to which Legal Defeasance has been effected pursuant to Section 8.3 and (v) those described in this Section as not outstanding. 

If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be outstanding until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that
the replaced Security is held by a bona fide purchaser. 
 If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary of the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company) holds in trust on the Maturity of Securities of a Series, money sufficient to pay all principal and interest, if any, payable on that date, then on and after that date such Securities of the Series cease to be outstanding
and interest on them ceases to accrue. 
 The Company may purchase or otherwise acquire the Securities, whether by open market purchases,
negotiated transactions or otherwise. Subject to Section 2.10, a Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the Security. 

In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of a Discount Security that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such
determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2. 
  

	 	Section 2.10.	Treasury Securities. 

 In determining whether the Holders of the required principal
amount of Securities of a Series have concurred in any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, Securities of a Series owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
outstanding, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver only Securities of a Series that a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. 
 Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an
Officer’s Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company, and the Trustee shall be entitled to accept and rely upon such
Officer’s Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts set forth therein and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any determination. 

  
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	 	Section 2.11.	Temporary Securities. 

 Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company
may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities upon receipt of a Company Order. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for
temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee upon receipt of a Company Order shall authenticate definitive Securities of the same Series and date of maturity in exchange for temporary Securities. Until
so exchanged, temporary securities shall have the same rights under this Indenture as the definitive Securities. 
  

	 	Section 2.12.	Cancellation. 

 The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee shall promptly cancel all Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange,
payment, replacement or cancellation and shall destroy such canceled Securities (subject to the record retention requirement of the Exchange Act and the Trustee) and deliver a certificate of such cancellation to the Company upon written request of
the Company. The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. 
  

	 	Section 2.13.	Defaulted Interest. 

 If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on a Series of
Securities, it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent permitted by law, any interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the persons who are Securityholders of the Series on a subsequent special record date. The Company shall fix
the record date and payment date. At least 10 days before the special record date, the Company shall mail to the Trustee and to each Securityholder of the Series a notice that states the special record date, the payment date and the amount of
interest to be paid. The Company may pay defaulted interest in any other lawful manner. 
  

	 	Section 2.14.	Global Securities. 

 2.14.1. Terms of Securities. A Board Resolution, a
supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate shall establish whether the Securities of a Series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and the Depositary for such Global Security or
Securities. 
 Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such
Global Security or a nominee therefor and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture. 

  
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 2.14.2. Transfer and Exchange. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in
Section 2.7 of the Indenture and in addition thereto, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Indenture for Securities registered in the names of Holders other than the Depositary for such Security or its
nominee only if: 
 (a) such Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for
such Global Security or if at any time such Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, the Company fails to appoint a successor Depositary registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act
within 90 days of such event; or 
 (b) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities evidenced by such Global Security
has occurred and has not been cured. 
 Any Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable
for Securities registered in such names as the Depositary shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security with like tenor and terms. 

Except as provided in this Section 2.14.2, a Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary with respect to
such Global Security to a nominee of such Depositary, by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such a successor
Depositary. 
 2.14.3. Legend. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form: 

“This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of the
Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in the name of a person other than the Depositary or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture, and may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary, 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 a successor Depositary.” 
 2.14.4. Acts of Holders. The Depositary, as a Holder, may appoint agents and otherwise
authorize participants to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which a Holder is entitled to give or take under the Indenture. 

2.14.5. Payments. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Indenture, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 2.2, payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on any Global Security shall be made to the Holder thereof. 
 2.14.6.
Consents, Declaration and Directions. The Company, the Trustee and any Agent shall treat a person as the Holder of such principal amount of outstanding Securities of such Series represented by a Global Security as shall be specified in a
written statement of the Depositary or by the applicable procedures of such Depositary with respect to such Global Security, for purposes of obtaining any consents, declarations, waivers or directions required to be given by the Holders pursuant to
this Indenture. 

  
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	 	Section 2.15.	CUSIP Numbers. 

 The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers
(if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such
numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other elements of identification printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any
defect in or omission of such numbers. 
 ARTICLE III. 

REDEMPTION 
  

	 	Section 3.1.	Notice to Trustee. 

 The Company may, with respect to any Series of Securities, reserve
the right to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or may covenant to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or any part thereof prior to the Stated Maturity thereof at such time and on such terms as provided for in such Securities. If a Series
of Securities is redeemable and the Company wants or is obligated to redeem prior to the Stated Maturity thereof all or part of the Series of Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the
Redemption Date and the principal amount of Series of Securities to be redeemed. The Company shall give the notice at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officer’s Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction. 

 

	 	Section 3.2.	Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. 

 Unless otherwise indicated for a particular
Series by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, if less than all the Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the Securities of the Series to be redeemed on a pro rata basis,
to the extent practicable, unless otherwise required by law or applicable stock exchange requirements, subject, in the case of Global Securities, to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. The Trustee shall make the selection from
Securities of the Series outstanding not previously called for redemption. The Trustee may select for redemption portions of the principal of Securities of the Series that have denominations larger than $1,000. Securities of the Series and portions
of them it selects shall be in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000 or, with respect to Securities of any Series issuable in other denominations pursuant to Section 2.2.10, the minimum principal denomination for each Series and the
authorized integral multiples thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities of a Series called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities of that Series called for redemption. 

  
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	 	Section 3.3.	Notice of Redemption. 

 Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by Board
Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, at least 30 days before a Redemption Date, the Company shall mail a notice of redemption by first-class mail to each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed. 

The notice shall identify the Securities of the Series to be redeemed and shall state: 

(a) the Redemption Date; 

(b) the Redemption Price and the amount of accrued interest to the Redemption Date; 

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

(d) if any Series of Securities are being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Securities to be
redeemed and that, after the Redemption Date and upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the original Security shall be issued in the name of the Holder thereof upon
cancellation of the original Security; 
 (e) that Securities of the Series called for redemption must be surrendered to the
Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price; 
 (f) that interest on Securities of the Series called for redemption ceases
to accrue on and after the Redemption Date unless the Company defaults in the deposit of the Redemption Price; 
 (g) that
the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case; 
 (h) the CUSIP number, if any; 

(i) the provision of the Securities or the Indenture pursuant to which the redemption is occurring; and 

(j) any other information as may be required by the terms of the particular Series or the Securities of a Series being
redeemed. 
 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 has delivered to the Trustee, at least 10 days (unless a shorter time shall be acceptable to the Trustee) prior to the notice date, an Officer’s Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such
notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice in accordance with the terms hereof. 
  

