SCHEDULE 14A
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Forward Looking Statements
This communication contains certain information that may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While we have specifically identified certain information as being forward-looking in the context of its presentation, we caution you that all statements contained in this communication that are not clearly historical in nature, including statements regarding business strategies, market potential, future financial performance, the effects of the separation of ADT from Tyco International plc (Tyco), and other matters, are forward-looking. Without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, any time we use the words anticipate, estimate, expect, project, intend, plan, believe, and similar expressions, we intend to clearly express that the information deals with possible future events and is forward-looking in nature. However, the absence of these words or similar expressions does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
Forward-looking information involves risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in, or reasonably inferred from, such statements. Specific factors that could cause actual results to differ from results contemplated by forward-looking statements include, among others, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement; the inability to complete the proposed merger due to the failure to obtain stockholder approval for the proposed merger or the failure to satisfy other conditions to completion of the proposed merger, including that a governmental entity may prohibit, delay or refuse to grant approval for the consummation of the transaction; risks regarding the failure of Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC, Prime Security Services Parent, Inc. or Prime Security Services TopCo Parent, L.P. to obtain the necessary financing to complete the proposed merger; risks related to disruption of managements attention from the Companys ongoing business operations due to the transaction; the effect of the announcement of the proposed merger on the Companys relationships with its customers, operating results and business generally; the risk that the proposed merger will not be consummated in a timely manner; exceeding the expected costs of the merger; our ability to keep pace with the rapid technological and industry changes in order to develop or acquire new technologies for our products and services that achieve market acceptance with acceptable margins; competition in the markets we serve, including the home automation market, which may result in pressure on our profit margins and limit our ability to maintain the market share of our products and services; an increase in the rate of customer attrition, including impact to our depreciation and amortization expenses or impairment of assets related to our security monitoring services; changes in the housing market and consumer discretionary income; failure to maintain the security of our information and technology networks, including personally identifiable information and other data, our products may be subject to potential vulnerabilities of wireless and Internet of Things devices, and our services may be subject to hacking or other unauthorized access to control or view systems and obtain private information; our dependence on certain software technology that we license from third parties, and failure or interruption in products or services of third-party providers; interruption to our monitoring facilities; failure to realize expected benefits from acquisitions and investments; risks associated with pursuing business opportunities that diverge from our current business model; potential loss of customer generation strategies through our independent, third party authorized dealers and affinity marketing programs; risks associated with acquiring and integrating customer accounts; unauthorized use of our brand name by third parties; risks associated with ownership of the ADT® brand name outside of the United States and Canada by Tyco and other third parties; failure to enforce our intellectual property rights; allegations that we have infringed the intellectual property rights of third parties; failure of our independent, third party authorized dealers to mitigate certain risks; failure to continue to execute a competitive, profitable pricing structure; shifts in consumers choice of, or telecommunication providers support for, telecommunication services and equipment; current and potential securities litigation; increase in government regulation of telemarketing, e-mail marketing and other marketing methods may increase our costs and restrict growth of our business; changes in U.S. and non-U.S. governmental laws and regulations; imposition by local governments of assessments, fines, penalties and limitations on either us or our customers for false alarms; refusal to respond to calls from monitored security service companies, including us, by police departments in certain U.S. and Canadian jurisdictions; our greater exposure to liability for employee acts or omissions or system failures; interference with our customers access to some of our products and services through the Internet by broadband service providers or potential change in government regulations relating to the internet; potential impairment of our deferred tax assets; inability to hire and retain key personnel, including an effective sales force; adverse developments in our relationship with our employees; capital market conditions, including availability of funding sources for us and our suppliers; changes in our credit ratings; risks related to our increased indebtedness, including our ability to meet certain financial covenants in our debt instruments; impact of any material adverse legal judgments, fines, penalties or settlements; exposure to counterparty risk in our hedging agreements; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; potential liabilities for legacy obligations relating to the separation from Tyco; volatility in the market price of our stock; and failure to fully realize expected benefits from the separation from Tyco.
Therefore, caution should be taken not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. Much of the information in this communication that looks towards future performance of the Company is based on various factors and important assumptions about future events that may or may not actually occur. As a result, our operations and financial results
in the future could differ materially and substantially from those we have discussed in the forward-looking statements included in this communication. We assume no obligation (and specifically disclaim any such obligation) to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
For additional discussion of potential risks and uncertainties that could impact our results of operations or financial position, refer to Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors in our 2015 Form 10-K. There have been no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors in our 2015 Form 10-K.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
This filing may be deemed solicitation material in respect of the proposed acquisition of the Company by Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC. In connection with the proposed merger transaction, the Company filed with the SEC a definitive proxy statement on March 25, 2016 and has furnished to the Companys stockholders the definitive proxy statement and other relevant documents. This filing does not constitute a solicitation of any vote or approval. The Companys stockholders are urged to read the definitive proxy statement and any other documents filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed merger or incorporated by reference in the definitive proxy statement because they will contain important information about the proposed merger.
Investors may obtain free of charge the definitive proxy statement and other documents filed with the SEC at the SECs website at http://www.sec.gov. In addition, the definitive proxy statement and the Companys annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are available free of charge through the Companys website at www.adt.com. as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.
The directors, executive officers and certain other members of management and employees of the Company may be deemed participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders of the Company in favor of the proposed merger. Information regarding the persons who may, under the rules of the SEC, be considered participants in the solicitation of the stockholders of the Company in connection with the proposed merger is set forth in the definitive proxy statement and the other relevant documents filed with the SEC. You can find information about the Companys executive officers and directors in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2015, in its definitive proxy statement filed with the SEC on Schedule 14A on January 22, 2016 and in the definitive proxy statement relating to the proposed merger transaction filed with the SEC on Schedule 14A on March 25, 2016.
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
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 11, 2016 (April 8, 2016)
The ADT Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 001-35502 | 45-4517261 | ||
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
1501 Yamato Road
Boca Raton, Florida 33431
(Address of principal executive offices, including Zip Code)
(561) 988-3600
(Registrants telephone number, including area code)
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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:
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Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
Sixth Supplemental Indenture
On April 8, 2016, The ADT Corporation (ADT) entered into a sixth supplemental indenture (the Sixth Supplemental Indenture) among ADT, as issuer, certain guarantors party thereto, including Protection 1 (as defined below) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the Trustee) to the Indenture, dated as of July 5, 2012, between ADT and the Trustee, to amend certain terms of each of its 3.500% Notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes), 4.125% Senior Notes due 2023 (the 2023 Notes) and 4.875% Notes due 2042 (the 2042 Notes). The Sixth Supplemental Indenture is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
First Supplemental Indenture
On April 8, 2016, ADT entered into a supplemental indenture (the First Supplemental Indenture) among ADT, as issuer, certain guarantors party thereto, including Protection 1 (as defined below) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the 2014 Trustee) to the Indenture, dated as of March 19, 2014, between ADT and the 2014 Trustee, to amend certain terms of its 5.250% Senior Notes due 2020 (the 2020 Notes and, together with the 2022 Notes, the 2023 Notes and the 2042 Notes, the Successful Consent Notes). The First Supplemental Indenture is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.2 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 7.01. | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
On April 11, 2016, Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC (together with its subsidiaries, Protection 1), announced that ADT has received the requisite consents to amend certain terms of each of the 2020 Notes, the 2022 Notes, the 2023 Notes and the 2042 Notes.
Protection 1 also announced today that, only with respect to ADTs consent solicitation from holders of its 6.250% Senior Notes due 2021 (the 2021 Notes and, collectively with the Successful Consent Notes, the Consent Notes), ADT has extended the Consent Time described in the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated as of April 1, 2016, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated as of April 5, 2016, to 12:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 12, 2016.
A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.
This current report on Form 8-K does not constitute a solicitation of any consent in respect of, or an offer to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell, any securities. The consent solicitations, and exchange offer are being made only pursuant to the applicable offering documents.
As provided in General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information contained in this Item 7.01 of this Form 8-K shall not be deemed to be filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, nor shall it be deemed to be incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.
Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) | Exhibits. |
Exhibit |
Description | |
4.1 | Sixth Supplemental Indenture between The ADT Corporation (as Issuer) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (as Trustee) dated as of April 8, 2016 | |
4.2 | First Supplemental Indenture between The ADT Corporation (as Issuer) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (as Trustee) dated as of April 8, 2016 | |
99.1 | Press Release dated April 11, 2016 |
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.
THE ADT CORPORATION | ||||||
Date: April 11, 2016 | ||||||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |||||
Name: | Michael S. Geltzeiler | |||||
Title: | Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit |
Description | |
4.1 | Sixth Supplemental Indenture between The ADT Corporation (as Issuer) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (as Trustee) dated as of April 8, 2016 | |
4.2 | First Supplemental Indenture between The ADT Corporation (as Issuer) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (as Trustee) dated as of April 8, 2016 | |
99.1 | Press Release dated April 11, 2016 |
Exhibit 4.1
THE ADT CORPORATION,
as Issuer
THE NOTES GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO
AND
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of April 8, 2016
TO INDENTURE
Dated as of July 5, 2012
THIS SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE is dated as of April 8, 2016, among THE ADT CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the Company), the guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto (the Notes Guarantors) and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association (the Trustee).
RECITALS
A. The Company and the Trustee executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of July 5, 2012 (as originally executed, the Base Indenture or, as it may be from time to time supplemented or amended by one or more supplemental indentures supplemental thereto, the Indenture), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time of unsubordinated debt securities evidencing its unsecured indebtedness.
B. The Company has issued (i) $750,000,000 of 2.250% Notes due 2017 pursuant to the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 5, 2012, (ii) $1,000,000,000 of 3.500% Notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes) pursuant to the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 5, 2012 (the Second Supplemental Indenture), (iii) $750,000,000 of 4.875% Notes due 2042 (the 2042 Notes) pursuant to the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 5, 2012 (the Third Supplemental Indenture), (iv) $700,000,000 of 4.125% Senior Notes due 2023 (the 2023 Notes and, together with the 2022 Notes and the 2042 Notes, the Secured Notes) pursuant to the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 14, 2013 (the Fourth Supplemental Indenture and, together with the Second Supplemental Indenture and the Third Supplemental Indenture, the Secured Notes Supplemental Indentures) and (v) $1,000,000,000 of 6.250% Senior Notes due 2021 pursuant to the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 1, 2013.
C. This Sixth Supplemental Indenture is being entered into in connection with the proposed Acquisition (as defined below) of the Company by Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (New Parent). On February 14, 2016, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the Merger Agreement) with, inter alia, New Parent and Prime Security One MS, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of New Parent (Merger Sub), pursuant to which Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company (the Merger), with the Company surviving the Merger as a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of New Parent.
D. The Company desires to enter into this Sixth Supplemental Indenture pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture to (i) provide guarantees to each series of Secured Notes, (ii) secure the Securities of each series of Secured Notes and (iii) to make certain other changes permitted thereby.
E. Pursuant to Section 9.02 of the Indenture, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture with the written consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series then Outstanding.
F. In connection with the Acquisition, the Company has solicited consents from Holders of the Secured Notes to: (i) waive the requirement for the Company to comply with Section 1.3(3) of each of the Secured Notes Supplemental Indentures in connection with the
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Acquisition (the Waiver) and (ii) make certain amendments to the Indenture, which are set forth in Article VI of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture (the Permitted Holder Amendments), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated April 1, 2016 (the Consent Solicitation Statement).
G. Pursuant to Section 8.01 of the Base Indenture, the Company fixed 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on March 31, 2016 as the record date (the Record Date) for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to the Waiver and the Permitted Holder Amendments.
H. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of each series of the Secured Notes outstanding as of the Record Date has delivered and not withdrawn written consents to the Waiver and the Permitted Holder Amendments.
I. The entry into this Sixth Supplemental Indenture by the parties hereto is in all respects authorized by the provisions of the Indenture.
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the foregoing premises, the Company, the Notes Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 | Additional Defined Terms. |
As used herein, the following defined terms shall have the following meanings:
2021 Notes has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
2022 Notes has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
2023 Notes has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
2042 Notes has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Acquisition means the consummation of the Merger.
Acquisition Closing Date means the date on which the Acquisition is consummated.
Additional First Lien Obligations means all Other First Lien Obligations other than the Secured Notes Obligations.
Authorized Representative means (i) in the case of any First Lien Credit Facility Obligations or the holders of any First Lien Credit Facility Obligations, the First Lien Collateral Agent, (ii) in the case of the Secured Notes Obligations or the holders of the Secured Note Obligations, the Trustee, and (iii) in the case of any series of Additional First Lien Obligations or the holders of such series of Additional First Lien Obligations that become subject to the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the authorized representative (and successor thereto) named for such series in the applicable joinder agreement to the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
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Base Indenture has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Collateral means Collateral as defined in the credit agreement under the First Lien Credit Facility. For the avoidance of doubt, Collateral with respect to each series of Secured Notes does not include Specified Excluded Collateral with respect to such series of Secured Notes.
Collateral Agreement means the Collateral Agreement (First Lien), dated as of July 1, 2015 (as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated, refunded or refinanced from time to time), among New Parent, each Subsidiary of New Parent from time to time identified therein as a party and the First Lien Collateral Agent.
Consent and Acknowledgment means the Consent and Acknowledgment substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the Acquisition Closing Date, to be executed by the Trustee, as Authorized Representative for the Secured Notes Obligations and the holders of the Secured Notes Obligations, and acknowledged by New Parent, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent.
Consent Solicitation Statement has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Credit Facilities means, collectively, the First Lien Credit Facility and the Second Lien Credit Facility.
Excluded Subsidiary means each Subsidiary of New Parent that would qualify as an Excluded Subsidiary (or any similar term) as defined in the Credit Facilities or any other indebtedness of New Parent from time to time.
First Lien Collateral Agent means Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as collateral agent for the lenders and other secured parties under the First Lien Credit Facility, the Secured Notes and the First Lien Security Documents, together with its successors and permitted assigns under the First Lien Security Documents exercising substantially the same rights and powers.
