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Form 8-K LENNAR CORP /NEW/ For: Nov 29

November 30, 2017 4:47 PM

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

November 29, 2017

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)

 

 

LENNAR CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-11749   95-4337490

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

700 Northwest 107th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33172

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(305) 559-4000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).

Emerging growth company 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. 

 

 

 

 


Item 8.01 Other Events.

On November 29, 2017, Lennar Corporation (the “Company”) completed the sale of $300 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.95% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”) and $900 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.75% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes” and, together with the 2020 Notes, the “Notes”). The Notes were sold to “qualified institutional buyers” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), and non-U.S. persons outside the United States under Regulation S under the Act, have not been registered under the Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.

The Company received net proceeds of approximately $1.19 billion from the sale of the Notes, after deducting

the initial purchaser discount and certain expenses of the offering, which the Company intends to use to fund a portion of the cash consideration payable by the Company in connection with the Merger (as defined below), to pay expenses related to the Merger and for general corporate purposes. As previously announced, on October 29, 2017, the Company, CalAtlantic Group, Inc. (“CalAtlantic”) and a subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”) entered into an agreement pursuant to which CalAtlantic, subject to specified conditions, will be merged with and into Merger Sub (the “Merger”). If (i) the consummation of the Merger does not occur on or before August 31, 2018 or (ii) prior to August 31, 2018, the Company notifies the Trustee (as defined below) that the Company will not pursue the consummation of the Merger, the Company will be required to redeem all the outstanding Notes at a redemption price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but not including, the date of such redemption.

The Notes are governed by an Indenture (the “Indenture”), dated as of November 29, 2017, by and among the Company, a number of its subsidiaries as guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”). Interest on the 2020 Notes will accrue at the rate of 2.95% per annum from November 29, 2017, and will be payable semi-annually on May 29 and November 29 of each year, commencing May 29, 2018. The 2020 Notes will mature on November 29, 2020, subject to earlier redemption or repurchase. Interest on the 2027 Notes will accrue at the rate of 4.75% per annum from November 29, 2017, and will be payable semi-annually on May 29 and November 29 of each year, commencing May 29, 2018. The 2027 Notes will mature on November 29, 2027, subject to earlier redemption or repurchase. The Notes are guaranteed by most, but not all, of the Company’s subsidiaries, but the guarantee by particular subsidiaries may be suspended or terminated under some circumstances.

The above description of the Notes and the Indenture is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Indenture (including the forms of Notes included therein), a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 4.1 hereto.

On November 29, 2017, the Company and the initial purchasers of the Notes entered into a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Agreement”) regarding the Notes pursuant to which the Company agreed, among other things, to file an exchange offer registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The foregoing description of the Registration Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Registration Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 4.2 hereto.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description of Document

4.1    Indenture, dated as of November 29, 2017, among Lennar Corporation, each of the guarantors identified therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee, including the form of 2.95% Senior Notes due 2020 and the form of 4.75% Senior Notes due 2027—Filed herewith.
4.2    Registration Agreement, dated as of November 29, 2017, among the Company, each of the guarantors identified therein, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC.


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: November 30, 2017     Lennar Corporation
    By:   /s/ Bruce Gross
      Name:   Bruce Gross
      Title:   Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Exhibit 4.1

Execution Version

LENNAR CORPORATION

as Issuer,

the GUARANTORS

party hereto

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

as Trustee

 

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of November 29, 2017

 

 

2.950% Senior Notes due 2020

4.750% Senior Notes due 2027

 

 

 


CROSS REFERENCE TABLE

 

TIA Section

   Indenture Section

310(a)(1)

   7.10

      (a)(2)

   7.10

      (a)(3)

   N.A.

      (a)(4)

   N.A.

      (a)(5)

   7.10

      (b)

   7.8; 7.10; 11.2

      (c)

   N.A.

311(a)

   7.11

      (b)

   7.11

      (c)

   N.A.

312(a)

   2.5

      (b)

   11.4

      (c)

   11.4

313(a)

   7.6

      (b)(1)

   N.A.

      (b)(2)

   7.6

      (c)

   7.6; 11.2

      (d)

   7.6

314(a)

   4.2; 4.4; 11.2

      (b)

   N.A.

      (c)(1)

   7.2; 11.5

      (c)(2)

   7.2; 11.5

      (c)(3)

   N.A.

      (d)

   N.A.

      (e)

   11.6

      (f)

   N.A.

315(a)

   7.1(b)

      (b)

   7.5; 11.2

      (c)

   7.1(a)

      (d)

   6.5; 7.1(c)

      (e)

   6.12

316(a)(1)(A)

   6.5

      (a)(1)(B)

   6.4

      (a)(2)

   N.A.

      (b)

   6.7

      (c)

   1.1, 2.5, 9.4

317(a)(1)

   6.8

      (a)(2)

   6.9

      (b)

   2.4

318(a)

   11.1

      (c)

   11.1

 

N.A. means Not Applicable.

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

 

(i)


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I.

  

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

     1  

Section 1.1.

  

Definitions

     1  

Section 1.2.

  

Incorporation by Reference of TIA

     12  

Section 1.3.

  

Rules of Construction

     13  

ARTICLE II.

  

THE NOTES

     13  

Section 2.1.

  

Form and Dating

     13  

Section 2.2.

  

Execution and Authentication; Aggregate Principal Amount

     15  

Section 2.3.

  

Registrar and Paying Agent

     16  

Section 2.4.

  

Paying Agent to Hold Assets in Trust

     16  

Section 2.5.

  

Holder Lists

     16  

Section 2.6.

  

Transfer and Exchange

     17  

Section 2.7.

  

Replacement Notes

     17  

Section 2.8.

  

Outstanding Notes

     18  

Section 2.9.

  

Treasury Notes

     18  

Section 2.10.

  

Temporary Notes

     18  

Section 2.11.

  

Cancellation

     19  

Section 2.12.

  

Defaulted Interest

     19  

Section 2.13.

  

CUSIP Number

     20  

Section 2.14.

  

Deposit of Monies

     20  

Section 2.15.

  

Restrictive Legends

     20  

Section 2.16.

  

Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes

     21  

Section 2.17.

  

Special Transfer Provisions

     22  

Section 2.18.

  

Additional Interest Under Registration Rights Agreement

     35  

ARTICLE III.

  

REDEMPTION

     35  

Section 3.1.

  

Optional Redemption by the Company

     35  

Section 3.2.

  

Special Mandatory Redemption by the Company

     36  

ARTICLE IV.

  

COVENANTS

     36  

Section 4.1.

  

Payment of Notes

     36  

Section 4.2.

  

Reporting

     37  

Section 4.3.

  

Corporate Existence

     37  

Section 4.4.

  

Compliance Certificate

     37  

Section 4.5.

  

Further Instruments and Acts

     37  

Section 4.6.

  

Limitations on Liens

     38  

Section 4.7.

  

Sale-Leaseback Transactions

     40  

Section 4.8.

  

Furnishing Guarantees

     41  

Section 4.9.

  

Change of Control

     41  

ARTICLE V.

  

SUCCESSOR CORPORATION

     44  

Section 5.1.

  

Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms

     44  

Section 5.2.

  

Successor Corporation Substituted

     44  

 

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ARTICLE VI.

  

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

     45  

Section 6.1.

  

Events of Default

     45  

Section 6.2.

  

Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment

     46  

Section 6.3.

  

Other Remedies

     47  

Section 6.4.

  

Waiver of Existing Defaults

     47  

Section 6.5.

  

Control by Majority

     48  

Section 6.6.

  

Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor

     48  

Section 6.7.

  

Limitation on Suits

     48  

Section 6.8.

  

Rights of Holders to Receive Payment

     49  

Section 6.9.

  

Collection Suit by Trustee

     49  

Section 6.10.

  

Trustee May File Proofs of Claim

     49  

Section 6.11.

  

Restoration of Positions

     49  

Section 6.12.

  

Priorities

     49  

Section 6.13.

  

Undertaking for Costs

     50  

Section 6.14.

  

Stay, Extension or Usury Laws

     50  

Section 6.15.

  

Liability of Stockholders, Officers, Directors and Incorporators

     50  

ARTICLE VII.

  

TRUSTEE

     50  

Section 7.1.

  

Duties of Trustee

     50  

Section 7.2.

  

Rights of Trustee

     52  

Section 7.3.

  

Individual Rights of Trustee

     53  

Section 7.4.

  

Trustee’s Disclaimer

     53  

Section 7.5.

  

Notice of Defaults

     53  

Section 7.6.

  

Reports by Trustee

     53  

Section 7.7.

  

Compensation and Indemnity

     54  

Section 7.8.

  

Replacement of Trustee

     54  

Section 7.9.

  

Successor Trustee by Merger, etc

     55  

Section 7.10.

  

Eligibility; Disqualification

     56  

Section 7.11.

  

Preferential Collection of Claims

     56  

ARTICLE VIII.

  

DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

     56  

Section 8.1.

  

Termination of the Company’s Obligations

     56  

Section 8.2.

  

Application of Trust Money

     57  

Section 8.3.

  

Officers’ Certificate; Opinion of Counsel

     57  

Section 8.4.

  

Repayment to the Company

     57  

Section 8.5.

  

Reinstatement

     57  

ARTICLE IX.

  

MODIFICATION OF THE INDENTURE

     58  

Section 9.1.

  

Without Consent of Holders

     58  

Section 9.2.

  

With Consent of Holders

     58  

Section 9.3.

  

Compliance with Trust Indenture Act

     59  

Section 9.4.

  

Revocation and Effect of Consents

     59  

Section 9.5.

  

Notation on or Exchange of Notes

     59  

Section 9.6.

  

Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc

     59  

 

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ARTICLE X.

  

GUARANTEE OF NOTES

     60  

Section 10.1.

  

Unconditional Guarantee

     60  

Section 10.2.

  

Limitations on Guarantees; Release or Suspension of Particular Guarantors’ Obligations

     61  

Section 10.3.

  

Execution and Delivery of Guarantee

     61  

Section 10.4.

  

Release of a Guarantor due to Extraordinary Events

     62  

Section 10.5.

  

Waiver of Subrogation

     62  

Section 10.6.

  

No Set-Off

     63  

Section 10.7.

  

Obligations Absolute

     63  

Section 10.8.

  

Obligations Continuing

     63  

Section 10.9.

  

Obligations Not Reduced

     63  

Section 10.10.

  

Obligations Reinstated

     63  

Section 10.11.

  

Obligations Not Affected

     64  

Section 10.12.

  

Waiver

     65  

Section 10.13.

  

No Obligation to Take Action Against the Company

     65  

Section 10.14.

  

Dealing with the Company and Others

     65  

Section 10.15.

  

Default and Enforcement

     65  

Section 10.16.

  

Amendment, etc

     66  

Section 10.17.

  

Acknowledgment

     66  

Section 10.18.

  

Costs and Expenses

     66  

Section 10.19.

  

No Merger or Waiver; Cumulative Remedies

     66  

Section 10.20.

  

Survival of Obligations

     66  

Section 10.21.

  

Guarantee in Addition to Other Obligations

     66  

Section 10.22.

  

Severability

     66  

Section 10.23.

  

Successors and Assigns

     66  

Section 10.24.

  

Acknowledgement under TIA

     67  

ARTICLE XI.

  

MISCELLANEOUS

     67  

Section 11.1.

  

TIA Controls

     67  

Section 11.2.

  

Notices

     67  

Section 11.3.

  

Electronic Instructions/Directions

     68  

Section 11.4.

  

Communications by Holders with Other Holders

     68  

Section 11.5.

  

Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent

     69  

Section 11.6.

  

Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion

     69  

Section 11.7.

  

Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar

     69  

Section 11.8.

  

Legal Holidays

     69  

Section 11.9.

  

Governing Law

     70  

Section 11.10.

  

No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements

     70  

Section 11.11.

  

No Personal Liability

     70  

Section 11.12.

  

Successors

     70  

Section 11.13.

  

Counterparts

     70  

Section 11.14.

  

Waiver of Jury Trial

     70  

Section 11.15.

  

Force Majeure

     70  

Section 11.16.

  

Severability

     71  

Section 11.17.

  

FATCA

     71  

 

(iv)


Exhibit A:    Form of 2020 Note
Exhibit B:    Form of 2020 Exchange Note
Exhibit C:    Form of 2027 Note
Exhibit D:    Form of 2027 Exchange Note
Exhibit E:    Global Note Legend

Exhibit F:

   Form of Certificate to be Delivered in Connection with Transfers to Non-QIB Accredited Investors
Exhibit G:    Form of Certificate of Transfer
Exhibit H:    Form of Certificate of Exchange
Exhibit I:    Form of Guarantee
Schedule I:    Guarantors

 

(v)


INDENTURE, dated as of November 29, 2017 (this “Indenture”), among LENNAR CORPORATION (the “Company”), a Delaware corporation having its principal office at 700 N.W. 107th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33172, each of the GUARANTORS named herein and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, a New York banking corporation having its principal corporate trust office at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, as trustee (the “Trustee”).

The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of (a) its 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 and its 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 and (b) if and when issued as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement (as defined herein) in an Exchange Offer (as defined herein) or in a Private Exchange (as defined herein) for any Initial Notes (as defined herein), its Exchange Notes (as defined herein) and its Private Exchange Notes (as defined herein), to be guaranteed by the Guarantors and, to provide therefor, the Company and the Guarantors have duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture. All things necessary to make the Notes (as defined herein), when executed by the Company, and authenticated and delivered hereunder, the valid obligations of the Company, and to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company and the Guarantors in accordance with their and its terms, have been done.

Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) of each of the Company’s (i) 2020 Notes (as defined herein) and (ii) 2027 Notes (as defined herein).

ARTICLE I.

DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

Section 1.1.    Definitions.

$” means the lawful currency of the United States.

144A Global Note” has he meaning set forth in Section 2.1(a).

2020 Exchange Notes” means the 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 to be issued in exchange for Initial 2020 Notes pursuant to (i) the Registration Rights Agreement, or (ii) with respect to Initial 2020 Notes issued under this Indenture subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2, the Registration Rights Agreement.

2020 Notes” means, collectively, the Initial 2020 Notes, the 2020 Private Exchange Notes, if any, and the Unrestricted 2020 Notes that are issued pursuant to this Indenture, treated as a single class of securities, as amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, that are issued pursuant to this Indenture.

2020 Private Exchange Notes” means the 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 to be issued in exchange for Initial 2020 Notes pursuant to a Private Exchange.

2027 Exchange Notes” means the 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 to be issued in exchange for Initial 2027 Notes pursuant to (i) the Registration Rights Agreement, or (ii) with respect to Initial 2027 Notes issued under this Indenture subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2, the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

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2027 Notes” means, collectively, the Initial 2027 Notes, the 2027 Private Exchange Notes, if any, and the Unrestricted 2027 Notes that are issued pursuant to this Indenture, treated as a single class of securities, as amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

2027 Private Exchange Notes” means the 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 to be issued in exchange for Initial 2027 Notes pursuant to a Private Exchange.

Additional Interest” shall have the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement.

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

Agent” means any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-Registrar.

Agent Members” has the meaning provided in Section 2.16.

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

Authenticating Agent” has the meaning provided in Section 2.2.

Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11 of the United States Code or any similar United States Federal or State law for the relief of debtors.

Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

Board Resolution” means a resolution by the Board of Directors or Executive Committee of the Company certified by its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary as being duly adopted and in full force and effect.

Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday which is not a Legal Holiday in New York, New York.

Capital Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of or in such Person’s capital stock or other equity interests, and options, rights or warrants to purchase such capital stock or other equity interests, whether now outstanding or issued after the Issue Date.

 

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Change of Control Offer” has the meaning provided in Section 4.9(a).

Change of Control Payment” has the meaning provided in Section 4.9(a).

Change of Control Payment Date” has the meaning provided in Section 4.9(a).

Class A Common Stock” shall mean the Company’s Class A common stock, par value $.10 per share.

Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, Société Anonyme.

Comparable Treasury Issue means the United States Treasury security selected by a Reference Treasury Dealer for a series of Notes as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of such series of Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such series of Notes.

Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to a series of Notes and any Redemption Date, (1) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue for such series of Notes (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date, as set forth in the daily statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and designated “Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations for U.S. Government Securities” or (2) if such release (or any successor release) is not published or does not contain such price on such Business Day, (A) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such series of Notes, or (B) if the Quotation Agent obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such series of Notes, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations.

Consolidated Net Tangible Assets means the total amount of assets which would be included on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries under GAAP (less applicable reserves and other properly deductible items) after deducting therefrom:

 

  (A) all short-term liabilities, i.e., liabilities payable by their terms less than one year from the date of determination and not renewable or extendable at the option of the obligor for a period ending more than one year after such date, and liabilities in respect of retiree benefits other than pensions for which the Restricted Subsidiaries are required to accrue pursuant to ASC No. 715;

 

  (B) investments in Subsidiaries that are not Restricted Subsidiaries; and

 

  (C) all assets reflected on the Company’s balance sheet as the carrying value of goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount, unamortized expense incurred in the issuance of debt and other intangible assets.

 

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Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 101 Barclay Street, New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, with a copy to: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., 500 Ross Street, 12th Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15262, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, Fax No. (412) 234-8377, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.

Default” means any event which, upon the giving of notice or passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

Default Interest Payment Date” has the meaning provided in Section 2.12.

Definitive Note” means a certificated Note registered in the name of the Holder thereof and issued in accordance with Section 2.17(i) hereof, substantially in the form of Exhibit A, except that such Note shall not bear the Global Note Legend and shall not have the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” attached thereto.

Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and successors.

Euroclear” means Euroclear S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear system.

Event of Default” has the meaning provided in Section 6.1.

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

Exchange Notes” means the 2020 Exchange Notes and the 2027 Exchange Notes.

Exchange Offer” has the meaning provided in the Registration Rights Agreement.

Fiscal Year” means the period commencing on December 1 of a year and ending on the next November 30 or such other period (not to exceed 12 months or 53 weeks) as the Company may from time to time adopt as its fiscal year.

 

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Funded Debt of any Person means all Indebtedness for borrowed money created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed in any manner by such Person, and all Indebtedness, contingent or otherwise, incurred or assumed by such Person in connection with the acquisition of any business, property or asset, which in each case matures more than one year after, or which by its terms is renewable or extendible or payable out of the proceeds of similar Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the terms of any revolving credit agreement or any similar agreement at the option of such Person for a period ending more than one year after the date as of which Funded Debt is being determined; provided, however, that Funded Debt shall not include (i) any Indebtedness for the payment, redemption or satisfaction of which money (or evidences of Indebtedness, if permitted under the instrument creating or evidencing such Indebtedness) in the necessary amount shall have been irrevocably deposited in trust with a trustee or proper depositary either on or before the maturity or redemption date thereof, (ii) any Indebtedness of such Person to any of its subsidiaries or of any subsidiary to such Person or any other subsidiary or (iii) any Indebtedness incurred in connection with the financing of operating, construction or acquisition projects, provided that the recourse for such Indebtedness is limited to the assets of such projects.

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

Global Notes” means the 144A Global Notes, the IAI Global Notes and the Regulation S Global Notes.

Guarantee” has the meaning provided in Section 10.1.

Guarantor” means (a) initially, each of the Guarantors set forth on Schedule I to this Indenture, and (b) each of the Company’s Subsidiaries that in the future executes a Guarantee in substantially the form of Exhibit I hereto in which such Subsidiary agrees to be bound by the terms hereof as Guarantor, in each case, subject to release or suspension as provided in Article X.

Holder” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Registrar’s books.

IAI Global Note” means, with respect to a series of Notes, a permanent global note in registered form representing the aggregate principal amount of Notes of such series sold to Institutional Accredited Investors.

 

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Indebtedness means, with respect to the Company or any Subsidiary, and without duplication, (a) the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on, and fees, costs, enforcement expenses, collateral protection expenses and other reimbursement or indemnity obligations in respect of all indebtedness or obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary to any Person, including but not limited to banks and other lending institutions, for money borrowed that is evidenced by a note, bond, debenture, loan agreement, or similar instrument or agreement (including purchase money obligations with original maturities in excess of one year and noncontingent reimbursement obligations in respect of amounts paid under letters of credit); (b) all reimbursement obligations and other liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to letters of credit, bank guarantees or bankers’ acceptances, (c) all obligations and liabilities (contingent or otherwise) in respect of leases of the Company or any Subsidiary required, in conformity with GAAP, to be accounted for as capital lease obligations on the balance sheet of the Company, (d) all obligations of the Company or any Subsidiary (contingent or otherwise) with respect to an interest rate or other swap, cap or collar agreement or other similar instrument or agreement or foreign currency hedge, exchange, purchase or similar instrument or agreement, (e) all direct or indirect guaranties or similar agreements by the Company or any Subsidiary in respect of, and obligations or liabilities (contingent or otherwise) of the Company or such Subsidiary to purchase or otherwise acquire, or otherwise assure a creditor against loss in respect of, Indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of another Person of the kind described in clauses (a) through (d), (f) any Indebtedness or other obligations, excluding any operating leases the Company or any Subsidiary is currently (or may become) a party to, described in clauses (a) through (d) secured by any Lien existing on property which is owned or held by the Company or such Subsidiary, regardless of whether the Indebtedness or other obligation secured thereby shall have been assumed by the Company or such Subsidiary and (g) any and all deferrals, renewals, extensions and refinancing of, or amendments, modifications or supplements to, any Indebtedness, obligation or liability of the kind described in clauses (a) through (f).

Indenture” has the meaning set forth in the recitals.

Indirect Participant” means a Person who holds a beneficial interest in a Global Note through a Participant.

Initial 2020 Notes” means, collectively, (i) the 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 of the Company issued on the Issue Date and (ii) any other 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 that are issued under this Indenture, subsequent to the Issue Date, pursuant to Section 2.2, for so long as each such securities constitute Restricted Securities.

Initial 2027 Notes” means, collectively, (i) the 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 of the Company issued on the Issue Date and (ii) any other 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 that are issued under this Indenture, subsequent to the Issue Date, pursuant to Section 2.2, for so long as each such securities constitute Restricted Securities.

Initial Notes” means the Initial 2020 Notes and the Initial 2027 Notes.

Initial Purchasers” means Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and PNC Capital Markets LLC.

Institutional Accredited Investor” means an institution that is an “accredited investor” as that term is defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act.

Interest Payment Date means the stated maturity of an installment of interest on the applicable series of Notes.

Issue Date” means November 29, 2017.

Legal Holiday” means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

 

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Lien means any mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, charge or security interest of any kind.

Maturity Date” means (i) with respect to the 2020 Notes, November 29, 2020, and (ii) with respect to the 2027 Notes, November 29, 2027.

Merger” means the merger contemplated by the Merger Agreement.

Merger Agreement” means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 29, 2017, as modified, amended or waived from time to time, among CalAtlantic Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, the Company and Merger Sub.

Merger Sub” means Cheetah Cub Group Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.

Net Worth” of any Person means the total consolidated stockholders’ equity of the Person determined in accordance with GAAP.

Non-Recourse Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for which the holder of such Indebtedness has no recourse, directly or indirectly, to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary for the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Indebtedness, and for which the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary is not, directly or indirectly, obligated or otherwise liable for the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Indebtedness, except pursuant to mortgages, deeds of trust or other security interests or other recourse, obligations or liabilities, in respect of specific land or other real property interests of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary securing such Indebtedness; provided, that, recourse, obligations or liabilities solely for indemnities, breaches of warranties or representations contained in such mortgages, deeds of trust or grants of security interests in respect of Indebtedness will not prevent that Indebtedness from being classified as Non-Recourse Indebtedness.

Non-U.S. Person” means a person who is not a U.S. person, as defined in Regulation S.

Notes” means the 2020 Notes and the 2027 Notes. Each of the 2020 Notes and the 2027 Notes are sometimes referred to in this Indenture as a “series of Notes.”

Obligations” means all obligations for principal, premium, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing the Notes.

Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, any Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Executive Vice President or Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, the Controller or any Assistant Secretary of a Person.

Officers’ Certificate” when used with respect to the Company means a certificate signed by two Officers. Each such certificate will comply with Section 314 of the TIA and include the statements described in Section 11.6.

 

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Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion acceptable to the Trustee from legal counsel. That counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.

Participant” means, with respect to the Depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, a Person who has an account with the Depositary, Euroclear or Clearstream, respectively (and, with respect to DTC, shall include Euroclear and Clearstream).

Paying Agent” means the office or agency designated by the Company where Notes may be presented for payment, and includes any additional Paying Agent.

Permitted Liens has the meaning provided in Section 4.6.

Permitted Sale-Leaseback Transactions” has the meaning provided in Section 4.7.

Person means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any government agency or political subdivision.

Physical Notes” has the meaning provided in Section 2.1.

Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in the United States.

Private Exchange” shall have the meaning provided in the Registration Rights Agreement(s).

Private Exchange Notes” means the 2020 Private Exchange Notes and the 2027 Private Exchange Notes.

Private Placement Legend” means the legend set forth in Section 2.17(l)(i).

Property” of any Person means all types of real, personal, tangible, intangible or mixed property owned by such Person, whether or not included in the most recent consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries under GAAP.

Qualified Institutional Buyer” or “QIB” shall have the meaning specified in Rule 144A.

Quotation Agent” means any Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company.

Record Date means the Record Date specified in the applicable series of Notes.

Redemption Date” when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.

Redemption Price when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture and the applicable series of Notes. For the avoidance of doubt, the Redemption Price excludes accrued interest to the Redemption Date.

 

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Reference Treasury Dealer means, for a series of Notes, (a) each of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer in New York City, the Company shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer; and (b) any other Primary Treasury Dealer(s) selected by the Company.

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer for a series of Notes and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Quotation Agent, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue for such series of Notes (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Quotation Agent by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.

Registrar” has the meaning provided in Section 2.3.

Registration Rights Agreement” means, as applicable, (a) the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of the Issue Date among the Company, the Guarantors and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as the representatives of the Initial Purchasers, relating to the Initial Notes or (b) any registration rights agreement, substantially identical to the Registration Rights Agreement referred to in clause (a) above, entered into among the Company, the Guarantors and the respective purchasers or their representatives or representative, on substantially identical terms, relating to any Initial Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.2.

Regulation S” means Regulation S under the Securities Act.

Regulation S Global Note” means a Regulation S Temporary Global Note or Regulation S Permanent Global Note, as applicable.

Regulation S Permanent Global Note” means a permanent Global Note in the form of Exhibit A hereto (with respect to the 2020 Notes) or Exhibit C hereto (with respect to the 2027 Notes) bearing the Global Note Legend and the Private Placement Legend and deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, issued in a denomination equal to the outstanding principal amount of the Regulation S Temporary Global Note upon expiration of the Restricted Period.

Regulation S Temporary Global Note” means a temporary Global Note in the form of Exhibit A hereto (with respect to the 2020 Notes) or Exhibit C hereto (with respect to the 2027 Notes) bearing the Global Note Legend, the Private Placement Legend and the Regulation S Temporary Global Note Legend and deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, issued in a denomination equal to the outstanding principal amount of the Notes initially sold in reliance on Rule 903.

 

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Regulation S Temporary Global Note Legend” means the legend set forth in Section 2.17(l)(iii).

Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to any Note of a series to be redeemed, the remaining payments of interest and the payment of principal (or the portion of the principal) that would have been due with regard to such Note after the actual Redemption Date if such Note had been redeemed on the day that is (a) with respect to the 2020 Notes, 60 days before the Maturity Date of such Notes and (b) with respect to the 2027 Notes, 180 days before the Maturity Date of such Notes; provided, that, if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to such Note, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment with respect to such Note will be reduced by the amount of interest accrued thereon to such Redemption Date.

Repurchase Price” means, with respect to any Note to be repurchased, the price at which it is to be repurchased pursuant to this Indenture.

Restricted Definitive Note” means a Definitive Note bearing the Private Placement Legend.

Restricted Global Note” means a Global Note bearing the Private Placement Legend.

Restricted Period” means the 40-day distribution compliance period as defined in Regulation S.

Restricted Security” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act; provided, however, that the Trustee shall be entitled to request and conclusively rely on an Opinion of Counsel with respect to whether any Note constitutes a Restricted Security.

Restricted Subsidiary” means (a) all existing wholly-owned Subsidiaries (i.e., directly or indirectly 100% owned), other than finance company Subsidiaries and any foreign Subsidiaries, and (b) all future wholly-owned Subsidiaries (i.e., directly or indirectly 100% owned) that become Guarantors, in each case, until such time as such Subsidiary is released in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.

Rule 144A” means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

Sale-Leaseback Transaction” means a sale or transfer made by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of any property which is either (A) a manufacturing facility, office building or warehouse whose book value equals or exceeds 1% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the date of determination, or (B) another property (not including a model home) which exceeds 5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets as of the date of determination, if such sale or transfer is made with the agreement, commitment or intention of leasing such property to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary.

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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

“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary (a) whose revenues exceed 10% of the Total Consolidated Revenues of the Company, in each case for the most recent Fiscal Year, or (b) whose Net Worth exceeds 10% of the Company’s Total Consolidated Stockholders’ Equity, in each case as of the end of the most recent Fiscal Year.

Special Mandatory Redemption” has the meaning provided in Section 3.2.

Special Mandatory Redemption Date” has the meaning provided in Section 3.2.

Special Mandatory Redemption Price” has the meaning provided in Section 3.2.

Special Mandatory Redemption Trigger Event” has the meaning provided in Section 3.2.

Subsidiary means (i) a corporation or other entity of which a majority in voting power of the stock or other interests is owned by the Company, by a Subsidiary of the Company or by the Company and one or more Subsidiaries of the Company or (ii) a partnership, the sole general partner or partners of which are the Company and/or any Subsidiary and of which the Company or any Subsidiary owns at least 25% in value of the equity.

TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in effect on the date of this Indenture, except as otherwise provided in Section 9.3.

Total Consolidated Revenues” means, with respect to any date of determination, the Company’s total consolidated revenues as shown on its most recent consolidated statement of operations that is contained or incorporated in the latest annual report on Form 10-K (or equivalent report) or quarterly report on Form 10-Q (or equivalent report) filed with the SEC, and is as of a date not more than 181 days prior to the date of determination, in the case of the consolidated statement of operations contained or incorporated in an annual report on Form 10-K, or 135 days prior to the date of determination, in the case of the consolidated condensed statement of operations contained in a quarterly report on Form 10-Q.

Total Consolidated Stockholders’ Equity” means, with respect to any date of determination, the Company’s total consolidated stockholders’ equity as shown on its most recent consolidated balance sheet that is contained or incorporated in the latest annual report on Form 10-K (or equivalent report) or quarterly report on Form 10-Q (or equivalent report) filed with the SEC, and is as of a date not more than 181 days prior to the date of determination, in the case of the consolidated balance sheet contained or incorporated in an annual report on Form 10-K, or 135 days prior to the date of determination, in the case of the consolidated condensed balance sheet contained in a quarterly report on Form 10-Q.

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any series of Notes and any Redemption Date, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue for such series of Notes, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue for such series of Notes (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such series of Notes and for such Redemption Date.

 

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Trust Officer” means any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, senior associate, assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such Person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

Trustee means the Person named as such in this Indenture and, subject to the provisions of Article Seven of this Indenture, any successor to that Person.

United States” means the United States of America.

Unrestricted 2020 Notes” means any 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 that do not and are not required to bear the Private Placement Legend, including, without limitation, the 2020 Exchange Notes.

Unrestricted 2027 Notes” means any 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 that do not and are not required to bear the Private Placement Legend, including, without limitation, the 2027 Exchange Notes.

Unrestricted Definitive Note” means one or more Definitive Notes that do not bear and are not required to bear the Private Placement Legend.

Unrestricted Global Note” means a permanent Global Note, substantially in the form of Exhibit A that bears the Global Note Legend and that has the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” attached thereto, and that is deposited with or on behalf of and registered in the name of the Depositary, representing Notes that do not bear the Private Placement Legend.

Unrestricted Notes” means the Unrestricted 2020 Notes and the Unrestricted 2027 Notes.

U.S. Government Obligations” means direct obligations of, and obligations guaranteed by, the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged.

U.S. Legal Tender” means such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Section 1.2.    Incorporation by Reference of TIA. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such 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:

indenture securities” means the Notes.

indenture security holder” means a Holder.

 

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indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.

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

obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company or any other obligor on the Notes.

All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them therein.

Section 1.3.    Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:

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

(2)    an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP as of any date of determination;

(3) “or” is not exclusive;

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

(5)    “herein,” “hereof” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and

(6)    any reference to a statute, law or regulation means that statute, law or regulation as amended and in effect from time to time and includes any successor statute, law or regulation; provided, that, any reference to the Bankruptcy Law shall mean the Bankruptcy Law as applicable to the relevant case.

ARTICLE II.

