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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-21-067594
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	424B5
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
FILED AS OF DATE:		20210303
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20210303

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			AES CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000874761
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	COGENERATION SERVICES & SMALL POWER PRODUCERS [4991]
		IRS NUMBER:				541163725
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		424B5
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-229896
		FILM NUMBER:		21709005

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		4300 WILSON BOULEVARD
		CITY:			ARLINGTON
		STATE:			VA
		ZIP:			22203
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7035221315

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		4300 WILSON BOULEVARD
		CITY:			ARLINGTON
		STATE:			VA
		ZIP:			22203

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	AES CORPORATION
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930328
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Filed Pursuant to 424(b)(5)<BR> Registration No. 333-229896 </B></FONT></P>
<p STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#cc062a"><B>The information in this preliminary prospectus supplement is not
complete and may be changed. A registration statement relating to these securities has become effective by rule of the Securities and Exchange Commission. This preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus are not an offer to
sell these securities, and we are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities, in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. </B></FONT></P> <p STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#cc062a"><B>SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED MARCH 3, 2021 </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>(To Prospectus Dated February&nbsp;26, 2019) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>10,000,000 Equity Units </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="4"><B>(Initially Consisting of 10,000,000 Corporate Units)
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="7"><B>The AES Corporation </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:16%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The AES Corporation is offering 10,000,000 Equity Units.
Each Equity Unit will have a stated amount of $100 and will initially be a &#147;Corporate Unit&#148; consisting of a purchase contract issued by us and, initially, a 1/10th, or 10%, undivided beneficial ownership in one share of
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Convertible Preferred Stock, without par value, with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share, issued by us, which we refer to as the &#147;convertible preferred
stock.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contract will obligate you to purchase from us, on February&nbsp;15, 2024, for a price of $100, a number of newly-issued shares of our
common stock equal to the settlement rate, which will not exceed &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shares (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances), as
described in this prospectus supplement. We will pay you quarterly contract adjustment payments at the rate of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per year on the stated amount of $100 per Equity Unit, subject to our right to defer
such contract adjustment payments as described in this prospectus supplement. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will pay cumulative dividends on the convertible preferred stock, when, as, and if declared by our board of directors, quarterly in arrears, at a
rate of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per year on the $1,000 liquidation preference per share of convertible preferred stock. The convertible preferred stock will be remarketed as described in this prospectus supplement. In
connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, (a)&nbsp;the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than
or equal to the reference price, the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an amount equal to $1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price on such date (rounded to the
nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described
under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock.&#148; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any contract adjustment payments on the purchase contracts or any dividends on the convertible preferred stock will be paid in cash, shares of our
common stock, or a combination thereof, at our election, subject to certain limitations as described in this prospectus supplement, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a contract adjustment payment method or dividend payment method to
apply. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may not redeem any shares of convertible preferred stock prior to March&nbsp;22, 2024. We may redeem for cash all or any portion of the outstanding
shares of convertible preferred stock, at our option, on or after March&nbsp;22, 2024 at a redemption price equal to 100% of the liquidation preference per share of convertible preferred stock to be redeemed, plus any accumulated but unpaid
dividends thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock that are not a part of Corporate Units may convert their shares at their option prior to
February&nbsp;15, 2024 only upon the occurrence of a fundamental change if such fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. On and after February&nbsp;15, 2024, holders of shares of convertible
preferred stock may convert some or all of their shares at their option at any time, all as described in this prospectus supplement. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The conversion rate will initially be
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shares of our common stock per share of convertible preferred stock, equivalent to a conversion price of approximately
$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per share of our common stock. The conversion rate will be subject to adjustment in certain circumstances. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon conversion, we will deliver to the converting holder in respect of each $1,000 liquidation preference of the convertible preferred stock being
converted (i)&nbsp;a share of our &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% Series B Preferred </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>

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Stock (which we refer to as the &#147;Series B preferred stock&#148;) or, solely with respect to conversions in connection with a redemption, up to $1,000 in cash and (ii)&nbsp;shares of our
common stock (if any). </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You can create Treasury Units from Corporate Units by substituting Treasury securities for your convertible preferred stock comprising a part of the