First Lien Credit Facility means the First Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2015, among Prime Security Services Holdings, LLC, New Parent, the lenders party thereto in their capacities as lenders thereunder and the First Lien Collateral Agent, as amended or restated on the Acquisition Closing Date, including any guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and any amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, renewals, restatements, refundings or refinancings thereof and any indentures or credit facilities or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders or investors that replace, refund or refinance any part of the loans, notes, other credit facilities or commitments thereunder, including any such replacement, refunding or refinancing facility or indenture that increases the amount borrowable thereunder or alters the maturity thereof.
First Lien Credit Facility Obligations means Obligations as defined in the First Lien Credit Facility as in effect as of the Acquisition Closing Date (or any comparable term as defined in the First Lien Credit Facility as in effect from time to time).
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First Lien Intercreditor Agreement means the intercreditor agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit H to the First Lien Credit Facility (as in effect on the Acquisition Closing Date), among the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Trustee and the other parties from time to time party thereto, to be entered into on the Acquisition Closing Date (as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated, refunded or refinanced from time to time).
First Lien Obligations means, collectively, (a) all First Lien Credit Facility Obligations, (b) all Secured Notes Obligations and (c) all Other First Lien Obligations.
First Lien Security Documents means the Security Documents and any other agreement, document or instrument pursuant to which a lien is granted or purported to be granted securing First Lien Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to such liens are governed, in each case to the extent relating to the collateral securing the First Lien Obligations.
First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement means (i) the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2015, among the First Lien Collateral Agent and Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Second Lien Facility Agent and Applicable Second Lien Agent (each, as defined therein) (as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated, refunded or refinanced from time to time), and (ii) any other First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement that is not materially less favorable to the Holders of the Secured Notes than the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement referred to in clause (i), as determined by the Company in good faith (as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated, refunded or refinanced from time to time).
First Priority After-Acquired Property means, with respect to any series of Secured Notes, any property of the Company or any Notes Guarantor that secures any First Lien Credit Facility Obligations that is not already subject to the lien under the Security Documents, other than Specified Excluded Collateral with respect to such series of Secured Notes.
First Priority Liens means the first priority Liens securing the First Lien Obligations.
Foreign Subsidiary means a Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary not organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state or territory thereof or the District of Columbia and any direct or indirect subsidiary of such Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary.
Guaranteed Obligations has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1 hereof.
Indenture has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Intercreditor Agreements means, collectively, the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
Merger has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Merger Agreement has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
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Merger Sub has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
New Parent has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Notes Guarantors has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph.
Obligations means any principal, interest (including any interest and other monetary obligations accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding at the rate provided for in the documentation with respect thereto, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under applicable state, federal or foreign law), premium, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers acceptances), damages and other liabilities, and guarantees of payment of such principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities, payable under the documentation governing any indebtedness.
Other First Lien Obligations shall have the meaning given such term by the Collateral Agreement.
Other First Lien Secured Party Consent means the Other First Lien Secured Party Consent substantially in the form of Exhibit III to the Collateral Agreement, dated as of the Acquisition Closing Date, to be executed by the Trustee, as Authorized Representative for the Secured Notes Obligations and the holders of the Secured Notes Obligations, and acknowledged by the First Lien Collateral Agent and New Parent.
Permitted Holder Amendments has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Record Date has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Regulation S-X Excluded Collateral has the meaning set forth in Section 3.4 hereof.
Reporting Entity has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1 hereof.
Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of such Person. Unless otherwise indicated in this Indenture, all references to Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiaries shall mean Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiaries of the New Parent.
Second Lien Collateral Agent means Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, in its capacity as administrative agent and collateral agent for the lenders and other secured parties under the Second Lien Credit Facility, together with its successors and permitted assigns.
Second Lien Credit Facility means the credit agreement entered into as of July 1, 2015, by and among the New Parent, the subsidiary borrowers party thereto (including, upon consummation of the Acquisition, the Company and its subsidiaries), the lenders party thereto in their capacities as lenders thereunder and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, including any guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and any amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, renewals, restatements, refundings
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or refinancings thereof and any indentures or credit facilities or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders or investors that replace, refund or refinance any part of the loans, notes, other credit facilities or commitments thereunder, including any such replacement, refunding or refinancing facility or indenture that increases the amount borrowable thereunder or alters the maturity thereof.
Second Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2023 means the $1,890,000,000 of Second Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2023 to be issued by New Parent and Prime Finance Inc.
Secured Notes has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Secured Notes Guarantee means the guarantee set forth in Article II hereof.
Secured Notes Obligations means Obligations in respect of the Secured Notes, each Secured Notes Guarantee and the Security Documents.
Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Secured Party means, collectively, the Trustee and the Holders of each series of Secured Notes.
Security Documents means, collectively, the Intercreditor Agreements, the Collateral Agreement, the Other First Lien Secured Party Consent, other security agreements, pledge agreements and mortgages relating to the Collateral and instruments filed and recorded in appropriate jurisdictions to preserve and protect the liens on the Collateral (including, without limitation, financing statements under the Uniform Commercial Code of the relevant states) applicable to the Collateral.
Specified Excluded Collateral shall have the meaning given such term by the Collateral Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, Specified Excluded Collateral with respect to each series of the Secured Notes includes the Regulation S-X Excluded Collateral and the Capital Stock of the New Parent.
Unrestricted Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of the New Parent that is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary (or any comparable term) under any other indebtedness of New Parent or any of its Subsidiaries.
Waiver has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary is any Wholly Owned Subsidiary that is a Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary. Unless otherwise indicated in this Indenture, all references to Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiaries shall mean Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiaries of the New Parent.
Wholly Owned Subsidiary of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person 100% of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which (other than directors qualifying shares or shares required to be held by Foreign Subsidiaries) shall at the time be owned by such Person or by one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
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ARTICLE II
SECURED NOTES GUARANTEE
Section 2.1 | Guaranty of Guaranteed Obligations. |
Subject to Article IV hereof, each Notes Guarantor guarantees, as of the Acquisition Closing Date, to the Trustee, jointly and severally with the other Notes Guarantors, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment and performance of the Secured Notes Obligations (such guarantee obligations of the Notes Guarantors, the Guaranteed Obligations) for the benefit of the Secured Parties. Each Notes Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligation. Each Notes Guarantor waives presentment to, demand of payment from and protest to the Company of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and also waives notice of acceptance of its guarantee and notice of protest for nonpayment.
Section 2.2 | Guaranty of Payment. |
Each Notes Guarantor further agrees that its guarantee hereunder constitutes a guarantee of payment when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and not of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Trustee or any other Secured Party to any security held for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations or to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of the Trustee or any other Secured Party in favor of the Company or any other Person.
Section 2.3 | No Limitations. |
Except for termination or release of a Notes Guarantors obligations hereunder as expressly provided for in Section 2.8 and Article IV, the obligations of each Notes Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise (other than defense of payment or performance). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Notes Guarantor hereunder, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by: (i) the failure of the Trustee or any other Secured Party to assert any claim or demand or to exercise or enforce any right or remedy under the provisions of the Indenture or otherwise; (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any release from any of the terms or provisions of, the Indenture or any other agreement, including with respect to any other Notes Guarantor under this Secured Notes Guarantee; (iii) the failure to perfect any security interest in, or the exchange, substitution, release or any impairment of, any security held by the Trustee or any other Secured Party for the Guaranteed Obligations; (iv) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Guaranteed Obligations; (v) any other act or omission that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Notes Guarantor or otherwise operate as a discharge of any Notes Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the payment in full in
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cash in immediately available funds of all the Guaranteed Obligations); (vi) any illegality, lack of validity or enforceability of any Guaranteed Obligation; (vii) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of the Company, or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting the Company or its assets or any resulting release or discharge of any Guaranteed Obligation (other than the payment in full in cash in immediately available funds of all the Guaranteed Obligations); (viii) the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights that such Notes Guarantor may have at any time against the Company, the Trustee, or any other corporation or Person, whether in connection herewith or any unrelated transactions; provided that nothing herein will prevent the assertion of any such claim by separate suit or compulsory counterclaim; and (ix) any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any representation by the Trustee that might otherwise constitute a defense to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, the Company or any other guarantor or surety (other than defense of payment or performance). Each Notes Guarantor expressly authorizes the Secured Parties (or the Trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties) to take and hold security for the payment and performance of the Guaranteed Obligations, to exchange, waive or release any or all such security (with or without consideration), to enforce or apply such security and direct the order and manner of any sale thereof in their sole discretion or to release or substitute any one or more other guarantors or obligors upon or in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations, all without affecting the obligations of any Notes Guarantor hereunder. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Notes Guarantor waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of any other Notes Guarantor or the unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of any other Notes Guarantor, other than the payment in full in cash in immediately available funds of all the Guaranteed Obligations. The Trustee and the other Secured Parties may, at their election, foreclose on any security held by one or more of them by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, make any other accommodation with the Company or exercise any other right or remedy available to them against the Company, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Notes Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full in cash in immediately available funds. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Notes Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Notes Guarantor against any other Notes Guarantor, as the case may be, or any security.
Section 2.4 | Reinstatement. |
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.8, each Notes Guarantor agrees that its Secured Notes Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any Guaranteed Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned by the Trustee or any other Secured Party upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of the Company, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, the Company or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
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Section 2.5 | Agreement To Pay; Subrogation. |
In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right that the Trustee or any other Secured Party has at law or in equity against any Notes Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay any Guaranteed Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, each Notes Guarantor hereby promises to and will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the Trustee for distribution to the applicable Secured Party in cash in immediately available funds the amount of such unpaid Guaranteed Obligation. Upon payment by any Notes Guarantor of any sums to the First Lien Collateral Agent as provided above, all rights of such Notes Guarantor against the Company arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subject to Section 7.06 of the Indenture.
Section 2.6 | Information. |
Each Notes Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the Companys financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such Notes Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that neither the Trustee nor any other Secured Party will have any duty to advise such Notes Guarantor of information known to it or any of them regarding such circumstances or risks.
Section 2.7 | Maximum Liability. |
Each Notes Guarantor, and by its acceptance of each Secured Notes Guarantee, the Trustee and each Secured Party hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such Persons that its Secured Notes Guarantee and its Guaranteed Obligations not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or any other federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign, federal or state law to the extent applicable to this Secured Notes Guarantee and the Guaranteed Obligations of each Notes Guarantor hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Secured Parties and the Notes Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the Guaranteed Obligations of each Notes Guarantor under this Secured Notes Guarantee at any time shall be limited to the maximum amount as will result in the Guaranteed Obligations of such Notes Guarantor under this Secured Notes Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
Section 2.8 | Termination and Release. |
(1) A Notes Guarantor shall automatically be released from its obligations hereunder in accordance with Article IV hereof.
(2) A Secured Notes Guarantee as to any Notes Guarantor shall terminate and be of no further force or effect and such Notes Guarantor shall be deemed to be released from all obligations under this Article II upon:
(a) the sale, disposition, exchange or other transfer (including through merger, consolidation, amalgamation or otherwise) of the Capital Stock (including any sale, disposition or other transfer following which the applicable Notes Guarantor is no longer a Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary) of the applicable Notes Guarantor if such sale, disposition, exchange or other transfer is made in a manner not in violation of the Indenture;
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(b) such Notes Guarantor becoming an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Excluded Subsidiary;
(c) the release or discharge of the guarantee by such Notes Guarantor of the First Lien Credit Facility or other indebtedness (including the Second Lien Credit Facility) or the guarantee of any other indebtedness which resulted in the obligation to guarantee the Secured Notes;
(d) the Companys exercise of its legal defeasance option or covenant defeasance option with respect to an applicable series of Secured Notes pursuant to the Indenture or the Companys discharge of its obligations with respect to an applicable series of Secured Notes pursuant to the Indenture; and
(e) as described under Article IX of the Indenture.
(3) A Secured Notes Guarantee as to any Subsidiary of New Parent will be automatically released upon the applicable Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary of New Parent as a result of any foreclosure of any pledge or security interest securing the Credit Facilities or other exercise of remedies in respect thereof.
In connection with any termination or release pursuant to this Section 2.8, the Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Company all documents that the Company shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section 2.8 shall be made without recourse to or warranty by the Trustee. The Company agrees to pay all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Trustee in connection with the execution and delivery of such documents.
Section 2.9 | Additional Notes Guarantors. |
The Company shall cause each Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary and that guarantees or becomes a borrower under the Credit Facilities or that guarantees any other indebtedness of the Company or any of the Notes Guarantors to execute and deliver to the Trustee (i) a supplemental indenture substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto pursuant to which such Subsidiary will guarantee payment of the Secured Notes and (ii) joinders to or new Security Documents and take all actions required by the Security Documents to perfect the liens created thereunder.
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Section 2.10 | Form of Guarantee. |
The form of Secured Notes Guarantee shall be set forth on the applicable series of Securities substantially as follows:
SECURED NOTES GUARANTEE
For value received, each Notes Guarantor hereby guarantees, jointly and severally with the other Notes Guarantors, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment and performance (i) to the holder of this Security the payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, the Security upon which this Secured Notes Guarantee is set forth in the amounts and at the time when due and payable whether by declaration thereof, or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal and interest, if any, of such Security, if lawful, to the holder of such Security and the Trustee on behalf of the Holders and (ii) all amounts owed to the Trustee under the Indenture, in each case in accordance with and subject to the terms and limitations of such Security, the Indenture and Articles II and IV of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture. This Secured Notes Guarantee (i) will not become effective until the Trustee or Authenticating Agent duly executes the certificate of authentication on this Security and (ii) shall be immediately and automatically released and/or terminated, with no further effect, if, (a) during the period commencing 60 days prior to the first public notice of the Companys intention to effect the Merger and ending 60 days after the consummation of the Acquisition, a Rating Event is deemed to occur or (b) within 61 days after the consummation of the Acquisition, (1) a Change of Control Triggering Event is deemed to occur or (2) it is publicly announced that the rating of such series of Secured Notes is under consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies. This Secured Notes Guarantee shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict of law principles thereof.