THE NOTES

Section 2.1.    Form and Dating. The Initial 2020 Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication relating thereto shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, provided, that any Initial 2020 Notes issued in a public offering shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto. The 2020 Exchange Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication relating thereto shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto. The Initial 2027 Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication relating thereto shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto, provided, that any Initial 2027 Notes issued in a public offering shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto. The 2027 Exchange Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication relating thereto shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto. Any series of Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or depositary rule or usage. The Company and the Trustee shall approve the forms of the Notes and any notation, legend or endorsement on them. Each Note shall be dated the date of its issuance and authentication and shall show the date of its authentication. The 2020 Notes shall be designated as the “2.950% Senior Notes due 2020” and the 2027 Notes shall be designated as the “4.750% Senior Notes due 2027.”

 

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The terms and provisions contained in the Notes annexed hereto as Exhibits A, B, C and D shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.

(a) 144A Global Notes. Notes offered and sold in reliance on Rule 144A shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent Global Notes in registered form, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A with respect to the 2020 Notes and Exhibit C with respect to the 2027 Notes (each, a “144A Global Note”), deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided and shall bear the legend set forth in Exhibit E. The aggregate principal amount of a 144A Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, as hereinafter provided.

(b) Temporary Global Notes. One or more Notes offered and sold in reliance on Regulation S shall be issued initially in the form of one or more Regulation S Temporary Global Notes in registered form, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A with respect to the 2020 Notes and Exhibit C with respect to the 2027 Notes, which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes represented thereby with the Trustee as Custodian, and registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary for the accounts of designated agents holding on behalf of Euroclear or Clearstream, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. Upon the expiry of the Restricted Period, beneficial interests in each Regulation S Temporary Global Note shall be exchanged for beneficial interests in a Regulation S Permanent Global Note pursuant to the Applicable Procedures. Simultaneously with the authentication of a Regulation S Permanent Global Note, the Trustee shall cancel the corresponding Regulation S Temporary Global Note. The aggregate principal amount of a Regulation S Temporary Global Note and a Regulation S Permanent Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, in connection with transfers of interest as hereinafter provided.

(c) IAI Global Notes. One or more Notes offered and sold to Institutional Accredited Investors shall be issued initially in the form of one or more IAI Global Notes in registered form, substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A with respect to the 2020 Notes and Exhibit C with respect to the 2027 Notes, deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided and shall bear the legend set forth in Exhibit E. The aggregate principal amount of an IAI Global Note may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, as hereinafter provided.

(d) Euroclear and Clearstream Procedures Applicable. The provisions of the “Operating Procedures of the Euroclear System” and “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear” and the “General Terms and Conditions of Clearstream Banking” and “Customer Handbook” of Clearstream shall be applicable to transfers of beneficial interests in the Regulation S Temporary Global Notes and the Regulation S Permanent Global Notes that are held by Participants through Euroclear or Clearstream.

 

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(e) Notes issued in exchange for interests in a Global Note pursuant to Section 2.16 may be issued and Notes offered and sold in reliance on any other exemption from registration under the Securities Act other than as described in the preceding paragraph shall be issued in the form of permanent certificated Notes in registered form in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A with respect to the 2020 Notes and Exhibit C with respect to the 2027 Notes (the “Physical Notes”).

Section 2.2.    Execution and Authentication; Aggregate Principal Amount. An Officer of the Company (duly authorized by all requisite corporate actions) shall sign and attest to the Notes for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.

If an Officer whose signature is on a Note was an Officer at the time of such execution but no longer holds that office or position at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Note shall nevertheless be valid.

A Note shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Note. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture.

The Trustee shall authenticate all (i) Initial Notes, (ii) Private Exchange Notes from time to time for issue only in exchange for a like principal amount of Initial Notes and (iii) Unrestricted Notes, from time to time upon a written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate of the Company. Each such written order shall specify the amount and series of Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the Notes are to be authenticated, whether the Notes are to be Initial Notes, Private Exchange Notes or Unrestricted Notes and whether the Notes are to be issued as Physical Notes or Global Notes or such other information as the Trustee may reasonably request.

The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent (the “Authenticating Agent”) reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate Notes. Unless otherwise provided in the appointment, an Authenticating Agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such Authenticating Agent. An Authenticating Agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or with any Affiliate of the Company.

The Notes shall be issuable in fully registered form only, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and in integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of that amount. Subject to applicable law, the aggregate principal amount of (i) the 2020 Notes which may be authenticated and delivered on the Issue Date shall not exceed $300 million and (ii) the 2027 Notes which may be authenticated and delivered on the Issue Date shall not exceed $900 million; provided, however, that the Company may, without the consent of the Holders, issue additional Notes under this Indenture at any time thereafter.

 

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Section 2.3.    Registrar and Paying Agent. The Company shall maintain an office or agency (which shall be located in the City of New York, State of New York) where (a) Notes may be presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange (“Registrar”), (b) Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment (“Paying Agent”) and (c) notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange. The Company may have one or more co-Registrars and one or more additional paying agents reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. The Company may act as its own Paying Agent. If the Company elects to act as its own Paying Agent with respect to a series of Notes, the Company will notify the Trustee of its election and will hold for the benefit of the Holders of such series of Notes all assets for the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, such series of Notes.

The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Agent not a party to this Indenture, which agreement shall incorporate the provisions of the TIA and implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such Agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee of the name and address of any such Agent. If the Company shall fail to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such.

The Company initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar, Paying Agent and custodian for service of demands and notices in connection with the Notes. Any of the Registrar, the Paying Agent or any other agent may resign upon 30 days’ notice to the Company.

Section 2.4.    Paying Agent to Hold Assets in Trust. The Company shall require each Paying Agent with respect to a series of Notes other than the Trustee to agree in writing that such Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of such series of Notes or the Trustee all assets held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, the Notes of such series (whether such assets have been distributed to it by the Company or any other obligor on the Notes of such series), and the Company and the Paying Agent shall notify the Trustee in writing of any Default by the Company (or any other obligor on the Notes of such series) in making any such payment. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and account for any assets disbursed and the Trustee may at any time during the continuance of any payment Default, upon written request to a Paying Agent, require such Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and to account for any assets distributed. Upon distribution to the Trustee of all assets that shall have been delivered to the Paying Agent, the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for such assets.

Section 2.5.    Holder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes of each series and shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish or cause the Registrar to furnish to the Trustee five (5) Business Days before each Record Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list as of such date and in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders of Notes of each series, which list may be conclusively relied upon by the Trustee, and the Company shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a).

 

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Each date on which such list is issued shall serve as a record date under TIA Section 316(c) for purposes of determining the identity of Holders entitled to vote or consent to any action authorized or permitted by TIA Section 316(a).

Section 2.6.    Transfer and Exchange. Subject to Sections 2.16 and 2.17, when Notes are presented to the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request to register the transfer of such Notes or to exchange such Notes for an equal principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, the Registrar or co-Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its requirements for such transaction are met; provided, that, the Notes presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and the Registrar or co-Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. To permit registration of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Notes at the Registrar’s or co-Registrar’s request. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company and the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, fee or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges or transfers pursuant to Section 2.10 or 3.1, in which event the Company shall be responsible for the payment of such taxes or charges).

The Registrar or co-Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Note (i) during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the mailing of a notice of redemption of Notes and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing and (ii) selected for redemption in whole or in part pursuant to Article III, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

Any holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall, by acceptance of such beneficial interest, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Notes may be effected only through a book entry system maintained by the Holder of such Global Note (or its agent), and that ownership of a beneficial interest in the Note must be reflected in such book entry system.

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

Section 2.7.    Replacement Notes. If a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or if the Holder of a Note claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a written order from the Company, authenticate a replacement Note if the Trustee’s requirements are met. If required by the Trustee or the Company, such Holder must provide an indemnity bond or other indemnity of reasonable tenor, sufficient in the reasonable judgment of the Company and the Trustee, to protect the Company, the Trustee or any Agent from any loss which any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced. Every replacement Note shall constitute an additional obligation of the Company.

 

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Section 2.8.    Outstanding Notes. Notes of any series outstanding at any time are all the Notes of such series that have been authenticated by the Trustee except those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation and those described in this Section as not outstanding. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.9, a Note does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or any of its Affiliates holds the Note.

If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.7 (other than a mutilated Note surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Note is held by a protected purchaser. A mutilated Note ceases to be outstanding upon surrender of such Note and replacement thereof pursuant to Section 2.7.

If, on a Redemption Date (including the Special Mandatory Redemption Date), a repurchase date (including a Change of Control Payment Date) or the Maturity Date for a series of Notes, the Paying Agent holds U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations sufficient to pay all of the principal, premium, if any, and interest due on such series of Notes payable on that date and is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders of such series of Notes pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, then on and after that date such Notes shall be deemed not to be outstanding and interest on them shall cease to accrue.

Section 2.9.    Treasury Notes. In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of a series of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver, consent or notice, Notes of such series owned by the Company or an Affiliate of the Company shall be considered as though they are not outstanding, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only Notes which a Trust Officer of the Trustee has been informed in writing by the Company to be so owned shall be so considered. The Company shall notify the Trustee, in writing, when either it or, to its knowledge, any of its Affiliates repurchases or otherwise acquires Notes, of the series and aggregate principal amount of such Notes so repurchased or otherwise acquired and such other information as the Trustee may reasonably request, and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely thereon.

Section 2.10.    Temporary Notes. Until typewritten or printed Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes upon receipt of a written order of the Company in the form of an Officers’ Certificate. The Officers’ Certificate shall specify the amount of temporary Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the temporary Notes are to be authenticated. Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form of typewritten or printed Notes but may have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes and so indicates in the Officers’ Certificate. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon receipt of a written order of the Company pursuant to Section 2.2, typewritten or printed Notes in exchange for temporary Notes.

 

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Section 2.11.    Cancellation. The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for transfer, exchange or payment. At the written direction of the Company, the Trustee, or at the direction of the Trustee acting pursuant to such direction from the Company, the Registrar or the Paying Agent, and no one else, shall cancel and, at the written direction of the Company, shall dispose, in its customary manner, of all Notes surrendered for transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation. Subject to Section 2.7, the Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. If the Company shall acquire any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to this Section 2.11.

Section 2.12.    Defaulted Interest. The Company shall pay from time to time on demand (i) interest on overdue principal and (ii) to the extent lawful, interest on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods), in each case, at the rate of interest borne by such applicable series of Notes, plus one percent per annum from and including the relevant payment date to but excluding the date on which such defaulted amounts shall have been paid by the Company. All such interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months, and, in the case of a partial month, the actual number of days elapsed.

If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on any series of Notes, it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus (to the extent lawful) any interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the Persons who are Holders of such series of Notes on a subsequent special record date, which special record date shall be the fifteenth day next preceding the date fixed by the Company for the payment of defaulted interest or the next succeeding Business Day if such date is not a Business Day. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of defaulted interest proposed to be paid on each such Note and the date of the proposed payment (a “Default Interest Payment Date”), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such defaulted interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such defaulted interest as provided in this Section; provided, however, that in no event shall the Company deposit monies proposed to be paid in respect of defaulted interest later than 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the proposed Default Interest Payment Date. At least 15 days before the subsequent special record date, the Company shall send (or cause to be sent) to each Holder of Notes of such series, as of a recent date selected by the Company, with a copy to the Trustee at least 20 days prior to such special record date, a notice that states the subsequent special record date, the Default Interest Payment Date and the amount of defaulted interest, and interest payable on such defaulted interest, if any, to be paid. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any interest which is paid prior to the expiration of the 30-day period set forth in Section 6.1(1) shall be paid to such Holders of Notes of such series as of the regular record date for the Interest Payment Date for which interest has not been paid. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may make payment of any defaulted interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the applicable series of Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange.

 

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Section 2.13.    CUSIP Number. In issuing each series of Notes, the Company may use a “CUSIP” number, and, if so, the Company shall use the CUSIP number in notices of redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders; provided, that, any such notice may state that no representation is thereby deemed to be made as to the correctness or accuracy of any CUSIP number printed in the notice or on any Notes, and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on such Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in any CUSIP number.

In the event that the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate any Notes issued under this Indenture subsequent to the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2, the Company shall use its reasonable efforts to obtain the same CUSIP number for such Notes as is printed on the Notes of the applicable series outstanding at such time and provide written notice to the Trustee to such effect; provided, however, that if any Notes issued under this Indenture subsequent to the Issue Date are determined, pursuant to an Opinion of Counsel of the Company, to be a different class of security than the Notes of the applicable series outstanding at such time for federal income tax or securities laws purposes, the Company shall use its reasonable efforts to obtain a “CUSIP” number for such Notes that is different than the CUSIP number printed on the Notes of the applicable series then outstanding and cause such opinion to be delivered to the Trustee. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision herein to the contrary, all Notes of a single series issued under this Indenture shall vote and consent together on all matters as one class.

Section 2.14.    Deposit of Monies. Prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time on each Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date, Change of Control Payment Date or Redemption Date, the Company shall have deposited with the Paying Agent in immediately available funds money sufficient to make cash payments, if any, due on such Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date, Change of Control Payment Date or Redemption Date, as the case may be, in a timely manner which permits the Paying Agent to remit payment to the Holders on such Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date, Change of Control Payment Date or Redemption Date, as the case may be.

Section 2.15.    Restrictive Legends. Each Global Note and Physical Note that constitutes a Restricted Security shall bear the Private Placement Legend on the face thereof until after the first anniversary of the later of the Issue Date and the last date on which the Company or any Affiliate of the Company was the owner of such Note (or any predecessor security) (or such shorter period of time as permitted by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any successor provision thereunder, provided that any restrictive legend shall have been removed) (or such longer period of time as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws in an Opinion of Counsel for the Company, unless otherwise agreed by the Company and the Holder thereof); provided, that, if any additional Initial Notes are issued after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2, the period of resale restrictions applicable to all Initial Notes of such series previously offered and sold in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act that constitute Restricted Securities shall automatically be extended to the last day of the period of any resale restrictions imposed on such additional Initial Notes of such series issued pursuant to Section 2.2.

Each Global Note shall also bear the legend as set forth in Exhibit E.

 

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Section 2.16.    Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes.

(a) The Global Notes initially shall (i) be registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of such Depositary, (ii) be delivered to the Trustee as custodian for such Depositary and (iii) bear the legend as set forth in Exhibit E.

(b) Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the Depositary, or the Trustee as its custodian, or under the Global Notes, and the Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any Agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any Agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Note.

(c) Transfers of a Global Note shall be limited to transfers in whole, but not in part, to the Depositary, its successors or their respective nominees. Interests of beneficial owners in a Global Note may be transferred or exchanged for Physical Notes in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary and the provisions of Section 2.17. In addition, Physical Notes shall be transferred to all beneficial owners in exchange for their beneficial interests in a Global Note if (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for the Global Notes and a successor depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice (ii) the Company discontinues the use of the system of book-entry transfer through the Depositary or any successor thereto or (iii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Registrar has received a written request from the Depositary to issue Physical Notes.

(d) In connection with any transfer or exchange of a portion of the beneficial interest in a Global Note to beneficial owners pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section 2.16, the Registrar shall (if one or more Physical Notes are to be issued) reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the principal amount of such Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Note to be transferred, and the Company shall execute and the Trustee, upon receipt of a written order from the Company, shall authenticate and deliver, one or more Physical Notes of like tenor and amount.

(e) In connection with the transfer of an entire Global Note to beneficial owners pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section 2.16, such Global Note shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Company shall execute and the Trustee, upon receipt of a written order from the Company, shall authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner identified by the Depositary in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes of authorized denominations.

(f) Any Physical Note constituting a Restricted Security delivered in exchange for an interest in a Global Note pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section 2.16 shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.17(a)(i)(x) and Section 2.17(c), bear the Private Placement Legend.

 

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(g) The Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder of such Global Note is entitled to take under this Indenture or the applicable series of Notes.

(h) Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

Section 2.17.    Special Transfer Provisions.

(a) Transfers to Non-QIB Institutional Accredited Investors and Non-U.S. Persons. The following provisions shall apply with respect to the registration of any proposed transfer of a Note constituting a Restricted Security to any Institutional Accredited Investor which is not a QIB or to any Non-U.S. Person:

(i)    the Registrar shall register the transfer of any Note constituting a Restricted Security, whether or not such Note bears the Private Placement Legend, if (x) the requested transfer is after the first anniversary of the Issue Date (provided, however, that (1) neither the Company nor any Affiliate of the Company has held any beneficial interest in such Note, or portion thereof, or predecessor security at any time on or prior to the first anniversary of the Issue Date and (2) if any Initial Notes of the applicable series are issued after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2, the period of resale restrictions applicable to such Note shall automatically be extended to the last day of the period of any resale restrictions imposed on such additional Initial Notes of such series issued pursuant to Section 2.2) or (y) (1) in the case of a transfer to an Institutional Accredited Investor which is not a QIB (excluding Non-U.S. Persons), the proposed transferee has delivered to the Registrar a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto or (2) in the case of a transfer to a Non-U.S. Person, the proposed transferor has delivered to the Registrar a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item 2 thereof; and

(ii)    if the proposed transferee is an Agent Member and the Notes to be transferred consist of Physical Notes which after transfer are to be evidenced by an interest in an IAI Global Note or a Regulation S Global Note, as the case may be, upon receipt by the Registrar of (x) written instructions given in accordance with the Depositary’s and the Registrar’s procedures and (y) the appropriate certificate, if any, required by clause (y) of paragraph (i) above, the Registrar shall register the transfer and reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of an IAI Global Note of the applicable series or a Regulation S Global Note of the applicable series, as the case may be, in an amount equal to the principal amount of Physical Notes to be transferred, and the Trustee shall cancel the Physical Notes so transferred; and

 

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(iii)    if the proposed transferor is an Agent Member seeking to transfer an interest in a Global Note, upon receipt by the Registrar of (x) written instructions given in accordance with the Depositary’s and the Registrar’s procedures and (y) the appropriate certificate, if any, required by clause (y) of paragraph (i) above, the Registrar shall register the transfer and reflect on its books and records the date and (A) a decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note of the applicable series from which such interests are to be transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Notes to be transferred and (B) an increase in the principal amount of an IAI Global Note of the applicable series or a Regulation S Global Note of the applicable series, as the case may be, to which the interests are to be transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Notes to be transferred.

(b) Transfers to QIBs. The following provisions shall apply with respect to the registration of any proposed transfer of a Note constituting a Restricted Security to a QIB (excluding transfers to Non-U.S. Persons):

(i)    the Registrar shall register the transfer of any Restricted Security if such transfer is being made by a proposed transferor who has checked the box provided for on the form of Note stating, or has otherwise advised the Company and the Registrar in writing, that the sale has been made in compliance with the provisions of Rule 144A to a transferee who has signed the certification provided for on the form of Note stating, or has otherwise advised the Company and the Registrar in writing, that it is purchasing the Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as it has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon its foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A; and

(ii)    if the proposed transferee is an Agent Member, and the Notes to be transferred consist of Physical Notes which after transfer are to be evidenced by an interest in a Global Note, upon receipt by the Registrar of written instructions given in accordance with the Depositary’s and the Registrar’s procedures, the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of such Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Physical Notes to be transferred, and the Trustee shall cancel the Physical Notes so transferred; and

(iii)    if the proposed transferor is an Agent Member seeking to transfer an interest in an IAI Global Note or a Regulation S Global Note, upon receipt by the Registrar of written instructions given in accordance with the Depositary’s and the Registrar’s procedures, the Registrar shall register the transfer and reflect on its books and records the date and (A) a decrease in the principal amount of the IAI Global Note of the applicable series or the Regulation S Global Note of the applicable series, as the case may be, in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Notes to be transferred and (B) an increase in the principal amount of a Global Note of the applicable series in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Notes to be transferred.

(c) Restrictions on Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

 

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(d) Private Placement Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes not bearing the Private Placement Legend, the Registrar shall deliver Notes of the applicable series that do not bear the Private Placement Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes bearing the Private Placement Legend, the Registrar shall deliver only Notes of the applicable series that bear the Private Placement Legend unless (i) the requested transfer is after the first anniversary of the Issue Date (provided, however, that (x) neither the Company nor any Affiliate of the Company has held any beneficial interest in such Note, or portion thereof, or any predecessor security at any time prior to or on the first anniversary of the Issue Date and (y) if any Initial Notes of the applicable series are issued after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2, the period of resale restrictions applicable to such Notes bearing the Private Placement Legend shall automatically be extended to the last day of the period of any resale restrictions imposed on such additional Initial Notes of the applicable series issued pursuant to Section 2.2), or (ii) there is delivered to the Registrar an Opinion of Counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee to the effect that neither such legend nor the related restrictions on transfer are required in order to maintain compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act.

(e) General. By its acceptance of any Note bearing the Private Placement Legend, each Holder of such a Note acknowledges the restrictions on transfer of such Note set forth in this Indenture and in the Private Placement Legend and agrees that it will transfer such Note only as provided in this Indenture.

The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to Section 2.16 or this Section 2.17. The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time during the Registrar’s normal business hours upon the giving of reasonable written notice to the Registrar.

(f) Transfer of Notes Held by Affiliates. Any certificate (i) evidencing a Note of a series that has been transferred to an Affiliate of the Company within one year after the Issue Date (or if any Initial Notes are issued after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2, the last day of the period of any resale restrictions imposed on such additional Initial Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.2), as evidenced by a notation on the Assignment Form for such transfer or in the representation letter delivered in respect thereof or (ii) evidencing a Note that has been acquired from an Affiliate of the Company (other than by an Affiliate of the Company) in a transaction or a chain of transactions not involving any public offering, shall, until the later of (x) one year after the last date on which the Company or any Affiliate of the Company was an owner of such Note and (y) if any Initial Notes of the applicable series are issued after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2, the last day of the period of any resale restrictions imposed on such additional Initial Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.2, in each case, bear the Private Placement Legend, unless otherwise agreed by the Company (with written notice thereof to the Trustee).

(g) Notice of Affiliate Purchases. In connection with the purchase or sale of any Note or any beneficial interest therein by the Company or any Affiliate thereof (other than a sale to the Initial Purchasers pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 14, 2017, by and among the Company and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Mizuho Securities USA LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as the representatives of the Initial Purchasers), the Company shall file with the Trustee and Registrar a written notice identifying the transaction as such for the purposes hereof.

 

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(h) Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in the Global Notes. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in the Global Notes shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the Applicable Procedures. Beneficial interests in the Restricted Global Notes shall be subject to restrictions on transfer comparable to those set forth herein to the extent required by the Securities Act. Beneficial interests in Global Notes shall be transferred or exchanged only for beneficial interests in Global Notes pursuant to this clause (h). Transfers of beneficial interests in the Global Notes also shall require compliance with either subparagraph (i) or (ii) below, as applicable, as well as one or more of the other following subparagraphs, as applicable:

(i)    Transfer of Beneficial Interests in the Same Global Note. Beneficial interests in any Restricted Global Note may be transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the same Restricted Global Note in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Private Placement Legend; provided, however, that prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers of beneficial interests in a Regulation S Temporary Global Note may not be made to a U.S. Person or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person (other than an Initial Purchaser). Beneficial interests in any Unrestricted Global Note may be transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note. No written orders or instructions shall be required to be delivered to the Registrar to effect the transfers described in this (i).

(ii)    All Other Transfers and Exchanges of Beneficial Interests in Global Notes. In connection with all transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests that are not subject to Section 2.17(b)(i) hereof, the transferor of such beneficial interest must deliver to the Registrar either (A) (1) a written order from a Participant or an Indirect Participant given to the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures directing the Depositary to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in another Global Note of the applicable series in an amount equal to the beneficial interest to be transferred or exchanged and (2) instructions given in accordance with the Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the Participant account to be credited with such increase or (B) (1) a written order from a Participant or an Indirect Participant given to the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures directing the Depositary to cause to be issued a Definitive Note of the applicable series in an amount equal to the beneficial interest to be transferred or exchanged and (2) instructions given by the Depositary to the Registrar containing information regarding the Person in whose name such Definitive Note shall be registered to effect the transfer or exchange referred to in (1) above; provided that in no event shall Definitive Notes be issued upon the transfer or exchange of beneficial interests in a Regulation S Temporary Global Note prior to (A) the expiration of the Restricted Period and (B) the receipt by the Registrar of any certificates required pursuant to Rule 903. Upon satisfaction of all of the requirements for transfer or exchange of beneficial interests in Global Notes contained in this Indenture and the Notes or otherwise applicable under the Securities Act, the Trustee shall adjust the principal amount of the relevant Global Note(s) pursuant to (n) hereof.

 

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(iii)    Transfer of Beneficial Interests to Another Restricted Global Note. A beneficial interest in any Restricted Global Note may be transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Restricted Global Note of the applicable series if the transfer complies with the requirements of Section 2.17(h)(ii) hereof and the Registrar receives the following

(1)    if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in a 144A Global Note, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (1) thereof; or

(2)    if the transferee will take delivery in the form of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (2) thereof.

(iv)    Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in a Restricted Global Note for Beneficial Interests in an Unrestricted Global Note. A beneficial interest in any Restricted Global Note may be exchanged by any holder thereof for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series, if the exchange or transfer complies with the requirements of (ii) hereof and the Registrar receives the following:

(1)    if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such Holder substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto, including the certifications in item 1(a) thereof; or

(2)    if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note proposes to transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such holder in the form of Exhibit F hereto, including the certifications in item (4) thereof;

and, if the Registrar so requests or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Private Placement Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act.

If any such transfer is effected pursuant to this Section 2.17(h)(iv) at a time when an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series has not yet been issued, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section 2.2, the Trustee shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Notes of the applicable series in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of beneficial interests transferred pursuant to this Section 2.17(h)(iv).

(v)    Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in an Unrestricted Global Note for Beneficial Interests in a Restricted Global Note Prohibited. Beneficial interests in an Unrestricted Global Note cannot be exchanged for, or transferred to Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of, beneficial interests in a Restricted Global Note of the applicable series.

 

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(i) Transfer or Exchange of Beneficial Interests for Definitive Notes. Beneficial interests in Global Notes shall be exchanged for Definitive Notes of the applicable series only pursuant to this clause (i).

(i)    Beneficial Interests in Restricted Global Notes to Restricted Definitive Notes. If any holder of a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for a Restricted Definitive Note of the applicable series or to transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a Restricted Definitive Note of the applicable series, then, upon the occurrence of any of the events in clause (A) or (B) of Section 2.17(a) hereof, subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.6 and receipt by the Registrar of the following documentation:

(1)    if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for a Restricted Definitive Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such holder substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto, including the certifications in item (2)(a) thereof;

(2)    if such beneficial interest is being transferred to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (1) thereof;

(3)    if such beneficial interest is being transferred to a Non-U.S. Person in an offshore transaction in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (2) thereof;

(4)    if such beneficial interest is being transferred pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(a) thereof;

(5)    if such beneficial interest is being transferred to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(b) thereof; or

(6)    if such beneficial interest is being transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(c) thereof,

the Trustee shall cause the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Global Note to be reduced accordingly pursuant to (n) hereof, and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and mail to the Person designated in the instructions a Definitive Note of the applicable series in the applicable principal amount. Any Definitive Note issued in exchange for a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.17(i) shall be registered in such name or names and in such authorized denomination or denominations as the holder of such beneficial interest shall instruct the Registrar through instructions from the Depositary and the Participant or Indirect Participant. The Trustee shall mail such Definitive Notes to the Persons in whose names such Notes are so registered. Any Definitive Note issued in exchange for a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.17(i)(i) shall bear the Private Placement Legend and shall be subject to all restrictions on transfer contained therein.

 

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(ii)    Beneficial Interests in Regulation S Temporary Global Note to Definitive Notes. Notwithstanding Sections 2.17(i)(i)(A) and (C) hereof, a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Temporary Global Note may not be exchanged for a Definitive Note of the applicable series or transferred to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a Definitive Note of the applicable series prior to (A) the expiration of the Restricted Period and (B) the receipt by the Registrar of any certificates required pursuant to Rule 903(b)(3)(ii)(B) of the Securities Act.

(iii)    Beneficial Interests in Restricted Global Notes to Unrestricted Definitive Notes. A holder of a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note may exchange such beneficial interest for an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the applicable series or may transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the applicable series only upon the occurrence of any of the events in clause (A) or (B) of Section 2.17(h) and satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.17(i)(ii) hereof and if the Registrar receives the following:

(1)    if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such holder substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto, including the certifications in item (1)(b) thereof; or

(2)    if the holder of such beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note proposes to transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such holder substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (4) thereof;

and, if the Registrar so requests or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Private Placement Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act.

(iv)    Beneficial Interests in Unrestricted Global Notes to Unrestricted Definitive Notes. If any holder of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note proposes to exchange such beneficial interest for a Definitive Note of the applicable series or to transfer such beneficial interest to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a Definitive Note of the applicable series, then, upon the occurrence of any of the events in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 2.16(c) hereof and satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.17(h)(ii) hereof, the Trustee shall cause the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Global Note to be reduced accordingly pursuant to (n) hereof, and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and send to the Person designated in the instructions a Definitive Note of the applicable series in the applicable principal amount. Any Definitive Note issued in exchange for a beneficial interest pursuant to this Section 2.17(1)(iv) shall be registered in such name or names and in such authorized denomination or denominations as the holder of such beneficial interest shall instruct the Registrar through instructions from or through the Depositary and the Participant or Indirect Participant. The Trustee shall mail such Definitive Notes to the Persons in whose names such Notes are so registered.

 

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Any Definitive Note issued in exchange for a beneficial interest pursuant to this Section 2.17(1)(iv) shall not bear the Private Placement Legend.

(j) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Beneficial Interests. Restricted Definitive Notes shall be exchanged for beneficial interests in Restricted Global Notes of the applicable series only pursuant to this clause (j).

(i)    Restricted Definitive Notes to Beneficial Interests in Restricted Global Notes. If any Holder of a Restricted Definitive Note proposes to exchange such Note for a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note of the applicable series or to transfer such Restricted Definitive Note to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note of the applicable series, then, upon receipt by the Registrar of the following documentation:

(1)    if the Holder of such Restricted Definitive Note proposes to exchange such Note for a beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such Holder substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto, including the certifications in item (2)(b) thereof;

(2)    if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (1) thereof;

(3)    if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred to a Non-U.S. Person in an offshore transaction in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (2) thereof;

(4)    if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in accordance with Rule 144, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(a) thereof;

(5)    if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(b) thereof; or

(6)    if such Restricted Definitive Note is being transferred pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (3)(c) thereof,

the Trustee shall cancel the Restricted Definitive Note, increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of, in the case of clause (1) above, the applicable Restricted Global Note, in the case of clause (2) above, the applicable 144A Global Note, and in the case of clause (3) above, the applicable Regulation S Global Note.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, exchanges of the Definitive Notes by the Initial Purchasers on the date of this Indenture for beneficial interests in one or more Restricted Global Notes of the applicable series shall not require the delivery of the certifications referred to in clauses (1) through (4) above.

(ii)    Restricted Definitive Notes to Beneficial Interests in Unrestricted Global Notes. A Holder of a Restricted Definitive Note may exchange such Note for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series or transfer such Restricted Definitive Note to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series only if the Registrar receives the following:

(1)    if the Holder of such Definitive Notes proposes to exchange such Notes for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such Holder substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto, including the certifications in item (1)(c) thereof; or

(2)    if the Holder of such Definitive Notes proposes to transfer such Notes to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such Holder substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (4) thereof;

and, if the Registrar so requests or if the Applicable Procedures so require, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Private Placement Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act.

Upon satisfaction of the conditions of any of the subparagraphs in this Section 2.17(j)(ii), the Trustee shall cancel the Definitive Notes and increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series.

(iii)    Unrestricted Definitive Notes to Beneficial Interests in Unrestricted Global Notes. A Holder of an Unrestricted Definitive Note may exchange such Note for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series or transfer such Definitive Notes to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series at any time. Upon receipt of a request for such an exchange or transfer, the Trustee shall cancel the applicable Unrestricted Definitive Note and increase or cause to be increased the aggregate principal amount of one of the Unrestricted Global Notes of the applicable series.

If any such exchange or transfer from a Definitive Note to a beneficial interest is effected pursuant to subparagraph (i)(2), (i)(4) or (iii) above at a time when an Unrestricted Global Note of the applicable series has not yet been issued, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section 2.2, the Trustee shall authenticate one or more Unrestricted Global Notes of the applicable series in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of Definitive Notes so transferred.

 

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(k) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Definitive Notes. Upon request by a Holder of Definitive Notes and such Holder’s compliance with the provisions of this Section 2.17(k), the Registrar shall register the transfer or exchange of Definitive Notes. Definitive Notes shall be exchanged for Definitive Notes of the applicable series only pursuant to this clause (k). Prior to such registration of transfer or exchange, the requesting Holder shall present or surrender to the Registrar the Definitive Notes duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instruction of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly executed by such Holder or by its attorney, duly authorized in writing. In addition, the requesting Holder shall provide any additional certifications, documents and information, as applicable, required pursuant to the following provisions of this Section 2.17(k):

(i)    Restricted Definitive Notes to Restricted Definitive Notes. Any Restricted Definitive Note may be transferred to and registered in the name of Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a Restricted Definitive Note if the Registrar receives the following:

(1)    if the transfer will be made pursuant to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A, then the transferor must deliver a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (1) thereof;

(2)    if the transfer will be made pursuant to Rule 903 or Rule 904 then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (2) thereof; or

(3)    if the transfer will be made pursuant to any other exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, then the transferor must deliver a certificate in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (3) thereof.