	 	Section 3.4.	Effect of Notice of Redemption. 

 Once notice of redemption is mailed as provided in
Section 3.3, Securities of a Series called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the 

  
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Redemption Price. Except as otherwise provided in the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or Officer’s Certificate for a Series, a notice of redemption may not be conditional. Upon
surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the Redemption Price plus accrued interest to the Redemption Date. 
  

	 	Section 3.5.	Deposit of Redemption Price. 

 On or before 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Securities to be redeemed on that date. 

 

	 	Section 3.6.	Securities Redeemed in Part. 

 Upon surrender of a Security that is redeemed in part, the
Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order, shall authenticate for the Holder a new Security of the same Series and the same maturity equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered. 

 

	 	Section 3.7.	Redemption upon Changes in Withholding Taxes. 

 If, as a result of: 

 

	 	(a)	any amendment to, or change in, the laws (or regulations or rulings promulgated thereunder) or relevant treaties of any Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction which becomes effective after the date of this Indenture; or

  

	 	(b)	any change which becomes effective after the date of this Indenture in the official application or official interpretation or administration of such laws, regulations or rulings or relevant treaties (including by virtue
of a holding, judgment or order by a court of competent jurisdiction or a change in published practice) of any Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction (each of the foregoing clauses (a) and (b), a “Change in Tax Law”), 

the Company would be obligated to pay, on the next date for any payment, Additional Amounts, which the Company cannot avoid by the use of reasonable measures
available to it, then the Company may redeem all, but not less than all, of the Securities, at any time thereafter, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice (which notice shall be irrevocable), at a redemption price of 100% of their
principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Redemption Date. Prior to the giving of any notice of the redemption described in this paragraph, the Company will deliver to the Trustee: 

 

	 	(a)	an Officer’s Certificate stating that the obligation to pay such Additional Amounts cannot be avoided by the Company taking reasonable measures available to it; and 

 

	 	(b)	a written opinion of independent legal counsel of recognized standing addressed to the Company, as the case may be, qualified under the laws of the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction and reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee
to the effect that the Company has or will become obligated to pay such Additional Amounts as a result of a Change in Tax Law. 

  
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 The Trustee will accept such Officer’s Certificate and opinion, delivered in compliance with
clauses (a) and (b) above, as sufficient evidence of the satisfaction of the conditions precedent described above, in which event it will be conclusive and binding on the Holders of the Securities. 

The foregoing provisions will apply mutatis mutandis to any successor to the Company after such successor person becomes a party to
this Indenture. 
 ARTICLE IV. 

COVENANTS 
  

	 	Section 4.1.	Payment of Principal and Interest. 

 The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of
the Holders of each Series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of that Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture. On or before 11:00 a.m., New
York City time, on the applicable payment date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of each Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this
Indenture. 
  

	 	Section 4.2.	SEC Reports. 

 To the extent any Securities of a Series are outstanding, the Company
shall deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after it files them with the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and
regulations prescribe) which the Company is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Company also shall comply with the other provisions of TIA § 314(a). Reports, information and documents
filed with the SEC via the EDGAR system will be deemed to be delivered to the Trustee as of the time of such filing via EDGAR for purposes of this Section 4.2. 

Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee under this Section 4.2 are for informational purposes only and the
Trustee’s receipt of the foregoing shall not constitute constructive or actual notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of their covenants
hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates). 
  

	 	Section 4.3.	Compliance Certificate. 

 To the extent any Securities of a Series are outstanding, the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company which ends on December 31, an Officer’s Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the

  
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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 has kept, observed,
performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his/her knowledge the Company has 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 hereof (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of
Default of which the Officer may have knowledge). 
 The Company will, so long as any of the Securities are outstanding, deliver to the
Trustee, promptly upon becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, an Officer’s Certificate specifying such Default or Event of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 

 

	 	Section 4.4.	Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. 

 The Company covenants (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) that it will 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, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture or the Securities; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law,
hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted. 

 

	 	Section 4.5.	Corporate Existence. 

 Subject to Article V, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and rights (charter and statutory); provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right if the Board of Directors
shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders. 

 

	 	Section 4.6.	Additional Amounts. 

 The following shall apply unless a supplemental indenture provides
otherwise. All payments that the Company makes under or with respect to the Securities will be made free and clear of and without withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other
governmental charge (including, without limitation, penalties, interest and other similar liabilities related thereto) of whatever nature (collectively, “Taxes”) imposed or levied on such payments by or on behalf of Sweden, or any
jurisdiction of which the Company or any successor person to the Company is resident for tax purposes (or any political subdivision or governmental authority thereof that has the power to tax (each, a “Relevant Taxing
Jurisdiction”)), unless the Company or such successor person, as the case may be, is required to withhold or deduct Taxes by law or by the interpretation or administration of law. If the Company or a successor person or an agent of the
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(including a paying agent) is required to withhold or deduct any amount for or on account of Taxes imposed or levied by or on behalf of a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction from any payment made under
or with respect to the Securities, the Company or such successor person, as the case may be, will pay additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary to ensure that the net amount received by each Holder of the
Securities after such withholding or deduction (including any withholding or deduction in respect of any Additional Amounts) will not be less than the amount the Holder would have received if such Taxes had not been withheld or deducted. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Company nor any successor person, as the case might be, will, however, pay Additional Amounts in
respect or on account of: 
  

	 	(a)	any Taxes, to the extent such Taxes are imposed or levied by or on behalf of a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction by reason of the Holder’s or beneficial owner’s present or former connection with such Relevant
Taxing Jurisdiction, including, without limitation, the Holder or beneficial owner being, or having been, a citizen, national, or resident, being, or having been, engaged in a trade or business, being, or having been, physically present in or having
or having had a permanent establishment in a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction (but not including, in each case, any connection arising from the mere receipt, ownership, holding or disposition of Securities, or by reason of the receipt of any payments in
respect of any Security, or the exercise or enforcement of rights under any Securities); 

  