Corporate Units, and you can recreate Corporate Units by substituting your convertible preferred stock for the Treasury securities comprising a part of the Treasury Units, in each case, subject to certain conditions described in this prospectus
supplement. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Your convertible preferred stock (or after a successful optional remarketing, a portion of the applicable ownership interest in a Treasury portfolio),
Treasury securities or, in certain circumstances described herein, cash, as the case may be, that are components of Equity Units will be pledged to us to secure your obligation under the related purchase contract. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If there is a successful optional remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, and you hold Corporate Units, a portion of your applicable ownership
interest in the Treasury portfolio purchased with the proceeds from the remarketing will be used to satisfy your payment obligations under the purchase contract. If there is a successful final remarketing, as described in this prospectus supplement,
and you hold Corporate Units, (i)&nbsp;a portion of the proceeds from the remarketing equal to $1,000 multiplied by the aggregate number of shares of convertible preferred stock underlying Corporate Units that were remarketed will automatically be
applied to satisfy in full the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts on the purchase contract settlement date, and any remaining proceeds will be promptly remitted to the holder
after the purchase contract settlement date, and (ii)&nbsp;proceeds from the remarketing attributable to holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock who have elected to participate in the remarketing will be remitted by the remarketing
agent for the benefit of such holders on the purchase contract settlement date. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering to develop our renewables business, U.S. utility businesses, LNG infrastructure, and for other developments determined by management. See &#147;Use of
Proceeds.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our common stock is listed and
traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &#147;AES.&#148; The reported last sale price of our common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on March 2, 2021 was $26.81&nbsp;per share. We intend to apply for listing of the Corporate Units
on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &#147;AESC.&#148; Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the Corporate Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:16%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Investing in our Equity Units involves risks. See &#147;<U><A HREF="#supprom144709_6">Risk Factors</A></U>&#148; beginning on page <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-39.</FONT> </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:16%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;SEC&#148;) nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of
these securities or determined if this prospectus supplement or the related prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. </B></FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Initial public offering price</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">100</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,000,000,000</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Proceeds, before expenses, to The AES Corporation</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The public offering price set
forth above does not include accrued contract adjustment payments, if any, or accumulated dividends, if any. Contract adjustment payments on the purchase contracts will accrue, and dividends attributable to the convertible preferred stock will
accumulate, for purchasers in this offering from March &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2021. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The underwriters may purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 Corporate Units at the public offering price less the underwriting discount within a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13-day</FONT> period
beginning on, and including, the issue date of the Equity Units in order to cover over-allotments, if any. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The underwriters expect to deliver the Corporate Units in book-entry form only through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company
against payment in New York, New York on or about March &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2021, which is five business days following the date of pricing of the Corporate Units (such settlement cycle being herein referred to as &#147;T+5&#148;). You should
note that the trading of the Corporate Units on the date of pricing or the next two succeeding business days may be affected by the T+5 settlement. See &#147;Underwriting.&#148; </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Prospectus Supplement</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><A HREF="#supprom144709_1">About this Prospectus Supplement and the Accompanying Prospectus</A></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><A HREF="#supprom144709_2">Incorporation by Reference</A></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><A HREF="#supprom144709_3">Where You Can Find More Information</A></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><A HREF="#supprom144709_4">Summary</A></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><A HREF="#supprom144709_5">Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factor Summary</A></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><A HREF="#supprom144709_9">Description of the Equity Units</A></FONT></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We and the underwriters have not authorized anyone to provide
any information other than that contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus or any relevant free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of us or to which we have referred you. We and
the underwriters take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. We are not, and the underwriters are not, making an offer or sale of our Equity Units in any
jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that the information contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus is accurate only as of the date appearing on the
front cover of this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus, as applicable, or the date of the applicable incorporated document. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_1"></A>ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS
SUPPLEMENT AND THE ACCOMPANYING PROSPECTUS </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This document consists of two parts. The first part is the prospectus supplement, which describes the specific terms of this offering of