(ii)    Restricted Definitive Notes to Unrestricted Definitive Notes. Any Restricted Definitive Note may be exchanged by the Holder thereof for an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the applicable series or transferred to a Person or Persons who take delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the applicable series if the Registrar receives the following:

(1)    if the Holder of such Restricted Definitive Notes proposes to exchange such Notes for an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such Holder substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto, including the certifications in item (1)(d) thereof; or

(2)    if the Holder of such Restricted Definitive Notes proposes to transfer such Notes to a Person who shall take delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the applicable series, a certificate from such Holder substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto, including the certifications in item (4) thereof;

and, if the Registrar so requests, an Opinion of Counsel in form reasonably acceptable to the Registrar to the effect that such exchange or transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act and that the restrictions on transfer contained herein and in the Private Placement Legend are no longer required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act.

 

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(iii)    Unrestricted Definitive Notes to Unrestricted Definitive Notes. A Holder of Unrestricted Definitive Notes may transfer such Notes to a Person who takes delivery thereof in the form of an Unrestricted Definitive Note. Upon receipt of a request to register such a transfer, the Registrar shall register the Unrestricted Definitive Notes pursuant to the instructions from the Holder thereof.

(l) Legends. The following legends shall appear on the face of all Global Notes and Definitive Notes issued under this Indenture unless specifically stated otherwise in the applicable provisions of this Indenture:

(i)    Private Placement Legend. Except as permitted by the following sentence, each Global Note and each Definitive Note (and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof) shall bear the Private Placement Legend. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Global Note or Definitive Note issued pursuant to subparagraph (h)(iv), (i)(iii), (i)(iv), (j)(ii), (j)(iii), (k)(ii) or (k)(iii) of this Section 2.17 (and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof) shall not bear the Private Placement Legend. The Private Placement Legend shall be substantially in the following form:

“THIS SECURITY (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.

THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT (A) THIS SECURITY MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (I) TO THE ISSUER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY OF THE ISSUER, (II) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (III) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT), (IV) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION COMPLYING WITH RULE 903 OR RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (V) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE) OR (VI) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE U.S., AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY SUBSEQUENT PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.”

 

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(ii)    Global Note Legend. Each Global Note shall bear the legend as set forth in Exhibit E.

(iii)    Regulation S Temporary Global Note Legend. The Regulation S Temporary Global Note shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

“THE RIGHTS ATTACHING TO THIS REGULATION S TEMPORARY GLOBAL NOTE, AND THE CONDITIONS AND PROCEDURES GOVERNING ITS EXCHANGE ARE AS SPECIFIED IN THE INDENTURE (AS DEFINED HEREIN).”

(m) Cancellation and/or Adjustment of Global Notes. At such time as all beneficial interests in a particular Global Note have been exchanged for Definitive Notes of the applicable series or a particular Global Note has been redeemed, repurchased or canceled in whole and not in part, each such Global Note shall be returned to or retained and canceled by the Trustee in accordance with Section 2.11 hereof. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Note of the applicable series or for Definitive Notes of the applicable series, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note by the Trustee or by the Depositary at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such reduction; and if the beneficial interest is being exchanged for or transferred to a Person who will take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in another Global Note of the applicable series, such other Global Note shall be increased accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note by the Trustee or by the Depositary at the direction of the Trustee to reflect such increase.

(n) General Provisions Relating to Transfers and Exchanges.

(i)    To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Global Notes and Definitive Notes upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section 2.2 hereof or at the Registrar’s request.

(ii)    The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents in connection with a transfer of Notes.

(iii)    No service charge shall be made to a holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note or to a Holder of a Definitive Note for any registration of transfer or exchange, but Holders shall pay all taxes due on transfer (other than any such transfer taxes or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Sections 2.7, 2.10, 4.14 and 9.5 hereof).

(iv)    Neither the Registrar nor the Company shall be required to register the transfer of or exchange any Note selected for redemption.

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

 

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(vi)    The Company shall not be required (A) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Note for a period of 15 days before the transmission of a notice of redemption of Notes to be redeemed, (B) to transfer or exchange any Note selected for redemption, (C) to register the transfer of or to exchange a Note between a Record Date and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date or (D) to register the transfer of or to exchange any Notes selected for redemption or tendered (and not withdrawn) for repurchase in connection with a Change of Control Offer.

(vii)    Prior to due presentment for the registration of a transfer of a Note, the Trustee, any Agent and the Company may deem and treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Note and for all other purposes, and none of the Trustee, any Agent or the Company shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

(viii)    Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and mail, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more replacement Notes of the applicable series of any authorized denomination or denominations of a like aggregate principal amount.

(ix)    At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of the applicable series of any authorized denomination or denominations of a like aggregate principal amount upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Global Notes or Definitive Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and mail, the replacement Global Notes and Definitive Notes of the applicable series which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.2 hereof.

(x)    All certifications, certificates and Opinions of Counsel required to be submitted to the Registrar pursuant to this Section 2.17 to effect a registration of transfer or exchange may be submitted electronically.

(xi)    The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depositary Participants or beneficial owners of interests in any Global Notes) 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.

(xii)    Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.

 

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Section 2.18.    Additional Interest Under Registration Rights Agreement. Under certain circumstances, the Company shall be obligated to pay Additional Interest to the Holders of the applicable series of Notes, as set forth in Section 4 of the Registration Rights Agreement.

ARTICLE III.

REDEMPTION

Section 3.1.    Optional Redemption by the Company.

(a) Right to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The Company, at its option, may redeem a series of Notes in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 5 and 6 of such series of Notes. If the Company elects to redeem a series of Notes pursuant to paragraph 5 of such series of Notes, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the Redemption Date, the principal amount of such series of Notes to be redeemed and the Redemption Price that would be in effect if such Notes were being redeemed on the date of the notice. The Company shall give the notice to the Trustee provided for in this Section 3.1(a) at least 45 days but not more than 90 days before such Redemption Date (unless a shorter period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) (other than the Special Mandatory Redemption Date).

(b) Notice of Redemption. At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date (other than the Special Mandatory Redemption Date), the Company shall send or cause to be sent a notice of redemption to the Trustee and to each Holder of such Notes to be redeemed at such Holder’s address as it appears on the Note register.

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

(i)    the Redemption Date;

(ii)    the Redemption Price that would be in effect if such Notes were being redeemed on the date of the notice;

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

(iv)    that Notes called for redemption must be presented and surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price and any accrued interest;

(v)    that interest on Notes called for redemption shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date and, unless the Company defaults in making the redemption payment, the only remaining right of the Holder with respect to such Notes shall be to receive payment of the Redemption Price upon presentation and surrender to the Paying Agent of such Notes;

(vi)    if fewer than all the outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the series, certificate number (if any) and principal amounts of the particular Notes to be redeemed; and

(vii)    the CUSIP number or numbers for the Notes called for redemption.

 

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At the Company’s request, delivered to the Trustee at least 5 Business Days prior to the date such notice is to be given (unless a shorter period shall be acceptable to the Trustee), the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense. In such event, the Company will provide the Trustee with the notice to be delivered to the Holders of such Notes called for redemption, which shall contain the information required by clauses (i) through (vii).

(c) Effect of Notice of Redemption. Once notice of redemption is sent, Notes called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the Redemption Price stated in the notice. Upon presentation and surrender to the Paying Agent, such Notes called for redemption shall be paid at the Redemption Price, together with any accrued interest.

(d) Sinking Fund. There shall be no sinking fund provided for the Notes.

Section 3.2.    Special Mandatory Redemption by the Company. If (x) the consummation of the Merger does not occur on or before August 31, 2018 or (y) prior to such date, the Company notifies the Trustee that it will not pursue the consummation of the Merger (each, a “Special Mandatory Redemption Trigger Event”), the Company shall redeem all the outstanding Notes of each series (such redemption, the “Special Mandatory Redemption”) at a Redemption Price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the Notes of such series plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Special Mandatory Redemption Date (as defined below) with respect thereto (the “Special Mandatory Redemption Price”). Upon the occurrence of a Special Mandatory Redemption Trigger Event, the Company shall promptly (but in no event later than 10 Business Days following such Special Mandatory Redemption Trigger Event) notify the Trustee in writing of such Special Mandatory Redemption and the Redemption Date with respect thereto (the “Special Mandatory Redemption Date”) which date shall be no later than the third Business Day following the date of such notice) together with a notice of Special Mandatory Redemption for the Trustee to deliver to each registered Holder of Notes. The Trustee shall then promptly mail, or deliver electronically if such Notes are held by the Depositary in accordance with the Depositary’s customary procedures, such notice of Special Mandatory Redemption to each registered Holder of Notes at its registered address. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Special Mandatory Redemption Price, on and after such Special Mandatory Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes.

ARTICLE IV.

COVENANTS

Section 4.1.    Payment of Notes. The Company will promptly pay or cause to be paid the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on each of the Notes at the places and time and in the manner provided in the Notes and this Indenture. An installment of principal, premium or interest will be considered paid on the date it is due if the Trustee or Paying Agent holds on that date in accordance with this Indenture money designated for and sufficient to pay the installment then due.

 

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The Company will pay or cause to be paid interest on overdue principal at the rate specified in the applicable series of Notes; it will also pay interest on overdue installments of interest at the same rate, to the extent lawful.

Section 4.2.    Reporting. The Company will file with the Trustee within 15 days after filing with the SEC, copies of its 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 will comply with the other provisions of TIA Section 314(a). In addition, if at any time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, it shall furnish to Holders and prospective investors, upon request, any information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) of the Securities Act, so long as the Notes are not freely transferable under the Securities Act.

Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute actual or constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates); provided, that, the Trustee will be deemed to have actual knowledge of any Event of Default or Default set forth in any Officers’ Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 4.4.

Section 4.3.    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, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, that, the Company will not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if the Board of Directors determines that the preservation of the right or franchise is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that its loss will not be disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.

Section 4.4.    Compliance Certificate. The Company will deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the Company an Officers’ Certificate stating that in the course of the performance by the authorized signers of their duties as Officers of the Company they would normally have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default by the Company and whether or not the authorized signers know of any Default or Event of Default that occurred during the Fiscal Year. If they do, the Officers’ Certificate will describe the Default or Event of Default, its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. The Company also will comply with TIA Section 314(a)(4). For the purposes of this provision of this Indenture, compliance is determined without regard to any grace period or requirement of notice under this Indenture.

Section 4.5.    Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose of this Indenture.

 

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Section 4.6.    Limitations on Liens. The Company shall not, nor shall it permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien, upon any of its properties or assets, whether owned on the Issue Date or thereafter acquired, unless (1) if a Lien secures Indebtedness which is pari passu with any series of Notes, then such series of Notes is secured by a Lien on the same properties or assets on an equal and ratable basis with the obligation so secured until such time as such obligation is no longer secured by a Lien, (2) if such Lien secures Indebtedness which is subordinated to any series of Notes, then such series of Notes is secured by a Lien on the same properties or assets and the Lien securing such Indebtedness is subordinated to the Lien granted to the Holders of such series of Notes to the same extent as such Indebtedness is subordinated to such series of Notes or (3) such Lien is a Permitted Lien (as defined below).

The following Liens constitute “Permitted Liens”:

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

(b) Liens on property existing at the time of acquisition thereof by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such Liens were in existence prior to, and were not created in contemplation of, such acquisition and do not extend to any assets other than the property acquired;

(c) Liens imposed by law such as carriers’, warehouseman’s or mechanics’ Liens, and other Liens to secure the performance of statutory obligations, surety or appeal bonds, performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(d) Liens incurred in connection with pollution control, industrial revenue, water, sewage or any similar bonds;

(e) Liens securing Indebtedness representing, or incurred to finance, the cost of acquiring, constructing or improving any assets, provided that the principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed 100% of such cost, including construction charges;

(f) Liens securing Indebtedness (A) between a Restricted Subsidiary and the Company, or (B) between Restricted Subsidiaries;

(g) Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business to secure performance of obligations with respect to statutory or regulatory requirements, performance or return-of-money bonds, surety bonds or other obligations of a like nature, in each case which are not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money, the obtaining of advances or credit or the payment of the deferred purchase price of property and which do not in the aggregate impair in any material respect the use of property in the operation of the Company’s business taken as a whole;

(h) pledges or deposits under workmen’s compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws or similar legislation, or good faith deposits in connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of indebtedness) or leases to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is a party, or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of the Company or of any Restricted Subsidiary or deposits for the payment of rent, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

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(i) Liens granted to any bank or other institution on the payments to be made to such institution by the Company or any Subsidiary pursuant to any interest rate swap or similar agreement or foreign currency hedge, exchange or similar agreement designed to provide protection against fluctuations in interest rates and currency exchange rates, respectively, provided that such agreements are entered into in, or are incidental to, the ordinary course of business;

(j) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provision relating to banker’s Liens, rights of set off or similar rights and remedies;

(k) Liens arising from the Uniform Commercial Code financing statements regarding leases;

(l) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred to finance the acquisition, construction, improvement, development or expansion of a property which are given within 180 days of the acquisition, construction, improvement, development or expansion of such property and which is limited to such property;

(m) Liens incurred in connection with Non-Recourse Indebtedness;

(n) Liens existing on the Issue Date;

(o) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims that are not yet delinquent or that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently concluded; provided that any reserve or other appropriate provision as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor;

(p) Liens securing refinancing Indebtedness; provided that any such Lien does not extend to or cover any property or assets other than the property or assets securing Indebtedness so refunded, refinanced or extended;

(q) easements, rights-of-way and other similar encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business and encumbrances consisting of zoning restrictions, licenses, restrictions on the use of property or minor imperfections in title thereto which, in the aggregate, are not material in amount, and which do not in any case materially detract from the Company’s properties subject thereto; and

(r) any extensions, substitutions, modifications, replacements or renewals of the Permitted Liens described above.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may, and may permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its properties or assets that is not a Permitted Lien without equally and ratably securing the Notes if, at the time the Indebtedness secured by the Lien is incurred, the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness then outstanding secured by such Lien and all other Liens, together with the aggregate net sale proceeds from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions which are not Permitted Sale-Leaseback Transactions, does not exceed 20% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of the Company; provided that Indebtedness secured by Permitted Liens shall not be included in the amount of such secured Indebtedness.

 

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Section 4.7.    Sale-Leaseback Transactions. The Company shall not, and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, after the date hereof, enter into any Sale-Leaseback Transaction other than Permitted Sale-Leaseback Transactions (as defined below). The following Sale-Leaseback Transactions constitute “Permitted Sale-Leaseback Transactions”:

(a) a Sale-Leaseback Transaction involving the leasing by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of model homes in the Company’s (including its Subsidiaries’) communities;

(b) a Sale-Leaseback Transaction relating to a property entered into within 180 days after (i) the date of acquisition of such property by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary or (ii) the date of the completion of construction or commencement of full operations on such property, whichever is later;

(c) a Sale-Leaseback Transaction where the Company, within 365 days after such Sale-Leaseback Transaction, applies or causes to be applied to (a) the retirement of any Funded Debt of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than Funded Debt which by its terms or the terms of the instrument by which it was issued is subordinate in right of payment to the Notes) or (b) the purchase by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of property substantially similar to the property sold or transferred, in each case, proceeds of the sale of such property, but only to the extent of the amount of proceeds so applied;

(d) a Sale-Leaseback Transaction where the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary would, on the effective date of such sale or transfer, be entitled, pursuant to this Indenture, to issue, assume or guarantee Indebtedness secured by a Lien upon the relevant property, at least equal in amount to the then present value (discounted at the actual rate of interest of the Sale-Leaseback Transaction) of the obligation for the net rental payments in respect of such Sale-Leaseback Transaction without equally and ratably securing the Notes;

(e) a Sale-Leaseback Transaction between the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary or among Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, that, the lessor shall be the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; and

(f) a Sale-Leaseback Transaction which has a lease of no more than three years in length.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may, and may permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, effect any Sale-Leaseback Transaction involving any real or tangible personal property which is not a Permitted Sale-Leaseback Transaction, provided that at the time of the Sale-Leaseback Transaction the aggregate net sales proceeds from all Sale-Leaseback Transactions which are not Permitted Sale-Leaseback Transactions, together with all Indebtedness secured by Liens other than Permitted Liens, does not exceed 20% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of the Company.

 

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Section 4.8.    Furnishing Guarantees. The Company shall cause each existing or future wholly-owned Subsidiary (other than its finance company Subsidiaries and any foreign Subsidiaries) that guarantees any of the Company’s Indebtedness or guarantees the obligations of any Subsidiary as a guarantor of the Company’s Indebtedness to become a Guarantor by causing such Subsidiary, as promptly as practicable, but in any event not later than the date on which such Subsidiary becomes a guarantor of any other Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary, to execute and deliver to the Trustee a Guarantee in substantially the form of Exhibit I hereto and the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with, and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with (which counsel, as to factual matters, may rely on an Officers’ Certificate).

Section 4.9.    Change of Control.

(a) If a Change of Control Triggering Event with respect to any series of Notes occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the Notes of such series by notifying the Holders of Notes of such series to that effect as described in Section 3.1 above, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of Notes of such series to repurchase all or any part of that Holder’s Notes on the terms set forth in this Section 4.9; provided, that, the Notes shall be repurchased in multiples of $1,000 and if any Holder elects to have less than all of its Notes repurchased by the Company, the unpurchased portion of the Notes shall be equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. In a Change of Control Offer, the Company shall offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased to the date of repurchase (a “Change of Control Payment”). Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control, the Company shall send a notice to Holders of the applicable series of Notes, describing the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase the Notes of such series on the date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date that notice is sent, other than as may be required by law (a “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if sent prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the applicable Change of Control Payment Date.

(b) On each Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:

 

  (i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes of the applicable series properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;

 

  (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes of such series properly tendered; and

 

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  (iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes of such series properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being repurchased and that all conditions precedent provided for herein to the Change of Control Offer and to the repurchase by the Company of Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer have been complied with.

(c) The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer with respect to any series of Notes upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and the third party repurchases all Notes of such series properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes of any series as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Offer provisions herein, the Company will comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Offer provisions herein by virtue of any such conflict.

(d) As used herein:

Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets and the assets of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any person, other than the Company or one of its Subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any person becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Company’s outstanding Voting Stock or other Voting Stock into which the Company’s Voting Stock is reclassified, consolidated, exchanged or changed, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any person, or any person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the Company’s outstanding Voting Stock or the Voting Stock of such other person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Company’s Voting Stock outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving person or any direct or indirect parent company of the surviving person immediately after giving effect to such transaction; (4) the first day on which a majority of the members of the Board of Directors are not Continuing Directors; or (5) the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction (or series of related transactions) will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control under clause (2) above if, either:

(i)(A) the Company becomes a direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary of a holding company and (B)(1) the direct or indirect holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to that transaction or (2) the shares of the Company’s Voting Stock outstanding immediately prior to such transaction are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately after giving effect to such transaction; or

(ii)(A) Stuart Miller, together with members of his immediate family, directly or indirectly, becomes the beneficial owner of more than 50%, but less than 66 23%, of the Company’s outstanding Voting Stock, measured by voting power rather than number of shares and (B) immediately after such transaction or transactions the Class A Common Stock is listed for trading on The New York Stock Exchange or The Nasdaq Global Market.

The term “person,” as used in this definition of Change of Control, has the meaning given thereto in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.

Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

Continuing Director” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors who (1) was a member of the Board of Directors on the Issue Date or (2) was nominated for election, elected or appointed to the Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of the Board of Directors at the time of the nomination, election or appointment (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which that member was named as a nominee for election as a director, without objection to the nomination).

Fitch” means Fitch Inc. and its successors.

Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s, BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P and BBB- (or the equivalent) by Fitch, and the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any replacement Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.

Rating Agencies” means (1) each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; and (2) if any of Moody’s, S&P or Fitch ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of a series of Notes publicly available for reasons beyond the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act that is selected by the Company (as certified by a resolution of the Board of Directors) as a replacement rating agency for Moody’s, S&P or Fitch, or all of them, as the case may be.

 

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Rating Event” means the rating on a series of Notes is lowered by at least two of the three Rating Agencies and such series of Notes is rated below an Investment Grade Rating by at least two of the three Rating Agencies (and, if there is a split among the three Rating Agencies, by the two Rating Agencies with the lowest ratings) in any case on any day during the period (which period will be extended so long as the rating of such series of Notes is under publicly announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies) commencing 90 days prior to the earlier of (1) the first public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control and (2) the first public notice of the Company’s intention to effect a Change of Control, and ending 90 days following consummation of such Change of Control.

S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global, Inc., and its successors.

Voting Stock” means, with respect to any specified “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) as of any date, the capital stock of that person that is at the time entitled to vote generally in the election of the board of directors of that person.

ARTICLE V.

SUCCESSOR CORPORATION

Section 5.1.    Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms. The Company will not consolidate with or merge into any other corporation or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:

(1)    the corporation formed by the consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety will be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, a State of the United States of America or the District of Columbia and expressly assumes, by one or more supplemental indentures, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on all the Notes and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture to be performed or observed by the Company;

(2)    immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing; and

(3)    the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that the consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and the supplemental indenture (or the supplemental indentures together) comply with this Article and that all the conditions precedent relating to the transaction set forth in this Section have been fulfilled.

Section 5.2.    Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any event described in Section 5.1, the successor corporation will succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture, and, except in connection with a lease transaction, the predecessor corporation will be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture.

 

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ARTICLE VI.

DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Section 6.1.    Events of Default.

Any one of the following events occurring with respect to a series of Notes shall constitute an “Event of Default” hereunder with respect to such series of Notes (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):

(1)    a default by the Company in the payment when due of interest on such series of Notes, which default continues for a period of 30 days;

(2)    a default by the Company in the payment when due of the principal or Redemption Price or Repurchase Price due with respect to such series of Notes (including in the case of a Special Mandatory Redemption);

(3)    a default by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to its obligation to pay Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Non-Recourse Indebtedness), which default shall have resulted in the acceleration of, or be a failure to pay at final maturity, Indebtedness aggregating more than $50 million, and where such acceleration does not cease to exist, or such Indebtedness is not satisfied, in either case, within 30 days after such acceleration;

(4)    a failure to perform any other covenant or warranty of the Company herein, which continues for 60 days after written notice as provided in the last paragraph of this Section 6.1;

(5)    final judgments or orders are rendered against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary which require the payment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of an amount (to the extent not covered by insurance) in excess of $50 million and such judgments or orders remain unstayed or unsatisfied for more than 60 days and are not being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

(6)    the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary), pursuant to any Bankruptcy Law applicable to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary): (A) commences a voluntary case; (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it or them in an involuntary case against it or them; (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or them or for any substantial part of its or their property; or (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its or their creditors; or

 

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(7)    a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any applicable Bankruptcy Law: (A) for relief in an involuntary case against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); (B) appointing a Custodian of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) or for any substantial part of its or their respective property; or (C) ordering the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days.

A Default under clause (4) of this Section 6.1 is not an Event of Default until the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the applicable series of Notes then outstanding with regard to which the Company has failed to comply with a covenant or agreement notify the Company and the Trustee of the Default and the Company does not cure the Default within 60 days after the giving of the notice. The notice must reference this Indenture and the Notes, specify the Default, demand that it be remedied and state that the notice is a “Notice of Default.”

The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 20 days after it occurs, written notice in the form of an Officers’ Certificate of any event of which the Company is aware which with the giving of notice and the lapse of time would become an Event of Default, its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect to it.

Section 6.2.    Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.    If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to a series of Notes, unless the principal of such series of Notes has already become due and payable, the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding of such series by notice to the Company and the Trustee, may declare the outstanding principal of such series of Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest thereon through the date of such declaration on all of the Notes of such series to be immediately due and payable. Upon such a declaration, such outstanding principal amount and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall be due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default with respect to a series of Notes specified in Section 6.1(6) or (7) occurs and is continuing, the outstanding principal amount of such series of Notes shall automatically become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holders. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding of the applicable series, on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes of such series, by notice to the Company and the Trustee (and without notice to any other Holder), may rescind any acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of the outstanding principal amount of any of the Notes of such series that has become due solely as a result of acceleration and if all amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.7 have been paid. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereto.

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

 

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The Trustee shall, within 90 days after a Trust Officer has actual knowledge of the occurrence of a Default or any Event of Default with respect to a series of Notes, send to all Holders of Notes of such series, as the names and addresses of such Holders appear upon the Note register, notice of all Defaults or Events of Default with respect to such series of Notes actually known to a Trust Officer, unless such Default or Event of Default is cured or waived before the giving of such notice; provided, that, except in the case of default in the payment of the principal, interest, Redemption Price or Repurchase Price, as the case may be, on any of the Notes, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a trust committee of Trust Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of the Notes of the applicable series; and provided, further, in the case of any Default under Section 6.1(3) of this Indenture, no such notice to Holders of Notes of the applicable series shall be given until the end of the 30-day grace period referred to therein.

The Holders of a majority in principal amount of a series of Notes then outstanding shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceedings for any remedy available to the Trustee with respect to the Notes of such series, subject to the limitations specified herein.

Section 6.3.    Other Remedies. If an Event of Default as to a series of Notes occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such series of Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision under this Indenture.

The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default will not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default. No remedy is exclusive of any other remedy. All available remedies are cumulative.

Section 6.4.    Waiver of Existing Defaults. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding of a series, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes of such series, by notice to the Trustee may consent to the waiver of any past Default with regard to such series of Notes and its consequences except (i) a default in the payment of interest or premium, if any, on, or the principal of, such series of Notes, (ii) a failure to redeem or repurchase any Notes of such series as required under this Indenture or (iii) a default in respect of a covenant or a provision that under Section 9.2 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holders of all Notes then outstanding of such series. The defaults described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) in the previous sentence may be waived with the consent of the Holders of all Notes then outstanding of such series. When a Default or Event of Default is waived, it is deemed cured and not continuing, but no waiver will extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any consequent right. Without limiting the provisions of Section 7.7, the Trustee shall be compensated by the Company for all costs and expenses incurred by it in connection with any action taken by it pursuant to this Section 6.4.

 

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Section 6.5.    Control by Majority. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of Notes then outstanding of a series may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee with regard to such series of Notes or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with regard to such series of Notes. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or, subject to Section 7.1, that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders of Notes of the applicable series or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability; provided, however, that the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not inconsistent with such direction. Prior to taking any action as a result of a direction given under this Section, the Trustee will be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking that action.

Section 6.6.    Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor. The Company covenants that upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in Section 6.1(1) or (2) with respect to a series of Notes, then, upon demand of the Trustee, the Company will pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such series of Notes, the whole amount that will then have become due and payable on all Notes of such series for principal, premium, if any, and interest, with interest on the overdue principal and premium, if any, and (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) on the overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes of such series, plus one percent; and, in addition, such further amount as will be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including reasonable compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and any expenses or liabilities incurred by the Trustee hereunder other than through its negligence or bad faith. Until such demand by the Trustee, the Company may pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Notes of such series to the registered Holders of the Notes of such series, whether or not the Notes of such series are overdue.

Section 6.7.    Limitation on Suits. No Holder of Notes of a series may pursue a remedy with respect to this Indenture or such series of Notes unless:

(1)    such Holder gives to the Trustee written notice stating that an Event of Default with respect to such series of Notes is continuing;

(2)    the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding of such series make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy;

(3)    such Holder or Holders offer to the Trustee indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against any cost, loss, liability or expense;

(4)    the Trustee does not comply with the request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer of security or indemnity, and the Event of Default has not been waived; and

(5)    the Trustee has received no inconsistent direction from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding of such series during such 60-day period.

No Holder may use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder.

 

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Section 6.8.    Rights of Holders to Receive Payment. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on a Note and interest on the overdue principal and (to the extent permitted by law) interest, on or after the applicable due date expressed in the applicable Note or, in the case of redemption, on or after the applicable Redemption Date, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the applicable due date or Redemption Date, as the case may be, against the Company, will not be impaired or affected without the consent of the Holder.

Section 6.9.    Collection Suit by Trustee. If an Event of Default in payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest, if any, specified in clause (1) or (2) of Section 6.1 occurs and is continuing with respect to a series of Notes, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount of principal, premium, if any, and interest remaining unpaid with respect to such series of Notes (together with interest on that unpaid interest to the extent lawful) and the amounts provided for in Section 7.7.

Section 6.10.    Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company, its creditors or its property and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, may vote on behalf of the Holders in any election of a trustee in bankruptcy or other Person performing similar functions, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make payments to the Trustee and, if the Trustee consents 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 its counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7.

Section 6.11.    Restoration of Positions. If a judicial proceeding by the Trustee or a Holder to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture is dismissed or decided favorably to the Company, except as otherwise provided in the judicial proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders will be restored to the positions they would have been in if the judicial proceeding had not been instituted.

Section 6.12.    Priorities. If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article VI with respect to a series of Notes, it will pay out the money or property in the following order:

FIRST: to the Trustee for amounts due under Section 7.7;

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

THIRD: to the Company.

The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to the Holders of a series of Notes pursuant to this Section. At least 15 days before the record date, the Company will mail to each Holder of such series of Notes and the Trustee a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.

 

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Section 6.13.    Undertaking for Costs. In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section 6.13 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 6.7, or a suit by Holders of in aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of a series of Notes then outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note held by that Holder on or after the due date provided in such Note.

Section 6.14.    Stay, Extension or Usury Laws. The Company agrees (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim, and will resist any and all efforts to be compelled to take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury or other law, wherever enacted, now or at any subsequent time in force, which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of, premium, if any, and/or interest on any of the Notes as contemplated in this Indenture, or which may affect the covenants or performance of this Indenture, and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and agrees that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power granted to the Trustee in this Indenture, but (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) will suffer and permit the execution of any such power as though no such law had been enacted.

Section 6.15.    Liability of Stockholders, Officers, Directors and Incorporators. No director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or partner, as such, past, present or future, of the Company, any of its successor corporations or any Subsidiary of the foregoing will have any personal liability in respect of the Company’s obligations under this Indenture or any Notes by reason of his or its status as such; provided, however, that nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes will prevent recourse to and enforcement of the liability of any stockholder or subscriber to Capital Stock in respect of shares of Capital Stock which have not been fully paid up.

ARTICLE VII.

TRUSTEE

Section 7.1.    Duties of Trustee.

(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee will 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.

 

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

(i)    the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations will be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

(ii)    the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed in them, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture in the absence of bad faith on the Trustee’s part; provided, however, that, in the case of any such certificates or opinions whereby any provisions thereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, then the Trustee will examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they substantially conform to the requirements of this Indenture, but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein.

(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:

(1)    this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section 7.1;

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

(3)    the Trustee will not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction received by it pursuant to Section 6.5; and

(4)    the Trustee will not be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance of any of its duties under this Indenture or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it has reasonable grounds to believe repayment of the funds or adequate indemnity against the risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

(d) Every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee is subject to the provisions of this Section 7.1 and to the provisions of the TIA.

(e) The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power unless it receives indemnity satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against any loss, liability or expense.

(f) The Trustee will not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree with the Company in a written agreement executed by both parties. Money and Government Obligations held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds or items except to the extent required by law.

 

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Section 7.2.    Rights of Trustee.

(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely on any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.

(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, in each case which conforms to Sections 11.5 and 11.6. The Trustee will not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such an Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.

(c) The Trustee may act through agents or attorneys and will not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care.

(d) The Trustee will 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, except conduct which constitutes willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith.

(e) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and the Trustee will not be liable for any action it takes or omits in reliance on, and in accordance with, the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel.

(f) The Trustee will not be required to investigate any facts or matters stated in any document, but if it decides to investigate any matters or facts, the Trustee or its agents or attorneys will be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.

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

(h) 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, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.

(i) 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.

(j) Except with respect to an Event of Default listed in clause (1) or (2) of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless a Trust 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 Notes and this Indenture.

 

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(k) The permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties.

(l) Any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution.

(m) Subject to Section 7.1, if any Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to a series of Notes, 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 such series pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee in its sole discretion against any loss, liability, or expense which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.

(n) Whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate and/or Opinion of Counsel.

(o) The Trustee may rely on and act in accordance with advice or an Opinion of Counsel without liability.

Section 7.3.    Individual Rights of Trustee. The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or any of its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Registrar, co-registrar or co-paying agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.

Section 7.4.    Trustees Disclaimer. The Trustee (i) is not responsible for and makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture, (ii) will not be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Notes, and (iii) will not be responsible for any statement of the Company in this Indenture, other than the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, or in any document used in the sale of the Notes, other than statements, if any, provided in writing by the Trustee for use in such a document.