	 	(b)	any Taxes to the extent such Taxes are imposed or withheld by reason of the failure of the Holder or beneficial owner of Securities, following the Company or any successor person’s written request addressed to the
Holder or beneficial owner, to comply within a reasonable time with any certification, identification, information or other reporting requirements (to the extent such Holder or beneficial owner is legally eligible to do so), whether required by
statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction, as a precondition to exemption from, or reduction in the rate of deduction or withholding of, Taxes imposed by the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction (including,
without limitation, a certification that the Holder or beneficial owner is not resident in the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction); 

  

	 	(c)	any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer, personal property or similar Taxes; 

  

	 	(d)	any Tax which is payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from payments made under or with respect to the Securities or any guarantee; 

 

	 	(e)	any Tax imposed on or with respect to any payment by the Company to the Holder if such Holder is a fiduciary, or partnership, limited liability company or person other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment to
the extent that Taxes would not have been imposed on such payment had such Holder been the sole beneficial owner of such Security; 

  
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	 	(f)	any Tax that is imposed on or with respect to a payment made to a Holder or beneficial owner who would have been able to avoid such withholding or deduction by presenting the relevant Securities to another paying agent
that the Company maintains in a member state of the European Union; 

  

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

 

	 	(h)	any withholding or deduction in respect of any Taxes where such withholding or deduction is imposed or levied on a payment and is required to be made pursuant to European Council Directive 2003/48/EC or any Directive
implementing the conclusions of the ECOFIN Council meetings of November 26 and 27, 2000 on the taxation of savings income or any law implementing or complying with, or introduced in order to conform to, any such Directive (together, the
“EU Savings Directive”); or 

  

	 	(i)	any combination of items (a) through (h) above. 

 Whenever this Indenture refers to,
in any context, the payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest or any other amount payable under or with respect to any Security (including payments thereof made pursuant to any guarantee), such reference includes the payment of Additional
Amounts, if applicable. 
  

	 	Section 4.7.	Maintenance of Office or Agency; Paying Agent. 

 The Company shall maintain in each Place
of Payment with respect to each Series of Securities an office or agency where Securities of such Series may be presented or surrendered for payment (“Paying Agent”), where Securities of such Series may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange (“Registrar”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such Series and this Indenture may be delivered (“Notice Agent”); provided
that, if the Company maintains a Paying Agent in an EU Member State, the Company shall maintain such a Paying Agent with a specified office in an EU Member State that will not be obliged to withhold or deduct tax pursuant to the EU Savings
Directive. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the name and address, and any change in the name or address, of each Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such
required Registrar, Paying Agent or Notice Agent or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the name and address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the
Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. 
 The Company may also
from time to time designate one or more co-registrars, additional paying agents or additional notice agents and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any
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relieve the Company of its obligations to maintain a Registrar, Paying Agent and Notice Agent in each Place of Payment for Securities of any Series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the name or address of any such co-registrar, additional paying agent or additional notice agent. The term “Registrar” includes any
co-registrar; the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent; and the term “Notice Agent” includes any additional notice agent. The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any
Paying Agent not a party to this Indenture. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent. The Company or any of its Affiliates may serve as Registrar or Paying Agent. 

The Company hereby appoints the Trustee as the initial Registrar, Paying Agent and Notice Agent for each Series unless another Registrar,
Paying Agent or Notice Agent, as the case may be, is appointed prior to the time Securities of that Series are first issued. 
  

	 	Section 4.8.	To Hold Payment in Trust. 

 If the Company or an Affiliate thereof shall at any time act
as Paying Agent with respect to any Series of Securities, then, on or before the date on which the principal of, and interest, if any, on any of the Securities of that Series by their terms or as a result of the calling thereof for redemption shall
become payable, the Company or such Affiliate shall segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities or the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay such principal, or interest which shall have so become payable until such sums
shall be paid to such Holders or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and shall notify the Trustee, in writing, of its action or failure to act in that regard. 

Upon any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with respect to the Company or any Affiliate thereof, if the Company or such Affiliate is then
acting as Paying Agent, the Trustee shall promptly replace the Company or such Affiliate as Paying Agent. 
 If the Company shall appoint,
and at the time have, a Paying Agent for the payment of the principal of, or interest, on any Series of Securities, then prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date on which the principal of, or interest, on any of the Securities of that
Series shall become payable as above provided, whether by their terms or as a result of the calling thereof for redemption, the Company shall deposit with such Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest, such sum to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities or the Trustee, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee), the Company or any other obligor of such Securities shall promptly notify the Trustee, in writing, of its payment or failure to
make such payment. 
 If the Paying Agent shall be other than the Trustee, the Company shall cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver
to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.8, that such Paying Agent shall: 
  

	 	(a)	comply with the provisions of the TIA applicable to it as Paying Agent; 

  

	 	(b)	hold all moneys held by it for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the Securities of that Series in trust for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities until such sums shall be paid to such Holders or
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	 	(c)	give to the Trustee notice of any Default by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities of that Series in the making of any payment of the principal of, or interest on the Securities of that Series; and

  

	 	(d)	at any time during the continuance of any such Default, upon the written request of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent. 

Anything in this Section 4.8 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a release,
satisfaction or discharge of this Indenture or for any other reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee as required by this Section 4.8, such sums to be
held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent and, upon such payment by a Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect
to such moneys. 
  

	 	Section 4.9.	Limitation on Liens. 

 So long as any of the Securities are outstanding, the Company
shall not grant or permit to subsist any Encumbrance over any or all of its present or future assets, to secure any present or future Capital Markets Indebtedness issued or guaranteed by the Company without making effective provision whereby the
Securities shall be secured equally and ratably with such Capital Markets Indebtedness, so long as such Capital Markets Indebtedness shall be so secured. 
  

	 	Section 4.10.	Calculation of Original Issue Discount. 

 If Securities of any Series have been issued
with Original Issue Discount, then, for as long as any such Securities shall be outstanding, the Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year: 

(a) a written notice specifying the amount of Original Issue Discount (including daily rates and accrual periods) accrued on
outstanding Securities of such Series as of the end of such year; and 
 (b) such other specific information relating to such
Original Issue Discount as may then be relevant under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder. 

  
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 ARTICLE V. 