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ARTICLE III
COLLATERAL
Section 3.1 | Security Documents. |
Subject to Article IV hereof, the payment of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Secured Notes when due, whether on an Interest Payment Date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise and whether by the Company pursuant to the Secured Notes or by the Notes Guarantors pursuant to the Secured Notes Guarantees, the payment of all other Secured Notes Obligations and the performance of all other obligations of the Company and the Notes Guarantors under each series of Secured Notes, the Secured Notes Guarantees and the Security Documents shall be secured, as of the Acquisition Closing Date, as
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provided in the Security Documents, subject to the Intercreditor Agreements. The Company and each Notes Guarantor shall make all filings (including filings of continuation statements and amendments to UCC financing statements that may be necessary to continue the effectiveness of such UCC financing statements) and all other actions as are required by the Security Documents to maintain (at the sole cost and expense of the Company and the Notes Guarantors) the security interest created by the Security Documents in the Collateral (other than with respect to any Collateral the security interest in which is not required to be perfected under the Security Documents) as a perfected security interest.
Section 3.2 | First Lien Collateral Agent. |
(1) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall have all the rights and protections provided in the Security Documents and the First Lien Credit Facility.
(2) Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01 of the Indenture, neither the Trustee nor the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys or agents will be responsible or liable for the existence, genuineness, value or protection of any Collateral, for the legality, enforceability, effectiveness or sufficiency of the Security Documents, for the obtaining or maintaining of insurance on any Collateral, for the creation, perfection, priority, sufficiency or protection of any First Priority Lien, or for any defect or deficiency as to any such matters. Beyond the exercise of reasonable care in the custody thereof, neither the Trustee nor the First Lien Collateral Agent shall have any duty as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or bailee or any income thereon or as to preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto and neither the Trustee nor the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be responsible for filing any financing or continuation statements or recording any documents or instruments in any public office at any time or times or otherwise perfecting or maintaining the perfection of any security interest in the Collateral. The Trustee and the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody of the Collateral in its possession if the Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which it accords its own property and shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or diminution in the value of any of the Collateral, by reason of the act or omission of any carrier, forwarding agency or other agent or bailee selected by the Trustee or the First Lien Collateral Agent in good faith.
(3) Subject to the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements, (i) the Trustee shall direct the First Lien Collateral Agent and (ii) except as directed by the Trustee as required or permitted by the Indenture and any other representatives or pursuant to the Security Documents, in each case, subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, the Holders acknowledge that the First Lien Collateral Agent will not be obligated:
(a) to act upon directions purported to be delivered to it by any other Person;
(b) to foreclose upon or otherwise enforce any First Priority Lien; or
(c) to take any other action whatsoever with regard to any or all of the First Priority Liens, Security Documents or Collateral.
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(4) The Holders agree that the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be entitled to the rights, privileges, protections, immunities, indemnities and benefits provided to the First Lien Collateral Agent by the Security Documents and the First Lien Credit Facility. Furthermore, each Holder consents to the terms of and authorizes and directs the Trustee (in each of its capacities) and the First Lien Collateral Agent to enter into and perform the Intercreditor Agreements and Security Documents in each of its capacities thereunder.
(5) If the Company (i) incurs First Lien Obligations at any time when the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement is not in effect or at any time when indebtedness constituting First Lien Obligations entitled to the benefit of an existing intercreditor agreement is concurrently retired and (ii) directs the Trustee to deliver to the First Lien Collateral Agent an Officers Certificate so stating and requesting the First Lien Collateral Agent to enter into an intercreditor agreement (on substantially the same terms as the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement) in favor of a designated agent or representative for the holders of the First Lien Obligations so incurred, the Holders acknowledge that the First Lien Collateral Agent is hereby authorized and directed to enter into such intercreditor agreement, bind the Holders on the terms set forth therein and perform and observe its obligations thereunder.
Section 3.3 | Actions to Be Taken. |
(1) The Trustee is authorized and directed to execute and deliver on the Acquisition Closing Date, and authorized and empowered to bind the Holders of the Secured Notes under, the following documents to which it is a party and, subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, to perform its obligations and exercise its rights and powers thereunder:
(a) the Other First Lien Secured Party Consent;
(b) the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement; and
(c) the Consent and Acknowledgment.
(2) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, the Trustee is authorized and empowered to receive for the benefit of the Holders any funds collected or distributed under the Security Documents to which the Trustee is a party and to make further distributions of such funds to the Holders according to Section 6.03 of the Indenture.
(3) Subject to the provisions of Sections 7.01 and 7.02 of the Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreements and the Security Documents, the Trustee may, in its sole discretion and without the consent of the Holders, direct, on behalf of the Holders, the First Lien Collateral Agent to take all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to:
(a) foreclose upon or otherwise enforce any or all of the First Priority Liens;
(b) enforce any of the terms of the Security Documents to which the First Lien Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party; or
(c) collect and receive payment of any and all Obligations.
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Subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, the Trustee is authorized and empowered to institute and maintain, or direct the First Lien Collateral Agent to institute and maintain, such suits and proceedings as it may deem expedient to protect or enforce the First Priority Liens or the Security Documents to which the First Lien Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party or to prevent any impairment of Collateral by any acts that may be unlawful or in violation of the Security Documents to which the First Lien Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party or this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Trustee or First Lien Collateral Agent may deem expedient to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the Holders in the Collateral, including power to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the security interest hereunder or be prejudicial to the interests of Holders, the Trustee or the First Lien Collateral Agent.
Section 3.4 | Release of Collateral. |
(1) Subject to the terms of the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture, Collateral may be released from the lien and security interest created by the Security Documents to secure the Secured Notes Obligations at any time or from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement or as provided hereby or in the Security Documents. The applicable assets included in the Collateral shall be automatically released from the liens securing each series of Secured Notes, and the applicable Notes Guarantor shall be automatically released from its obligations under this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and the Security Documents, under any one or more of the following circumstances:
(a) in respect of the property and assets of a Notes Guarantor, upon the consummation of any transaction permitted by the Indenture as a result of which such Notes Guarantor ceases to be a Subsidiary of New Parent or otherwise ceases to be a Pledgor (as defined in the Collateral Agreement), and such Notes Guarantor shall be automatically released from its obligations hereunder and under the Security Documents, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party, and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to such Notes Guarantor;
(b) upon any sale or other transfer by the Company or any Notes Guarantor of any Collateral that is permitted under the Indenture to any Person that is not the Company or a Notes Guarantor (including in connection with a condemnation or casualty event), or upon the effectiveness of any written consent to the release of the security interest granted by the Collateral Agreement in any Collateral pursuant to the Indenture, the security interest in such Collateral securing the Secured Notes shall be automatically released, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party;
(c) to enable the Company or any Notes Guarantor to consummate the disposition (other than any disposition to the Company or another Notes Guarantor) of such property or assets and to enable any release described in Section 5.15 of the Collateral Agreement;
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(d) in respect of the property and assets of a Notes Guarantor, upon such Notes Guarantor becoming an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Excluded Subsidiary, and such Notes Guarantor shall be automatically released from its obligations hereunder and under the Security Documents;
(e) in respect of the property and assets of a Notes Guarantor, upon the release or discharge of the pledge granted by such Notes Guarantor to secure the First Lien Credit Facility Obligations or any other indebtedness or the guarantee of any other indebtedness which resulted in the obligation to become a Notes Guarantor with respect to the Secured Notes;
(f) as described under Article IX of the Indenture; and
(g) in accordance with Article IV hereof.
In addition, the security interests granted pursuant to the Security Documents securing the Secured Notes Obligations with respect to each series of Secured Notes shall automatically terminate and/or be released all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party, and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the applicable Pledgors as of the date upon (i) all Obligations under such series of Secured Notes and the Indenture (other than contingent or unliquidated obligations or liabilities not then due) have been paid in full in cash or immediately available funds or (ii) a legal defeasance or covenant defeasance or discharge under Article XI of the Indenture.
(2) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, at any time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the maturity of any series of Secured Notes has been accelerated (whether by declaration or otherwise) and the Trustee has delivered a notice of acceleration to the First Lien Collateral Agent, no release of Collateral pursuant to the provisions of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture or the Security Documents will be effective as against the Holders of such series of Secured Notes, except as otherwise provided in the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
(3) To the extent necessary and for so long as required for any Subsidiary of the New Parent not to be subject to any requirement pursuant to Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act to file separate financial statements with the SEC (or any other governmental agency), the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary of the New Parent (the Regulation S-X Excluded Collateral) shall not be included in the Collateral with respect to the respective Secured Notes so affected and shall not be subject to the liens securing such Secured Notes and the Secured Notes Obligations in accordance with and only to the extent provided in the Security Documents.
Section 3.5 | Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee. |
In case the Collateral shall be in the possession of a receiver or trustee, lawfully appointed, the powers conferred in this Article III upon the Company or the Notes Guarantors with respect to the release, sale or other disposition of such property may be exercised by such receiver or trustee, and an instrument signed by such receiver or trustee shall be deemed the equivalent of any similar instrument of the Company or any Notes Guarantor or of any officer or
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officers thereof required by the provisions of this Article III; and if the Trustee or the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be in the possession of the Collateral under any provision of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, then such powers may be exercised by the Trustee or the First Lien Collateral Agent, as the case may be.
Section 3.6 | Release upon Termination of the Companys Obligations. |
In the event that (i) the Company delivers to the Trustee, in form and substance acceptable to it, an Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel certifying that all the Obligations under any series of Secured Notes have been satisfied and discharged by the payment in full of the Companys obligations under such series of Secured Notes, and all such Obligations have been so satisfied, or (ii) a discharge, legal defeasance or covenant defeasance occurs under Article XI of the Indenture with respect to any series of Secured Notes, the Trustee shall deliver to the Company and the First Lien Collateral Agent a notice stating that the Trustee, on behalf of the Holders of the relevant series of Secured Notes, disclaims and gives up any and all rights it has in or to the Collateral with respect to such series of Secured Notes, and any rights it has under such series of Secured Notes, and upon receipt by the First Lien Collateral Agent of such notice, the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be deemed not to hold a lien in the Collateral with respect to such series of Secured Notes on behalf of the Trustee and shall (or shall direct the First Lien Collateral Agent to) do or cause to be done all acts reasonably necessary to release such lien, with respect to such series of Secured Notes, as soon as is reasonably practicable.
Section 3.7 | General Authority of the First Lien Collateral Agent. |
(1) By acceptance of the benefits of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and the Security Documents, each Secured Party (whether or not a signatory hereto) shall be deemed irrevocably (i) to consent to the appointment of the First Lien Collateral Agent as its agent under the Security Documents, (ii) to confirm that the First Lien Collateral Agent shall have the authority to act as the exclusive agent of such Secured Party for the enforcement of any provision of any Security Document against any Pledgor, the exercise of remedies thereunder and the giving or withholding of any consent or approval thereunder relating to any Collateral or any Pledgors obligations with respect thereto, (iii) to agree that it shall not take any action to enforce any provisions of any Security Document against any Pledgor, to exercise any remedy thereunder or to give any consents or approvals thereunder except as expressly provided in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture or any Security Document and (iv) to agree to be bound by the terms of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements.
(2) As between the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Pledgors, the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be conclusively presumed to be acting as agent for the Secured Parties with full and valid authority so to act or refrain from acting, and no Pledgor shall be under any obligation, or entitlement, to make any inquiry respecting such authority.
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Section 3.8 | Further Assurances |
Upon the acquisition by the Company or any Secured Notes Guarantor of any First Priority After-Acquired Property, the Company or such Secured Notes Guarantor shall execute and deliver such mortgages, deeds of trust, deeds to secure debt, security instruments, financing statements and certificates or such other documentation substantially similar to the documentation delivered to secure First Lien Credit Facility Obligations, if any, as shall be reasonably necessary to vest in the First Lien Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Holders of each series of Secured Notes, a perfected security interest or lien in such First Priority After-Acquired Property and to have such First Priority After-Acquired Property (but subject to certain limitations, if applicable, including as described in the Security Documents and Articles III and IV hereof) added to the Collateral, and thereupon all provisions of this Indenture relating to the Collateral shall be deemed to relate to such First Priority After-Acquired Property to the same extent and with the same force and effect.
ARTICLE IV
Section 4.1 | Automatic Termination of Guarantees and Collateral. |
Except to the extent that a Waiver is obtained with respect to a series of Secured Notes, each of (i) the Secured Notes Guarantee contemplated by Article II hereof, (ii) the security interests contemplated by Article III hereof (except such portion of such security interests with respect to a Principal Property (as defined under the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture) or any shares of stock of or indebtedness issued by any Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary as required to be maintained pursuant to the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture), (iii) the reporting covenant contemplated by Article V hereof and (iv) Section 3.8 hereof, shall be immediately and automatically released and/or terminated, with no further effect, with respect to such series of Secured Notes if, (a) during the period commencing 60 days prior to the first public notice of the Companys intention to effect the Merger and ending 60 days after the consummation of the Acquisition, a Rating Event (as defined under the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture) occurs or (b) within 61 days after the consummation of the Acquisition, (1) a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined under the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture) occurs or (2) it is publicly announced that the rating of such series of Secured Notes is under consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies (as defined under the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture). Following any such release with respect to any series of Secured Notes, all property and assets of the Company and each Notes Guarantor not required to be pledged for the benefit of such series of Secured Notes pursuant to the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture shall constitute Specified Excluded Collateral with respect to such series of Secured Notes.
ARTICLE V
REPORTING COVENANT
Section 5.1 | Reports. |
(a) Subject to Article IV hereof, so long as any Secured Notes of a series are outstanding, the Company will provide to the Trustee and, upon request, to beneficial owners of such Secured Notes a copy of all of the information and reports referred to below:
(i) within 15 days after the time period specified in the SECs rules and regulations for non-accelerated filers, annual reports of the Reporting Entity (as defined below) for such fiscal year containing the information that would have been required to be contained in an annual report on Form 10-K (or any successor or comparable form) if the Reporting Entity had been a reporting company under the Exchange Act, except to the extent permitted to be excluded by the SEC;
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(ii) within 15 days after the time period specified in the SECs rules and regulations for non-accelerated filers, quarterly reports of the Reporting Entity for such fiscal quarter containing the information that would have been required to be contained in a quarterly report on Form 10-Q (or any successor or comparable form) if the Reporting Entity had been a reporting company under the Exchange Act, except to the extent permitted to be excluded by the SEC; and
(iii) within 15 days after the time period specified in the SECs rules and regulations for filing current reports on Form 8-K, current reports containing substantially all of the information that would be required to be filed in a Current Report on Form 8-K under the Exchange Act on the operative date of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture pursuant to Sections 1, 2 and 4, Items 5.01, 5.02(a)(d) (other than compensation information), 5.03(b) and Item 9.01 (only to the extent relating to any of the foregoing) of Form 8-K if the Reporting Entity had been a reporting company under the Exchange Act; provided, however, that no such current reports will be required to be furnished if the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company determines in its good faith judgment that such event is not material to Holders or the business, assets, operations, financial position or prospects of the Company and its Affiliates, taken as a whole.