Section 7.5.    Notice of Defaults. The Trustee will give to the Holders of a series of Notes notice of any Default or Event of Default with regard to such series of Notes known to the Trustee, within 90 days after it occurs, unless such Default shall have been cured or waived; provided, that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on any Note, the Trustee will be protected in withholding notice of the Default if and so long as a committee of its Trust Officers in good faith determines that the withholding of the notice is in the interests of the Holders of such series of Notes.

Section 7.6.    Reports by Trustee. Within 60 days after each November 30 beginning with the November 30 following the date of this Indenture, the Trustee will deliver to each Holder, at the name and address which appears on the registration books of the Company, a brief report as to a series of Notes dated as of that November 30 which complies with TIA Section 313(a). The Trustee also will comply with TIA Section 313(b).

 

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A copy of each report will at the time of its delivery to Holders of a series of Notes be filed with each stock exchange on which the Notes of such series are listed and also with the SEC. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when the Notes of any series are listed on, or delisted from, any stock exchange and of any delisting of the Notes of any series.

Section 7.7.    Compensation and Indemnity. The Company will pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services as the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing. The Trustee’s compensation will not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Company will reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred or disbursements and advances made by it, including costs of collection, in addition to the compensation for its services. Those expenses will include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and experts. The Company will indemnify the Trustee (which, for purposes of this Section 7.7 shall be deemed to include its directors, officers, employees and agents) against any and all loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred by it in connection with the administration of the trust created by this Indenture and the performance of its duties under this Indenture. The Trustee will notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Company will not relieve the Company of its obligations under this Section. The Company will defend the claim and the Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company will pay the fees and expenses of such counsel. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent. The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss, expense or liability incurred by the Trustee to the extent it is due to the Trustee’s own willful misconduct or negligence.

To secure the Company’s obligation to make payments to the Trustee under this Section 7.7, the Trustee will have a lien prior to the Notes of a series on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, other than money or property held in trust to pay principal or interest on the Notes of such series. Those obligations of the Company will survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the Notes, and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.

When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in clause (6) or (7) of Section 6.1 occurs with respect to a series of Notes, the expenses and the compensation for the services of the Trustee are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.

For purposes of this Section 7.7, “Trustee” will include any predecessor Trustee, but the willful misconduct, negligence or bad faith of any Trustee will not affect the rights of any other Trustee under this Section 7.7.

The provisions of this Section 7.7 shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.

Section 7.8.    Replacement of Trustee. The Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Company. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, voting as a single class, may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Company and may appoint a successor Trustee. The Company may remove the Trustee if:

(1)     the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;

 

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

(3)    a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or

(4)    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 will promptly appoint a successor Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, voting as a single class, may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.

No removal or appointment of a Trustee will be valid if that removal or appointment would conflict with any law applicable to the Company.

A successor Trustee will deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that, the retiring Trustee will, subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.7, transfer all property held by it as a Trustee to the successor Trustee, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee will become effective, and the successor Trustee will have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee will mail notice of its succession to each Holder.

If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee (at the expense of the Company), the Company or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.

If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Holder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.

Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.7 will continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.

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 assets to, another Person, the resulting, surviving or transferee Person will, without any further act, be the successor Trustee.

 

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If at the time a successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to the Trustee succeeds to the trusts created by this Indenture and any of the Notes have been authenticated but not delivered, the successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of the predecessor Trustee, and deliver the Notes which were authenticated by the predecessor Trustee; and if at that time any of the Notes have not been authenticated, the successor to the Trustee may authenticate those Notes either in the name of the predecessor or in its own name as the successor to the Trustee; and in either case the certificates of authentication will have the full force provided in this Indenture for certificates of authentication.

Section 7.10.    Eligibility; Disqualification. The Trustee will at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA Section 310(a). The Trustee will at all times have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50 million as set forth in its most recently published annual report of condition, which will be deemed for this paragraph to be its combined capital and surplus. The Trustee will comply with TIA Section 310(b), including the optional provision permitted by the second sentence of TIA Section 310(b)(9).

Section 7.11.    Preferential Collection of Claims. The Trustee will comply with TIA Section 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed will be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.

ARTICLE VIII.

DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

Section 8.1.    Termination of the Companys Obligations. When (1) the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all Notes of a series theretofore authenticated (other than any Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or in substitution for which other Notes of the applicable series shall have been authenticated and delivered) and not theretofore canceled, or (2) all the Notes of a series not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable within one year, whether at stated maturity or upon redemption and the Company shall deposit with the Trustee, in trust, monies and/or U.S. Government Obligations sufficient to pay at the Maturity Date or Redemption Date, as applicable, all sums which will become due with regard to all Notes of such series theretofore authenticated (other than any Notes which shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or in substitution for which other Notes of the applicable series shall have been authenticated and delivered) and not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including the principal amount and interest accrued to the Maturity Date or Redemption Date, as applicable, and if the Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to such series of Notes (except as to (i) remaining rights of registration of transfer, substitution and exchange of such series of Notes, (ii) rights hereunder of Holders of Notes of such series to receive payments of the principal amount, including interest due with respect to the Notes of such series and the other rights, duties and obligations of Holders, as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the amounts, if any, so deposited with the Trustee and (iii) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Trustee under this Indenture with respect to the Notes of such series), and the Trustee, on demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as required by Section 8.3 and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture with respect to such series of Notes; the Company, however, hereby agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred by the Trustee, and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee, in connection with this Indenture or such series of Notes.

 

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Section 8.2.    Application of Trust Money. Subject to Section 8.4, the Trustee will hold in trust money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to Section 8.1. It will apply the deposited money and the money from the U.S. Government Obligations through the Paying Agent and in accordance with this Indenture to the payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Notes with regard to which the money or U.S. Government Obligations were deposited. The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 8.1 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the Notes.

Section 8.3.    Officers Certificate; Opinion of Counsel. Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under Section 8.1, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with, and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with (which counsel, as to factual matters, may rely on an Officers’ Certificate).

Each such Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel provided for in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant pursuant to the previous paragraph shall comply with the provisions of Sections 11.5 and 11.6.

Section 8.4.    Repayment to the Company. The Trustee and the Paying Agent will promptly pay to the Company upon request any excess money or securities held by them at any time. The Trustee and the Paying Agent will pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal, premium or interest that remains unclaimed for two years. After such payment, all liability of the Trustee and the Paying Agent with respect to that money will cease.

Section 8.5.    Reinstatement. If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with Section 8.2 by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company’s obligations under this Indenture shall be revived and reinstated with respect to the Notes 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 8.2; provided, that, if the Company makes any payment of principal amount, Redemption Price or Repurchase Price of or interest on any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

 

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ARTICLE IX.

MODIFICATION OF THE INDENTURE

Section 9.1.    Without Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes without the consent of the Holders:

(1)    to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;

(2)    to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;

(3)    to comply with Article 5;

(4)    to add to the covenants of the Company further covenants, restrictions or conditions that the Board of Directors shall consider to be for the benefit of the Holders of Notes of any series, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions or conditions a Default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture;

(5)    to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes; or

(6)    to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary for this Indenture to comply with the TIA, or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted; or

(7)    to conform the text of this Indenture, the Notes of any series or any Guarantee of the Notes of any series to any corresponding provisions of the “Description of Notes” or similar provisions in any offering memorandum or supplement thereto in respect of such series of Notes, including the Offering Memorandum dated November 14, 2017.

After an amendment under this Section becomes effective, the Company will mail to the Holders of each applicable series of Notes a notice briefly describing the amendment. The failure to give such notice to all Holders, or any defect in a notice, will not impair or affect the validity of an amendment under this Section.

Section 9.2.    With Consent of Holders. The Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes of any series with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes of such series then outstanding. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes of such series then outstanding may waive compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Notes of such series. However, without the consent of each Holder so affected, no amendment, supplement or waiver, including a waiver pursuant to Section 6.4, may:

(1)    extend the fixed maturity of any Note or any installment of interest thereon, reduce the principal amount, interest rate, Redemption Price (including in the case of a Special Mandatory Redemption), Repurchase Price or amount due upon acceleration, impair the right of a Holder to institute suit for the payment thereof or change the currency in which the Notes are payable;

 

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(2)    reduce the percentage of Notes the Holders of which are required to consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;

(3)    release any Guarantor except as provided in Article X hereof; or

(4)    make any change in Section 6.4 or 6.8 or the third sentence of this Section.

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

Section 9.3.    Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment or supplement to this Indenture or the Notes will comply with the TIA as then in effect.

Section 9.4.    Revocation and Effect of Consents. A consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver by a Holder will bind the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Note. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to the Holder’s Note or portion of a Note. For a revocation to be effective, the Trustee must receive notice of the revocation before the date the amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective. After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective in accordance with its terms, it will bind every Holder of every Note.

Section 9.5.    Notation on or Exchange of Notes. If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a series of Notes, the Trustee may require the Holder of the Note to deliver the Holder’s Note to the Trustee, who will place an appropriate notation about the amendment, supplement or waiver on such Note and will return it to the Holder. Alternatively, the Company may, in exchange for the Note, issue, and the Trustee will authenticate, a new Note that reflects the amendment, supplement or waiver.

Section 9.6.    Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc. The Trustee will sign any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to Article II or this Article IX if the amendment, supplement or waiver does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. If it does adversely affect those rights, duties, liabilities or immunities, the Trustee may but need not sign it. The Company may not sign an amendment or supplement until the amendment or supplement is approved by an appropriate Board Resolution.

In signing such amendment the Trustee shall receive indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it and shall receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, in addition to the documents required by Section 11.4, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such amendment is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and the TIA.

 

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ARTICLE X.

GUARANTEE OF NOTES

Section 10.1.    Unconditional Guarantee. Except as provided in Section 10.2 or Section 10.4, each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees (such guarantee to be referred to herein as a “Guarantee”) to each Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, that: (a) all amounts due with respect to the Notes shall be duly and punctually paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal and (to the extent permitted by law) interest, if any, on the Notes and all other obligations of the Company or the Guarantors to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder and all other obligations shall be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (b) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, the same shall be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed, or failing performance of any other obligation of the Company to the Holders under this Indenture or under the Notes, for whatever reason, each Guarantor shall be obligated to pay, or to perform or cause the performance of, the same immediately. An Event of Default under this Indenture or a series of Notes shall constitute an event of default under each Guarantee with respect to the applicable series of Notes, and shall entitle the Holders of the applicable series of Notes to accelerate the obligations of the Guarantors hereunder in the same manner and to the same extent as the obligations of the Company.

Each of the Guarantors hereby agrees that, subject to Section 10.2 and Section 10.4, its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of the Notes with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, any release of any other Guarantor, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same, whether or not a Guarantee is affixed to any particular Note, or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor. Each of the Guarantors hereby waives the benefit of diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that its Guarantee shall not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations contained in the Notes, this Indenture and its Guarantee. Each Guarantee is a guarantee of payment and not of collection. Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between it, on the one hand, and the Holders of Notes and the Trustee, on the other hand, (a) subject to this Article X, the maturity of the Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article VI hereof for the purposes of each Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Obligations guaranteed hereby, and (b) in the event of any acceleration of such Obligations as provided in Article VI hereof, such Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors for the purpose of each Guarantee.

 

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No director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or partner, as such, past, present or future, of any Guarantor, as such, shall have any personal liability under any Guarantee by reason of his, her or its status as such director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or partner.

Each Guarantor that makes a payment or distribution under its Guarantee shall be entitled to a contribution from each other Guarantor in an amount pro rata, based on the net assets of each Guarantor, determined in accordance with GAAP.

Section 10.2.    Limitations on Guarantees; Release or Suspension of Particular Guarantors Obligations. The obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee will be limited to the maximum amount which, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantors in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantors under their respective Guarantees or pursuant to their contribution obligations under this Indenture, will result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under federal or state law.

Additionally, if any Guarantor is released from its Guarantee (rather than a suspension of its Guarantee) of the outstanding Indebtedness of the Company or the obligations of any Restricted Subsidiary as a guarantor of the Company’s Indebtedness, such Guarantor shall be automatically released from its obligations as Guarantor, and from and after such date, such Guarantor shall cease to constitute a Guarantor and a Restricted Subsidiary.

The obligations of a Guarantor will be automatically suspended, and such Guarantor shall not constitute a guarantor (but will remain a Restricted Subsidiary) and shall not have any obligations with regard to the Notes, during any period when the principal amount of the Company’s obligations and any Subsidiary’s obligations as a guarantor of the Company’s obligations (without duplication), in each case other than the Notes and other Indebtedness containing provisions similar to this, that the Guarantor is guaranteeing total less than $75 million.

Section 10.3.    Execution and Delivery of Guarantee. To further evidence the Guarantee set forth in Section 10.1, each Guarantor hereby agrees to execute and deliver to the Trustee a Guarantee in substantially the form of Exhibit I hereto. Such Guarantee shall be executed on behalf of each Guarantor by either manual or facsimile signature of an officer or agent of each Guarantor, each of whom, in each case, shall have been duly authorized to so execute by all requisite corporate action. The validity and enforceability of any Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact that it is not affixed to any Note or Notes.

If an officer or agent of a Guarantor whose signature is on this Indenture or a Guarantee no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates a Note to which such Guarantee relates or at any time thereafter, such Guarantor’s Guarantee of such Note shall be valid nevertheless.

 

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The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of any Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of each Guarantor.

Section 10.4.    Release of a Guarantor due to Extraordinary Events. If no Default exists or would exist under this Indenture, upon the sale or disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of a Guarantor, or all of the Capital Stock of a Guarantor (including by consolidation, merger, issuance or otherwise), by the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company, or upon the consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into any Person (in each case, other than to the Company or an Affiliate of the Company or a Subsidiary), or if any Guarantor is dissolved or liquidated, such Guarantor and each Subsidiary of such Guarantor that is also a Guarantor, or the Person acquiring such assets (in the event of a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor), shall be deemed automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all of its obligations under this Article X without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.

Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each of which shall comply with the provisions of Sections 11.5 and 11.6, stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to the release of such Guarantor have been complied with (which counsel, as to factual matters, may rely on an Officers’ Certificate), the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably requested by the Company or a Guarantor in order to evidence the release of such Guarantor from its obligations under its Guarantee of the Notes under this Article X.

Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Notes shall prevent any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or another Guarantor or shall prevent any sale or conveyance of the property of a Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Company or another Guarantor.

Section 10.5.    Waiver of Subrogation. Until this Indenture is discharged and all of the Notes are discharged and paid in full, each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives and agrees not to exercise any claim or other rights which it may now or hereafter acquire against the Company that arise from the existence, payment, performance or enforcement of the Company’s obligations under the Notes or this Indenture and such Guarantor’s obligations under its Guarantee and this Indenture, in any such instance including, without limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution, indemnification, and any right to participate in any claim or remedy of the Holders against the Company, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or under contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to take or receive from the Company, directly or indirectly, in cash or other property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of such claim or other rights. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence and any amounts owing to the Trustee or the Holders of any series of Notes under such Notes, this Indenture, or any other document or instrument delivered under or in connection with such agreements or instruments, shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall have been deemed to have been paid to such Guarantor for the benefit of, and held in trust for the benefit of, the Trustee or the Holders of such series of Notes and shall forthwith be paid to the Trustee for the benefit of itself or such Holders to be credited and applied to the Obligations in favor of the Trustee or such Holders, as the case may be, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of this Indenture. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by this Indenture and that the waiver set forth in this Section 10.5 is knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.

 

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Section 10.6.    No Set-Off. Each payment to be made by a Guarantor hereunder in respect of the Obligations shall be payable in the currency or currencies in which such Obligations are denominated, and shall be made without set-off, counterclaim, reduction or diminution of any kind or nature.

Section 10.7.    Obligations Absolute. The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are and shall be absolute and unconditional and any monies or amounts expressed to be owing or payable by each Guarantor hereunder which may not be recoverable from such Guarantor on the basis of a Guarantee shall be recoverable from such Guarantor as a primary obligor and principal debtor in respect thereof.

Section 10.8.    Obligations Continuing. Except as provided in Section 10.2 or Section 10.4, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall be continuing and shall remain in full force and effect until all the Obligations have been paid and satisfied in full. Each Guarantor agrees with the Trustee and the Holders that it will from time to time deliver to the Trustee suitable acknowledgments of its continued liability hereunder and under any other instrument or instruments as will prevent any action brought against it in respect of any default hereunder being barred by any statute of limitations now or hereafter in force and, in the event of the failure of a Guarantor so to do, it hereby irrevocably appoints the Trustee the attorney and agent of such Guarantor to make, execute and deliver such written acknowledgment or acknowledgments or other instruments as may from time to time become necessary or advisable, in the judgment of the Trustee on the advice of counsel, to fully maintain and keep in force the liability of such Guarantor hereunder.

Section 10.9.    Obligations Not Reduced. Except as otherwise provided in Sections 10.2 and 10.4, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be satisfied, reduced or discharged except solely by the payment of such principal, premium, if any, interest, fees and other monies or amounts as may at any time prior to discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Article VIII be or become owing or payable under or by virtue of or otherwise in connection with the Notes or this Indenture.

Section 10.10.    Obligations Reinstated. The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall continue to be effective or shall be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment which would otherwise have reduced the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder (whether such payment shall have been made by or on behalf of the Company or by or on behalf of a Guarantor) is rescinded or reclaimed from the Trustee or any of the Holders upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Company or any Guarantor or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made. If demand for, or acceleration of the time for, payment by the Company is stayed upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Company, all such Indebtedness otherwise subject to demand for payment or acceleration shall nonetheless be payable by each Guarantor as provided herein.

 

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Section 10.11.    Obligations Not Affected. Except as otherwise provided in Sections 10.2 and 10.4, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be affected, impaired or diminished in any way by any act, omission, matter or thing whatsoever, occurring before, upon or after any demand for payment hereunder (and whether or not known or consented to by any Guarantor or any of the Holders) which, but for this provision, might constitute a whole or partial defense to a claim against any Guarantor hereunder or might operate to release or otherwise exonerate any Guarantor from any of its obligations hereunder or otherwise affect such obligations, whether occasioned by default of any of the Holders or otherwise, including, without limitation:

(a) any limitation of status or power, disability, incapacity or other circumstance relating to the Company or any other Person, including any insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization, readjustment, composition, dissolution, winding up or other proceeding involving or affecting the Company or any other Person;

(b) any irregularity, defect, unenforceability or invalidity in respect of any indebtedness or other obligation of the Company or any other Person under this Indenture, the Notes or any other document or instrument;

(c) any failure of the Company, whether or not without fault on its part, to perform or comply with any of the provisions of this Indenture or the Notes of any series, or to give notice thereof to a Guarantor;

(d) the taking or enforcing or exercising or the refusal or neglect to take or enforce or exercise any right or remedy from or against the Company or any other Person or their respective assets or the release or discharge of any such right or remedy;

(e) the granting of time, renewals, extensions, compromises, concessions, waivers, releases, discharges and other indulgences to the Company or any other Person;

(f) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, any of the Notes, or any other amendment, variation, supplement, replacement or waiver of, or any consent to departure from, any of the Notes or this Indenture, including, without limitation, any increase or decrease in any amount due with respect to any of the Notes;

(g) any change in the ownership, control, name, objects, businesses, assets, capital structure or constitution of the Company or a Guarantor;

(h) any merger or amalgamation of the Company or a Guarantor with any Person or Persons;

(i) the occurrence of any change in the laws, rules, regulations or ordinances of any jurisdiction by any present or future action of any governmental authority or court amending, varying, reducing or otherwise affecting, or purporting to amend, vary, reduce or otherwise affect, any of the Obligations or the obligations of a Guarantor under its Guarantee; and

 

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(j) any other circumstance (other than by complete, irrevocable payment) that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of the Company under this Indenture or the Notes of any series or of a Guarantor in respect of its Guarantee hereunder.

Section 10.12.    Waiver. Without in any way limiting the provisions of Section 10.1 hereof, each Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance hereof, notice of any liability of any Guarantor hereunder, notice or proof of reliance by the Holders upon the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder, and diligence, presentment, demand for payment on the Company, protest, notice of dishonor or non-payment of any of the Obligations, or other notice or formalities to the Company or any Guarantor of any kind whatsoever.

Section 10.13.    No Obligation to Take Action Against the Company. Neither the Trustee nor any other Person shall have any obligation to enforce or exhaust any rights or remedies or to take any other steps under any security for the Obligations or against the Company or any other Person or any Property of the Company or any other Person before the Trustee is entitled to demand payment and performance by any or all Guarantors of their liabilities and obligations under their Guarantees or under this Indenture.

Section 10.14.    Dealing with the Company and Others. The Holders, without releasing, discharging, limiting or otherwise affecting in whole or in part the obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor hereunder and without the consent of or notice to any Guarantor, may:

(a) grant time, renewals, extensions, compromises, concessions, waivers, releases, discharges and other indulgences to the Company or any other Person;

(b) take or abstain from taking security or collateral from the Company or from perfecting security or collateral of the Company;

(c) release, discharge, compromise, realize, enforce or otherwise deal with or do any act or thing in respect of (with or without consideration) any and all collateral, mortgages or other security given by the Company or any third party with respect to the obligations or matters contemplated by this Indenture or the Notes;

(d) accept compromises or arrangements from the Company;

(e) apply all monies at any time received from the Company or from any security upon such part of the Obligations as the Holders may see fit or change any such application in whole or in part from time to time as the Holders may see fit; and

(f) otherwise deal with, or waive or modify their right to deal with, the Company and all other Persons and any security as the Holders or the Trustee may see fit.

Section 10.15.    Default and Enforcement. If any Guarantor fails to pay in accordance with Section 10.1 hereof, the Trustee may proceed in its name as trustee hereunder in the enforcement of the Guarantee of any such Guarantor and such Guarantor’s obligations thereunder and hereunder by any remedy provided by law, whether by legal proceedings or otherwise, and to recover from such Guarantor the Obligations.

 

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Section 10.16.    Amendment, etc. No amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Indenture relating to any Guarantor or consent to any departure by any Guarantor or any other Person from any such provision will in any event be effective or affect the obligations of any other Guarantor unless it is signed by such Guarantor and the Trustee.

Section 10.17.    Acknowledgment. Each Guarantor hereby acknowledges communication of the terms of this Indenture and the Notes and consents to and approves of the same.

Section 10.18.    Costs and Expenses. Each Guarantor shall pay on demand by the Trustee any and all costs, fees and expenses (including, without limitation, legal fees) incurred by the Trustee, its agents, advisors and counsel or any of the Holders in enforcing any of their rights under any Guarantee.

Section 10.19.    No Merger or Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No Guarantee shall operate by way of merger of any of the obligations of a Guarantor under any other agreement, including, without limitation, this Indenture. No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of the Trustee or the Holders of any series of Notes, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the Notes of such series or the Guarantees, shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the Notes of such series or the Guarantees preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges in the Guarantee and under this Indenture, the Notes and any other document or instrument between a Guarantor and/or the Company and the Trustee are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.

Section 10.20.    Survival of Obligations. Without prejudice to the survival of any of the other obligations of each Guarantor hereunder, the obligations of each Guarantor under Section 10.1 shall survive until the indefeasible payment in full of the Obligations and shall be enforceable against such Guarantor without regard to and without giving effect to any defense, right of offset or counterclaim available to or which may be asserted by the Company or any Guarantor.

Section 10.21.    Guarantee in Addition to Other Obligations. The obligations of each Guarantor under its Guarantee and this Indenture are in addition to and not in substitution for any other obligations to the Trustee or to any of the Holders in relation to this Indenture or the Notes and any guarantees or security at any time held by or for the benefit of any of them.

Section 10.22.    Severability. Any provision of this Article X which is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate the remaining provisions and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction unless its removal would substantially defeat the basic intent, spirit and purpose of this Indenture and this Article X.

Section 10.23.     Successors and Assigns. Each Guarantee shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each Guarantor and the Trustee and the Holders and their respective successors and permitted assigns, except that no Guarantor may assign any of its Obligations hereunder or thereunder.

 

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Section 10.24.     Acknowledgement under TIA. Each Guarantor acknowledges that, by virtue of its Guarantee, it is becoming an “obligor” on indenture securities under the TIA.

ARTICLE XI.

MISCELLANEOUS

Section 11.1.    TIA Controls.

If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another provision which is required to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, the required provision shall control; provided, however, that this Section 11.1 shall not of itself require that this Indenture or the Trustee be qualified under the TIA or constitute any admission or acknowledgment by any party hereto that any such qualification is required prior to the time this Indenture and the Trustee are required by the TIA to be so qualified.

Section 11.2.    Notices.

Any notices or other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing, and shall be sufficiently given if made by hand delivery, by facsimile, by telecopier or overnight courier guaranteeing next-day delivery or registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, addressed as follows:

if to the Company or the Guarantors:

Lennar Corporation

700 N.W. 107th Avenue

Miami, Florida 33172

Attention: General Counsel

Facsimile: (305) 229-6650

with a copy to:

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

787 Seventh Avenue

New York, NY 10019

Attention: David K. Boston

Facsimile: (212) 728-8625

if to the Trustee:

The Bank of New York Mellon

101 Barclay Street

New York, NY 10286

Attention: Corporate Trust

Facsimile: (212) 815-5366

 

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with a copy to:

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

500 Ross Street, 12th Floor

Pittsburgh, PA 15262

Attention: Corporate Trust Administration

Facsimile: (412) 234-8377

Each of the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee by written notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for notices to such Person. Any notice or communication to the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee shall be deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if hand delivered; when answered back, if telexed; and five (5) calendar days after mailing if sent by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid (except that a notice of change of address shall not be deemed to have been given until actually received by the addressee).

Any notice or communication mailed to a Holder shall be mailed by first class mail, certified or registered return receipt requested, or by overnight courier guaranteeing next day delivery to its address as it appears on the registration books of the Registrar; provided, that, notices given to Holders holding Notes in book-entry form may be given through the facilities of the Depositary or any successor depository. Any notice or communication shall be mailed to any Person as described in TIA Section 313(c), to the extent required by the TIA.

Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.

Section 11.3.    Electronic Instructions/Directions. The Trustee (including in its role as Paying Agent) agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent by unsecured e-mail, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods; provided, that, (a) the party providing such written instructions, subsequent to such transmission of written instructions, shall provide the originally executed instructions or directions to the Trustee in a timely manner, and (b) such originally executed instructions or directions shall be signed by an authorized representative of the party providing such instructions or directions. If a party elects to give the Trustee e-mail or facsimile instructions (or instructions by a similar electronic method) and the Trustee in its discretion elects to act upon such instructions, the Trustee’s understanding of such instructions shall be deemed controlling. The Trustee shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Trustee’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions notwithstanding such instructions conflict or are inconsistent with a subsequent written instruction. The party providing electronic instructions agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of such electronic methods to submit instructions and directions to the Trustee, including without limitation the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk or interception and misuse by third parties.

Section 11.4.    Communications by Holders with Other Holders.

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

 

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Section 11.5.    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:

(1)    an Officers’ Certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent to be performed, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and

(2)    an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent to be performed, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with (which counsel, as to factual matters, may rely on an Officers’ Certificate).

Section 11.6.    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 the Officers’ Certificate required by Section 4.4, shall include:

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

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

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

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

Section 11.7.    Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar.

The Trustee may make reasonable rules in accordance with the Trustee’s customary practices for action by or at a meeting of Holders. The Paying Agent or Registrar may make reasonable rules for its functions.

Section 11.8.    Legal Holidays.

If any payment date is due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date that the relevant payment was due, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

 

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Section 11.9.    Governing Law.

THIS INDENTURE AND THE NOTES, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS INDENTURE OR THE NOTES, OR GUARANTEES, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BUT OTHERWISE WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES THAT WOULD APPLY THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION. Each of the parties hereto agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of and waive objection to venue in the courts of the State of New York sitting in the County of New York, in the Borough of Manhattan or of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Indenture or the Notes.

Section 11.10.    No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.

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

Section 11.11.    No Personal Liability.

No director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or partner, as such, past, present or future, of the Company, any of its successor corporations or any Subsidiary of the foregoing shall have any liability for any Obligations of the Company under the Notes or this Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.

Section 11.12.    Successors. All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Notes shall bind its successors and permitted assigns. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors and permitted assigns.

Section 11.13.    Counterparts. This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

Section 11.14.    Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

Section 11.15.    Force Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee (including in any of its other roles hereunder) be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, 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 efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

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Section 11.16.    Severability. In case any one or more of the provisions in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any respect for any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the provisions hereof shall be enforceable to the full extent permitted by law.

Section 11.17.    FATCA. In order to comply with applicable tax laws, rules and regulations (inclusive of directives, guidelines and interpretations promulgated by competent authorities) in effect from time to time (“Applicable Law”) that a foreign financial institution, issuer, trustee, paying agent, holder or other institution is or has agreed to be subject to related to this Indenture, the Company agrees (a) to provide to The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee and/or Paying Agent, upon its request information in the Company’s possession about applicable parties and/or transactions (including any modification to the terms of such transactions) so that The Bank of New York Mellon can determine whether it has tax related obligations under Applicable Law, and (b) that The Bank of New York Mellon shall be entitled to make any withholding or deduction from payments under this Indenture to the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Law for which The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee and/or Paying Agent, shall not have any liability for its withholding or deduction from payment under this Indenture to the extent necessary to comply with Applicable Law.

[Signature page follows]

 

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

 

LENNAR CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ Richard Beckwitt

  Name:   Richard Beckwitt
  Title:   President
Authorized signatory for each of the Guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto
By:  

/s/ Richard Beckwitt

  Name:   Richard Beckwitt
  Title:   Authorized Signatory
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee
By:  

/s/ Laurence J. O’Brien

  Name:   Laurence J. O’Brien
  Title:   Vice President

 

[Signature Page to Indenture]


EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF 2.950% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2020]

[Insert the Global Note Legend, if applicable, pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture]

[Insert the Private Placement Legend]

 

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CUSIP No.: [                     ]

LENNAR CORPORATION

2.950% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2020

 

No. [                     ]    $[            ]   

Interest Rate: 2.950% per annum.

Interest Payment Dates: May 29 and November 29, commencing May 29, 2018

Record Dates: May 15 and November 15

Lennar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor entities), for value received, promises to pay to          or registered assigns, on November 29, 2020 (the “Maturity Date”), the principal amount of          Dollars ($         ), together with interest thereon as hereinafter provided.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Lennar Corporation has caused this instrument to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer.

 

LENNAR CORPORATION
By:                                                                            
  Name:
  Title:
Dated:                     

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee
By:  

 

    Authorized Signatory

Dated:                     

 

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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)

2.950% Senior Note due 2020

Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture relating to the Notes, dated as of November 29, 2017 (as amended from time to time, the “Indenture”), by and among Lennar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”).

 

1. INTEREST

The Company promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum set forth above. Interest on the 2020 Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the Issue Date. The Company shall pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing as of the Interest Payment Date referred to above, on the Maturity Date and upon redemption. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of a partial month, the actual number of days elapsed.

Payments of the Redemption Price, Special Mandatory Redemption Price, Change of Control Payment, principal and interest that are not made when due will accrue interest per annum at the rate of interest borne by the 2020 Notes, plus one percent, from and including, the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such defaulted amounts shall have been paid by the Company in accordance with the Indenture.

 

2. METHOD OF PAYMENT

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company shall (a) pay interest on the 2020 Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders of 2020 Notes at the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the 2020 Notes are canceled, transferred or exchanged after such Record Date, and (b) make all other payments in respect of the 2020 Notes to the Persons who are registered Holders of 2020 Notes at the close of business on the Business Day preceding the Redemption Date or Maturity, as the case may be. Holders must surrender 2020 Notes to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of the 2020 Notes referred to in clause (b) of the preceding sentence. The Company shall pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. However, the Company may make the cash payments by check payable in such money.

 

3. PAYING AGENT, AND REGISTRAR

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, shall act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar without notice, other than notice to the Trustee. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their Affiliates may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar.

 

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4. INDENTURE

The Company issued the 2020 Notes under the Indenture. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company designated as its 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Initial 2020 Notes”). The 2020 Notes include the Initial 2020 Notes, the 2020 Private Exchange Notes and the Unrestricted 2020 Notes, as defined below, issued in exchange for the Initial 2020 Notes pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement. The Initial 2020 Notes, the 2020 Private Exchange Notes and the Unrestricted 2020 Notes are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture. The terms of the 2020 Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the 2020 Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of 2020 Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms. The 2020 Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company. Each Holder, by accepting a 2020 Note, agrees to be bound by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with its terms.