SUCCESSORS 
  

	 	Section 5.1.	When Company May Merge, Etc. 

 The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or
into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, any person (a “successor person”) unless: 

(a) the Company is the surviving corporation or the successor person (if other than the Company) is a corporation organized and
validly existing under the laws of any member state of the European Union or U.S. domestic jurisdiction and expressly assumes the Company’s obligations on the Securities and under this Indenture; 

(b) immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing;
and 
 (c) the Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction an Officer’s
Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and any supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture. 

Notwithstanding the above, any Subsidiary of the Company may consolidate with, merge into or transfer all or part of its properties to the
Company. Neither an Officer’s Certificate nor an Opinion of Counsel shall be required to be delivered in connection therewith. 
  

	 	Section 5.2.	Successor Corporation Substituted. 

 Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale,
lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to which such
sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor person has been named as the Company
herein; provided, however, that the predecessor Company in the case of a sale, conveyance or other disposition (other than a lease) shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities. 

ARTICLE VI. 
 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

  

	 	Section 6.1.	Events of Default. 

 “Event of Default,” wherever used herein with
respect to Securities of any Series, means any one of the following events, unless in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate, it is provided that such Series shall not have the benefit of said Event
of Default: 
 (a) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of that Series when it becomes due and payable, and
continuance of such default for a period of 30 days (unless the entire amount of such payment is deposited by the Company with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the 30th day of such period); or 

  
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 (b) default in the payment of principal of any Security of that Series at its
Maturity; or 
 (c) default in the performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other
than defaults pursuant to paragraphs (a), (b) or (f) or pursuant to a covenant or warranty that has been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of Series of Securities other than that Series), which default continues uncured for
a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series a
written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or 

(d) the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law: 

(i) commences a voluntary case, 

(ii) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case, 

(iii) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property, 

(iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or 

(v) generally is unable to pay its debts as the same become due; or 

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

(i) is for relief against the Company in an involuntary case, 

(ii) appoints a Custodian of the Company or for all or substantially all of its property, or 

(iii) orders the liquidation of the Company, 

and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; 

(f) failure to deposit any sinking fund payment on its due date pursuant to Article XI, if so provided by the terms of such
Securities; 
 (g) any other indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company shall become prematurely repayable following a
default, provided that the aggregate principal amount of all such indebtedness for borrowed money which has become prematurely repayable is at least U.S.$100,000,000 or its equivalent in any other currency or currencies; or 

(h) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that Series, which is specified in a Board Resolution, a
supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, in accordance with Section 2.2.18. 

  
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 The term “Bankruptcy Law” means (a) Title 11, United States Bankruptcy Code
of 1978, as amended, (b) the Swedish Bankruptcy Act (Sw. konkurslagen (1987:672)) and Company Reconstruction Act (Sw. lag (1996:764) om företagsrekonstruktion) and (c) any other law of the United States or the
Kingdom of Sweden (or, in each case, any political subdivision thereof) or any other jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, winding-up, liquidation, reorganization or relief of debtors or
any amendment to, succession to or change in any such law. The term “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law. 

 

	 	Section 6.2.	Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. 

 If an Event of Default with respect
to Securities of any Series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default referred to in Section 6.1(d) or (e)) then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the outstanding Securities of that Series may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities of that Series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such Securities) of and accrued and
unpaid interest, if any, on all of the Securities of that Series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), whereupon the entire principal amount, together with all interest, if
any, accrued and unpaid thereon and Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect thereof, of the Securities of such Series shall become due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(d) or (e) shall occur,
the principal amount, together with all interest, if any, accrued and unpaid thereon and Additional Amounts, if any, payable in respect thereof, on all outstanding Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without
any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. 
 At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect
to any Series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that
Series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if: 

(a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay: 

(i) all overdue interest on all Securities of that Series; 

(ii) the principal of any Securities of that Series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration
and any interest thereon and Additional Amounts, if any, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities; 

  
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 (iii) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest upon
overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor (if so prescribed) in such Securities; and 
 (iv) all sums
paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Trustee and its agents and counsel in relation to such Event of Default and declaration of acceleration; and 

(b) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that Series, other than the non-payment of the principal and interest,
if any, of Securities of that Series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 6.13. 

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

 

	 	Section 6.3.	Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. 

 The Company covenants
that if 
 (a) default is made in the payment of any interest, including Additional Amounts, if any, on any Security when
such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or 
 (b) default is made in the
payment of principal of any Security at the Maturity thereof, or 
 (c) default is made in the deposit of any sinking fund
payment, if any, when and as due by the terms of a Security, 
 then, the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and any overdue interest
at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel. 
 If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its
own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other
obligor upon such Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or deemed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated. 

  
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 If an Event of Default with respect to any Securities of any Series occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such Series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such
rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy. 

 

	 	Section 6.4.	Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. 

 In case of the pendency of any receivership,
insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for
the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, 

(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and
to file such 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
of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and 
 (b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same, 
 and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other
similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee
any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7. 

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

 

	 	Section 6.5.	Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities. 

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

  
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	 	Section 6.6.	Application of Money or Property Collected. 

 Any money or property collected by the
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money or property on account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the Securities
and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid: 
 First: To the payment of all
amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7; and 
 Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and
interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest,
respectively; and 
 Third: To the Company, or as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct. 

 

	 	Section 6.7.	Limitation on Suits. 

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

(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of that Series; 
 (b) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that
Series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder; 

(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by the Trustee in compliance with such request; 
 (d) the Trustee for 60
days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity or security has failed to institute any such proceeding; and 

(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series; 
 it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders
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or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except
in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders of the applicable Series. 
  

	 	Section 6.8.	Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest. 

 Notwithstanding any
other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of, and interest on such Security on the Maturity of such Security, including the Stated
Maturity expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. 

 

	 	Section 6.9.	Restoration of Rights and Remedies. 

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

	 	Section 6.10.	Rights and Remedies Cumulative. 

 Except as otherwise provided with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.8, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every
right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not, to the extent permitted by law, prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. 
  

	 	Section 6.11.	Delay or Omission Not Waiver. 

 No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of
any Securities in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in any such Event of Default. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law
to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be. 
  

	 	Section 6.12.	Control by Holders. 