If at any time the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company has made a good faith determination to file a registration statement with the SEC with respect to an initial public offering of such Persons Capital Stock, the Company will not be required to disclose any information or take any actions that, in the good faith view of the Company, would violate the securities laws or the SECs gun jumping rules or otherwise have an adverse effect on such initial public offering.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) the Company (and the applicable Reporting Entity) will not be required to furnish any information, certificates or reports that would otherwise be required by (A) Section 302 or Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or related Items 307 or 308 of Regulation S-K, or (B) Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC with respect to any non-generally accepted accounting principles financial measures contained therein, (2) such reports will not be required to contain financial information required by Rule 3-09, Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X or include any exhibits or certifications required by Form 10-K or Form 10-Q (or any such successor or comparable forms) or related rules under Regulation S-K, and (3) such reports shall be subject to exceptions and exclusions consistent with the presentation of financial and other information in the preliminary offering memorandum for the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2023 and shall not be required to present compensation or beneficial ownership information.
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The financial statements, information and other documents required to be provided as described above, may be those of (1) the Company or (2) any direct or indirect parent of the Company (any such entity described in clause (1) or (2), a Reporting Entity), so long as, in the case of (2), either (A) such direct or indirect parent of the Company will not conduct, transact or otherwise engage, or commit to conduct, transact or otherwise engage, in any business or operations other than its direct or indirect ownership of all of the equity interests in, and its management of the Company or (B) such direct or indirect parent of the Company is or becomes a guarantor of the applicable series of Secured Notes; provided that, if the financial information so furnished relates to such direct or indirect parent of the Company pursuant to (2)(A) above, the same is accompanied by a reasonably detailed description of the quantitative differences between the information relating to such parent, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Company and the guarantors of the Secured Notes on a standalone but consolidated basis, on the other hand.
In addition to providing such information to the Trustee, the Company will make available to the Holders, prospective investors and securities analysts the information required to be provided pursuant to clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of this Section, by posting such information to the website of the Company (or the website of any direct or indirect parent of the Company) or on IntraLinks or any comparable online data system or website.
(b) The Reporting Entity will also hold quarterly conference calls, beginning with the first full fiscal quarter ending after the operative date of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, for all Holders and securities analysts to discuss such financial information no later than 10 business days after the distribution of such information required by clauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii) of this Section 5.1, and prior to the date of each such conference call, the Reporting Entity will announce the time and date of such conference call and either include all information necessary to access the call in such announcement or inform Holders of each series of Secured Notes, prospective investors and securities analysts how they can obtain such information, including, without limitation, the applicable password or other login information (if applicable).
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will be deemed to have furnished such reports referred to above to the Trustee and Holders if the Company or a Reporting Entity has filed such reports with the SEC via the EDGAR filing system (or any successor system) and such reports are publicly available. In addition, the requirements of this covenant shall be deemed satisfied by the posting of reports that would be required to be provided to the Holders on the Companys website (or the website of any direct or indirect parent of the Company). Furthermore, (1) the time requirements set forth in clause (ii) of the first paragraph of this covenant shall be satisfied if the quarterly reports for the fiscal quarters ending March 31, 2016, June 30, 2016 and September 30, 2016 are filed within 75 days after the end of such fiscal quarter and (2) the time requirements set forth in clause (i) of the first paragraph of this covenant shall be satisfied if the annual report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016 is filed within 120 days after the end of such fiscal year.
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ARTICLE VI
PERMITTED HOLDER AMENDMENTS
Section 6.1 | Amendments. |
Each Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture is hereby amended as follows:
(a) [Reserved.]
(b) The following definition of Management Group is hereby added to Section 1.2 of each Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture:
Management Group means the group consisting of the directors, executive officers and other management personnel of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as the case may be, on the Merger Closing Date together with (1) any new directors whose election by such boards of directors or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as applicable, was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as applicable, then still in office who were either directors on the Merger Closing Date or whose election or nomination was previously so approved and (2) executive officers and other management personnel of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as applicable, hired at a time when the directors on the Merger Closing Date together with the directors so approved constituted a majority of the directors of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as applicable.
(c) The following definition of Merger Closing Date is hereby added to Section 1.2 of each Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture:
Merger Closing Date means the closing date under the Agreement and Plan of Merger, by and among the Company, Parent, Prime Security One MS, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Parent (Merger Sub), and solely for the purposes of Article IX thereof, Prime Security Services Parent, Inc., a Delaware corporation and Prime Security Services TopCo Parent, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, pursuant to which Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the Merger) with the Company surviving the Merger as a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Parent.
(d) The following definition of Parent is hereby added to Section 1.2 of each Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture:
Parent means Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
(e) The following definition of Permitted Holders is hereby added to Section 1.2 of each Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture:
Permitted Holders means, at any time, each of (i) the Sponsors, (ii) the Management Group, (iii) any Person that has no material assets other than the Capital Stock of the Company, any direct or indirect parent of the Company and other Permitted Holders and, directly or indirectly, holds or acquires 100% of the total voting power of
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the Voting Stock of the Company, and of which no other Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), other than any of the other Permitted Holders, holds more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock thereof and (iv) any group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision) the members of which include any of the Permitted Holders specified in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above and that, directly or indirectly, hold or acquire beneficial ownership of the Voting Stock of the Company (a Permitted Holder Group), so long as (1) each member of the Permitted Holder Group has voting rights proportional to the percentage of ownership interests held or acquired by such member (or more favorable voting rights, in the case of any Permitted Holder) and (2) no Person or other group (other than Permitted Holders specified in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above) beneficially owns more than 50% on a fully diluted basis of the Voting Stock held by the Permitted Holder Group. Any Person or group whose acquisition of beneficial ownership constitutes a Change of Control in respect of which a Change of Control Offer (as defined under the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture) is made in accordance with the requirements of the Indenture will thereafter, together with its Affiliates, constitute an additional Permitted Holder.
(f) The following definition of Sponsors is hereby added to Section 1.2 of each Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture:
Sponsors means (i) one or more investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC and any of their respective Affiliates, including Parent and each of its Affiliates and Subsidiaries but excluding other portfolio companies (collectively, the Apollo Sponsors), and (ii) any Person that forms a group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision) with the Apollo Sponsors; provided that any Apollo Sponsor (x) owns a majority of the voting power and (y) controls a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company.
(g) The definition of Change of Control in Section 1.2 of each Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
Change of Control means the occurrence of either of the following: (1) the sale, lease or transfer, in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to a Person other than any of the Permitted Holders; or (2) the Company becomes aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) of the acquisition by any Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act), other than any of the Permitted Holders, in a single transaction or in a related series of transactions, by way of merger, consolidation, amalgamation or other business combination or purchase of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company.
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(h) Any definitions used exclusively in the provisions of the Indenture, the Secured Notes Supplemental Indentures, or the Secured Notes that are deleted pursuant to this Article VI, and any definitions used exclusively within such definitions, are hereby deleted in their entirety from the Indenture, the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indentures and the Secured Notes, and all references in the Indenture, the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indentures and the Secured Notes to paragraphs, Sections, Articles or other terms or provisions of the Indenture or the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indentures deleted pursuant to this Article VI(h) or that have been otherwise deleted pursuant to this Sixth Supplemental Indenture are hereby deleted in their entirety.
ARTICLE VII
WAIVER
Section 7.1 | Waiver. |
The Trustee has received validly delivered and unrevoked consents from Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of each series of Secured Notes outstanding as of the Record Date to the Waiver, which waives the requirement for the Company to comply with Section 1.3(3) of each of the Secured Notes Supplemental Indentures in connection with the Acquisition.
Section 7.2 | Effect of Waiver. |
Upon Section 7.1 above and the Waiver becoming operative, the Company shall no longer be required to comply with the requirements and obligations pursuant to Section 1.3(3) of each of the Secured Notes Supplemental Indentures in connection with the Acquisition, including, but not limited to, the requirement for the Company to make a Change of Control Offer (as defined under the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture) in connection with the Acquisition, and each Holder and every subsequent Holder of each series of Secured Notes shall be bound by the Waiver, even if notation of the Waiver is not made on the Secured Notes.
ARTICLE VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 8.1 | Effect of Sixth Supplemental Indenture. |
This Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall become effective upon its execution by the parties hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Articles I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall not become operative, and shall have no force and effect, until (i) the Acquisition Closing Date and (ii) in the case of the amendments set forth in Section 3.4(3), Article V, Article VI and the Waiver set forth in Article VII, such later time and date at which the Company notifies the Trustee that it has delivered to D.F. King & Co., Inc. in its
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capacity as paying agent for the Consent Payment (as defined in the Consent Solicitation Statement), on behalf of Holders, the aggregate Consent Payment to be paid to Holders, upon the terms and subject to the conditions in the Consent Solicitation Statement, in respect of the written consents validly delivered in respect of the Waiver and the Permitted Holder Amendments.
Section 8.2 | Definitions. |
Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture or the applicable Secured Notes Supplemental Indenture.
Section 8.3 | Confirmation of Indenture. |
The Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Indenture, this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.
Section 8.4 | Concerning the Trustee. |
In carrying out the Trustees responsibilities hereunder, the Trustee shall have all of the rights, protections and immunities which it possesses under the Indenture. The recitals contained herein, except the Trustees certificate of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to (i) the validity or sufficiency of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, (ii) the proper authorization hereof by the Company by action or otherwise, (iii) the due execution hereof by the Company or (iv) the consequences of any amendment herein provided for.
Section 8.5 | Governing Law. |
This Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be a contract made under the internal laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of said State without regard to conflicts of law principles that would require the application of any other law.
Section 8.6 | Separability. |
In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, but this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or therein.
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Section 8.7 | Counterparts. |
This Sixth Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Sixth Supplemental Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
Section 8.8 | No Benefit. |
Nothing in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, express or implied, shall give to any Person other than the parties hereto and their successors or assigns and the Holders of Secured Notes from time to time, any benefit or legal or equitable rights, remedy or claim under this Sixth Supplemental Indenture or the Indenture.
Section 8.9 | Amendments and Supplemental Indentures. |
This Sixth Supplemental Indenture is subject to the provisions regarding supplemental indentures and amendments set forth in Article IX of the Indenture.
Section 8.10 | Legal, Valid and Binding Obligation. |
The Company and each Notes Guarantor hereby represents and warrants that, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture by the Trustee, this Sixth Supplemental Indenture is its legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against it in accordance with its terms.
[Signature Page Follows]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Sixth Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.
Issuer: | ||
THE ADT CORPORATION | ||
By: |
/s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
Trustee: | ||
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee | ||
By: |
/s/ Stefan Victory | |
Name: Stefan Victory | ||
Title: Vice President | ||
Notes Guarantors: | ||
PRIME SECURITY SERVICES BORROWER, LLC | ||
By: |
/s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ASG INTERMEDIATE HOLDING CORP. | ||
By: |
/s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to Sixth Supplemental Indenture]
ASG HOLDINGS LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ALARM SECURITY GROUP LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ABC SECURITY CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
BRINKMAN SECURITY, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ASG GOVERNMENT SERVICES LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
NOLANS PROTECTION SYSTEMS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to Sixth Supplemental Indenture]
PROTECTION HOLDINGS II, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
PROTECTION ONE, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
PROTECTION ONE ALARM MONITORING, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
SECURITY MONITORING SERVICES, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
PROTECTION ONE SYSTEMS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
PROTECTION ONE DATA SERVICES, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to Sixth Supplemental Indenture]
PROTECTION ONE ALARM MONITORING OF MASS., INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
MONITAL SIGNAL CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ADT CANADA HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
ADT HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
ADT US HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
ADT INVESTMENTS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
[Signature Page to Sixth Supplemental Indenture]
ADT LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
ELECTRO SIGNAL LAB, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
S2 MERGERSUB INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
[Signature Page to Sixth Supplemental Indenture]
SCHEDULE I
Notes Guarantors |
Jurisdiction of Organization | |
Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC | Delaware | |
ASG Intermediate Holding Corp. | Delaware | |
ASG Holdings LLC | Delaware | |
Alarm Security Group LLC | Delaware | |
ABC Security Corporation | Maryland | |
Brinkman Security, Inc. | Texas | |
ASG Government Services LLC | Delaware | |
Nolans Protection Systems, Inc. | Texas | |
Protection Holdings II, Inc. | Delaware | |
Protection One, Inc. | Delaware | |
Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc. | Delaware | |
Security Monitoring Services, Inc. | Florida | |
Protection One Systems, Inc. | Delaware | |
Protection One Data Services, Inc. | Delaware | |
Protection One Alarm Monitoring of Mass., Inc. | Massachusetts | |
Monital Signal Corporation | New Jersey | |
ADT Canada Holdings, Inc. | Delaware | |
ADT Holdings, Inc. | Delaware | |
ADT US Holdings, Inc. | Delaware | |
ADT Investments, Inc. | Delaware | |
ADT LLC | Delaware | |
Electro Signal Lab, Inc. | Delaware | |
S2 Mergersub Inc. | New Jersey |
EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE]
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this Supplemental Indenture) dated as of [ ], among [GUARANTOR] (the New Guarantor), a subsidiary PRIME SECURITY SERVICES BORROWER, LLC (or its successor), a Delaware limited liability company, and THE ADT CORPORATION (or its successor), a Delaware corporation (the Company), and WELLS FARGO BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee under the indenture referred to below (the Trustee).