 

5. REDEMPTION AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY

No sinking fund is provided for the 2020 Notes. The 2020 Notes are redeemable as a whole, or in part, at any time and from time to time at the option of the Company. If the Company elects to redeem the 2020 Notes more than 60 days prior to the Maturity Date, the Redemption Price shall be equal to the greater of: (a) 100% of their principal amount; and (b) the present value of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on the 2020 Notes being redeemed on the Redemption Date, discounted to the Redemption Date, on a semiannual basis, at the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points (0.25%). If the Company elects to redeem the 2020 Notes on or after the date that is 60 days prior to the Maturity Date, the Redemption Price shall be equal to 100% of their principal amount. In either case, the Company will also pay accrued interest on the principal amount of the 2020 Notes to be redeemed up to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

 

6. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY

Notice of redemption at the option of the Company shall be sent at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of 2020 Notes to be redeemed at the Holder’s registered address. If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all 2020 Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date, together with all interest thereon accrued to but not including the Redemption Date, is deposited with the Paying Agent prior to or on the Redemption Date, interest ceases to accrue on such 2020 Notes or portions thereof beginning on such Redemption Date. 2020 Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in integral multiples of $1,000.

 

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7. SPECIAL MANDATORY REDEMPTION

If (x) the consummation of the Merger does not occur on or before August 31, 2018 or (y) prior to the such date, the Company notifies the Trustee that it will not pursue the consummation of the Merger, the Company shall redeem all the outstanding 2020 Notes at a Redemption Price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the 2020 Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Special Mandatory Redemption Date with respect thereto (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on any Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Special Mandatory Redemption Date), in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 3.2 of the Indenture.

 

8. REGISTRATION RIGHTS

Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company will be obligated to consummate an exchange offer pursuant to which the Holder of this Note shall have the right to exchange this Note for the Company’s 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Unrestricted 2020 Notes”), which will be registered under the Securities Act, in like principal amount and having terms identical in all material respects as the Initial 2020 Notes. The Holders of the Initial 2020 Notes shall be entitled to receive certain additional interest payments in the event such exchange offer is not consummated and upon certain other conditions, all pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

9. DENOMINATIONS; TRANSFER; EXCHANGE

The 2020 Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiplies of $1,000 in excess of that amount. A Holder may transfer 2020 Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any governmental taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not transfer or exchange any 2020 Notes selected for redemption (except, in the case of a 2020 Note to be redeemed in part, the portion of the 2020 Note not to be redeemed) or any 2020 Notes for a period of 15 days before any selection of 2020 Notes to be redeemed.

 

10. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS

The registered Holder of this Note may be treated as the owner of this Note for all purposes.

 

11. UNCLAIMED MONEY OR PROPERTY

The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company upon written request any money or property held by them for the payment of any amount with respect to the 2020 Notes that remains unclaimed for two years; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such return, shall at the expense of the Company cause to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York or mail to each such Holder notice that such money or property remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication or mailing, any unclaimed money or property then remaining shall be returned to the Company. After return to the Company, Holders entitled to the money or property must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another Person, and all liability of the Trustee and Paying Agent with respect to the money or property will cease.

 

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12. AMENDMENT; WAIVER

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture with respect to the 2020 Notes or the 2020 Notes may be amended with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes at the time outstanding and (ii) certain defaults or noncompliance with certain provisions with respect to the 2020 Notes may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes at the time outstanding. Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture with respect to the 2020 Notes or the 2020 Notes to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to make any change that does not adversely affect the right of any Holder, to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee as security for the 2020 Notes any property or assets, to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company (or successive successions) and the assumption by the successor corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company, to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants, restrictions or conditions as the Board of Directors shall consider to be for the benefit of the Holders of any series of Notes, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions or conditions a Default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in the Indenture, to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes, to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of the Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary for the Indenture to comply with the TIA, or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted, or to conform the text of the Indenture, the Notes of any series, or any Guarantee of the Notes of any series, to any corresponding provisions of the “Description of Notes” or similar provisions in any offering memorandum or supplement thereto in respect of such series of Notes, including the Offering Memorandum dated November 14, 2017.

 

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13. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Under the Indenture, Events of Default include (i) a default by the Company in the payment of any interest with respect to the 2020 Notes which continues for more than 30 days after the due date, (ii) a default by the Company in the payment of any principal or Redemption Price or Repurchase Price due with respect to the 2020 Notes; (iii) a default by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to its obligation to pay Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness), which default shall have resulted in the acceleration of, or be a failure to pay at final maturity, Indebtedness aggregating more than $50 million, and where such acceleration does not cease to exist, or such Indebtedness is not satisfied, in either case, within 30 days after such acceleration; (iv) a failure to perform any other covenant or warranty of the Company in the Indenture, which continues for 60 days after written notice; (v) final judgments or orders are rendered against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary which require the payment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of an amount (to the extent not covered by insurance) in excess of $50 million and such judgments or orders remain unstayed or unsatisfied for more than 60 days and are not being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (vi) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary), pursuant to any Bankruptcy Law applicable to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary): (A) commences a voluntary case; (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it or them in an involuntary case against it or them; (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or them or for any substantial part of its or their property; or (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its or their creditors; or (vii) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any applicable Bankruptcy Law: (A) for relief in an involuntary case against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); (B) appointing a Custodian of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) or for any substantial part of its or their respective property; or (C) ordering the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the 2020 Notes, the Trustee, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes at the time outstanding, may declare the outstanding principal of the 2020 Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest through the date of such declaration on all of the 2020 Notes to be immediately due and payable. Certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default which shall result in the outstanding principal amount of all 2020 Notes being declared due and payable immediately upon the occurrence of such Events of Default.

Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the 2020 Notes except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee may refuse to enforce the Indenture and the 2020 Notes unless it receives indemnity or security satisfactory to it in its sole discretion. Subject to certain limitations, conditions and exceptions, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes at the time outstanding may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power, including the annulment of a declaration of acceleration. The Trustee may withhold from Holders notice of any continuing default (except a default in payment of amounts specified in clauses (i) and (ii) above) if it determines that withholding notice is in their interests.

 

14. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH THE COMPANY

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of 2020 Notes and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

15. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS

A director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or partner, as such, of the Company or any of the Company’s successor corporations or any Subsidiary of the foregoing shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the 2020 Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the 2020 Notes.

 

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16. GUARANTEES

This Note will be entitled to the benefits of certain Guarantees, if any, made for the benefit of the Holders. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and obligations thereunder of the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders.

 

17. RANKING

The 2020 Notes shall be direct, unsecured obligations of the Company and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company. The Guarantees shall be direct, unsecured obligations of the Guarantors and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Guarantors.

 

18. AUTHENTICATION

This Note shall not be valid until an authorized officer of the Trustee manually signs the Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication on the other side of this Note.

 

19. ABBREVIATIONS

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

 

20. GOVERNING LAW

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE.

 

21. CHANGE OF CONTROL

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the 2020 Notes by notifying the Holders to that effect as described above, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of 2020 Notes to repurchase all or any part of that Holder’s 2020 Notes on the terms set forth below; provided, that, the 2020 Notes shall be repurchased in multiples of $1,000 and if any Holder elects to have less than all of its 2020 Notes repurchased by the Company, the unpurchased portion of the 2020 Notes shall be equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. In a Change of Control Offer, the Company shall offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the 2020 Notes repurchased to the date of repurchase (a “Change of Control Payment”). Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control, the Company shall send a notice to Holders, describing the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase the 2020 Notes on the date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date that notice is sent, other than as may be required by law (a “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if sent prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the applicable Change of Control Payment Date.

 

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On each Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment all 2020 Notes or portions of 2020 Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all 2020 Notes or portions of 2020 Notes properly tendered, and deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the 2020 Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of 2020 Notes or portions of 2020 Notes being repurchased and that all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture to the Change of Control Offer and to the repurchase by the Company of 2020 Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer have been complied with.

The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and the third party repurchases all 2020 Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the 2020 Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Offer provisions herein, the Company will comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Offer provisions herein and in the Indenture by virtue of any such conflict.

The Company shall furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Note in larger type. Requests may be made to:

Lennar Corporation

700 N.W. 107th Avenue

Miami, Florida 33172

Attn: General Counsel

Facsimile: (305) 229-6650

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you, the Holder, want to assign this Note, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to:  
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee)  

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

 

Dated:                                 

     
   Signed:                                                                 
   (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)   

Signature Guarantee:                                         

 

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

In connection with any transfer of this Note occurring prior to the date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the SEC of the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), covering resales of this Note (which effectiveness shall not have been suspended or terminated at the date of the transfer) and (ii) the later of (x) the first anniversary of the Issue Date and (y) if the Note constitutes a Restricted Security and any Initial 2020 Notes are issued after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture, the last day of the period of any resale restrictions imposed on such additional Initial 2020 Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture (provided, however, that neither the Company nor any affiliate of the Company has held any beneficial interest in such Note, or portion thereof, or any predecessor security at any time on or prior to such date), the undersigned confirms that it has not utilized any general solicitation or general advertising in connection with the transfer:

[Check One]

 

(1)  ☐    to the Company or a Subsidiary thereof; or

 

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(2)  ☐    pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or
(3)  ☐    to an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing certain representations and agreements (the form of which letter can be obtained from the Trustee); or
(4)  ☐    outside the United States to a “foreign person” in compliance with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or
(5)  ☐    pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act; or
(6)  ☐    pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or
(7)  ☐    pursuant to another available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such Note is not being transferred to an “affiliate” of the Company as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (an “Affiliate”):

☐  The transferee is an Affiliate of the Company.

Unless one of the items is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the 2020 Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if item (3), (4), (5) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the 2020 Notes, in their sole discretion, such written legal opinions, certifications (including an investment letter in the case of box (3) or (4) and other information as the Trustee or the Company have reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

If none of the foregoing items are checked, the Trustee or Registrar shall not be obligated to register this Note in the name of any person other than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of registration set forth herein and in Section 2.17 of the Indenture shall have been satisfied.

 

Dated:                                        Signed:                                                                     
      (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)   

Signature Guarantee:                                                              

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED

 

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

 

Dated:                                 

                                                                                                   
  NOTICE:      

To be executed by

  
       

an executive officer

  

 

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EXHIBIT B

[FORM OF 2.950% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2020]

[Insert the Global Note Legend, if applicable, pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture]

 

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CUSIP No.: [                    ]

LENNAR CORPORATION

2.950% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2020

No.                                                                                                                                                                                 $[            ]

Interest Rate: 2.950% per annum.

Interest Payment Dates: May 29 and November 29, commencing May 29, 2018

Record Dates: May 15 and November 15

Lennar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor entities), for value received, promises to pay to          or registered assigns, on November 29, 2020 (the “Maturity Date”), the principal amount of          Dollars ($        ), together with interest thereon as hereinafter provided.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Lennar Corporation has caused this instrument to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer.

 

LENNAR CORPORATION
By:                                                                                                    
  Name:
  Title:
Dated:                     

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF
    AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee
By:                                                                                              
    Authorized Signatory
Dated:                     

 

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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)

2.950% Senior Note due 2020

Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture relating to the Notes, dated as of November 29, 2017 (as amended from time to time, the “Indenture”), by and among Lennar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”).

 

1. INTEREST

The Company promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum set forth above. Interest on the 2020 Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the Issue Date. The Company shall pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing as of the Interest Payment Date referred to above, on the Maturity Date and upon redemption. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of a partial month, the actual number of days elapsed.

Payments of the Redemption Price, Special Mandatory Redemption Price, Change of Control Payment, principal and interest that are not made when due will accrue interest per annum at the rate of interest borne by the 2020 Notes, plus one percent, from and including, the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such defaulted amounts shall have been paid by the Company in accordance with the Indenture.

 

2. METHOD OF PAYMENT

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company shall (a) pay interest on the 2020 Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders of 2020 Notes at the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the 2020 Notes are canceled, transferred or exchanged after such Record Date, and (b) make all other payments in respect of the 2020 Notes to the Persons who are registered Holders of 2020 Notes at the close of business on the Business Day preceding the Redemption Date or Maturity, as the case may be. Holders must surrender 2020 Notes to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of the 2020 Notes referred to in clause (b) of the preceding sentence. The Company shall pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. However, the Company may make the cash payments by check payable in such money.

 

3. PAYING AGENT, AND REGISTRAR

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, shall act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar without notice, other than notice to the Trustee. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their Affiliates may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar.

 

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4. INDENTURE

The Company issued the 2020 Notes under the Indenture. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company designated as its 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “Unrestricted 2020 Notes”). The 2020 Notes include the Initial 2020 Notes, the Unrestricted 2020 Notes and the 2020 Private Exchange Notes. The Unrestricted 2020 Notes, the 2020 Private Exchange Notes and Initial 2020 Notes are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture. The terms of the 2020 Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the 2020 Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of 2020 Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms. The 2020 Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company. Each Holder, by accepting a 2020 Note, agrees to be bound by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with its terms.

 

5. REDEMPTION AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY

No sinking fund is provided for the 2020 Notes. The 2020 Notes are redeemable as a whole, or in part, at any time and from time to time at the option of the Company. If the Company elects to redeem the 2020 Notes more than 60 days prior to the Maturity Date, the Redemption Price shall be equal to the greater of: (a) 100% of their principal amount; and (b) the present value of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on the 2020 Notes being redeemed on the Redemption Date, discounted to the Redemption Date, on a semiannual basis, at the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points (0.25%). If the Company elects to redeem the 2020 Notes on or after the date that is 60 days prior to the Maturity Date, the Redemption Price shall be equal to 100% of their principal amount. In either case, the Company will also pay accrued interest on the principal amount of the 2020 Notes to be redeemed up to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

 

6. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY

Notice of redemption at the option of the Company shall be sent at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of 2020 Notes to be redeemed at the Holder’s registered address. If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all 2020 Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date, together with all interest thereon accrued to but not including the Redemption Date, is deposited with the Paying Agent prior to or on the Redemption Date, interest ceases to accrue on such 2020 Notes or portions thereof beginning on such Redemption Date. 2020 Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in integral multiples of $1,000.

 

7. SPECIAL MANDATORY REDEMPTION

If (x) the consummation of the Merger does not occur on or before August 31, 2018 or (y) prior to the such date, the Company notifies the Trustee that it will not pursue the consummation of the Merger, the Company shall redeem all the outstanding 2020 Notes at a Redemption Price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the 2020 Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Special Mandatory Redemption Date with respect thereto (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on any Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Special Mandatory Redemption Date), in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 3.2 of the Indenture.

 

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8. DENOMINATIONS; TRANSFER; EXCHANGE

The 2020 Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiplies of $1,000 in excess of that amount. A Holder may transfer 2020 Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any governmental taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not transfer or exchange any 2020 Notes selected for redemption (except, in the case of a 2020 Note to be redeemed in part, the portion of the 2020 Note not to be redeemed) or any 2020 Notes for a period of 15 days before any selection of 2020 Notes to be redeemed.

 

9. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS

The registered Holder of this Note may be treated as the owner of this Note for all purposes.

 

10. UNCLAIMED MONEY OR PROPERTY

The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company upon written request any money or property held by them for the payment of any amount with respect to the 2020 Notes that remains unclaimed for two years; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such return, shall at the expense of the Company cause to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York or mail to each such Holder notice that such money or property remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication or mailing, any unclaimed money or property then remaining shall be returned to the Company. After return to the Company, Holders entitled to the money or property must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another Person, and all liability of the Trustee and Paying Agent with respect to the money or property will cease.

 

11. AMENDMENT; WAIVER

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture with respect to the 2020 Notes or the 2020 Notes may be amended with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes at the time outstanding and (ii) certain defaults or noncompliance with certain provisions with respect to the 2020 Notes may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes at the time outstanding. Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture with respect to the 2020 Notes or the 2020 Notes to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to make any change that does not adversely affect the right of any Holder, to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee as security for the 2020 Notes any property or assets, to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company (or successive successions) and the assumption by the successor corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company, to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants, restrictions or conditions as the Board of Directors shall consider to be for the benefit of the Holders of any series of Notes, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions or conditions a Default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in the Indenture, to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes, to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of the Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary for the Indenture to comply with the TIA, or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted, or to conform the text of the Indenture, the Notes of any series, or any Guarantee of the Notes of any series, to any corresponding provisions of the “Description of Notes” or similar provisions in any offering memorandum or supplement thereto in respect of such series of Notes, including the Offering Memorandum dated November 14, 2017.

 

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12. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Under the Indenture, Events of Default include (i) a default by the Company in the payment of any interest with respect to the 2020 Notes which continues for more than 30 days after the due date, (ii) a default by the Company in the payment of any principal or Redemption Price or Repurchase Price due with respect to the 2020 Notes; (iii) a default by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to its obligation to pay Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness), which default shall have resulted in the acceleration of, or be a failure to pay at final maturity, Indebtedness aggregating more than $50 million, and where such acceleration does not cease to exist, or such Indebtedness is not satisfied, in either case, within 30 days after such acceleration; (iv) a failure to perform any other covenant or warranty of the Company in the Indenture, which continues for 60 days after written notice; (v) final judgments or orders are rendered against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary which require the payment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of an amount (to the extent not covered by insurance) in excess of $50 million and such judgments or orders remain unstayed or unsatisfied for more than 60 days and are not being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (vi) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary), pursuant to any Bankruptcy Law applicable to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary): (A) commences a voluntary case; (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it or them in an involuntary case against it or them; (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or them or for any substantial part of its or their property; or (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its or their creditors; or (vii) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any applicable Bankruptcy Law: (A) for relief in an involuntary case against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); (B) appointing a Custodian of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) or for any substantial part of its or their respective property; or (C) ordering the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the 2020 Notes, the Trustee, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes at the time outstanding, may declare the outstanding principal of the 2020 Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest through the date of such declaration on all of the 2020 Notes to be immediately due and payable. Certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default which shall result in the outstanding principal amount of all 2020 Notes being declared due and payable immediately upon the occurrence of such Events of Default.

 

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Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the 2020 Notes except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee may refuse to enforce the Indenture and the 2020 Notes unless it receives indemnity or security satisfactory to it in its sole discretion. Subject to certain limitations, conditions and exceptions, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes at the time outstanding may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power, including the annulment of a declaration of acceleration. The Trustee may withhold from Holders notice of any continuing default (except a default in payment of amounts specified in clauses (i) and (ii) above) if it determines that withholding notice is in their interests.

 

13. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH THE COMPANY

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of 2020 Notes and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

14. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS

A director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or partner, as such, of the Company or any of the Company’s successor corporations or any Subsidiary of the foregoing shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the 2020 Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the 2020 Notes.

 

15. GUARANTEES

This Note will be entitled to the benefits of certain Guarantees, if any, made for the benefit of the Holders. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and obligations thereunder of the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders.

 

16. RANKING

The 2020 Notes shall be direct, unsecured obligations of the Company and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company. The Guarantees shall be direct, unsecured obligations of the Guarantors and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Guarantors.

 

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17. AUTHENTICATION

This Note shall not be valid until an authorized officer of the Trustee manually signs the Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication on the other side of this Note.

 

18. ABBREVIATIONS

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

 

19. GOVERNING LAW

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE.

 

20. CHANGE OF CONTROL

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the 2020 Notes by notifying the Holders to that effect as described above, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of 2020 Notes to repurchase all or any part of that Holder’s 2020 Notes on the terms set forth below; provided, that, the 2020 Notes shall be repurchased in multiples of $1,000 and if any Holder elects to have less than all of its 2020 Notes repurchased by the Company, the unpurchased portion of the 2020 Notes shall be equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. In a Change of Control Offer, the Company shall offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the 2020 Notes repurchased to the date of repurchase (a “Change of Control Payment”). Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control, the Company shall send a notice to Holders, describing the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase the 2020 Notes on the date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date that notice is sent, other than as may be required by law (a “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if sent prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the applicable Change of Control Payment Date.

On each Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment all 2020 Notes or portions of 2020 Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all 2020 Notes or portions of 2020 Notes properly tendered, and deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the 2020 Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of 2020 Notes or portions of 2020 Notes being repurchased and that all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture to the Change of Control Offer and to the repurchase by the Company of 2020 Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer have been complied with.

 

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The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and the third party repurchases all 2020 Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the 2020 Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Offer provisions herein, the Company will comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Offer provisions herein and in the Indenture by virtue of any such conflict.

The Company shall furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Note in larger type. Requests may be made to:

Lennar Corporation

700 N.W. 107th Avenue

Miami, Florida 33172

Attn: General Counsel

Facsimile: (305) 229-6650

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you, the Holder, want to assign this Note, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to:  
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee)  

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

 

Dated:                                 

     
   Signed:                                                                 
   (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)   

Signature Guarantee:                                         

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

 

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EXHIBIT C

[FORM OF 4.750% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2027]

[Insert the Global Note Legend, if applicable, pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture]

[Insert the Private Placement Legend]

 

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CUSIP No.: [                    ]

LENNAR CORPORATION

4.750% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2027

No. [                    ]                                                                                                                                                            $[            ]

Interest Rate: 4.750% per annum.

Interest Payment Dates: May 29 and November 29, commencing May 29, 2018

Record Dates: May 15 and November 15

Lennar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor entities), for value received, promises to pay to          or registered assigns, on November 29, 2027 (the “Maturity Date”), the principal amount of          Dollars ($         ), together with interest thereon as hereinafter provided.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Lennar Corporation has caused this instrument to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer.

 

LENNAR CORPORATION
By:                                                                                                    
  Name:
  Title:
Dated:                     

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF
    AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee
By:                                                                                              
    Authorized Signatory
Dated:                     

 

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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)

4.750% Senior Note due 2027

Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture relating to the Notes, dated as of November 29, 2017 (as amended from time to time, the “Indenture”), by and among Lennar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”).

 

1. INTEREST

The Company promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum set forth above. Interest on the 2027 Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the Issue Date. The Company shall pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing as of the Interest Payment Date referred to above, on the Maturity Date and upon redemption. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of a partial month, the actual number of days elapsed.

Payments of the Redemption Price, Special Mandatory Redemption Price, Change of Control Payment, principal and interest that are not made when due will accrue interest per annum at the rate of interest borne by the 2027 Notes, plus one percent, from and including, the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such defaulted amounts shall have been paid by the Company in accordance with the Indenture.

 

2. METHOD OF PAYMENT

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company shall (a) pay interest on the 2027 Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders of 2027 Notes at the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the 2027 Notes are canceled, transferred or exchanged after such Record Date, and (b) make all other payments in respect of the 2027 Notes to the Persons who are registered Holders of 2027 Notes at the close of business on the Business Day preceding the Redemption Date or Maturity, as the case may be. Holders must surrender 2027 Notes to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of the 2027 Notes referred to in clause (b) of the preceding sentence. The Company shall pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. However, the Company may make the cash payments by check payable in such money.

 

3. PAYING AGENT, AND REGISTRAR

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, shall act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar without notice, other than notice to the Trustee. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their Affiliates may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar.

 

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4. INDENTURE

The Company issued the 2027 Notes under the Indenture. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company designated as its 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “Initial 2027 Notes”). The 2027 Notes include the Initial 2027 Notes, the 2027 Private Exchange Notes and the Unrestricted 2027 Notes, as defined below, issued in exchange for the Initial 2027 Notes pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement. The Initial 2027 Notes, the 2027 Private Exchange Notes and the Unrestricted 2027 Notes are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture. The terms of the 2027 Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the 2027 Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of 2027 Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms. The 2027 Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company. Each Holder, by accepting a 2027 Note, agrees to be bound by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with its terms.

 

5. REDEMPTION AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY

No sinking fund is provided for the 2027 Notes. The 2027 Notes are redeemable as a whole, or in part, at any time and from time to time at the option of the Company. If the Company elects to redeem the 2027 Notes more than 180 days prior to the Maturity Date, the Redemption Price shall be equal to the greater of: (a) 100% of their principal amount; and (b) the present value of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on the 2027 Notes being redeemed on the Redemption Date, discounted to the Redemption Date, on a semiannual basis, at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points (0.50%). If the Company elects to redeem the 2027 Notes on or after the date that is 180 days prior to the Maturity Date, the Redemption Price shall be equal to 100% of their principal amount. In either case, the Company will also pay accrued interest on the principal amount of the 2027 Notes to be redeemed up to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

 

6. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY

Notice of redemption at the option of the Company shall be sent at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of 2027 Notes to be redeemed at the Holder’s registered address. If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all 2027 Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date, together with all interest thereon accrued to but not including the Redemption Date, is deposited with the Paying Agent prior to or on the Redemption Date, interest ceases to accrue on such 2027 Notes or portions thereof beginning on such Redemption Date. 2027 Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in integral multiples of $1,000.

 

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7. SPECIAL MANDATORY REDEMPTION

If (x) the consummation of the Merger does not occur on or before August 31, 2018 or (y) prior to the such date, the Company notifies the Trustee that it will not pursue the consummation of the Merger, the Company shall redeem all the outstanding 2027 Notes at a Redemption Price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the 2027 Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Special Mandatory Redemption Date with respect thereto (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on any Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Special Mandatory Redemption Date), in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 3.2 of the Indenture.

 

8. REGISTRATION RIGHTS

Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company will be obligated to consummate an exchange offer pursuant to which the Holder of this Note shall have the right to exchange this Note for the Company’s 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “Unrestricted 2027 Notes”), which will be registered under the Securities Act, in like principal amount and having terms identical in all material respects as the Initial 2027 Notes. The Holders of the Initial 2027 Notes shall be entitled to receive certain additional interest payments in the event such exchange offer is not consummated and upon certain other conditions, all pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

9. DENOMINATIONS; TRANSFER; EXCHANGE

The 2027 Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiplies of $1,000 in excess of that amount. A Holder may transfer 2027 Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any governmental taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not transfer or exchange any 2027 Notes selected for redemption (except, in the case of a 2027 Note to be redeemed in part, the portion of the 2027 Note not to be redeemed) or any 2027 Notes for a period of 15 days before any selection of 2027 Notes to be redeemed.

 

10. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS

The registered Holder of this Note may be treated as the owner of this Note for all purposes.

 

11. UNCLAIMED MONEY OR PROPERTY

The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company upon written request any money or property held by them for the payment of any amount with respect to the 2027 Notes that remains unclaimed for two years; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such return, shall at the expense of the Company cause to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York or mail to each such Holder notice that such money or property remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication or mailing, any unclaimed money or property then remaining shall be returned to the Company. After return to the Company, Holders entitled to the money or property must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another Person, and all liability of the Trustee and Paying Agent with respect to the money or property will cease.

 

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12. AMENDMENT; WAIVER

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture with respect to the 2027 Notes or the 2027 Notes may be amended with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes at the time outstanding and (ii) certain defaults or noncompliance with certain provisions with respect to the 2027 Notes may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes at the time outstanding. Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture with respect to the 2027 Notes or the 2027 Notes to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to make any change that does not adversely affect the right of any Holder, to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee as security for the 2027 Notes any property or assets, to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company (or successive successions) and the assumption by the successor corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company, to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants, restrictions or conditions as the Board of Directors shall consider to be for the benefit of the Holders of any series of Notes, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions or conditions a Default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in the Indenture, to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes, to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of the Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary for the Indenture to comply with the TIA, or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted, or to conform the text of the Indenture, the Notes of any series, or any Guarantee of the Notes of any series, to any corresponding provisions of the “Description of Notes” or similar provisions in any offering memorandum or supplement thereto in respect of such series of Notes, including the Offering Memorandum dated November 14, 2017.

 

13. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Under the Indenture, Events of Default include (i) a default by the Company in the payment of any interest with respect to the 2027 Notes which continues for more than 30 days after the due date, (ii) a default by the Company in the payment of any principal or Redemption Price or Repurchase Price due with respect to the 2027 Notes; (iii) a default by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to its obligation to pay Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness), which default shall have resulted in the acceleration of, or be a failure to pay at final maturity, Indebtedness aggregating more than $50 million, and where such acceleration does not cease to exist, or such Indebtedness is not satisfied, in either case, within 30 days after such acceleration; (iv) a failure to perform any other covenant or warranty of the Company in the Indenture, which continues for 60 days after written notice; (v) final judgments or orders are rendered against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary which require the payment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of an amount (to the extent not covered by insurance) in excess of $50 million and such judgments or orders remain unstayed or unsatisfied for more than 60 days and are not being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (vi) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary), pursuant to any Bankruptcy Law applicable to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary): (A) commences a voluntary case; (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it or them in an involuntary case against it or them; (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or them or for any substantial part of its or their property; or (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its or their creditors; or (vii) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any applicable Bankruptcy Law: (A) for relief in an involuntary case against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); (B) appointing a Custodian of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) or for any substantial part of its or their respective property; or (C) ordering the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the 2027 Notes, the Trustee, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes at the time outstanding, may declare the outstanding principal of the 2027 Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest through the date of such declaration on all of the 2027 Notes to be immediately due and payable. Certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default which shall result in the outstanding principal amount of all 2027 Notes being declared due and payable immediately upon the occurrence of such Events of Default.

 

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Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the 2027 Notes except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee may refuse to enforce the Indenture and the 2027 Notes unless it receives indemnity or security satisfactory to it in its sole discretion. Subject to certain limitations, conditions and exceptions, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes at the time outstanding may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power, including the annulment of a declaration of acceleration. The Trustee may withhold from Holders notice of any continuing default (except a default in payment of amounts specified in clauses (i) and (ii) above) if it determines that withholding notice is in their interests.

 

14. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH THE COMPANY

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of 2027 Notes and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

15. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS

A director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or partner, as such, of the Company or any of the Company’s successor corporations or any Subsidiary of the foregoing shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the 2027 Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the 2027 Notes.

 

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16. GUARANTEES

This Note will be entitled to the benefits of certain Guarantees, if any, made for the benefit of the Holders. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and obligations thereunder of the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders.

 

17. RANKING

The 2027 Notes shall be direct, unsecured obligations of the Company and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company. The Guarantees shall be direct, unsecured obligations of the Guarantors and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Guarantors.

 

18. AUTHENTICATION

This Note shall not be valid until an authorized officer of the Trustee manually signs the Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication on the other side of this Note.

 

19. ABBREVIATIONS

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

 

20. GOVERNING LAW

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE.

 

21. CHANGE OF CONTROL

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the 2027 Notes by notifying the Holders to that effect as described above, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of 2027 Notes to repurchase all or any part of that Holder’s 2027 Notes on the terms set forth below; provided, that, the 2027 Notes shall be repurchased in multiples of $1,000 and if any Holder elects to have less than all of its 2027 Notes repurchased by the Company, the unpurchased portion of the 2027 Notes shall be equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. In a Change of Control Offer, the Company shall offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the 2027 Notes repurchased to the date of repurchase (a “Change of Control Payment”). Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control, the Company shall send a notice to Holders, describing the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase the 2027 Notes on the date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date that notice is sent, other than as may be required by law (a “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if sent prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the applicable Change of Control Payment Date.

 

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On each Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment all 2027 Notes or portions of 2027 Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all 2027 Notes or portions of 2027 Notes properly tendered, and deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the 2027 Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of 2027 Notes or portions of 2027 Notes being repurchased and that all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture to the Change of Control Offer and to the repurchase by the Company of 2027 Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer have been complied with.

The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and the third party repurchases all 2027 Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the 2027 Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Offer provisions herein, the Company will comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Offer provisions herein and in the Indenture by virtue of any such conflict.

The Company shall furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Note in larger type. Requests may be made to:

Lennar Corporation

700 N.W. 107th Avenue

Miami, Florida 33172

Attn: General Counsel

Facsimile: (305) 229-6650

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you, the Holder, want to assign this Note, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to:  
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee)  

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

 

Dated:                                 

     
   Signed:                                                     
   (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)   

Signature Guarantee:                                                  

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

In connection with any transfer of this Note occurring prior to the date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the SEC of the effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), covering resales of this Note (which effectiveness shall not have been suspended or terminated at the date of the transfer) and (ii) the later of (x) the first anniversary of the Issue Date and (y) if the Note constitutes a Restricted Security and any Initial Notes are issued after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture, the last day of the period of any resale restrictions imposed on such additional Initial Notes issued pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture (provided, however, that neither the Company nor any affiliate of the Company has held any beneficial interest in such Note, or portion thereof, or any predecessor security at any time on or prior to such date), the undersigned confirms that it has not utilized any general solicitation or general advertising in connection with the transfer:

[Check One]

 

(1)  ☐    to the Company or a Subsidiary thereof; or

 

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(2)  ☐    pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or
(3)  ☐    to an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) that has furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing certain representations and agreements (the form of which letter can be obtained from the Trustee); or
(4)  ☐    outside the United States to a “foreign person” in compliance with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or
(5)  ☐    pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act; or
(6)  ☐    pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or
(7)  ☐    pursuant to another available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such Note is not being transferred to an “affiliate” of the Company as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (an “Affiliate”):

☐  The transferee is an Affiliate of the Company.

Unless one of the items is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided, however, that if item (3), (4), (5) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the 2027 Notes, in their sole discretion, such written legal opinions, certifications (including an investment letter in the case of box (3) or (4) and other information as the Trustee or the Company have reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

If none of the foregoing items are checked, the Trustee or Registrar shall not be obligated to register this Note in the name of any person other than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of registration set forth herein and in Section 2.17 of the Indenture shall have been satisfied.