 The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding
Securities of any Series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of
such Series, provided that 
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 (b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is
not inconsistent with such direction, 
 (c) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the
Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability, and 

(d) prior to taking any action as directed under this Section 6.12, the Trustee shall be entitled to indemnity or security
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction. 
  

	 	Section 6.13.	Waiver of Past Defaults. 

 The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the outstanding Securities of any Series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such Series waive any past Default hereunder with respect to such Series and its consequences, except a Default: 

(a) in the payment of the principal of, or interest on any Security of such Series (provided, however, that the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may rescind an acceleration and its consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration); and 

(b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the Holder
of each Securityholder of such Series affected. 
 Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon. 

 

	 	Section 6.14.	Undertaking for Costs. 

 All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any
Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees,
against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit
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Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of or interest on any Security on or after the Maturity of such Security, including the Stated Maturity expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date). 

ARTICLE VII. 
 TRUSTEE 

 

	 	Section 7.1.	Duties of Trustee. 

 (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent 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: 

(i) The Trustee need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others. 

(ii) 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 Officer’s Certificates or Opinions of Counsel furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, in the case of any such Officer’s Certificates
or Opinions of Counsel which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to determine whether or not they conform to the form
requirements of this Indenture. 
 (c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: 
 (i) This paragraph does not limit the effect of
paragraph (b) of this Section. 
 (ii) 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. 
 (iii) The
Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it with respect to Securities of any Series in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Securities of such Series relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the
Securities of such Series in accordance with Section 6.12. 

  
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 (d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is
subject to paragraph (a), (b) and (c) of this Section. 
 (e) The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or
exercise any right or power unless it receives indemnity or security satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in performing such duty or exercising such right or power. 

(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. 

(g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability
in the performance of any of its duties, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if adequate indemnity or security against such risk is not assured to the Trustee in its satisfaction. 

(h) The Paying Agent, the Registrar and any authenticating agent shall be entitled to the protections and immunities as are set
forth in paragraphs (e), (f) and (g) of this Section and in Section 7.2, each with respect to the Trustee. 
  

	 	Section 7.2.	Rights of Trustee. 

 (a) The Trustee may rely on and shall be protected
in acting or refraining from acting upon any document (whether in its original or facsimile form) 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. 
 (b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s 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 Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. 

(c) The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed
with due care. No Depositary shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any act or omission by any Depositary. 

(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized
or within its rights or powers, provided that the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct or negligence. 

(e) The Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder without willful misconduct or negligence, and in reliance thereon. 

  
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 (f) 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 of Securities unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which
might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction. 
 (g) 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. 

(h) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities generally or the Securities
of a particular Series and this Indenture. 
 (i) In no event shall the Trustee be liable to any person for special,
punitive, indirect, consequential or incidental loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage. 

(j) The Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of
Officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture. 
 (k) The permissive right of the
Trustee to take the actions permitted by this Indenture shall not be construed as an obligation or duty to do so. 
 (l) The
Trustee shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance of the Company with respect to the covenants contained herein. 

(m) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right
to be indemnified, are extended to and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder. 
  

	 	Section 7.3.	Individual Rights of Trustee. 

 The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may
become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. The Trustee is also subject to
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	 	Section 7.4.	Trustee’s Disclaimer. 

 The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or
adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement herein or in the Securities other than its authentication,
which shall be taken as the statements of the Company. 
  

	 	Section 7.5.	Notice of Defaults. 

 If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing with
respect to the Securities of any Series and if it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder of the Securities of that Series notice of a Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs
or, if later, after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has knowledge of such Default or Event of Default. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security of any Series, the Trustee may
withhold the notice if and so long as its corporate trust committee or a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Securityholders of that Series. 

 

	 	Section 7.6.	Reports by Trustee to Holders. 

 Within 60 days after May 15 in each year, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear on the register kept by the Registrar, a brief report dated as of such May 15, in accordance with, and to the extent required under, TIA § 313. 

A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders of any Series shall be filed with the SEC and each national securities
exchange on which the Securities of that Series are listed. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing when Securities of any Series are listed on any national securities exchange or delisted therefrom. 

 

	 	Section 7.7.	Compensation and Indemnity. 

 The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time
compensation for its services as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree upon in writing. 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 upon request for all reasonable out of pocket expenses incurred by it. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel. 

The Company shall indemnify each of the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee (including the cost of defending itself) against any cost, expense
(including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel) or liability, including taxes (other than taxes based upon, measured by or determined by the income of the Trustee) incurred by it except as set forth in
the next paragraph in the performance of its duties under this Indenture as Trustee or Agent. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Company shall not
relieve the Company of its obligations hereunder, unless and to the extent that the Company is materially prejudiced thereby. The Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee may have one separate
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settlement made without its consent, which consent will not be unreasonably withheld. This indemnification shall apply to officers, directors, employees, shareholders and agents of the Trustee.

 The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability incurred by the Trustee or by any officer,
director, employee, shareholder or agent of the Trustee through willful misconduct or negligence. 
 To secure the Company’s payment
obligations in this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any Series on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay the principal of, and interest on particular Securities of
that Series. 
 When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(d) or
(e) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law. 

The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee. 

 

	 	Section 7.8.	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. 

The Trustee may resign with respect to the Securities of one or more Series by so notifying the Company at least 30 days prior to the date of
the proposed resignation. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of any Series may remove the Trustee with respect to that Series by so notifying the Trustee and the Company. The Company may remove the Trustee with respect
to Securities of one or more Series if: 
 (a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10; 

(b) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an 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 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 Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.

  
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 If a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any one or more Series 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 a majority in principal amount of the Securities of the applicable Series may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee. 
 A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the
retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.7, 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 with respect to each Series of Securities for which it is acting as Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee
shall mail a notice of its succession to each Securityholder of each such Series. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.8, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.7 hereof shall continue for the
benefit of the retiring Trustee with respect to expenses and liabilities incurred by it for actions taken or omitted to be taken in accordance with its rights, powers and duties under this Indenture prior to such replacement. 

 

	 	Section 7.9.	Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc. 

 If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts
into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee, subject to Section 7.10. 

 

	 	Section 7.10.	Eligibility; Disqualification. 

 This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies
the requirements of TIA § 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee shall always have a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA
§ 310(b). 
  