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of July 5, 2012 (as originally executed or as it may be from time to time supplemented or amended by one or more supplemental indentures supplemental thereto, the Indenture), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time of unsubordinated debt securities evidencing its unsecured indebtedness;
WHEREAS, the Company has issued (i) $750,000,000 of 2.250% Notes due 2017, (ii) $1,000,000,000 of 3.500% Notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes), (iii) $750,000,000 of 4.875% Notes due 2042 (the 2042 Notes), (iv) $700,000,000 of 4.125% Senior Notes due 2023 (the 2023 Notes and, together with the 2022 Notes and the 2042 Notes, the Secured Notes) and (v) $1,000,000,000 of 6.250% Senior Notes due 2021;
WHEREAS, the Company, the Trustee and the existing Notes Guarantors have executed and delivered a Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 8, 2016 (the Sixth Supplemental Indenture), to provide guarantees and security in respect of the Secured Notes; and
WHEREAS pursuant to the Indenture and the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, the Trustee, the Company and any Notes Guarantors are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the New Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of the Secured Notes as follows:
1. Defined Terms. As used in this Supplemental Indenture, terms defined in the Indenture or in the preamble or recital hereto are used herein as therein defined. The words herein, hereof and hereby and other words of similar import used in this Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular section hereof.
2. Agreement to Guarantee. The New Guarantor hereby agrees, jointly and severally with all existing Notes Guarantors (if any), to guarantee the Companys Obligations under the Secured Notes and the Indenture on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in
Article II of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture and to be bound by all other applicable provisions of the Indenture and the Sixth Supplemental Indenture and the Secured Notes and to perform all of the obligations and agreements of a guarantor under the Indenture and the Sixth Supplemental Indenture.
3. Notices. All notices or other communications to the New Guarantor shall be given as provided in Section 13.03 of the Indenture.
4. Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part of Indenture. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every holder of Secured Notes heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.
5. Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.
6. Trustee Makes No Representation. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture.
7. Counterparts. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
8. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not effect the construction thereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
[NEW GUARANTOR] | ||
By: |
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Name: | ||
Title: | ||
THE ADT CORPORATION | ||
By: |
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Name: | ||
Title: | ||
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee | ||
By: |
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Name: | ||
Title: |
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Exhibit 4.2
THE ADT CORPORATION,
as Issuer
THE NOTES GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO
AND
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of April 8, 2016
TO INDENTURE
Dated as of March 19, 2014
THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE is dated as of April 8, 2016, among THE ADT CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the Company), the guarantors listed on Schedule I hereto (the Notes Guarantors) and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association (the Trustee).
RECITALS
A. The Company and the Trustee executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of March 19, 2014 (as originally executed, the Base Indenture or, as it may be from time to time supplemented or amended by one or more supplemental indentures or certificates supplemental thereto, the Indenture), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time of unsubordinated debt securities evidencing its unsecured indebtedness.
B. Pursuant to the Officers Certificate, dated December 18, 2014 (the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate), the Company has issued $300,000,000 of 5.250% Senior Notes due 2020 (the Secured Notes).
C. This First Supplemental Indenture is being entered into in connection with the proposed Acquisition (as defined below) of the Company by Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (New Parent). On February 14, 2016, the Company entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the Merger Agreement) with, inter alia, New Parent and Prime Security One MS, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of New Parent (Merger Sub), pursuant to which Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company (the Merger), with the Company surviving the Merger as a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of New Parent.
D. The Company desires to enter into this First Supplemental Indenture pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture to (i) provide guarantees to the Secured Notes, (ii) secure the Securities of the Secured Notes and (iii) to make certain other changes permitted thereby.
E. Pursuant to Section 9.02 of the Indenture, the Company and the Trustee may amend the Indenture with the written consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then Outstanding.
F. In connection with the Acquisition, the Company has solicited consents from Holders of the Secured Notes to: (i) waive the requirement for the Company to comply with paragraph C(9) of the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate in connection with the Acquisition (the Waiver) and (ii) make certain amendments to the Indenture, which are set forth in Article VI of this First Supplemental Indenture (the Permitted Holder Amendments), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated April 1, 2016 (the Consent Solicitation Statement).
G. Pursuant to Section 8.01 of the Base Indenture, the Company fixed 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on March 31, 2016 as the record date (the Record Date) for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to the Waiver and the Permitted Holder Amendments.
First Supplemental Indenture
H. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Secured Notes outstanding as of the Record Date has delivered and not withdrawn written consents to the Waiver and the Permitted Holder Amendments.
I. The entry into this First Supplemental Indenture by the parties hereto is in all respects authorized by the provisions of the Indenture.
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the foregoing premises, the Company, the Notes Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 | Additional Defined Terms. |
As used herein, the following defined terms shall have the following meanings:
2020 Notes Officers Certificate has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Acquisition means the consummation of the Merger.
Acquisition Closing Date means the date on which the Acquisition is consummated.
Additional First Lien Obligations means all Other First Lien Obligations other than the Secured Notes Obligations.
Authorized Representative means (i) in the case of any First Lien Credit Facility Obligations or the holders of any First Lien Credit Facility Obligations, the First Lien Collateral Agent, (ii) in the case of the Secured Notes Obligations or the holders of the Secured Note Obligations, the Trustee, and (iii) in the case of any series of Additional First Lien Obligations or the holders of such series of Additional First Lien Obligations that become subject to the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the authorized representative (and successor thereto) named for such series in the applicable joinder agreement to the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
Base Indenture has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Collateral means Collateral as defined in the credit agreement under the First Lien Credit Facility. For the avoidance of doubt, Collateral with respect to the Secured Notes does not include Specified Excluded Collateral with respect to the Secured Notes.
Collateral Agreement means the Collateral Agreement (First Lien), dated as of July 1, 2015 (as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated, refunded or refinanced from time to time), among New Parent, each Subsidiary of New Parent from time to time identified therein as a party and the First Lien Collateral Agent.
Consent and Acknowledgment means the Consent and Acknowledgment substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 to the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the
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Acquisition Closing Date, to be executed by the Trustee, as Authorized Representative for the Secured Notes Obligations and the holders of the Secured Notes Obligations, and acknowledged by New Parent, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent.
Consent Solicitation Statement has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Credit Facilities means, collectively, the First Lien Credit Facility and the Second Lien Credit Facility.
Excluded Subsidiary means each Subsidiary of New Parent that would qualify as an Excluded Subsidiary (or any similar term) as defined in the Credit Facilities or any other indebtedness of New Parent from time to time.
First Lien Collateral Agent means Barclays Bank PLC, in its capacity as collateral agent for the lenders and other secured parties under the First Lien Credit Facility, the Secured Notes and the First Lien Security Documents, together with its successors and permitted assigns under the First Lien Security Documents exercising substantially the same rights and powers.
First Lien Credit Facility means the First Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2015, among Prime Security Services Holdings, LLC, New Parent, the lenders party thereto in their capacities as lenders thereunder and the First Lien Collateral Agent, as amended or restated on the Acquisition Closing Date, including any guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and any amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, renewals, restatements, refundings or refinancings thereof and any indentures or credit facilities or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders or investors that replace, refund or refinance any part of the loans, notes, other credit facilities or commitments thereunder, including any such replacement, refunding or refinancing facility or indenture that increases the amount borrowable thereunder or alters the maturity thereof.
First Lien Credit Facility Obligations means Obligations as defined in the First Lien Credit Facility as in effect as of the Acquisition Closing Date (or any comparable term as defined in the First Lien Credit Facility as in effect from time to time).
First Lien Intercreditor Agreement means the intercreditor agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit H to the First Lien Credit Facility (as in effect on the Acquisition Closing Date), among the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Trustee and the other parties from time to time party thereto, to be entered into on the Acquisition Closing Date (as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated, refunded or refinanced from time to time).
First Lien Obligations means, collectively, (a) all First Lien Credit Facility Obligations, (b) all Secured Notes Obligations and (c) all Other First Lien Obligations.
First Lien Security Documents means the Security Documents and any other agreement, document or instrument pursuant to which a lien is granted or purported to be granted securing First Lien Obligations or under which rights or remedies with respect to such liens are governed, in each case to the extent relating to the collateral securing the First Lien Obligations.
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First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement means (i) the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2015, among the First Lien Collateral Agent and Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, as Second Lien Facility Agent and Applicable Second Lien Agent (each, as defined therein) (as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated, refunded or refinanced from time to time), and (ii) any other First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement that is not materially less favorable to the Holders of the Secured Notes than the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement referred to in clause (i), as determined by the Company in good faith (as amended, supplemented, modified, extended, renewed, restated, refunded or refinanced from time to time).
First Priority After-Acquired Property means, with respect to the Secured Notes, any property of the Company or any Notes Guarantor that secures any First Lien Credit Facility Obligations that is not already subject to the lien under the Security Documents, other than Specified Excluded Collateral with respect to the Secured Notes.
First Priority Liens means the first priority Liens securing the First Lien Obligations.
Foreign Subsidiary means a Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary not organized or existing under the laws of the United States of America or any state or territory thereof or the District of Columbia and any direct or indirect subsidiary of such Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary.
Guaranteed Obligations has the meaning set forth in Section 2.1 hereof.
Indenture has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Intercreditor Agreements means, collectively, the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
Merger has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Merger Agreement has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Merger Sub has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
New Parent has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Notes Guarantors has the meaning assigned to such term in the introductory paragraph.
Obligations means any principal, interest (including any interest and other monetary obligations accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding at the rate provided for in the documentation with respect thereto, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under applicable state, federal or foreign law), premium, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers acceptances), damages and other liabilities, and guarantees of payment of such principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities, payable under the documentation governing any indebtedness.
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Other First Lien Obligations shall have the meaning given such term by the Collateral Agreement.
Other First Lien Secured Party Consent means the Other First Lien Secured Party Consent substantially in the form of Exhibit III to the Collateral Agreement, dated as of the Acquisition Closing Date, to be executed by the Trustee, as Authorized Representative for the Secured Notes Obligations and the holders of the Secured Notes Obligations, and acknowledged by the First Lien Collateral Agent and New Parent.
Permitted Holder Amendments has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Record Date has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Regulation S-X Excluded Collateral has the meaning set forth in Section 3.4 hereof.
Reporting Entity has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1 hereof.
Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of such Person. Unless otherwise indicated in this Indenture, all references to Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiaries shall mean Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiaries of the New Parent.
Second Lien Collateral Agent means Credit Suisse AG, Cayman Islands Branch, in its capacity as administrative agent and collateral agent for the lenders and other secured parties under the Second Lien Credit Facility, together with its successors and permitted assigns.
Second Lien Credit Facility means the credit agreement entered into as of July 1, 2015, by and among the New Parent, the subsidiary borrowers party thereto (including, upon consummation of the Acquisition, the Company and its subsidiaries), the lenders party thereto in their capacities as lenders thereunder and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, including any guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and any amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, renewals, restatements, refundings or refinancings thereof and any indentures or credit facilities or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders or investors that replace, refund or refinance any part of the loans, notes, other credit facilities or commitments thereunder, including any such replacement, refunding or refinancing facility or indenture that increases the amount borrowable thereunder or alters the maturity thereof.
Second Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2023 means the $1,890,000,000 of Second Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2023 to be issued by New Parent and Prime Finance Inc.
Secured Notes has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Secured Notes Guarantee means the guarantee set forth in Article II hereof.
Secured Notes Obligations means Obligations in respect of the Secured Notes, each Secured Notes Guarantee and the Security Documents.
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Secured Party means, collectively, the Trustee and the Holders of the Secured Notes.
Security Documents means, collectively, the Intercreditor Agreements, the Collateral Agreement, the Other First Lien Secured Party Consent, other security agreements, pledge agreements and mortgages relating to the Collateral and instruments filed and recorded in appropriate jurisdictions to preserve and protect the liens on the Collateral (including, without limitation, financing statements under the Uniform Commercial Code of the relevant states) applicable to the Collateral.
Specified Excluded Collateral shall have the meaning given such term by the Collateral Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, Specified Excluded Collateral with respect to the Secured Notes includes the Regulation S-X Excluded Collateral and the Capital Stock of the New Parent.
Unrestricted Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of the New Parent that is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary (or any comparable term) under any other indebtedness of New Parent or any of its Subsidiaries.
Waiver has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary is any Wholly Owned Subsidiary that is a Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary. Unless otherwise indicated in this Indenture, all references to Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiaries shall mean Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiaries of the New Parent.
Wholly Owned Subsidiary of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person 100% of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which (other than directors qualifying shares or shares required to be held by Foreign Subsidiaries) shall at the time be owned by such Person or by one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
ARTICLE II
SECURED NOTES GUARANTEE
Section 2.1 | Guaranty of Guaranteed Obligations. |
Subject to Article IV hereof, each Notes Guarantor guarantees, as of the Acquisition Closing Date, to the Trustee, jointly and severally with the other Notes Guarantors, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment and performance of the Secured Notes Obligations (such guarantee obligations of the Notes Guarantors, the Guaranteed Obligations) for the benefit of the Secured Parties. Each Notes Guarantor further agrees that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice to or further assent from it, and that it will remain bound upon its guarantee notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligation. Each Notes Guarantor waives presentment to, demand of payment from and protest to the Company of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and also waives notice of acceptance of its guarantee and notice of protest for nonpayment.
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Section 2.2 | Guaranty of Payment. |
Each Notes Guarantor further agrees that its guarantee hereunder constitutes a guarantee of payment when due (whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) and not of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort be had by the Trustee or any other Secured Party to any security held for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations or to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of the Trustee or any other Secured Party in favor of the Company or any other Person.
