Exhibit
4.1
FORM
OF RIGHTS CERTIFICATE
Certificate
No.
R-___________ ___________Rights
in respect of Class __ Common Stock
NOT
EXERCISABLE AFTER DECEMBER 31, 2008 OR EARLIER IF REDEEMED, EXCHANGED OR
AMENDED. THE RIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION, EXCHANGE AND AMENDMENT
AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY, ON THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS
AGREEMENT. UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES SPECIFIED IN THE RIGHTS
AGREEMENT, RIGHTS THAT ARE OR WERE BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY AN ACQUIRING PERSON
OR
AN AFFILIATE OR AN ASSOCIATE OF AN ACQUIRING PERSON (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED
IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT) OR A TRANSFEREE THEREOF MAY BECOME NULL AND
VOID.
RIGHTS
CERTIFICATE
Charter
Communications, Inc.
This
certifies that _________________, or registered assigns, is the registered
owner
of the number of Rights set forth above, each of which entitles the owner
thereof, subject to the terms, provisions, and conditions of the Rights
Agreement (including without limitation Section 11(a)(ii)), (the
“Rights Agreement”), by and between Charter
Communications, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”), and Mellon Investor Services LLC, a New
Jersey limited liability company (the “Rights Agent”),
dated as of August 14, 2007, to purchase from the Company at any time after
the
Distribution Date (as such term is defined in the Rights Agreement) and prior
to
5:00 p.m. (New York time) on the Expiration Date (as such term is defined in
the
Rights Agreement) at the office or offices of the Rights Agent designated for
such purpose, one one-thousandth of a fully paid nonassessable share of Series
B
Junior Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Preferred
Shares”), of the Company, at a purchase price of $25.00 per one
one-thousandth of a Preferred Share (the “Purchase
Price”), upon presentation and surrender of this Rights
Certificate with the Form of Election to Purchase and related Certificate duly
executed. If this Rights Certificate is exercised in part, the holder
will be entitled to receive upon surrender hereof another Rights Certificate
or
Rights Certificates for the number of whole Rights not exercised. The
number of Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate (and the number of one
one-thousandths of a Preferred Share which may be purchased upon exercise
thereof) set forth above, and the Purchase Price set forth above, are the number
and Purchase Price as of the date of the Rights Agreement, based on the
Preferred Shares as constituted at such date. Terms used herein with
initial capital letters and not defined herein are used herein with the meanings
ascribed thereto in the Rights Agreement.
As
provided in the Rights Agreement, the Purchase Price and/or the number and/or
kind of shares of Preferred Stock (or other securities, as the case may be)
which may be purchased upon the exercise of the Rights evidenced by this Rights
Certificate are subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain
events.
This
Rights Certificate is subject to all of the terms, provisions and conditions
of
the Rights Agreement, which terms, provisions and conditions are hereby
incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof and to which Rights
Agreement reference is hereby made for a full description of the rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities of the Rights Agent,
the Company and the holders of the Rights Certificates, which limitations of
rights include the temporary suspension of the exercisability of the Rights
under the circumstances specified in the Rights Agreement. Copies of
the Rights Agreement are on file at the principal executive offices of the
Company and can be obtained from the Company without charge upon written request
therefor.
Pursuant
to the Rights Agreement, from and after the occurrence of a Flip-in Event,
any
Rights that are Beneficially Owned by (i) any Acquiring Person (or any Affiliate
or Associate of any Acquiring Person), (ii) a transferee of any Acquiring Person
(or any such Affiliate or Associate) who becomes a transferee after the
occurrence of a Flip-in Event or (iii) a transferee of any Acquiring Person
(or
any such Affiliate or Associate) who became a transferee prior to or
concurrently with the Flip-in Event pursuant to either (a) a transfer from
an
Acquiring Person to holders of its equity securities or to any Person with
whom
it has any continuing agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the
transferred Rights or (b) a transfer which the Board of Directors of the Company
has determined is part of a plan, arrangement or understanding which has the
purpose or effect of avoiding certain provisions of the Rights Agreement, and
subsequent transferees of any of such Persons, will be void without any further
action and any holder of such Rights will thereafter have no rights whatsoever
with respect to such Rights under any provision of the Rights
Agreement. From and after the occurrence of a Flip-in Event, no
Rights Certificate will be issued that represents Rights that are or have become
void pursuant to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, and any Rights
Certificate delivered to the Rights Agent that represents Rights that are or
have become void pursuant to the provisions of the Rights Agreement will be
canceled.
This
Rights Certificate, with or without other Rights Certificates, may be
transferred, split up, combined or exchanged for another Rights Certificate
or
Rights Certificates entitling the holder to purchase a like number of one
one-thousandths of a Preferred Share (or other securities, as the case may
be)
as the Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates surrendered entitled such
holder (or former holder in the case of a transfer) to purchase, upon
presentation and surrender hereof at the office or offices of the Rights Agent
designated for such purpose, with the Form of Assignment (if appropriate) and
the related Certificate duly executed.
