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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-17-218431
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		10
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20170626
ITEM INFORMATION:		Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20170629
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20170629

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000913144
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331]
		IRS NUMBER:				980138020
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			D0
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-14428
		FILM NUMBER:		17938900

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		RENAISSANCE HOUSE
		STREET 2:		12 CROW LANE
		CITY:			PEMBROKE
		STATE:			D0
		ZIP:			HM19
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4412954513

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		RENAISSANCE HOUSE
		STREET 2:		12 CROW LANE
		CITY:			PEMBROKE
		STATE:			D0
		ZIP:			HM19
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
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<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:10pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CURRENT
REPORT </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):&nbsp;June 26, 2017 </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:10pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">001-14428</FONT></B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">98-014-1974</FONT></FONT></B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(State or other jurisdiction</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>of incorporation)</B></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Identification No.)</B></P></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>12 Crow Lane, Pembroke</B></P>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Registrant&#146;s telephone number, including area code:&nbsp;(441)
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">295-4513</FONT> </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Not Applicable </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Former name or former address, if changed since last report). </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:10pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Check the appropriate box below if the Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of
the registrant under any of the following provisions: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">Soliciting material pursuant to Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">14a-12</FONT> under the Exchange Act (17 CFR <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">240.14a-12)</FONT> </TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Pre-commencement</FONT> communications pursuant to Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">14d-2(b)</FONT> under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">240.14d-2(b))</FONT> </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Pre-commencement</FONT> communications pursuant to Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13e-4(c)</FONT> under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">240.13e-4(c))</FONT> </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as
defined in as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (&#167;230.405 of this chapter) or Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">12b-2</FONT> of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">(&#167;240.12b-2</FONT> of
this chapter). Emerging growth company&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use
the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a) of the Exchange Act.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><B>Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. </B></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On June&nbsp;26, 2017, RenaissanceRe Finance Inc.
(&#147;RRFI&#148;), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (the &#147;Company&#148;), and the Company entered into an underwriting agreement (the &#147;Underwriting Agreement&#148;) with Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells
Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the underwriters named therein. The Underwriting Agreement provided for the offer and sale (the &#147;Offering&#148;) of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of RRFI&#146;s 3.450% Senior Notes due 2027
(the &#147;Notes&#148;), which Notes&nbsp;are guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Offering was made pursuant to a shelf
registration statement on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-3</FONT> (Nos. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233</FONT> and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233-03)</FONT></FONT> filed with the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;SEC&#148;) on August&nbsp;7, 2015 and a prospectus supplement filed with the SEC on June&nbsp;28, 2017. The Offering of the Notes closed on June&nbsp;29, 2017. In connection with the
Offering, RRFI and the Company entered into several contracts as described below. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>Underwriting Agreement </U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On June&nbsp;26, 2017, RRFI, as issuer, and the Company, as guarantor, entered into the Underwriting Agreement with Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo
Securities, LLC, as representatives of the underwriters named therein, with respect to the Offering. A copy of the Underwriting Agreement is attached as Exhibit 1.1 hereto, and is incorporated herein by reference. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>Senior Indenture and First Supplemental&nbsp;Indenture </U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On June&nbsp;29, 2017, RRFI, as issuer, the Company, as guarantor, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee, entered into a senior indenture (the
&#147;Senior Indenture&#148;) and a first supplemental indenture (the &#147;First Supplemental Indenture&#148;). The Senior Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture set forth the terms and conditions under which the Notes were issued as well
as the rights and obligations of the parties thereto and of the holders of the Notes. Copies of the Senior Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture are filed as Exhibits 4.1 and 4.2 hereto, respectively, and are incorporated herein by
reference. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement </U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On June&nbsp;29, 2017, the Company, as guarantor, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as guarantee trustee, entered into a senior debt securities
guarantee agreement (the &#147;Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement&#148;). A copy of the Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement is filed as Exhibit 4.3 hereto, and is incorporated herein by reference. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The foregoing descriptions of the agreements described above are qualified by reference to the agreements themselves, which are attached as exhibits to this
report. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><B>Other Events. </B></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On June&nbsp;26, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing that its subsidiary,
RRFI, priced the Offering of the Notes. The press release announcing the pricing of the Offering is attached as Exhibit&nbsp;99.1 to this Current Report on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> and is incorporated herein by reference.
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><B>Financial Statements and Exhibits. </B></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" NOWRAP>1.1</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Underwriting Agreement, dated June&nbsp;26, 2017, among RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., as issuer, RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., as guarantor, and Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the
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<TD VALIGN="top">Senior Indenture, dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017, among RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., as issuer, RenaissanceReHoldings Ltd., as guarantor, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" NOWRAP>&nbsp;&nbsp;5.1</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Opinion of Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP.</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on
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<TD VALIGN="top">Underwriting Agreement, dated June&nbsp;26, 2017, among RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., as issuer, RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., as guarantor, and Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the
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<TD VALIGN="top">Senior Indenture, dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017, among RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., as issuer, RenaissanceReHoldings Ltd., as guarantor, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017, among RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., as issuer, RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., as guarantor, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee.</TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>Exhibit 1.1 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>EXECUTION COPY </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">$300,000,000 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">RenaissanceRe
Finance Inc. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">3.450% Senior Notes due 2027 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Underwriting Agreement </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right">June&nbsp;26, 2017 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">To the Representatives </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;named in Schedule I hereto </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of the Underwriters named </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;in Schedule II hereto </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Ladies and
Gentlemen: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., a company organized under the laws of Delaware (the &#147;<U>Company</U>&#148;), proposes to sell
to the several underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the &#147;<U>Underwriters</U>&#148;), for whom you (the &#147;<U>Representatives</U>&#148;) are acting as representatives, the principal amount of its 3.450% Senior Notes due 2027 set forth in
Schedule I hereto (the &#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148;) to be issued pursuant to the provisions of the Senior Indenture to be entered into by and among the Company, RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., a company organized under the laws of Bermuda (the
&#147;<U>Guarantor</U>&#148;), and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148;), as of the Closing Date (as defined herein) (the &#147;<U>Base Indenture</U>&#148;), as supplemented by the First Supplemental
Indenture to be entered into by and among the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee as of the Closing Date (the &#147;<U>First Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;, and together with the Base Indenture, the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement (the &#147;<U>Guarantee</U>&#148;) to be entered into by and between the Guarantor
and the Trustee as of the Closing Date, the Guarantor has agreed to irrevocably and unconditionally guarantee to each holder of the Securities, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts
(as defined in the Indenture) with respect to any Securities held by such holder, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption, repayment or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture and such Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">To the extent there are no additional Underwriters listed on Schedule I other than you, the term
Representatives as used herein shall mean you, as Underwriters, and the terms </P>

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Representatives and Underwriters shall mean either the singular or plural as the context requires. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Final
Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S&#150;3ASR which were filed under the Exchange Act on or before the Effective Date of the
Registration Statement or the issue date of the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Final Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference herein to the terms &#147;amend&#148;, &#147;amendment&#148; or &#147;supplement&#148;
with respect to the Registration Statement, the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Final Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date of the
Registration Statement or the issue date of the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Final Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by reference. Certain terms used herein are defined in Section&nbsp;18
hereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Representations and Warranties</U>. Each of the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally,
represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter as set forth below in this Section&nbsp;1. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each
of the Company and the Guarantor meets the requirements for use of Form S&#150;3ASR under the Act and has prepared and filed with the Commission an automatic shelf registration statement (Registration Nos. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233-03</FONT></FONT> and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233,</FONT> respectively), as defined in Rule 405 including a related Basic Prospectus, for registration under the Act of the offering and sale of the
Securities and in respect of the Guarantee. The Registration Statement, including any amendments thereto filed prior to the Execution Time, became effective upon filing; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in
effect, and no proceedings for such purpose are pending before or threatened by the Commission. As part of an amendment to the Registration Statement or pursuant to Rule 424(b), one or more preliminary prospectus supplements relating to the
Securities, each of which has previously been furnished to you, may have been filed with the Commission. A final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities in accordance with Rules 415 and 424(b) will be filed with the Commission. As filed,
such final prospectus supplement shall contain all information required by the Act and the rules thereunder, and, except to the extent the Representatives shall agree in writing to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form
furnished to you prior to the Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at the Execution Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and other changes (beyond that contained in the Basic Prospectus and any Preliminary Final
Prospectus) as the Company and the Guarantor has advised you, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or made therein. The Registration Statement, at the Execution Time, meets the requirements set forth in Rule 415(a)(1)(x). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On each Effective Date, the Registration Statement (giving effect to any modifications or supplements to the
information contained or incorporated by reference therein pursuant to (<U>1</U>)&nbsp;the Final Prospectus and/or (<U>2</U>)&nbsp;the documents filed subsequent to the applicable </P>
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Effective Date pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in the Basic Prospectus) did, and as of its date and on the Closing Date, the Final
Prospectus (and any supplement thereto) will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act and the Exchange Act and the respective rules thereunder; on each Effective Date and at the Execution Time, the Registration
Statement (giving effect to any modifications or supplements to the information contained or incorporated by reference therein pursuant to (<U>1</U>)&nbsp;the Final Prospectus and/or (<U>2</U>)&nbsp;the documents filed subsequent to the applicable
Effective Date pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in the Basic Prospectus) did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required
to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and, as of its date and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) will not include any untrue statement of a material
fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that neither the Company nor the Guarantor makes
any representations or warranties as to (<U>1</U>)&nbsp;that part of the Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility (Form T&#150;1) of the Trustee under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the &#147;<U>Trust
Indenture Act</U>&#148;), or (<U>2</U>)&nbsp;the information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the
Company and the Guarantor by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such
information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section&nbsp;8 hereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;At 5:00 p.m. EST on the date hereof (the &#147;<U>Applicable Time</U>&#148;) and on the Closing Date, the
Disclosure Package did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company and the Guarantor by any Underwriter through the
Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section&nbsp;8 hereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<U>i</U>)&nbsp;At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;at the time of the most recent
amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section&nbsp;10(a)(3) of the Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus),
(<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;at the time the Company, the Guarantor or any person acting on their behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c)) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption in Rule 163, and
(<U>iv</U>)&nbsp;at the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (iv)), the Guarantor was or is (as the case may </P>
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be) a &#147;well-known seasoned issuer&#148; as defined in Rule 405. The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree to pay the fees required by the Commission relating to the
Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<U>i</U>)&nbsp;At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company, the Guarantor
or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2)) of the Securities and (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;as of the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (ii)),
neither the Company nor the Guarantor was and is an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The final term
sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section&nbsp;5(b) hereto is the only Issuer Free Writing Prospectus used in the offering of the Securities and does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration
Statement, including any document incorporated by reference therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company and the Guarantor by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only
such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section&nbsp;8 hereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the Company, the Guarantor, Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd. (&#147;<U>Renaissance Reinsurance</U>&#148;) and
Renaissance Reinsurance U.S. Inc. (collectively with Renaissance Reinsurance, each a &#147;<U>Subsidiary</U>&#148; and collectively, the&#147;<U>Subsidiaries</U>&#148;), and DaVinciRe Holdings Ltd. (&#147;<U>DaVinci Holdings</U>&#148;) and DaVinci
Reinsurance Ltd. (&#147;<U>DaVinci Reinsurance</U>&#148; and, together with DaVinci Holdings, &#147;<U>DaVinci</U>&#148;), has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in
which it is chartered or organized with full corporate power and authority to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, and is duly
qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction which requires such qualification except to the extent in each case that failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not have a
material adverse effect on (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;the condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Guarantor and its subsidiaries, including the Company, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions
in the ordinary course of business, or (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;the ability of the Company and the Guarantor to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (a &#147;<U>Material Adverse Effect</U>&#148;). Top Layer Reinsurance Ltd. is not a
&#147;significant subsidiary&#148;, as defined is Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X, of the Guarantor. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;All of the
outstanding shares of capital stock of the Guarantor, the Company, each Subsidiary and DaVinci have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and, except as otherwise set forth in the Disclosure Package and
the </P>
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Final Prospectus, all outstanding shares of capital stock of each Subsidiary and DaVinci that are owned by the Guarantor either directly or through wholly owned subsidiaries are owned free and
clear of any perfected security interest or any other security interests, claims, liens or encumbrances. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Securities,
the Indenture and the Guarantee will conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(k)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Base Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor; upon execution as of the Closing
Date, has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; and, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor and assuming due authorization, execution and delivery of the Base Indenture by the Trustee, will constitute a valid and
binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with its terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other
laws affecting creditors&#146; rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in
a proceeding in equity or at law). The First Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor; upon execution as of the Closing Date, has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; and, when executed and
delivered by the Company and the Guarantor and assuming due authorization, execution and delivery of the First Supplemental Indenture by the Trustee, will constitute a valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against
the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with its terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors&#146; rights generally from time to time in effect
and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(l)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Securities and the Guarantee have been duly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor, respectively, and,
when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company and the Guarantor,
respectively, entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor, as the case may be, in accordance with their terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization,
insolvency, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors&#146; rights generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing,
regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). The Securities, upon issuance, will be in the form contemplated by the Indenture. </P>
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the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, will be required to register as an &#147;investment company&#148; as defined in the U.S. Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(n)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No consent, approval, authorization, filing with or order of any court or
governmental agency or body is required in connection with the transactions contemplated herein, except (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;filings required under Rule 424(b) and under the Companies Act of 1981 of Bermuda and (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;as may be required under
the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters in the manner contemplated herein and in the Guarantee, the Indenture, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(o)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Neither the execution and delivery by the Company and the Guarantor of this Agreement, the Indenture and the
Guarantee, as applicable, the issue and sale of the Securities nor the consummation of any other of the transactions herein contemplated, nor the fulfillment of the terms hereof will conflict with, result in a breach or violation or imposition of
any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company, the Guarantor, any of the Subsidiaries or DaVinci pursuant to, (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;the charter, memorandum of association or bye-laws of the Company, the Guarantor, the
Subsidiaries or DaVinci, (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;the terms of any material indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other material agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which the Company,
the Guarantor, any of the Subsidiaries or DaVinci is a party or bound or to which its or their property is subject, or (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree applicable to the Company or the Guarantor or its
subsidiaries of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company or the Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries or any of its or their properties. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(p)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There has not occurred any material adverse change, or any development that would reasonably be expected to result
in a material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Guarantor and its subsidiaries, including the Company, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Registration Statement
(exclusive of any amendments or supplements thereto subsequent to the date of this Agreement). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(q)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No legal or
governmental action, suit or proceedings by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body involving the Company, the Guarantor or the Subsidiaries or its or their property is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company and the
Guarantor, threatened that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final </P>
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Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto). There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or threatened to which the Company, the Guarantor, any of the Subsidiaries or DaVinci is a
party or to which any of the properties of the Company, the Guarantor, any of the Subsidiaries or DaVinci is subject that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus and are not so described or any statutes,
regulations, contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not described or filed as required. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(r)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the Company, the Guarantor, DaVinci and each of the Subsidiaries owns or leases all such properties as are
necessary to the conduct of its operations as presently conducted. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(s)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;None of the Company, the Guarantor, any
Subsidiary or DaVinci is in violation or default of (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;any provision of its charter, memorandum of association or bye-laws, (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan
agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which it is a party or bound or to which its property is subject, or (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any court,
regulatory body, administrative agency or other governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company, the Guarantor or such Subsidiary or DaVinci or any of its properties, as applicable, except for such conflicts, breaches, violations or
impositions which, singly or in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(t)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company, the
Guarantor, the Subsidiaries and DaVinci possess all licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by the appropriate federal, state or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses, except where
the failure to so possess such licenses, certificates, permits and authorizations would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and none of the Company, the Guarantor, the Subsidiaries or DaVinci has received any notice of
proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(u)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company, the Guarantor, the Subsidiaries and DaVinci (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;are in compliance with any and all
applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (&#147;<U>Environmental Laws</U>&#148;),
(<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such
permit, license or approval, except where such non-compliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or approvals, would
not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. </P>
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Environmental Laws (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating
activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) which would, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(w)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the Company, the Guarantor, the Subsidiaries and DaVinci has filed all reports, information statements and
other documents with the insurance regulatory authorities of its jurisdiction of incorporation and domicile as are required to be filed pursuant to the insurance statutes of such jurisdictions, including the statutes relating to companies which
control insurance companies, and the rules, regulations and interpretations of the insurance regulatory authorities thereunder (the &#147;<U>Insurance Laws</U>&#148;), and has duly paid all taxes (including franchise taxes and similar fees) it is
required to have paid under the Insurance Laws, except where the failure to file such statements or reports or pay such taxes would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and each of the Company, the Guarantor, the
Subsidiaries and DaVinci maintains its books and records in accordance with the Insurance Laws, except where the failure to so maintain its books and records would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. The financial
statements of the Guarantor, the Subsidiaries and DaVinci, from which certain ratios and other statistical data filed as a part of the Registration Statement or included or incorporated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus have been
derived, have for each relevant period been prepared in conformity with accounting practices required or permitted by applicable Insurance Laws of Bermuda, to the extent applicable to such company, and such accounting practices have been applied on
a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may otherwise be indicated therein or in the notes thereto. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(x)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The statutory financial statements of the subsidiaries of the Guarantor that are United States admitted insurance
companies, from which certain ratios and other statistical data filed as a part of the Registration Statement or included or incorporated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus have been derived: (<U>A</U>)&nbsp;have for each relevant
period been prepared in conformity with statutory accounting practices required or permitted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to the extent applicable to such company, and by the applicable Insurance Laws, and such statutory
accounting practices have been applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may otherwise be indicated therein or in the notes thereto; and (<U>B</U>)&nbsp;present fairly the statutory financial position of the
subsidiaries as at the dates thereof, and the statutory basis results of operations of the subsidiaries for the periods covered thereby. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(y)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, all retrocessional and reinsurance treaties, contracts and
arrangements to which any of the subsidiaries of the Guarantor is a party are in full force and effect and none of the Company or the Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries is in violation of, or in default in the performance, observance or
fulfillment of, any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained therein, except </P>
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where the failure to be in full force and effect and except where any such violation or default would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; none of the Company, the
Guarantor, any of the Subsidiaries or DaVinci has received any written notice from any of the other parties to such treaties, contracts or agreements which are material to its business that such other party intends not to perform in any material
respect such treaty, contract or agreement, and none of the Company, the Guarantor, any of the Subsidiaries or DaVinci has been notified in writing that any of the parties to such treaties, contracts or agreements will be unable to perform such
treaty, contract, agreement or arrangement, except where such non-performance would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(z)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, none of the Company, the Guarantor, the
Subsidiaries or DaVinci has made any material changes in its insurance reserving practices during the last two years. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(aa)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company or the Guarantor and any person granting
such person the right to require the Company or the Guarantor to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities of the Company or the Guarantor or to require the Company or the Guarantor to include such
securities with the Securities registered pursuant to the Registration Statement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(bb)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Ernst&nbsp;&amp; Young
Ltd., who has audited certain of the financial statements of the Guarantor and its subsidiaries and the effectiveness of the Guarantor&#146;s internal control over financial reporting and whose report is incorporated by reference in the Disclosure
Package and the Final Prospectus and who has delivered letters referred to in Section&nbsp;6(f) hereof, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries within the meaning the Act
and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(cc)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The audited consolidated financial statements of
the Guarantor included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, together with the related schedules and notes, present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial
position of the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries, to the extent required under the Exchange Act, and the consolidated results of operations and cash flows of the Guarantor and its consolidated subsidiaries, as at the dates thereof and for
the periods then ended; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (&#147;<U>GAAP</U>&#148;) applied on a consistent basis (except as noted therein) throughout the
periods covered thereby; the supporting schedules, if any, filed as exhibits to the periodic reports included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus present fairly in all material
respects in accordance with GAAP the information required to be stated therein. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(dd)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the internal controls
over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) of the Company, the Guarantor, the Subsidiaries and </P>
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DaVinci were deemed to be effective at December&nbsp;31, 2016, and since December&nbsp;31, 2016 there have been no changes in internal controls over financial reporting that have materially
affected or are reasonably likely to materially affect the Guarantor&#146;s internal control over financial reporting. With respect to preparation of consolidated financial statements of the Guarantor, the Guarantor is not aware of any material
weakness in the internal controls over financial reporting of the Company, the Guarantor, any of the Subsidiaries or DaVinci. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ee)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company, the Guarantor and its subsidiaries maintain &#147;disclosure controls and procedures&#148; (as such
term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act); such disclosure controls and procedures are effective in ensuring that all material information required to be disclosed under the Exchange Act is known to management in a timely fashion.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ff)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To the best of the Company&#146;s knowledge and belief, none of the Company, the Guarantor, any subsidiary of
the Guarantor, DaVinci nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company, the Guarantor, any subsidiary of the Guarantor or DaVinci has (i)&nbsp;used any funds for any unlawful contribution,
gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii)&nbsp;made any direct or indirect unlawful payment from funds to any foreign or domestic government or regulatory official or employee, including any government-owned
or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office; or (iii)&nbsp;violated
or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the &#147;<U>FCPA</U>&#148;), or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in
International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom; or (iv)&nbsp;made any unlawful bribe or other unlawful payment. The Company, the Guarantor, each subsidiary of the Guarantor, DaVinci and,
to the knowledge of the Company, its affiliates conduct their businesses in compliance with the FCPA, and have instituted, maintain and enforce, general policies and procedures that are designed to, among other things, promote and ensure compliance
with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(gg)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To the best of the Company&#146;s knowledge and
belief, each of the Company, the Guarantor, each subsidiary of the Guarantor and DaVinci is in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended,
the applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions in which such entities conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any
governmental or regulatory agency having jurisdiction over the Company, the Guarantor or any of their subsidiaries (collectively, the &#147;<U>Anti-Money Laundering Laws</U>&#148;) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or
governmental agency,authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company, the Guarantor, any subsidiary of the Guarantor or DaVinci with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
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DaVinci nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company, the Guarantor, any subsidiary of the Guarantor or DaVinci is currently the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the
U.S. government, (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a &#147;specially designated
national&#148; or &#147;blocked person&#148;) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty&#146;s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, &#147;<U>Sanctions</U>&#148; and a person subject to Sanctions,
a &#147;<U>Sanctioned Person</U>&#148;), nor is controlled by an individual or entity that is currently subject to Sanctions, nor is the Company, the Guarantor, any subsidiary of the Guarantor or DaVinci located, organized or resident in a country
or territory that is currently the subject of Sanctions, including, without limitation, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and Crimea; and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or
otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity for the purpose of financing the activities of any Sanctioned Persons. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Any tax returns required to be filed by the Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries in any jurisdiction have been
accurately prepared and timely filed, except where valid extensions have been obtained, and any taxes, including any withholding taxes, excise taxes, franchise taxes and similar fees, sales taxes, use taxes, penalties and interest, assessments and
fees and other charges due or claimed to be due from such entities have been paid, other than any of those being contested in good faith and for which adequate reserves have been provided or any of those currently payable without penalty or
interest, except to the extent that the failure to so file or pay would not result in a Material Adverse Effect and; no deficiency assessment with respect to a proposed adjustment of the Guarantor&#146;s or any of its subsidiaries&#146; taxes is
pending or, to the best of the Guarantor&#146;s knowledge, threatened; and there is no tax lien, whether imposed by any federal, state, or other taxing authority, outstanding against the assets, properties or business of the Guarantor or any of its
subsidiaries, in either case, which would have a Material Adverse Effect. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(jj)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the Guarantor, Renaissance
Reinsurance and DaVinci have received from the Bermuda Minister of Finance an assurance, valid until March 2035, under the Exempted Undertakings Tax Protection Act 1966, as amended, of Bermuda to the effect set forth in the Guarantor&#146;s Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 under the caption &#147;Bermuda Regulation,&#148; and the Guarantor has not received any notification to the effect (and is not otherwise aware) that such assurance may be revoked or otherwise
not honored by the Bermuda government. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(kk)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guarantor believes that neither the Guarantor nor any of its
subsidiaries should be, except for the Guarantor&#146;s U.S. subsidiaries and RenaissanceRe Specialty U.S. Ltd. and RenaissanceRe Corporate Capital (UK) Limited, considered to be engaged in a trade or business within the United States for purposes
of Section&nbsp;864(b) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ll)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties and no capital
gains, income, withholding or other taxes are payable by or on behalf of any Underwriter to the Bermuda Government or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein in connection with (A)&nbsp;the sale and delivery of the
Securities to or for the respective accounts of the Underwriters or (B)&nbsp;the sale and delivery outside Bermuda by the Underwriters of the Securities to the initial purchasers thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, and delivered to the Representatives or counsel for the
Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Purchase and Sale</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the
Company agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the purchase price set forth in Schedule I hereto, the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite such
Underwriter&#146;s name in Schedule II hereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the Company and the Guarantor hereby agrees that,
without the prior written consent of the Representatives, it will not, during the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the Closing Date, (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase,
purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any debt securities of the Company or (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;enter into any swap or other
arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the debt securities of the Company, whether any such transaction described in clause (i)&nbsp;or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of
debt securities or such other securities, in cash or otherwise. The foregoing sentence shall not apply to the Securities to be sold hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Delivery and Payment</U>. Delivery of and payment for the Securities shall be made on the date and at the time
specified in Schedule I hereto or at such time on such later date not more than three Business Days after the foregoing date as the Representatives shall designate, which date and time may be postponed by agreement between the Representatives and
the Company or as provided in Section&nbsp;9 hereof (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Securities being herein called the &#147;<U>Closing Date</U>&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Delivery of the Securities shall be made to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against payment by the
several Underwriters through the Representatives of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the Company by wire </P>
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transfer payable in <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">same-day</FONT> funds to an account specified by the Company. Certificates for the Securities shall be in definitive form and registered in
such names and in such denominations as you shall request in writing not later than one full Business Day prior to the Closing Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Offering by Underwriters</U>. It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Securities for
sale to the public as set forth in the Final Prospectus. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Agreements</U>. Each of the Company and the
Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree with the several Underwriters that: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Prior to the
termination of the offering of the Securities, it will not file any amendment of the Registration Statement or supplement (including the Final Prospectus or any Preliminary Final Prospectus) to the Basic Prospectus unless the Company or the
Guarantor has furnished you a copy for your review prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object. Subject to the foregoing sentence, it will cause the Final Prospectus, properly completed,
and any supplement thereto to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed, and with the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda, and will provide evidence satisfactory to the
Representatives of such timely filing. It will promptly advise the Representatives: (<U>1</U>)&nbsp;when the Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b); (<U>2</U>)
when, prior to termination of the offering of the Securities, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have been filed or become effective; (<U>3</U>)&nbsp;of any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment of the Registration
Statement or for any supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional information; (<U>4</U>)&nbsp;of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the institution or
threatening of any proceeding for that purpose; and (<U>5</U>)&nbsp;of the receipt by it of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any
proceeding for such purpose. It will use its reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and, if issued, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It will prepare a final term sheet, containing solely a description of final terms of the Securities
and the offering thereof, in the form approved by the Company and the Guarantor and attached as Schedule III hereto and file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such Rule. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If, at any time prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b), any event
occurs as a result of which the Disclosure Package would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made,
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not misleading, it will (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;notify promptly the Representatives so that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;amend or
supplement the Disclosure Package to correct such statement or omission; and (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;supply any amendment or supplement to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the
Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), any event occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus as then supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with
the Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, it will promptly: (<U>1</U>)&nbsp;notify the Representatives of such event; (<U>2</U>)&nbsp;prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the first sentence of paragraph (a)&nbsp;of
this Section&nbsp;5, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance; and (<U>3</U>)&nbsp;supply any supplemented Final Prospectus to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As soon as practicable, it will make generally available to its security holders and to the
Representatives an earnings statement or statements of the Company or the Guarantor and its subsidiaries which will satisfy the provisions of Section&nbsp;11(a) of the Act and Rule 158 under the Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, signed
copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by
the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), as many copies of each Preliminary Final Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the
Representatives may reasonably request. The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, will pay the expenses of printing or other production of all documents relating to the offering. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It will use its best efforts, if necessary, to qualify the Securities for sale under the laws of
such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities (not to exceed one year from the date hereof), and the Company and the Guarantor,
jointly and severally, will pay any fee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. in connection with its review of the offering; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that neither the Company nor the Guarantor shall be obligated to qualify as
a foreign </P>
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corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is so qualified or to file a consent to service of process or to file annual reports or to comply with any other requirements in connection with such
qualification deemed by the Company or the Guarantor to be unduly burdensome. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company, the
Guarantor and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agree that it has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a &#147;free
writing prospectus&#148; (as defined in Rule 405) required to be filed by the Company or the Guarantor or such Underwriter with the Commission or retained by the Company, the Guarantor or such Underwriter under Rule 433, other than a free writing
prospectus containing the information contained in the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section&nbsp;5(b) hereto. Any such free writing prospectus containing the information contained in the final term sheet prepared and filed
pursuant to Section&nbsp;5(b) is hereinafter referred to as a &#147;<U>Permitted Free Writing Prospectus</U>.&#148; Each of the Company and the Guarantor agree that (<U>x</U>)&nbsp;it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted
Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (<U>y</U>)&nbsp;it has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in
respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Neither the Company
nor the Guarantor will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any
security of the Company or the Guarantor to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree to pay the costs and expenses relating
to the following matters: (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;the preparation, printing or reproduction and filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus
and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and each amendment or supplement to any of them; (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;the printing (or reproduction) and delivery (including postage, air freight charges and charges for counting and packaging) of such copies of
the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all amendments or supplements to any of them, as may, in each case, be reasonably requested for use in connection with the
offering and sale of the Securities; (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;the preparation, printing, authentication, issuance and delivery of certificates for the Securities, including any stamp or transfer taxes in connection with the original issuance and sale of
the Securities; (<U>iv</U>)&nbsp;the printing (or reproduction) and delivery of this Agreement, the Indenture, the Guarantee, any blue sky memorandum and all other agreements or documents printed (or reproduced) and delivered in connection with the
offering of the Securities; (<U>v</U>)&nbsp;the registration of the </P>
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Securities under the Exchange Act; (<U>vi</U>)&nbsp;any registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of the several states (including
filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of one counsel for the Underwriters relating to such registration and qualification); (<U>vii</U>)&nbsp;any filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
(including filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of one counsel for the Underwriters relating to such filings); (<U>viii</U>)&nbsp;the fees and expenses of the Company&#146;s and the Guarantor&#146;s accountants and the fees and expenses
of counsel (including local and special counsel) for the Company and the Guarantor; and (<U>ix</U>)&nbsp;all other costs and expenses incident to the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of its obligations hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters</U>. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the
Securities shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company and the Guarantor contained herein as of the Execution Time and the Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company and the
Guarantor made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, has been filed in the manner and within the time
period required by Rule 424(b); the final term sheet contemplated by Section&nbsp;5(b) hereto, and any other material required to be filed by the Company or the Guarantor pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the
Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice from any governmental authority objecting to its use shall have been
issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The
Guarantor shall have requested and caused Conyers Dill&nbsp;&amp; Pearman Limited, Bermuda, special Bermuda counsel for the Guarantor, to have furnished to the Representatives their opinion on matters of Bermuda law, dated the Closing Date and
addressed to the Representatives, to the effect that: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the Guarantor, Renaissance
Reinsurance, DaVinci Holdings and DaVinci Reinsurance is duly incorporated and existing under the laws of Bermuda in good standing (meaning solely that the relevant company has not failed to make any filing with any Bermuda governmental authority,
or to pay any Bermuda government fee or tax, which would make it liable to be struck off the Register of Companies and thereby cease to exist under the laws of Bermuda). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guarantor has the necessary corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its
obligations under each of this Agreement, </P>
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the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture and the Guarantee. The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture and the Guarantee by the
Guarantor and the performance by the Guarantor of its obligations hereunder and thereunder do not and will not violate the memorandum of association or bye-laws of the Guarantor, Renaissance Reinsurance, DaVinci Holdings and DaVinci Reinsurance nor
any applicable law, regulation, order or decree in Bermuda. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guarantor has taken all
corporate action required to authorize its execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture and the Guarantee. This Agreement, the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture and the
Guarantee have been duly executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Guarantor, and constitute the valid and binding obligations of the Guarantor in accordance with the terms thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No order, consent, approval, license, authorization or validation of, filing with or exemption by
any government or public body or authority of Bermuda or any sub-division thereof is required to authorize or is required in connection with the execution, delivery, performance and enforcement of this Agreement, the Base Indenture, the First
Supplemental Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantee, except for consent under the Exchange Control Act 1972 (and Regulations made thereunder) which was issued by the Bermuda Monetary Authority on 7&nbsp;July 2000. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is not necessary or desirable to ensure the enforceability in Bermuda of this Agreement, the Base
Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture, the Securities or the Guarantee that they be registered in any register kept by, or filed with, any governmental authority or regulatory body in Bermuda. However, to the extent that any of this Agreement,
the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture or the Guarantee creates a charge over assets of the Guarantor, it may be desirable to ensure the priority in Bermuda of the charge that it be registered in the Register of Charges in accordance