Section 2.3 | No Limitations. |
Except for termination or release of a Notes Guarantors obligations hereunder as expressly provided for in Section 2.8 and Article IV, the obligations of each Notes Guarantor hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise (other than defense of payment or performance). Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each Notes Guarantor hereunder, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by: (i) the failure of the Trustee or any other Secured Party to assert any claim or demand or to exercise or enforce any right or remedy under the provisions of the Indenture or otherwise; (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any release from any of the terms or provisions of, the Indenture or any other agreement, including with respect to any other Notes Guarantor under this Secured Notes Guarantee; (iii) the failure to perfect any security interest in, or the exchange, substitution, release or any impairment of, any security held by the Trustee or any other Secured Party for the Guaranteed Obligations; (iv) any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Guaranteed Obligations; (v) any other act or omission that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Notes Guarantor or otherwise operate as a discharge of any Notes Guarantor as a matter of law or equity (other than the payment in full in cash in immediately available funds of all the Guaranteed Obligations); (vi) any illegality, lack of validity or enforceability of any Guaranteed Obligation; (vii) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of the Company, or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting the Company or its assets or any resulting release or discharge of any Guaranteed Obligation (other than the payment in full in cash in immediately available funds of all the Guaranteed Obligations); (viii) the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights that such Notes Guarantor may have at any time against the Company, the Trustee, or any other corporation or Person, whether in connection herewith or any unrelated transactions; provided that nothing herein will prevent the assertion of any such claim by separate suit or compulsory counterclaim; and (ix) any other circumstance (including, without limitation, any statute of limitations) or any existence of or reliance on any representation by the Trustee that might otherwise constitute a defense to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, the Company or any other guarantor or surety (other than defense of payment or performance). Each Notes Guarantor expressly authorizes the Secured Parties (or the Trustee on behalf of the Secured Parties) to take and hold security for the payment and performance of the Guaranteed Obligations, to exchange, waive or release any or all such security (with or without consideration), to enforce or apply such security and direct the order and manner of any sale thereof in their sole discretion or to release or substitute any one or more other guarantors or obligors upon or in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations, all without affecting the obligations of any Notes Guarantor hereunder. To the
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fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Notes Guarantor waives any defense based on or arising out of any defense of any other Notes Guarantor or the unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of any other Notes Guarantor, other than the payment in full in cash in immediately available funds of all the Guaranteed Obligations. The Trustee and the other Secured Parties may, at their election, foreclose on any security held by one or more of them by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Guaranteed Obligations, make any other accommodation with the Company or exercise any other right or remedy available to them against the Company, without affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Notes Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations have been paid in full in cash in immediately available funds. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Notes Guarantor waives any defense arising out of any such election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or to extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of such Notes Guarantor against any other Notes Guarantor, as the case may be, or any security.
Section 2.4 | Reinstatement. |
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.8, each Notes Guarantor agrees that its Secured Notes Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of any Guaranteed Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned by the Trustee or any other Secured Party upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of the Company, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, the Company or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made.
Section 2.5 | Agreement To Pay; Subrogation. |
In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right that the Trustee or any other Secured Party has at law or in equity against any Notes Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay any Guaranteed Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment or otherwise, each Notes Guarantor hereby promises to and will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the Trustee for distribution to the applicable Secured Party in cash in immediately available funds the amount of such unpaid Guaranteed Obligation. Upon payment by any Notes Guarantor of any sums to the First Lien Collateral Agent as provided above, all rights of such Notes Guarantor against the Company arising as a result thereof by way of right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subject to Section 7.06 of the Indenture.
Section 2.6 | Information. |
Each Notes Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the Companys financial condition and assets, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks
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that such Notes Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that neither the Trustee nor any other Secured Party will have any duty to advise such Notes Guarantor of information known to it or any of them regarding such circumstances or risks.
Section 2.7 | Maximum Liability. |
Each Notes Guarantor, and by its acceptance of each Secured Notes Guarantee, the Trustee and each Secured Party hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such Persons that its Secured Notes Guarantee and its Guaranteed Obligations not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or any other federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign, federal or state law to the extent applicable to this Secured Notes Guarantee and the Guaranteed Obligations of each Notes Guarantor hereunder. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the First Lien Collateral Agent, the Secured Parties and the Notes Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the Guaranteed Obligations of each Notes Guarantor under this Secured Notes Guarantee at any time shall be limited to the maximum amount as will result in the Guaranteed Obligations of such Notes Guarantor under this Secured Notes Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
Section 2.8 | Termination and Release. |
(1) A Notes Guarantor shall automatically be released from its obligations hereunder in accordance with Article IV hereof.
(2) A Secured Notes Guarantee as to any Notes Guarantor shall terminate and be of no further force or effect and such Notes Guarantor shall be deemed to be released from all obligations under this Article II upon:
(a) the sale, disposition, exchange or other transfer (including through merger, consolidation, amalgamation or otherwise) of the Capital Stock (including any sale, disposition or other transfer following which the applicable Notes Guarantor is no longer a Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary) of the applicable Notes Guarantor if such sale, disposition, exchange or other transfer is made in a manner not in violation of the Indenture;
(b) such Notes Guarantor becoming an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Excluded Subsidiary;
(c) the release or discharge of the guarantee by such Notes Guarantor of the First Lien Credit Facility or other indebtedness (including the Second Lien Credit Facility) or the guarantee of any other indebtedness which resulted in the obligation to guarantee the Secured Notes;
(d) the Companys exercise of its legal defeasance option or covenant defeasance option with respect to the Secured Notes pursuant to the Indenture or the Companys discharge of its obligations with respect to the Secured Notes pursuant to the Indenture; and
(e) as described under Article IX of the Indenture.
(3) A Secured Notes Guarantee as to any Subsidiary of New Parent will be automatically released upon the applicable Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary of New Parent as a result of any foreclosure of any pledge or security interest securing the Credit Facilities or other exercise of remedies in respect thereof.
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In connection with any termination or release pursuant to this Section 2.8, the Trustee shall execute and deliver to the Company all documents that the Company shall reasonably request to evidence such termination or release. Any execution and delivery of documents pursuant to this Section 2.8 shall be made without recourse to or warranty by the Trustee. The Company agrees to pay all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Trustee in connection with the execution and delivery of such documents.
Section 2.9 | Additional Notes Guarantors. |
The Company shall cause each Wholly Owned Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary and that guarantees or becomes a borrower under the Credit Facilities or that guarantees any other indebtedness of the Company or any of the Notes Guarantors to execute and deliver to the Trustee (i) a supplemental indenture substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto pursuant to which such Subsidiary will guarantee payment of the Secured Notes and (ii) joinders to or new Security Documents and take all actions required by the Security Documents to perfect the liens created thereunder.
Section 2.10 | Form of Guarantee. |
The form of Secured Notes Guarantee shall be set forth on the Secured Notes substantially as follows:
SECURED NOTES GUARANTEE
For value received, each Notes Guarantor hereby guarantees, jointly and severally with the other Notes Guarantors, as a primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual payment and performance (i) to the holder of this Security the payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, the Security upon which this Secured Notes Guarantee is set forth in the amounts and at the time when due and payable whether by declaration thereof, or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal and interest, if any, of such Security, if lawful, to the holder of such Security and the Trustee on behalf of the Holders and (ii) all amounts owed to the Trustee under the Indenture, in each case in accordance with and subject to the terms and limitations of such Security, the Indenture and Articles II and IV of the First Supplemental Indenture. This Secured Notes Guarantee (i) will not become effective until the Trustee or Authenticating Agent duly executes the certificate of authentication on this Security and (ii) shall be immediately and automatically released and/or terminated, with no further effect, if, (a) during the period commencing 60 days prior to the first public notice of the Companys intention to effect the Merger and ending 60 days after the consummation of the Acquisition, a Rating Event is deemed to occur or (b) within 61 days after the consummation of the Acquisition, (1) a Change of Control Triggering Event is deemed to occur or (2) it is publicly announced that the rating of the Secured Notes is under consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies. This Secured Notes Guarantee shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict of law principles thereof.
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Dated:
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ARTICLE III
COLLATERAL
Section 3.1 | Security Documents. |
Subject to Article IV hereof, the payment of the principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the Secured Notes when due, whether on an Interest Payment Date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise and whether by the Company pursuant to the Secured Notes or by the Notes Guarantors pursuant to the Secured Notes Guarantees, the payment of all other Secured Notes Obligations and the performance of all other obligations of the Company and the Notes Guarantors under the Secured Notes, the Secured Notes Guarantees and the Security Documents shall be secured, as of the Acquisition Closing Date, as provided in the Security Documents, subject to the Intercreditor Agreements. The Company and each Notes Guarantor shall make all filings (including filings of continuation statements and amendments to UCC financing statements that may be necessary to continue the effectiveness of such UCC financing statements) and all other actions as are required by the Security Documents to maintain (at the sole cost and expense of the Company and the Notes Guarantors) the security interest created by the Security Documents in the Collateral (other than with respect to any Collateral the security interest in which is not required to be perfected under the Security Documents) as a perfected security interest.
Section 3.2 | First Lien Collateral Agent. |
(1) The First Lien Collateral Agent shall have all the rights and protections provided in the Security Documents and the First Lien Credit Facility.
(2) Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01 of the Indenture, neither the Trustee nor the First Lien Collateral Agent nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, attorneys or agents will be responsible or liable for the existence, genuineness, value or protection of any Collateral, for the legality, enforceability, effectiveness or sufficiency of the Security Documents, for the obtaining or maintaining of insurance on any Collateral, for the creation, perfection, priority, sufficiency or protection of any First Priority Lien, or for any defect or deficiency as to any such matters. Beyond the exercise of reasonable care in the custody
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thereof, neither the Trustee nor the First Lien Collateral Agent shall have any duty as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or bailee or any income thereon or as to preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto and neither the Trustee nor the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be responsible for filing any financing or continuation statements or recording any documents or instruments in any public office at any time or times or otherwise perfecting or maintaining the perfection of any security interest in the Collateral. The Trustee and the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody of the Collateral in its possession if the Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which it accords its own property and shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or diminution in the value of any of the Collateral, by reason of the act or omission of any carrier, forwarding agency or other agent or bailee selected by the Trustee or the First Lien Collateral Agent in good faith.
(3) Subject to the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements, (i) the Trustee shall direct the First Lien Collateral Agent and (ii) except as directed by the Trustee as required or permitted by the Indenture and any other representatives or pursuant to the Security Documents, in each case, subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, the Holders acknowledge that the First Lien Collateral Agent will not be obligated:
(a) to act upon directions purported to be delivered to it by any other Person;
(b) to foreclose upon or otherwise enforce any First Priority Lien; or
(c) to take any other action whatsoever with regard to any or all of the First Priority Liens, Security Documents or Collateral.
(4) The Holders agree that the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be entitled to the rights, privileges, protections, immunities, indemnities and benefits provided to the First Lien Collateral Agent by the Security Documents and the First Lien Credit Facility. Furthermore, each Holder consents to the terms of and authorizes and directs the Trustee (in each of its capacities) and the First Lien Collateral Agent to enter into and perform the Intercreditor Agreements and Security Documents in each of its capacities thereunder.
(5) If the Company (i) incurs First Lien Obligations at any time when the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement is not in effect or at any time when indebtedness constituting First Lien Obligations entitled to the benefit of an existing intercreditor agreement is concurrently retired and (ii) directs the Trustee to deliver to the First Lien Collateral Agent an Officers Certificate so stating and requesting the First Lien Collateral Agent to enter into an intercreditor agreement (on substantially the same terms as the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement) in favor of a designated agent or representative for the holders of the First Lien Obligations so incurred, the Holders acknowledge that the First Lien Collateral Agent is hereby authorized and directed to enter into such intercreditor agreement, bind the Holders on the terms set forth therein and perform and observe its obligations thereunder.
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Section 3.3 | Actions to Be Taken. |
(1) The Trustee is authorized and directed to execute and deliver on the Acquisition Closing Date, and authorized and empowered to bind the Holders of the Secured Notes under, the following documents to which it is a party and, subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, to perform its obligations and exercise its rights and powers thereunder:
(a) the Other First Lien Secured Party Consent;
(b) the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement; and
(c) the Consent and Acknowledgment.
(2) Subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, the Trustee is authorized and empowered to receive for the benefit of the Holders any funds collected or distributed under the Security Documents to which the Trustee is a party and to make further distributions of such funds to the Holders according to Section 6.03 of the Indenture.
(3) Subject to the provisions of Sections 7.01 and 7.02 of the Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreements and the Security Documents, the Trustee may, in its sole discretion and without the consent of the Holders, direct, on behalf of the Holders, the First Lien Collateral Agent to take all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to:
(a) foreclose upon or otherwise enforce any or all of the First Priority Liens;
(b) enforce any of the terms of the Security Documents to which the First Lien Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party; or
(c) collect and receive payment of any and all Obligations.
Subject to the Intercreditor Agreements, the Trustee is authorized and empowered to institute and maintain, or direct the First Lien Collateral Agent to institute and maintain, such suits and proceedings as it may deem expedient to protect or enforce the First Priority Liens or the Security Documents to which the First Lien Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party or to prevent any impairment of Collateral by any acts that may be unlawful or in violation of the Security Documents to which the First Lien Collateral Agent or Trustee is a party or this First Supplemental Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Trustee or First Lien Collateral Agent may deem expedient to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the Holders in the Collateral, including power to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the security interest hereunder or be prejudicial to the interests of Holders, the Trustee or the First Lien Collateral Agent.
Section 3.4 | Release of Collateral. |
(1) Subject to the terms of the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate, Collateral may be released from the lien and security interest created by the Security Documents to secure the Secured Notes Obligations at any time or from time to time in accordance with the provisions
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of the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement or as provided hereby or in the Security Documents. The applicable assets included in the Collateral shall be automatically released from the liens securing the Secured Notes, and the applicable Notes Guarantor shall be automatically released from its obligations under this First Supplemental Indenture and the Security Documents, under any one or more of the following circumstances:
(a) in respect of the property and assets of a Notes Guarantor, upon the consummation of any transaction permitted by the Indenture as a result of which such Notes Guarantor ceases to be a Subsidiary of New Parent or otherwise ceases to be a Pledgor (as defined in the Collateral Agreement), and such Notes Guarantor shall be automatically released from its obligations hereunder and under the Security Documents, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party, and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to such Notes Guarantor;
(b) upon any sale or other transfer by the Company or any Notes Guarantor of any Collateral that is permitted under the Indenture to any Person that is not the Company or a Notes Guarantor (including in connection with a condemnation or casualty event), or upon the effectiveness of any written consent to the release of the security interest granted by the Collateral Agreement in any Collateral pursuant to the Indenture, the security interest in such Collateral securing the Secured Notes shall be automatically released, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party;
(c) to enable the Company or any Notes Guarantor to consummate the disposition (other than any disposition to the Company or another Notes Guarantor) of such property or assets and to enable any release described in Section 5.15 of the Collateral Agreement;
(d) in respect of the property and assets of a Notes Guarantor, upon such Notes Guarantor becoming an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Excluded Subsidiary, and such Notes Guarantor shall be automatically released from its obligations hereunder and under the Security Documents;
(e) in respect of the property and assets of a Notes Guarantor, upon the release or discharge of the pledge granted by such Notes Guarantor to secure the First Lien Credit Facility Obligations or any other indebtedness or the guarantee of any other indebtedness which resulted in the obligation to become a Notes Guarantor with respect to the Secured Notes;
(f) as described under Article IX of the Indenture; and
(g) in accordance with Article IV hereof.