	 	Section 7.11.	Preferential Collection of Claims Against 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. 

ARTICLE VIII. 
 SATISFACTION AND
DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE 
  

	 	Section 8.1.	Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. 

 This Indenture shall upon receipt of a Company
Order by the Trustee cease to be of further effect (except as hereinafter provided in this Section 8.1), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when

 (a) either 

(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and
that have been replaced or paid) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or 
 (ii) all such Securities not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation 
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 (2) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or

 (3) have been called for redemption or are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to
the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company, or 
 (4)
are deemed paid and discharged pursuant to Section 8.3, as applicable; 
 and the Company, in the case of (1), (2) or (3) above, has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount sufficient for the purpose of paying and discharging the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable on or prior to the date of such deposit) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be; 

(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company; and 

(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that
all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with. 

Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.7, and,
if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a) of this Section, the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 4.7, 8.2 and 8.5 shall survive. 

 

	 	Section 8.2.	Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification. 

 (a) Subject to the
provisions of Section 8.5, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1, all money and U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or 8.4 and all money received by the Trustee in
respect of U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or 8.4, shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly
or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, 

  
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to the persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking fund payments or
analogous payments as contemplated by Sections 8.3 or 8.4. 
 (b) The Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee
against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Sections 8.3 or 8.4 or the interest and principal received in respect of such obligations other than any payable by or on behalf of
Holders. 
 (c) The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order any U.S.
Government Obligations or money held by it as provided in Sections 8.3 or 8.4 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants or investment bank expressed in a written certification thereof delivered
to the Trustee, are then in excess of the amount thereof which then would have been required to be deposited for the purpose for which such U.S. Government Obligations or money were deposited or received. This provision shall not authorize the sale
by the Trustee of any U.S. Government Obligations or Foreign Government Obligations held under this Indenture. 
  

	 	Section 8.3.	Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series. 

 Unless this Section 8.3 is otherwise
specified, pursuant to Section 2.2.23, to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding Securities of any Series on the 91st day after the
date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (d) hereof, and the provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such outstanding Securities of such Series, shall no longer be in effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall,
upon receipt of a Company Order, execute instruments acknowledging the same) (“Legal Defeasance”), except as to: 

(a) the rights of Holders of Securities of such Series to receive, from the trust funds described in subparagraph
(d) hereof, (i) payment of the principal of and each installment of principal of and interest on the outstanding Securities of such Series on the Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) the benefit
of any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to the Securities of such Series on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such Series; 

(b) the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 4.7, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.5; and 

(c) the rights, powers, trust and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Company’s obligations in connection
therewith; 
 provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied: 

(d) the Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in
Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for and dedicated solely to the benefit of the Holders of such Securities (i) in the case of

  
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Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency
(other than a composite currency), money, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee),
not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants or investment bank expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal of and interest on, and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of all the Securities of such Series on the Stated Maturities of such installments of interest or
principal and the dates such sinking fund payments are due; 
 (e) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; 

(f) no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day after such date; 
 (g) the Company shall have delivered to
the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the United States Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of
execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable United States 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 Securities of such
Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to United States federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and
at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred; 
 (h) the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company; and 

(i) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that
all conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied with. 
  

	 	Section 8.4.	Covenant Defeasance. 

 Unless this Section 8.4 is otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 2.2.23 to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Company may omit to comply with respect to the Securities of any Series with any term, provision or condition set forth under Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.9 and 5.1 as well as
any additional covenants specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to 

  
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Section 2.2.23 (and the failure to comply with any such covenants shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default with respect to such Series under Section 6.1) and the occurrence of
any event specified in a supplemental indenture for such Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2.18 and designated as an Event of Default shall not constitute a Default or
Event of Default hereunder (“Covenant Defeasance”), with respect to the Securities of such Series, provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied: 

(a) with reference to this Section 8.4, the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited
(except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities
(i) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in Dollars, cash in Dollars and/or U.S. Government Obligations, or (ii) in the case of Securities of such Series denominated in a Foreign Currency (other than a composite currency),
money, which through the payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the
due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants or investment bank expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to
pay and discharge each installment of principal, and interest, on and any mandatory sinking fund payments in respect of all the Securities of such Series on the Stated Maturities of such installments of interest or principal and the dates such
sinking fund payments are due; 
 (b) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default
under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; 
 (c) no
Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit; 

(d) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that Holders of the Securities of such
Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant defeasance and will be subject to United States federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at
the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and covenant defeasance had not occurred; 
 (e) such Covenant
Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act); 

(f) such Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within
the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be registered under the Act or exempt from registration thereunder; 

  
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 (g) if the Securities of that Series are then listed on any securities exchange,
the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to the effect that such deposit and Covenant Defeasance will not cause such Securities to be delisted from such exchange; 

(h) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating the deposit was not made by the
Company with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Company; and 
 (i) the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the covenant defeasance contemplated by this Section have been complied
with. 
 For the avoidance of doubt, in the event the Company exercises the option to effect Covenant Defeasance pursuant to this
Section 8.4 with respect to the Securities of any Series and the Securities of such Series are declared due and payable immediately because of the occurrence of any Event of Default pursuant to Section 6.2, the Company shall remain liable
for any amounts due on the Securities of such Series at the time the Securities of such Series are declared due and payable immediately, to the extent that the amount of money and/or U.S. Government Obligations on deposit with the Trustee pursuant
to Section 8.4(a) above is not sufficient to discharge such amounts. 
  

	 	Section 8.5.	Repayment to Company. 

 Subject to applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and the
Paying Agent shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal and interest that remains unclaimed for two years. After that, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment as
general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person. 
  

	 	Section 8.6.	Reinstatement. 

 If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money
deposited with respect to Securities of any Series in accordance with Section 8.1 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting
such application, the obligations of the Company under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series and under the Securities of such Series shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to
Section 8.1 until such time as the Trustee or the Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.1; provided, however, that if the Company has made any payment of principal of or interest on or
any Additional Amounts with respect to any Securities because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or
Paying Agent. 

  
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 ARTICLE IX. 

AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS 
  

	 	Section 9.1.	Without Consent of Holders. 