with Section&nbsp;55 of the Companies Act 1981. On registration, to the extent that Bermuda law governs the priority of a charge, such charge will have priority in Bermuda over any unregistered charges, and over any subsequently registered charges,
in respect of the assets which are the subject of the charge. A registration fee of $630 will be payable in respect of the registration. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">While there is no exhaustive definition of a charge under Bermuda law, a charge includes any interest created in property by
way of security (including any mortgage, assignment, pledge, lien or hypothecation). As this Agreement, </P>
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the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture and the Guarantee are governed by the laws of the State of New York (the &#147;<U>Foreign Laws</U>&#148;), the question of whether they create
such an interest in property would be determined under the Foreign Laws. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement, the
Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture, the Guarantee and the issue of the Securities will not be subject to ad valorem stamp duty in Bermuda. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each of the Guarantor, Renaissance Reinsurance, DaVinci Holdings and DaVinci Reinsurance has all
corporate power and authority necessary to conduct its business conducted by the particular entity (without reference to or including any particular subsidiary or other company) and to own, lease and operate its properties as described in the Final
Prospectus and in &#147;Item 1 &#150; Business&#148; and &#147;Item 2 &#150; Properties&#148; of the Guarantor&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(viii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The choice of the Foreign Laws as the governing law of this Agreement, the Base Indenture, the
First Supplemental Indenture and the Guarantee is a valid choice of law and would be recognized and given effect to in any action brought before a court of competent jurisdiction in Bermuda, except for those laws (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;which such court
considers to be procedural in nature, (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;which are revenue or penal laws or (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;the application of which would be inconsistent with public policy, as such term is interpreted under the laws of Bermuda. The submission in
this Agreement, the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture and the Guarantee to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Foreign Courts is valid and binding upon the Guarantor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ix)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Based solely upon a review of copies of (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;the Register of Members of Renaissance
Reinsurance, (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;the Register of Members of DaVinci Reinsurance and (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;the Register of Members of DaVinci Holdings, each certified by its respective Secretary or Assistant Secretary at a specified date in June 2017, the
issued and outstanding shares of Renaissance Reinsurance, DaVinci Holdings and DaVinci Reinsurance have been duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and are non-assessable (which term when used herein means that no further sums are required to
be paid by the holders thereof in connection with the issue thereof). All of the shares of Renaissance Reinsurance are registered in the name of the Guarantor. All of the Class&nbsp;A shares of DaVinci Holdings and all of the Class&nbsp;A shares of
DaVinci Reinsurance are registered in the name of the Guarantor. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(x)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Based solely upon a review of
a copy of the Register of Members of the Guarantor prepared and issued by Computershare Shareowner </P>
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Services LLC at a specified time in June 2017, the issued and outstanding shares of the Guarantor outstanding prior to the issuance of the Securities have been duly authorized, validly issued and
are fully paid and are non-assessable (meaning that no further sums are required to be paid by the holders thereof in connection with the issue thereof). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xi)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Based solely upon a review of a copy of its certificate of registration issued pursuant to the
Insurance Act 1978 of Bermuda, as amended (the &#147;<U>Insurance Act</U>&#148;), Renaissance Reinsurance is duly registered in Bermuda to write general business insurance as a class 4 insurer in accordance with the provisions of the Insurance Act.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Based solely upon a review of a copy of its certificate of registration issued pursuant to
the Insurance Act, DaVinci Reinsurance is duly registered in Bermuda to write general business insurance as a class 4 insurer in accordance with the provisions of the Insurance Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xiii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The statements (<U>A</U>)&nbsp;in the Preliminary Final Prospectus and the Final Prospectus under
the caption &#147;Description of Notes and Guarantee&#148; and in the Basic Prospectus under the captions &#147;Description of Debt Securities&#148;, &#147;Description of Debt Securities Guarantees&#148; and &#147;Enforcement of Civil Liabilities
under United States Federal Securities Laws&#148;, (<U>B</U>)&nbsp;in the Guarantor&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016, under the caption &#147;Business &#150; Regulation &#150; Bermuda Regulation&#148;, and
(<U>C</U>)&nbsp;in the Company&#146;s Quarterly Report on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-Q</FONT> for the period ended March&nbsp;31, 2017, under the captions &#147;Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
Results of Operations &#150; Liquidity and Capital Resources &#150; Financial Condition &#150; Group Supervision&#148;, and &#147;Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations &#150; Liquidity and Capital
Resources &#150; Financial Condition &#150; Bermuda Subsidiaries&#148; and (<U>D</U>)&nbsp;in &#147;Item 15 &#150; Indemnification of Officers and Directors&#148; of the Registration Statement, insofar as they purport to describe the provisions of
the laws of Bermuda referred to therein, are accurate and correct in all material respects as at the dates such documents were filed. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xiv)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The courts of Bermuda would recognize as a valid judgment, a final and conclusive judgment in
personam obtained in the United States Federal or New York State Courts sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, State of New York against the Guarantor based upon this Agreement, the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture or the Guarantee
under which a sum of money is payable (other than a sum of money payable in respect of multiple damages, taxes or other charges of a like nature or in respect of a fine or other penalty) and would give a judgment based thereon provided that
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(<U>a</U>)&nbsp;such courts had proper jurisdiction over the parties subject to such judgment, (<U>b</U>)&nbsp;such courts did not contravene the rules of natural justice of Bermuda,
(<U>c</U>)&nbsp;such judgment was not obtained by fraud, (<U>d</U>)&nbsp;the enforcement of the judgment would not be contrary to the public policy of Bermuda, (<U>e</U>)&nbsp;no new admissible evidence relevant to the action is submitted prior to
the rendering of the judgment by the courts of Bermuda and (<U>f</U>)&nbsp;there is due compliance with the correct procedures under the laws of Bermuda. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xv)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Based solely upon searches of the Cause Book of the Supreme Court of Bermuda conducted at a
specified time in June 2017 (which would not reveal details of proceedings which have been filed but not actually entered in the Cause Book at the time of our searches), there are no judgments against any of the Guarantor, Renaissance Reinsurance,
DaVinci Holdings or DaVinci Reinsurance, nor any legal or governmental proceedings pending in Bermuda to which any of the Guarantor, Renaissance Reinsurance, DaVinci Holdings or DaVinci Reinsurance is subject. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As to matters of fact, such counsel may rely, to the extent they deem proper, on certificates of responsible officers of the
Guarantor, Renaissance Reinsurance, DaVinci Holdings and DaVinci Reinsurance, and public officials. References to the Final Prospectus in this paragraph (b)&nbsp;include any supplements thereto at the Closing Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company and the Guarantor shall have requested and caused Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP,
U.S. counsel for the Company and the Guarantor, to have furnished to the Representatives their opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, to the effect that: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Registration Statement has become effective under the Act; such counsel has been orally advised
by the Commission that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to the knowledge of such counsel, no proceedings for such purpose have been instituted or threatened; any required filing, pursuant
to Rule 424(b) of the Act, of the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Final Prospectus and the Final Prospectus, and any supplements thereto, has been made in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); any required filing, pursuant
to Rule 433 of the Act, of any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule A hereto, and any supplements thereto, has been made in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 433; and the Registration Statement, the Preliminary
Final Prospectus and the Final Prospectus (except for financial statements, notes thereto and schedules and other financial and statistical data as to which in each case such counsel need not express any opinion or belief) comply as to form in all
material respects with the Act and the Exchange Act and the respective rules thereunder; </P>
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giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, neither the Company nor the Guarantor will be, required to register as an
&#147;investment company&#148; as defined in the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To such counsel&#146;s knowledge (knowledge for purposes of this opinion and the remainder of the
opinion letter means the current actual knowledge of attorneys within Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP who are actively involved in representing the Guarantor and its subsidiaries), the execution and delivery by the Company and the Guarantor of
(as applicable), and the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of its obligations under (as applicable), this Agreement, the Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantee and the consummation by the Company or the Guarantor of the transactions
contemplated herein and therein, did not at the time of execution of this Agreement and do not on the date of such opinion, contravene any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company, the Guarantor or any Subsidiary that is material to
the Guarantor and its subsidiaries (including the Company), taken as a whole, or, any statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any U.S. governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the Company, the Guarantor or any
Subsidiary (assuming compliance by the Underwriters with all applicable securities and blue sky laws), and no consent, approval, authorization, or order of, or qualification with, any U.S. governmental body, agency or court is required for the
performance by the Company or the Guarantor of its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture, the Securities and the Guarantee, as applicable, except for (A)&nbsp;the qualification under the Trust Indenture Act of the Indenture and (B)&nbsp;as
may be required under the securities, blue sky or insurance laws of the various states in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities (as to which such counsel need not express any opinion) or as may already have been obtained; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The statements in (<U>A</U>)&nbsp;the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under the
captions &#147;Description of Notes and Guarantee,&#148; &#147;Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations&#148; and &#147;Underwriting&#148; (with respect solely to the description of this Agreement contained therein),
(<U>B</U>)&nbsp;the Guarantor&#146;s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2016, under the caption &#147;Business &#150; Regulation &#150; U.S. Regulation,&#148; and (<U>C</U>)&nbsp;the Guarantor&#146;s Quarterly Report on
Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-Q</FONT> for the period ended March&nbsp;31, 2017, under the captions &#147;Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations &#150; Liquidity and Capital Resources
&#150; Financial Condition - U.S. Subsidiaries,&#148; and &#147;Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations &#150; </P>
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Current Outlook &#150; Legislative and Regulatory Update,&#148; and (<U>D</U>)&nbsp;Item 15 of the Registration Statement, in each case insofar as such statements constitute summaries of U.S.
legal matters, documents or proceedings referred to therein, fairly present the information required to be shown with respect to such legal matters, documents and proceedings and fairly summarize the matters referred to therein, in each case, in all
material respects (provided, however, that the statements under the caption &#147;Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations&#148; do not address considerations that depend on circumstances specific to the holders of the Company&#146;s
or the Guarantor&#146;s securities); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Such counsel does not know of (A)&nbsp;any U.S. legal or
governmental proceedings pending or threatened to which the Company, the Guarantor or any Subsidiary is a party or to which any of the properties of the Company, the Guarantor or any Subsidiary is subject that are required to be described in the
Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus and are not so described or (B)&nbsp;any U.S. statutes or regulations, or any contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus or to
be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not described or filed as required; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each document, if any, filed pursuant to the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (except for financial statements, notes thereto and schedules and other financial and statistical data as to which in each case such counsel need not express any opinion or
belief) complied when so filed as to form in all material respects with the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company has the necessary corporate power and authority to enter into and perform its
obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities. The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities by the Company and the performance by the Company of its obligations thereunder do not and will not
result in a violation of the certificate of incorporation or bylaws of the Company; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(viii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the other parties hereto, constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable in
accordance with its terms, except as enforcement thereof may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors&#146;
rights and to general </P>
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principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding
in equity or at law) and except to the extent that indemnification or contribution provisions may be unenforceable; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ix)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor
and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the Trustee, constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company and of the Guarantor, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement thereof may be
subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors&#146; rights and to general principles of equity, including, without
limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and except to the extent that indemnification or contribution provisions
may be unenforceable; the Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; and the Guarantee has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Guarantor and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as guarantee trustee, the Guarantee constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Guarantor, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement thereof may be subject to or limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors&#146; rights and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of
materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and except to the extent that indemnification or contribution provisions may be unenforceable; and
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(x)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and authenticated in
accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with
their terms except as enforcement thereof may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors&#146; rights and to
general principles of equity, including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); the Securities
</P>
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are in the form contemplated by the Indenture and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to
this Agreement, each registered holder of the Securities will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Such counsel
shall also state that no facts have come to its attention to cause it to believe that (<U>A</U>)&nbsp;the Registration Statement and the prospectus included therein (except for financial statements, notes thereto and schedules and other financial
and statistical data as to which such counsel need not express any belief) on the Effective Date, giving effect to any modifications or supplements to the information contained or incorporated by reference therein pursuant to (1)&nbsp;the Final
Prospectus and/or (2)&nbsp;the documents filed subsequent to the applicable Effective Date pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in the Basic Prospectus, contained any untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, (<U>B</U>)&nbsp;the Disclosure Package (except for financial
statements, notes thereto and schedules and other financial and statistical data as to which such counsel need not express any belief) at the Applicable Time contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or (<U>C</U>)&nbsp;the Final Prospectus (except for financial statements, notes thereto and schedules and other financial
and statistical data as to which such counsel need not express any belief) as of its date and on the Closing Date contained or contains an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that such counsel&#146;s statements in (A), (B) and (C)&nbsp;above shall not be made with respect to that part of the
Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility (Form T&#150;1) of the Trustee under the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely as to matters of Bermuda law, to the extent they deem proper and specified in
such opinion, upon the opinion of Conyers Dill&nbsp;&amp; Pearman Limited, Bermuda, dated as of the Closing Date provided that (<U>1</U>)&nbsp;such reliance is expressly authorized by such opinion as delivered to the Underwriters and
(<U>2</U>)&nbsp;Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP shall state in their opinion that they believe that they and the Underwriters are justified in relying on such opinion of Conyers Dill&nbsp;&amp; Pearman Limited, Bermuda. As to matters of fact,
such counsel may rely, to the extent they deem proper, on certificates of the officers of the Company, the Guarantor and the Subsidiaries and public officials. References to the Final Prospectus in this paragraph (c)&nbsp;include any supplements
thereto at the Closing Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Representatives shall have received from Debevoise&nbsp;&amp;
Plimpton LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date </P>
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and addressed to the Representatives, with respect to the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as
the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company and the Guarantor shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters. In rendering such opinion or opinions,
Debevoise&nbsp;&amp; Plimpton LLP may rely, as to factual matters, on written certificates of officers of the Company and the Guarantor and, as to matters governed by the Laws of Bermuda, on the opinions of Conyers Dill&nbsp;&amp; Pearman Limited,
Bermuda. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">With respect to the statement described in the paragraph immediately following Section&nbsp;6(c)(ix), Willkie
Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP may state that its opinion and beliefs are based upon its participation in telephone conferences with representatives of the Company, the Guarantor and other participants, at which conferences the contents of the
Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus and related matters were discussed, but are without independent determination, check or verification except as specified. With respect to any statement equivalent to that set forth in the paragraph
immediately following 6(c)(ix) above, Debevoise&nbsp;&amp; Plimpton LLP may state that their beliefs are based upon their participation in telephone conferences with representatives of the Company, the Guarantor and other participants, at which
conferences the contents of the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus and related matters were discussed, but are without independent determination, check or verification except as specified. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company and the Guarantor shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate of the
Company and the Guarantor, signed by the Chairman of the Board or the President and the principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller of the Company and the Guarantor, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that the signers
of such certificate have examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus, any supplements to the Final Prospectus and this Agreement and that: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor in this Agreement are true and
correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and the Company and the Guarantor has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied under this
Agreement at or prior to the Closing Date; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the Company&#146;s or the Guarantor&#146;s knowledge, threatened; </P>
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least A3 (stable) by Moody&#146;s Investors Service, Inc. and A (negative) by Standard&nbsp;&amp; Poor&#146;s Rating Services; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Guarantor included or incorporated by
reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no Material Adverse Effect or change or development reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in
or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company and the Guarantor shall have requested and caused Ernst&nbsp;&amp; Young Ltd. to have
furnished to the Representatives, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters (which may refer to letters previously delivered to the Representatives), dated respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, confirming that they are independent accountants with respect to the Guarantor and the Guarantor&#146;s subsidiaries within the meaning of the Act and the Exchange Act and the respective
applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission thereunder and containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants&#146; &#147;comfort letters&#148; to underwriters with respect to the financial statements
and certain financial information contained in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus; <U>provided</U> that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a &#147;cut-off date&#148; not earlier than
the date hereof. References to the Final Prospectus in this paragraph (f)&nbsp;include any supplement thereto at the date of the letter. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Subsequent to the Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the
Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;any change or decrease specified in the letter or letters
referred to in paragraph (f)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;6 or (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Guarantor and
its subsidiaries, including the Company, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any
supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i)&nbsp;or (ii) above, is, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or
delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto). </P>
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been any decrease in the rating of any of the Company&#146;s securities by any &#147;nationally recognized statistical rating organization&#148; (as defined for purposes of Section&nbsp;3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act) or any notice given by any
&#147;nationally recognized statistical rating organization&#148; of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives such further
information, certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any of the conditions specified in this
Section&nbsp;6 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects when and as provided in this Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably
satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Representatives. Notice
of such cancellation shall be given to the Company and the Guarantor in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The
documents required to be delivered by this Section&nbsp;6 shall be delivered at the offices of Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019, on the Closing Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Reimbursement of Underwriters&#146; Expenses</U>. If the sale of the Securities provided for herein is not
consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth in Section&nbsp;6 hereof is not satisfied, because of any termination pursuant to Section&nbsp;10 hereof or because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part
of the Company or the Guarantor to perform any agreement herein or comply with any provision hereof other than by reason of a default by any of the Underwriters, the Company and the Guarantor will reimburse the Underwriters severally through the
Representatives on demand for all out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) that shall have been reasonably incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Indemnification and Contribution</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the
directors, officers, employees, affiliates and agents of each Underwriter and each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section&nbsp;15 of the Act or Section&nbsp;20 of the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims,
damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Act, the Exchange Act or other Federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) </P>
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arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the registration statement for the registration of the Securities as originally
filed or in any amendment thereof, or in the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Final Prospectus, the Final Prospectus, or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or the information contained in the final term sheet required to be prepared and filed
pursuant to Section&nbsp;5(b) hereto, or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or
action; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that neither the Company nor the Guarantor will be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company or the Guarantor by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically
for inclusion therein. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company or the Guarantor may otherwise have. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Each Underwriter severally and not jointly agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and the Guarantor,
each of their respective directors, officers, employees, affiliates and agents and each person who controls the Company or the Guarantor within the meaning of Section&nbsp;15 of the Act or Section&nbsp;20 of the Exchange Act, to the same extent as
the foregoing indemnity from the Company and the Guarantor to each Underwriter, but only with reference to written information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company or the Guarantor by or on behalf of such Underwriter through the
Representatives specifically for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity. The Company and the Guarantor acknowledge that the statements set forth (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;in the last paragraph of the cover page of the Preliminary
Final Prospectus and the Final Prospectus regarding delivery of the Securities, (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;the names of the several underwriters on the front and back cover pages of the Preliminary Final Prospectus and the Final Prospectus and in any
Permitted Free Writing Prospectus and (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;under the heading &#147;Underwriting&#148; or &#147;Plan of Distribution:&#148; (<U>a</U>)&nbsp;the sentences related to concessions and reallowances, (b)&nbsp;the paragraphs related to short
sales, purchases to cover short positions, stabilization, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids and (c)&nbsp;the paragraph related to the ordinary course activities of the Underwriters constitute the only information furnished in writing
by or on behalf of the several Underwriters for inclusion in any Preliminary Final Prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which any Underwriter may
otherwise have. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section&nbsp;8 of notice of the
commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section&nbsp;8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure so
to notify the indemnifying party </P>
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(<U>i</U>)&nbsp;will not relieve it from liability under paragraph (a)&nbsp;or (b) above to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and is not materially prejudiced as a result
thereof and (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a)&nbsp;or (b) above. The indemnifying party shall be
entitled to appoint counsel of the indemnifying party&#146;s choice at the indemnifying party&#146;s expense to represent the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying party shall not
thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below); <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
indemnified party. Notwithstanding the indemnifying party&#146;s election to appoint counsel to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and the
indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel if (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;the named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified
party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them or (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate
counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that it is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in respect of the legal expenses of any indemnified party in connection with any proceeding or related
proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Underwriters and all persons, if any, who control any Underwriter within the meaning
of the Act or the Exchange Act and (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for the Company, the Guarantor and all persons, if any, who control the Company or the Guarantor within the
meaning of the Act or the Exchange Act. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment
with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action)
unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding and does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault,
culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the event that the indemnity
provided in paragraph (a)&nbsp;or (b) of this Section&nbsp;8 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters severally agree to contribute to the aggregate
losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending same) (collectively &#147;<U>Losses</U>&#148;) to which the Company, the Guarantor and one or more of the
Underwriters may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and by the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the
</P>
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Securities; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that notwithstanding the provisions of this Section&nbsp;8, no Underwriter shall be required (except as may be provided in any agreement among
underwriters relating to the offering of the Securities) to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount
of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is unavailable for any
reason, the Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters severally shall contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company or the Guarantor on the one hand and of the
Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor shall be deemed to be equal to the
total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company, and benefits received by the Underwriters shall be deemed to be equal to the total underwriting discounts and commissions, in each case as set forth on the
cover page of the Final Prospectus. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or any alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to
information provided by the Company or the Guarantor on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or
omission. The Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable
considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section&nbsp;11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was
not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section&nbsp;8, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of Section&nbsp;15 of the Act or Section&nbsp;20 of the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to
contribution as such Underwriter, and each person who controls the Company or the Guarantor within the meaning of Section&nbsp;15 of the Act or Section&nbsp;20 of the Exchange Act, each officer of the Company and the Guarantor who shall have signed
the Registration Statement and each director of the Company and the Guarantor shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company or the Guarantor, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (d). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Default by an Underwriter</U>. If any one or more Underwriters shall fail to purchase and pay for any of the
Securities agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter or Underwriters hereunder and such failure to purchase shall constitute a default in the performance of its or their obligations under this Agreement, the remaining Underwriters shall be
obligated severally to take up and pay for (in the respective proportions which the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule II hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the
names of all the remaining Underwriters) the Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase; </P>
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<U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that if the aggregate number of Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of the aggregate
principal amount of Securities set forth in Schedule II hereto, the remaining Underwriters shall have the right to purchase all, but shall not be under any obligation to purchase any, of the Securities, and if such non-defaulting Underwriters do not
purchase all the Securities, this Agreement will terminate without liability to any non-defaulting Underwriter, the Company or the Guarantor. In the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in this Section&nbsp;9, the Closing Date shall be
postponed for such period, not exceeding five Business Days, as the Representatives shall determine in order that the required changes in the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected.
Nothing contained in this Agreement shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the Company, the Guarantor and any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its default hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">10.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Termination</U>. This Agreement shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the
Representatives, by notice given to the Company and the Guarantor prior to delivery of and payment for the Securities, if at any time prior to such time there shall have been (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;a suspension or material limitation in trading in
securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;a suspension or material limitation in trading in any of the Company&#146;s securities on the New York Stock Exchange, (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;a general moratorium on commercial banking
activities declared by Federal or New York State authorities, (<U>iv</U>)&nbsp;an outbreak or escalation of hostilities involving the United States or the declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war, or (<U>v</U>)&nbsp;the
occurrence of any other calamity or crisis, if the effect of such event specified in clause (iv)&nbsp;or (v), in the sole judgment of the Representatives, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or delivery of the
Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by any Preliminary Final Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">11.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Representations and Indemnities to Survive</U>. The respective agreements, representations, warranties,
indemnities and other statements of the Company, the Guarantor or their officers and of the Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of
any Underwriter or the Company or the Guarantor or any of the officers, directors, employees, agents or controlling persons referred to in Section&nbsp;8 hereof, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities. The provisions of Sections
7 and 8 hereof shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">12.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Notices</U>. All
communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on receipt, and, if sent to the Representatives, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to Barclays Capital Inc., Attention: Syndicate Registration, 745 Seventh Avenue, New York, New
York 10019; and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 550 South Tryon Street, 5<SUP STYLE="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">th</SUP> Floor, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202, Attention: Transaction Management, Facsimile: <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">704-410-0326,</FONT></FONT> with a copy to Debevoise&nbsp;&amp; Plimpton LLP, New York, New York 10022, Attention: Paul M. Rodel, Esq.; or, </P>
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if sent to the Company or the Guarantor, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to the Guarantor&#146;s General Counsel (fax no.: (441) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">295-4327)</FONT> and
confirmed to it at Renaissance House, 12 Crow Lane, Pembroke HM 19, Bermuda, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, with a copy to Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019, Attention: Sean M. Ewen, Esq. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">13.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Successors</U>. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their
respective successors and the officers, directors, and controlling persons referred to in Section&nbsp;8 hereof, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder. No purchaser of Securities from the Underwriters shall be deemed to be
a successor by reason merely of such purchase. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">14.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>No Fiduciary Duty</U>. The Company and the Guarantor hereby
acknowledge that (<U>a</U>)&nbsp;the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an arm&#146;s-length commercial transaction between the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and any affiliate through
which they may be acting, on the other, (<U>b</U>)&nbsp;the Underwriters are acting as principal of the Company and not as an agent or fiduciary of the Company or the Guarantor and (<U>c</U>)&nbsp;the Company&#146;s engagement of the Underwriters in
connection with the offering and the process leading up to the offering is as independent contractors and not in any other capacity. Furthermore, the Company and the Guarantor agree that it is solely responsible for making its own judgments in
connection with the offering (irrespective of whether any of the Underwriters has advised or is currently advising the Company or the Guarantor on related or other matters). The Company and the Guarantor agree that it will not claim that the
Underwriters have rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owe an agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Company or the Guarantor, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">15.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Applicable Law; Consent to Jurisdiction</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to
contracts made and to be performed within the State of New York. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With respect to any suit, action or
proceeding against it arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the Company irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York and the United States District Courts in each case located in the Borough of
Manhattan, City and State of New York. In addition, the Company irrevocably waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court and irrevocably waives any claim
that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For purposes of any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any of the foregoing courts, the Company and the
Guarantor agree to maintain an agent for service of </P>
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process in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, at all times while any Securities shall be outstanding, and for that purpose the Company and the Guarantor hereby irrevocably
designates Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019-6099, c/o Mr.&nbsp;Sean&nbsp;M. Ewen, Esq., as its agent to receive on its behalf service of process (with a copy of all such service of process to be
delivered to RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., Renaissance House, 12 Crow Lane, Pembroke HM 19, Bermuda, Attention: General Counsel) brought against it with respect to any such proceeding in any such court in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of
New York, such service being hereby acknowledged by the Company or the Guarantor to be effective and binding service on it in every respect whether or not the Company or the Guarantor shall then be doing or shall have at any time done business in
New York. In the event that such agent for service of process resigns or ceases to serve as the agent of the Company or the Guarantor, the Company and the Guarantor agree to give notice as provided in Section&nbsp;12 herein of the name and address
of any new agent for service of process with respect to it appointed hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If, despite the foregoing, in
any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any of the aforesaid courts, there is for any reason no such agent for service of process of the Company and the Guarantor available to be served, then to the extent that service of process by mail
shall then be permitted by applicable law, the Company and the Guarantor further irrevocably consent to the service of process on it in any such suit, action or proceeding in any such court by the mailing thereof by registered or certified mail,
postage prepaid, to it at its address given in or pursuant to Section&nbsp;12 hereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nothing herein contained
shall preclude any party from effecting service of process in any lawful manner or from bringing any suit, action or proceeding in respect of this Agreement in any other state, country or place. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">16.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Counterparts</U>. This Agreement may be signed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an
original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">17.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Headings</U>. The section
headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">18.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<U>Definitions</U>. The terms which follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Act</U>&#148; shall mean the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated
thereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Basic Prospectus</U>&#148; shall mean the prospectus referred to in paragraph 1(a) above contained in the
Registration Statement at the Effective Date of such Registration Statement, including any Preliminary Final Prospectus. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Business Day</U>&#148; shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal
holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City or Bermuda. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Commission</U>&#148; shall mean the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Disclosure Package</U>&#148; shall mean (<U>i</U>)&nbsp;the Basic Prospectus, (<U>ii</U>)&nbsp;the Preliminary Final Prospectus used
most recently prior to the Execution Time and (<U>iii</U>)&nbsp;the Permitted Free Writing Prospectuses. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Effective
Date</U>&#148; shall mean each date and time that the Registration Statement, any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto became or becomes effective. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Exchange Act</U>&#148; shall mean the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the
Commission promulgated thereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Execution Time</U>&#148; shall mean the date and time that this Agreement is executed and
delivered by the parties hereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Final Prospectus</U>&#148; shall mean the prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that
was first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time, together with the Basic Prospectus. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Free Writing
Prospectus</U>&#148; shall mean a free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Issuer Free Writing Prospectus</U>&#148;
shall mean an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Preliminary Final Prospectus</U>&#148; shall mean any
preliminary prospectus supplement to the Basic Prospectus which describes the Securities and the offering thereof and is used prior to filing of the Final Prospectus, together with the Basic Prospectus. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Registration Statement</U>&#148; shall mean the registration statement referred to in paragraph 1(a) above, including exhibits and
financial statements and any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and deemed part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B, as amended at the Execution Time (or, if
not effective at the Execution Time, in the form in which it shall become effective) and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such registration statement as so amended. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Rule 158</U>&#148;, &#147;<U>Rule 164</U>&#148;, &#147;<U>Rule 172</U>&#148;, &#147;<U>Rule 405</U>&#148;, &#147;<U>Rule
415</U>&#148;, &#147;<U>Rule 424</U>&#148;, &#147;<U>Rule 430B</U>&#148; and &#147;<U>Rule 433</U>&#148; refer to such rules under the Act. </P>
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return to us the enclosed duplicate hereof, whereupon this letter and your acceptance shall represent a binding agreement among the Company, the Guarantor and the several Underwriters. </P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ Aditya K. Dutt</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Name: Aditya Dutt</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Title: President and Treasurer</TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ Aditya K. Dutt</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Name: Aditya Dutt</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Title: Senior Vice President and Treasurer</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The foregoing Agreement is</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">hereby
confirmed and accepted</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">as of the date specified in</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Schedule I
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ Radhika Gupte</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Name: Radhika Gupte</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ Carolyn Hurley</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Name: Carolyn Hurley</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">several Underwriters, if any,</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">named in Schedule II to the</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Underwriting Agreement dated June&nbsp;26, 2017 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Registration
Statement Nos. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233</FONT> and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233-03</FONT></FONT> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Representative(s): Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Title and Description of the Securities: As Described in Schedule III </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Purchase Price: 98.622% </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Closing Date, Time and Location: June
29, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. New York Time at the offices of Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP, 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, New York 10019. </P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="center" STYLE="border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000"><B>Principal&nbsp;Amount&nbsp;of<BR>Securities&nbsp;to&nbsp;be<BR>Purchased</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Barclays Capital Inc.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">90,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">90,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Citigroup Global Markets Inc.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">42,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner&nbsp;&amp; Smith</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;Incorporated</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right">42,000,000</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">BMO Capital Markets Corp.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">12,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">12,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">12,000,000</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; border-top:1.00px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><B>$</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><B>300,000,000</B></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RENAISSANCERE FINANCE INC. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>3.450% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2027 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Issuer:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">RenaissanceRe Finance Inc.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Guarantor:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Ratings*:</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Moody&#146;s: A3 (Stable)</P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">S&amp;P: A (Negative)</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Principal Amount:</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">$300,000,000</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Public Offering Price:</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">99.272% of the principal amount</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Underwriting Discount:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">0.650%</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Trade Date:</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">June 26, 2017</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Settlement Date:</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">June 29, 2017</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Maturity Date:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">July 1, 2027</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Security Type:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Senior Unsecured Fixed Rate Notes</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Minimum Denominations:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">$2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Coupon:</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">3.450%</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Interest Payment Dates:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Semi-annually on July 1 and January 1 of each year, commencing on January&nbsp;1, 2018</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Day Count Convention:</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">30/360</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Yield to Maturity:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">3.537%</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Benchmark Treasury:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">2.375% due May&nbsp;15, 2027</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Benchmark Treasury Yield:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">2.137%</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Spread to Benchmark Treasury:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">140 basis points</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Optional Redemption Provisions:</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:2.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Make-Whole Call:</B></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">The Redemption Price for any redemption of Notes before April&nbsp;1, 2027 shall be equal to the greater of (i)</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (ii)&nbsp;the Discounted Present Value of the Notes to be redeemed, plus in
each case accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of such Notes to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.</P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;Discounted Present Value&#148; of any Note subject to optional redemption shall be equal to the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled
payments of principal and interest (excluding interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on such Note discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year consisting of twelve <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months) at the applicable Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points.</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:2.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Par Call:</B></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">The Redemption Price for any redemption of Notes on or after April&nbsp;1, 2027 shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on such principal amount of such Notes
to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>CUSIP/ISIN:</B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">75973Q AA5 / US75973QAA58</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Joint Book-Running Managers:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Barclays Capital Inc.</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Wells Fargo
Securities, LLC</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><B>Joint Lead Managers:</B></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Citigoup Global Markets Inc.</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner&nbsp;&amp; Smith</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Incorporated</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">BMO Capital Markets Corp.</P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.</P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC</P></TD></TR>
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STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233</FONT> and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233-03)</FONT></FONT> with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;<U>SEC</U>&#148;) for the offering to which
this communication relates.&nbsp;Before you invest, you should read the prospectus for this offering in that registration statement, the preliminary prospectus, the final prospectus, when available, and other documents the Issuer and the Guarantor
have filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Issuer, the Guarantor and this offering.&nbsp;You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at</B><I>
</I><B></B><B><I><U>www.sec.gov</U></I></B><B>.&nbsp;Alternatively, the Issuer, the Guarantor, any underwriter or any dealer participating in this offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling Barclays Capital Inc.