In addition, the security interests granted pursuant to the Security Documents securing the Secured Notes Obligations with respect to the Secured Notes shall automatically terminate and/or be released all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party, and all rights to the Collateral shall revert to the applicable Pledgors as of the date upon (i) all Obligations under the Secured Notes and the Indenture (other than contingent or unliquidated obligations or liabilities not then due) have been paid in full in cash or immediately available funds or (ii) a legal defeasance or covenant defeasance or discharge under Article XII of the Indenture.
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(2) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, at any time when an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the maturity of the Secured Notes has been accelerated (whether by declaration or otherwise) and the Trustee has delivered a notice of acceleration to the First Lien Collateral Agent, no release of Collateral pursuant to the provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture or the Security Documents will be effective as against the Holders of the Secured Notes, except as otherwise provided in the First Lien Intercreditor Agreement.
(3) To the extent necessary and for so long as required for any Subsidiary of the New Parent not to be subject to any requirement pursuant to Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act to file separate financial statements with the SEC (or any other governmental agency), the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary of the New Parent (the Regulation S-X Excluded Collateral) shall not be included in the Collateral with respect to the Secured Notes so affected and shall not be subject to the liens securing the Secured Notes and the Secured Notes Obligations in accordance with and only to the extent provided in the Security Documents.
Section 3.5 | Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee. |
In case the Collateral shall be in the possession of a receiver or trustee, lawfully appointed, the powers conferred in this Article III upon the Company or the Notes Guarantors with respect to the release, sale or other disposition of such property may be exercised by such receiver or trustee, and an instrument signed by such receiver or trustee shall be deemed the equivalent of any similar instrument of the Company or any Notes Guarantor or of any officer or officers thereof required by the provisions of this Article III; and if the Trustee or the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be in the possession of the Collateral under any provision of this First Supplemental Indenture, then such powers may be exercised by the Trustee or the First Lien Collateral Agent, as the case may be.
Section 3.6 | Release upon Termination of the Companys Obligations. |
In the event that (i) the Company delivers to the Trustee, in form and substance acceptable to it, an Officers Certificate and Opinion of Counsel certifying that all the Obligations under the Secured Notes have been satisfied and discharged by the payment in full of the Companys obligations under the Secured Notes, and all such Obligations have been so satisfied, or (ii) a discharge, legal defeasance or covenant defeasance occurs under Article XII of the Indenture with respect to the Secured Notes, the Trustee shall deliver to the Company and the First Lien Collateral Agent a notice stating that the Trustee, on behalf of the Holders of the Secured Notes, disclaims and gives up any and all rights it has in or to the Collateral with respect the Secured Notes, and any rights it has under the Secured Notes, and upon receipt by the First Lien Collateral Agent of such notice, the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be deemed not to hold a lien in the Collateral with respect to the Secured Notes on behalf of the Trustee and shall (or shall direct the First Lien Collateral Agent to) do or cause to be done all acts reasonably necessary to release such lien, with respect to the Secured Notes, as soon as is reasonably practicable.
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Section 3.7 | General Authority of the First Lien Collateral Agent. |
(1) By acceptance of the benefits of this First Supplemental Indenture and the Security Documents, each Secured Party (whether or not a signatory hereto) shall be deemed irrevocably (i) to consent to the appointment of the First Lien Collateral Agent as its agent under the Security Documents, (ii) to confirm that the First Lien Collateral Agent shall have the authority to act as the exclusive agent of such Secured Party for the enforcement of any provision of any Security Document against any Pledgor, the exercise of remedies thereunder and the giving or withholding of any consent or approval thereunder relating to any Collateral or any Pledgors obligations with respect thereto, (iii) to agree that it shall not take any action to enforce any provisions of any Security Document against any Pledgor, to exercise any remedy thereunder or to give any consents or approvals thereunder except as expressly provided in this First Supplemental Indenture or any Security Document and (iv) to agree to be bound by the terms of this First Supplemental Indenture and the Security Documents and the Intercreditor Agreements.
(2) As between the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Pledgors, the First Lien Collateral Agent shall be conclusively presumed to be acting as agent for the Secured Parties with full and valid authority so to act or refrain from acting, and no Pledgor shall be under any obligation, or entitlement, to make any inquiry respecting such authority.
Section 3.8 | Further Assurances |
Upon the acquisition by the Company or any Secured Notes Guarantor of any First Priority After-Acquired Property, the Company or such Secured Notes Guarantor shall execute and deliver such mortgages, deeds of trust, deeds to secure debt, security instruments, financing statements and certificates or such other documentation substantially similar to the documentation delivered to secure First Lien Credit Facility Obligations, if any, as shall be reasonably necessary to vest in the First Lien Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Holders of the Secured Notes, a perfected security interest or lien in such First Priority After-Acquired Property and to have such First Priority After-Acquired Property (but subject to certain limitations, if applicable, including as described in the Security Documents and Articles III and IV hereof) added to the Collateral, and thereupon all provisions of this Indenture relating to the Collateral shall be deemed to relate to such First Priority After-Acquired Property to the same extent and with the same force and effect.
ARTICLE IV
Section 4.1 | Automatic Termination of Guarantees and Collateral. |
Except to the extent that a Waiver is obtained with respect to the Secured Notes, each of (i) the Secured Notes Guarantee contemplated by Article II hereof, (ii) the security interests contemplated by Article III hereof (except such portion of such security interests with respect to a Principal Property (as defined under the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate) or any shares of stock of or indebtedness issued by any Restricted Secured Notes Subsidiary as required to be
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maintained pursuant to the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate, (iii) the reporting covenant contemplated by Article V hereof and (iv) Section 3.8 hereof, shall be immediately and automatically released and/or terminated, with no further effect, with respect to the Secured Notes if, (a) during the period commencing 60 days prior to the first public notice of the Companys intention to effect the Merger and ending 60 days after the consummation of the Acquisition, a Rating Event occurs or (b) within 61 days after the consummation of the Acquisition, (1) a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined under the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate) occurs or (2) it is publicly announced that the rating of the Secured Notes is under consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies (as defined under the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate). Following any such release with respect to the Secured Notes, all property and assets of the Company and each Notes Guarantor not required to be pledged for the benefit of the Secured Notes pursuant to the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate shall constitute Specified Excluded Collateral with respect to the Secured Notes.
ARTICLE V
REPORTING COVENANT
Section 5.1 | Reports. |
(a) Subject to Article IV hereof, so long as the Secured Notes are outstanding, the Company will provide to the Trustee and, upon request, to beneficial owners of the Secured Notes a copy of all of the information and reports referred to below:
(i) within 15 days after the time period specified in the SECs rules and regulations for non-accelerated filers, annual reports of the Reporting Entity (as defined below) for such fiscal year containing the information that would have been required to be contained in an annual report on Form 10-K (or any successor or comparable form) if the Reporting Entity had been a reporting company under the Exchange Act, except to the extent permitted to be excluded by the SEC;
(ii) within 15 days after the time period specified in the SECs rules and regulations for non-accelerated filers, quarterly reports of the Reporting Entity for such fiscal quarter containing the information that would have been required to be contained in a quarterly report on Form 10-Q (or any successor or comparable form) if the Reporting Entity had been a reporting company under the Exchange Act, except to the extent permitted to be excluded by the SEC; and
(iii) within 15 days after the time period specified in the SECs rules and regulations for filing current reports on Form 8-K, current reports containing substantially all of the information that would be required to be filed in a Current Report on Form 8-K under the Exchange Act on the operative date of the First Supplemental Indenture pursuant to Sections 1, 2 and 4, Items 5.01, 5.02(a)(d) (other than compensation information), 5.03(b) and Item 9.01 (only to the extent relating to any of the foregoing) of Form 8-K if the Reporting Entity had been a reporting company under the Exchange Act; provided, however, that no such current reports will be required to be furnished if the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company determines in its good faith judgment that such event is not material to Holders or the business, assets, operations, financial position or prospects of the Company and its Affiliates, taken as a whole.
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If at any time the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company has made a good faith determination to file a registration statement with the SEC with respect to an initial public offering of such Persons Capital Stock, the Company will not be required to disclose any information or take any actions that, in the good faith view of the Company, would violate the securities laws or the SECs gun jumping rules or otherwise have an adverse effect on such initial public offering.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) the Company (and the applicable Reporting Entity) will not be required to furnish any information, certificates or reports that would otherwise be required by (A) Section 302 or Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or related Items 307 or 308 of Regulation S-K, or (B) Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC with respect to any non-generally accepted accounting principles financial measures contained therein, (2) such reports will not be required to contain financial information required by Rule 3-09, Rule 3-10 or Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X or include any exhibits or certifications required by Form 10-K or Form 10-Q (or any such successor or comparable forms) or related rules under Regulation S-K, and (3) such reports shall be subject to exceptions and exclusions consistent with the presentation of financial and other information in the preliminary offering memorandum for the Second Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2023 and shall not be required to present compensation or beneficial ownership information.
The financial statements, information and other documents required to be provided as described above, may be those of (1) the Company or (2) any direct or indirect parent of the Company (any such entity described in clause (1) or (2), a Reporting Entity), so long as, in the case of (2), either (A) such direct or indirect parent of the Company will not conduct, transact or otherwise engage, or commit to conduct, transact or otherwise engage, in any business or operations other than its direct or indirect ownership of all of the equity interests in, and its management of the Company or (B) such direct or indirect parent of the Company is or becomes a guarantor of the Secured Notes; provided that, if the financial information so furnished relates to such direct or indirect parent of the Company pursuant to (2)(A) above, the same is accompanied by a reasonably detailed description of the quantitative differences between the information relating to such parent, on the one hand, and the information relating to the Company and the guarantors of the Secured Notes on a standalone but consolidated basis, on the other hand.
In addition to providing such information to the Trustee, the Company will make available to the Holders, prospective investors and securities analysts the information required to be provided pursuant to clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of this Section, by posting such information to the website of the Company (or the website of any direct or indirect parent of the Company) or on IntraLinks or any comparable online data system or website.
(b) The Reporting Entity will also hold quarterly conference calls, beginning with the first full fiscal quarter ending after the operative date of the First Supplemental Indenture, for all Holders and securities analysts to discuss such financial information no later than 10 business days after the distribution of such information required by
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clauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii) of this Section 5.1, and prior to the date of each such conference call, the Reporting Entity will announce the time and date of such conference call and either include all information necessary to access the call in such announcement or inform Holders of the Secured Notes, prospective investors and securities analysts how they can obtain such information, including, without limitation, the applicable password or other login information (if applicable).
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will be deemed to have furnished such reports referred to above to the Trustee and Holders if the Company or a Reporting Entity has filed such reports with the SEC via the EDGAR filing system (or any successor system) and such reports are publicly available. In addition, the requirements of this covenant shall be deemed satisfied by the posting of reports that would be required to be provided to the Holders on the Companys website (or the website of any direct or indirect parent of the Company). Furthermore, (1) the time requirements set forth in clause (ii) of the first paragraph of this covenant shall be satisfied if the quarterly reports for the fiscal quarters ending March 31, 2016, June 30, 2016 and September 30, 2016 are filed within 75 days after the end of such fiscal quarter and (2) the time requirements set forth in clause (i) of the first paragraph of this covenant shall be satisfied if the annual report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016 is filed within 120 days after the end of such fiscal year.
ARTICLE VI
PERMITTED HOLDER AMENDMENTS
Section 6.1 | Amendments. |
The 2020 Notes Officers Certificate is hereby amended as follows:
(a) [Reserved].
(b) The following definition of Management Group is hereby added to paragraph C(15)(b) thereof:
Management Group means the group consisting of the directors, executive officers and other management personnel of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as the case may be, on the Merger Closing Date together with (1) any new directors whose election by such boards of directors or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as applicable, was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as applicable, then still in office who were either directors on the Merger Closing Date or whose election or nomination was previously so approved and (2) executive officers and other management personnel of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as applicable, hired at a time when the directors on the Merger Closing Date together with the directors so approved constituted a majority of the directors of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company, as applicable.
(c) The following definition of Merger Closing Date is hereby added to paragraph C(15)(b) thereof:
Merger Closing Date means the closing date under the Agreement and Plan of Merger, by and among the Company, Parent, Prime Security One MS, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Parent (Merger Sub), and solely for the purposes of Article IX thereof, Prime Security Services Parent, Inc., a Delaware corporation and Prime Security Services TopCo Parent, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, pursuant to which Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the Merger) with the Company surviving the Merger as a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Parent.
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(d) The following definition of Parent is hereby added to paragraph C(15)(b) thereof:
Parent means Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
(e) The following definition of Permitted Holders is hereby added to paragraph C(15)(b) thereof:
Permitted Holders means, at any time, each of (i) the Sponsors, (ii) the Management Group, (iii) any Person that has no material assets other than the Capital Stock of the Company, any direct or indirect parent of the Company and other Permitted Holders and, directly or indirectly, holds or acquires 100% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company, and of which no other Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), other than any of the other Permitted Holders, holds more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock thereof and (iv) any group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision) the members of which include any of the Permitted Holders specified in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above and that, directly or indirectly, hold or acquire beneficial ownership of the Voting Stock of the Company (a Permitted Holder Group), so long as (1) each member of the Permitted Holder Group has voting rights proportional to the percentage of ownership interests held or acquired by such member (or more favorable voting rights, in the case of any Permitted Holder) and (2) no Person or other group (other than Permitted Holders specified in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above) beneficially owns more than 50% on a fully diluted basis of the Voting Stock held by the Permitted Holder Group. Any Person or group whose acquisition of beneficial ownership constitutes a Change of Control in respect of which a Change of Control Offer (as defined under the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate) is made in accordance with the requirements of the Indenture will thereafter, together with its Affiliates, constitute an additional Permitted Holder.
(f) The following definition of Sponsors is hereby added to paragraph C(15)(b) thereof:
Sponsors means (i) one or more investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC and any of their respective Affiliates, including Parent and each of its Affiliates and Subsidiaries but excluding other portfolio companies (collectively, the
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Apollo Sponsors), and (ii) any Person that forms a group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision) with the Apollo Sponsors; provided that any Apollo Sponsor (x) owns a majority of the voting power and (y) controls a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company.