 

Dated:                                 

   Signed:                                                     
   (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)   

Signature Guarantee:                                         

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED

 

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

 

Dated:                                                                                                                                              
   NOTICE:                          

To be executed by

an executive officer

  

 

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EXHIBIT D

[FORM OF 4.750% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2027]

[Insert the Global Note Legend, if applicable, pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture]

 

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CUSIP No.: [                     ]

LENNAR CORPORATION

4.750% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2027

 

No.                     

$[             ]                        

Interest Rate: 4.750% per annum.

Interest Payment Dates: May 29 and November 29, commencing May 29, 2018

Record Dates: May 15 and November 15

Lennar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor entities), for value received, promises to pay to          or registered assigns, on November 29, 2027 (the “Maturity Date”), the principal amount of          Dollars ($        ), together with interest thereon as hereinafter provided.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Lennar Corporation has caused this instrument to be signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officer.

 

LENNAR CORPORATION
By:                                                                                
  Name:
  Title:
Dated:                     

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Notes described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as Trustee
By:  

 

    Authorized Signatory
Dated:                     

 

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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)

4.750% Senior Note due 2027

Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture relating to the Notes, dated as of November 29, 2017 (as amended from time to time, the “Indenture”), by and among Lennar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”).

 

1. INTEREST

The Company promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum set forth above. Interest on the 2027 Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the Issue Date. The Company shall pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing as of the Interest Payment Date referred to above, on the Maturity Date and upon redemption. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of a partial month, the actual number of days elapsed.

Payments of the Redemption Price, Special Mandatory Redemption Price, Change of Control Payment, principal and interest that are not made when due will accrue interest per annum at the rate of interest borne by the 2027 Notes, plus one percent, from and including, the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such defaulted amounts shall have been paid by the Company in accordance with the Indenture.

 

2. METHOD OF PAYMENT

Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company shall (a) pay interest on the 2027 Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders of 2027 Notes at the close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the 2027 Notes are canceled, transferred or exchanged after such Record Date, and (b) make all other payments in respect of the 2027 Notes to the Persons who are registered Holders of 2027 Notes at the close of business on the Business Day preceding the Redemption Date or Maturity, as the case may be. Holders must surrender 2027 Notes to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of the 2027 Notes referred to in clause (b) of the preceding sentence. The Company shall pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. However, the Company may make the cash payments by check payable in such money.

 

3. PAYING AGENT, AND REGISTRAR

Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon, a New York banking corporation, shall act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may appoint and change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar without notice, other than notice to the Trustee. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their Affiliates may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar.

 

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4. INDENTURE

The Company issued the 2027 Notes under the Indenture. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company designated as its 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “Unrestricted 2027 Notes”). The 2027 Notes include the 2027 Initial Notes, the Unrestricted 2027 Notes and the 2027 Private Exchange Notes. The Unrestricted 2027 Notes, the 2027 Private Exchange Notes and the Initial 2027 Notes are treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture. The terms of the 2027 Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the 2027 Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of 2027 Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms. The 2027 Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company. Each Holder, by accepting a 2027 Note, agrees to be bound by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with its terms.

 

5. REDEMPTION AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY

No sinking fund is provided for the 2027 Notes. The 2027 Notes are redeemable as a whole, or in part, at any time and from time to time at the option of the Company. If the Company elects to redeem the 2027 Notes more than 180 days prior to the Maturity Date, the Redemption Price shall be equal to the greater of: (a) 100% of their principal amount; and (b) the present value of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on the 2027 Notes being redeemed on the Redemption Date, discounted to the Redemption Date, on a semiannual basis, at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points (0.50%). If the Company elects to redeem the 2027 Notes on or after the date that is 180 days prior to the Maturity Date, the Redemption Price shall be equal to 100% of their principal amount. In either case, the Company will also pay accrued interest on the principal amount of the 2027 Notes to be redeemed up to, but not including, the Redemption Date.

 

6. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY

Notice of redemption at the option of the Company shall be sent at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of 2027 Notes to be redeemed at the Holder’s registered address. If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all 2027 Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date, together with all interest thereon accrued to but not including the Redemption Date, is deposited with the Paying Agent prior to or on the Redemption Date, interest ceases to accrue on such 2027 Notes or portions thereof beginning on such Redemption Date. 2027 Notes in denominations larger than $2,000 may be redeemed in part but only in integral multiples of $1,000.

 

7. SPECIAL MANDATORY REDEMPTION

If (x) the consummation of the Merger does not occur on or before August 31, 2018 or (y) prior to the such date, the Company notifies the Trustee that it will not pursue the consummation of the Merger, the Company shall redeem all the outstanding 2027 Notes at a Redemption Price equal to 101% of the principal amount of the 2027 Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Special Mandatory Redemption Date with respect thereto (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on any Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Special Mandatory Redemption Date), in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 3.2 of the Indenture.

 

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8. DENOMINATIONS; TRANSFER; EXCHANGE

The 2027 Notes are in registered form, without coupons, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiplies of $1,000 in excess of that amount. A Holder may transfer 2027 Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any governmental taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not transfer or exchange any 2027 Notes selected for redemption (except, in the case of a 2027 Note to be redeemed in part, the portion of the 2027 Note not to be redeemed) or any 2027 Notes for a period of 15 days before any selection of 2027 Notes to be redeemed.

 

9. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS

The registered Holder of this Note may be treated as the owner of this Note for all purposes.

 

10. UNCLAIMED MONEY OR PROPERTY

The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall return to the Company upon written request any money or property held by them for the payment of any amount with respect to the 2027 Notes that remains unclaimed for two years; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such return, shall at the expense of the Company cause to be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in The City of New York or mail to each such Holder notice that such money or property remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication or mailing, any unclaimed money or property then remaining shall be returned to the Company. After return to the Company, Holders entitled to the money or property must look to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another Person, and all liability of the Trustee and Paying Agent with respect to the money or property will cease.

 

11. AMENDMENT; WAIVER

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (i) the Indenture with respect to the 2027 Notes or the 2027 Notes may be amended with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes at the time outstanding and (ii) certain defaults or noncompliance with certain provisions with respect to the 2027 Notes may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes at the time outstanding. Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture with respect to the 2027 Notes or the 2027 Notes to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, to make any change that does not adversely affect the right of any Holder, to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee as security for the 2027 Notes any property or assets, to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company (or successive successions) and the assumption by the successor corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company, to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants, restrictions or conditions as the Board of Directors shall consider to be for the benefit of the Holders of any series of Notes, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions or conditions a Default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in the Indenture, to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes, to modify, eliminate or add to the provisions of the Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary for the Indenture to comply with the TIA, or under any similar federal statute hereafter enacted, or to conform the text of the Indenture, the Notes of any series, or any Guarantee of the Notes of any series, to any corresponding provisions of the “Description of Notes” or similar provisions in any offering memorandum or supplement thereto in respect of such series of Notes, including the Offering Memorandum dated November 14, 2017.

 

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12. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

Under the Indenture, Events of Default include (i) a default by the Company in the payment of any interest with respect to the 2027 Notes which continues for more than 30 days after the due date, (ii) a default by the Company in the payment of any principal or Redemption Price or Repurchase Price due with respect to the 2027 Notes; (iii) a default by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to its obligation to pay Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than Non-Recourse Indebtedness), which default shall have resulted in the acceleration of, or be a failure to pay at final maturity, Indebtedness aggregating more than $50 million, and where such acceleration does not cease to exist, or such Indebtedness is not satisfied, in either case, within 30 days after such acceleration; (iv) a failure to perform any other covenant or warranty of the Company in the Indenture, which continues for 60 days after written notice; (v) final judgments or orders are rendered against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary which require the payment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of an amount (to the extent not covered by insurance) in excess of $50 million and such judgments or orders remain unstayed or unsatisfied for more than 60 days and are not being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (vi) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary), pursuant to any Bankruptcy Law applicable to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary): (A) commences a voluntary case; (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it or them in an involuntary case against it or them; (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or them or for any substantial part of its or their property; or (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its or their creditors; or (vii) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any applicable Bankruptcy Law: (A) for relief in an involuntary case against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); (B) appointing a Custodian of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) or for any substantial part of its or their respective property; or (C) ordering the winding up or liquidation of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary (or group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 90 days. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the 2027 Notes, the Trustee, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes at the time outstanding, may declare the outstanding principal of the 2027 Notes and any accrued and unpaid interest through the date of such declaration on all of the 2027 Notes to be immediately due and payable. Certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default which shall result in the outstanding principal amount of all 2027 Notes being declared due and payable immediately upon the occurrence of such Events of Default.

 

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Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the 2027 Notes except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee may refuse to enforce the Indenture and the 2027 Notes unless it receives indemnity or security satisfactory to it in its sole discretion. Subject to certain limitations, conditions and exceptions, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes at the time outstanding may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power, including the annulment of a declaration of acceleration. The Trustee may withhold from Holders notice of any continuing default (except a default in payment of amounts specified in clauses (i) and (ii) above) if it determines that withholding notice is in their interests.

 

13. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH THE COMPANY

The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of 2027 Notes and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

14. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS

A director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or partner, as such, of the Company or any of the Company’s successor corporations or any Subsidiary of the foregoing shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the 2027 Notes or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Note, each Holder waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the 2027 Notes.

 

15. GUARANTEES

This Note will be entitled to the benefits of certain Guarantees, if any, made for the benefit of the Holders. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and obligations thereunder of the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders.

 

16. RANKING

The 2027 Notes shall be direct, unsecured obligations of the Company and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company. The Guarantees shall be direct, unsecured obligations of the Guarantors and shall rank pari passu in right of payment with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Guarantors.

 

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17. AUTHENTICATION

This Note shall not be valid until an authorized officer of the Trustee manually signs the Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication on the other side of this Note.

 

18. ABBREVIATIONS

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

 

19. GOVERNING LAW

THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE.

 

20. CHANGE OF CONTROL

If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the 2027 Notes by notifying the Holders to that effect as described above, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of 2027 Notes to repurchase all or any part of that Holder’s 2027 Notes on the terms set forth below; provided, that, the 2027 Notes shall be repurchased in multiples of $1,000 and if any Holder elects to have less than all of its 2027 Notes repurchased by the Company, the unpurchased portion of the 2027 Notes shall be equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. In a Change of Control Offer, the Company shall offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the 2027 Notes repurchased to the date of repurchase (a “Change of Control Payment”). Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control, the Company shall send a notice to Holders, describing the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase the 2027 Notes on the date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date that notice is sent, other than as may be required by law (a “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if sent prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the applicable Change of Control Payment Date.

On each Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment all 2027 Notes or portions of 2027 Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all 2027 Notes or portions of 2027 Notes properly tendered, and deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the 2027 Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of 2027 Notes or portions of 2027 Notes being repurchased and that all conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture to the Change of Control Offer and to the repurchase by the Company of 2027 Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer have been complied with.

 

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The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and the third party repurchases all 2027 Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the 2027 Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Offer provisions herein, the Company will comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Offer provisions herein and in the Indenture by virtue of any such conflict.

The Company shall furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Note in larger type. Requests may be made to:

Lennar Corporation

700 N.W. 107th Avenue

Miami, Florida 33172

Attn: General Counsel

Facsimile: (305) 229-6650

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

If you, the Holder, want to assign this Note, fill in the form below and have your signature guaranteed:

 

I or we assign and transfer this Note to:  
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee)  

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

 

Dated:                                         

     
   Signed:                                                     
   (Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)   

Signature Guarantee:                                         

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

 

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EXHIBIT E

GLOBAL NOTE LEGEND

UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, OR BY ANY SUCH NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. REPRESENTATIVE OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF CEDE & CO. OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 2.17 OF THE INDENTURE.

 

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EXHIBIT F

Form of Certificate To Be

Delivered in Connection with

Transfers to Non-QIB Accredited Investors

[Date]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In connection with our proposed purchase of [    ]% Senior Notes due 20[    ] (the “Notes”) of Lennar Corporation (“the Company”), we confirm that:

1.    We understand that any subsequent transfer of the Notes is subject to certain restrictions and conditions set forth in the indenture relating to the Notes (the “Indenture”) and the undersigned agrees to be bound by, and not to resell, pledge or otherwise transfer the Notes except in compliance with, such restrictions and conditions and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and all applicable State securities laws.

2.    We understand that the offer and sale of the Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or any other applicable securities law, and that the Notes may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons except as permitted in the following sentence. We agree, on our own behalf and on behalf of any accounts for which we are acting as hereinafter stated, that if we should sell any Notes, we will do so only (i) to the Company or any subsidiary thereof, (ii) inside the United States in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act to a person who we reasonably believe is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act), (iii) inside the United States to an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined below) that, prior to such transfer, furnishes (or has furnished on its behalf by a U.S. broker-dealer) to the Trustee (as defined in the Indenture) a signed letter containing certain representations and agreements relating to the restrictions on transfer of the Notes (the form of which letter can be obtained from the Trustee), (iv) outside the United States in accordance with Rule 904 of Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act, (v) pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act (if available), or (vi) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, and we further agree to provide to any person purchasing any of the Notes from us a notice advising such purchaser that resales of the Notes are restricted as stated herein.

3.    We understand that, on any proposed resale of any Notes, we will be required to furnish to the Trustee and the Company such certification, legal opinions and other information as the Trustee and the Company may reasonably require to confirm that the proposed sale complies with the foregoing restrictions. We further understand that the Notes purchased by us will bear a legend to the foregoing effect.

 

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4.    We are an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act) and have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Notes, and we and any accounts for which we are acting are each able to bear the economic risk of our or their investment, as the case may be.

5.    We are acquiring the Notes purchased by us for our account or for one or more accounts (each of which is an institutional “accredited investor”) as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion.

6.    We have received a copy of the Company’s Offering Memorandum dated November 14, 2017, and acknowledge that we have had access to such financial and other information, and have been afforded the opportunity to ask such questions of representatives of the Company and receive answers thereto, as we deem necessary in connection with our decision to purchase the Notes.

You, the Company, the Initial Purchasers and others are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.

 

Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferee]
By:                                                                                                    
  Name:
  Title:

 

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EXHIBIT G

FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER

Re: [    ]% Senior Notes due 20[    ] (the “Notes”) of Lennar Corporation (the “Company”)

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 29, 2017 (the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

                     (the “Transferor”) owns and proposes to transfer the Note[s] or interest in such Note[s] specified in Annex A hereto, in the principal amount of $         in such Note[s] or interests (the “Transfer”), to (the “Transferee”), as further specified in Annex A hereto. In connection with the Transfer, the Transferor hereby certifies that:

[CHECK ALL THAT APPLY]

1.    CHECK IF TRANSFEREE WILL TAKE DELIVERY OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE RELEVANT 144A GLOBAL NOTE OR A RELEVANT DEFINITIVE NOTE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A. The Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144A under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and, accordingly, the Transferor hereby further certifies that the beneficial interest or Definitive Note is being transferred to a Person that the Transferor reasonably believes is purchasing the beneficial interest or Definitive Note for its own account, or for one or more accounts with respect to which such Person exercises sole investment discretion, and such Person and each such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and such Transfer is in compliance with all applicable securities laws of the states of the United States and other jurisdictions.

2.    CHECK IF TRANSFEREE WILL TAKE DELIVERY OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE RELEVANT REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE OR A DEFINITIVE NOTE PURSUANT TO REGULATION S. The Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act and, accordingly, the Transferor hereby further certifies that (i) the Transfer is not being made to a person in the United States and (x) at the time the buy order was originated, the Transferee was outside the United States or such Transferor and any Person acting on its behalf reasonably believed and believes that the Transferee was outside the United States or (y) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market and neither such Transferor nor any Person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was prearranged with a buyer in the United States, (ii) no directed selling efforts have been made in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b) of Regulation S under the Securities Act, (iii) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act and (iv) if the proposed transfer is being made prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, the transfer is not being made to a U.S. Person or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person (other than an Initial Purchaser). Upon consummation of the proposed transfer in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or Definitive Note will be subject to the restrictions on Transfer enumerated in the Indenture and the Securities Act.

 

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3.    CHECK AND COMPLETE IF TRANSFEREE WILL TAKE DELIVERY OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE RELEVANT DEFINITIVE NOTE PURSUANT TO ANY PROVISION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OTHER THAN RULE 144A OR REGULATION S. The Transfer is being effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to beneficial interests in Restricted Global Notes and Restricted Definitive Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act and any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States, and accordingly the Transferor hereby further certifies that (check one):

a)    such Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act;

or

b)    such Transfer is being effected to the Parent or a subsidiary thereof;

or

c)    such Transfer is being effected pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and in compliance with the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act.

4.    CHECK IF TRANSFEREE WILL TAKE DELIVERY OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN AN UNRESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE OR OF AN UNRESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE.

a)    CHECK IF TRANSFER IS PURSUANT TO RULE 144. (i) The Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act and in compliance with the transfer restrictions contained in the Indenture and any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States and (ii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act. Upon consummation of the proposed Transfer in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or Definitive Note will no longer be subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated in the Private Placement Legend printed on the Restricted Global Notes, on Restricted Definitive Notes and in the Indenture.

b)    CHECK IF TRANSFER IS PURSUANT TO REGULATION S. (i) The Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act and in compliance with the transfer restrictions contained in the Indenture and any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States and (ii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act. Upon consummation of the proposed Transfer in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or Definitive Note will no longer be subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated in the Private Placement Legend printed on the Restricted Global Notes, on Restricted Definitive Notes and in the Indenture.

 

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c)    CHECK IF TRANSFER IS PURSUANT TO OTHER EXEMPTION. (i) The Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in compliance with an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act other than Rule 144, Rule 903 or Rule 904 and in compliance with the transfer restrictions contained in the Indenture and any applicable blue sky securities laws of any State of the United States and (ii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act. Upon consummation of the proposed Transfer in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or Definitive Note will not be subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated in the Private Placement Legend printed on the Restricted Global Notes or Restricted Definitive Notes and in the Indenture.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Issuers.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:                                                                                                    
    Name:
  Title:

Dated:                     

 

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ANNEX A TO CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER

5. The Transferor owns and proposes to transfer the following:

[CHECK ONE OF (a) OR (b)]

a)    a beneficial interest in the:

(i)    144A Global Note (CUSIP/ISIN:                     ), or

(ii)    Regulation S Global Note (CUSIP/ISIN:                     ), or

b)    a Restricted Definitive Note.

6. After the Transfer the Transferee will hold:

[CHECK ONE]

a)    a beneficial interest in the:

(i)    144A Global Note (CUSIP/ISIN:                     ), or

(ii)    Regulation S Global Note (CUSIP/ISIN:                     ), or

(iii)    Unrestricted Global Note (CUSIP/ISIN:                     ); or

b)    a Restricted Definitive Note; or

c)    an Unrestricted Definitive Note, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture

 

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EXHIBIT H

FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF EXCHANGE

Re: [    ]% Senior Notes due 20[    ] (the “Notes”) of Lennar Corporation (the “Company”)

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of November 29, 2017 (the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

                     (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Note[s] or interest in such Note[s] specified herein, in the principal amount of $         in such Note[s] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that:

1) EXCHANGE OF RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES OR BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN A RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE FOR UNRESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES OR BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN AN UNRESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE

a)    CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE TO BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN AN UNRESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE OF THE SAME SERIES. In connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the same series in an equal principal amount, the Owner hereby certifies (i) the beneficial interest is being acquired for the Owner’s own account without transfer, (ii) such Exchange has been effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Global Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), (iii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act and (iv) the beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note is being acquired in compliance with any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States.

b)    CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE TO UNRESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE OF THE SAME SERIES. In connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note for an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the same series, the Owner hereby certifies (i) the Definitive Note is being acquired for the Owner’s own account without transfer, (ii) such Exchange has been effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Restricted Global Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act, (iii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act and (iv) the Definitive Note is being acquired in compliance with any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States.

c)    CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE TO BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN AN UNRESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE OF THE SAME SERIES. In connection with the Owner’s Exchange of a Restricted Definitive Note for a beneficial interest in an Unrestricted Global Note of the same series, the Owner hereby certifies (i) the beneficial interest is being acquired for the Owner’s own account without transfer, (ii) such Exchange has been effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to Restricted Definitive Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act, (iii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act and (iv) the beneficial interest is being acquired in compliance with any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States.

 

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d)    CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE TO UNRESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE OF THE SAME SERIES. In connection with the Owner’s Exchange of a Restricted Definitive Note for an Unrestricted Definitive Note of the same series, the Owner hereby certifies (i) the Unrestricted Definitive Note is being acquired for the Owner’s own account without transfer, (ii) such Exchange has been effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to Restricted Definitive Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act, (iii) the restrictions on transfer contained in the Indenture and the Private Placement Legend are not required in order to maintain compliance with the Securities Act and (iv) the Unrestricted Definitive Note is being acquired in compliance with any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States.

2) EXCHANGE OF RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES OR BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTES FOR RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTES OF THE SAME SERIES OR BENEFICIAL INTERESTS IN RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTES OF THE SAME SERIES

a)    CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE TO RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE OF THE SAME SERIES. In connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s beneficial interest in a Restricted Global Note for a Restricted Definitive Note of the same series with an equal principal amount, the Owner hereby certifies that the Restricted Definitive Note is being acquired for the Owner’s own account without transfer. Upon consummation of the proposed Exchange in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the Restricted Definitive Note issued will continue to be subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated in the Private Placement Legend printed on the Restricted Definitive Note and in the Indenture and the Securities Act.

b)    CHECK IF EXCHANGE IS FROM RESTRICTED DEFINITIVE NOTE TO BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A RESTRICTED GLOBAL NOTE OF THE SAME SERIES. In connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Restricted Definitive Note for a beneficial interest in the [CHECK ONE] ¨ 144A Global Note ¨ Regulation S Global Note of the same series, with an equal principal amount, the Owner hereby certifies (i) the beneficial interest is being acquired for the Owner’s own account without transfer and (ii) such Exchange has been effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to the Restricted Global Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act, and in compliance with any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States. Upon consummation of the proposed Exchange in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the beneficial interest issued will be subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated in the Private Placement Legend printed on the relevant Restricted Global Note and in the Indenture and the Securities Act.

 

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This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Issuers and are dated                 .

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:                                                                                                    
  Name:
  Title:

 

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EXHIBIT I

FORM OF GUARANTEE

For value received, each of the Persons named in Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Guarantors”) hereby unconditionally guarantees, as principal obligor and not only as a surety, to the Holders of the 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”) and the 4.750% Senior Note due 2027 (the “2027 Notes, and together with the 2020 Notes, the “Notes”) of Lennar Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), the cash payments in United States Dollars of any amounts due with respect to the Notes in the amounts and at the times when due and interest on all overdue amounts, to the extent lawful, and the payment or performance of all other obligations of the Company under the Indenture (as defined below) or the Notes, to the Holders and the Trustee (as defined below), all in accordance with and subject to the terms and limitations of the Notes, Article X of the Indenture and this Guarantee. The validity and enforceability of this Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact that it is not affixed to any particular Note.

Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture, dated as of November 29, 2017, among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended or supplemented (the “Indenture”), governing the Company’s issuance of the Notes.

The obligations of each of the Guarantors to the Holders of Notes and to the Trustee pursuant to this Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article X of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of this Guarantee and all of the other provisions of the Indenture to which this Guarantee relates.

THIS GUARANTEE, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS GUARANTEE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, INCLUDING SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BUT OTHERWISE WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS RULES THAT WOULD APPLY THE LAWS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION. Each of the Guarantors hereto agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York sitting in the County of New York, or of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Guarantee.

This Guarantee is subject to suspension and release upon the terms set forth in the Indenture.

The undersigned acknowledges that this Guarantee is subject to the TIA and each of the undersigned agrees to discharge its duties under the TIA.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto has caused this Guarantee to be duly executed.

Dated:                     

 

Authorized signatory for each of the Guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto
By:                                                                                                    
  Name:
  Title:

 

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SCHEDULE I

Guarantors

308 Furman, Ltd.

360 Developers, LLC

Ann Arundel Farms, Ltd.

Aquaterra Utilities, Inc.

Asbury Woods L.L.C.

Astoria Options, LLC

Autumn Creek Development, Ltd.

Aylon, LLC

Bainebridge 249, LLC

Bay Colony Expansion 369, Ltd.

Bay River Colony Development, Ltd.

BB Investment Holdings, LLC

BCI Properties, LLC

Bellagio Lennar, LLC

Belle Meade LEN Holdings, LLC

Belle Meade Partners, LLC

BPH I, LLC

Bramalea California, Inc.

Bressi Gardenlane, LLC

Builders LP, Inc.

Cambria L.L.C.

Cary Woods, LLC

Casa Marina Development, LLC

Caswell Acquisition Group, LLC

Cherrytree II LLC

CL Ventures, LLC

Coco Palm 82, LLC

Colonial Heritage LLC

Concord Station, LLP

Coventry L.L.C.

 

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CPFE, LLC

CP Red Oak Management, LLC

CP Red Oak Partners, Ltd.

Creekside Crossing, L.L.C.

Danville Tassajara Partners, LLC

Darcy-Joliet L.L.C.

DBJ Holdings, LLC

Durrell 33, LLC

DTC Holdings of Florida, LLC

Estates Seven, LLC

EV, LLC

Evergreen Village LLC

F&R Florida Homes, LLC

F&R QVI Home Investments USA, LLC

Fidelity Guaranty and Acceptance Corp.

FLORDADE LLC

Fox-Maple Associates, LLC

Friendswood Development Company, LLC

Garco Investments, LLC

Greystone Construction, Inc.

Greystone Homes of Nevada, Inc.

Greystone Nevada, LLC

Greywall Club L.L.C.

Hammocks Lennar LLC

Harveston, LLC

Haverton L.L.C.

HCC Investors, LLC

Heathcote Commons LLC

Heritage of Auburn Hills, L.L.C.

Hewitts Landing Trustee, LLC

Home Buyer’s Advantage Realty, Inc.

Homecraft Corporation

HTC Golf Club, LLC

 

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Inactive Companies, LLC

Independence L.L.C.

Isles at Bayshore Club, LLC

Kendall Hammocks Commercial, LLC

Lakelands at Easton, L.L.C.

LCD Asante, LLC

Legends Club, LLC

Legends Golf Club, LLC

LEN – Belle Meade, LLC

LEN – CG South, LLC

LEN – Palm Vista, LLC

LEN Paradise Cable, LLC

LEN Paradise Operating, LLC

Len Paradise, LLC

Lencraft, LLC

LenFive, LLC

LenFive Opco GP, LLC

LenFive Sub, LLC

LenFive Sub Opco GP, LLC

LenFive Sub II, LLC

LenFive Sub III, LLC

LENH I, LLC

Len – Hawks Point, LLC

Lennar Aircraft I, LLC

Lennar Arizona, Inc.

Lennar Arizona Construction, Inc.

Lennar Associates Management, LLC

Lennar Associates Management Holding Company

Lennar Avenue One, LLC

Lennar Bridges, LLC

Lennar Buffington Colorado Crossing, L.P.

Lennar Buffington Zachary Scott, L.P.

Lennar Carolinas, LLC

 

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Lennar Central Park, LLC

Lennar Central Region Sweep, Inc.

Lennar Central Texas, L.P.

Lennar Chicago, Inc.

Lennar Colorado Minerals LLC

Lennar Colorado, LLC

Lennar Communities, Inc.

Lennar Communities Development, Inc.

Lennar Communities Nevada, LLC

Lennar Communities of Chicago L.L.C.

Lennar Construction, Inc.

Lennar Courts, LLC

Lennar Developers, Inc.

Lennar Family of Builders GP, Inc.

Lennar Family of Builders Limited Partnership

Lennar Flamingo, LLC

Lennar Fresno, Inc.

Lennar Gardens, LLC

Lennar Georgia, Inc.

Lennar Greer Ranch Venture, LLC

Lennar Heritage Fields, LLC

Lennar Hingham Holdings, LLC

Lennar Hingham JV, LLC

Lennar Homes Holding, LLC

Lennar Homes NJ, LLC

Lennar Homes, LLC

Lennar Homes of Arizona, Inc.

Lennar Homes of California, Inc.

Lennar Homes of Tennessee, LLC

Lennar Homes of Texas Land and Construction, Ltd.

Lennar Homes of Texas Sales and Marketing, Ltd.

Lennar Imperial Holdings Limited Partnership

Lennar International Holding, LLC

 

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Lennar International, LLC

Lennar Layton, LLC

Lennar Lytle, LLC

Lennar Mare Island, LLC

Lennar Marina A Funding, LLC

Lennar Massachusetts Properties, Inc.

Lennar Middletown, LLC

Lennar Multifamily Communities, LLC

Lennar New Jersey Properties Inc.

Lennar New York, LLC

Lennar Northeast Properties, Inc.

Lennar Northeast Properties LLC

Lennar Northwest, Inc.

Lennar Pacific, Inc.

Lennar Pacific Properties, Inc.

Lennar Pacific Properties Management, Inc.

Lennar PI Acquisition, LLC

Lennar PI Property Acquisition, LLC

Lennar PIS Management Company, LLC

Lennar Point, LLC

Lennar Port Imperial South, LLC

Lennar Realty, Inc.

Lennar Reno, LLC

Lennar Rialto Investment LP

Lennar Riverside West, LLC

Lennar Riverside West Urban Renewal Company, L.L.C.

Lennar Sacramento, Inc.

Lennar Sales Corp.

Lennar Southwest Holding Corp.

Lennar Spencer’s Crossing, LLC

Lennar Texas Holding Company

Lennar Trading Company, LP

Lennar Ventures, LLC

 

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Lennar West Valley, LLC

Lennar.com Inc.

Lennar/LNR Camino Palomar, LLC

Lennar-Lantana Boatyard, Inc.

LEN-Ryan I, LLC

Len-Verandahs, LLP

LH Eastwind, LLC

LH-EH Layton Lakes Estates, LLC

LHI Renaissance, LLC

LMC Construction, LLC

LMC Malden Station Investor, LLC

LMI Glencoe Dallas Investor, LLC

LMI Lakes West Covina Investor, LLC

LMI Las Colinas Station, LLC

LMI Naperville Investor, LLC

LMI Park Central Investor, LLC

LMI Contractors, LLC

LMI-JC Developer, LLC

LMI-JC, LLC

LMI-West Seattle, LLC

LNC at Meadowbrook, LLC

LNC at Ravenna, LLC

LNC Communities I, Inc.

LNC Communities II, LLC

LNC Communities III, Inc.

LNC Communities IV, LLC

LNC Communities V, LLC

LNC Communities VI, LLC

LNC Communities VII, LLC

LNC Communities VIII, LLC

LNC Pennsylvania Realty, Inc.

Long Beach Development, LLC

Lori Gardens Associates, L.L.C.

 

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Lori Gardens Associates II, LLC

Lori Gardens Associates III, LLC

Lorton Station, LLC

LW D’Andrea, LLC

Madrona Ridge L.L.C.

Madrona Village L.L.C.

Madrona Village Mews L.L.C.

Majestic Woods, LLC

Mid-County Utilities, Inc.

Mission Viejo 12S Venture, LP

Mission Viejo Holdings, Inc.

NC Properties I, LLC

NC Properties II, LLC

North American Asset Development, LLC

North American Title Company, Inc.

Northbridge L.L.C.

Northeastern Properties LP, Inc.

OHC/Ascot Belle Meade, LLC

One SR, L.P.

Palm Gardens At Doral Clubhouse, LLC

Palm Gardens at Doral, LLC

Palm Vista Preserve, LLC

PD-Len Boca Raton, LLC

PG Properties Holding, LLC

Pioneer Meadows Development, LLC

Pioneer Meadows Investments, LLC

POMAC, LLC

Prestonfield L.L.C.

Providence Lakes, LLP

PT Metro, LLC

Raintree Village, L.L.C.

Raintree Village II L.L.C.

Renaissance Joint Venture

 

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Reserve @ Pleasant Grove II LLC

Reserve @ Pleasant Grove LLC

Reserve at River Park, LLC

Reserve at South Harrison, LLC

Rivendell Joint Venture

Rivenhome Corporation

RMV, LLC

Rutenberg Homes, Inc.

Rutenberg Homes of Texas, Inc.

Rye Hill Company, LLC

S. Florida Construction, LLC

S. Florida Construction II, LLC

S. Florida Construction III, LLC

San Lucia, LLC

Savannah Development, Ltd.

Savell Gulley Development, LLC

Scarsdale, LTD

Schulz Ranch Developers, LLC

Seminole/70th, LLC

Siena at Old Orchard L.L.C.

South Development, LLC

Southbank Holding, LLC

Spanish Springs Development, LLC

Spectrum Eastport, LLC

St. Charles Active Adult Community, LLC

St. Charles Community, LLC

Stoney Corporation

Stoney Holdings, LLC

Stoneybrook Clubhouse, Inc.

Stoneybrook Joint Venture

Strategic Holdings, Inc.