toll free at <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">1-888-603-5847</FONT></FONT></FONT> and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC toll free at <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">1-800-645-3751.</FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Any disclaimer or other notice that may appear
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>Exhibit 4.1 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>EXECUTION VERSION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SENIOR INDENTURE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RENAISSANCERE FINANCE INC., Issuer </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>and </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RENAISSANCERE
HOLDINGS LTD., Guarantor </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>and </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, Trustee </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>INDENTURE
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Senior Debt Securities </B></P>

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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the &#147;<U>Trust Indenture Act</U>&#148;) </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#167;&#167; 310(a)(1)</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">6.7</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)(2)</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">6.7</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">6.8</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#167;&#167; 312(a)</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">7.1</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">7.2</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">7.2</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#167;&#167; 313(a)</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">7.3</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">7.3</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#167;&#167; 314(a)</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">7.4,&nbsp;10.7</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1.2</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f)</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1.2</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#167;&#167; 316(a) (last sentence)</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1.1</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)(1)(A)</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">5.2,&nbsp;5.12</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)(1)(B)</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">5.13</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 1</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.1.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Definitions</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">1</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.2.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Compliance Certificates and Opinions</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">11</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.3.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">12</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.4.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Acts of Holders</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.5.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.6.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">14</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.7.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Language of Notices</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.8.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Conflict with Trust Indenture Act</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.9.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Effect of Headings and Table of Contents</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">15</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.10.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Successors and Assigns</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Separability Clause</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.12.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Benefits of Indenture</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Legal Holidays</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Counterparts</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Judgment Currency</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">No Security Interest Created</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.18.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Limitation on Individual Liability</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Submission to Jurisdiction</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">SECURITIES FORMS</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">18</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.2.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Form of Trustee&#146;s Certificate of Authentication</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.3.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">THE SECURITIES</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">20</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.2.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Currency; Denominations</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">24</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.3.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">24</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.4.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Temporary Securities</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">26</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.5.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Registration, Transfer and Exchange</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">27</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.6.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">30</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Payment of Interest and Certain Additional Amounts; Rights to Interest and Certain Additional Amounts Preserved</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Persons Deemed Owners</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Cancellation</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">33</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.10.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Computation of Interest</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;4.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Satisfaction and Discharge</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">34</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;4.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">35</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Application of Trust Money</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">40</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 5</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">REMEDIES</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">40</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Events of Default</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">40</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">42</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.3.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">43</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.4.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Trustee May File Proofs of Claim</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">44</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.5.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities or Coupons</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">45</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.6.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Application of Money Collected</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">45</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.7.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Limitations on Suits</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">46</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.8.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and any Premium, Interest and Additional Amounts</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">46</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.9.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Restoration of Rights and Remedies</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">47</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.10.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Rights and Remedies Cumulative</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">47</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.11.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Delay or Omission Not Waiver</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">47</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.12.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Control by Holders of Securities</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">47</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Waiver of Past Defaults</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">48</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">48</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Undertaking for Costs</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">48</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">THE TRUSTEE</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">49</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Certain Rights of Trustee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">49</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Notice of Defaults</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">51</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">51</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">May Hold Securities</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">52</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.5.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Money Held in Trust</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">52</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Compensation and Reimbursement</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">52</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.7.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">53</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.8.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">53</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.9.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Acceptance of Appointment by Successor</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">55</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.10.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">56</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.11.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Appointment of Authenticating Agent</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">56</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">USA Patriot Act</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">58</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.13.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Force Majeure</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">58</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 7</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">59</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">59</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">59</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.3.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Reports by Trustee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">59</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.4.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Reports by Company</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">60</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 8</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">CONSOLIDATION, AMALGAMATIONS, MERGER AND SALES</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">60</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">60</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Successor Person Substituted for Company</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">61</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.3.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Guarantor May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">62</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.4.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Successor Person Substituted for Guarantor</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">62</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 9</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">63</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">63</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">64</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.3.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Execution of Supplemental Indentures</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">65</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.4.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Effect of Supplemental Indentures</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">66</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.5.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">66</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.6.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Conformity with Trust Indenture Act</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">66</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.7.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Notice of Supplemental Indenture</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">66</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 10</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">COVENANTS</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">66</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Payment of Principal, any Premium, Interest and Additional Amounts</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">66</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Maintenance of Office or Agency</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">67</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.3.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">68</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.4.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Additional Amounts</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">69</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.5.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Corporate Existence</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">71</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.6.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Waiver of Certain Covenants</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">72</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.7.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Company and Guarantor&#146;s Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Certain Defaults</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">72</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.8.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Calculation of Original Issue Discount</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">72</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 11</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">73</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Applicability of Article</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">73</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.2.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">73</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">73</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.4.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Notice of Redemption</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">74</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.5.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Deposit of Redemption Price</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">75</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.6.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Securities Payable on Redemption Date</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">75</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.7.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Securities Redeemed in Part</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">76</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 12</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">SINKING FUNDS</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">77</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Applicability of Article</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">77</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">77</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.3.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">78</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 13</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">78</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Applicability of Article</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">78</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 14</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">79</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Applicability of Article</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">79</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Article 15</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">79</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;15.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">The Guarantee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">79</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;15.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Ranking of Guarantee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">79</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">INDENTURE, dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017 (the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;), among RENAISSANCERE
FINANCE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the &#147;<U>Company</U>&#148;), having its principal executive office located at 140 Broadway, Suite 4200, New York, NY 10005,
RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD., a company duly organized and existing under the laws of Bermuda (hereinafter called the &#147;<U>Guarantor</U>&#148;), having its principal executive office located at Renaissance House, 12 Crow Lane, Pembroke HM 19,
Bermuda, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee (hereinafter called the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148;), having its Corporate Trust Office located at 60 Wall Street,
16th Floor, MS NYC <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">60-1630,</FONT> New York, New York 10005. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RECITALS </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its senior
unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (hereinafter called the &#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148;), unlimited as to principal amount, to bear such rates of interest, to mature at such time or times, to be issued in one or more
series and to have such other provisions as shall be fixed as hereinafter provided. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company has duly authorized the execution and
delivery of this Indenture. All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For value received, the Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance of the
Guarantee and the indemnity provided for herein. All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Guarantor, in accordance with its terms, have been done. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Securities
and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder that are required to be part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, shall be governed by such provisions. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders (as herein defined) thereof, it is mutually
covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof and any Coupons (as herein defined) as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_1"></A>Article 1 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_2"></A>Section&nbsp;1.1. <U>Definitions</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, or unless the context otherwise requires, for all purposes of this
Indenture: </P>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt ; font-size:8pt">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">-1- </P>


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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and
include the plural as well as the singular; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly
or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the terms &#147;<U>generally accepted accounting principles</U>&#148; or
&#147;<U>GAAP</U>&#148; with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally accepted in the United States of America at the date or time of such computation; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) the words &#147;<U>herein</U>,&#148; &#147;<U>hereof</U>,&#148; &#147;<U>hereto</U>&#148; and &#147;<U>hereunder</U>&#148; and other words
of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) the word
&#147;<U>or</U>&#148; is always used inclusively (for example, the phrase &#147;A or B&#148; means &#147;A or B or both,&#148; not &#147;either A or B but not both&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Certain terms used principally in certain Articles hereof are defined in those Articles. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Act</U>,&#148; when used with respect to any Holders, has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;1.4. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Additional Amounts</U>&#148; means any additional amounts which are required hereby or by any Security, under circumstances specified
herein or therein, to be paid by the Company or the Guarantor in respect of certain taxes, assessments or other governmental charges imposed on Holders specified therein and which are owing to such Holders. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Affiliate</U>&#148; of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under
direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, &#147;control,&#148; when used with respect to any specified Person, means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or
indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms &#147;controlling&#148; and &#147;controlled&#148; have the meanings correlative to the foregoing. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Authenticating Agent</U>&#148; means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.11 to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of one or more series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Authorized Newspaper</U>&#148; means a newspaper, in an official language of the
place of publication or in the English language, customarily published on each day that is a Business Day in the place of publication, whether or not published on days that are Legal Holidays in the place of publication, and of general circulation
in each place in connection with which the term is used or in the financial community of each such place. Where successive publications are required to be made in Authorized Newspapers, the successive publications may be made in the same or in
different newspapers in the same city meeting the foregoing requirements and in each case on any day that is a Business Day in the place of publication. </P>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt ; font-size:8pt">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">-2- </P>


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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Authorized Officer</U>&#148; means, when used with respect to the Company, the Chair of
the Board of Directors, a Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, a Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Chief Investment Officer, the Chief Accounting
Officer, the General Counsel, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Bearer Security</U>&#148; means any
Security in the form established pursuant to Section&nbsp;2.1 which is payable to bearer. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Board of Directors</U>&#148; means the
board of directors of the Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act generally or in any particular respect for the Company hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Board Resolution</U>&#148; means a copy of one or more resolutions, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the
Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors or the Guarantor&#146;s Board of Directors, as the case may be, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, delivered to the
Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Business Day</U>,&#148; with respect to any Place of Payment or other location, means, unless otherwise specified with
respect to any Securities pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1, any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in such Place of Payment or other location are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to
close. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Capital Stock</U>&#148; of any Person means any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options,
participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Capitalized Lease Obligation</U>&#148; means an obligation under a lease that is required to be capitalized for financial reporting
purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the amount of Indebtedness represented by such obligation shall be the capitalized amount of such obligation determined in accordance with such principles. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Code</U>&#148; means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Commission</U>&#148; means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or, if at any time after the execution of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Common Stock</U>&#148; in respect of any Corporation means Capital Stock of any class or classes (however designated) which has
no preference as to the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Corporation, and which is not subject to redemption by such Corporation. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Company</U>&#148; means the Person named as the &#147;Company&#148; in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor
Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter &#147;Company&#148; shall mean such successor Person, and any other obligor upon the Securities. </P>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt ; font-size:8pt">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">-3- </P>


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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Company Request</U>&#148; and &#147;<U>Company Order</U>&#148; mean, respectively, a
written request or order, as the case may be, signed in the name of the Company by an Authorized Officer, and delivered to the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Conversion Event</U>&#148; means the cessation of use of (i)&nbsp;a Foreign Currency both by the government of the country or the
confederation which issued such Foreign Currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other public institutions of or within the international banking community or (ii)&nbsp;any currency unit or composite currency for the
purposes for which it was established. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Corporate Trust Office</U>&#148; means the designated corporate trust office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of original execution of this Indenture is located at Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, 60 Wall Street, 16th Floor, MS NYC <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">60-1630,</FONT> New York, New York 10005, Trust and Agency Services, Attention: Corporate Team/RenaissanceRe Finance Inc. or at any other time at such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice
to the parties hereto or at the designated corporate trust office of any successor trustee as to which such successor trustee may notify the parties hereto in writing. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Corporation</U>&#148; includes corporations, limited liability companies, incorporated associations, companies and business trusts.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Coupon&#148;</U> means any interest coupon appertaining to a Bearer Security. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Currency</U>,&#148; with respect to any payment, deposit or other transfer in respect of the principal of or any premium or interest
on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security, means Dollars or the Foreign Currency, as the case may be, in which such payment, deposit or other transfer is required to be made by or pursuant to the terms hereof or such Security and,
with respect to any other payment, deposit or transfer pursuant to or contemplated by the terms hereof or such Security, means Dollars. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>CUSIP number</U>&#148; means the alphanumeric designation assigned to a Security by Standard &amp; Poor&#146;s Ratings Service, CUSIP
Service Bureau. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Defaulted Interest</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.7. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Dollars</U>&#148; or &#147;<U>$</U>&#148; means a dollar or other equivalent unit of legal tender for payment of public or private
debts in the United States of America. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Event of Default</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;5.1. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Foreign Currency</U>&#148; means any currency, currency unit or composite currency, including, without limitation, the euro, issued
by the government of one or more countries other than the United States of America or by any recognized confederation or association of such governments. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Government Obligations</U>&#148; means securities which are (i)&nbsp;direct obligations
of the United States of America or the other government or governments or confederation or association of governments which issued the Foreign Currency in which the principal of or any premium or interest on such Security or any Additional Amounts
in respect thereof shall be payable, in each case where the payment or payments thereunder are supported by the full faith and credit of such government or governments or confederation or association of governments or (ii)&nbsp;obligations of a
Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America or such other government or governments or confederation or association of governments, in each case where the timely payment or payments
thereunder are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America or such other government or governments or confederation or association of governments, and which, in the case of (i)&nbsp;or (ii), are
not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer or issuers thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on
or principal of or other amount with respect to any such Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any
deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal of or other amount with respect to the
Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Guarantee</U>&#148; means the unconditional guarantee of payment of
the principal of, any premium or interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Securities by the Guarantor, as more fully set forth in Article 15. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Guarantor</U>&#148; means the Person named as the &#147;Guarantor&#148; in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor
person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter &#147;Guarantor&#148; shall mean each successor Person. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Guarantor&#146;s Board of Directors</U>&#148; means the board of directors of the Guarantor or any committee of that board duly
authorized to act generally or in any particular respect for the Guarantor hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Guarantor&#146;s Officer&#146;s
Certificate</U>&#148; means a certificate signed by the Chair of the Guarantor&#146;s Board of Directors, a Vice Chair of the Guarantor&#146;s Board of Directors, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Investment Officer, the Chief
Accounting Officer, a Vice President, the General Counsel or the Secretary of the Guarantor, that complies with the requirements of Section&nbsp;314(e) of the Trustee Indenture Act and is delivered to the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Guarantor Request</U>&#148; means a written request signed in the name of the Guarantor by the Chair of the Guarantor&#146;s Board of
Directors, a Vice Chair of the Guarantor&#146;s Board of Directors, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Investment Officer, the Chief Accounting Officer, a Vice President, the General Counsel or the Secretary of the Guarantor, and
delivered to the Trustee. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Holder,</U>&#148; in the case of any Registered Security, means the Person in whose name
such Security is registered in the Security Register and, in the case of any Bearer Security, means the bearer thereof and, in the case of any Coupon, means the bearer thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Indebtedness</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Person, (i)&nbsp;the principal of and any premium and interest on
(a)&nbsp;indebtedness of such Person for money borrowed and (b)&nbsp;indebtedness evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or other similar instruments for the payment of which such Person is responsible or liable; (ii)&nbsp;all Capitalized Lease
Obligations of such Person; (iii)&nbsp;all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all conditional sale obligations and all obligations under any title retention agreement (but excluding trade
accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business); (iv) all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker&#146;s acceptance or similar credit transaction (other than obligations with
respect to letters of credit securing obligations (other than obligations described in (i)&nbsp;through (iii) above) entered into in the ordinary course of business of such Person to the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if and to
the extent drawn upon, such drawing is reimbursed no later than the third Business Day following receipt by such Person of a demand for reimbursement following payment on the letter of credit); (v) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses
(i)&nbsp;through (iv) of other Persons and all dividends of other Persons for the payment of which, in either case, such Person is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, the amount thereof being deemed to be the lesser of the
stated recourse, if limited, and the amount of the obligation or dividends of the other Person, (vi)&nbsp;all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i)&nbsp;through (v) of other Persons secured by any Lien on any property or asset of such
Person (whether or not such obligation is assumed by such Person), the amount of such obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the value of such property or assets or the amount of the obligation so secured; and (vii)&nbsp;any amendments,
modifications, refundings, renewals or extensions of any indebtedness or obligation described as Indebtedness in clauses (i)&nbsp;through (vi) above. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Indenture&#148;</U> means this instrument as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and, with respect to any Security, by the terms and provisions of such Security and any Coupon appertaining thereto established pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1 (as such terms
and provisions may be amended pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Independent Public Accountants</U>&#148; means
accountants or a firm of accountants that, with respect to the Company, the Guarantor and any other obligor under the Securities or the Coupons, are independent public accountants within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder, who may be the independent public accountants regularly retained by the Company or the Guarantor or who may be other independent public accountants. Such accountants or firm shall be
entitled to rely upon any Opinion of Counsel as to the interpretation of any legal matters relating to this Indenture or certificates required to be provided hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>&#147;Indexed Security</U>&#148; means a Security the terms of which provide that the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity
or upon acceleration pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.2 may be more or less than the principal face amount thereof at original issuance. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>interest,</U>&#148; with respect to any Original Issue Discount Security which by its
terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity and, when used with respect to a Security which provides for the payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section&nbsp;10.4, includes such Additional Amounts. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Payment Date,</U>&#148; with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such
Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Judgment Currency</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;1.16. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Legal Holidays</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;1.14. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Lien&#148;</U> means any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or other encumbrance. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Maturity,</U>&#148; with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of
principal becomes due and payable as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption or repurchase, notice of option to elect
repayment or otherwise, and includes any Redemption Date and the date of any required repurchase or repayment. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>New York Banking
Day</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;1.16. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Office</U>&#148; or &#147;<U>Agency,</U>&#148; with respect to any
Securities, means an office or agency of the Company maintained or designated as a Place of Payment for such Securities pursuant to Section 10.2 or any other office or agency of the Company maintained or designated for such Securities pursuant to
Section&nbsp;10.2 or, to the extent designated or required by Section&nbsp;10.2 in lieu of such office or agency, the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Officers&#146; Certificate</U>&#148; means a certificate signed by two Authorized Officers, at least one of which is a principal
executive, principal financial or principal accounting officer, that complies with the requirements of Section&nbsp;314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act and is delivered to the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Opinion of Counsel</U>&#148; means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel for the Company, the Guarantor
or other counsel who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, that, if required by the Trust Indenture Act, complies with the requirements of Section&nbsp;314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Original Issue Discount Security</U>&#148; means a Security issued pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization
which provides for declaration of an amount less than the principal face amount thereof to be due and payable upon acceleration pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.2. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Outstanding,</U>&#148; when used with respect to any Securities, means, as of the date of determination, all such Securities
theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except: </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) any such Security theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or the Security
Registrar or delivered to the Trustee or the Security Registrar for cancellation; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) any such Security for whose payment
at the Maturity thereof money in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited pursuant hereto (other than pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.2) with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company or the Guarantor) in trust or set aside and
segregated in trust by the Company or the Guarantor (if the Company shall act as its own, or authorize the Guarantor to act as, Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, provided, that, if such Securities
are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) any such Security with respect to which the Company or the Guarantor has effected defeasance pursuant to the terms hereof,
except to the extent provided in Section 4.2; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) any such Security which has been paid pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.6 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, unless there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Security is held by a protected purchaser in
whose hands such Security is a valid obligation of the Company; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) any such Security converted or exchanged as
contemplated by this Indenture into Common Stock of the Company or of the Guarantor or other securities of another issuer, if the terms of such Security provide for such conversion or exchange pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (i)&nbsp;the principal amount of any Indexed Security that may be counted in making such determination and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such purposes shall be equal to
the principal amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, and (ii)&nbsp;the principal amount of a Security denominated in a Foreign Currency
shall be the Dollar equivalent, determined on the date of original issuance of such Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent on the date of original issuance of such Security of
the then current principal amount) of such Security, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, and (iii)&nbsp;Securities owned by the Company, the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company, the Guarantor or such other obligor, shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in making any such determination or relying
upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which shall have been pledged
in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee (A) </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">the pledgee&#146;s right so to act with respect to such Securities and (B)&nbsp;that the pledgee
is not the Company, the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Coupons appertaining thereto or an Affiliate of the Company, the Guarantor or such other obligor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Patriot Act</U>&#148; means United States Public Law <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">107-56,</FONT> Uniting and Strengthening
America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Paying
Agent</U>&#148; means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of, or any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security or any Coupon on behalf of the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Person</U>&#148; means any individual, Corporation, partnership, joint venture, joint-stock company, limited liability company,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Place of Payment,</U>&#148;
with respect to any Security, means the place or places where the principal of, or any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to such Security are payable as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series
Authorization. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Predecessor Security</U>&#148; of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a
portion of the same Indebtedness as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section&nbsp;3.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a lost, destroyed, mutilated or
stolen Security or any Security to which a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertains shall be deemed to evidence the same Indebtedness as the lost, destroyed, mutilated or stolen Security or the Security to which a mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Coupon appertains. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Preferred Stock</U>&#148; in respect of any Corporation means Capital Stock of any class or
classes (however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Corporation, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class of
such Corporation. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>principal</U>&#148; means, as of any date of determination with respect to the Securities of any series,
(i)&nbsp;in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security or an Indexed Security, the amount due and payable with respect to principal upon an acceleration thereof pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.2 at such time and (ii)&nbsp;in all other cases, par or
the stated face amount of the related Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Redemption Date,</U>&#148; with respect to any Security or portion thereof to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Redemption Price,</U>&#148; with respect to any Security or portion thereof to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be
redeemed as determined by or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, exclusive of accrued interest and any Additional Amounts with respect to accrued interest. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Registered Security</U>&#148; means any Security established pursuant to
Section&nbsp;2.1 which is registered in a Security Register. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Regular Record Date</U>&#148; for the interest payable on any
Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date therefor means the date, if any, specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization as the &#147;Regular Record Date&#148;. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Required Currency</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;1.16. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Responsible Officer</U>&#148; means any vice president, any assistant vice president, director, managing director, associate or any
trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject, in each case who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Security</U>&#148; or &#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148; means any note or notes, bond or bonds, debenture or debentures, or any other
evidences of Indebtedness, as the case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture; provided, however, that, if at any time there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture, &#147;Securities,&#148; with respect to
any such Person, shall mean Securities authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of any series as to which such Person is not Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Security Register</U>&#148; and &#147;<U>Security Registrar</U>&#148; have the respective meanings specified in Section&nbsp;3.5.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement</U>&#148; means the Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement entered into in
connection with a series of Securities, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Series Authorization</U>&#148;
means, with respect to any series or class of Securities, (i)&nbsp;a Board Resolution and Officers&#146; Certificate or (ii)&nbsp;one or more indentures supplemental hereto, establishing such series or class of Securities and setting forth the terms
thereof, including, in either case, a form of note or notes representing such Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Special Record Date</U>&#148; for the
payment of any Defaulted Interest on any Registered Security means a date fixed by the Company pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.7. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Stated Maturity,</U>&#148; with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon or any Additional
Amounts with respect thereto, means the date established by or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is, or such
Additional Amounts are, due and payable. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Subsidiary</U>&#148; means, in respect of any Person, any Corporation, limited or
general partnership or other business entity of which at the time of determination more than 50% of the voting power of the shares of its Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the occurrence
of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, </P>
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managers or trustees thereof is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i)&nbsp;such Person, (ii) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or (iii)&nbsp;one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Trust Indenture Act</U>&#148; means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and any reference
herein to the Trust Indenture Act or a particular provision thereof shall mean such Act or provision, as the case may be, as amended or replaced from time to time or as supplemented from time to time by rules or regulations adopted by the Commission
under or in furtherance of the purposes of such Act or provision, as the case may be. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148; means the Person named
as the &#147;Trustee&#148; in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such with respect to one or more series of Securities pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
&#147;Trustee&#148; shall mean each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder; provided, however, that if at any time there is more than one such Person, &#147;Trustee&#148; shall mean each such Person and as used with respect to the Securities of any
series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>United States,</U>&#148; except as otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Series Authorization, means the United States of America (including the states thereof and the District of Columbia), its territories and possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>U.S. Depository</U>&#148; or &#147;<U>Depository</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Security issuable or issued in the form of one
or more global Securities, the Person designated as U.S. Depository or Depository by the Company in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, which Person must be, to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, a
clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and, if so provided with respect to any Security, any successor to such Person. If at any time there is more than one such Person, &#147;U.S. Depository&#148; or
&#147;Depository&#148; shall mean, with respect to any Securities, the qualifying entity which has been appointed with respect to such Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Vice President,</U>&#148; when used with respect to the Company, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title &#147;Vice President.&#148; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_3"></A>Section&nbsp;1.2. <U>Compliance
Certificates and Opinions</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, upon any application or request by the Company to
the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed
action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the
furnishing of such documents or any of them is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for
in this Indenture shall include: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) a statement that the individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such
condition or covenant and the definitions herein relating thereto; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)
a statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such condition or covenant has been complied with; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_4"></A>Section&nbsp;1.3. <U>Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that
all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other
such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any
certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or the Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel, provided that such officer, after reasonable inquiry, has no reason to believe and does not
believe that the Opinion of Counsel with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based is erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company or the Guarantor stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, provided that such counsel, after
reasonable inquiry, has no reason to believe and does not believe that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture or any Security, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_5">
</A>Section&nbsp;1.4. <U>Acts of Holders</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided by or pursuant to this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in
writing. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are received by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, by the Company or the
Guarantor. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">referred to as the &#147;<U>Act</U>&#148; of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.
Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section&nbsp;315 of the Trust Indenture Act) conclusive in favor of the Trustee, the Company,
the Guarantor and any agent of the Trustee, the Company or the Guarantor, if made in the manner provided in this Section. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing referred to in this Section&nbsp;1.4 may
be proved in any reasonable manner; and the Trustee may in any instance require further proof, including written proof, with respect to any of the matters referred to in this Section. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of Registered Securities held by any Person, and the date of the
commencement and the date of the termination of holding the same, shall be proved by the Security Register. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) The
ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held by any Person, and the date of the commencement and the date of the termination of holding the same, may be proved by the production of such Bearer Securities or by a
certificate executed, as depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or other depositary reasonably acceptable to the Company, wherever situated, if such certificate shall be deemed by the Company and the Trustee to be satisfactory, showing that
at the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer Securities, if
such certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. The Trustee and the Company may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security continues until (i)&nbsp;another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued in
respect of the same Bearer Security is produced, or (ii)&nbsp;such Bearer Security is produced to the Trustee by some other Person, or (iii)&nbsp;such Bearer Security is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security, or (iv)&nbsp;such Bearer
Security is no longer Outstanding. The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of Bearer Securities held by the Person so executing such instrument or writing and the date of the commencement and the date of the termination of holding the
same may also be proved in any other manner which the Company and the Trustee deem sufficient. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) If the Company shall
solicit from the Holders of any Registered Securities any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may at its option (but is not obligated to), by Board Resolution, fix in advance a record date for
the determination of Holders of Registered Securities entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the Holders of Registered Securities of record at the close of business on such record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purpose of determining whether
Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be
computed as of such record date; provided that no such </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders of Registered Securities shall be deemed
effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six months after the record date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(6) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act by the Holder of any Security shall
bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any
Security Registrar, any Paying Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such Act is made upon such Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_6">
</A>Section&nbsp;1.5. <U>Notices, etc</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of Holders
or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) the
Trustee by any Holder or the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing (including facsimile) to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, with a copy to Deutsche Bank National
Trust Company, Trust&nbsp;&amp; Agency Services, 100 Plaza One, 6th Floor, MS: JCY03-0699, Jersey City, New Jersey 07311, Attention: Corporate Team / RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) the Company or the Guarantor by the Trustee or any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise
herein expressly provided) if in writing (including facsimile) and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company or the Guarantor addressed to the attention of its Treasurer, with a copy to the attention of its General Counsel, at the address
of its principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company or the Guarantor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_7"></A>Section&nbsp;1.6. <U>Notice to Holders of Securities; Waiver</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise expressly provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, where this Indenture provides for
notice to Holders of Securities of any event, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) such notice shall be sufficiently given to Holders of Registered
Securities if in writing and mailed, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">first-class</FONT> postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Registered Security affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later than the
latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) such notice shall
be sufficiently given to Holders of Bearer Securities, if any, if published in an Authorized Newspaper in The City of New York and, if such Securities are then listed on any stock exchange outside the United States, in an Authorized Newspaper in
such city as the Company shall advise the Trustee in writing that such stock exchange so requires, on a Business Day at least twice, the first such publication to be not earlier than the earliest date and the second such publication not later than
the latest date prescribed for the giving of such notice. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In any case where notice to Holders of Registered Securities is given by mail, neither the
failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder of a Registered Security shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any
notice to Holders of Bearer Securities given as provided herein. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given or provided. In the case by reason of the suspension of regular mail
service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case by reason of the suspension of publication of any Authorized Newspaper or Authorized Newspapers or by reason of any other cause it
shall be impracticable to publish any notice to Holders of Bearers Securities as provided above, then such notification to Holders of Bearer Securities as shall be given with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute sufficient notice to such
Holders for every purpose hereunder. Neither failure to give notice by publication to Holders of Bearer Securities as provided above, nor any defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of any notice mailed to Holders of
Registered Securities as provided above. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by
the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders of Securities shall be filed in writing with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be
a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_8"></A>Section&nbsp;1.7.