Equity Units and also adds to and updates the information contained or incorporated by reference in the accompanying prospectus. The second part is the prospectus, which describes more general information regarding our securities, some of which does
not apply to this offering. You should read both this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, together with additional information described under the headings &#147;Where You Can Find More Information and Incorporation of Information
by </FONT></P>
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Reference&#148; and &#147;Where You Can Find More Information&#148; in this prospectus supplement and in the accompanying prospectus, respectively. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the information set forth in this prospectus supplement
differs in any way from the information set forth in the accompanying prospectus or the information contained in any document incorporated by reference therein, the information contained in the most recently dated document shall control. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_2"></A>INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We have &#147;incorporated by reference&#148;
into this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus certain documents that we file with the SEC. This means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to another document filed separately with the SEC. This
information incorporated by reference is a part of this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, unless we provide you with different information in this prospectus supplement or the information is modified or superseded by a
subsequently filed document. Any information referred to in this way is considered part of this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus from the date we file that document. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus incorporate the documents listed below that we have
previously filed with the SEC (other than, in each case, documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with the SEC&#146;s rules and regulations), which contain important information about us, our business, our
financial condition and various important risks you should consider before investing in our common stock: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our Annual Report on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/874761/000087476121000015/aes-20201231.htm">Form
 <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT></A> for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2020 (the &#147;Annual Report&#148;), filed with the SEC on February&nbsp;25, 2021; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our Definitive Proxy Statement on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874761/000087476121000027/a2021definitiveproxystatem.htm">Schedule 14A
</A>, filed with the SEC on March 3, 2021; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our Current Reports on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> filed with the SEC on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/874761/000087476121000003/aes-20210113.htm">January&nbsp;15,
 2021</A> and <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/874761/000087476121000021/aes-20210225.htm">March 1, 2021</A>. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any reports filed by us pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a),
13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act on or after the date of this prospectus supplement and before the completion of this offering of our common stock will be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement and the
accompanying prospectus and will automatically update, where applicable, and supersede any information contained in this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus or incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement and the
accompanying prospectus. Unless specifically stated to the contrary, none of the information that we disclose under Items 2.02 or 7.01 of any Current Report on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> that we have furnished or may from time
to time furnish with the SEC is or will be incorporated by reference into, or otherwise included in, this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_3"></A>WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. The SEC
also maintains an internet site at <I><U>http://www.sec.gov</U></I>, from which you can access our filings with the SEC. We maintain an internet site located at <I><U>http://www.aes.com</U></I>, which contains information pertaining to us. The
website (including the information contained in the website or connected to the website) is not and shall not be deemed incorporated into or a part of this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We have filed a registration statement on Form <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">S-3</FONT> with the SEC with respect to the Equity Units offered hereby. This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus do not contain all of the information included in the registration statement, and you
should refer to the registration statement and its exhibits for that information. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any statement contained in this prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus or the
documents incorporated by reference herein concerning, describing or summarizing the provisions of any document filed with the SEC is not necessarily complete, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the document filed.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You may obtain, at no cost, copies of each of the
documents incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus (other than an exhibit to a filing unless that exhibit is specifically incorporated by reference in that filing) by writing or telephoning the office
of the General Counsel, The AES Corporation, 4300 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia, 22203, telephone number (703) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">522-1315.</FONT> </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_4"></A>SUMMARY </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>The following summary contains certain information about
us and the offering of the Equity Units. It does not contain all of the information that may be important to you in making a decision to invest in the Equity Units. We urge you to carefully read the entire prospectus supplement, the accompanying
prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein, including our financial statements and related notes. You should also read the sections entitled &#147;Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factor Summary&#148; and &#147;Risk
Factors&#148; in this prospectus supplement, our Annual Report and any subsequently filed Exchange Act reports for a discussion of important risks that you should consider before investing in the Equity Units. </I></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>Unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise
requires, the terms &#147;AES,&#148; &#147;we,&#148; &#147;our,&#148; &#147;us&#148; and &#147;the Company&#148; refer to The AES Corporation, including all of its subsidiaries and affiliates, collectively. The term &#147;The AES Corporation&#148;
or &#147;Parent Company&#148; refers only to the parent, a publicly held holding company, The AES Corporation, excluding its subsidiaries and affiliates. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>THE AES CORPORATION </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">AES is a power generation and utility company, providing affordable, sustainable energy through our diverse portfolio of thermal and
renewable generation facilities and distribution businesses. Our mission is to improve lives by accelerating a safer and greener energy future. We do this by leveraging our unique electricity platforms and the knowledge of our people to provide the
energy and infrastructure solutions our customers need. Our people share a passion to help meet the world&#146;s current and increasing energy needs, while providing communities and countries the opportunity for economic growth through the
availability of reliable, affordable electric power. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We are organized into four market-oriented Strategic Business Units (&#147;SBUs&#148;): US and Utilities (United States, Puerto Rico and El Salvador); South America (Chile, Colombia, Argentina and
Brazil); MCAC (Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean); and Eurasia (Europe and Asia). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Strategy </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In 2020 and 2021, we achieved significant milestones on our strategic objectives, including: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Sustainable Growth </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We completed construction of 2,318 MW of new projects, including: </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,299 MW Southland Repowering; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,019 MW of solar, wind and energy storage globally </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We signed 3,017 MW of renewables and energy storage under long-term PPAs, including: </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,180 MW of energy storage, solar and solar plus storage and hydro in the US and El Salvador; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,171 MW of wind and solar at AES Gener in Chile and Colombia; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">346 MW of wind at AES Brasil; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">211 MW of wind and solar in Panama and the Dominican Republic; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">109 MW of wind in Mexico </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As of December&nbsp;31, 2020, our backlog of 6,909 MW includes: </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,850 MW under construction and coming <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">on-line</FONT> through 2022; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">5,059 MW of renewables signed under long-term PPAs </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company has reduced its coal-fired generation to 25% of total generation and is on track to further reduce its coal-fired generation to less than
10% by <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">year-end</FONT> 2025 (each based on the portfolio as of year-end, adjusted for any announced asset sales and retirements at that time) </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Innovative Solutions </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our joint venture with Siemens, Fluence, is the global leader in the fast-growing energy storage market, which is expected to increase by 15 to 20 GW
annually </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Fluence has been awarded or delivered 2.4 GW of projects, including 785 MW awarded in 2020 </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In December 2020, the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) agreed to invest $125&nbsp;million in Fluence through a private placement transaction, valuing
Fluence at more than $1&nbsp;billion </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our equity method investment Uplight announced an agreement with new investors that values Uplight at approximately $1.5 billion. Following closing,
AES&#146; ownership in Uplight will be approximately 30% </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Superior Results </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Following our efforts to strengthen our balance sheet, our Parent Company credit rating was upgraded to investment grade
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">(BBB-)</FONT> by S&amp;P </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Business Lines and Strategic Business Units </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Within our four SBUs, we have two primary lines of business: generation and utilities. The generation line of business uses a wide range
of fuels and technologies to generate electricity such as coal, gas, hydro, wind, solar, and biomass. Our utilities business comprises businesses that transmit, distribute, and in certain circumstances, generate power. In addition, we have
operations in the renewables area. These efforts include projects primarily in wind, solar, and energy storage. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Generation </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We currently own and/or operate a generation portfolio of 30,308 MW, including generation from our integrated utility, IPL, which is now
does business as AES Indiana. Our generation fleet is diversified by fuel type. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Performance drivers of our generation businesses include types of electricity sales agreements, plant reliability and flexibility, availability of generation capacity to meet contracted sales, fuel costs,
seasonality, weather variations and economic activity, fixed-cost management and competition. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Utilities </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">AES&#146; six utility businesses distribute power to 2.5&nbsp;million people in two countries. AES&#146; two utilities in the United States also include generation capacity totaling 3,973 MW. Our utility
businesses consist of AES Indiana and the Dayton Power&nbsp;&amp; Light Company, which now also does business as AES Ohio, in the United States and four utilities in El Salvador. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">AES Indiana, our fully integrated utility, and AES Ohio our
transmission and distribution regulated utility, operate as the sole distributors of electricity within their respective jurisdictions. AES Indiana owns and operates all of the facilities necessary to generate, transmit and distribute electricity.