Subject
to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights evidenced by this
Certificate may be redeemed by the Company at its option at a redemption price
of $0.001 per Right or may be exchanged in whole or in part. The
Rights Agreement may be supplemented and amended by the Company, as provided
therein.
The
Company is not required to issue fractions of Preferred Shares (other than
fractions which are integral multiples of one one-thousandth of a Preferred
Share, which may, at the option of the Company, be evidenced by depositary
receipts) or other securities issuable, as the case may be, upon the exercise
of
any Right or Rights evidenced hereby. If pursuant to an exchange in
accordance with the terms of the Rights Agreement, a registered holder of
any
Rights
Certificate is entitled to receive shares of Class A Common Stock or Class
B
common stock in a principal amount that is not a whole number, the Company
will
round downward the amount of shares of Class A common stock or Class B common
stock, as the case may be, so issued to the nearest whole number.
No
holder
of this Rights Certificate, as such, will be entitled to vote or receive
dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of the Preferred Shares or
of
any other securities of the Company which may at any time be issuable upon
the
exercise of the Right or Rights represented hereby, nor will anything contained
herein or in the Rights Agreement be construed to confer upon the
holder hereof, as such, any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company or
any
right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to
stockholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any
corporate action, or to receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting
stockholders (except as provided in the Rights Agreement), or to receive
dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights
evidenced by this Rights Certificate have been exercised in accordance with
the
provisions of the Rights Agreement.
This
Rights Certificate will not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until it
has
been countersigned by the Rights Agent.
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WITNESS
the facsimile signature of the proper officers of the Company and its corporate
seal. Dated as of ___________, ______________.
CHARTER
COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
By:
Name:
Title:
Countersigned:
MELLON
INVESTOR SERVICES LLC
By: _________________________________
Name:
Title:
Signature
page for Rights
Certificate
Form
of
Reverse Side of Rights Certificate
FORM
OF ASSIGNMENT
+(To
be
executed by the registered holder if such holder desires to transfer the Rights
Certificate)
FOR
VALUE
RECEIVED, _______________________ hereby sells, assigns and transfers
unto
_____________________________________________________________________________
(Please
print name and address of transferee)
this
Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and
does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint Attorney, to transfer the within
Rights Certificate on the books of the within-named Company, with full power
of
substitution.
Dated
: __________, __________________
_________________________________________
Signature
Signature(s)
Guaranteed:
SIGNATURE(S)
SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS,
SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED
SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM), PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE
17Ad-15.
_________________
The
undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Rights
Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate
or
Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement).
__________________________________________
Signature
CERTIFICATE
The
undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes
that:
(1) the
Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate q are q
are not being sold,
assigned, transferred, split up, combined or exchanged by or on behalf of a
Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of any
such Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement);
and
(2) after
due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, it q did q
did not acquire the
Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate from any Person who is, was or
became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring
Person.
Dated: _________,
___________________
__________________________________________
Signature
Form
of
Reverse Side of Rights Certificate – continued
FORM
OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE
(To
be
executed if holder desires to exercise the Rights Certificate)
To
Charter Communications, Inc.:
The
undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise ________________ Rights
represented by this Rights Certificate to purchase the one one-thousandths
of a
Preferred Share or other securities issuable upon the exercise of such Rights
and requests that certificates for such securities be issued in the name of
and
delivered to:
Please
insert social security or other identifying
number: _________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
(Please
print name and address)
If
such
number of Rights is not all the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate,
a
new Rights Certificate for the balance remaining of such Rights will be
registered in the name of and delivered to:
Please
insert social security or other identifying
number: _______________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
(Please
print name and address)
Dated: ___________,
__________________
__________________________________________
Signature
Signature(s)
Guaranteed:
SIGNATURE(S)
SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS,
SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED
SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM), PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE
17Ad-15.
_________________
The
undersigned hereby certifies that the Rights evidenced by this Rights
Certificate are not beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate
or
Associate thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement).
__________________________________________
Signature
CERTIFICATE
The
undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes
that:
(1) the
Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate q are q
are not being exercised
by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate
or
Associate of any such Person (as such terms are defined pursuant to the Rights
Agreement); and
(2) after
due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, it q did q
did not acquire the
Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate from any Person who is, was, or
became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring
Person.
Dated: ______________,
_____________
__________________________________________
Signature
NOTICE
Signatures
on the foregoing Form of Assignment and Form of Election to Purchase and in
the
related Certificates must correspond to the name as written upon the face of
this Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement
or any change whatsoever.
In
the event the certification set forth above in the Form of Assignment or the
Form of Election to Purchase, as the case may be, is not completed, the Company
and the Rights Agent will deem the beneficial owner of the Rights evidenced
by
this Rights Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate
thereof (as defined in the Rights Agreement) and such assignment or election
purchase will not be honored.