<U>Language of Notices</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election or waiver required or permitted under
this Indenture shall be in the English language, except that, if the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, so elects, any published notice may be in an official language of the country of publication. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_9"></A>Section&nbsp;1.8. <U>Conflict with Trust Indenture Act</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with any duties under any required provision of the Trust Indenture Act imposed hereon
by Section&nbsp;318(c) thereof, such required provision shall control. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_10"></A>Section&nbsp;1.9. <U>Effect of
Headings and Table of Contents</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall
not affect the construction hereof. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_11"></A>Section&nbsp;1.10. <U>Successors and Assigns</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company or the Guarantor shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_12"></A>Section&nbsp;1.11. <U>Separability Clause</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case any provision or a portion thereof in this Indenture, any Security or any Coupon shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_13">
</A>Section&nbsp;1.12. <U>Benefits of Indenture</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nothing in this Indenture, any Security or any Coupon, express or implied, shall give
to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Security Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent and their successors hereunder and the Holders of Securities or Coupons, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under this Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_14"></A>Section&nbsp;1.13. <U>Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Indenture, the Securities and any Coupons shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York
applicable to agreements made or instruments entered into and, in each case, performed in said state. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY
IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_15"></A>Section&nbsp;1.14. <U>Legal Holidays</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, in any case where any Interest Payment Date,
Stated Maturity or Maturity of any Security, or the last date on which a Holder has the right to convert or exchange Securities of a series that are convertible or exchangeable, shall be a Legal Holiday at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture, any Security or any Coupon other than a provision in any Security or Coupon that specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu hereof) payment need not be made at such Place of Payment on such
date, and such Securities need not be converted or exchanged on such date but such payment may be made, and such Securities may be converted or exchanged, on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force
and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or at the Stated Maturity or Maturity or on such last day for conversion or exchange, and no interest shall accrue on the amount payable on such date or at such time for the period from and after
such Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity, Maturity or last day for conversion or exchange, as the case may be, to such next succeeding Business Day. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_16"></A>Section&nbsp;1.15. <U>Counterparts</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Indenture may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the
same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original
Indenture and signature pages for all purposes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_17"></A>Section&nbsp;1.16. <U>Judgment Currency</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a)&nbsp;if for the purpose of obtaining
judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of, or premium or interest, if any, or Additional Amounts on the Securities of any series (the &#147;<U>Required Currency</U>&#148;) into a currency in which a
judgment will be rendered (the &#147;<U>Judgment Currency</U>&#148;), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the requisite amount of the
Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which a final unappealable judgment is given and (b)&nbsp;its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency (i)&nbsp;shall not
be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with clause (a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall
result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii)&nbsp;shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering
in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable and (iii)&nbsp;shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due
under this Indenture. For purposes of the foregoing, &#147;<U>New York Banking Day</U>&#148; means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The City of New&nbsp;York or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New&nbsp;York
are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to be closed. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_18"></A>Section&nbsp;1.17. <U>No
Security Interest Created</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;6.6, nothing in this Indenture or in any Securities, express or
implied, shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in effect in any jurisdiction where property of the Company or its Subsidiaries is or may be
located. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_19"></A>Section&nbsp;1.18. <U>Limitation on Individual Liability</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in any Security, or for any claim based thereon
or otherwise in respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator, shareholder (except in a shareholder&#146;s corporate capacity as Guarantor), manager, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company, either directly or
through the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that this Indenture and the obligations issued hereunder are solely
corporate obligations, and that no </P>
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managers, officers or directors, as such, of the Company, or any of them, because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in any Security
or implied therefrom; and that any and all such personal liability of every name and nature, either at common law or in equity or by constitution or statute, of, and any and all such rights and claims against, every such incorporator, shareholder,
manager, officer or director, as such, because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in any Security or implied therefrom, are hereby
expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issuance of such Security. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_20"></A>Section&nbsp;1.19. <U>Submission to Jurisdiction</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company agrees that any judicial proceedings instituted in relation to any matter arising under this Indenture, the Securities or any
Coupons appertaining thereto may be brought in any United States Federal or New York State court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York to the extent that such court has subject matter jurisdiction over the controversy,
and, by execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company hereby irrevocably accepts, generally and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts, acknowledges their competence and irrevocably agrees to be bound by any judgment
rendered in such proceeding. The Company also irrevocably and unconditionally waives for the benefit of the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and Coupons any immunity from jurisdiction and any immunity from legal process (whether through
service or notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in the aid of execution, execution or otherwise) in respect of this Indenture. Nothing herein shall limit the right of the Trustee or any Holder to institute proceedings against the Company
in the courts of any other jurisdiction or jurisdictions. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.20 <U>No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their
Subsidiaries or any other Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_21">
</A>Article 2 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">SECURITIES FORMS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_22"></A>Section&nbsp;2.1. <U>Forms Generally</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Each Registered Security, Bearer Security, Coupon and temporary or permanent global Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be in the
form established by or pursuant to the related Series Authorization, shall have such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series
Authorization or any indenture supplemental hereto and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such
Security or Coupon as evidenced by their execution of such Security or Coupon. </P>
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shall be issuable in registered form without Coupons and shall not be issuable upon the exercise of warrants. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Definitive Securities and
definitive Coupons shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on a steel engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers of the
Company executing such Securities or Coupons, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities or Coupons. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_23"></A>Section&nbsp;2.2. <U>Form of Trustee&#146;s Certificate of Authentication</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to Section&nbsp;6.11, the Trustee&#146;s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; margin-left:1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">AMERICAS, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee</P></TD></TR>
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</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_24"></A>Section&nbsp;2.3. <U>Securities in Global Form</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to the related Series Authorization, the Securities of a series shall not be issuable in temporary or
permanent global form. If Securities of a series shall be issuable in global form, any such Security may provide that it or any number of such Securities shall represent the aggregate amount of all Outstanding Securities of such series (or such
lesser amount as is permitted by the terms thereof) from time to time endorsed thereon and may also provide that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect exchanges.
Any endorsement of any Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, or changes in the rights of Holders, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made in such manner and by such Person or
Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.3 or Section&nbsp;3.4 with respect thereto. Subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.3 and, if applicable, Section&nbsp;3.4, the Trustee
shall deliver and redeliver, in each case at the Company&#146;s expense, any Security in permanent global form in the manner and upon written instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the applicable Company Order. If a
Company Order pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.3 or Section&nbsp;3.4 has been, </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with respect to a Security in global form shall
be in writing and, with respect to matters set forth in this Section&nbsp;2.3, need not be accompanied by or contained in an Officers&#146; Certificate and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel; <U>provided</U>, <U>that</U>, nothing in
this Section&nbsp;2.3 shall be interpreted to eliminate the need to provide an Officer&#146;s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel pursuant to Sections&nbsp;1.2, 3.3 or 3.4 to the extent that an Officer&#146;s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel is
required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 1.2, 3.3 or 3.4. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.7, unless otherwise
specified in or pursuant to the related Series Authorization, payment of principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security in temporary or permanent global form shall be made to the Person or Persons
specified therein. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.8 and except as provided in the preceding paragraph, the Company, the
Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall treat as the Holder of such principal amount of Outstanding Securities represented by a global Security (i)&nbsp;in the case of a global Security in registered form, the Holder of such global
Security in registered form, or (ii)&nbsp;in the case of a global Security in bearer form, the Person or Persons specified pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_25"></A>Article 3 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">THE SECURITIES </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_26">
</A>Section&nbsp;3.1. <U>Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or more series. With respect to any Securities to be authenticated and delivered hereunder, there shall be established in the related Series Authorization, the
following: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) the title of such Securities and the series in which such Securities shall be included; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such title or the Securities of such series which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of such series pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.4, Section 3.5,
Section&nbsp;3.6, Section&nbsp;9.5 or Section&nbsp;11.7, upon repayment in part of any Registered Security of such series pursuant to Article 13, upon surrender in part of any Registered Security for conversion into Common Stock of the Company or
exchange for other securities pursuant to its terms, or pursuant to or as contemplated by the terms of such Securities); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) if such Securities are to be issuable as Registered Securities, as Bearer Securities or alternatively as Bearer Securities
and Registered Securities, and whether the Bearer Securities are to be issuable with Coupons, without Coupons or both, and any restrictions applicable to the offer, sale or delivery of the Bearer Securities and the terms, if any, upon which Bearer
Securities may be exchanged for Registered Securities and vice versa; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) if any of such Securities are to be issuable in global form, when any of such
Securities are to be issuable in global form and (i)&nbsp;whether such Securities are to be issued in temporary or permanent global form or both, (ii)&nbsp;whether beneficial owners of interests in any such global Security may exchange such
interests for definitive Securities of the same series and of like tenor and of any authorized form and denomination, and the circumstances under which any such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner specified in Section&nbsp;3.5, and
(iii)&nbsp;the name of the Depository or the U.S. Depository, as the case may be, with respect to any such global Security; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) if any of such Securities are to be issuable as Bearer Securities or in global form, the date as of which any such Bearer
Security or global Security shall be dated (if other than the date of original issuance of the first of such Securities to be issued); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(6) if any of such Securities are to be issuable as Bearer Securities, whether interest in respect of any portion of a
temporary Bearer Security in global form payable in respect of an Interest Payment Date therefor prior to the exchange, if any, of such temporary Bearer Security for definitive Securities shall be paid to any clearing organization with respect to
the portion of such temporary Bearer Security held for its account and, in such event, the terms and conditions (including any certification requirements) upon which any such interest payment received by a clearing organization will be credited to
the Persons entitled to interest payable on such Interest Payment Date; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(7) the date or dates, or the method or methods,
if any, by which such date or dates shall be determined, on which the principal of such Securities is payable; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(8) the
rate or rates at which such Securities shall bear interest, if any, or the method or methods, if any, by which such rate or rates are to be determined, the date or dates, if any, from which such interest shall accrue or the method or methods, if
any, by which such date or dates are to be determined, the Interest Payment Dates, if any, on which such interest shall be payable on a cash basis and the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable on Registered Securities on any Interest
Payment Date, whether and under what circumstances Additional Amounts on such Securities or any of them shall be payable, the notice, if any, to Holders regarding the determination of interest on a floating rate Security and the manner of giving
such notice, and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(9) if in addition to or other than the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, the place or places where the principal of,
any premium and interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities shall be payable, any of such Securities that are Registered Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, any of such Securities may be
surrendered for conversion or exchange and notices or demands to or upon the Company or the Guarantor in respect of such Securities and this Indenture may be served, the extent to which, or the manner in which, any interest payment or Additional
Amounts on a global Security on an Interest Payment Date, will be paid and the manner in which any principal of or premium, if any, on any global Security will be paid; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(10) whether any of such Securities are to be redeemable at the option of the
Company and, if so, the date or dates on which, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions upon which such Securities may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(11) whether the Company is obligated to redeem or purchase any of such Securities pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provision or at the option of any Holder thereof and, if so, the date or dates on which, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the other terms and conditions upon which such Securities shall be redeemed or purchased,
in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation, and any provisions for the remarketing of such Securities so redeemed or purchased; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(12) the denominations in which any of such Securities that are Registered Securities shall be issuable if other than
denominations of $2,000 or multiplies of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof, and the denominations in which any of such Securities that are Bearer Securities shall be issuable if other than the denomination of $5,000; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(13) whether the Securities of the series will be convertible into shares of Common Stock of the Company and/or exchangeable
for other securities, whether or not issued by the Company, and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which such Securities will be so convertible or exchangeable, and any deletions from or modifications or additions to this Indenture to permit or
to facilitate the issuance of such convertible or exchangeable Securities or the administration thereof; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(14) if other
than the principal face amount thereof, the portion of the par or stated face amount of any of such Securities that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.2 or the method by which such
portion is to be determined or, in the case of Indexed Securities, the portion of the principal face amount that shall be payable upon Stated Maturity or the method by which such portion is to be determined; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(15) if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency in which payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on or any
Additional Amounts with respect to any of such Securities shall be payable; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(16) if the principal of, any premium or
interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any of such Securities are to be payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof or otherwise, in Dollars or in a Foreign Currency other than that in which such Securities are stated
to be payable, the date or dates on which, the period or periods within which, and the other terms and conditions upon which, such election may be made, and the time and manner of determining the exchange rate between the Currency in which such
Securities are stated to be payable and the Currency in which such Securities or any of them are to be paid pursuant to such election, and any deletions from or modifications of or additions to the terms of this Indenture to provide for or to
facilitate the issuance of Securities denominated or payable, at the election of the Company or a Holder thereof or otherwise, in a Foreign Currency; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(17) whether the amount of payments of principal of, any premium or interest on
or any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities may be determined with reference to an index, formula or other method or methods (which index, formula or method or methods may be based, without limitation, on one or more Currencies,
commodities, equity securities, equity indices or other indices), and, if so, the terms and conditions upon which and the manner in which such amounts shall be determined and paid or payable; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(18) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events of Default or covenants of the Company or the Guarantor
with respect to any of such Securities, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(19) whether either or both of Section&nbsp;4.2(2) relating to defeasance or Section&nbsp;4.2(3) relating to covenant
defeasance shall not be applicable to the Securities of such series, or any covenants relating to the Securities of such series shall be subject to covenant defeasance pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.2(3), and any deletions from, or modifications or
additions to, the provisions of Article 4 in respect of the Securities of such series; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(20) the form or forms of the
Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement, if different from the Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement contemplated hereby and defined herein; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(21) whether any of such Securities are to be issuable upon the exercise of warrants, and the time, manner and place for such
Securities to be authenticated and delivered; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(22) if any of such Securities are to be issuable in global form and are to
be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original issue or upon exchange of a temporary Security) only upon receipt of certain certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then the form and terms of such certificates,
documents or conditions; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(23) if there is more than one Trustee, the identity of the Trustee and, if not the Trustee, the
identity of each Security Registrar, Paying Agent or Authenticating Agent with respect to such Securities; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(24) the
obligation, if any, of the Company to permit the conversion of the Securities of that series into Capital Stock of the Company or the Guarantor, and the terms and conditions upon which such conversion shall be effected (including, without
limitation, the initial conversion price or rate, the conversion period, any adjustment of the applicable conversion price, any requirements relative to hedging arrangements and reservation of shares for purposes of conversion and any other
provision in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in this Indenture or any indenture supplemental hereto relative to such obligation); and </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(25) any other terms of such Securities and any other deletions from or
modifications or additions to this Indenture in respect of such Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All Securities of any one series and all Coupons, if any,
appertaining to Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially identical except as to Currency of payments due thereunder, denomination and the rate of interest thereon, or method of determining the rate of interest, if any, Maturity, and
the date from which interest, if any, shall accrue and except as may otherwise be provided by the Company in or pursuant to the Board Resolution and set forth in the Officers&#146; Certificate or in any indenture or indentures supplemental hereto
pertaining to such series of Securities. The terms of the Securities of any series may provide, without limitation, that the Securities shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee on original issue from time to time upon written order of
persons designated in the Officers&#146; Certificate or supplemental indenture and that such persons are authorized to determine, consistent with such Officers&#146; Certificate or any applicable supplemental indenture, such terms and conditions of
the Securities of such series as are specified in such Officers&#146; Certificate or supplemental indenture. All Securities of any one series need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise so provided, a series may be reopened for
issuances of additional Securities of such series or to establish additional terms of such series of Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any of the terms of
the Securities of any series shall be established by action taken by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Board Resolution shall be delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers&#146; Certificate setting forth the terms of
such series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_27"></A>Section&nbsp;3.2. <U>Currency; Denominations</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, the principal of, any premium and interest on
and any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities shall be payable in Dollars. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, Registered Securities denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in
registered form without Coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000, and the Bearer Securities denominated in Dollars shall be issuable in the denomination of $5,000. Securities not denominated in Dollars shall be issuable
in such denominations as are established with respect to such Securities in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_28"></A>Section&nbsp;3.3. <U>Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by an Authorized Officer and attested by a different Authorized Officer. Coupons shall be
executed on behalf of the Company by the Chief Financial Officer or Chief Accounting Officer of the Company. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities or any Coupons appertaining thereto may be manual or facsimile. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper
officers of the Company shall bind the Company and the Guarantor, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities and Coupons or did not hold such
offices at the date of original issuance of such Securities or Coupons. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company
may deliver Securities, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto, executed by the Company, to the Trustee for authentication and, provided that the Board Resolution and Officers&#146; Certificate or supplemental indenture or indentures with
respect to such Securities referred to in Section&nbsp;3.1 and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities have been delivered to the Trustee, the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order and subject to the provisions
hereof and of such Securities shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto,
the Trustee shall receive, and (subject to Sections 315(a) through 315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected in, and may conclusively rely upon, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) an Opinion or Opinions of Counsel to the effect that: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) the form or forms and terms of such Securities and Coupons, if any, have been established in conformity with the provisions
of this Indenture; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) all conditions precedent to the authentication and delivery of such Securities and Coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto, have been complied with and that such Securities and Coupons, when completed by appropriate insertions, executed and attested by duly authorized officers of the Company, delivered by duly authorized officers of the Company to
the Trustee for authentication pursuant to this Indenture, and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute legal, valid and
binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement thereof may be subject to or limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, arrangement, fraudulent conveyance,
fraudulent transfer or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors&#146; rights generally, and subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in equity or at law) and will entitle the
Holders thereof to the benefits of this Indenture; such Opinion of Counsel need express no opinion as to the availability of equitable remedies; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) this Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) an Officers&#146; Certificate and a Guarantor&#146;s Officers&#146; Certificate, in each case stating that all conditions
precedent to the execution, authentication and delivery of such Securities and Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto, have been complied with and that, to the best knowledge of the Persons executing such certificate, no event which is, or after
notice or lapse of time would become, an Event of Default with respect to any of the Securities shall have occurred and be continuing. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate or to cause an Authenticating Agent to authenticate any Securities, nor will it be liable
for its refusal to authenticate or cause an </P>
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Authenticating Agent to authenticate any Securities, if the issue of such Securities will affect the Trustee&#146;s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or
otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee or if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. No Security or Coupon appertaining thereto shall be entitled to any benefit under
this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for in Section&nbsp;2.2 or Section&nbsp;6.11 executed by or on behalf of the Trustee
or by the Authenticating Agent by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories. Such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. Except as permitted by Section 3.6 or Section&nbsp;3.7, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer Security unless all Coupons appertaining thereto then matured have been detached and cancelled. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_29"></A>Section&nbsp;3.4. <U>Temporary Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may execute and deliver to the Trustee and, upon Company Order, the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the manner provided in Section&nbsp;3.3, temporary Securities in lieu thereof which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor
of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form or, if authorized in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, in bearer form with one or more Coupons or without Coupons and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers of the Company executing such Securities may determine, as conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities. Such temporary Securities may be in global
form. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form, which shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof, if
temporary Securities are issued, the Company shall cause definitive Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of the same series and containing terms and provisions that are identical to
those of any temporary Securities, such temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for such definitive Securities upon surrender of such temporary Securities at an Office or Agency for such Securities, without charge to any Holder thereof. Upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities (accompanied by any unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto), the Company shall execute and the Trustee upon Company Order shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like
principal amount of definitive Securities of authorized denominations of the same series and containing identical terms and provisions; provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security, except as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the
related Series Authorization, shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Registered Security; and provided, further, that a definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security only in compliance with the
conditions set forth in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization with respect to a temporary global Security, until so exchanged
the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series. </P>
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</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">With respect to the Registered Securities of each series, if any, the Company shall cause to be kept a register (each such register being
herein sometimes referred to as the &#147;<U>Security Register</U>&#148;) at an Office or Agency for such series in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of the Registered
Securities of such series and of transfers of the Registered Securities of such series. Such Office or Agency shall be the &#147;<U>Security Registrar</U>&#148; for that series of Securities. Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this
Indenture or the related Series Authorization, the Trustee shall be the initial Security Registrar for each series of Securities. The Company shall have the right to remove and replace from time to time the Security Registrar for any series of
Securities; provided that no such removal or replacement shall be effective until a successor Security Registrar with respect to such series of Securities shall have been appointed by the Company and shall have accepted such appointment by the
Company. In the event that the Trustee shall not be or shall cease to be Security Registrar with respect to a series of Securities, it shall have the right to examine the Security Register for such series at all reasonable times. There shall be only
one Security Register for each series of Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security of any series
at any Office or Agency for such series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the same series denominated as
authorized in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, of a like aggregate principal amount bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding and containing identical terms and provisions. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same series
containing identical terms and provisions, in any authorized denominations, and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any Office or Agency for such series. Whenever any Registered Securities are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Registered Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, with respect to Securities of any series, at the option of
the Holder, Bearer Securities of such series may be exchanged for Registered Securities of such series containing identical terms, denominated as authorized in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization and in the same
aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Bearer Securities to be exchanged at any Office or Agency for such series, with all unmatured Coupons and all matured Coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of a Bearer Security is
unable to produce any such unmatured Coupon or Coupons or matured Coupon or Coupons in default, such exchange may be effected if the Bearer Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee in an
amount equal to the face amount of such missing Coupon or Coupons, or the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may
require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Bearer Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any such </P>
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missing Coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided
in Section&nbsp;10.2, interest represented by Coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of those Coupons at an Office or Agency for such series located outside the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case a Bearer
Security of any series is surrendered at any such Office or Agency for such series in exchange for a Registered Security of such series and like tenor after the close of business at such Office or Agency on (i)&nbsp;any Regular Record Date and
before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or (ii)&nbsp;any Special Record Date and before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the related date for payment of Defaulted
Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the Coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date or proposed date of payment, as the case may be (or, if such Coupon is so surrendered with such Bearer Security, such Coupon shall be
returned to the Person so surrendering the Bearer Security), and interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of the Registered
Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security, but shall be payable only to the Holder of such Coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, at the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of such
series may be exchanged for Bearer Securities upon such terms and conditions as may be provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Whenever any Securities are surrendered for exchange as contemplated by the immediately preceding two paragraphs, the Company shall execute,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, any global
Security shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities only if (i)&nbsp;the Depository is at any time unwilling, unable or ineligible to continue as depository and a successor depository is not appointed by the Company within 90 days of the date
the Company is so informed in writing, (ii)&nbsp;the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order to the effect that such global Security shall be so exchangeable, or (iii)&nbsp;an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with
respect to the Securities. If the beneficial owners of interests in a global Security are entitled to exchange such interests for definitive Securities as the result of an event described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii)&nbsp;of the preceding sentence,
then without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities in such form and denominations as are required by or
pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, and of the same series, containing identical terms and in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such global Security, executed by the Company. On or after the
earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such global Security shall be surrendered from time to time by the U.S. Depository or such other Depository as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto, and in accordance
with instructions given to the Trustee and the U.S. Depository or such other Depository, as the case may be, as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, as the </P>
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Company&#146;s agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or in part, for definitive Securities as described above without charge. The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, in exchange for each portion of such surrendered global Security, a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such global Security to be
exchanged, which (unless such Securities are not issuable both as Bearer Securities and as Registered Securities, in which case the definitive Securities exchanged for the global Security shall be issuable only in the form in which the Securities
are issuable, as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization) shall be in the form of Bearer Securities or Registered Securities, or any combination thereof, as shall be specified by the beneficial owner thereof,
but subject to the satisfaction of any certification or other requirements to the issuance of Bearer Securities; provided, however, that no such exchanges may occur during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before selection of
Securities of the same series to be redeemed and ending on the relevant Redemption Date; and provided, further, that (unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization) no Bearer Security delivered in
exchange for a portion of a global Security shall be mailed or otherwise delivered to any location in the United States. Promptly following any such exchange in part, such global Security shall be returned by the Trustee to such Depository or the
U.S. Depository, as the case may be, or such other Depository or U.S. Depository referred to above in accordance with the instructions of the Company referred to above. If a Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a global
Security after the close of business at the Office or Agency for such Security where such exchange occurs on or after (i)&nbsp;any Regular Record Date for such Security and before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the next
succeeding Interest Payment Date, or (ii)&nbsp;any Special Record Date for such Security and before the opening of business at such Office or Agency on the related proposed date for payment of interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be,
interest shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may
be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such global Security shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company and the
Guarantor evidencing the same debt and entitling the Holders thereof to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange or redemption shall (if so required by the
Company or the Security Registrar for such Security) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar for such Security duly executed by the Holder thereof or his
attorney duly authorized in writing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, or redemption of
Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge and any other expenses (including fees and expenses of the Trustee) that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer
or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.4, Section&nbsp;9.5 or Section&nbsp;11.7 not involving any transfer. </P>
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Authorization, the Company shall not be required (i)&nbsp;to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Securities during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of
like tenor and the same series under Section&nbsp;11.4 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii)&nbsp;to register the transfer of or exchange any Registered Security selected for redemption in whole or in part, except
in the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed, or (iii)&nbsp;to exchange any Bearer Security selected for redemption except, to the extent provided with respect to such Bearer Security, that such Bearer
Security may be exchanged for a Registered Security of like tenor and the same series, provided that such Registered Security shall be immediately surrendered for redemption with written instruction for payment consistent with the provisions of this
Indenture or (iv)&nbsp;to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security which, in accordance with its terms, has been surrendered for repayment at the option of the Holder, except the portion, if any, of such Security not to be so repaid.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_31"></A>Section&nbsp;3.6. <U>Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any mutilated Security or a Security with a mutilated Coupon appertaining to it is surrendered to the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
this Section&nbsp;3.6, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same series containing identical terms and of like principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding, with Coupons appertaining thereto corresponding to the Coupons, if any, appertaining to the surrendered Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If there
be delivered to the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee (i)&nbsp;evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security or Coupon, and (ii)&nbsp;such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them
and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of actual notice to the Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee that such Security or Coupon has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute and, upon the
Company&#146;s request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or in exchange for the Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertains with all
appurtenant Coupons not destroyed, lost or stolen, a new Security of the same series containing identical terms and of like principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, with Coupons appertaining thereto corresponding to
the Coupons, if any, appertaining to such destroyed, lost or stolen Security or to the Security to which such destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertains. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section&nbsp;3.6, in case any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or Coupon has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security or Coupon; provided, however, that payment of principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts
with respect to any Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in Section&nbsp;10.2, be payable only at an Office or Agency for such Securities located outside the United States and, unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture or the related Series </P>
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Authorization, any interest on Bearer Securities and any Additional Amounts with respect to such interest shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the Coupons appertaining
thereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section&nbsp;3.6, the Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee and the fees and expenses of the Trustee&#146;s counsel) connected therewith. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every new Security, with any Coupons appertaining thereto issued pursuant to this Section&nbsp;3.6 in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, or in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon appertains shall constitute a separate obligation of both the Company and the Guarantor, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security and Coupons
appertaining thereto or the destroyed, lost or stolen Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of such series and
any Coupons, if any, duly issued hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of this Section&nbsp;3.6, as amended or supplemented pursuant to this
Indenture with respect to particular Securities or generally, shall be exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or
Coupons. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_32"></A>Section&nbsp;3.7. <U>Payment of Interest and Certain Additional Amounts; Rights to Interest and
Certain Additional Amounts Preserved</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization,
any interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to any Registered Security which shall be payable, and are punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Security (or one or
more Predecessor Securities) is registered as of the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, any interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to any Registered Security which shall be payable, but shall not be punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date for such Registered Security (herein called &#147;<U>Defaulted Interest</U>&#148;) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder thereof on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder; and such
Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in Clause (1)&nbsp;or (2) below: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Person in whose name such Registered Security (or a
Predecessor Security thereof) shall be registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed by the Company in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on such Registered Security, the Special Record Date therefor and the date of the </P>
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proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or
shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when so deposited to be held in trust in a segregated trust account pursuant to express written instructions of the
Company for the benefit of the Person entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. The Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of
the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after notification to the Trustee of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall, in the name and at the expense of the Company, cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Holder of such Registered Security (or a Predecessor Security thereof) at his address as it appears in the Security Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Registered Security (or a Predecessor
Security thereof) shall be registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which such Security may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after written notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such payment shall
be deemed practicable by the Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization of
any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, at the option of the Company, interest on Registered Securities that bear interest may be paid by mailing a check to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall
appear in the Security Register or by wire transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located in the United States. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section&nbsp;3.5, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the case of any Registered Security of any series that is convertible into shares of Common Stock of the Company or exchangeable for other
securities, which Registered Security is converted or exchanged after any Regular Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (other than any Registered Security with respect to which the Stated Maturity is prior to such
Interest Payment Date), interest with respect to which the Stated Maturity is on such Interest Payment Date shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding such conversion or exchange, and such interest (whether or not punctually paid
or duly provided for) shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Registered Security (or one or more predecessor Registered Securities) is registered at the close of business on such Regular Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in
the immediately preceding sentence, in </P>
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the case of any Registered Security which is converted or exchanged, interest with respect to which the Stated Maturity is after the date of conversion or exchange of such Registered Security
shall not be payable. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_33"></A>Section&nbsp;3.8. <U>Persons Deemed Owners</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Prior to due presentment of a Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Registered Security is registered in the Security Register as the owner of such Registered Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, any premium and (subject to Sections 3.5 and
3.7) interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payment with respect to such Registered Security shall be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee or
any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the
Company or the Trustee may treat the bearer of any Bearer Security or the bearer of any Coupon as the absolute owner of such Security or Coupon for the purpose of receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes whatsoever,
whether or not any payment with respect to such Security or Coupon shall be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No Holder of any beneficial interest in any global Security held on its behalf by a Depository shall have any rights under this Indenture with
respect to such global Security, and such Depository may be treated by the Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such global Security for all purposes whatsoever. None of the Company, the Trustee, any
Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a global Security or for maintaining, supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_34"></A>Section&nbsp;3.9.