Strategic Technologies, LLC

Summerfield Venture L.L.C.

 

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Summerwood, L.L.C.

SunStreet Energy Group, LLC

TCO QVI, LLC

Temecula Valley, LLC

Terra Division, LLC

The Baywinds Land Trust

The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe Sales Company, Inc.

The Bridges Club at Rancho Santa Fe, Inc.

The LNC Northeast Group, Inc.

The Preserve at Coconut Creek, LLC

Treasure Island Holdings, LLC

Treviso Holding, LLC

U.S. Home Corporation

U.S. Home of Arizona Construction Co.

U.S. Home Realty, Inc.

U.S.H. Los Prados, Inc.

U.S.H. Realty, Inc.

USH Equity Corporation

USH – Flag, LLC

USH LEE, LLC

USH Woodbridge, Inc.

UST Lennar Collateral Sub, LLC

UST Lennar GP PIS 10, LLC

UST Lennar GP PIS 7, LLC

UST Lennar HW Scala SF Joint Venture

Valencia at Doral, LLC

Vineyard Point 2009, LLC

Watermark Realty, Inc.

Watermark Realty Referral, Inc.

WCI Communities, Inc.

WCI Communities, LLC

WCI Communities Management, LLC

WCI Communities Rivington, LLC

 

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WCI Realty, Inc.

WCI Towers Northeast USA, Inc.

WCP, LLC

West Chocolate Bayou Development, LLC

West Lake Village, LLC

West Seattle Project X, LLC

West Van Buren L.L.C.

Westchase, Inc.

Willowbrook Investors, LLC

Woodbridge Multifamily Developer I, LLC

Wright Farm, L.L.C.

 

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Exhibit 4.2

[EXECUTION VERSION]

 

 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

Dated as of November 29, 2017

among

LENNAR CORPORATION

AND THE GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN

as Issuers,

and

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.,

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,

GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC,

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED,

MIZUHO SECURITIES USA LLC,

RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC

and

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC

as Representatives of the Several Initial Purchasers

2.950% Senior Notes due 2020

4.750% Senior Notes due 2027

 

 


REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

This Registration Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of November 29, 2017, among LENNAR CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the other entities that are listed on the signature pages hereof (collectively with any entity that in the future executes a supplemental indenture pursuant to which such entity agrees to guarantee the Notes (as hereinafter defined), the “Guarantors” and, together with the Company, the “Issuers”), and CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC., DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC, MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED, MIZUHO SECURITIES USA LLC, RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC and WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC, as representatives (the “Representatives”) of the several initial purchasers (the “Initial Purchasers”) under the Purchase Agreement (as defined below).

This Agreement is entered into in connection with the Purchase Agreement, dated November 14, 2017, among the Company and the Representatives, as representatives of the Initial Purchasers (the “Purchase Agreement”), which provides for, among other things, the sale by the Company to the Initial Purchasers of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 (the “2020 Notes”) and $900,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes” and, together with the 2020 Notes, the “Notes”). The Notes are unconditionally guaranteed (the “Guarantees”) by each of the Guarantors. The Notes and the Guarantees are collectively referred to herein as the “Securities”. In order to induce the Representatives to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Issuers have agreed to provide the registration rights set forth in this Agreement for the benefit of the Initial Purchasers and any subsequent holder or holders of the Securities. The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the Initial Purchasers’ obligation to purchase the Securities under the Purchase Agreement.

The parties hereby agree as follows:

 

  1. Definitions

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

Additional Interest: See Section 4 hereof.

Additional Notes: See Section 2(a) hereof.

Advice: See the last paragraph of Section 5 hereof.

Agreement: See the introductory paragraphs hereto.

Applicable Period: See Section 2 hereof.

Automatic Shelf Registration Statement: An “automatic shelf registration” statement within the meaning of Rule 405.


Business Day: Each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is a day on which banking institutions are open in New York, New York.

CalAtlantic: CalAtlantic Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Company: See the introductory paragraphs hereto.

Effectiveness Date: The 365th day following the consummation of the Merger; provided, however, that with respect to any Shelf Registration Statement, the Effectiveness Date shall be the later of the 365th day following the consummation of the Merger or the 90th day following the Filing Date with respect thereto.

Effectiveness Period: See Section 3(a) hereof.

Event Date: See Section 4(b) hereof.

Exchange Act: The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.

Exchange Notes: See Section 2 hereof.

Exchange Offer: See Section 2 hereof.

Exchange Offer Registration Statement: See Section 2 hereof.

Filing Date: (A) If no Exchange Offer Registration Statement has been filed by the Issuers pursuant to this Agreement, the 270th day following the consummation of the Merger; and (B) in each other case (which may be applicable notwithstanding the consummation of the Exchange Offer), the later of the 270th day following the consummation of the Merger and the 45th day after the delivery of a Shelf Notice.

FINRA: See Section 5(r) hereof.

Guarantees: See the introductory paragraphs hereto.

Guarantors: See the introductory paragraphs hereto.

Holder: Any holder of a Registrable Security or Registrable Securities.

Indemnified Person: See Section 7(c) hereof.

Indemnifying Person: See Section 7(c) hereof.

Indenture: The Indenture, dated as of November 29, 2017, by and among the Issuers, the Guarantors named therein and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, pursuant to which the Notes are being issued, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

 

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Initial Purchasers: See the introductory paragraphs hereto.

Initial Shelf Registration Statement: See Section 3(a) hereof.

Inspectors: See Section 5(m) hereof.

Issue Date: November 29, 2017, the date of original issuance of the Securities.

Merger: The merger of CalAtlantic with and into Merger Sub, with Merger Sub continuing as the surviving corporation, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger among CalAtlantic, the Company and Merger Sub, dated October 29, 2017.

Merger Sub: Cheetah Cub Group Corp., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

Notes: See the introductory paragraphs hereto.

Offering Memorandum: The offering memorandum of the Company dated November 14, 2017, in respect of the offering of the Securities.

Participant: See Section 7(a) hereof.

Participating Broker-Dealer: See Section 2(a) hereof.

Person: An individual, trustee, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, union, business association, firm or other legal entity.

Private Exchange: See Section 2(b) hereof.

Private Exchange Notes: See Section 2(b) hereof.

Prospectus: The prospectus included in any Registration Statement (including, without limitation, any prospectus subject to completion and a prospectus that includes any information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of an effective registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A promulgated under the Securities Act and any term sheet filed pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act), as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, and all other amendments and supplements to the Prospectus, including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such Prospectus.

Purchase Agreement: See the introductory paragraphs hereto.

Records: See Section 5(m) hereof.

 

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Registrable Notes: Each Note upon its original issuance and at all times subsequent thereto, each Exchange Note as to which Section 2(c)(iv) hereof is applicable upon original issuance and at all times subsequent thereto and each Private Exchange Note upon original issuance thereof and at all times subsequent thereto, until the earliest to occur of (i) a Registration Statement (other than, with respect to any Exchange Note as to which Section 2(c)(iv) hereof is applicable, the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) covering such Note, Exchange Note or Private Exchange Note has been declared effective by the SEC and such Note, Exchange Note or such Private Exchange Note, as the case may be, has been disposed of in accordance with such effective Registration Statement, (ii) such Note has been exchanged pursuant to the Exchange Offer for an Exchange Note or Exchange Notes that may be resold (or, but for the status of such Holder as an affiliate of the Issuers under Rule 405, could be resold) without restriction under state and federal securities laws, (iii) such Note, Exchange Note or Private Exchange Note, as the case may be, ceases to be outstanding for purposes of the Indenture or (iv) such Note, Exchange Note or Private Exchange Note, as the case may be, (x) for any period prior to the consummation of an Exchange Offer in accordance with Section 2, is, or (y) for any period upon and following the consummation of an Exchange Offer in accordance with Section 2, may be resold without restriction pursuant to Rule 144 (as amended or replaced) under the Securities Act and if requested by the Holder the restrictive legend has been removed.

Registrable Securities: Each Registrable Note and related guarantees.

Registration Statement: Any registration statement of the Issuers that covers any of the Securities, the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) or the Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) filed with the SEC under the Securities Act, including the Prospectus, amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, all exhibits, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such registration statement.

Rule 144: Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule (other than Rule 144A) or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC providing for offers and sales of securities made in compliance therewith resulting in offers and sales by subsequent holders that are not affiliates of the issuer of such securities being free of the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act.

Rule 144A: Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule (other than Rule 144) or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC.

Rule 405: Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

Rule 415: Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC.

SEC: The Securities and Exchange Commission.

Securities: See the introductory paragraphs hereto.

Securities Act: The Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.

 

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Shelf Notice: See Section 2(c) hereof.

Shelf Registration Statement: See Section 3(b) hereof.

Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement: See Section 3(b) hereof.

TIA: The Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

Trustee: The trustee under the Indenture and the trustee (if any) under any indenture governing the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) and Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees).

Underwritten registration or underwritten offering: A registration in which securities of one or more of the Issuers are sold to an underwriter for reoffering to the public.

WKSI: A “well known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405.

 

  2. Exchange Offer

(a)    The Issuers shall file with the SEC, no later than the Filing Date, a Registration Statement (the “Exchange Offer Registration Statement”) on an appropriate registration form with respect to a registered offer (the “Exchange Offer”) to, among other things as the Issuers may determine in their sole discretion, exchange any and all of the Registrable Securities of each series for a like aggregate principal amount of notes of the Company, guaranteed by the Guarantors, that are identical in all material respects to the applicable series of Securities, except that the Exchange Notes shall contain no restrictive legend thereon and no provision for payment of additional interest in the event of a registration default (in respect of each applicable series, the “Exchange Notes”), and which are entitled to the benefits of the Indenture or a trust indenture which is identical in all material respects to the Indenture (other than such changes to the Indenture or any such identical trust indenture as are necessary to comply with the TIA) and which, in either case, has been qualified under the TIA. Interest on each Exchange Note will accrue (A) from the later of (1) the last interest payment date on which interest was paid on the Note surrendered, or (2) if the Note is surrendered for exchange on a date in a period which includes the record date for an interest payment date to occur on or after the date of the exchange and as to which interest will be paid, such interest payment date or (B) if no interest has been paid on that Note, from the Issue Date. Each Exchange Offer shall comply with all applicable tender offer rules and regulations under the Exchange Act and other applicable laws. The Issuers shall use their reasonable best efforts to (x) cause the Exchange Offer Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act on or before the Effectiveness Date; (y) keep each Exchange Offer open for acceptance for not less than 30 days (or longer if required by applicable law) after the date that notice of such Exchange Offer is mailed to Holders of the applicable Series of Notes; and (z) consummate each Exchange Offer on or before the 390th day following the consummation of the Merger. If, after the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is initially declared effective by the SEC, an Exchange Offer or the issuance of the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) thereunder is interfered with by any stop order, injunction or other order or requirement of the SEC or any other governmental agency or court, the Exchange Offer Registration Statement shall be deemed not to have become effective for purposes of this Agreement.

 

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Each Holder that participates in an Exchange Offer will be required, as a condition to its participation in such Exchange Offer, to represent to the Company in writing (which may be contained in the applicable letter of transmittal) (1) that any Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) to be received by it will be acquired in the ordinary course of its business, (2) that at the time of the consummation of such Exchange Offer such Holder will have no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in the distribution of the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) in violation of the provisions of the Securities Act, (3) that such Holder is not an “affiliate” (as defined in Rule 405 promulgated under the Securities Act) of any Issuer, (4) if such Holder is not a broker-dealer, that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, the distribution of Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) and (5) if such Holder is a broker-dealer (a “Participating Broker-Dealer”) that it will receive the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) for its own account in exchange for Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities, and that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees).

Upon consummation of an Exchange Offer for a series of Registrable Securities in accordance with this Section 2, the provisions of this Agreement shall continue to apply to such series, mutatis mutandis, solely with respect to Registrable Securities that are Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees), Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) as to which Section 2(c)(iv) is applicable and Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) held by Participating Broker-Dealers, and the Issuers shall have no further obligation to register Registrable Securities of such series (other than Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) and other than in respect of any Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) as to which clause 2(c)(iv) hereof applies) pursuant to Section 3 hereof.

If the Company issues under the Indenture additional 2.950% Senior Notes due 2020 or 4.750% Senior Notes due 2027 (including, in each case, related guarantees) that are identical in all material respects to the 2020 Notes or the 2027 Notes, respectively, and have the same CUSIP number as the 2020 Notes or the 2027 Notes, respectively (any such notes, “Additional Notes”), the Company may include in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, together with any other securities in the Company’s sole discretion, a like aggregate principal amount of notes of the Company, guaranteed by the Guarantors, that are identical in all material respects to each applicable series of Additional Notes, except that such notes shall contain no restrictive legend thereon and no provision for payment of additional interest in the event of a registration default. The period of resale restrictions applicable to any series of Notes previously offered and sold in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act shall automatically be extended to the last day of the period of any resale restrictions imposed on the applicable series of such Additional Notes.

 

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(b)    The Issuers shall include within the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement a section entitled “Plan of Distribution,” reasonably acceptable to the Representatives, which shall contain a summary statement of the positions taken or policies made by the staff of the SEC with respect to the potential “underwriter” status of any Participating Broker-Dealer that is the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of Exchange Notes received by such Participating Broker-Dealer in the Exchange Offer, whether such positions or policies have been publicly disseminated by the staff of the SEC or such positions or policies represent the prevailing views of the staff of the SEC. Such “Plan of Distribution” section shall also expressly permit, to the extent permitted by applicable policies and regulations of the SEC, the use of the Prospectus by all Persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act with respect to the Exchange Notes, including, to the extent permitted by applicable policies and regulations of the SEC, all Participating Broker-Dealers, and include a statement describing the means by which Participating Broker-Dealers may resell the Exchange Notes in compliance with the Securities Act.

The Issuers shall use their reasonable best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement effective and to amend and supplement the Prospectus contained therein in order to permit such Prospectus to be lawfully delivered by all Persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act with respect to any Exchange Notes for such period of time as is necessary to comply with applicable law in connection with any resale of the Exchange Notes covered thereby; provided, however, that such period shall not exceed 180 days after such Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective (or such longer period if extended pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 5 hereof) (the “Applicable Period”).

If, prior to consummation of an Exchange Offer, any Holder holds any Registrable Securities acquired by it that have, or that are reasonably likely to be determined to have, the status of an unsold allotment in an initial distribution, or any Holder is not entitled to participate in the Exchange Offer, the Issuers upon the request of any such Holder shall simultaneously with the delivery of the Exchange Notes in the Exchange Offer, issue and deliver to any such Holder, in exchange (the “Private Exchange”) for such Registrable Securities held by any such Holder, a like principal amount of notes (the “Private Exchange Notes”) of the Company, guaranteed by the Guarantors, that are identical in all material respects to the applicable series of Exchange Notes except for the placement of a restrictive legend on such Private Exchange Notes. The Private Exchange Notes shall be issued pursuant to the same indenture as the Exchange Notes and bear the same CUSIP number as the applicable series of Exchange Notes.

In connection with each Exchange Offer, the Issuers shall:

(i)    mail, or cause to be mailed, to each Holder of record entitled to participate in such Exchange Offer a copy of the Prospectus forming part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, together with an appropriate letter of transmittal and related documents;

(ii)    use their reasonable best efforts to keep such Exchange Offer open for acceptance for not less than 30 days after the date that notice of such Exchange Offer is mailed to Holders (or longer if required by applicable law);

(iii)    utilize the services of a depositary for such Exchange Offer with an address in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York;

 

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(iv)    permit Holders to withdraw tendered Securities at any time prior to the close of business, New York time, on the last Business Day on which such Exchange Offer shall remain open; and

(v)    otherwise comply in all material respects with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to such Exchange Offer.

As soon as practicable after the close of an Exchange Offer and the applicable Private Exchange, if any, the Issuers shall:

(i)    accept for exchange all Registrable Securities that are validly tendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to such Exchange Offer and such Private Exchange, if any;

(ii)    deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all Registrable Securities so accepted for exchange; and

(iii)    cause the Trustee to authenticate and deliver promptly to each Holder of Securities that are accepted for exchange, Exchange Notes or Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) of the applicable series, as the case may be, equal in principal amount to the Securities of such Holder so accepted for exchange.

The Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) and the Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) shall be issued under (i) the Indenture or (ii) an indenture identical in all material respects to the Indenture and which, in either case, has been qualified under the TIA or is exempt from such qualification and shall provide that the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) shall not be subject to the transfer restrictions set forth in the Indenture. The Indenture or such indenture shall provide that the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees), the Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) and the Securities shall vote and consent together on all matters as one class and that none of the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees), the Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) or the Securities will have the right to vote or consent as a separate class on any matter.

(c)    If, (i) because of any change in law or in currently prevailing interpretations by the SEC staff, the Issuers are not permitted to effect an Exchange Offer, (ii) an Exchange Offer is not consummated within 390 days after the consummation of the Merger, (iii) with respect to any Holder of Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) such Holder notifies the Company in writing (1) that such Holder is prohibited by applicable law or Commission policy from participating in the applicable Exchange Offer, (2) within 30 days of the consummation of the applicable Exchange Offer that such Holder may not resell the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) acquired by it in the applicable Exchange Offer to the public without delivering a prospectus and that the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is not appropriate or available for such resales by such Holder, or (3) such Holder is a Participating Broker-Dealer and holds Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) acquired directly from one of the Issuers or one of their affiliates, and requests from the Company with respect to such Securities, or (iv) in the case of any Holder that tenders Securities of the applicable series in response to an Exchange Offer, such Holder does not receive Exchange Notes of the applicable series on the date of the exchange that may be sold without restriction under state and federal securities laws (other than due solely to the status of such Holder as an affiliate of any of the Issuers within the meaning of the Securities Act), then in the case of each of clauses (i) to and including (iv) of this sentence, the Issuers shall (a) promptly deliver to the Holders of the applicable series and the Trustee written notice thereof (the “Shelf Notice”) and (b) at its sole expense and as promptly as practicable shall file a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 3 hereof.

 

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Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if (i) a Filing Date or Effectiveness Date (or other date by which a filing is to be made or become effective) would fall on a day that is not a Business Day or (ii) the date by which the Exchange Offer is to be consummated would fall on a day that is not a Business Day, such Filing Date, Effectiveness Date (or other date by which a filing is to be made or become effective) or consummation date shall instead be the next succeeding Business Day.

 

  3. Shelf Registration

If at any time a Shelf Notice is delivered as contemplated by Section 2(c) hereof, then:

(a)    Shelf Registration. The Issuers shall file with the SEC a Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 covering (x) in the case of the events described in clauses (i) or (ii) of Section 2(c), all of the Registrable Securities not exchanged in the applicable Exchange Offer, and (y) in any event, all Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) of the applicable series and Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) of the applicable series as to which Section 2(c)(iv) is applicable (the “Initial Shelf Registration Statement”), which Initial Shelf Registration Statement shall be an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement if the Company is then a WKSI and there is no other reason the Company is not permitted to file the Initial Shelf Registration Statement as an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file with the SEC the Initial Shelf Registration Statement on or before the applicable Filing Date. The Initial Shelf Registration Statement shall be on Form S-3 or another appropriate form permitting registration of such Registrable Securities for resale by Holders in the manner or manners designated by them (including, without limitation, one or more underwritten offerings). The Issuers shall not permit any securities other than the Registrable Securities to be included in the Initial Shelf Registration Statement or any Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement (as defined below); provided, however that if the Company issues Additional Notes, the Company may include the Additional Notes in the Initial Shelf Registration Statement or any Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement.

If the Initial Shelf Registration Statement is not an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, the Issuers shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Initial Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act on or before the Effectiveness Date. The Issuers shall use their reasonable best efforts to keep the Initial Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date which is two years from the Issue Date (the “Effectiveness Period”), or such shorter period ending when (i) all Registrable Securities covered by the Initial Shelf Registration Statement have been sold in the manner set forth and as contemplated in the Initial Shelf Registration Statement, (ii) all Registrable Securities covered by the Initial Shelf Registration Statement that have not been sold in sales contemplated by the Initial Shelf Registration Statement have become eligible for resale by holders thereof under Rule 144 without regard to volume, manner of sale or other restrictions or (iii) a Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement covering all of the Registrable Securities covered by and not sold under the Initial Shelf Registration Statement or an earlier Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement has been declared effective under the Securities Act; provided, however, that the Effectiveness Period in respect of the Initial Shelf Registration Statement shall be extended to the extent required to permit dealers to comply with the applicable prospectus delivery requirements of Rule 174 under the Securities Act and as otherwise provided herein.

 

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(b)    Subsequent Shelf Registrations. If the Initial Shelf Registration Statement or any Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be effective for any reason at any time during the Effectiveness Period (other than because of the sale of all of the securities registered thereunder or because all of the securities registered thereunder that have not been sold in sales contemplated by the Initial Shelf Registration Statement have become eligible for resale by the holders thereof under Rule 144 without regard to volume, manner of sale or other restrictions), the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the prompt withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness thereof, and in any event shall within 30 days of such cessation of effectiveness amend the Initial Shelf Registration Statement in a manner to obtain the withdrawal of the order suspending the effectiveness thereof, or file an additional “shelf” Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 415 covering all of the Registrable Securities covered by and not sold under the Initial Shelf Registration Statement or an earlier Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement (each, a “Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement”). If a Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement is filed and is not an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement to be declared effective under the Securities Act as soon as practicable after such filing. The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep any subsequent Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective for a period equal to the number of days in the Effectiveness Period less the aggregate number of days during which the Initial Shelf Registration Statement or any other Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement was previously continuously effective. As used herein the term “Shelf Registration Statement” means the Initial Shelf Registration Statement and any Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement.

(c)    Supplements and Amendments. The Issuers shall promptly supplement and amend any Shelf Registration Statement if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used for such Shelf Registration Statement, if required by the Securities Act, or if reasonably requested by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities (or their counsel) covered by such Registration Statement or by any underwriter of such Registrable Securities.

 

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  4. Additional Interest

(a)    The Issuers and the Representatives agree that the Holders will suffer damages if the Issuers fail to fulfill their obligations under Section 2 or Section 3 hereof and that it would not be feasible to ascertain the extent of such damages with precision. Accordingly, the Issuers agree to pay, as liquidated damages, additional interest on a series of Notes (“Additional Interest”) under the circumstances and to the extent set forth below (each of which shall be given independent effect):

(i)     if, with regard to such series of Notes, (A) neither the Exchange Offer Registration Statement nor the Initial Shelf Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC (or was automatically effectively upon its filing with the SEC) on or before the applicable Effectiveness Date or (B) notwithstanding that the Issuers have consummated or will consummate the applicable Exchange Offer, the Issuers are required to file a Shelf Registration Statement and such Shelf Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the SEC (or was not automatically effective upon its filing with the SEC) on or before the applicable Effectiveness Date with respect to such Shelf Registration Statement, then, commencing on the day after such Effectiveness Date, Additional Interest shall accrue on the principal amount of the Notes of such series at a rate of 0.25% per annum for the first 90 days immediately following the day after such Effectiveness Date, and such Additional Interest rate with regard to such series of Notes shall increase by an additional 0.25% per annum at the beginning of each subsequent 90-day period; or

(ii)     if, with regard to an applicable series of Notes, (A) the Issuers have not exchanged Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) for all Registrable Securities of the applicable series validly tendered in accordance with the terms of the applicable Exchange Offer within 390 days after the consummation of the Merger or (B) if applicable, a Shelf Registration Statement has been declared effective and such Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be effective at any time prior to the second anniversary of the consummation of the Merger (other than after such time as all Notes of the applicable series have been disposed of under such Shelf Registration Statement or after such time as all Notes of the applicable series covered by such Shelf Registration Statement become eligible for resale by the holders under Rule 144 without regard to volume, manner of sale or other restrictions), then, Additional Interest shall accrue on the principal amount of such Notes of such series that are the subject of the default at a rate of 0.25% per annum for the first 90 days commencing on (x) the date that is 390 days after the consummation of the Merger in the case of (A) above, or (y) the day such Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be effective in the case of (B) above, and such Additional Interest rate shall increase by an additional 0.25% per annum at the beginning of each such subsequent 90-day period;

 

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provided, however, that Additional Interest on the Notes of any such series may not under any circumstance accrue under more than one of the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 4(a) and the rate at which Additional Interest accrues on the Notes of any such series as a result of the provisions of clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 4(a) may not exceed in the aggregate 0.50% per annum; provided further, that (1) upon the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or the applicable Shelf Registration Statement as required hereunder (in the case of clause (i) of this Section 4(a)), or (2) upon the exchange of the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) for all Securities of the applicable series tendered (in the case of clause (ii)(A) of this Section 4(a)), or upon the effectiveness of a Subsequent Shelf Registration Statement in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement which had ceased to remain effective (in the case of clause (ii)(B) of this Section 4(a)), Additional Interest on the Registrable Notes of such series as a result of such clause (or the relevant subclause thereof), as the case may be, shall cease to accrue.

(b)    The Issuers shall notify the Trustee within three Business Days after each and every date on which an event occurs in respect of which Additional Interest on a series of Notes is required to be paid (an “Event Date”), which notice shall also be at least three Business Days prior to the date of any payment to be made in accordance with the following sentence. Any amounts of Additional Interest due pursuant to (a)(i) or (a)(ii) of this Section 4 will be payable in cash simultaneously with, and to the same persons entitled to receive, stated interest on the applicable series of Notes, commencing with the first such payment of interest occurring after any such Additional Interest commences to accrue. The amount of Additional Interest payable with respect to a series of Registrable Notes will be determined by multiplying the applicable Additional Interest rate by the principal amount of the applicable series of Registrable Notes, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days such Additional Interest rate was applicable during such period (determined on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of a partial month, the actual number of days elapsed), and the denominator of which is 360.

 

  5. Registration Procedures

In connection with the filing of any Registration Statement pursuant to Sections 2 or 3 hereof, the Issuers shall effect such registrations to permit the sale of the securities covered thereby in accordance with the intended method or methods of disposition thereof, and pursuant thereto and in connection with any Registration Statement filed by the Issuers hereunder each of the Issuers shall:

(a)    Prepare and file with the SEC before the applicable Filing Date, a Registration Statement or Registration Statements as prescribed by Sections 2 or 3 hereof, and use their reasonable best efforts to cause each such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective as provided herein; provided, however, that, if (1) such filing is pursuant to Section 3 hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during the Applicable Period relating thereto, before filing any Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto, the Issuers shall furnish to and afford the Holders of each series of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, their counsel and the managing underwriters, if any, a reasonable opportunity to review copies of all such documents (including copies of any documents to be incorporated by reference therein and all exhibits thereto) proposed to be filed (in each case at least five days prior to such filing, or such later date as is reasonable under the circumstances). The Issuers shall not file any Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto covering a series of Registrable Securities if the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of such series of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or any such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, their counsel, or the managing underwriters, if any, shall reasonably object.

 

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(b)    Prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective amendments to each Shelf Registration Statement or Exchange Offer Registration Statement, as the case may be, as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective for the Effectiveness Period or the Applicable Period, as the case may be; cause the related Prospectus to be supplemented by any Prospectus supplement required by applicable law, and as so supplemented to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (or any similar provisions then in force) promulgated under the Securities Act; and comply with the provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act applicable to each of them with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such Registration Statement as so amended or in such Prospectus as so supplemented and with respect to the subsequent resale of any securities being sold by a Participating Broker-Dealer covered by any such Prospectus. The Issuers shall be deemed not to have used their reasonable best efforts to keep a Registration Statement effective during the Effectiveness Period or the Applicable Period, as the case may be, relating thereto, if any of the Issuers voluntarily takes any action that would result in selling Holders of the Registrable Securities covered thereby or Participating Broker-Dealers seeking to sell Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) not being able to sell such Registrable Securities or such Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during that period unless such action is required by applicable law or permitted by this Agreement.

(c)    If (1) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3 hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during the Applicable Period relating thereto from whom any of the Issuers has received written notice that it will be a Participating Broker-Dealer in an Exchange Offer, notify the selling Holders of the Registrable Securities, or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, their counsel and the managing underwriters, if any, promptly (but in any event within one day), and confirm such notice in writing, (i) when a Prospectus or any Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment has been filed, and, with respect to a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment, when the same has become effective under the Securities Act (including in such notice a written statement that any Holder may, upon request, obtain, at the sole expense of the Issuers, one conformed copy of such Registration Statement or post-effective amendment including financial statements and schedules, documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference and exhibits), (ii) of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, (iii) if at any time when a prospectus is required by the Securities Act to be delivered in connection with sales of the Registrable Securities or resales of Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) by Participating Broker-Dealers, the representations and warranties of the Issuers contained in any agreement (including any underwriting agreement) contemplated by Section 5(l) hereof cease to be true and correct in all material respects, (iv) of the receipt by any of the Issuers of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of a Registration Statement or any of the Registrable Securities or the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) to be sold by any Participating Broker-Dealer for offer or sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose, (v) of the happening of any event, the existence of any condition or any information becoming known that makes any statement made in such Registration Statement or related Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in or amendments or supplements to such Registration Statement, Prospectus or documents so that, in the case of the Registration Statement, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and that in the case of the Prospectus, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (vi) of the Issuers’ determination that a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement would be appropriate.

 

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(d)    If (1) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3 hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during the Applicable Period, use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or suspending the qualification (or exemption from qualification) of any of the Registrable Securities or the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) to be sold by any Participating Broker-Dealer, for sale in any jurisdiction, and, if any such order is issued, to use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any such order at the earliest possible moment.

(e)    If a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3 and if requested by the managing underwriter or underwriters (if any), the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the applicable series of Registrable Securities being sold in connection with an underwritten offering or any Participating Broker-Dealer, (i) as promptly as practicable incorporate in a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such information as the managing underwriter or underwriters (if any), such Holders, any Participating Broker-Dealer or counsel for any of them reasonably request to be included therein, (ii) make all required filings of such prospectus supplement or such post-effective amendment as soon as practicable after the Company has received notification of the matters to be incorporated in such prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment, and (iii) supplement or make amendments to such Registration Statement.

 

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(f)    If (1) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3 hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during the Applicable Period, furnish to each selling Holder of Registrable Securities and to each such Participating Broker-Dealer who so requests and to their respective counsel and each managing underwriter, if any, at the sole expense of the Issuers, one conformed copy of the Registration Statement or Registration Statements and each post-effective amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, and, if requested, all documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference and all exhibits.

(g)    If (1) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3 hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during the Applicable Period, deliver to each selling Holder of Registrable Securities, or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, their respective counsel, and the underwriters, if any, at the sole expense of the Issuers, as many copies of the Prospectus or Prospectuses (including each form of preliminary prospectus) and each amendment or supplement thereto and any documents incorporated by reference therein as such Persons may reasonably request; and, subject to the last paragraph of this Section 5, the Issuers hereby consent to the use of such Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders of Registrable Securities or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, and the underwriters or agents, if any, and dealers, if any, in connection with the offering and sale of Registrable Securities covered by, or the sale by Participating Broker-Dealers of Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) pursuant to, such Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto.

(h)    Prior to any public offering of Registrable Securities or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) or any delivery of a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during the Applicable Period, use its reasonable best efforts to register or qualify, and to cooperate with the selling Holders of Registrable Securities or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, the managing underwriter or underwriters, if any, and their respective counsel in connection with the registration or qualification (or exemption from such registration or qualification) of such Registrable Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions within the United States as any selling Holder, Participating Broker-Dealer, or the managing underwriter or underwriters reasonably request in writing; provided, however, that where Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) held by Participating Broker-Dealers or Registrable Securities are offered other than through an underwritten offering, the Issuers agree to cause their counsel to perform Blue Sky investigations and file registrations and qualifications required to be filed pursuant to this Section 5(h), keep each such registration or qualification (or exemption therefrom) effective during the period such Registration Statement is required to be kept effective and do any and all other acts or things reasonably necessary or advisable to enable the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) held by Participating Broker-Dealers or the Registrable Securities covered by the applicable Registration Statement; provided, however, that none of the Issuers shall be required to (A) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified, (B) take any action that would subject it to general service of process in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so subject or (C) subject itself to taxation in excess of a nominal dollar amount in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so subject.

 

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(i)    If a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3 hereof, cooperate with the selling Holders of Registrable Securities and the managing underwriter or underwriters, if any, to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing the applicable series of Registrable Notes to be sold, which certificates shall not bear any restrictive legends and shall be in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company; and enable such series of Registrable Notes to be in such denominations permitted by the Indenture and registered in such names as the managing underwriter or underwriters, if any, or Holders may request; provided, however, that if such series of Registrable Notes is also transferable by delivery through means other than on the records of The Depository Trust Company or another clearing agency, in which case such preparation and delivery of certificates representing such series of Registrable Notes shall not be required.

(j)    If (1) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3 hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during the Applicable Period, upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by paragraph 5(c)(v) or 5(c)(vi) hereof, as promptly as practicable prepare and (subject to Section 5(a) hereof) file with the SEC, at the sole expense of the Issuers, a supplement or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or a supplement to the related Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to the purchasers of the Registrable Securities being sold thereunder or to the purchasers of the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) to whom such Prospectus will be delivered by a Participating Broker-Dealer, any such Prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(k)    Prior to the effective date of the first Registration Statement relating to a series of Registrable Securities, (i) provide the Trustee with certificates for such series of Registrable Notes in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company and (ii) provide a CUSIP number for such series of Registrable Notes.