 The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this
Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series without the consent of any Securityholder: 
 (a) to cure any ambiguity,
defect or inconsistency that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder; 
 (b) to comply with Article V;

 (c) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities; 

(d) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder; 

(e) to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and conditions of Securities of any Series as permitted by
this Indenture; 
 (f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more Series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or 

(g) to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.

  

	 	Section 9.2.	With Consent of Holders. 

 The Company and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental
indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of each Series affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or
exchange offer for the Securities of such Series), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights
of the Securityholders of each such Series, subject to Section 9.3. Except as provided in Section 6.13, and subject to Section 9.3 below, the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any
Series by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series) may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities with
respect to such Series. 
 It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Securities under this Section 9.2 to approve the
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indenture or waiver under this section becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders of Securities affected thereby, a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver.
Any failure by the Company to mail or publish such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver. 

 

	 	Section 9.3.	Limitations. 

 Without the consent of each Securityholder affected, an amendment or
waiver may not: 
 (a) reduce the principal amount of Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment to, supplement to
or waiver of or modification of the Securities or the Indenture; 
 (b) reduce the rate of or extend the time for payment of
interest (including default interest) on any Security; 
 (c) reduce the principal or change the Stated Maturity of any
Security or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation with respect to any Series; 

(d) modify any obligation to pay the Additional Amounts; 

(e) reduce the principal amount of Discount Securities payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof; 

(f) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, or interest on any Security (except a rescission of
acceleration of the Securities of any Series by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration); 

(g) make the principal of, or interest on any Security payable in a currency other than that stated in the Security; 

(h) make any change in Sections 6.8, 6.13 or 9.3 (this Section); or 

(i) waive a redemption payment with respect to any Security, provided that such redemption is made at the Company’s
option. 
  

	 	Section 9.4.	Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. 

 Every amendment to this Indenture or the
Securities of one or more Series shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies with the TIA as then in effect. 
  

	 	Section 9.5.	Revocation and Effect of Consents. 

 Until an amendment is set forth in a supplemental
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every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security.
However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date of the supplemental indenture or the date the waiver becomes effective.

 Any amendment or waiver once effective shall bind every Securityholder of each Series affected by such amendment or waiver unless it is
of the type described in any of clauses (a) through (i) of Section 9.3. In that case, the amendment or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a
Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security. 
  

	 	Section 9.6.	Notation on or Exchange of Securities. 

 The Trustee may place an appropriate notation
about an amendment or waiver on any Security of any Series thereafter authenticated. The Company in exchange for Securities of that Series may issue and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate upon request new Securities of
that Series that reflect the amendment or waiver. 
  

	 	Section 9.7.	Trustee Protected. 

 In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.4 and stating that the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such amendment, supplement or
modification is the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, subject to customary exceptions. The Trustee shall sign all supplemental indentures upon delivery of such an Officer’s
Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, except that the Trustee need not sign any supplemental indenture that adversely affects its rights, duties, liabilities or immunities. 
  

	 	Section 9.8.	Effect of Execution of Supplemental Indenture. 

 Upon the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article IX, this Indenture shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations,
duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of all of the Securities or of the Securities of any Series affected, as the case may be, shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject
in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes. 

  
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	 	Section 9.9.	Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. 

 Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to
this Article shall conform to the requirements of the TIA as in effect at the time of execution thereof. 
 ARTICLE X. 

MISCELLANEOUS 
  

	 	Section 10.1.	Trust Indenture Act Controls. 

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

	 	Section 10.2.	Notices. 

 Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the other, or by
a Holder to the Company or the Trustee, is duly given if in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail: 
 if to the Company: 

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) 

SE-164 83 Stockholm 
 Sweden

 Attention: Group Treasury (cc. Group Legal Affairs) 

Facsimile: +46 10 719 0150 (cc. 46 10 719 9527) 

with a copy to: 
 Latham & Watkins
(London) LLP 
 99 Bishopsgate 

London EC2M 3XF 
 United Kingdom

 Attention: Olof Clausson 

Facsimile: +44 20 7374 4460 
 if to the Trustee:

 Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas 

60 Wall Street – 27th floor 

MSNYC60-2710 
 New York, New
York 10005 
 Attention: Trust and Agency Services 

Facsimile: 732-578-4635 

  
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 with a copy to: 

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company 

100 Plaza One - 6th floor 

MSJCY03-0699 
 Jersey City, New
Jersey 07311-3901 Attention: Trust and Agency Services 
 Facsimile: 732-578-4635 

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to: 

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 

1540 Broadway 
 New York, NY
10036-4039 
 Attention: Bart Pisella, Esq. and Timothy P. Kober Esq. 

Facsimile: 212-881-9368 
 The
Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications. 

Any notice or communication to a Securityholder shall be mailed by first-class mail to his address shown on the register kept by the
Registrar. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Securityholder of any Series or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders of that or any other Series. 

If a notice or communication is mailed or published in the manner provided above, within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not
the Securityholder receives it. 
 If the Company mails a notice or communication to Securityholders, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee
and each Agent at the same time. 
 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or any Security, where this Indenture or any
Security provides for notice of any event (including any notice of redemption) to a Holder of a Global Security (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given to the Depositary for such Security (or its designee) pursuant to
the customary procedures of such Depositary. 
  

	 	Section 10.3.	Communication by Holders with Other Holders. 

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

  
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	 	Section 10.4.	Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. 

 Upon any request or application by
the Company to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee: 
 (a) an
Officer’s Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and 

(b) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.

  

	 	Section 10.5.	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 has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and 

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

 

	 	Section 10.6.	Rules by Trustee and Agents. 

 The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a
meeting of Securityholders of one or more Series. Any Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions. 
  

	 	Section 10.7.	Legal Holidays. 

 Unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officer’s
Certificate or supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series, a “Legal Holiday” is any day that is not a Business Day. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at a Place of Payment, payment may be made at that place on the next
succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period. 
  

	 	Section 10.8.	No Recourse Against Others. 

 A director, officer, employee or stockholder (past or
present), as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder
by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities. 

  
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	 	Section 10.9.	Counterparts. 

 This Indenture 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. 

 

	 	Section 10.10.	Governing Laws. 

 THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES, INCLUDING ANY CLAIM OR
CONTROVERSY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE INDENTURE OR THE SECURITIES, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAW OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK. 
  