(g) The definition of Change of Control in paragraph C(15)(b) thereof is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
Change of Control means the occurrence of either of the following: (1) the sale, lease or transfer, in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to a Person other than any of the Permitted Holders; or (2) the Company becomes aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) of the acquisition by any Person or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act), other than any of the Permitted Holders, in a single transaction or in a related series of transactions, by way of merger, consolidation, amalgamation or other business combination or purchase of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company.
(h) Any definitions used exclusively in the provisions of the Indenture, the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate, or the Secured Notes that are deleted pursuant to this Article VI, and any definitions used exclusively within such definitions, are hereby deleted in their entirety from the Indenture, the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate and the Secured Notes, and all references in the Indenture, the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate and the Secured Notes to paragraphs, Sections, Articles or other terms or provisions of the Indenture or the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate deleted pursuant to this Article VI(h) or that have been otherwise deleted pursuant to this First Supplemental Indenture are hereby deleted in their entirety.
ARTICLE VII
WAIVER
Section 7.1 | Waiver. |
The Trustee has received validly delivered and unrevoked consents from Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Secured Notes outstanding as of the Record Date to the Waiver, which waives the requirement for the Company to comply with paragraph C(9) of the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate in connection with the Acquisition.
Section 7.2 | Effect of Waiver. |
Upon Section 7.1 above and the Waiver becoming operative, the Company shall no longer be required to comply with the requirements and obligations pursuant to paragraph C(9) of the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate in connection with the Acquisition, including, but not
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limited to, the requirement for the Company to make a Change of Control Offer (as defined under the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate) in connection with the Acquisition, and each Holder and every subsequent Holder of the Secured Notes shall be bound by the Waiver, even if notation of the Waiver is not made on the Secured Notes.
ARTICLE VIII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 8.1 | Effect of First Supplemental Indenture. |
This First Supplemental Indenture shall become effective upon its execution by the parties hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Articles I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII of this First Supplemental Indenture shall not become operative, and shall have no force and effect, until (i) the Acquisition Closing Date and (ii) in the case of the amendments set forth in Section 3.4(3), Article V, Article VI and the Waiver set forth in Article VII, such later time and date at which the Company notifies the Trustee that it has delivered to D.F. King & Co., Inc. in its capacity as paying agent for the Consent Payment (as defined in the Consent Solicitation Statement), on behalf of Holders, the aggregate Consent Payment to be paid to Holders, upon the terms and subject to the conditions in the Consent Solicitation Statement, in respect of the written consents validly delivered in respect of the Waiver and the Permitted Holder Amendments.
Section 8.2 | Definitions. |
Capitalized terms used but not defined in this First Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture or the 2020 Notes Officers Certificate.
Section 8.3 | Confirmation of Indenture. |
The Indenture, as supplemented and amended by this First Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Indenture, this First Supplemental Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument.
Section 8.4 | Concerning the Trustee. |
In carrying out the Trustees responsibilities hereunder, the Trustee shall have all of the rights, protections and immunities which it possesses under the Indenture. The recitals contained herein, except the Trustees certificate of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to (i) the validity or sufficiency of this First Supplemental Indenture, (ii) the proper authorization hereof by the Company by action or otherwise, (iii) the due execution hereof by the Company or (iv) the consequences of any amendment herein provided for.
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Section 8.5 | Governing Law. |
This First Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be a contract made under the internal laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of said State without regard to conflicts of law principles that would require the application of any other law.
Section 8.6 | Separability. |
In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this First Supplemental Indenture shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture, but this First Supplemental Indenture shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or therein.
Section 8.7 | Counterparts. |
This First Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this First Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original First Supplemental Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
Section 8.8 | No Benefit. |
Nothing in this First Supplemental Indenture, express or implied, shall give to any Person other than the parties hereto and their successors or assigns and the Holders of Secured Notes from time to time, any benefit or legal or equitable rights, remedy or claim under this First Supplemental Indenture or the Indenture.
Section 8.9 | Amendments and Supplemental Indentures. |
This First Supplemental Indenture is subject to the provisions regarding supplemental indentures and amendments set forth in Article IX of the Indenture.
Section 8.10 | Legal, Valid and Binding Obligation. |
The Company and each Notes Guarantor hereby represents and warrants that, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery of this First Supplemental Indenture by the Trustee, this First Supplemental Indenture is its legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against it in accordance with its terms.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this First Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed all as of the day and year first above written.
Issuer: | ||
THE ADT CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
Trustee: | ||
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee | ||
By: | /s/ Stefan Victory | |
Name: Stefan Victory | ||
Title: Vice President | ||
Notes Guarantors: | ||
PRIME SECURITY SERVICES BORROWER, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ASG INTERMEDIATE HOLDING CORP. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]
ASG HOLDINGS LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ALARM SECURITY GROUP LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ABC SECURITY CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
BRINKMAN SECURITY, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ASG GOVERNMENT SERVICES LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
NOLANS PROTECTION SYSTEMS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]
PROTECTION HOLDINGS II, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
PROTECTION ONE, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
PROTECTION ONE ALARM MONITORING, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
SECURITY MONITORING SERVICES, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
PROTECTION ONE SYSTEMS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
PROTECTION ONE DATA SERVICES, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]
PROTECTION ONE ALARM MONITORING OF MASS., INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
MONITAL SIGNAL CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Timothy J. Whall | |
Name: Timothy J. Whall | ||
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
ADT CANADA HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
ADT HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
ADT US HOLDINGS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
ADT INVESTMENTS, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]
ADT LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
ELECTRO SIGNAL LAB, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer | ||
S2 MERGERSUB INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Michael S. Geltzeiler | |
Name: Michael S. Geltzeiler | ||
Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer |
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]
SCHEDULE I
Notes Guarantors |
Jurisdiction of Organization | |
Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC | Delaware | |
ASG Intermediate Holding Corp. | Delaware | |
ASG Holdings LLC | Delaware | |
Alarm Security Group LLC | Delaware | |
ABC Security Corporation | Maryland | |
Brinkman Security, Inc. | Texas | |
ASG Government Services LLC | Delaware | |
Nolans Protection Systems, Inc. | Texas | |
Protection Holdings II, Inc. | Delaware | |
Protection One, Inc. | Delaware | |
Protection One Alarm Monitoring, Inc. | Delaware | |
Security Monitoring Services, Inc. | Florida | |
Protection One Systems, Inc. | Delaware | |
Protection One Data Services, Inc. | Delaware | |
Protection One Alarm Monitoring of Mass., Inc. | Massachusetts | |
Monital Signal Corporation | New Jersey | |
ADT Canada Holdings, Inc. | Delaware | |
ADT Holdings, Inc. | Delaware | |
ADT US Holdings, Inc. | Delaware | |
ADT Investments, Inc. | Delaware | |
ADT LLC | Delaware | |
Electro Signal Lab, Inc. | Delaware | |
S2 Mergersub Inc. | New Jersey |
EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE]
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this Supplemental Indenture) dated as of [ ], among [GUARANTOR] (the New Guarantor), a subsidiary PRIME SECURITY SERVICES BORROWER, LLC (or its successor), a Delaware limited liability company, and THE ADT CORPORATION (or its successor), a Delaware corporation (the Company), and WELLS FARGO BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee under the indenture referred to below (the Trustee).
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of March 19, 2014 (as originally executed or as it may be from time to time supplemented or amended by one or more supplemental indentures or certificates supplemental thereto, the Indenture), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time of unsubordinated debt securities evidencing its unsecured indebtedness;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Officers Certificate, dated December 18, 2014, the Company has issued $300,000,000 of 5.250% Senior Notes due 2020 (the Secured Notes);
WHEREAS, the Company, the Trustee and the existing Notes Guarantors have executed and delivered a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 8, 2016 (the First Supplemental Indenture), to provide guarantees and security in respect of the Secured Notes; and
WHEREAS pursuant to the Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture, the Trustee, the Company and any Notes Guarantors are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the New Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the holders of the Secured Notes as follows:
1. Defined Terms. As used in this Supplemental Indenture, terms defined in the Indenture or in the preamble or recital hereto are used herein as therein defined. The words herein, hereof and hereby and other words of similar import used in this Supplemental Indenture refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular section hereof.
2. Agreement to Guarantee. The New Guarantor hereby agrees, jointly and severally with all existing Notes Guarantors (if any), to guarantee the Companys Obligations under the Secured Notes and the Indenture on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article II of the First Supplemental Indenture and to be bound by all other applicable provisions of the Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture and the Secured Notes and to perform all of the obligations and agreements of a guarantor under the Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture.
3. Notices. All notices or other communications to the New Guarantor shall be given as provided in Section 14.03 of the Indenture.
4. Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indentures Part of Indenture. Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every holder of Secured Notes heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.
5. Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.
6. Trustee Makes No Representation. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture.
7. Counterparts. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
8. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not effect the construction thereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
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WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee | ||
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Exhibit 99.1
Chicago, IL, April 11, 2016 Prime Security Services Borrower, LLC (together with its subsidiaries, Protection 1), a portfolio company of certain funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO) (together with its consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates, Apollo), announced today that The ADT Corporation (NYSE: ADT) (ADT) has received the requisite consents to amend certain terms of each of its 5.250% Senior Notes due 2020 (the 2020 Notes), 3.500% Notes due 2022 (the 2022 Notes), 4.125% Senior Notes due 2023 (the 2023 Notes) and 4.875% Notes due 2042 (the 2042 Notes and, together with the 2020 Notes, the 2022 Notes and the 2023 Notes, the Successful Consent Notes).
Protection 1 also announced today that, only with respect to ADTs consent solicitation from holders of its 6.250% Senior Notes due 2021 (the 2021 Notes and, collectively with the Successful Consent Notes, the Consent Notes), ADT has extended the Consent Time described in the Consent Solicitation Statement (as defined below) to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 13, 2016.
The consent solicitations in respect of the Successful Consent Notes (the Successful Consent Solicitations) and the 2021 Notes (the 2021 Notes Consent Solicitation and, collectively with the Successful Consent Solicitations, the Consent Solicitations) were conducted in connection with the previously announced merger agreement, pursuant to which Protection 1 has agreed to acquire ADT (the Acquisition).
As previously announced, on April 1, 2016, ADT commenced the Consent Solicitations from holders of the Consent Notes with respect to (i) a waiver (with respect to each series of Consent Notes, the Waiver and, collectively, the Waivers) of any potential Change of Control Triggering Event, including any potential obligation of ADT to make a Change of Control Offer (each as defined in the indentures governing the Consent Notes), and (ii) certain amendments to the indentures governing each series of Consent Notes, which would (a) amend the definition of Change of Control and (b) limit any required grant of capital stock as collateral with respect to the Consent Notes to the extent necessary not to be subject to any requirement pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) rules to file separate financial statements with the SEC or any other governmental agency (clauses (a) and (b) together, with respect to each series of Consent Notes, the Proposed Amendments), in each case in connection with the Acquisition. The Consent Solicitations are subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated as of April 1, 2016, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Consent Solicitation Statement, dated as of April 5, 2016 (as so amended, the Consent Solicitation Statement).
As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 8, 2016, ADT has been advised by D.F. King & Co., Inc., as Information and Tabulation Agent for the Consent Solicitations, that the requisite
consents of holders of each series of Successful Consent Notes were obtained, and ADT, Protection 1, certain subsidiaries of ADT and Protection 1 and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee under the indentures governing the Successful Consent Notes, entered into supplemental indentures (the Supplemental Indentures) implementing the Waiver and Proposed Amendments, and certain other amendments, with respect to each series of Successful Consent Notes. The Supplemental Indentures will become operative only upon payment of the applicable consent payment in connection with the closing of the Acquisition. If the proposed Acquisition does not close, no consent payments will be paid and the Supplemental Indentures will not become operative.
As of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 8, 2016, ADT has been advised by D.F. King & Co., Inc. that consents with respect to 49.67% of the outstanding 2021 Notes were obtained.
This announcement does not constitute a solicitation of any consent in respect of, or an offer to purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell, any securities. The Consent Solicitations are being made only pursuant to the applicable offering documents. The applicable offering documents for the Consent Solicitations will be distributed to all holders of the Consent Notes. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. is acting as solicitation agent for the Consent Solicitations. Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and RBC Capital Markets, LLC are acting as co-solicitation agents for the Consent Solicitations. D.F. King & Co. Inc. is acting as the information and tabulation agent for the Consent Solicitations. Requests for the offering documents may be directed to D.F. King & Co. Inc. at (212) 269-5550 (for brokers and banks), (866) 416-0576 (for all others) or e-mail at adt@dfking.com.
About Protection 1
Protection 1 was acquired by certain funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO) on July 1,2015 as the flagship for Apollos entrance into the alarm monitoring services industry, with a simultaneous acquisition of ASG Security, which has been effectively integrated into Protection 1. Protection 1 is a premier full-service business and home security company in the U.S. that provides installation, maintenance, and monitoring of single-family home security systems, business security systems and multi-family security systems. Protection 1 serves over 2 million customers and employs over 4,000 people in more than 90 office locations and five UL Certified monitoring centers across the country. For more information about Protection 1, visit http://www.protection1.com/corporate/news/.
About ADT
The ADT Corporation (NYSE: ADT) is a leading provider of security and automation solutions for homes and businesses in the United States and Canada. ADTs broad and pioneering set of products and services, including ADT Pulse® interactive home and business solutions, and health services, meet a range of customer needs for todays active and increasingly mobile lifestyles. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, ADT helps provide peace of mind to over 6.5 million customers and employs approximately 17,000 people at 200 locations. More information is available at www.adt.com.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable federal securities laws. The forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements concerning the Consent Solicitations. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to economic, competitive, and technological factors outside Protection 1s control that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. Protection 1 expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in expectations or events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based.
Media Contacts
For Protection 1:
Jennifer Webb, 212-221-1616
Coltrin & Associates
Jennifer_webb@coltrin.com
For Apollo Global Management:
Apollo Global Management, LLC
Gary M. Stein, 212-822-0467
Head of Corporate Communications
gstein@apollolp.com
or
Rubenstein Associates, Inc. for Apollo Global Management, LLC
Charles Zehren, 212-843-8590
czehren@rubenstein.com
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