 

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(l)    In connection with any underwritten offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement, enter into an underwriting agreement which is customary in underwritten offerings of debt securities similar to the applicable series of Securities in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Issuers and take all such other actions as are reasonably requested by the managing underwriter or underwriters in order to expedite or facilitate the registration or the disposition of such Registrable Securities and, in such connection, (i) make such representations and warranties to, and covenants with, the underwriters with respect to the business of the Issuers (including any acquired business, properties or entity, if applicable) and the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the documents, if any, incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, in each case, as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in underwritten offerings of debt securities similar to the applicable series of Securities, and confirm the same in writing if and when requested in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Issuers; (ii) obtain the written opinions of counsel to the Issuers and written updates thereof in form, scope and substance reasonably satisfactory to the managing underwriter or underwriters, addressed to the underwriters covering the matters customarily covered in opinions reasonably requested in underwritten offerings and such other matters as may be reasonably requested by the managing underwriter or underwriters; (iii) obtain “cold comfort” letters and updates thereof in form, scope and substance reasonably satisfactory to the managing underwriter or underwriters from the independent certified public accountants of the Issuers (and, if necessary, any other independent certified public accountants of the Issuers, or of any business or entity acquired by the Issuers for which financial statements and financial data are, or are required to be, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement), addressed to each of the underwriters, such letters to be in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in “cold comfort” letters in connection with underwritten offerings of debt securities similar to the applicable series of Securities and such other matters as are reasonably requested by the managing underwriter or underwriters as permitted by the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 72, as amended by the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 76; and (iv) if an underwriting agreement is entered into, the same shall contain indemnification provisions and procedures no less favorable to the sellers and underwriters, if any, than those set forth in Section 7 hereof (or such other provisions and procedures acceptable to Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the applicable series of Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement and the managing underwriter or underwriters or agents, if any). The above shall be done at each closing under such underwriting agreement, or as and to the extent required thereunder.

(m)    If (1) a Shelf Registration Statement is filed pursuant to Section 3 hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during the Applicable Period, make available for inspection by any selling Holder of such Registrable Securities being sold, or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, any underwriter participating in any such disposition of Registrable Securities, if any, and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by any such selling Holder or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, or underwriter (collectively, the “Inspectors”), at the offices where normally kept, during reasonable business hours, all financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and instruments of the Issuers and subsidiaries of the Issuers (collectively, the “Records”) as shall be reasonably necessary to enable them to exercise any applicable due diligence responsibilities, and cause the officers, directors and employees of the Issuers and any of their respective subsidiaries to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector in connection with such Registration Statement and Prospectus. Each Inspector shall agree in writing that it will keep the Records confidential and that it will not disclose any of the Records that any of the Issuers determines, in good faith, to be confidential and notifies the Inspectors in writing are confidential unless (i) the disclosure of such Records is necessary to avoid or correct a material misstatement or material omission in such Registration Statement or Prospectus, (ii) the release of such Records is ordered pursuant to a subpoena or other order from a court of competent jurisdiction, or (iii) the information in such Records has been made generally available to the public; provided, however, that prior notice shall be provided as soon as practicable to any of the Issuers of the potential disclosure of any information by such Inspector pursuant to clauses (i) or (ii) of this sentence to permit the Issuers to obtain a protective order (or waive the provisions of this paragraph (m)) and that such Inspector shall take such actions as are reasonably necessary to protect the confidentiality of such information (if practicable) to the extent such action is otherwise not inconsistent with, an impairment of or in derogation of the rights and interests of the Holder or any Inspector. If, in the course of performing due diligence, any Inspector becomes aware of material non public information about the Company and its subsidiaries, the Inspector will not, and will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that anyone to whom the Inspector discloses the material non public information will not, trade in any securities of the Company until the information becomes public (whether through inclusion in the Shelf Registration Statement or Exchange Offer Registration Statement or otherwise) or the information ceases to be material.

 

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(n)    Provide an indenture trustee for each series of Registrable Securities or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees), as the case may be, and cause the Indenture or the trust indenture provided for in Section 2(a) hereof, as the case may be, to be qualified under the TIA not later than the effective date of the first Registration Statement relating to the applicable series of Registrable Securities; and in connection therewith, cooperate with the trustee under any such indenture and the Holders of the applicable series of Registrable Securities, to effect such changes to such indenture as may be required for such indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the TIA; and execute, and use their reasonable best efforts to cause such trustee to execute, all documents as may be required to effect such changes, and all other forms and documents required to be filed with the SEC to enable such indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner.

(o)    Comply in all material respects with all applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and make generally available to its securityholders with regard to any applicable Registration Statement, a consolidated earnings statement satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder (or any similar rule promulgated under the Securities Act) no later than 45 days after the end of any fiscal quarter (or 90 days after the end of any 12-month period if such period is a fiscal year) (i) commencing at the end of any fiscal quarter in which the applicable series of Registrable Securities are sold to underwriters in a firm commitment or best efforts underwritten offering and (ii) if not sold to underwriters in such an offering, commencing on the first day of the first fiscal quarter of the Company after the effective date of a Registration Statement, which statements shall cover said 12-month periods.

(p)    Upon consummation of an Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange, obtain an opinion of counsel to the Company, in a form customary for underwritten transactions, addressed to the Trustee for the benefit of all Holders of the applicable series of Registrable Securities participating in such Exchange Offer or the Private Exchange, as the case may be, that such Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) or Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees), as the case may be, and the related indenture constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms, subject to customary exceptions and qualifications.

 

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(q)    If an Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange is to be consummated, upon delivery of the Registrable Securities of the applicable series by Holders to the Company (or to such other Person as directed by the Issuers) to be exchanged for Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) or Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) of the applicable series, as the case may be, the Issuers shall mark, or cause to be marked, on such Registrable Notes that such Registrable Notes are being canceled in exchange for Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) or Private Exchange Notes (and related guarantees), as the case may be; in no event shall such Registrable Notes be marked as paid or otherwise satisfied.

(r)    Cooperate with each seller of Registrable Securities covered by any Registration Statement and each underwriter, if any, participating in the disposition of such Registrable Securities and their respective counsel in connection with any filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”).

(s)    Use its reasonable best efforts to take all other steps reasonably necessary to effect the registration of each series of Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) and/or Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement contemplated hereby.

The Issuers may require each seller of Registrable Securities as to which any registration is being effected to furnish to the Issuers such information regarding such seller and the distribution of such Registrable Securities as the Issuers may, from time to time, reasonably request. The Issuers may exclude from such registration the Registrable Securities of any seller so long as such seller fails to furnish such information within a reasonable time after receiving such request. Each seller as to which any Shelf Registration is being effected agrees to furnish promptly to the Issuers all information required to be disclosed in order to make the information previously furnished to the Issuers by such seller not materially misleading.

If any Registration Statement refers to any Holder by name or otherwise as the holder of any securities of the Company, then such Holder shall have the right to require (i) the insertion therein of language, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Holder, to the effect that the holding by such Holder of such securities is not to be construed as a recommendation by such Holder of the investment quality of the securities covered thereby and that such holding does not imply that such Holder will assist in meeting any future financial requirements of the Company, or (ii) in the event that such reference to such Holder by name or otherwise is not required by the Securities Act or any similar federal statute then in force, the deletion, at the written request of such Holder to the Company, of the reference to such Holder in any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement filed or prepared subsequent to the time that such reference ceases to be required.

Each Holder of Registrable Securities and each Participating Broker-Dealer agrees by its acquisition of such Registrable Securities or of Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) to be sold by such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, that, upon actual receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 5(c)(ii), 5(c)(iv), 5(c)(v), or 5(c)(vi) hereof, such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of such Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement or Prospectus or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) to be sold by such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, until such Holder’s or Participating Broker-Dealer’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 5(j) hereof, or until it is advised in writing (an “Advice”) by the Issuers that the use of the applicable Prospectus may be resumed, and has received copies of any amendments or supplements thereto. In the event that the Issuers shall give any such notice, the Applicable Period shall be extended by the number of days from and including the date of the giving of each such notice to and including the date when each seller of Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) to be sold by such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, shall have received (x) the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 5(j) hereof or (y) an Advice with respect to said notice.

 

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  6. Registration Expenses

All fees and expenses incident to the performance of or compliance with this Agreement by the Issuers (other than any agency or brokerage fees and commissions, underwriting discounts or other commissions, the fees of any advisors or experts (other than as set forth in (iv) below) retained by the Holders of the Notes and any transfer taxes on resale of any securities by such Holders or advertising expenses incurred by or on behalf of such Holders in connection with any offers they may make) shall be borne by the Company whether or not the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or any Shelf Registration Statement is filed or becomes effective or the Exchange Offer is consummated, including, without limitation, (i) all registration and filing fees (including, without limitation, (A) fees with respect to filings required to be made with FINRA in connection with an underwritten offering and (B) reasonable fees and expenses of compliance with state securities or Blue Sky laws (including, without limitation, fees and disbursements of counsel in connection with Blue Sky qualifications of the Registrable Securities or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) and determination of the eligibility of the Registrable Securities or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) for investment under the laws of the jurisdictions (x) where the holders of Registrable Securities are located, in the case of the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees), or (y) as provided in Section 5(h) hereof, in the case of Registrable Securities or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) to be sold by a Participating Broker-Dealer during the Applicable Period)), (ii) printing expenses, including, without limitation, expenses of printing certificates for Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company and of printing prospectuses if the printing of prospectuses is requested by the managing underwriter or underwriters, if any, by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the applicable series of Registrable Securities included in any Registration Statement or in respect of Registrable Securities or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) to be sold by any Participating Broker-Dealer during the Applicable Period, as the case may be, (iii) messenger, telephone and delivery expenses, (iv) fees and disbursements of counsel for the Issuers and reasonable fees and disbursements of one firm of special counsel for the sellers of Registrable Securities and any Participating Broker-Dealers, (v) fees and disbursements of all independent certified public accountants referred to in Section 5(l)(iii) hereof (including, without limitation, the expenses of any special audit and “cold comfort” letters required by such performance), (vi) Securities Act liability insurance, if the Issuers desire such insurance, (vii) fees and expenses of all other Persons retained by the Issuers, (viii) internal expenses of the Issuers (including, without limitation, all salaries and expenses of officers and employees of the Issuers performing legal or accounting duties), (ix) the expense of any annual audit, (x) any fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the securities to be registered on any securities exchange, and the obtaining of a rating of the securities, in each case, if applicable, and (xi) the expenses relating to printing, word processing and distributing all Registration Statements, underwriting agreements, indentures and any other documents necessary in order to comply with this Agreement.

 

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  7. Indemnification

(a)    Each of the Issuers agree, jointly and severally, to indemnify and hold harmless each Holder of Registrable Securities and each Participating Broker-Dealer selling Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) during the Applicable Period, the affiliates, officers, directors, representatives, employees and agents of each such Person, and each Person, if any, who controls any such Person within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (each, a “Participant”), from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, judgments, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, the reasonable legal fees and other expenses actually incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted) caused by, arising out of or based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto) or Prospectus (as amended or supplemented if any of the Issuers shall have made any amendments or supplements thereto) or any preliminary prospectus, or caused by, arising out of or based upon any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the case of the Prospectus in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities are caused by any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Participant, any underwriter, or the manner in which securities are to be distributed, furnished to the Issuers in writing by such Participant or an underwriter expressly for use or inclusion therein.

(b)    Each Participant agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Issuers, their respective affiliates, officers, directors, representatives, employees and agents and each Person who controls the Issuers within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent (but on a several, and not joint, basis) as the foregoing indemnity from the Issuers to each Participant, but only with reference to information relating to such Participant or the manner in which securities are to be distributed by such Participant or someone acting on such Participant’s behalf, furnished to the Issuers in writing by such Participant expressly for use or inclusion in any Registration Statement or Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto, or any preliminary prospectus. The liability of any Participant under this paragraph shall in no event exceed the proceeds received by such Participant from sales of Registrable Securities or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) giving rise to such obligations.

 

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(c)    If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any Person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to either of the two preceding paragraphs, such Person (the “Indemnified Person”) shall promptly notify the Persons against whom such indemnity may be sought (the “Indemnifying Persons”) in writing, and the Indemnifying Persons, upon request of the Indemnified Person, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person to represent the Indemnified Person and any others the Indemnifying Persons may reasonably designate (which may include the Indemnifying Persons, unless representation of the Indemnifying Persons by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them) in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses actually incurred by such counsel related to such proceeding; provided, however, that the failure to so notify the Indemnifying Persons (i) will not relieve them from any liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent such failure results in the forfeiture by an Indemnifying Person of substantial rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve any Indemnifying Person from any obligations to any Indemnified Person other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraphs (a) and (b) above. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Persons and the Indemnified Person shall have mutually agreed to the contrary, (ii) the Indemnifying Persons shall have failed within a reasonable period of time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person or (iii) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both any Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person or any affiliate thereof and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. It is understood that, unless there exists a conflict among the Indemnified Persons, the Indemnifying Persons shall not, in connection with such proceeding or separate but substantially similar related proceeding in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons, and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed promptly as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for the Participants against whom a suit, action, proceeding, claim or demand is brought or asserted and control Persons of such Participants shall be designated in writing by Participants who sold a majority in interest of Registrable Securities and Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) sold by all such Participants, and any such separate firm for the Issuers, their affiliates, officers, directors, representatives, employees and agents and such control Persons of the Issuers shall be designated in writing by the Issuers.

The Indemnifying Persons shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without their prior written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final non-appealable judgment for the plaintiff for which any Indemnified Persons are entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Agreement, each of the Indemnifying Persons agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. No Indemnifying Person shall, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Persons, effect any settlement or compromise of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party, or indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (A) includes an unconditional written release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (B) does not include any statement as to an admission of fault, culpability or failure to act by or on behalf of such Indemnified Person.

 

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(d)    If the indemnification provided for in the first and second paragraphs of this Section 7 is for any reason unavailable to, or insufficient to hold harmless, an Indemnified Person in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraphs, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder and in order to provide for just and equitable contribution, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect (i) the relative benefits received by the Indemnifying Person or Persons on the one hand and the Indemnified Person or Persons on the other from the applicable offering of Registrable or Exchanged Notes or (ii) if the allocation provided by the foregoing clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Indemnifying Person or Persons on the one hand and the Indemnified Person or Persons on the other in connection with the statements or omissions or alleged statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the parties shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or such Participant or such other Indemnified Person, as the case may be, on the other, the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission, and any other equitable considerations appropriate in the circumstances.

(e)    The parties agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Participants were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages, judgments, liabilities and expenses referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any reasonable legal or other expenses actually incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, in no event shall a Participant be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which proceeds received by such Participant from sales of Registrable Securities or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees), as the case may be, exceeds the amount of any damages that such Participant has otherwise been required to pay or has paid by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No Person guilty of a fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

(f)    Any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses for which an indemnified party is entitled to indemnification or contribution under this Section 7 shall be paid by the Indemnifying Person to the Indemnified Person as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are incurred. The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this Section 7 and the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of (i) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Holder or any person who controls a Holder, or by the Company, its directors, officers, employees or agents or any person controlling any of the Issuers, and (ii) any termination of this Agreement.

 

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(g)    The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this Section 7 will be in addition to any liability which the Indemnifying Persons may otherwise have to the Indemnified Persons referred to above.

 

  8. Rules 144 and 144A

Each of the Issuers covenants and agrees that it will file the reports required to be filed by it, if any, under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations adopted by the SEC thereunder in a timely manner in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and, if at any time such Issuer is not required to file such reports, such Issuer will, upon the request of any Holder or beneficial owner of Registrable Securities or otherwise subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, make available such information as is required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act (in respect of any Notes of any series so long as such Notes of such series are not freely transferable under the Securities Act). The Company further covenants and agrees, from and after the consummation of an Exchange Offer in accordance with Section 2 and for so long thereafter as any Registrable Securities remain outstanding, that it will take such further action as any Holder of Registrable Securities may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such holder to sell Registrable Securities without registration under the Securities Act within the limitations of the exemptions provided by (a) Rule 144 and Rule 144A under the Securities Act, as such Rules may be amended from time to time, or (b) any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the SEC.

 

  9. Underwritten Registrations

If any of the Registrable Securities covered by any Shelf Registration Statement are to be sold in an underwritten offering, the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that will manage the offering will be selected by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of such Registrable Securities included in such offering and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Issuers.

No Holder of Registrable Securities may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such Holder (a) agrees to sell such Holder’s Registrable Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (b) completes and executes in a timely manner all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other customary documents required by the Company or the underwriter in connection with such underwriting arrangements.

 

  10. Miscellaneous

(a)    No Inconsistent Agreements. The Issuers have not, as of the date hereof, and the Issuers shall not, after the date of this Agreement, enter into any agreement with respect to any of their securities that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders of Registrable Securities in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof. The rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict with and are not inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of the Issuers’ other issued and outstanding securities under any such agreements. The Issuers will not enter into any agreement with respect to any of its securities which will grant to any Person piggyback registration rights with respect to any Registration Statement; provided, however that the Company may enter into an agreement in connection with the issuance of Additional Notes which will grant the holders of the Additional Notes the right to have them included in a Registration Statement.

 

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(b)    Adjustments Affecting Registrable Securities. The Issuers shall not, directly or indirectly, take any action with respect to any series of Registrable Securities as a class that would adversely affect the ability of the Holders of such Registrable Securities to include such Registrable Securities in a registration undertaken pursuant to this Agreement.

(c)    Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given, otherwise than with the prior written consent of (I) the Company and (II)(A) the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Registrable Securities of each series affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent and (B) if the amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent would adversely affect the Participating Broker-Dealers, the Participating Broker-Dealers holding not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Exchange Notes (and related guarantees) of each series affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent held by all Participating Broker-Dealers; provided, however, that Section 7 and this Section 10(c) may not be amended, modified or supplemented without the prior written consent of each Holder and each Participating Broker-Dealer (including any person who was a Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer of Registrable Securities or Exchange Notes (and related guarantees), as the case may be, disposed of pursuant to any Registration Statement) affected by any such amendment, modification or supplement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to depart from the provisions hereof with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of Holders of Registrable Securities whose securities are being sold pursuant to a Registration Statement and that does not directly or indirectly affect, impair, limit or compromise the rights of other Holders of Registrable Securities may be given by Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities being sold pursuant to such Registration Statement.

(d)    Notices. All notices and other communications (including, without limitation, any notices or other communications to the Trustee) provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, registered first-class mail, next-day air courier or facsimile:

(i)    if to a Holder of Registrable Securities or any Participating Broker-Dealer, at the most current address of such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, set forth on the records of the registrar under the Indenture, with a copy in like manner to the Representatives as follows:

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

Attention: General Counsel

 

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with a copy to:

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

825 Eighth Avenue

New York, NY 10019

Attention: Andrew J. Pitts, Esq.

(ii)    if to the Company, at the address as follows:

700 N.W. 107th Avenue

Miami, Florida 33172

Attention: General Counsel, Mark Sustana

with a copy to:

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

787 Seventh Avenue

New York, New York 10019

Attention: David Boston, Esq.

(iii)    if to the Representatives, at the address specified in Section 10(d)(i).

All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: when delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; one Business Day after being timely delivered to a next-day air courier; and when receipt is acknowledged by the addressee, if sent by facsimile.

Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be concurrently delivered by the Person giving the same to the Trustee under an indenture at the address and in the manner specified in the indenture.

(e)    Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and assigns of each of the parties hereto, the Holders and the Participating Broker-Dealers.

(f)    Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original (including facsimile signatures) and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

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

 

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(h)    Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AS APPLIED TO CONTRACTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW THAT WOULD APPLY THE LAW OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES TO SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY OR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT. THE PARTIES HERETO EACH HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT.

(i)    Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their reasonable best efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

(j)    Securities Held by the Issuers or their Affiliates. Whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of a series of Registrable Securities is required hereunder, Registrable Securities of such series held by the Issuers or their respective affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage.

(k)    Third-Party Beneficiaries. Holders of Registrable Securities and Participating Broker-Dealers are intended third-party beneficiaries of this Agreement, and this Agreement may be enforced by such Persons.

(l)    Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with the Purchase Agreement and the Indenture, is intended by the parties as a final and exclusive statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter contained herein and therein and any and all prior oral or written agreements, representations, or warranties, contracts, understandings, correspondence, conversations and memoranda between the Holders on the one hand and the Issuers on the other, or between or among any agents, representatives, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, predecessors in interest or successors in interest with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof are merged herein and replaced hereby.

[Signature page follows]

 

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

 

LENNAR CORPORATION
By:  

/s/ Bruce Gross

Name:   Bruce Gross
Title:   Chief Financial Officer and Vice President
GUARANTORS
Authorized signatory for each of the Guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto
By:  

/s/ Bruce Gross

Name:   Bruce Gross
Title:   Authorized Officer

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


The foregoing Agreement is
hereby confirmed and accepted as
of the date first above written.
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.
GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH
                               INCORPORATED
MIZUHO SECURITIES USA LLC
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC

            for themselves and on behalf of

            the several Initial Purchasers

By:   CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
By:  

/s/ Adam D. Bordner

  Name:   Adam D. Bordner
  Title:   Vice President

 

By:   DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.      
By:  

/s/ Christopher Blum

    By:  

Alvin Varughese

  Name:   Christopher Blum       Name:   Alvin Varughese
  Title:   Managing Director       Title:   Director

 

By:   GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC
By:  

/s/ Ariel Fox

  Name:   Ariel Fox
  Title:   Vice President

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


By:  

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH

                                INCORPORATED

By:  

/s/ Timothy J. Olsen

  Name:   Timothy J. Olsen
  Title:   Managing Director, Investment Banking
By:   MIZUHO SECURITIES USA LLC
By:  

/s/ Andrew S. Rothstein

  Name:   Andrew S. Rothstein
  Title:   Managing Director
By:   RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC
By:  

/s/ James S. Wolfe

  Name:   James S. Wolfe
  Title:   Managing Director, Head of Global Leveraged Finance
By:   WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC
By:  

/s/ Johnathan Temesgen

  Name:   Johnathan Temesgen
  Title:   Director

 

Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement


SCHEDULE I

GUARANTORS

308 Furman, Ltd.

360 Developers, LLC

Ann Arundel Farms, Ltd.

Aquaterra Utilities, Inc.

Asbury Woods L.L.C.

Astoria Options, LLC

Autumn Creek Development, Ltd.

Aylon, LLC

Bainebridge 249, LLC

Bay Colony Expansion 369, Ltd.

Bay River Colony Development, Ltd.

BB Investment Holdings, LLC

BCI Properties, LLC

Bellagio Lennar, LLC

Belle Meade LEN Holdings, LLC

Belle Meade Partners, LLC

BPH I, LLC

Bramalea California, Inc.

Bressi Gardenlane, LLC

Builders LP, Inc.

Cambria L.L.C.


Cary Woods, LLC

Casa Marina Development, LLC

Caswell Acquisition Group, LLC

Cherrytree II LLC

CL Ventures, LLC

Coco Palm 82, LLC

Colonial Heritage LLC

Concord Station, LLP

Coventry L.L.C.

CPFE, LLC

CP Red Oak Management, LLC

CP Red Oak Partners, Ltd.

Creekside Crossing, L.L.C.

Danville Tassajara Partners, LLC

Darcy-Joliet L.L.C.

DBJ Holdings, LLC

Durrell 33, LLC

DTC Holdings of Florida, LLC

Estates Seven, LLC

EV, LLC

Evergreen Village LLC

F&R Florida Homes, LLC

F&R QVI Home Investments USA, LLC


Fidelity Guaranty and Acceptance Corp.

FLORDADE LLC

Fox-Maple Associates, LLC

Friendswood Development Company, LLC

Garco Investments, LLC

Greystone Construction, Inc.

Greystone Homes of Nevada, Inc.

Greystone Nevada, LLC

Greywall Club L.L.C.

Hammocks Lennar LLC

Harveston, LLC

Haverton L.L.C.

HCC Investors, LLC

Heathcote Commons LLC

Heritage of Auburn Hills, L.L.C.

Hewitts Landing Trustee, LLC

Home Buyer’s Advantage Realty, Inc.

Homecraft Corporation

HTC Golf Club, LLC

Inactive Companies, LLC

Independence L.L.C.

Isles at Bayshore Club, LLC

Kendall Hammocks Commercial, LLC


Lakelands at Easton, L.L.C.

LCD Asante, LLC

Legends Club, LLC

Legends Golf Club, LLC

LEN – Belle Meade, LLC

LEN – CG South, LLC

LEN – Palm Vista, LLC

LEN Paradise Cable, LLC

LEN Paradise Operating, LLC

Len Paradise, LLC

Lencraft, LLC

LenFive, LLC

LenFive Opco GP, LLC

LenFive Sub, LLC

LenFive Sub Opco GP, LLC

LenFive Sub II, LLC

LenFive Sub III, LLC

LENH I, LLC

Len – Hawks Point, LLC

Lennar Aircraft I, LLC

Lennar Arizona, Inc.

Lennar Arizona Construction, Inc.

Lennar Associates Management, LLC


Lennar Associates Management Holding Company

Lennar Avenue One, LLC

Lennar Bridges, LLC

Lennar Buffington Colorado Crossing, L.P.

Lennar Buffington Zachary Scott, L.P.

Lennar Carolinas, LLC

Lennar Central Park, LLC

Lennar Central Region Sweep, Inc.

Lennar Central Texas, L.P.

Lennar Chicago, Inc.

Lennar Colorado Minerals LLC

Lennar Colorado, LLC

Lennar Communities, Inc.

Lennar Communities Development, Inc.

Lennar Communities Nevada, LLC

Lennar Communities of Chicago L.L.C.

Lennar Construction, Inc.

Lennar Courts, LLC

Lennar Developers, Inc.

Lennar Family of Builders GP, Inc.

Lennar Family of Builders Limited Partnership

Lennar Flamingo, LLC

Lennar Fresno, Inc.


Lennar Gardens, LLC

Lennar Georgia, Inc.

Lennar Greer Ranch Venture, LLC

Lennar Heritage Fields, LLC

Lennar Hingham Holdings, LLC

Lennar Hingham JV, LLC

Lennar Homes Holding, LLC

Lennar Homes NJ, LLC

Lennar Homes, LLC

Lennar Homes of Arizona, Inc.

Lennar Homes of California, Inc.

Lennar Homes of Tennessee, LLC

Lennar Homes of Texas Land and Construction, Ltd.

Lennar Homes of Texas Sales and Marketing, Ltd.

Lennar Imperial Holdings Limited Partnership

Lennar International Holding, LLC

Lennar International, LLC

Lennar Layton, LLC

Lennar Lytle, LLC

Lennar Mare Island, LLC

Lennar Marina A Funding, LLC

Lennar Massachusetts Properties, Inc.

Lennar Middletown, LLC


Lennar Multifamily Communities, LLC

Lennar New Jersey Properties Inc.

Lennar New York, LLC

Lennar Northeast Properties, Inc.

Lennar Northeast Properties LLC

Lennar Northwest, Inc.

Lennar Pacific, Inc.

Lennar Pacific Properties, Inc.

Lennar Pacific Properties Management, Inc.

Lennar PI Acquisition, LLC

Lennar PI Property Acquisition, LLC

Lennar PIS Management Company, LLC

Lennar Point, LLC

Lennar Port Imperial South, LLC

Lennar Realty, Inc.

Lennar Reno, LLC

Lennar Rialto Investment LP

Lennar Riverside West, LLC

Lennar Riverside West Urban Renewal Company, L.L.C.

Lennar Sacramento, Inc.

Lennar Sales Corp.

Lennar Southwest Holding Corp.

Lennar Spencer’s Crossing, LLC


Lennar Texas Holding Company

Lennar Trading Company, LP

Lennar Ventures, LLC

Lennar West Valley, LLC

Lennar.com Inc.

Lennar/LNR Camino Palomar, LLC

Lennar-Lantana Boatyard, Inc.

LEN-Ryan I, LLC

Len-Verandahs, LLP

LH Eastwind, LLC

LH-EH Layton Lakes Estates, LLC

LHI Renaissance, LLC

LMC Construction, LLC

LMC Malden Station Investor, LLC

LMI Glencoe Dallas Investor, LLC

LMI Lakes West Covina Investor, LLC

LMI Las Colinas Station, LLC

LMI Naperville Investor, LLC

LMI Park Central Investor, LLC

LMI Contractors, LLC

LMI-JC Developer, LLC

LMI-JC, LLC

LMI-West Seattle, LLC


LNC at Meadowbrook, LLC

LNC at Ravenna, LLC

LNC Communities I, Inc.

LNC Communities II, LLC

LNC Communities III, Inc.

LNC Communities IV, LLC

LNC Communities V, LLC

LNC Communities VI, LLC

LNC Communities VII, LLC

LNC Communities VIII, LLC

LNC Pennsylvania Realty, Inc.

Long Beach Development, LLC

Lori Gardens Associates, L.L.C.

Lori Gardens Associates II, LLC

Lori Gardens Associates III, LLC

Lorton Station, LLC

LW D’Andrea, LLC

Madrona Ridge L.L.C.

Madrona Village L.L.C.

Madrona Village Mews L.L.C.

Majestic Woods, LLC

Mid-County Utilities, Inc.

Mission Viejo 12S Venture, LP


Mission Viejo Holdings, Inc.

NC Properties I, LLC

NC Properties II, LLC

North American Asset Development, LLC

North American Title Company, Inc.

Northbridge L.L.C.

Northeastern Properties LP, Inc.

OHC/Ascot Belle Meade, LLC

One SR, L.P.

Palm Gardens At Doral Clubhouse, LLC

Palm Gardens at Doral, LLC

Palm Vista Preserve, LLC

PD-Len Boca Raton, LLC

PG Properties Holding, LLC

Pioneer Meadows Development, LLC

Pioneer Meadows Investments, LLC

POMAC, LLC

Prestonfield L.L.C.

Providence Lakes, LLP

PT Metro, LLC

Raintree Village, L.L.C.

Raintree Village II L.L.C.

Renaissance Joint Venture


Reserve @ Pleasant Grove II LLC

Reserve @ Pleasant Grove LLC

Reserve at River Park, LLC

Reserve at South Harrison, LLC

Rivendell Joint Venture

Rivenhome Corporation

RMV, LLC

Rutenberg Homes, Inc.

Rutenberg Homes of Texas, Inc.

Rye Hill Company, LLC

S. Florida Construction, LLC

S. Florida Construction II, LLC

S. Florida Construction III, LLC

San Lucia, LLC

Savannah Development, Ltd.

Savell Gulley Development, LLC

Scarsdale, LTD

Schulz Ranch Developers, LLC

Seminole/70th, LLC

Siena at Old Orchard L.L.C.

South Development, LLC

Southbank Holding, LLC

Spanish Springs Development, LLC


Spectrum Eastport, LLC

St. Charles Active Adult Community, LLC

St. Charles Community, LLC

Stoney Corporation

Stoney Holdings, LLC

Stoneybrook Clubhouse, Inc.

Stoneybrook Joint Venture

Strategic Holdings, Inc.

Strategic Technologies, LLC

Summerfield Venture L.L.C.

Summerwood, L.L.C.

SunStreet Energy Group, LLC

TCO QVI, LLC

Temecula Valley, LLC

Terra Division, LLC

The Baywinds Land Trust

The Bridges at Rancho Santa Fe Sales Company, Inc.

The Bridges Club at Rancho Santa Fe, Inc.

The LNC Northeast Group, Inc.

The Preserve at Coconut Creek, LLC

Treasure Island Holdings, LLC

Treviso Holding, LLC

U.S. Home Corporation


U.S. Home of Arizona Construction Co.

U.S. Home Realty, Inc.

U.S.H. Los Prados, Inc.

U.S.H. Realty, Inc.

USH Equity Corporation

USH – Flag, LLC

USH LEE, LLC

USH Woodbridge, Inc.

UST Lennar Collateral Sub, LLC

UST Lennar GP PIS 10, LLC

UST Lennar GP PIS 7, LLC

UST Lennar HW Scala SF Joint Venture

Valencia at Doral, LLC

Vineyard Point 2009, LLC

Watermark Realty, Inc.

Watermark Realty Referral, Inc.

WCI Communities, Inc.

WCI Communities, LLC

WCI Communities Management, LLC

WCI Communities Rivington, LLC

WCI Realty, Inc.

WCI Towers Northeast USA, Inc.

WCP, LLC


West Chocolate Bayou Development, LLC

West Lake Village, LLC

West Seattle Project X, LLC

West Van Buren L.L.C.

Westchase, Inc.

Willowbrook Investors, LLC

Woodbridge Multifamily Developer I, LLC

Wright Farm, L.L.C.

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