AES Ohio owns and operates all of the facilities necessary to transmit and distribute electricity. At our distribution business in El Salvador, we face limited competition due to significant barriers to enter the market. According to El
Salvador&#146;s regulation, large regulated customers have the option of becoming unregulated users and requesting service directly from generation or commercialization agents. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In general, our utilities sell electricity directly to <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">end-users,</FONT> such as homes and businesses, and bill customers directly. Key performance drivers for utilities include the regulated rate of return and tariff, seasonality, weather variations, economic activity and
reliability of service. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>COMPANY INFORMATION </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We were incorporated in the State of Delaware in 1981. Our principal executive office is located at 4300 Wilson
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22203, and our telephone number is (703) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">522-1315.</FONT> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The name &#147;AES&#148; and our logo are AES owned trademarks, service marks or trade names. All other trademarks, trade names or service
marks appearing in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement or the accompanying base prospectus are owned by their respective holders. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>SUMMARY HISTORICAL CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL INFORMATION </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The table below presents our summary historical consolidated
financial information for the periods presented, which should be read in conjunction with &#147;Item 7. Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations&#148; and the audited condensed consolidated financial
statements and related notes in our Annual Report, which is incorporated by reference herein. The summary condensed consolidated statement of operations data for each of the years in the three-year period ended December&nbsp;31, 2020 have been
derived from our audited condensed consolidated financial statements incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our historical results for any prior period are not
necessarily indicative of results to be expected for any future period. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Statement of Operations Data:</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Revenue from subsidiaries and affiliates</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> 29</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> 30</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> 36</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Equity in earnings of subsidiaries and affiliates</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">383</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">674</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,909</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Interest income</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">31</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">53</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">39</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(125</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(148</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(142</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">)&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Other income</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">26</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">25</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(6</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(103</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#151;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(146</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(5</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(171</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Interest expense</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(163</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(197</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(220</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">)&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1px">
<TD VALIGN="bottom"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Income (loss) before income taxes</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">29</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">305</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,476</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff" STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Income tax benefit (expense)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">17</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">)&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(273</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">)&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1px">
<TD VALIGN="bottom"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Net income (loss)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> 46</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> 303</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,203</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:3px double #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:3px double #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:3px double #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:3px double #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="border-top:3px double #000000">&nbsp;</P></TD>
<TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD></TD>
<TD></TD>
<TD></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="center" STYLE="border-bottom:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>As of<BR>December&nbsp;31,<BR>2020</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>($&nbsp;in&nbsp;millions)</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Balance Sheet Data:</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Total Assets</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">34,603</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Long-Term Debt:</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"></TD>
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<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Recourse</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">3,446</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-recourse</FONT></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">15,005</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:5.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Total Long-Term Debt</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">18,451</FONT></TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>THE OFFERING </B></FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Issuer </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The AES Corporation, a Delaware corporation. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Securities Offered </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">10,000,000 Equity Units (or 11,500,000 Equity Units if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full), each with a stated amount of $100, and consisting of Corporate Units,
Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units as described below. The Equity Units offered will initially consist of Corporate Units. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Corporate Units </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each Corporate Unit consists of a purchase contract and, initially, a 1/10th, or 10%, undivided beneficial ownership interest in one share of our &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% Series A Cumulative
Perpetual Convertible Preferred Stock, without par value, with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share, which we refer to as a share of &#147;convertible preferred stock.&#148; The shares of convertible preferred stock that are components of
your Corporate Units will be owned by you, but initially will be pledged to us through the collateral agent to secure your obligation to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contract. They will be released from the pledge arrangement
(1)&nbsp;following a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock as described under &#147;Remarketing the Convertible Preferred Stock&#148; below, (2)&nbsp;following the creation of Treasury Units as described under &#147;Creating
Treasury Units and Recreating Corporate Units&#148; below, (3)&nbsp;following the creation of Cash Settled Units as described under &#147;Cash Settled Units&#148; below, (4)&nbsp;following the early settlement of the purchase contracts as described
under &#147;Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts at Your Option&#148; below or (5)&nbsp;following certain events of our bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of Corporate Units will be entitled to receive, quarterly in arrears on February&nbsp;15, May&nbsp;15, August&nbsp;15 and November&nbsp;15 of each year (each, a &#147;payment
date&#148;), commencing on May&nbsp;15, 2021, distributions consisting of: </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">dividends on the convertible preferred stock, when, as and if declared by our board of directors out of funds legally available for the payment of
dividends (or, if the convertible preferred stock has been replaced by the Treasury portfolio, distributions, if any, on the Treasury portfolio, as described under &#147;Remarketing the Convertible Preferred Stock&#148; below); and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">contract adjustment payments on the purchase contracts payable by us, subject to our right to defer contract adjustment payments as described below.