<U>Cancellation</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All Securities and Coupons surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer, exchange or conversion or
for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities and Coupons, as well as Securities and Coupons surrendered directly to the Trustee for any
such purpose (together with written instructions to cancel the same), shall be cancelled promptly by the Trustee. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder
which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever (together with written instructions to cancel the same), and all Securities so delivered shall be cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange
for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization. All cancelled Securities and Coupons held by the Trustee shall be disposed of by the
Trustee in accordance with its customary procedures, unless by a Company Order the Company directs their return to it. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, interest on the Securities shall be computed
on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_36">
</A>Section&nbsp;3.11. <U>CUSIP Numbers</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company in issuing the Securities may use &#147;CUSIP,&#148; &#147;CINS&#148; and
&#147;ISIN&#148; numbers (if then generally in use), and the Trustee shall use CUSIP, CINS or ISIN numbers, as the case may be, in notices of redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders and no representation shall be made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption or exchange. The Company will notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the &#147;CUSIP,&#148; &#147;CINS&#148; or &#147;ISIN&#148;
numbers ascribed to any outstanding Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_37"></A>Article 4 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_38"></A>Section&nbsp;4.1. <U>Satisfaction and Discharge</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon the direction of the Company by a Company Order, this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of
Securities specified in such Company Order and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and the Trustee, on receipt of a Company Order, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture as to such series, when </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) either </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and delivered and all Coupons appertaining thereto (other than
(i)&nbsp;Coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities of such series surrendered in exchange for Registered Securities of such series and maturing after such exchange whose surrender is not required or has been waived as provided in Section&nbsp;3.5,
(ii) Securities and Coupons of such series which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section&nbsp;3.6, (iii) Coupons appertaining to Securities of such series called for redemption and maturing
after the relevant Redemption Date whose surrender has been waived as provided in Section&nbsp;11.7, and (iv)&nbsp;Securities and Coupons of such series for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust
by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section&nbsp;10.3) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (i)&nbsp;or (ii) below, any Coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) have become due and payable, </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company or pursuant to the operation of a sinking fund, are to be called for
redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii)&nbsp;above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust
for such purpose, money in the Currency in which such Securities are payable in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, including the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto (based upon applicable law as in effect on the date of such deposit), to the date
of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Maturity thereof, as the case may be; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company with respect to the Outstanding
Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto and any other amounts due and owing by the Company hereunder, including without limitation, all amounts due and owing to the Trustee; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series have been complied with. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event there are Securities of two or more series hereunder, the Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture only if requested to do so with respect to Securities of such series as to which it is Trustee and if the other conditions thereto are met. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to any series of Securities, the obligations of the Company to
the Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.6 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (b)&nbsp;of clause (1)&nbsp;of this Section, the obligations of the Company and the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series under Sections 3.5, 3.6, 4.3, 10.2 and 10.3, with respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to such Securities as contemplated by Section&nbsp;10.4 (but only to the extent that the Additional Amounts payable with
respect to such Securities exceed the amount deposited in respect of such Additional Amounts pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.1(1)(b)), and with respect to any rights to convert or exchange such Securities into Common Stock of the Company or other
securities shall survive. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_39"></A>Section&nbsp;4.2. <U>Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) Unless pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1, either or both of (i)&nbsp;defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under
clause (2)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.2 shall not be applicable </P>
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with respect to the Securities of such series or (ii)&nbsp;covenant defeasance of the Securities of or within a series under clause (3)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.2 shall not be applicable with
respect to the Securities of such series, then such provisions, together with the other provisions of this Section&nbsp;4.2 (with such modifications thereto as may be specified pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1 with respect to any Securities), shall be
applicable to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and the Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, elect to have Section&nbsp;4.2(2) or
Section&nbsp;4.2(3) be applied to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Section&nbsp;4.2. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) Upon the Company&#146;s exercise of the above option applicable to this Section 4.2(2) with respect to any Securities of or
within a series, each of the Company and the Guarantor shall be deemed to have been discharged from their obligations with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and under the Guarantee in respect thereof,
respectively, on the date the conditions set forth in clause (4)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.2 are satisfied (hereinafter, &#147;<U>defeasance</U>&#148;). For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable,
shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and under the Guarantee in respect thereof, which shall thereafter be deemed to be
&#147;<U>Outstanding</U>&#148; only for the purposes of clause (5)&nbsp;of this Section 4.2 and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in clauses (i)&nbsp;and (ii) below, and to have satisfied all of its other obligations under such
Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and under the Guarantee in respect thereof, and this Indenture insofar as such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and the Guarantee in respect thereof, are concerned (and the Trustee, at
the expense of the Company and the Guarantor, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (i)&nbsp;the rights of Holders of such
Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto to receive, solely from the trust fund described in clause (4)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.2 and as more fully set forth in such clause, payments in respect of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, on, and Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to, such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto when such payments are due, and any rights of such Holder to convert such Securities into Common Stock
of the Company or exchange such Securities for securities of the Guarantor or another issuer, (ii)&nbsp;the obligations of the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.5, 3.6, 10.2 and 10.3 and with
respect to the payment of Additional Amounts, if any, on such Securities as contemplated by Section&nbsp;10.4 (but only to the extent that the Additional Amounts payable with respect to such Securities exceed the amount deposited in respect of such
Additional Amounts pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.2(4)(a) below), and with respect to any rights to convert such Securities into Common Stock of the Company or exchange such Securities for securities of the Guarantor or another issuer, (iii)&nbsp;the
rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder including, without limitation, the compensation, reimbursement and indemnities provided in Section&nbsp;6.6 herein and (iv)&nbsp;this Section&nbsp;4.2. The Company may exercise
its option under this Section&nbsp;4.2(2) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under clause (3)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.2 with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto. </P>
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Section&nbsp;4.2(3) apply with respect to any Securities of or within a series, the Company and the Guarantor shall be released from their respective obligations under any covenant applicable to such Securities specified in Section&nbsp;3.1(19),
including any obligation to redeem or repurchase such securities at the option of the Holder thereof, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, and the Guarantee in respect thereof, on and after the date the
conditions set forth in clause (4)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.2 are satisfied (hereinafter, &#147;<U>covenant defeasance</U>&#148;), and such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall thereafter be deemed to be not
&#147;<U>Outstanding</U>&#148; for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with any such covenant or obligation, but shall continue to be deemed
&#147;<U>Outstanding</U>&#148; for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, the Company and the Guarantor may omit to
comply with, and shall have no liability in respect of, any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section or such other covenant or obligation, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such
Section or such other covenant or obligation or by reason of reference in any such Section or such other covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a default or an Event of
Default under Section&nbsp;5.1 but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto and the Guarantee in respect thereof shall be unaffected thereby. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) The following shall be the conditions to application of clause (2)&nbsp;or (3) of this Section&nbsp;4.2 to any Outstanding
Securities of or within a series and any Coupons appertaining thereto and the Guarantee in respect thereof: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The
Company or the Guarantor shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.7 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Section&nbsp;4.2 applicable to
it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, (1)&nbsp;an amount in
Dollars or in such Foreign Currency in which such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity, or (2)&nbsp;Government Obligations applicable to such Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto
(determined on the basis of the Currency in which such Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Stated Maturity) which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with
their terms will provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, money in an amount, or (3)&nbsp;a combination thereof, in any case, in an amount, sufficient,
without consideration of any reinvestment of such principal and interest, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge,
and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, (y)&nbsp;the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to such Securities and Coupons
appertaining thereto (based upon applicable </P>
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law as in effect on the date of such deposit), such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto at the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date of such principal or installment of
principal or premium or interest and (z)&nbsp;any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments applicable to such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto on the days on which such payments are due and payable in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and, if applicable, shall have made irrevocable arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of any Securities to be redeemed at
the option of the Company in connection with such deposit. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) No Event of Default or event which with notice or lapse of
time or both would become an Event of Default with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit (after giving effect thereto) and, with respect to defeasance only,
no event described in Section&nbsp;5.1(7) or (8)&nbsp;shall have occurred at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration
of such period). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a
default under, any material agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) In the case of an election under clause (2)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.2 with respect to Registered Securities and any
Bearer Securities for which the Place of Payment is within the United States, the Company or the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (i)&nbsp;the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, has received
from the Internal Revenue Service a letter ruling, or there has been published by the Internal Revenue Service a Revenue Ruling, or (ii)&nbsp;since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax
law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a
result of such defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) In the case of an election under clause (3)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.2 with respect to Registered Securities and any
Bearer Securities for which the Place of Payment is within the United States, the Company or the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would
have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) With respect to defeasance only, the Company or the
Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that, after the 91st day after the date of deposit, all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be
</P>
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provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) pursuant to this clause (4)&nbsp;to be
held in trust will not be subject to recapture or avoidance as a preference in any case or proceeding (whether voluntary or involuntary) in respect of the Company or the Guarantor under any Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or
other similar law, or any decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or the Guarantor issued in connection therewith (for which purpose such Opinion of Counsel may assume that no Holder is an &#147;insider&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g) With respect to defeasance only, the Company and the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers&#146;
Certificate and a Guarantor&#146;s Officers&#146; Certificate as to solvency and the absence of any intent of preferring the Holders over any other creditors of the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h) The Company and the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate, a Guarantor&#146;s
Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance or covenant defeasance under clause (2)&nbsp;or (3) of this Section&nbsp;4.2 (as the case may be) have been complied with. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section&nbsp;4.2(4), such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected
in compliance with any additional or substitute terms, conditions or limitations which may be imposed on the Company or the Guarantor in connection therewith pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Series Authorization, if, after a deposit referred to in
Section&nbsp;4.2(4)(a) has been made, (a)&nbsp;the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was made is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1 or the terms of such Security to receive payment in a Currency other than
that in which the deposit pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.2(4)(a) has been made in respect of such Security, or (b)&nbsp;a Conversion Event occurs in respect of the Foreign Currency in which the deposit pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.2(4)(a) has been made,
the indebtedness represented by such Security and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), and interest, if any, on, and
Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to, such Security as the same becomes due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as specified below in the case of any such election) the amount or other property deposited in respect of
such Security into the Currency in which such Security becomes payable as a result of such election or Conversion Event based on (x)&nbsp;in the case of payments made pursuant to clause (a)&nbsp;above, the applicable market exchange rate for such
Currency in effect on the second Business Day prior to each payment date, or (y)&nbsp;with respect to a Conversion Event, the applicable market exchange rate for such Foreign Currency in effect (as nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion
Event. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company and the Guarantor (without duplication) shall pay and indemnify the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively
for purposes of this Section&nbsp;4.2(5) and Section 4.3, the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148;) against any tax, fee or other charge, imposed on or assessed against the </P>
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Government Obligations deposited pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.2 or the principal or interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the
account of the Holders of such Outstanding Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Anything in this Section&nbsp;4.2 to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request, or the Guarantor upon Guarantor Request, as the case may be, any money or Government Obligations (or other property and any proceeds
therefrom) held by it as provided in clause (4)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;4.2 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in
excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect a defeasance or covenant defeasance, as applicable, in accordance with this Section&nbsp;4.2. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_40"></A>Section&nbsp;4.3. <U>Application of Trust Money</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section&nbsp;10.3, all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be
provided pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.1 or Section&nbsp;4.2 in respect of any Outstanding Securities of any series and any Coupons appertaining thereto shall be
held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its
own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amounts, if
any; but such money and Government Obligations need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_41">
</A>Article 5 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">REMEDIES </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><A NAME="ex4_1rom404539_42">
</A>Section&nbsp;5.1. <U>Events of Default</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Event of Default</U>,&#148; wherever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any
order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body), unless such event is specifically deleted or modified in or pursuant to the related Series Authorization: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of such series, or any Additional Amounts payable with respect
thereto, when such interest becomes or such Additional Amounts become due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 90 days; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security of such series, or any Additional Amounts payable
with respect thereto, when such principal or premium becomes or such Additional Amounts become due and payable at their Maturity; or </P>
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terms of a Security of such series; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) default in the performance of the provisions of Section&nbsp;7.4(1) and
continuance of such default for a period of 180 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, (i)&nbsp;to the Company by the Trustee or (ii)&nbsp;to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series, a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a &#147;<U>Notice of Default</U>&#148; hereunder; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) default in the performance, or breach, of any other covenant or warranty of the Company or the Guarantor in this Indenture
or the Securities (other than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance or the breach of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has been expressly included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a series
of Securities other than such series), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, (i)&nbsp;to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, by the Trustee or
(ii)&nbsp;to the Company and the Trustee or the Guarantor and the Trustee, as the case may be, by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, a written notice specifying such default or breach and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a &#147;<U>Notice of Default</U>&#148; hereunder; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(6) the
Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement ceases to be in full force and effect (except as contemplated by the terms thereof), or the Guarantor or a Person acting by or on behalf of the Guarantor denies or disaffirms the Guarantee&#146;s
obligations under this Indenture or the Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement and such default continues for a period of 10 days after notice has been given by registered or certified mail, (i)&nbsp;to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case
may be, by the Trustee or (ii)&nbsp;to the Company and the Trustee or the Guarantor and the Trustee, as the case may be, by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, a written notice specifying
such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a &#147;<U>Notice of Default</U>&#148; hereunder; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(7) the entry by a court having competent jurisdiction of: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or the Guarantor in an involuntary proceeding under any applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization (other than a reorganization under a foreign law that does not relate to insolvency) or other similar law and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) a decree or order adjudging the Company or the Guarantor to be insolvent, or approving a petition seeking
reorganization (other than a reorganization under a foreign law that does not relate to insolvency), arrangement, adjustment or composition of the Company or the Guarantor and such decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of
60 consecutive days; or </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) a final and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-appealable</FONT> order
appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee or other similar official of the Company or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of the property of the Company or the Guarantor, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the
affairs of the Company or the Guarantor; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(8) the commencement by the Company or the Guarantor of a voluntary proceeding
under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization (other than a reorganization under a foreign law that does not relate to insolvency) or other similar law or of a voluntary proceeding seeking to be adjudicated insolvent or the consent by
the Company or the Guarantor to the entry of a decree or order for relief in an involuntary proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any insolvency proceedings against it,
or the filing by the Company or the Guarantor of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of the Company or the Guarantor or relief under any applicable law, or the consent by the Company or the
Guarantor to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee or similar official of the Company or the Guarantor or any substantial part of the property of the Company
or the Guarantor or the making by the Company or the Guarantor of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or the Guarantor in furtherance of any such action; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(9) any other Event of Default provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization with respect to
Securities of such series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.2. <U>Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at the time Outstanding (other than an Event of Default specified in clause
(7)&nbsp;or (8) of Section&nbsp;5.1) occurs and is continuing, then the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series may declare the principal of all the Securities of such series, to
be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, shall become immediately due and
payable. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an Event of Default specified in clause (7)&nbsp;or (8) of Section&nbsp;5.1 occurs, all unpaid principal of and accrued
interest on the Outstanding Securities of that series shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of any Security of that series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, by written notice to the Company or the
Guarantor, as the case may be, and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) the Company or the Guarantor has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum of
money sufficient to pay </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) all overdue installments of any interest on and Additional Amounts with respect to all
Securities of such series and any Coupon appertaining thereto, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) the principal of and any premium on any Securities of
such series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon and any Additional Amounts with respect thereto at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) to the extent that payment of such interest or Additional Amounts is lawful, interest upon overdue installments of any
interest and Additional Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) all sums paid or
advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.6; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of such series, other than the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-payment</FONT> of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to Securities of such series which shall have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, shall
have been cured or waived as provided in Section&nbsp;5.13. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.3. <U>Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company covenants that if </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security or
any Coupon appertaining thereto when such interest or Additional Amounts shall have become due and payable and such default continues for a period of 60 days, or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security or any Additional Amounts with respect
thereto at their Maturity, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any
Coupons appertaining thereto, the whole amount of money then due and payable with respect to such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, with interest upon the overdue principal, any premium and, to the extent that payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable, upon any overdue installments of interest and Additional Amounts at the rate or rates borne by or provided for in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">further amount of money as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and all other amounts due to the Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.6. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Company and the Guarantor fail to pay the money the Company is required to pay the Trustee pursuant to the preceding paragraph
forthwith upon the demand of the Trustee, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the money so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final
decree, and may enforce the same against the Company or the Guarantor or both the Company and the Guarantor or any other obligor upon such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and collect the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable in
the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or the Guarantor or both the Company and the Guarantor or any other obligor upon such Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto, wherever situated. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect
and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether
for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or such Securities or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein or therein, or to enforce any other proper remedy. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.4. <U>Trustee May File Proofs of Claim</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company and/or the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Securities of any series or the property of the Company and/or the Guarantor or such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of
whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company and/or the Guarantor for the payment of any
overdue principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts) shall be entitled and empowered, to the extent permitted by applicable law by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount, or such lesser amount as may be provided for in the Securities of any
applicable series, of the principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and any Coupons appertaining thereto and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in
order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, indemnity amounts, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents or counsel) and of the Holders of Securities or any Coupons appertaining
thereto allowed in such judicial proceeding, and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such
judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder of Securities or any Coupons to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders of Securities or any
Coupons, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, indemnity amounts and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.6. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder of a
Security or any Coupon any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or Coupons or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a
Security or any Coupon in any such proceeding. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.5. <U>Trustee May Enforce Claims without Possession of Securities or
Coupons</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or any of the Securities or Coupons may be prosecuted and enforced by
the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or Coupons or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust,
and any recovery or judgment, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, indemnity amounts and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, shall be for the ratable benefit of each and every Holder
of the Securities or Coupons in respect of which such judgment has been recovered. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.6. <U>Application of Money
Collected</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates
fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal, or any premium, interest or Additional Amounts, upon presentation of the Securities or Coupons, or both, as the case may be, and the notation thereon of the
payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">First: To the payment of all amounts due the
Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section&nbsp;6.6; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon
the Securities and any Coupons for principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
aggregate amounts due and payable on such Securities and Coupons for principal and any premium, interest and Additional Amounts, respectively; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Third: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.7. <U>Limitations on Suits</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No Holder of any Security of any series or any Coupons appertaining thereto shall have any right by virtue or by availing of any provision of
this Indenture to institute any action or proceeding at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official,
or for any other remedy hereunder, unless </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee such indemnity as is reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs,
expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of
such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) no direction inconsistent
with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">60-day</FONT> period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture or any Security to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other such Holders or Holders of Securities of any other series, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to
enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not any actions or
forbearances on the part of any Holders are unduly prejudicial to such other Holders). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.8. <U>Unconditional Right of
Holders to Receive Principal and any Premium, Interest and Additional Amounts</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture,
the Holder of any Security or Coupon shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of, any premium and (subject to Sections 3.5 and 3.7) interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to such
Security or payment of such Coupon, as the case may be, on the respective Stated Maturity or Maturities therefor specified in such Security or Coupon (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date or, in the case of repayment at the option
of such Holder if provided with respect to such Security, on the date such repayment is due) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.9. <U>Restoration of Rights and Remedies</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Trustee or any Holder of a Security or a Coupon has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and
such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and each such Holder shall, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and each such Holder shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.10. <U>Rights and Remedies Cumulative</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or Coupons in the
last paragraph of Section&nbsp;3.6, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to each and every Holder of a Security or a Coupon is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy, to
the extent permitted by law, shall be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or
otherwise, shall not, to the extent permitted by law, prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.11. <U>Delay or Omission Not Waiver</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security or Coupon to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of
Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to any Holder of a Security or a Coupon may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by such Holder, as the case may be. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.12. <U>Control by Holders of Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto, provided that </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture or with the Securities of such series,
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction, and
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) such direction is not unduly prejudicial to the rights of the other Holders of Securities of such series not joining
in such action. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.13. <U>Waiver of Past Defaults</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto may waive any past default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) in the payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security of
such series or any Coupons appertaining thereto, or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 9
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon any such
waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right
consequent thereon. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.14. <U>Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company and the Guarantor each covenants that (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or
in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture or, in the case of the
Guarantor, of the Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement; and the Company and the Guarantor each expressly waives (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;5.15. <U>Undertaking for Costs</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court
may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of any
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys&#146; fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit having due regard to the merits and good
faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section&nbsp;5.15 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more
than 10% in principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on or Additional Amounts, if any, with
respect to any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date, and, in the case of repayment or repurchase, on or after the date for repayment or
repurchase) or for the enforcement of the right, if any, to convert or exchange any Security into Common Stock or other securities in accordance with its terms. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">THE TRUSTEE </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.1.
<U>Certain Rights of Trustee</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to Sections 315(a) through 315(d) of the Trust Indenture Act: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
party or parties; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a
Company Request or a Company Order (in each case, other than delivery of any Security, together with any Coupons appertaining thereto, to the Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.3 which shall be sufficiently evidenced
as provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3)
whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence shall be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers&#146; Certificate; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) the Trustee may
consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance
thereon; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by or pursuant
to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities of any series or any Coupons appertaining thereto pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee
such security or indemnity as is reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(6) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, coupon or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may but shall not be obligated to make such further inquiry or investigation
into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine, during business hours and upon reasonable notice, the books, records and premises of
the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(7) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any
duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by
it hereunder; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(8) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or error of judgment made in good faith by it,
unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent, acted in bad faith or engaged in willful misconduct; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(9) the
Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, and Security Registrar shall have the same protections, rights, immunities and indemnities as the Trustee set forth hereunder; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(10) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with an Act of the Holders hereunder, and, to the extent not so provided herein, with respect to any act requiring the Trustee to exercise its own discretion, relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture or any Securities, unless it shall be proved that, in connection with any such action taken, suffered or omitted or any such act, the
Trustee was negligent, acted in bad faith or engaged in willful misconduct; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(11) the Trustee is not responsible to see
that the Company or any other Person is maintaining any insurance required by the Indenture; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(12) the Trustee shall not be
responsible for the recording, rerecording, filing of UCC Statements or UCC Continuation Statements; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(13) in the absence
of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee which conform to the requirements of the
Indenture (however, the Trustee need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(14) except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties
as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(15) except as expressly required by the terms of this Indenture, none of the provisions of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any liability, financial or otherwise, in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that repayment of such funds or indemnity satisfactory to it against such risk or liability is not assured to it; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(16) in case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person&#146;s own
affairs; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(17) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any default or Event of Default unless a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of such default or Event of Default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture;
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(18) the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties
hereunder; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(19) under no circumstances shall the Trustee be liable in its individual capacity for the obligations
evidenced by the Securities; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(20) in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect,
punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.2. <U>Notice of Defaults</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail
to all Holders of Securities of such series entitled to receive reports pursuant to Section&nbsp;7.3(3), notice of such default hereunder actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived;
provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any), or interest, if any, on, or Additional Amounts or any sinking fund or purchase fund installment with respect to, any Security of such
series, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the best interest of the Holders of Securities and Coupons of such series; and
provided, further, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section&nbsp;5.1(4) or Section&nbsp;5.1(5) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 60 days after the
occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term &#147;<U>default</U>&#148; means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.3. <U>Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee&#146;s certificate of authentication, and in any Coupons shall be taken
as the statements of the Company and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or
the Coupons, except that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture, authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations hereunder and that the statements made by it in a Statement of Eligibility on
Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">T-1</FONT> supplied to the Company </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">are true and accurate, subject to the qualifications set forth therein. Neither the Trustee nor any
Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Securities or the proceeds thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.4. <U>May Hold Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other Person that may be an agent of the Trustee or the
Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities or Coupons and, subject to Sections 310(b) and 311 of the Trust Indenture Act, may otherwise deal with the Company or the Guarantor with the same rights
it would have if it were not the Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other Person. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.5.
<U>Money Held in Trust</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as provided in Section&nbsp;4.3 and Section&nbsp;10.3, money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder
need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law and shall be held uninvested. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed to in writing with the
Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.6. <U>Compensation and Reimbursement</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation for all services rendered by the Trustee hereunder as agreed in
writing between the Company and the Trustee (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture or arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder (including the reasonable
compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by the Trustee&#146;s negligence or willful misconduct; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) to indemnify the Trustee and its agents, officers, directors and employees for, and to hold them harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim or liability in connection with
the exercise or performance of any of their powers or duties hereunder, except to the extent that any such loss, liability or expense was determined to have been caused by the Trustee&#146;s negligence or willful misconduct. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company under this Section, the Trustee
shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any series upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of, and premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with
respect to Securities or any Coupons appertaining thereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">To the extent permitted by law, any compensation or expense incurred by the
Trustee after a default specified in or pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.1 is intended to constitute an expense of administration under any then applicable bankruptcy or insolvency law. &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148; for purposes of this Section&nbsp;6.6
shall include any predecessor Trustee but the negligence or bad faith of any Trustee shall not affect the rights of any other Trustee under this Section&nbsp;6.6. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of this Section&nbsp;6.6 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal
of the Trustee and shall apply with equal force and effect to the Trustee in its capacity as Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent or Security Registrar. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.7. <U>Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a Corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, that is eligible under Section&nbsp;310(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act to act as trustee under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and that has a combined capital and surplus
(computed in accordance with Section&nbsp;310(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act) of at least $50,000,000, and that is subject to supervision or examination by Federal or state authority. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.8. <U>Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee pursuant to Section&nbsp;6.9. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) The Trustee may
resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company and the Guarantor. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section&nbsp;6.9 shall not have been
delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may, at the expense of the Company, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to
such series. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee, the Company and the Guarantor. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section&nbsp;6.9 shall not have been
delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the delivery of such Act of the Holders, the removed Trustee may, at the expense of the Company, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of such series. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the obligations imposed upon it under Section&nbsp;310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act
with respect to Securities of any series after written request therefor by the Company or any Holder of a Security of such series who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months, or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section&nbsp;6.7 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by
the Company or any such Holder, or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">then, in any such case, (i)&nbsp;the Company, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities or
the Securities of such series, or (ii)&nbsp;subject to Section&nbsp;315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all Securities of such series and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee
for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of such series (it being understood that
any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section&nbsp;6.9. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapacity, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance with
the applicable requirements of Section&nbsp;6.9, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders of Securities and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section&nbsp;6.9, any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such
series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(6) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series and each appointment of a successor </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series by mailing written notice of such event by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Registered Securities, if any, of such series as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register and, if Securities of such series are issued as Bearer Securities, by publishing notice
of such event once in an Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment located outside the United States. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate
Trust Office. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(7) In no event shall any retiring Trustee be liable for the acts or omissions of any successor Trustee
hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.9. <U>Acceptance of Appointment by Successor</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) Upon the appointment hereunder of any successor Trustee with respect to all Securities, such successor Trustee so appointed
shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company, the Guarantor and the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor
Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties hereunder of the retiring Trustee; but, on the written request of the Company or such successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee,
upon payment of its charges, shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and, subject to Section&nbsp;10.3, shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such
successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder, subject nevertheless to its claim, if any, provided for in Section&nbsp;6.6. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) Upon the appointment hereunder of any successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series,
the Company, the retiring Trustee and such successor Trustee shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1)&nbsp;shall contain such provisions as shall be
necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, such successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates, (2)&nbsp;if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3)&nbsp;shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture
as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">co-trustees</FONT> of the same trust, that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee and that no Trustee
shall be responsible for any notice given to, or received by, or any act or failure to act on the part of any other Trustee hereunder, and, upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture, the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein, such retiring Trustee shall have no further responsibility for the exercise </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">of rights and powers or for the performance of the duties and obligations vested in the Trustee
under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates other than as hereinafter expressly set forth, and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on written request of the
Company, the Guarantor or such successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee, upon payment of its charges with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates and subject to Section&nbsp;10.3
shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee, to the extent contemplated by such supplemental indenture, the property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to
which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, subject to its claim, if any, provided for in Section&nbsp;6.6. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) Upon request of any Person appointed hereunder as a successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments
for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (1)&nbsp;or (2) of this Section, as the case may be. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) No Person shall accept its appointment hereunder as a successor Trustee unless at the time of such acceptance such
successor Person shall be qualified and eligible under this Article. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.10. <U>Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any Corporation or other entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any Corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any Corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business
of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated but not delivered by the
Trustee then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.11. <U>Appointment of Authenticating Agent</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee may appoint one or more Authenticating Agents acceptable to the Company with respect to one or more series of Securities which
shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of that or those series issued upon original issue, exchange, registration of transfer, partial redemption or partial repayment or pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.6, and
Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and
delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee&#146;s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication
executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Each Authenticating Agent must be acceptable to the Company and, except as provided in or
pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, shall at all times be a Corporation that would be permitted by the Trust Indenture Act to act as trustee under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, is authorized under
applicable law and by its charter to act as an Authenticating Agent and has a combined capital and surplus (computed in accordance with Section&nbsp;310(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act) of at least $50,000,000. If at any time an Authenticating
Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any Corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any Corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent,
shall be the successor of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, provided such Corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee, the Company and the Guarantor. The
Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time
such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and the Guarantor and shall (i)&nbsp;mail
written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Registered Securities, if any, of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent shall serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security
Register, and (ii)&nbsp;if Securities of the series are issued as Bearer Securities, publish notice of such appointment at least once in an Authorized Newspaper in the place where such successor Authenticating Agent has its principal office if such
office is located outside the United States. Any successor Authenticating Agent, upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder, shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally
named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company agrees to pay each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section. If the
Trustee makes such payments, it shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;6.6. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The
provisions of Section&nbsp;3.8, Section&nbsp;6.3 and Section&nbsp;6.4 shall be applicable to each Authenticating Agent. </P>
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to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to or in lieu of the Trustee&#146;s certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in substantially the following form: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. </P>
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</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If all of the Securities of any series may not be originally issued at one time, and if the Trustee does
not have an office capable of authenticating Securities upon original issuance located in a Place of Payment where the Company wishes to have Securities of such series authenticated upon original issuance, the Trustee, if so requested in writing
(which writing need not be accompanied by or contained in an Officers&#146; Certificate by the Company), shall appoint in accordance with this Section an Authenticating Agent having an office in a Place of Payment designated by the Company with
respect to such series of Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.12. <U>USA Patriot Act</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In order to comply with the laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions,
including those relating to the funding of terrorist activities and money laundering (for example section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act of the United States) (&#147;Applicable Law&#148;), the Trustee is required to obtain, verify, record and update
certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Trustee. Accordingly, each of the parties agree to provide to the Trustee, upon its request from time to time such identifying information and
documentation as to such party as may be available to such party in order to enable the Trustee to comply with Applicable Law. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;6.13. <U>Force Majeure</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee shall not incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any duty, obligation or responsibility hereunder by reason
of any occurrence beyond the control of the Trustee, including but not limited to, any act or provision of any present or future law or regulation or governmental authority, any act of God or war, civil unrest, local or national disturbance or
disaster, any act of terrorism or the unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or facsimile or other wire or communication facility, <U>provided</U>, <U>that</U>, the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted
practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practical under the circumstances. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">HOLDERS LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.1. <U>Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In accordance with Section&nbsp;312(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) semi-annually with respect to Securities of each series not later than May&nbsp;1 and November 1 of the year or upon such
other dates as are set forth in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto authorizing such series, a list, in each case in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Holders as of the
applicable date, and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by
the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar no such list shall be required to be furnished. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.2. <U>Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee shall comply with the obligations imposed upon it pursuant to Section&nbsp;312 of the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every Holder of Securities or Coupons, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that none of the Company,
the Trustee, any Paying Agent or any Security Registrar shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with Section&nbsp;312(c) of the Trust
Indenture Act, regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section&nbsp;312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.3. <U>Reports by Trustee</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) Within 60 days after September 15 of each year commencing with the first September 15 following the first issuance of
Securities pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1, if required by Section&nbsp;313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall transmit, pursuant to Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, a brief report dated as of such September 15 with respect to
any of the events specified in said Section&nbsp;313(a) which may have occurred since the later of the immediately preceding September 15 and the date of this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) The Trustee shall transmit the reports required by Section&nbsp;313(b) of the Trust Indenture Act at the times specified
therein. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted in the manner and to
the Persons required by Sections 313(c) and 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;7.4. <U>Reports by Company</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company, pursuant to Section&nbsp;314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, shall: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Guarantor files the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports
and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Guarantor may be required to file with the Commission
pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 or Section&nbsp;15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; or, if the Guarantor is not required to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of said Sections, then the Company shall file
with the Trustee and the Guarantor shall file with the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may be
required pursuant to Section&nbsp;13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, in respect of a security listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such rules and regulations; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) file with the Trustee and the Guarantor shall file with the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company and the Guarantor, with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such
rules and regulations; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) transmit within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the
extent provided in<BR> Section&nbsp;313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Guarantor pursuant to paragraph (1)&nbsp;of this Section or by the Company pursuant to
paragraph (2)&nbsp;of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the
Trustee&#146;s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company&#146;s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which
the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers&#146; Certificates). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Article 8 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">CONSOLIDATION, AMALGAMATIONS, MERGER AND SALES </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.1. <U>Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall not consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Guarantor), or convey,
transfer or lease its properties and assets as </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Guarantor), and
the Company shall not permit any other Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Guarantor) to consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into the Company or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets as an entirety or substantially as an
entirety to the Company; unless: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) in case the Company shall consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into another Person
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or amalgamation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by
conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the properties and assets of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety shall be a Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the
District of Columbia, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, or any other country which is on the date of this Indenture a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development or the European Union, and shall expressly assume, by an indenture
(or indentures, if at such time there is more than one Trustee) supplemental hereto, executed by the successor Person and delivered to the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional
Amounts with respect to all the Securities and the performance of every obligation in this Indenture and the Outstanding Securities on the part of the Company to be performed or observed and shall provide for conversion or exchange rights in
accordance with the provisions of the Securities of any series that are convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock or other securities; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default with respect to the Company or event which, after
notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default with respect to the Company, shall have occurred and be continuing; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) either the Company or the successor Person shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.2. <U>Successor Person Substituted for
Company</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:6%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon any consolidation or amalgamation by the Company with or merger of the Company into any other Person or any conveyance,
transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section&nbsp;8.1, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or amalgamation or into which the Company is merged or to
which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company
herein; and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture, the Securities and the Coupons. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Guarantor shall not consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into any other Person (whether or not affiliated with the Guarantor), or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any other Person (whether or not affiliated with the Guarantor), and the Guarantor shall not permit any other Person (whether or not affiliated
with the Guarantor) to consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into the Guarantor or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Guarantor; unless: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) in case the Guarantor shall consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or amalgamation or into which the Guarantor is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which
leases, the properties and assets of the Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an entirety shall be a Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, Bermuda,
the Cayman Islands or any other country which is on the date of this Indenture a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development or the European Union, and shall expressly assume, by an indenture (or indentures, if at such time
there is more than one Trustee) supplemental hereto, executed by the successor Person and the Company and delivered to the Trustee the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect
to all the Securities and the performance of every obligation in this Indenture and the Outstanding Securities on the part of the Guarantor to be performed or observed and shall provide for conversion or exchange rights in accordance with the
provisions of the Securities of any series that are convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock or other securities of the Guarantor; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default with respect to the Guarantor, or event which,
after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default with respect to the Guarantor, shall have occurred and be continuing; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) either the Guarantor or the successor Person shall have delivered to the Trustee a Guarantor&#146;s Officer&#146;s
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture comply with this Article
and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;8.4.