	 	Section 10.11.	No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. 

 This Indenture may not be used to
interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture. 

 

	 	Section 10.12.	Successors. 

 All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall
bind its successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor. 
  

	 	Section 10.13.	Severability. 

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

	 	Section 10.14.	Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. 

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

 

	 	Section 10.15.	Securities in a Foreign Currency. 

 Unless otherwise specified in a Board Resolution, a
supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Indenture with respect to a particular Series of Securities, whenever for purposes of this Indenture any action may be taken by the Holders
of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of Securities of all Series or all Series affected by a particular action at the time outstanding and, at such time, there are outstanding Securities of any Series which are denominated in more
than one currency, then the principal amount of Securities of such Series which shall be deemed to be outstanding for the 

  
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purpose of taking such action shall be determined by the Company by converting any such other currency into a currency that is designated upon issuance of any particular Series of Securities.
Unless otherwise specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Indenture with respect to a particular Series of Securities, such conversion shall be
at the spot rate for the purchase of the designated currency as published in The Financial Times in the “Currency Rates” section (of, if The Financial Times is no longer published, or if such information is no longer available in The
Financial Times, such source as may be selected in good faith by the Company) on any date of determination. The provisions of this paragraph shall apply in determining the equivalent principal amount in respect of Securities of a Series denominated
in currency other than Dollars in connection with any action taken by Holders of Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture. 
 All
decisions and determinations provided for in the preceding paragraph shall, in the absence of manifest error, to the extent permitted by law, be conclusive for all purposes and irrevocably binding upon the Trustee and all Holders. 

 

	 	Section 10.16.	Judgment Currency. 

 The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do
so under applicable law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of or interest or other amount on the Securities of any Series (the “Required
Currency”) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the “Judgment Currency”), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The
City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the day on which final unappealable judgment is entered, unless such day is not a New York Banking Day, then the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with
normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which the final unappealable judgment is entered and (b) its
obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency
other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be
enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be
payable, and (iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, “New York Banking Day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in
The City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close. 
  

	 	Section 10.17.	Force Majeure. 

 In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure
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beyond its control, including, without limitation, 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 best efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking
industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances. 
  

	 	Section 10.18.	Appointment of Agent for Service. 

 By the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Company hereby appoints Ericsson Inc. as its agent upon which process may be served in any legal action or proceeding which may be instituted in any Federal or State court in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, arising out of or relating
to the Securities or this Indenture, but for that purpose only. Service of process upon such agent at 6300 Legacy Drive, Plano, Texas 75024 and written notice of said service to the Company by the person servicing the same addressed as provided by
Section 10.2, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company in any such legal action or proceeding, and the Company hereby submits to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any such court in which any such legal
action or proceeding is so instituted. Such appointment shall be irrevocable so long as the Holders of Securities shall have any rights pursuant to the terms thereof or of this Indenture until the appointment of a successor by the Company with the
consent of the Trustee and such successor’s acceptance of such appointment. The Company further agrees to take any and all action, including the execution and filing of any and all such documents and instruments, as may be necessary to continue
such designation and appointment of such agent or successor. 
  

	 	Section 10.19.	USA PATRIOT Act Section 326 Customer Identification Program. 

 The parties hereto
acknowledge that in order to help the United States government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, pursuant to Federal regulations that became effective on October 1, 2003 (Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act)
requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, record and update information that identifies each person establishing a relationship or opening an account. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide to the Trustee such
information as it may request, from time to time, in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, including but not limited to the name, address, tax identification number and other information that will allow it to
identify the individual or entity who is establishing the relationship or opening the account and may also ask for formation documents such as articles of incorporation or other identifying documents to be provided. 

ARTICLE XI. 
 SINKING FUNDS 

 

	 	Section 11.1.	Applicability of Article. 

 The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any
sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities of a Series if so provided by the terms of such Securities pursuant to Section 2.2 and except as otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such Series issued pursuant to this
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 The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the Securities of any
Series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment” and any other amount provided for by the terms of Securities of such Series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided
for by the terms of Securities of any Series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 11.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any Series as provided
for by the terms of the Securities of such Series. 
  

	 	Section 11.2.	Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities. 

 The Company may, in satisfaction
of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any Series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1) deliver outstanding Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable
(other than any of such Securities previously called for mandatory sinking fund redemption) and (2) apply as credit Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable and which have been repurchased by the Company or
redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Series of Securities (except pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund) or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments or other optional redemptions
pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received by the Trustee, together with an Officer’s Certificate with respect thereto, not later than 15 days
prior to the date on which the Trustee begins the process of selecting Securities for redemption, and shall be credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund
and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 11.2, the principal amount of Securities of such Series to be
redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such Series for redemption, except upon receipt of a Company Order that such action be taken, and such cash payment shall be
held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment, provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order pay over and deliver to the
Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that Series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment required to be
released to the Company. 
  

	 	Section 11.3.	Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. 

 Not less than 45 days (unless otherwise
indicated in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate in respect of a particular Series of Securities) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the
Trustee an Officer’s Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that Series pursuant to the terms of that Series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the
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is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of Securities of that Series pursuant to Section 11.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory
sinking fund payment, and the Company shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 30 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a
particular Series of Securities) before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 3.2 and cause notice of the redemption
thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 3.3. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the
day and year first above written. 
  

					
	 TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET
 LM
ERICSSON (PUBL)

		
	By:	 	/s/ Vidar Mohammar
		 	  

		 	Name:	 	Vidar Mohammar
		 	Title:	 	Attorney-in-Fact
		
	By:	 	/s/ Cecilia Björklöf Pedersen
		 	  

		 	Name:	 	Cecilia Björklöf Pedersen
		 	Title:	 	Attorney-in-Fact

  
 (Signature Page to the
Indenture) 

 
					
	DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee
		
	By:	 	Deutsche Bank National Trust Company
		
	By:	 	/s/ Wanda Camacho
		 	  

		 	Name:	 	Wanda Camacho
		 	Title:	 	Vice President
		
	By:	 	/s/ Rodney Gaughan
		 	  

		 	Name:	 	Rodney Gaughan
		 	Title:	 	Vice President

  
 (Signature Page to the
Indenture)

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