<U>Successor Person Substituted for Guarantor</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon any consolidation or amalgamation by the Guarantor with or merger of the Guarantor
into any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Guarantor substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section&nbsp;8.3, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or
amalgamation or into which the Guarantor is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Guarantor under this Indenture with the same
effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Guarantor herein; and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person shall be released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture, the Securities and the
Coupons and the Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Article 9 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.1. <U>Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Without the consent of any Holders of Securities or Coupons, the Company (when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution), the Guarantor
(when authorized by or pursuant to a Board Resolution by the Guarantor&#146;s Board of Directors) and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, for any of the following purposes: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or the Guarantor or both the Company and the Guarantor, and the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company and the Guarantor, as applicable, contained herein and in the Securities; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) to add to the covenants of the Company or the Guarantor or both the Company and the Guarantor for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (as shall be specified in such supplemental indenture or indentures) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company or the Guarantor or both the Company and the Guarantor; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to provide that Bearer Securities may be registrable as to
principal, to change or eliminate any restrictions on the payment of principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to Securities, to permit Bearer Securities to be issued in exchange for Registered Securities, to
permit Bearer Securities to be exchanged for Bearer Securities of other authorized denominations or to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities in uncertificated form, provided any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the
Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series or any Coupons appertaining thereto in any material respect; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) to
establish the forms or terms of Securities of any series and any Coupons appertaining thereto as permitted by Sections&nbsp;2.1 and 3.1; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of
Section&nbsp;6.9; or </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(6) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision herein which
may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture which shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any
series then Outstanding or any Coupons appertaining thereto in any material respect; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(7) to add to, delete from or
revise the conditions, limitations and restrictions on the authorized amount, terms or purposes of issue, authentication and delivery of Securities, as herein set forth; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(8) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to all or any series of Securities (as shall be specified in such
supplemental indenture); or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(9) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary
to permit or facilitate the defeasance and discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Article 4, provided that any such action shall not adversely affect the interests of any Holder of an Outstanding Security of such series and any Coupons
appertaining thereto or any other Outstanding Security or Coupon in any material respect; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(10) to secure the
Securities; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(11) to make provisions with respect to conversion or exchange rights of Holders of Securities of any
series; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(12) to amend or supplement any provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture, provided that no
such amendment or supplement shall materially adversely affect the interests of the Holders of any Securities then Outstanding; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(13) to add any additional guarantees with respect to all or any Securities of any series (as shall be specified in such
supplemental indenture); or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(14) to add any <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">co-obligors</FONT> with respect to all or any
Securities of any series (as shall be specified in such supplemental indenture). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.2. <U>Supplemental Indentures with
Consent of Holders</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
each series affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company (when authorized by or pursuant to a Company&#146;s Board Resolution), the Guarantor (when authorized by or pursuant to
a Board Resolution of the Guarantor&#146;s Board of Directors) and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions
of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture or of the Securities of such series; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby, shall </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any premium or installment
of interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof (or modify the calculation of such principal amount) or the rate (or modify the calculation of such rate) of interest thereon or any
Additional Amounts with respect thereto, or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof or otherwise, or change the obligation of the Company to pay Additional Amounts pursuant to Section&nbsp;10.4 (except as contemplated by Section&nbsp;8.1(1)
and permitted by Section&nbsp;9.1(1)) or change the redemption provisions or adversely affect the right of repayment at the option of any Holder as contemplated by Article 13, or change the Place of Payment, Currency in which the principal of, any
premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or
after the Redemption Date or, in the case of repayment at the option of the Holder, on or after the date for repayment), or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is
required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture,
or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section&nbsp;5.13 or Section&nbsp;10.6, except to increase any such
percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby, or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) make any change that adversely affects the right to convert or exchange any Security into or for Common Stock of the
Company or other securities (whether or not issued by the Company), cash or property in accordance with its terms. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">A supplemental
indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of this Indenture which shall have been included expressly and solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders
of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders of Securities under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.3. <U>Execution of Supplemental
Indentures</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As a condition to executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted by this
Article or the modifications thereby of the trust created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall receive, and (subject to Section&nbsp;315 of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected in relying upon, (a)&nbsp;an Opinion of Counsel stating
that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture and that such </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">supplemental indenture constitutes a valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the
Company in accordance with its terms (subject to customary exceptions) and (b)&nbsp;an Officers&#146; Certificate stating that all conditions precedent to the execution of such supplemental indenture have been fulfilled. The Trustee may, but shall
not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee&#146;s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.4. <U>Effect of Supplemental Indentures</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of a Security theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder and of any Coupon appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.5. <U>Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall
if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of
the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.6. <U>Conformity with Trust Indenture Act</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;9.7. <U>Notice of Supplemental Indenture</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Promptly after the execution by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee of any supplemental indenture pursuant to Section&nbsp;9.2, the
Company shall transmit to the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series affected thereby a notice setting forth the substance of such supplemental indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Article 10 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">COVENANTS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.1. <U>Payment of Principal, any Premium, Interest and Additional Amounts</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of each series that it will duly and punctually pay the
principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of such series in accordance with the terms thereof, any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture. Any interest due on any Bearer Security on
or before the Maturity thereof, and any Additional Amounts payable with respect to such interest, shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the Coupons appertaining thereto for such interest as they severally mature. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.2. <U>Maintenance of Office or Agency</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an Office or Agency where Securities of such series (but not
Bearer Securities, except as otherwise provided below, unless such Place of Payment is located outside the United States) may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities of such series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange, where Securities of such series that are convertible or exchangeable may be surrendered for conversion or exchange, and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such series relating thereto and this
Indenture may be served. If Securities of a series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company, except as otherwise permitted or required in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization shall maintain, subject to any laws or
regulations applicable thereto, an Office or Agency in a Place of Payment for such series which is located outside the United&nbsp;States where Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto may be presented and surrendered for
payment; provided, however, that if the Securities of such series are listed on The Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland or the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange located outside the United&nbsp;States
and such stock exchange shall so require, the Company shall maintain a Paying Agent in London, Luxembourg or any other required city located outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities of such series are listed on such
exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such Office or Agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required Office or Agency or shall fail to
furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, except that Bearer Securities of such series and any Coupons appertaining thereto
may be presented and surrendered for payment at the place specified for the purpose with respect to such Securities as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its
agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise permitted or required in or pursuant to
this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, no payment of principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts with respect to Bearer Securities shall be made at any Office or Agency in the United States or by check mailed to any address in
the United States or by wire transfer to an account maintained with a bank located in the United States; provided, however, if amounts owing with respect to any Bearer Securities shall be payable in Dollars, payment of principal of, any premium or
interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to any such Security may be made at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or any Office or Agency designated by the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if (but only if)
payment of the full amount of such principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts at all offices outside the United States maintained for such purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture is illegal or effectively precluded by
exchange controls or other similar restrictions. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other Offices or Agencies
where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such
designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an Office or Agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee
of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other Office or Agency. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization, the Company hereby designates as the Place of
Payment for each series of Securities the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, and initially appoints the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as the Office or Agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York for such
purpose. The Company may subsequently appoint a different Office or Agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York for the Securities of any series. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1, if and so long as the Securities of any series
(i)&nbsp;are denominated in a Foreign Currency or (ii)&nbsp;may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long as it is required under any other provision of this Indenture, then the Company will maintain with respect to each such series of
Securities, or as so required, at least one exchange rate agent. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.3. <U>Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in
Trust</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it shall, on or before
each due date of the principal of, any premium or interest on or Additional Amounts with respect to any of the Securities of such series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum in the currency or
currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay the principal
or any premium, interest or Additional Amounts so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its action or failure so to act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it shall, on or prior to each due date of the
principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Securities of such series, deposit with any Paying Agent a sum (in the currency or currencies, currency unit or units or composite currency or currencies
described in the preceding paragraph) sufficient to pay the principal and any premium, interest or Additional Amounts so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto, and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its action or failure so to act. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall cause each Paying
Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent shall: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with
respect to Securities of such series in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization;
</P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor
upon the Securities of such series) in the making of any payment of principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities of such series; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same terms as
those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such sums. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise provided herein or pursuant hereto, any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company,
in trust for the payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts with respect to any Security of any series or any Coupon appertaining thereto and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal or any such
premium or interest or any such Additional Amounts shall have become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security or any Coupon
appertaining thereto shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as
trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that if directed by the Company, the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall, at the expense of the Company, cause to be published once, in an
Authorized Newspaper in each Place of Payment for such series or to be mailed to Holders of Registered Securities of such series, or both, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less
than 30 days from the date of such publication or mailing nor shall it be later than two years after such principal and or any premium or interest or Additional Amounts shall have become due and payable, any unclaimed balance of such money then
remaining will be repaid to the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.4. <U>Additional Amounts</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If provided in or pursuant to the related Series Authorization with respect to Securities of any series, all payments of principal of and
premium, if any, interest and any other amounts on, or in respect of, the Securities of such series or any Coupon appertaining thereto shall be made without withholding or deduction at source for, or on account of, any present or future taxes, fees,
duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of the jurisdiction in which the Company is then organized (each, a &#147;<U>taxing jurisdiction</U>&#148;) or any political subdivision or taxing
authority thereof or therein, unless such taxes, fees, duties, </P>
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assessments or governmental charges are required to be withheld or deducted by (i)&nbsp;the laws (or any regulations or ruling promulgated thereunder) of a taxing jurisdiction or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein or (ii)&nbsp;an official position regarding the application, administration, interpretation or enforcement of any such laws, regulations or rulings (including, without limitation, a holding by a
court of competent jurisdiction or by a taxing authority in a taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof). If a withholding or deduction at source is required, the Company shall, subject to certain limitations and exceptions set forth
below, pay to the Holder of any such Security or any Coupon appertaining thereto such Additional Amounts as may be necessary so that every net payment of principal, premium, if any, interest or any other amount made to such Holder, after such
withholding or deduction, shall not be less than the amount provided for in such Security, any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture to be then due and payable; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to make payment of
such Additional Amounts for or on account of: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) any tax, fee, duty, assessment or governmental charge of whatever nature
which would not have been imposed but for the fact that such Holder: (A)&nbsp;was a resident, domiciliary or national of, or engaged in business or maintained a permanent establishment or was physically present in, the relevant taxing jurisdiction
or any political subdivision thereof or otherwise had some connection with the relevant taxing jurisdiction other than by reason of the mere ownership of, or receipt of payment under, such Security; (B)&nbsp;presented such Security for payment in
the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof, unless such Security could not have been presented for payment elsewhere; or (C)&nbsp;presented such Security more than thirty (30)&nbsp;days after the date on which the payment
in respect of such Security first became due and payable or provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the Holder would have been entitled to such Additional Amounts if it had presented such Security for payment on any day within
such period of thirty (30)&nbsp;days; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer, personal property or similar tax,
assessment or other governmental charge; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld
by reason of the failure by the Holder or the beneficial owner of such Security to comply with any reasonable request by the Company addressed to the Holder within 90&nbsp;days of such request (A)&nbsp;to provide information concerning the
nationality, residence or identity of the Holder or such beneficial owner or (B)&nbsp;to make any declaration or other similar claim or satisfy any information or reporting requirement, which, in the case of (A)&nbsp;or (B), is required or imposed
by statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof as a precondition to exemption from all or part of such tax, assessment or other governmental charge; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) any combination of items (1), (2) and (3); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">nor shall Additional Amounts be paid with respect to any payment of the principal of, or premium, if any, interest or any other amounts on, any such Security
to any Holder who is a fiduciary or partnership or other than the sole beneficial owner of such Security to the extent such payment would be required by the laws of the relevant taxing jurisdiction (or any political
</P>
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subdivision or relevant taxing authority thereof or therein) to be included in the income for tax purposes of a beneficiary or partner or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of
such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have been entitled to such Additional Amounts had it been the Holder of the Security. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal of or any premium, interest or any other amounts
on, or in respect of, any Security of any series or any Coupon or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any Security of any series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the payment of Additional Amounts provided by the
terms of such series established hereby or pursuant hereto to the extent that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to such terms, and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts (if
applicable) in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding the payment of Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization of the applicable series, at least 10 days
prior to the first Interest Payment Date with respect to such series of Securities (or if the Securities of such series shall not bear interest prior to Maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal is made), and at least 10 days prior to
each date of payment of principal or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers&#146; Certificate, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee and the principal Paying Agent or Paying
Agents, if other than the Trustee, an Officers&#146; Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal of and premium, if any, interest or any other amounts on the Securities of such series
shall be made to Holders of Securities of such series or the Coupons appertaining thereto without withholding for or on account of any tax, fee, duty, assessment or other governmental charge described in this Section&nbsp;10.4. If any such
withholding shall be required, then such Officers&#146; Certificate shall specify by taxing jurisdiction the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities or Coupons, and the Company agrees to pay to the
Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional Amounts required by this Section&nbsp;10.4. The Company covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any Paying Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense reasonably incurred
without negligence or bad faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officers&#146; Certificate furnished pursuant to this Section&nbsp;10.4. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.5. <U>Corporate Existence</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to Article 8, each of the Company and the Guarantor shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full
force and effect its corporate existence and rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not obligate the Company or the Guarantor to preserve any such right or franchise if the Company or the Guarantor
shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of its business and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to any Holder. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company and the Guarantor may omit in any particular instance to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant
specified pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1 to be applicable to the Securities of any series and to be subject to this Section&nbsp;10.6 if before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series, by Act of such Holders, either shall waive such compliance in such instance or generally shall have waived compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term,
provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the Guarantor and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall
remain in full force and effect. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.7. <U>Company and Guarantor&#146;s Statement as to Compliance; Notice of Certain
Defaults</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) The Company and the Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal
year, a written statement (which need not be contained in or accompanied by an Officers&#146; Certificate or Guarantor&#146;s Officers&#146; Certificate) signed by the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer or the principal
accounting officer of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, stating that </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) a review of the activities of the
Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, during such year and of its performance under this Indenture has been made under his or her supervision, and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:6%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) to the best of his or her knowledge, based on such review, (a)&nbsp;the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, has
complied with all the conditions and covenants imposed on it under this Indenture throughout such year, or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment of any such condition or covenant, specifying each such default known to him or her and the
nature and status thereof, and (b)&nbsp;no event has occurred and is continuing which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default, or, if such an event has occurred and is continuing, specifying each such event
known to him and the nature and status thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within five days after the
occurrence thereof, written notice of any Event of Default or any event which after notice or lapse of time or both would become an Event of Default pursuant to clause (4)&nbsp;or (5) of Section&nbsp;5.1. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) The Trustee shall have no duty to monitor the Company&#146;s compliance with the covenants contained in this Article 10
other than as specifically set forth in this Section 10.7. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;10.8. <U>Calculation of Original Issue Discount</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company shall file with the Trustee promptly at the end of each calendar year (i)&nbsp;a written notice specifying the amount of original
issue discount (including daily rates and accrual </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">periods) accrued on any Outstanding Original Issue Discount Securities as of the end of such year and
(ii)&nbsp;such other specific information relating to such original issue discount as may then be relevant under the Code, as amended from time to time. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Article 11 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">REDEMPTION OF
SECURITIES </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.1. <U>Applicability of Article</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Redemption of Securities of any series as permitted or required by the terms of such Securities shall be made in accordance with the terms of
such Securities and (except as otherwise provided herein or pursuant hereto) this Article. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.2. <U>Election to Redeem;
Notice to Trustee</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In
case of any redemption at the election of the Company of (a)&nbsp;less than all of the Securities of any series or (b)&nbsp;all of the Securities of any series, with the same issue date, interest rate or formula, Stated Maturity and other terms, the
Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee in writing of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such
series to be redeemed. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.3. <U>Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If less than all of the Securities of any series with the same issue date, interest rate or formula, Stated Maturity and other terms are to be
redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee from the Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by lot or on a pro rata
basis, and in any event in accordance with the procedures of the U.S. Depository, and which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions of the principal amount of Registered Securities of such series; provided, however, that no such
partial redemption shall reduce the portion of the principal amount of a Registered Security of such series not redeemed to less than the minimum denomination for a Security of such series established herein or pursuant hereto. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and the Security Registrar (if other than itself) in writing of the Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For all
purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal of such
Securities which has been or is to be redeemed. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series
Authorization of any series, if any Security selected for partial redemption is converted into </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Common Stock of the Company or exchanged for other securities in part before termination of the conversion or
exchange right with respect to the portion of the Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which have been converted or exchanged during a
selection of Securities to be redeemed shall be treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.4. <U>Notice of Redemption</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section&nbsp;1.6, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, unless a shorter period is specified in the Securities to be redeemed, to the Holders of Securities to be redeemed. Failure to give notice by mailing in the manner herein provided to the Holder of any Registered Securities designated for
redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Securities or portion thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any notice that is mailed to the Holder of any Registered Securities in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been
duly given, whether or not such Holder receives the notice. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All notices of redemption shall state: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) the Redemption Date, and if such redemption date is conditional, a description of the event upon which it is conditioned,
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) the Redemption Price, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial
redemption, the principal amount) of the particular Security or Securities to be redeemed, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) in case any Security is to
be redeemed in part only, the notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder of such Security will receive, without charge, a new Security or Securities of
authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(5) that, on the Redemption Date, the
Redemption Price shall become due and payable upon each such Security or portion thereof to be redeemed, in the case of a Registered Security, together with any accrued interest and Additional Amounts pertaining thereto, and that unless the Company
shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and other amounts then due, interest thereon, if applicable, shall cease to accrue on and after said date, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(6) the place or places where such Securities, together (in the case of Bearer Securities) with all Coupons appertaining
thereto, if any, maturing on or after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price and any accrued interest and Additional Amounts pertaining thereto, </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(7) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(8) that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer Securities of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must
be accompanied by all Coupons maturing subsequent to the date fixed for redemption or the amount of any such missing Coupon or Coupons will be deducted from the Redemption Price, unless security or indemnity satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee
and any Paying Agent is furnished, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(9) if Bearer Securities of any series are to be redeemed and no Registered Securities
of such series are to be redeemed, and if such Bearer Securities may be exchanged for Registered Securities not subject to redemption on the Redemption Date pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.5 or otherwise, the last date, as determined by the Company, on
which such exchanges may be made, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(10) in the case of Securities of any series that are convertible into Common Stock of
the Company or exchangeable for other securities, the conversion or exchange price or rate, the date or dates on which the right to convert or exchange the principal of the Securities of such series to be redeemed will commence or terminate and the
place or places where such Securities may be surrendered for conversion or exchange, and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(11) the CUSIP number or the
Euroclear or the Clearstream reference numbers of such Securities, if any (or any other numbers used by a Depository to identify such Securities). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">A notice of redemption published as contemplated by Section&nbsp;1.6 need not identify particular Registered Securities to be redeemed. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice of redemption of Securities shall be given by the Company or, at the Company&#146;s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the
expense of the Company, provided the Company has provided the Trustee with such redemption notice five days prior to the requested delivery of such notice. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.5. <U>Deposit of Redemption Price</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">At or prior to 12:00 pm New York time on any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit, with respect to the Securities of any series called
for redemption, with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section&nbsp;10.3) an amount of money in the applicable Currency sufficient to pay the
Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1 or in the Securities of such series) any accrued interest on and Additional Amounts with respect
thereto, all such Securities or portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.6. <U>Securities Payable on
Redemption Date</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, become due and payable
on the Redemption Date, at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Redemption Price and any accrued interest or Additional Amounts) such Securities shall cease to bear interest and
the Coupons for such interest appertaining to any Bearer Securities so to be redeemed, except to the extent provided below, shall be void. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, together with all Coupons,
if any, appertaining thereto maturing after the Redemption Date, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with any accrued interest and Additional Amounts to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, except as
otherwise provided in or pursuant to the related Series Authorization and the Coupons, installments of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of
Coupons for such interest (at an Office or Agency located outside the United States except as otherwise provided in Section&nbsp;10.2), and provided, further, that, except as otherwise specified in or pursuant to the related Series Authorization,
installments of interest on Registered Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on
the Regular Record Dates therefor according to their terms and the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.7 and installments of interest on Registered Securities for which the Redemption Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or before the following
Interest Payment Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the Regular Record Dates therefor according to their terms and the provisions of
Section&nbsp;3.7. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be accompanied by all appurtenant Coupons maturing after
the Redemption Date, such Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal to the face amount of all such missing Coupons, or the surrender of such missing Coupon or Coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee
if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing Coupon in
respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that any interest or Additional Amounts represented by Coupons shall be payable only
upon presentation and surrender of those Coupons at an Office or Agency for such Security located outside of the United States except as otherwise provided in Section&nbsp;10.2. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium, until paid,
shall bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;11.7. <U>Securities Redeemed
in Part</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any Registered Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at any Office or Agency for such Security
(with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Registered Security or Securities of the same series, containing identical terms and provisions, of any authorized
denomination as requested by such </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the
Security so surrendered. If a Security in global form is so surrendered, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the U.S. Depository or other Depository for such Security in global form as shall be specified in
the Company Order with respect thereto to the Trustee, without service charge, a new Security in global form in a denomination equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of the Security in global form so surrendered. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Article 12 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">SINKING FUNDS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.1. <U>Applicability of Article</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of a series, except as otherwise
permitted or required in or pursuant to this Indenture or the related Series Authorization. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The minimum amount of any sinking fund
payment provided for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a &#147;<U>mandatory sinking fund payment</U>,&#148; and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities of such series is
herein referred to as an &#147;<U>optional sinking fund payment</U>&#148;. If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section&nbsp;12.2. Each
sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such series and this Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.2. <U>Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any series to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1)&nbsp;deliver Outstanding Securities of such series (other than any of such Securities previously called for redemption or any of such Securities in respect of which cash shall have been released to the
Company), together in the case of any Bearer Securities of such series with all unmatured Coupons appertaining thereto, and (2)&nbsp;apply as a credit Securities of such series which have been redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant
to the terms of such series of Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such series of Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities
shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If, as
a result of the delivery or credit of Securities of any series in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section&nbsp;12.2, the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed in order to satisfy the remaining sinking fund payment shall
be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such series for redemption, except upon Company Request, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment,
provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall at the written request of the </P>
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Company from time to time pay over and deliver to the Company any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of Securities of that
series purchased by the Company having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment requested to be released to the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;12.3. <U>Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Not less than 75 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an
Officers&#146; Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that series pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion
thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of Securities of that series pursuant to Section&nbsp;12.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also
deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so credited and not theretofore delivered. If such Officers&#146; Certificate shall specify an optional amount to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, the Company shall
thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified. Not less than 60 days before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in
Section&nbsp;11.3 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section&nbsp;11.4. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be
made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Section&nbsp;11.6 and Section&nbsp;11.7. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Article 13 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;13.1. <U>Applicability of Article</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Securities of any series which are repayable at the option of the Holders thereof before their Stated Maturity shall be repaid in accordance
with the terms of the Securities of such series. The repayment of any principal amount of Securities pursuant to such option of the Holder to require repayment of Securities before their Stated Maturity, for purposes of Section&nbsp;3.9, shall not
operate as a payment, redemption or satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such Securities unless and until the Company, at its option, shall deliver or surrender the same to the Trustee with a written directive that such Securities be
cancelled. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section&nbsp;13.1, in connection with any repayment of Securities, the Company may arrange for the purchase of any Securities by an agreement with one or more investment bankers
or other purchasers to purchase such Securities by paying to the Holders of such Securities on or before the close of business on the repayment date an amount not less than the repayment price payable by the Company on repayment of such Securities,
and the obligation of the Company to pay the repayment price of such Securities shall be satisfied and discharged to the extent such payment is so paid by such purchasers. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;14.1. <U>Applicability of Article</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Whenever this Indenture provides for (i)&nbsp;any action by, or the determination of any of the rights of, Holders of Securities of any series
in which not all of such Securities are denominated in the same Currency, or (ii)&nbsp;any distribution to Holders of Securities, in the absence of any provision to the contrary in the form of Security of any particular series or pursuant to this
Indenture or the related Series Authorization, any amount in respect of any Security denominated in a Currency other than Dollars shall be treated for any such action or distribution as that amount of Dollars that could be obtained for such amount
on such reasonable basis of exchange and as of the record date with respect to Registered Securities of such series (if any) for such action, determination of rights or distribution (or, if there shall be no applicable record date, such other date
reasonably proximate to the date of such action, determination of rights or distribution) as the Company may specify in a written notice to the Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Article 15 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">GUARANTEE AND
INDEMNITY </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;15.1. <U>The Guarantee</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees to the Trustee and each Holder of a Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee all
payment obligations of the Company under this Indenture in accordance with the terms of the Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement applicable thereto. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;15.2. <U>Ranking of Guarantee</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Each Holder of Securities issued hereunder agrees that the payment by the Guarantor pursuant to the Guarantee with respect to all Securities of
each series issued hereunder, shall rank in right of payment pari passu with all similar guarantee agreements issued by the Guarantor as senior, unsecured obligations. </P>
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the signature of its authorized officers, and the Trustee has caused this Senior Indenture to be executed in its corporate name by its authorized officers, each as of the date above written. </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="7"><B>RENAISSANCERE FINANCE INC.,</B> as Issuer</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ ADITYA K. DUTT</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">ADITYA K. DUTT</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ A. HARTNETT-BEASLEY</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">PRESIDENT, TREASURER</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Name:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">ROBERT QUTUB</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ A. HARTNETT-BEASLEY</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Title:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">EVP, CFO</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">Name:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">A. HARTNETT-BEASLEY</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="5"><B>DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY</B> <B>AMERICAS, </B>not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>EXECUTION VERSION </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="line-height:1.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">by and among </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RENAISSANCERE
FINANCE INC., </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">as Issuer, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD., </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">as Guarantor, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">as Trustee </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Dated as of
June&nbsp;29, 2017 </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>$300,000,000 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RenaissanceRe Finance Inc. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>3.450% Senior Notes due 2027 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="line-height:1.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P>

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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE I.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">DEFINITIONS</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.1.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Definitions</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">2</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE II.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE SENIOR NOTES</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.1.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Title</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">2</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.2.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Principal Amount</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.3.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Payment of Principal and Interest</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.4.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Optional Redemption</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">4</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.5.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Redemption for Changes in Withholding Taxes</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">5</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.6.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Additional Covenants</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">6</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.7.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Form, Currency and Denominations</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">7</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.8.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Global Securities</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">7</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Ranking</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">7</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.10.</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Events of Default</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">8</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Miscellaneous</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Ratification and Incorporation of Original Indenture</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">8</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">8</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Headings</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">9</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Trustee&#146;s Disclaimer</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Form of Senior Note</TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 29, 2017 (this &#147;<U>Supplemental Indenture</U>&#148;), to the Senior Indenture, dated
as of June 29, 2017 (the &#147;<U>Original Indenture</U>&#148;), by and among RENAISSANCERE FINANCE INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the &#147;<U>Company</U>&#148;), as issuer, having its
principal executive office located at 140 Broadway, Suite 4200, New York, NY 10005, RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD., a company duly organized and existing under the laws of Bermuda (the &#147;<U>Guarantor</U>&#148;), having its principal executive
office located at Renaissance House, 12 Crow Lane, Pembroke HM 19, Hamilton, Bermuda, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee (the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148;),
having its corporate trust office located at 60 Wall Street, 16th Floor, MS NYC <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">60-1630,</FONT> New York, New York 10005, is effective upon the execution hereof by the parties hereto. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RECITALS </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, the
Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee the Original Indenture providing for the issuance from time to time of its senior unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (the &#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148;),
unlimited as to principal amount; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, the Guarantor has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee the Original Indenture
providing for the issuance of the Guaranty and indemnity provided for therein and in the Senior Debt Securities Guarantee Agreement, dated as even date herewith (the &#147;<U>Guarantee Agreement</U>&#148;) in respect of the Securities; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, the Original Indenture is incorporated herein by this reference; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, Section&nbsp;3.1 of the Original Indenture provides that, with respect to any series of Securities to be authenticated and delivered
under the Original Indenture, the terms of such series of Securities shall be established by (i)&nbsp;a Board Resolution and Officers&#146; Certificate or (ii)&nbsp;one or more indentures supplemental to the Original Indenture; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, the Company desires to create, under the Original Indenture, a new series of Securities to be known as its 3.450% Senior Notes due
2027 (the &#147;<U>Senior Notes</U>&#148;), the form and substance of such notes and the terms, provisions and conditions thereof to be set forth as provided in the Original Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, all conditions necessary to authorize the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture and to make it a valid and binding
agreement of the Company and the Guarantor, respectively, in accordance with its terms, have been done or performed; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, the
Original Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is herein called the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;. </P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration,
the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree as follows: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE I.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">DEFINITIONS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.1. <U>Definitions</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The following defined terms used herein shall have the meanings specified below. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have
the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Original Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Consolidated Net Worth</U>&#148; in
respect of any Person means the total of the amounts shown on the balance sheet of such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter of such
Person ending at least 45 days prior to the taking of any action for the purpose of which the determination is being made, as (i)&nbsp;the par or stated value of all outstanding Capital Stock of such Person plus (ii)&nbsp;paid-in capital or capital
surplus relating to such Capital Stock plus (iii)&nbsp;any retained earnings or earned surplus, less any accumulated deficit. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Designated Subsidiary</U>&#148; means any present or future consolidated Subsidiary of the Guarantor, (i)&nbsp;the
Consolidated Net Worth of which constitutes at least 10% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Guarantor and (ii)&nbsp;in which the Guarantor holds, directly or indirectly, equity interests entitled to more than 50% of the profits thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Payment Date</U>&#148; means, with respect to the Senior Notes only, January&nbsp;1 and July 1 of each year.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Regular Record Date</U>&#148; means, with respect to the Senior Notes only, the close of business on December 15
or June 15, as the case may be, immediately preceding each Interest Payment Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Taxing Jurisdiction</U>&#148;
means Bermuda or such other jurisdiction in which the Guarantor (or any of its successors under the Guarantee Agreement) may be organized or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE II. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">GENERAL TERMS AND
CONDITIONS OF THE SENIOR NOTES </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">There is hereby established a new series of Securities under the Original Indenture with the following
terms: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.1. <U>Title</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The title of the series is &#147;3.450% Senior Notes due 2027&#148;. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">There are to be issued by the Company, and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee on the date hereof $300,000,000 aggregate principal
amount of Senior Notes, and such principal amount of Senior Notes may be increased from time to time pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1 of the Original Indenture. All Senior Notes need not be issued on the same date and such series may be reopened at any
time, without the consent of any Holder, for issuances of additional Senior Notes, unlimited in principal amount, upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of either a Board Resolution and Officers&#146; Certificate or an indenture supplemental to
the Indenture, setting forth the original issuance date of such additional Senior Notes. The terms of any such additional Senior Notes will be identical to the terms of the Senior Notes initially issued, authenticated and delivered on the date
hereof, except as to issue price, issue date and the date from which interest shall accrue and except that such additional Senior Notes may not be fungible for U.S. tax purposes with such initially issued Senior Notes. Any such additional Senior
Notes will, together with the previously issued Senior Notes, constitute a single series of Securities under the Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.3. <U>Payment of Principal and Interest</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The principal of the Senior Notes shall be due on July 1, 2027, subject to the provisions of the Original Indenture relating to
acceleration of maturity. The Senior Notes will bear interest from June 29, 2017, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, at a rate of 3.450% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on
January 1 and July 1 of each year, commencing on January 1, 2018, and at Maturity. The Company will pay interest to the Persons in whose names the Senior Notes are registered on the Regular Record Date for such Interest Payment Date. Interest will
be computed on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> months. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) If any Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day at the applicable Place of Payment, the interest payment will be
postponed to the next day that is a Business Day at such Place of Payment, and no interest on such payment will accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date. If the maturity date of the Senior Notes falls on a day that is not a
Business Day at the applicable Place of Payment, the payment of interest and principal may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment, and no interest on such payment will accrue for the period from and after the maturity
date. Interest payments for the Senior Notes will include accrued interest from and including the date of issue or from and including the last date in respect of which interest has been paid, as the case may be, to, but excluding, the Interest
Payment Date or the date of maturity, as the case may be. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) Payment of the principal and interest due at maturity of the Senior Notes
shall be made upon surrender of the Senior Notes at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. The principal of and interest on the Senior Notes shall be paid in Dollars. Payments of principal of or interest on the Senior Notes will be made, subject
to such surrender where applicable, at the </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">option of the Company, (i)&nbsp;by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address
shall appear in the Security Register or (ii)&nbsp;by wire transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located in the United States. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.4. <U>Optional Redemption</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The Senior Notes will be redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time as a whole or from time to time in part, on not less than 30
nor more than 60 days&#146; prior notice to the Holders of the Senior Notes, on any date prior to their maturity. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Redemption Price
for any redemption of Senior Notes before April 1, 2027 shall be equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Senior Notes to be redeemed and (ii)&nbsp;the Discounted Present Value of the Senior Notes to be redeemed, plus in each
case accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of such Senior Notes to, but excluding, the Redemption Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Redemption
Price for any redemption of Senior Notes on or after April 1, 2027 shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Senior Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on such principal amount of such Senior Notes to, but excluding,
the Redemption Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Installments of interest on the Senior Notes for which the Redemption Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or
before the following Interest Payment Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Senior Notes registered as such at the close of business on the Regular Record Date therefor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As used herein: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Discounted Present Value</U>&#148; of any Senior Note subject to optional redemption shall be equal to the sum of the present values
of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (excluding interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on such Senior Note discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year consisting of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-</FONT> day months) at the applicable Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Treasury Rate</U>&#148; means, with respect to any redemption date, (i)&nbsp;the yield, under the heading which represents the
average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated &#147;H.15 (519)&#148; or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption &#147;Treasury Constant Maturities,&#148; for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no
maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Senior Notes to be redeemed (the &#147;<U>Remaining Life</U>&#148;), yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue will
be determined and the Treasury Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (ii)&nbsp;if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the
calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semi-annual equivalent <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">yield-to-maturity</FONT> of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury
Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate will be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Comparable Treasury Issue</U>&#148; means the United States Treasury security selected
by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the Remaining Life. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Comparable Treasury Price</U>&#148;
means (i)&nbsp;the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii)&nbsp;if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than four
such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Independent Investment Banker</U>&#148; means
Barclays Capital Inc. or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and their respective successors or, if either of the foregoing is unwilling or unable to select the Comparable Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of national standing
appointed by the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Reference Treasury Dealer</U>&#148; means each of (i)&nbsp;Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo
Securities LLC and their respective successors; provided, however, that if either of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in The City of New York (a &#147;<U>Primary Treasury Dealer</U>&#148;), the Company will
substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer and (ii)&nbsp;any two other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Independent Investment Banker after consultation with the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation</U>&#148; means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the
average, as determined by an Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker at 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) If less than all of the Senior Notes are to be
redeemed, the Senior Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by lot by The Depository Trust Company, in the case of Senior Notes represented by a global Security, or by the Trustee by lot or on a pro rata basis, in the case of Senior Notes that are
not represented by a global Security. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.5. <U>Redemption for Changes in Withholding Taxes</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Senior Notes will be redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time as a whole but not in part, on not less than 30 nor more than 60
days&#146; prior notice to the Holders of the Senior Notes, on any date prior to their maturity, at 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date, in the event that the Guarantor has
become or would become obligated to pay, on the next date on which any amount would be payable with respect to the Senior Notes, any Additional Amounts as a result of: (i)&nbsp;a change in or an amendment to the laws (including any regulations
promulgated thereunder) of a Taxing Jurisdiction, which change or amendment is announced after June 29, 2017; or (ii)&nbsp;any change in or amendment to any official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws or regulations,
which change or amendment is announced after June 29, 2017, and, in each case, the Guarantor cannot avoid such obligation by taking reasonable measures available to it. Installments of interest on the Senior Notes for which the Redemption Date is
after a Regular </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Record Date and on or before the following Interest Payment Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Senior
Notes registered as such at the close of business on the Regular Record Date therefor. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Before the Company publishes or mails any notice
of redemption of the Notes, it will deliver to the Trustee an Officers&#146; Certificate to the effect that the Guarantor cannot avoid its obligation to pay Additional Amounts by taking reasonable measures available to it and an Opinion of Counsel
stating that the Guarantor would be obligated to pay Additional Amounts as a result of a change in tax laws or regulations or the application or interpretation of such laws or regulations. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.6. <U>Additional Covenants</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In addition to the covenants set forth in Article 10 of the Original Indenture, each of the following covenants shall be added to Article 10
with respect to the Senior Notes: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) <U>Limitation on Liens on Stock of Designated Subsidiaries</U>. So long as any Senior Notes are
Outstanding, neither the Company nor the Guarantor will, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create, assume, incur, guarantee or otherwise permit to exist any Indebtedness secured by any Lien upon any shares of Capital Stock of any
Designated Subsidiary (whether such shares of stock are now owned or hereafter acquired) without effectively providing concurrently that the Senior Notes (and, if the Company and the Guarantor so elect, any other Indebtedness of the Company or the
Guarantor that is not subordinate to the Senior Notes and the Guarantee, respectively, and with respect to which the governing instruments require, or pursuant to which the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, is otherwise obligated, to provide
such security) shall be secured equally and ratably with such Indebtedness for at least the time period such other Indebtedness is so secured. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) <U>Limitation on Disposition of Stock of Designated Subsidiaries</U>. So long as any Senior Notes are Outstanding and except in a
transaction otherwise governed by the Indenture, neither the Company nor the Guarantor will issue, sell, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any shares of, securities convertible into, or warrants, rights or options to subscribe for or purchase
shares of, Capital Stock (other than Preferred Stock having no voting rights of any kind) of any Designated Subsidiary, nor will the Company or the Guarantor permit any Designated Subsidiary to issue (other than to the Guarantor, the Company or
another Designated Subsidiary) any shares (other than the director&#146;s qualifying shares) of, or securities convertible into, or warrants, rights or options to subscribe for or purchase shares of, Capital Stock (other than Preferred Stock having
no voting rights of any kind) of any Designated Subsidiary, if, after giving effect to any such transaction and the issuance of the maximum number of shares issuable upon the conversion or exercise of all such convertible securities, warrants,
rights or options, the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, would own, directly or indirectly, less than 80% of the shares of Capital Stock of such Designated Subsidiary (other than Preferred Stock having no voting rights of any kind);
provided, however, that (i)&nbsp;any issuance, sale, assignment, transfer or other disposition permitted by the Company or the Guarantor may only be made for at least a fair market value consideration as determined by the Board of Directors or the
Guarantor&#146;s Board of Directors, as the case may be, pursuant to a Board Resolution or Guarantor&#146;s Board Resolution, as the case may be, adopted in good faith and (ii)&nbsp;the foregoing shall not prohibit any </P>
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such issuance or disposition of securities if required by any law or any regulation or order of any governmental or insurance regulatory authority. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i)&nbsp;the
Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, may merge or consolidate any Designated Subsidiary into or with another direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Guarantor the shares of Capital Stock of which the Guarantor owns at least 80% and
(ii)&nbsp;the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, may, subject to the provisions of Article 8 of the Original Indenture sell, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of the entire Capital Stock of any Designated Subsidiary at one time for at
least a fair market value consideration as determined by the Board of Directors or the Guarantor&#146;s Board of Directors, as the case may be, pursuant to a Board Resolution or Guarantor&#146;s Board Resolution, as the case may be, adopted in good
faith. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.7. <U>Form, Currency and Denominations</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Senior Notes shall be issued in fully registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in
excess thereof. The Senior Notes will be issued in substantially the form set forth in <U>Exhibit A</U> hereto. The Depositary with respect to the Senior Notes shall be The Depository Trust Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.8. <U>Global Securities</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The Senior Notes will be issued in the form of one or more global Securities registered in the nominee name of the Depositary, which shall
be Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. Except under the circumstances set forth in Section&nbsp;3.5 of the Original Indenture, the global Securities will not be exchangeable for, and will not otherwise be issuable as, Senior Notes in definitive form. Owners of
beneficial interests in such a global Security will not be considered the registered owners or Holders of Senior Notes for any purpose. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) No global Security representing a Senior Note shall be exchangeable, except for another global Security of like denomination and tenor to
be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee or to a successor Depositary or its nominee. Payment of principal of, any premium or interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Senior Note in global form shall be made to
the registered Holder thereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.9. <U>Ranking</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Senior Notes will represent the Company&#146;s direct, unsecured obligations and will rank equally with all of the Company&#146;s other
unsubordinated senior indebtedness. The Guarantee will represent the Guarantor&#146;s direct, unsecured senior obligation and will rank equally with all similar guarantee agreements issued by the Guarantor as direct, unsecured senior obligations.
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.10. <U>Events of Default</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1(18) of the Original Indenture, clause (4)&nbsp;of Section&nbsp;5.1 of the Original Indenture is hereby amended
with respect to the Senior Notes by deleting the text thereof in its entirety and inserting in its place the following: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;(4) default
in the performance of the provisions of Section&nbsp;7.4(1) and continuance of such default for a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, (i)&nbsp;to the Company by the Trustee or (ii)&nbsp;to the Company and
the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a &#147;<U>Notice of
Default</U>&#148; hereunder; or&#148;. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2.11. <U>Miscellaneous</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Company is not obligated to redeem or purchase any Senior Notes pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provision. The Senior Notes will
not be convertible into shares of Common Stock of the Company and/or exchangeable for other securities. The amount of payments of principal with respect to the Senior Notes shall not be determined with reference to an index, formula or other method
or methods. No Senior Notes are issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Each of Section&nbsp;4.2(2) of the Original Indenture relating to defeasance and Section 4.2(3) of the Original Indenture relating to covenant defeasance shall apply to the
Senior Notes, and the covenants subject to Section&nbsp;4.2(3) and Section&nbsp;10.6 of the Original Indenture shall include the covenants set forth in, and made applicable to the Senior Notes by, Section&nbsp;2.6 of this Supplemental Indenture.
Additional Amounts will be payable by the Company on the Senior Notes to the extent provided in Section&nbsp;10.4 of the Original Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE III. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.1. <U>Ratification and Incorporation of Original Indenture</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As supplemented hereby, the Original Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the Original Indenture as supplemented by this
Supplemental Indenture shall be read, taken and construed as one and the same instrument. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.2. <U>Counterparts</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Supplemental Indenture may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but
one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and
may be used in lieu of this Supplemental Indenture and signature pages for all purposes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.3. <U>Governing Law; Waiver of
Jury Trial</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York
applicable to agreements made and performed in said state. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.4. <U>Headings</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;3.5. <U>Trustee&#146;s Disclaimer.</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Trustee accepts the amendments of the Indenture effected by this Supplemental Indenture on the terms and conditions set forth in the
Indenture, including the terms and provisions defining and limiting the liabilities and responsibilities of the Trustee. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or with
respect to any of the recitals or statements contained herein, all of which recitals or statements are made solely by the Company, or for or with respect to (i)&nbsp;the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or any of the terms or
provisions hereof, (ii)&nbsp;the proper authorization hereof by the Company by action or otherwise, (iii)&nbsp;the due execution hereof by the Company or (iv)&nbsp;the consequences of any amendment herein provided for, and the Trustee makes no
representation with respect to any such matters. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee acknowledges and agrees that it has properly authorized and duly executed this Supplemental Indenture and nothing contained in this
<U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.5</U> shall be deemed to limit such authorization and execution, nor shall this <U>Section</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;3.5</U> be interpreted to in any way limit the Trustee&#146;s authentication of the Senior Notes. </P>
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Indenture by the signature of its authorized officers, and the Trustee has caused this Supplemental Indenture to be executed in its corporate name by its authorized officers, each as of the date above written. </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="7"><B>RENAISSANCERE FINANCE INC.,</B> as Issuer</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ ADITYA K. DUTT</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">Witnessed by:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Name:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">ADITYA K. DUTT</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ A. HARTNETT-BEASLEY</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Title:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">PRESIDENT, TREASURER</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">Name:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">A. HARTNETT-BEASLEY</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Title:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">AVP, CORPORATE COUNSEL</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="7"><B>RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD.,</B> as Guarantor</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">By:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ ROBERT QUTUB</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">Witnessed&nbsp;by:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Name:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">ROBERT QUTUB</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ A. HARTNETT-BEASLEY</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Title:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">EVP, CFO</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">Name:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">A. HARTNETT-BEASLEY</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Title:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">AVP, CORPORATE COUNSEL</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"><B>DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY</B> <B>AMERICAS, </B>not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Deutsch Bank National Trust Company</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ Jacqueline Bartnick</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Name: Jacqueline Bartnick</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">/s/ Annie Jaghatspanyan</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Name: Annie Jaghatspanyan</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Title: Vice President</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">[Legend to be removed if the Senior Note is not represented by a global note] [UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (&#147;DTC&#148;), TO RENAISSANCERE FINANCE INC. OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND SUCH PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE &amp; CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR
OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER, CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">UNLESS AND UNTIL THIS CERTIFICATE IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SENIOR NOTES IN CERTIFICATED FORM, THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE THEREOF OR BY A NOMINEE THEREOF TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY DTC OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR OF DTC OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR.] </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">RENAISSANCERE FINANCE INC. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">[<U></U><U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>]% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2027 </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top">No.<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center">CUSIP No.:</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Principal Amount:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">$300,000,000</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">[<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>] 15 or
[<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>] 15, as the case may be, immediately preceding each Interest Payment Date</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Original Issue Date:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">[<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>]</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Maturity Date:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">July&nbsp;1, 2027</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Interest Payment Dates:</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">[<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>] 1 and
[<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>] 1</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">[<U>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</U>]% per annum</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">$2,000, or any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof</TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware
(the &#147;<U>Company</U>&#148;, which term includes any successor company under the Indenture referred to below), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE&nbsp;&amp; CO., or </P>

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registered assigns, the principal sum of [&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;] DOLLARS ($[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]) on the Maturity Date shown above, and to
pay interest thereon from June [&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;], 2017, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date as specified above (including
the Maturity Date), commencing on [&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;] 1, 2017, at the rate of [&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]% per annum until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (including the Maturity Date) will, as
provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Senior Note is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date as specified above next preceding each Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid
or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Senior Note is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such defaulted interest established by notice given by or on behalf of the Company to the Holders of Senior Notes not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange, if any, on which the Senior Notes shall be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by any such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Payments of interest on this Senior Note will include interest accrued to but excluding the respective Interest Payment Dates. Interest
payments for this Senior Note shall be computed and paid on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year of twelve 30-day months. In the event that any date on which interest is payable on this Senior Note is not a Business
Day, then payment of the interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, with the same force and effect as if made on the date the payment was originally payable. A &#147;<U>Business Day</U>&#148; shall
mean any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Payment of the principal of and interest due on the Maturity Date of this Senior Note shall be made upon surrender of this Senior Note at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. The principal of and interest on this Senior Note shall be paid in Dollars. Payments of interest will be made, subject to such surrender where applicable, at the option of the Company, (i)&nbsp;by check mailed
to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such address as shall appear in the Security Register or (ii)&nbsp;by wire transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located in the United States. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This security is one of a duly authorized issue of debt securities of the Company (herein called the &#147;<U>Securities</U>&#148;), fully and
unconditionally guaranteed as to payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest by RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., a company duly organized and existing under the laws of Bermuda, as guarantor (the &#147;<U>Guarantor</U>,&#148; which term
includes any successor guarantor under the Indenture), all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to the Senior Indenture, dated as of June [&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;], 2017, as supplemented (the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;), among the Company,
the Guarantor, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York banking corporation, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee (the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>,&#148; which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture). Reference
is hereby made to the Indenture </P>
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and all indentures supplemental thereto relating to this security (including, without limitation, the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June [&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;], 2017, among the
Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee) for a statement of the respective rights, limitation of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities issued thereunder and of the terms
upon which said Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. The Securities may be issued in one or more series, which different series may be issued in various aggregate principal amounts, may mature at different times, may bear
interest at different rates and may otherwise vary as provided in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto. This security is one of a series designated on the face as [&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]% Senior Notes due 2027 (the &#147;<U>Senior
Notes</U>&#148;), initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $300,000,000, subject to increase as provided in Section&nbsp;2.2 of the First Supplemental Indenture. Capitalized terms used herein for which no definition is provided herein
shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Senior Notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company.
The Company&#146;s obligation to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on and Additional Amounts, if any, in respect of the Senior Notes is unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by the Guarantor pursuant to Article 15
of the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">While this Senior Note is represented by one or more global notes registered in the name of DTC or its nominee, the
Company will cause payments of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Senior Note to be made to DTC or its nominee, as the case may be, by wire transfer to the extent, in the funds and in the manner required by agreements with, or
regulations or procedures prescribed from time to time by, DTC or its nominee, and otherwise in accordance with such agreements, regulations and procedures. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Senior Notes will not have a sinking fund. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Senior Notes will be redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time as a whole or from time to time in part, on not less than 30
nor more than 60 days&#146; prior notice to the Holders of the Senior Notes, on any date prior to their maturity. The Redemption Price for any redemption of Senior Notes before
[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2027] shall be equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Senior Notes to be redeemed and (ii)&nbsp;the Discounted Present Value
of the Senior Notes to be redeemed, plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount of such Senior Notes to, but excluding, the Redemption Date. The Redemption Price for any redemption of Senior Notes on or after
[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2027] shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Senior Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest on such principal amount of
such Senior Notes to, but excluding, the Redemption Date. Installments of interest on the Senior Notes for which the Redemption Date is after a Regular Record Date and on or before the following Interest Payment Date shall be payable to the Holders
of such Senior Notes registered as such at the close of business on the Regular Record Date therefor. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As used herein: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Discounted Present Value</U>&#148; of any Senior Note subject to optional redemption shall be equal to the sum of the present values
of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and </P>
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interest (excluding interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on such Senior Note discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year consisting of twelve <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-</FONT> day months) at the applicable Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Treasury Rate</U>&#148; means, with respect to any redemption date, (i)&nbsp;the yield, under the heading which represents the
average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated &#147;H.15 (519)&#148; or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption &#147;Treasury Constant Maturities,&#148; for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no
maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Senior Notes to be redeemed (the &#147;<U>Remaining Life</U>&#148;), yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue will
be determined and the Treasury Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (ii)&nbsp;if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the
calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per year equal to the semi-annual equivalent <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">yield-to-maturity</FONT> of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury
Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate will be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Comparable Treasury Issue</U>&#148; means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having
a maturity comparable to the Remaining Life. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Comparable Treasury Price</U>&#148; means (i)&nbsp;the average of four Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii)&nbsp;if the Independent Investment Banker obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations,
the average of all such quotations. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Independent Investment Banker</U>&#148; means Barclays Capital Inc. or Wells Fargo
Securities, LLC and their respective successors or, if either of the foregoing is unwilling or unable to select the Comparable Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Reference Treasury Dealer</U>&#148; means each of (i)&nbsp;Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and their respective
successors; provided, however, that if either of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in The City of New York (a &#147;<U>Primary Treasury Dealer</U>&#148;), the Company will substitute another Primary Treasury
Dealer and (ii)&nbsp;any two other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Independent Investment Banker after consultation with the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation</U>&#148; means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the
average, as determined by an Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker at 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date. </P>
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redeemed shall be selected by lot by DTC, in the case of Senior Notes represented by a global note, or by the Trustee by lot or on a pro rata basis, in the case of Senior Notes that are not represented by a global note. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Senior Notes will be redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time as a whole but not in part, on not less than 30 nor more than
60 days&#146; prior notice to the Holders of the Senior Notes, on any date prior to their maturity, at 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date, in the event that the Guarantor has
become or would become obligated to pay, on the next date on which any amount would be payable with respect to the Senior Notes, any Additional Amounts as a result of: (i)&nbsp;a change in or an amendment to the laws (including any regulations
promulgated thereunder) of a Taxing Jurisdiction, which change or amendment is announced after June 29, 2017; or (ii)&nbsp;any change in or amendment to any official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws or regulations,
which change or amendment is announced after June&nbsp;29, 2017, and, in each case, the Guarantor cannot avoid such obligation by taking reasonable measures available to it. Installments of interest on the Senior Notes for which the Redemption Date
is after a Regular Record Date and on or before the following Interest Payment Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Senior Notes registered as such at the close of business on the Regular Record Date therefor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Indenture also contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of the Senior Notes and the Guarantee of the
Guarantor with respect thereto or of certain restrictive covenants of the Company and the Guarantor with respect to the Senior Notes, in each case, upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If an Event of Default with respect to the Senior Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Senior Notes may be declared due
and payable in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Indenture permits, with certain
exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the respective rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantor and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series issued under the Indenture at any
time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding affected thereby. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Senior Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Senior Notes, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Senior Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of
this Senior Note and of any Senior Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Senior Note. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Senior Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and </P>
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unconditional, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on and Additional Amounts, if any, in respect of this Senior Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency,
herein prescribed. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Senior Note is
registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Senior Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company for such purpose, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory
to the Company and the Security Registrar and duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Senior Notes, of authorized denominations and of like tenor and for the same aggregate
principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge or certain other expenses payable in connection therewith. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Prior to due presentment of this Senior Note for
registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Senior Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Senior Note be
overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Senior
Notes are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Senior Notes are
exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same upon surrender of the Senior Note or Notes to be exchanged at the office or agency of the
Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Senior Note shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York applicable to
agreements made and performed in said state. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual
signature, this Senior Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. </P>
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representatives as of the date set forth below. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Dated: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>Exhibit 4.3 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>EXECUTION VERSION </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="line-height:1.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SENIOR DEBT SECURITIES GUARANTEE
AGREEMENT </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">between <B> </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD., </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">as Guarantor, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">as Guarantee Trustee </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">dated as of
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>June&nbsp;29, 2017 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE II TRUST INDENTURE ACT</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">3</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.1</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Trust Indenture Act: Application</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">3</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.2</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">List of Holders</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">3</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.3</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Reports by the Guarantee Trustee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">3</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.4</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">4</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.5</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Events of Default; Waiver</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">4</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.6</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Event of Default; Notice</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">4</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.7</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Conflicting Interests</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">4</TD>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE III POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">4</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.1</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">4</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.2</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Certain Rights of the Guarantee Trustee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">6</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.3</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Indemnity</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">8</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE IV GUARANTEE TRUSTEE</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">8</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.1</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">8</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.2</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Guarantee Trustees</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">8</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE V GUARANTEE</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">9</TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.1</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Guarantee</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">9</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.2</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Waiver of Notice and Demand</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">9</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.3</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Obligations Not Affected</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">9</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.4</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Rights of Holders</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">10</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.5</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Guarantee of Payment and Reinstatement</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">10</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.6</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Subrogation</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">11</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.7</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Independent Obligations</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">11</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.8</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Net Payments</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">11</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE VI RANKING</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">12</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 6.1</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Ranking</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">12</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 6.2</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Pari Passu Guarantees</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">12</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE VII TERMINATION</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">13</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 7.1</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Termination</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">13</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="3"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="4"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">13</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.1</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Successors and Assigns</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">13</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.2</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Amendments</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">13</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.3</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Notices</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">13</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.4</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Benefit</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">15</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid ; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.5</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">15</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.6</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Interpretation</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">15</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Submission to Jurisdiction</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">15</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.8</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Judgment Currency</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">16</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.9</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">Counterparts</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This SENIOR DEBT SECURITIES GUARANTEE AGREEMENT (this &#147;<U>Guarantee Agreement</U>&#148; or this &#147;<U>Guarantee</U>&#148;), dated as
of June 29, 2017, is executed and delivered by RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD., a Bermuda company (&#147;<U>RenaissanceRe</U>&#148; or the &#147;<U>Guarantor</U>&#148;), having its principal executive offices at Renaissance House, 12 Crow Lane, Pembroke
HM 19, Bermuda, and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, a New York banking corporation (&#147;<U>Deutsche Bank</U>&#148;), not in its individual capacity but solely as the Guarantee trustee (the &#147;<U>Guarantee Trustee</U>&#148;), having its
Corporate Trust Office located at 60 Wall Street, 16th Floor, MS NYC <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">60-1630,</FONT> New York, New York 10005, for the benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) from time to time of the Senior Notes (as defined
herein) issued by RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#147;<U>Issuer</U>&#148;). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, pursuant to the Senior
Indenture, dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017 (the &#147;<U>Original Indenture</U>&#148;), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017 (together with the Original Indenture, the &#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148;), each
among the Issuer, the Guarantor and Deutsche Bank, as trustee thereunder (in such capacity, the &#147;<U>Trustee</U>&#148;), the Issuer is issuing $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its unsecured senior debt securities (the &#147;<U>Senior
Notes</U>&#148;). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREAS, as incentive for the Holders (as defined in the Indenture) of the Senior Notes to purchase such Senior Notes,
the Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally, to guarantee the obligations of the Issuer under the Indenture. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the purchase by the Holders of the Senior Notes, which purchase the Guarantor hereby agrees shall benefit the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of such Holders. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE I </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">DEFINITIONS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.1 <U>Definitions</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As used in this
Guarantee Agreement, the terms set forth below shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the following meanings. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Indenture as
in effect on the date hereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Additional Amounts</U>&#148; means any additional amounts which are required hereby or by the
terms of the Senior Notes, under circumstances specified herein or therein, to be paid by the Guarantor in respect of certain taxes, assessments or other governmental charges imposed on Holders of Senior Notes specified herein and therein and which
are owing to such Holders. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Affiliate</U>&#148; of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person; provided, however, that an Affiliate of the Guarantor shall not be deemed to include the Issuer. For the purpose of this definition, &#147;control&#148; when
used with respect to any specified </P>
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Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms
&#147;controlling&#148; and &#147;controlled&#148; have meanings correlative to the foregoing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Authorized Officer</U>&#148;
means, when used with respect to any Person, the Chair of the Board of Directors, a Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, an Executive Vice President, a Senior Vice President,
a Vice President, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Chief Investment Officer, the Chief Accounting Officer, the General Counsel, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of such Person. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Event of Default</U>&#148; means a default by the Guarantor on any of its payment or other obligations under this Guarantee
Agreement; provided, however, that, except with respect to a payment default, the Guarantor shall have received notice of default and shall not have cured such default within 90 days after receipt of such notice. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Guarantee Trustee</U>&#148; means Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, not in its individual capacity but solely as Guarantee
Trustee, until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement and thereafter means each such Successor Guarantee Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Indenture</U>&#148; has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>List of Holders</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;2.2(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Officers&#146; Certificate</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by two Authorized Officers, at least one
of which is a principal executive, principal financial or principal accounting officer, and is delivered to the Guarantee Trustee. Any Officers&#146; Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this
Guarantee shall include: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers&#146; Certificate has read the covenant or condition and
the definitions relating thereto; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken by such
officer in rendering the Officers&#146; Certificate; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in
such officer&#146;s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Person</U>&#148; means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint
stock company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature. </P>
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president, any assistant vice president, director, managing director, associate or any trust officer or any other officer of the Guarantee Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers
and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject, in each case who shall have direct responsibility
for the administration of the Senior Indenture and the Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Senior Notes</U>&#148; has the meaning set forth in the preamble
hereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Successor Guarantee Trustee</U>&#148; means a successor Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as
Guarantee Trustee under Section&nbsp;4.1. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE II </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">TRUST INDENTURE ACT </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.1 <U>Trust
Indenture Act: Application</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) This Guarantee Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to
be part of this Guarantee Agreement and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) If and to the extent that
any provision of this Guarantee Agreement limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.2 <U>List of Holders</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Within
30 days after the receipt by the Guarantor of a request in writing from the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantor shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee a list, in such form as the Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Holders of the Senior Notes (&#147;<U>List of Holders</U>&#148;), such List of Holders to be as of a date not more than 15&nbsp;days prior to the time such List of Holders is furnished, in each case to the extent such
information is in the possession or control of (or can reasonably be obtained by) the Guarantor and is not identical to a previously supplied list of such Holders or has not otherwise been received by the Guarantee Trustee in its capacity as such.
The Guarantee Trustee may destroy any List of Holders previously given to it on receipt of a new List of Holders. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The Guarantee
Trustee shall comply with its obligations under Section&nbsp;311(a), Section&nbsp;311(b) and Section&nbsp;312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.3
<U>Reports by the Guarantee Trustee</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Within 60 days after September 15 of each year commencing with September 15, 2017, the Guarantee
Trustee shall provide to the Holders of the Senior Notes such reports as are required by Section&nbsp;313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any, in the form and in the manner provided by Section&nbsp;313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Guarantee
Trustee shall also comply with the requirements of Section&nbsp;313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;1.2 of the Original Indenture shall apply mutatis mutandis to the Guarantor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.5 <U>Events of Default; Waiver</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Holders of not less than a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Notes may, on behalf of all Holders of the Senior
Notes, waive any past default affecting the Senior Notes and its consequences, except a default (i)&nbsp;in the payment of the principal of, any premium or interest on, or any Additional Amounts with respect to, the Senior Notes or any Coupons
appertaining thereto or (ii)&nbsp;in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture which under Article 9 of the Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of all Holders of the Senior Notes. Upon such waiver, any such default
shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Guarantee Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent
thereon. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.6 <U>Event of Default; Notice</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of an Event of Default affecting the Senior Notes known to the Guarantee
Trustee, transmit electronically or by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders of the Senior Notes, notices of all such Events of Default, unless such defaults have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice, provided, however,
that except in the case of a default in the payment by the Guarantor of any amount due under this Guarantee Agreement, the Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the Guarantee Trustee in good faith
determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Senior Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall
not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee shall have actual knowledge, or shall have received written notice, of such Event of Default. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.7 <U>Conflicting Interests</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The
Indenture shall be deemed to be specifically described in this Guarantee Agreement for the purposes of clause (i)&nbsp;of the first proviso contained in Section&nbsp;310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE III </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">POWERS, DUTIES AND
RIGHTS OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.1 <U>Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) This Guarantee Agreement shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Senior Notes, and the Guarantee
Trustee shall not transfer this Guarantee </P>
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Agreement to any Person except a Holder of a Senior Note exercising his or her rights pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.4(iv) or to a Successor Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor
Guarantee Trustee of its appointment to act as Successor Guarantee Trustee. The right, title and interest of the Guarantee Trustee shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee Trustee, upon acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of
its appointment hereunder, and such vesting and cessation of title shall be effective whether or not conveyancing documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the appointment of such Successor Guarantee Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) If an Event of Default hereunder or under the Indenture affecting the Senior Notes has occurred and is continuing, the Guarantee Trustee
shall enforce this Guarantee Agreement for the benefit of the Holders of the Senior Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The Guarantee Trustee, before the
occurrence of any Event of Default hereunder or under the Indenture affecting the Senior Notes and after the curing or waiver of all such Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Guarantee Agreement, and no implied covenants shall be read into this Guarantee Agreement against the Guarantee Trustee. In case an Event of Default has occurred hereunder or under the Indenture (that has not been cured or waived
pursuant to Section&nbsp;2.5), the Guarantee Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use
under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) No provision of this Guarantee shall be construed to relieve the
Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default hereunder or under the Indenture affecting the Senior Notes and after the
curing or waiving of any such Events of Default that may have occurred: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(A) the duties and obligations of the Guarantee
Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Guarantee Agreement, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Guarantee
Agreement, and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Guarantee Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Guarantee Agreement; but in
the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform
to the requirements of this Guarantee Agreement; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Guarantee Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon which such judgment was made or engaged in willful misconduct; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Notes relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for
any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) no provision of this Guarantee shall require the Guarantee Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur
personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Guarantee Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such funds or liability is not
reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Guarantee Agreement or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.2 <U>Certain Rights of the Guarantee Trustee</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Subject to the provisions of Section&nbsp;3.1: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) The Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely upon, and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon,
any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, Senior Note, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed,
sent or presented by the proper party or parties. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) Any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by this
Guarantee Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers&#146; Certificate unless otherwise prescribed herein. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) Whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement, the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter
be proved or established before taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and rely upon an Officers&#146;
Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel which, upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) The Guarantee Trustee may consult with competent legal counsel, and the advice or opinion of such counsel with respect to
legal matters shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or opinion. Such counsel may be counsel to the
Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may include any of its employees. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek, and shall be fully protected in relying on, instructions concerning the administration of this Guarantee
Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v) The Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the </P>
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rights or powers vested in it by this Guarantee Agreement at the request or direction of any Holder of a Senior Note, unless such Holder shall have provided to the Guarantee Trustee such security
and indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Guarantee Trustee, against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys&#146; fees and expenses) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such request or direction, including
such reasonable advances as may be requested by the Guarantee Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to
make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, Senior Note, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Guarantee Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vii) The Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly
or by or through agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(viii) Any action taken by the Guarantee Trustee or its agents hereunder shall bind the Holders of the Senior Notes, and
the signature of the Guarantee Trustee or its agents alone shall be sufficient and effective to perform any such action. No third party shall be required to inquire as to the authority of the Guarantee Trustee to so act or as to its compliance with
any of the terms and provisions of this Guarantee Agreement, both of which shall be conclusively evidenced by the Guarantee Trustee&#146;s or its agent&#146;s taking such action. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ix) Whenever in the administration of this Guarantee Agreement the Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive
instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (A)&nbsp;may request instructions from the Holders of not less than a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior
Notes, (B)&nbsp;may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (C)&nbsp;shall be fully protected in acting in accordance with such instructions. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) No provision of this Guarantee Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or
acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform
any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be a duty to act in accordance with such power and authority. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The Guarantee Trustee shall be afforded all of the rights, powers, immunities and indemnities afforded to the Trustee as set forth in the
Indenture as if such rights, powers, immunities and indemnities were specifically set forth herein, mutatis mandatis. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Guarantor agrees to indemnify the Guarantee Trustee and its officers, directors, employees and agents for, and to hold them harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Guarantee Trustee, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Guarantee Agreement, including the costs
and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder and including the reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The provisions of this Section&nbsp;3.3 shall survive the termination of this Guarantee Agreement or the resignation or removal of the
Guarantee Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE IV </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">GUARANTEE TRUSTEE </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.1 <U>Guarantee
Trustee; Eligibility</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) There shall at all times be a Guarantee Trustee which shall: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor or the Issuer; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital of at least
50&nbsp;million U.S. dollars ($50,000,000), and shall be a corporation meeting the requirements of Section&nbsp;310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the supervising or examining authority, then, for the purposes of this Section&nbsp;4.1(a)(ii), the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) If at any time the Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be eligible to so act under
Section&nbsp;4.1(a), the Guarantee Trustee shall immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section&nbsp;4.2(c). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)
If the Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any &#147;conflicting interest&#148; within the meaning of Section&nbsp;310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all respects comply with the provisions of
Section&nbsp;310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.2 <U>Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Guarantee Trustees</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Subject to Section&nbsp;4.2(b), the Guarantee Trustee may be appointed or removed without cause at any time by the Guarantor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be removed in accordance with Section&nbsp;4.2(a) until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed
and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor. </P>
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Trustee shall have been appointed or until its removal or resignation. The Guarantee Trustee may resign from office (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by an instrument in writing executed by the Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the
Guarantor, which resignation shall not take effect until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by instrument in writing executed by such Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor and the
resigning Guarantee Trustee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) If no Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and accepted appointment as provided in this
Section&nbsp;4.2 within 30 days after delivery to the Guarantor of an instrument of resignation, the resigning Guarantee Trustee may, at the expense of the Company, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor
Guarantee Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE V </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">GUARANTEE </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.1 <U>Guarantee</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Guarantor
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees to the Trustee and each Holder the obligations of the Issuer, including the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to any
Senior Note held by such Holder, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption, repayment or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of such Senior Note and of the Indenture. The Guarantor
further agrees that, as between the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders of the Senior Notes and the Guarantee Trustee, on the other hand, the maturity of the Senior Notes guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 5 of the
Indenture for the purposes of this Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Senior Notes guaranteed hereby. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.2 <U>Waiver of Notice and Demand</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Guarantee Agreement and of any liability to which it applies or may apply,
presentment, demand for payment, any right to require a proceeding first against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer or any other Person before proceeding against the Guarantor, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice of redemption
and all other notices and demands. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.3 <U>Obligations Not Affected</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor under this Guarantee shall be as if it were a principal debtor, and not
merely a surety, and shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any of the following: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)
the release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of the performance or observance by the Issuer of any express or implied agreement, covenant, term or condition relating to the Senior Notes to be performed or observed by the Issuer; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of or on behalf of the Holders
of the Senior Notes to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on such Holders pursuant to the terms of the Senior Notes, or any action on the part of the Issuer granting indulgence or extension of any kind; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the
benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Issuer or any of the assets of the Issuer; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) any invalidity or unenforceability of, or defect or deficiency in, the Senior Notes; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor, it being the
intent of this Section&nbsp;5.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">There shall be no obligation of the Holders of the Senior Notes to give notice to, or obtain the consent of, the Guarantor with respect to the
happening of any of the foregoing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.4 <U>Rights of Holders</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Guarantor expressly acknowledges that: (i)&nbsp;this Guarantee Agreement will be deposited with the Guarantee Trustee to be held for the
benefit of the Holders of the Senior Notes; (ii)&nbsp;the Guarantee Trustee has the right to enforce this Guarantee Agreement on behalf of the Holders of the Senior Notes; (iii)&nbsp;the Holders of not less than a majority of the outstanding
principal amount of the Senior Notes have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this Guarantee Agreement or to direct the exercise of any trust or
power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee Agreement; and (iv)&nbsp;any Holder of a Senior Note may, to the extent permitted by law, institute a legal proceeding directly against the Guarantor to enforce its rights under this
Guarantee Agreement, without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Guarantee Trustee, the Issuer or any other Person. The Guarantor waives any right or remedy to require that any action on this Guarantee Agreement be brought first against
the Issuer or any other Person or entity before proceeding directly against the Guarantor. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.5 <U>Guarantee of Payment and Reinstatement</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Guarantee creates a guarantee of payment and not of collection. This Guarantee Agreement will not be discharged except by payment in full
of all amounts (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by the Issuer) owed under the Senior Notes. This Guarantee shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment on any Senior Note, in whole or in
part, is rescinded or must otherwise be restored to the Issuer or the Guarantor upon the bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the Issuer or otherwise. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights, if any, of the Holders of the Senior Notes against the Issuer in respect of any amounts paid
to such Holders by the Guarantor under this Guarantee Agreement; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not (except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of applicable law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any right that it may
acquire by way of subrogation or any indemnity, reimbursement or other agreement, in all cases as a result of payment under this Guarantee Agreement, if, at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due and unpaid under this Guarantee Agreement.
If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence, the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in trust for the Holders of the Senior Notes and to pay over such amount to such Holders. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.7 <U>Independent Obligations</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The
Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are independent of the obligations of the Issuer with respect to the Senior Notes, and that the Guarantor shall be liable as principal and as debtor hereunder to make all payments with respect to
the Senior Notes pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee Agreement notwithstanding the occurrence of any event referred to in subsections (a)&nbsp;through (e), inclusive, of Section&nbsp;5.3 hereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.8 <U>Net Payments</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All payments
required to be made hereunder shall be made by the Guarantor without withholding or deduction at source for, or on account of, any present or future taxes, fees, duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or
on behalf of Bermuda or such other jurisdiction in which the Guarantor (or any of its successors under the Guarantee Agreement) may be organized (each, a &#147;<U>taxing jurisdiction</U>&#148;) or any political subdivision or taxing authority
thereof or therein, unless such taxes, fees, duties, assessments or governmental charges are required to be withheld or deducted by (i)&nbsp;the laws (or any regulations or ruling promulgated thereunder) of a taxing jurisdiction or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein or (ii)&nbsp;an official position regarding the application, administration, interpretation or enforcement of any such laws, regulations or rulings (including, without limitation, a holding by a
court of competent jurisdiction or by a taxing authority in a taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof). If a withholding or deduction at source is required, the Guarantor shall, subject to certain limitations and exceptions set
forth below, pay to the Holder of any Senior Note such Additional Amounts as may be necessary so that every guarantee payment made to such Holder, after such withholding or deduction, shall not be less than the amount provided for in the Indenture
and this Guarantee Agreement to be then due and payable; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not be required to make payment of such Additional Amounts for or on account of: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) any tax, fee, duty, assessment or governmental charge of whatever nature which would not have been imposed but for the fact that such
Holder: (A)&nbsp;was a resident, domiciliary or national of, or engaged in business or maintained a permanent establishment or was physically present in, the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof or otherwise had some
connection with the relevant taxing jurisdiction other than by reason of the mere ownership of, or receipt of payment under, such Senior Note; (B)&nbsp;presented such Senior Note for payment in the relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political
subdivision thereof, unless such Senior Note could not have been presented for payment elsewhere; or (C)&nbsp;presented such Senior Note more </P>
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than thirty (30)&nbsp;days after the date on which the payment in respect of such Senior Note first became due and payable or provided for, whichever is later, except to the extent that the
Holder would have been entitled to such Additional Amounts if it had presented such Senior Note for payment on any day within such period of thirty (30)&nbsp;days; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer, personal property or similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld by reason of the failure by the Holder or the beneficial
owner of such Senior Note to comply with any reasonable request by the Issuer addressed to the Holder within 90 days of such request (A)&nbsp;to provide information concerning the nationality, residence or identity of the Holder or such beneficial
owner or (B)&nbsp;to make any declaration or other similar claim or satisfy any information or reporting requirement, which, in the case of (A)&nbsp;or (B), is required or imposed by statute, treaty, regulation or administrative practice of the
relevant taxing jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof as a precondition to exemption from all or part of such tax, assessment or other governmental charge; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(4) any combination of items (1), (2) and (3); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">nor shall Additional Amounts be paid with respect to any guarantee payment to any Holder of a Senior Note who is a fiduciary or partnership or other than the
sole beneficial owner of the related Senior Note, but only to the extent such payment would be required by the laws of the relevant taxing jurisdiction (or any political subdivision or relevant taxing authority thereof or therein) to be included in
the income for tax purposes of a beneficiary or partner or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or a member of such partnership or a beneficial owner who would not have been entitled to such Additional Amounts had it been the Holder of such Senior
Note. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE VI </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">RANKING
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 6.1 <U>Ranking</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Guarantee
Agreement will constitute an unsecured obligation of the Guarantor and will rank senior to the Guarantor&#146;s common shares. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 6.2 <U>Pari Passu
Guarantees</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Guarantee Agreement shall rank pari passu with any similar guarantee agreements issued by the Guarantor as a direct,
unsecured senior obligation on behalf of holders of senior securities issued by any entity affiliated with the Guarantor. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">TERMINATION </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 7.1 <U>Termination</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Subject to reinstatement as provided in Section&nbsp;5.5 hereof, this Guarantee Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect
upon payment in full of all amounts (without duplication of amounts theretofore paid by the Issuer) owed under the Senior Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE
VIII </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">MISCELLANEOUS </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.1
<U>Successors and Assigns</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee Agreement shall bind the successors, assigns,
receivers, trustees and representatives of the Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Holders of the Senior Notes then outstanding. Except in connection with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Guarantor that is permitted under
Article 8 of the Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Guarantor&#146;s obligations hereunder, the Guarantor shall not assign its obligations hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.2 <U>Amendments</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except with
respect to any changes that do not adversely affect the rights of Holders of the Senior Notes in any material respect (in which case no consent of such Holders will be required) and any changes to Sections 5.1 and 6.1 hereof, which may only be
amended in writing with the prior approval of each such Holder, this Guarantee Agreement may only be amended in writing by the parties hereto with the prior approval of the Holders of not less than a majority of the outstanding principal amount of
the Senior Notes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.3 <U>Notices</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to be given hereunder shall be in writing, duly signed by the party giving
such notice, and shall be delivered, telecopied or mailed by first class mail, as follows: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) If given to the Guarantee Trustee, at the
Guarantee Trustee&#146;s mailing address set forth below (or such other address as the Guarantee Trustee may give notice of to the Guarantor and the Holders of the Senior Notes): </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">60 Wall Street, 16<SUP STYLE="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">th</SUP> Floor </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Trust&nbsp;&amp; Agency Services </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">MS NYC <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">60-1630</FONT> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">New York, New York 10005 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Attention: Corporate Team/ RenaissanceRe Finance Inc. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">with a copy to: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Deutsche Bank
National Trust Company </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Trust&nbsp;&amp; Agency Services </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">100 Plaza One, 6<SUP STYLE="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">th</SUP> Floor </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Jersey City, New Jersey 07311 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Attention: Corporate Team / RenaissanceRe Finance Inc. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) If given to the Guarantor, at the Guarantor&#146;s mailing address set forth below (or such other address as the Guarantor may give notice
of to the Holders of the Senior Notes and the Guarantee Trustee): </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Renaissance House </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">12 Crow Lane
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pembroke HM 19 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Bermuda </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Attention: General Counsel </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">with
a copy to: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">787 Seventh Avenue </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">New York, New
York 10019 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Attention: Sean M. Ewen, Esq. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) If given to the Issuer, at the Issuer&#146;s mailing address set forth below (or such other address as the Issuer may give notice to the
Holders of the Senior Notes and the Guarantee Trustee): </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Finance Inc. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">140 Broadway </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Suite 4200 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">New York, NY 10005 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Attention:
General Counsel </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">with a copy to: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">787 Seventh Avenue </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">New York, New
York 10019 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:8%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Attention: Sean M. Ewen, Esq. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) If given to any Holder of a Senior Note, at the address set forth on the books and records of the Issuer. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">All such notices shall be deemed to have been given when received in person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail,
postage prepaid except that if a notice or other document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date of such
refusal or inability to deliver. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Guarantee is solely for the benefit of the Holders of the Senior Notes and is not separately transferable from the Senior Notes. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.5 <U>Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO
AGREEMENTS MADE AND PERFORMED IN THAT STATE. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS GUARANTEE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.6 <U>Interpretation</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In this
Guarantee, unless the context otherwise requires: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) capitalized terms used in this Guarantee Agreement, but not defined in the preamble
hereto have the respective meanings assigned to them in Section&nbsp;1.1 or in the Indenture, as the case may be; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) a term defined
anywhere in this Guarantee Agreement has the same meaning throughout; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) all references to &#147;this Guarantee&#148;, &#147;the
Guarantee Agreement&#148; or &#147;this Guarantee Agreement&#148; are to this Guarantee Agreement as modified, supplemented or amended from time to time; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) all references in this Guarantee Agreement to Articles and Sections are to Articles and Sections of this Guarantee Agreement, unless
otherwise specified; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) a term defined in the Trust Indenture Act has the same meaning when used in this Guarantee Agreement, unless
otherwise defined in this Guarantee Agreement or unless the context otherwise requires; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) a reference to the singular includes the
plural and vice versa; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g) the masculine, feminine, or neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter
genders. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.7 <U>Submission to Jurisdiction</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Guarantor agrees that any judicial proceedings instituted in relation to any matter arising under this Guarantee Agreement may be brought
in any United States Federal or New York State court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New&nbsp;York, New&nbsp;York to the </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">extent that such court has subject matter jurisdiction over the controversy, and, by execution and delivery of
this Guarantee Agreement, the Guarantor hereby irrevocably accepts, generally and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts, acknowledges their competence and irrevocably agrees to be bound by any judgment rendered in such
proceeding. The Guarantor also irrevocably and unconditionally waives for the benefit of the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders of the Senior Notes any immunity from jurisdiction and any immunity from legal process (whether through service or notice,
attachment prior to judgment, attachment in the aid of execution, execution or otherwise) in respect of this Guarantee Agreement. The Guarantor hereby irrevocably designates and appoints, for the benefit of the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders of
the Senior Notes for the term of this Guarantee Agreement, RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., 140 Broadway, Suite 4200, New York, NY 10005, as its agent to receive on its behalf service of all process (with a copy of all such service of process to be
delivered to Willkie Farr&nbsp;&amp; Gallagher LLP, 787 Seventh Avenue, New&nbsp;York, New&nbsp;York 10019, Attention: Sean M. Ewen, Esq.) brought against it with respect to any such proceeding in any such court in The City of New York, such service
being hereby acknowledged by the Guarantor to be effective and binding service on it in every respect whether or not the Guarantor shall then be doing or shall have at any time done business in New York. Such appointment shall be irrevocable so long
as any of the Senior Notes or the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder remain outstanding, or until the appointment of a successor located in New&nbsp;York by the Guarantor and such successor&#146;s acceptance of such appointment. Upon such
acceptance, the Guarantor shall notify the Guarantee Trustee in writing of the name and address of such successor. The Guarantor further agrees for the benefit of the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders of the Senior Notes to take any and all action,
including the execution and filing of any and all such documents and instruments, as may be necessary to continue such designation and appointment of said RenaissanceRe Finance Inc. in full force and effect so long as any of the Senior Notes or the
obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be outstanding. The Guarantee Trustee shall not be obligated and shall have no responsibility with respect to any failure by the Guarantor to take any such action. Nothing herein shall affect the right to
serve process in any other manner permitted by any law or limit the right of the Guarantee Trustee or any Holder of a Senior Note to institute proceedings against the Guarantor in the courts of any other jurisdiction or jurisdictions. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.8 <U>Judgment Currency</U> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The
Guarantor agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that (a)&nbsp;if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of any guarantee payment (the
&#147;<U>Required Currency</U>&#148;) into a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the &#147;<U>Judgment Currency</U>&#148;), the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Guarantee
Trustee could purchase in The City of New York the requisite amount of the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on the New York Banking Day preceding the day on which a final unappealable judgment is given and (b)&nbsp;its obligations under
this Guarantee Agreement to make payments in the Required Currency (i)&nbsp;shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with clause (a)), in any currency other
than the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect of such payments, (ii)&nbsp;shall be
enforceable as an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by </P>
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and (iii)&nbsp;shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Guarantee Agreement. For purposes of the foregoing, &#147;New York Banking Day&#148; means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in The
City of New York or a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to be closed. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.9 Counterparts </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Guarantee
Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Guarantee Agreement and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF
transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Guarantee Agreement as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of this Guarantee Agreement and signature pages for all purposes. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.10 Guarantee Trustee&#146;s Disclaimer </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For the avoidance of doubt, in addition to any rights, privileges, protections, immunities, benefits and indemnities provided to it under this
Guarantee, the Guarantee Trustee is also entitled to the rights, privileges, protections, immunities, benefits and indemnities provided to it in its capacity as Trustee under the Indenture. </P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">787&nbsp;Seventh&nbsp;Avenue<BR> <P STYLE="margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">New&nbsp;York,&nbsp;NY&nbsp;10019-6099</FONT></P>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">June&nbsp;29, 2017 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Finance Inc. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">140 Broadway </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Suite 4200 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">New York, NY 10005 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Renaissance House </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">12 Crow Lane </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pembroke, Bermuda HM 19 </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Re:&nbsp;<U>Offering of Senior Notes of RenaissanceRe Finance Inc</U>.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We have acted as
United States counsel for RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;), and RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda exempted company (the &#147;Guarantor&#148;), in connection with the offering of $300&nbsp;million
aggregate principal amount of 3.450% Senior Notes due 2027 of the Company (the &#147;Securities&#148;), fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor. The Securities are being issued under the Senior Indenture, dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017
(the &#147;Base Indenture&#148;), among the Company, as issuer, the Guarantor, as guarantor, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the &#147;Trustee&#148;), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 29,
2017 (the &#147;First Supplemental Indenture&#148; and together with the Base Indenture, the &#147;Indenture&#148;), among the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee. The Securities are to be guaranteed pursuant to the Senior Debt Securities
Guarantee Agreement, dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017 (the &#147;Guarantee&#148;), by and between the Guarantor and the Trustee. The Securities are being offered pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities
Act&#148;), and have been registered under the Registration Statement of the Guarantor and the Company on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-3</FONT> (Reg. Nos. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233</FONT> and <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-206233-03,</FONT></FONT> respectively) (the &#147;Registration Statement&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In rendering the opinions expressed herein, we have examined and are familiar with (i)&nbsp;the Registration Statement, including the base
prospectus contained therein (the &#147;Prospectus&#148;), (ii) the supplement to the Prospectus, dated June&nbsp;26, 2017, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June&nbsp;28, 2017 (the &#147;Prospectus Supplement&#148;), (iii) the
Indenture, (iv)&nbsp;the Guarantee and (v)&nbsp;the Underwriting Agreement, dated June&nbsp;26, 2017, among the Company, the Guarantor, and </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt ; font-size:8pt">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">N<SMALL>EW</SMALL>
Y<SMALL>ORK&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL> W<SMALL>ASHINGTON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL> P<SMALL>ARIS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL> L<SMALL>ONDON&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL> M<SMALL>ILAN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL>
R<SMALL>OME&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL> F<SMALL>RANKFURT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</SMALL> B<SMALL>RUSSELS</SMALL> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">in alliance with
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Finance Inc. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. </P>
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Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters listed on Schedule II thereto (the &#147;Underwriting Agreement&#148;) relating to the sale
of the Securities. We have also examined such other documents and instruments and have made such further investigations as we have deemed necessary or appropriate in connection with this opinion. In such examination, we have assumed the genuineness
of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to authentic originals of all documents submitted to us as certified copies or photocopies. In rendering the opinions expressed below, we have
relied on factual representations by officials of the Company and the Guarantor and statements of fact contained in the documents we have examined. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Based upon and subject to the foregoing and the qualifications expressed below, and having regard for legal considerations we deem relevant,
we are of the opinion that: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(1) The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and, assuming the due
authorization, execution and delivery by the Guarantor and the Trustee, is a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(2) The Securities have been duly authorized, and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and
delivered to and paid for by the underwriters pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(3) Assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery by the Guarantor and the Trustee, the Guarantee is a valid and binding agreement of
the Guarantor, enforceable against the Guarantor in accordance with its terms. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The opinions expressed herein are subject to the following
assumptions, qualifications and exceptions: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) We express no opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other than the laws of the State
of New York, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and the federal laws of the United States of America. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) Enforcement
of any contract or agreement or of any security or other instrument issued thereunder may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the
rights of creditors generally and by general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law), including principles of commercial reasonableness or conscionability and an implied covenant of good faith and fair
dealing, which principles of equity are of general application, and, when applied by a court, might cause such court to, among other things, (A)&nbsp;not allow a creditor to accelerate the maturity of a debt or terminate a forbearance period
relating to a debt, or to realize upon any security for the payment of such debt, upon the occurrence of a default deemed immaterial or (B)&nbsp;include a requirement that a creditor or other holder act with reasonableness and good faith. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) Certain of the remedial provisions, including waivers, with respect to the exercise of remedies contained in any contract or agreement
or security or instrument referenced above are or may be unenforceable in whole or in part, but the inclusion of such provisions does not affect the validity of any such contract or agreement, taken as a whole. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Finance Inc. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. </P>
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for indemnification or contribution or waivers of rights or defenses, enforcement thereof may be limited by public policy considerations or other applicable law. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v) We express no opinion as to provisions of any contract or agreement or security or instrument insofar as such provisions relate to:
(A)&nbsp;the subject matter jurisdiction of the courts specified therein, if any, to adjudicate any controversy related to such contract or agreement, (B)&nbsp;any waiver of jury trial contained therein, (C)&nbsp;any right of <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">set-off</FONT> or provision for liquidated damages, (D)&nbsp;any limitations on the effectiveness of oral amendments, modifications, consents and waivers, and (E)&nbsp;any waiver of objection to venue set forth therein
with respect to proceedings in the courts specified therein. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The opinions expressed herein are given as of the date hereof, and we assume
no obligation to update (including with respect to any action which may be required in the future to perfect or continue the perfection of any security interest) or supplement such opinions or views to reflect any fact or circumstance that may
hereafter come to our attention or any change in law that may hereafter occur or hereinafter become effective. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We consent to the filing
of this opinion with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to the Registration Statement. We hereby consent to the use of our name under the heading &#147;Legal Matters&#148; in the Prospectus Supplement. In giving the foregoing
consents, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section&nbsp;7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Renaissance House </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">12 Crow Lane </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pembroke HM 19 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Bermuda </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Dear Sirs, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Re: <B>RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (the
&#147;Company&#148;)</B> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We have acted as special Bermuda legal counsel to the Company in connection with the filing by the Company with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;<B>Commission</B>&#148;) of a prospectus supplement on 26 June 2017 (the &#147;<B>Prospectus</B> <B>Supplement</B>&#148;), to the registration statement on Form
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-3ASR</FONT> (Registration Statement Nos. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-189303-03</FONT></FONT> and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">333-189303</FONT> respectively) filed by
the Company with the Commission on August&nbsp;7, 2015 (the &#147;<B>Registration Statement</B>&#148;) which term does not include any other document or agreement whether or not specifically referred to therein or attached as an exhibit or schedule
thereto) relating to the registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the &#147;<B>Securities Act</B>&#148;) and issuance by RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., (the &#147;<B>Issuer</B>&#148;) of the aggregate principal amount of
US$300,000,000 of 3.450&nbsp;% senior notes due 2027 (the &#147;<B>Notes</B>&#148;) and the Company&#146;s irrevocable and unconditional guarantee in respect thereof pursuant to a senior debt securities guarantee agreement dated as of June&nbsp;29,
2017(the &#147;<B>Guarantee</B>&#148;) between the Company, as guarantor and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as guarantee trustee (the &#147;<B>Trustee</B>&#148;). The Notes are being issued under a senior indenture by and among the Issuer,
the Company, as guarantor, and the Trustee dated as of June&nbsp;29, 2017 (the &#147;<B>Base Indenture</B>&#148;), as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture by and among the Issuer, the Company, as guarantor, and the Trustee dated as of
June&nbsp;29, 2017 (the &#147;<B>First</B> <B>Supplemental Indenture</B>&#148;, together with the Base Indenture, the &#147;<B>Indenture</B>&#148;). </P>

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collectively referred to as the &#147;<B>Documents</B>&#148; (which term does not include any other instrument or agreement whether or not specifically referred to therein or attached as an exhibit or schedule thereto). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We have also reviewed the memorandum of association and the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">bye-laws</FONT> of the Company (together, the
&#147;<B>Constitutional Documents</B>&#148;), each certified by the Secretary of the Company on 23&nbsp;June 2017, resolutions of the board of directors of the Company adopted on 1&nbsp;May 2002, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">14-15</FONT> May
2013, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">19-20</FONT> May 2015 and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">21-22</FONT> February 2017 respectively and resolutions of the offerings committee of the board of directors of the Company adopted on<B>
</B>19&nbsp;March 2015 and 23&nbsp;June 2017 respectively, each certified by the Secretary of the Company on 23&nbsp;June 2017 (together, the &#147;<B>Resolutions</B>&#148;) and such other documents and made such enquiries as to questions of law as
we have deemed necessary in order to render the opinion set forth below. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We have assumed (a)&nbsp;the genuineness and authenticity of all signatures and
the conformity to the originals of all copies (whether or not certified) examined by us and the authenticity and completeness of the originals from which such copies were taken, (b)&nbsp;that where a document has been examined by us in draft form,
it will be or has been executed and/or filed in the form of that draft, and where a number of drafts of a document have been examined by us all changes thereto have been marked or otherwise drawn to our attention, (c)&nbsp;the accuracy and
completeness of all factual representations made in the Documents and other documents reviewed by us, (d)&nbsp;that the Resolutions were passed at one or more duly convened, constituted and quorate meetings, or by unanimous written resolutions,
remain in full force and effect and have not been rescinded or amended, (e)&nbsp;that the Constitutional Documents will not be amended in any manner that would affect the opinions expressed herein, (f)&nbsp;that all necessary corporate action will
be taken to authorise and approve the issuance of the Notes, the terms of the offering thereof and all related matters, (g)&nbsp;that the applicable indenture and any applicable supplements thereto will be duly approved, executed and delivered by or
on behalf of the Company and all other parties thereto, (h)&nbsp;the capacity, power and authority of all parties other than the Company to enter into and perform their respective obligations under any and all documents entered into by such parties
in connection with the issuance of the Notes and the due execution and delivery thereof by each party thereto, (i)&nbsp;that none of the parties to such documents will have carried on or will carry on activities, other than the performance of their
obligations under such documents, which would constitute the carrying on of investment business in or from Bermuda, and (k)&nbsp;that there is no provision of the law of any jurisdiction, other than Bermuda, which would have any implication in
relation to the opinions expressed herein. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We have made no investigation of and express no opinion in relation to the laws of any jurisdiction other than
Bermuda. This opinion is to be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Bermuda and is limited to and is given on the basis of the current law and practice in Bermuda. This opinion is issued solely for the purposes of the filing of
the Prospectus Supplement with the Commission and is not to be relied upon in respect of any other matter. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">The Company is duly incorporated and existing under the laws of Bermuda in good standing (meaning solely that it has not failed to make any filing with any Bermuda government authority or to pay any Bermuda government
fees or tax which would make it liable to be struck off the Register of Companies and thereby cease to exist under the laws of Bermuda). </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">The Company has the necessary corporate power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under the Indenture and the Guarantee. The execution and delivery of the Indenture and the Guarantee by the Company
and the performance by the Company of its obligations thereunder will not violate the memorandum of association or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">bye-laws</FONT> of the Company nor any applicable law, regulation, order or decree in Bermuda.
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top">The Company has taken all corporate action required to authorise its execution, delivery and performance of the Indenture and the Guarantee. The Indenture and the Guarantee have been duly executed and delivered by or on
behalf of the Company and constitutes the valid and binding obligations of the Company in accordance with the terms thereof. </TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We hereby
consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the references to our firm in the Prospectus Supplement forming a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are
experts within the meaning of Section&nbsp;11 of the Securities Act or that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section&nbsp;7 of the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations of the Commission promulgated
thereunder. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="right"><B>Exhibit 99.1 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><I>RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. Announces Pricing of $300 Million Senior Note Offering by Subsidiary </I></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">PEMBROKE, Bermuda, June&nbsp;26, 2017&#151; RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:RNR) (&#147;RenaissanceRe&#148; or the &#147;Company&#148;) announced today that
its subsidiary, RenaissanceRe Finance Inc., has agreed to sell in an underwritten public offering $300&nbsp;million aggregate principal amount of 3.450% Senior Notes due 2027. The notes are guaranteed by RenaissanceRe. The Company expects to close
the offering on or about June&nbsp;29, 2017, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe intends to use the net proceeds
from the offering for general corporate purposes. We expect the senior notes to be rated A3 by Moody&#146;s Investors Service and A by Standard&nbsp;&amp; Poor&#146;s. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Barclays Capital Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC served as joint book-running managers; Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Fenner&nbsp;&amp; Smith Incorporated served as joint lead managers; and BMO Capital markets Corp., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and Morgan Stanley &amp; Co. LLC served as senior co-managers for the offering. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The notes are being offered pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement that has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
&#147;SEC&#148;). This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior
to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. Any offer, or solicitation to buy, if at all, will be made solely by means of a prospectus and related prospectus supplement filed with the SEC. You may
obtain these documents without charge from the SEC at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, you may request copies of these materials from the joint book-running managers by contacting Barclays Capital Inc. at <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">1-888-603-5847</FONT></FONT></FONT> or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC at
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">1-800-645-3751.</FONT></FONT></FONT> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe is
a global provider of reinsurance and insurance. The Company&#146;s business consists of two reportable segments: (1)&nbsp;Property, which is comprised of catastrophe reinsurance, including certain property catastrophe joint ventures managed by the
Company&#146;s ventures unit, and other property reinsurance and insurance and (2)&nbsp;Casualty and Specialty, which is comprised of casualty and specialty reinsurance and insurance and certain specialty joint ventures managed by the Company&#146;s
ventures unit. Established in 1993, the Company has offices in Bermuda, Ireland, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Cautionary
Statement Regarding Forward Looking Statements. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any forward-looking statements made in this Press Release reflect RenaissanceRe&#146;s current views
with respect to future events and financial performance and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to numerous factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements, including the following: the frequency </P>

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and severity of catastrophic and other events that the Company covers; the effectiveness of the Company&#146;s claims and claim expense reserving process; the Company&#146;s ability to maintain
its financial strength ratings; the effect of climate change on the Company&#146;s business; the effect of emerging claims and coverage issues; the Company&#146;s reliance on a small and decreasing number of reinsurance brokers and other
distribution services for the preponderance of its revenue; the Company&#146;s exposure to credit loss from counterparties in the normal course of business; the effect of continued challenging economic conditions throughout the world; continued soft
reinsurance underwriting market conditions; a contention by the Internal Revenue Service that any of the Company&#146;s other Bermuda subsidiaries, is subject to U.S. taxation; the performance of the Company&#146;s investment portfolio; the
Company&#146;s ability to successfully implement its business strategies and initiatives; the Company&#146;s ability to retain key senior officers and to attract or retain the executives and employees necessary to manage its business; the
Company&#146;s ability to determine the impairments taken on investments; the availability of retrocessional reinsurance on acceptable terms; the effect of inflation; the adequacy of the Company&#146;s ceding companies&#146; ability to assess the
risks they underwrite; the effect of operational risks, including system or human failures; the Company&#146;s ability to effectively manage capital on behalf of investors in joint ventures or other entities it manages; foreign currency exchange
rate fluctuations; uncertainties related to the vote in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union; the Company&#146;s ability to raise capital if necessary; the Company&#146;s ability to comply with covenants in its debt agreements; changes to
the regulatory systems under which the Company operates; challenges to the claim of exemption from insurance regulation of RenaissanceRe and its subsidiaries and increased global regulation of the insurance and reinsurance industry; losses that the
Company could face from terrorism, political unrest or war; the Company&#146;s dependence on the ability of its operating subsidiaries to declare and pay dividends; the success of any of the Company&#146;s strategic investments or acquisitions,
including the Company&#146;s ability to manage its operations as its product and geographical diversity increases; the effect of cybersecurity risks, including technology breaches or failure on the Company&#146;s business; aspects of the
Company&#146;s corporate structure that may discourage third party takeovers or other transactions; the cyclical nature of the reinsurance and insurance industries; adverse legislative developments that reduce the size of the private markets the
Company serves or impede their future growth; regulatory or legislative changes adversely impacting the Company; the effect on the Company&#146;s business of the highly competitive nature of its industry, including the effect of new entrants to,
competing products for and consolidation in the (re)insurance industry; consolidation of customers or insurance and reinsurance brokers; adverse tax developments, including potential changes to the taxation of inter-company or related party
transactions, or changes to the tax treatment of investors in RenaissanceRe or joint ventures or other entities the Company manages; changes in regulatory regimes and/or accounting rules, including the European Union directive concerning capital
adequacy, risk management and regulatory reporting for insurers; the Company&#146;s need to make many estimates and judgments in the preparation of its financial statements; and other factors affecting future results disclosed in
RenaissanceRe&#146;s filings with the SEC, including its Annual Reports on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT> and Quarterly Reports on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-Q.</FONT> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Investor Contact: </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Aditya Dutt, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">441-239-4778</FONT></FONT> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Senior Vice President, Treasurer </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B>Media Contact: </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Elizabeth Tillman, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">212-238-9224</FONT></FONT> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Director &#150; Communications </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Kekst and Company </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Peter Hill or Dawn Dover, <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">212-521-4800</FONT></FONT> </P>
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