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All such distributions by us
may be payable in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of cash and shares of our common stock, at our election, as described below, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment method or contract adjustment payment
method to apply as described in this prospectus </FONT></P>
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supplement. We are not obligated to declare or pay dividends on the convertible preferred stock, except that all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon),
including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding
the purchase contract settlement date, whether or not declared, unless payment of dividends on our preferred stock is not permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law (a &#147;dividend deficiency event&#148;). If a dividend deficiency event
occurs, following the final remarketing (whether successful or failed), we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the
shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends
thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such convertible preferred stock for so long as the convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be
payable to the holders of such convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The Purchase Contracts
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I></I>Settlement Rate<I></I> </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each purchase contract that is a component of an Equity Unit obligates you to purchase, and obligates us to sell, on February&nbsp;15, 2024, which we refer to as the &#147;purchase contract
settlement date,&#148; for $100, a number of newly-issued shares of our common stock, which we call the &#147;settlement rate.&#148; The settlement rate, which will not exceed
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shares (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances) (the &#147;maximum settlement rate&#148;), will be determined over a 20 consecutive trading day
period beginning on and including the 21st scheduled trading day immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date (such 20 consecutive trading day period, the &#147;market value averaging period&#148;) and will be calculated as follows:
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">if the applicable market value of our common stock is less than or equal to $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, which we refer to as the
&#147;reference price,&#148; the settlement rate will be the maximum settlement rate; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">if the applicable market value of our common stock is greater than the reference price, the settlement rate will be a number of shares of our common
stock equal to $100 <I>divided by</I> the applicable market value. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The reference price initially equals the closing price of our common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on March &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2021. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The &#147;applicable market value&#148; of our common stock means the average of the
daily VWAPs of our common stock during the market value averaging period. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The &#147;daily VWAP&#148; of our common stock means, for each relevant trading day, the per share volume weighted average price as displayed under the heading &#147;Bloomberg VWAP&#148; on Bloomberg page
&#147;AES &lt;EQUITY&gt; AQR&#148; (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading on the relevant trading day until the scheduled close of trading on the relevant trading day
(or if such VWAP is unavailable, the market price of one share of our common stock on such trading day determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by
us). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A &#147;trading day&#148; means (a)&nbsp;a
day (i)&nbsp;on which the New York Stock Exchange, or, if our common stock is not then listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the principal exchange or quotation system on which our common stock is listed or admitted for trading, is scheduled to be
open for business and (ii)&nbsp;on which there has not occurred or does not exist a market disruption event, as defined in &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Purchase of Common Stock,&#148; or (b)&nbsp;if our common stock is not so
listed or admitted for trading, a &#147;trading day&#148; means a business day. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The settlement rate is subject to adjustment in certain circumstances if you elect to settle your purchase contract early, as described under &#147;Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts at Your
Option&#148; below. In addition, the maximum settlement rate and reference price are subject to adjustment in certain circumstances. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Under the purchase contracts, we will be obligated to pay quarterly contract adjustment payments at the rate of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per year on the stated amount of $100 per purchase
contract. Contract adjustment payments will accrue from the date of issuance of the purchase contracts and will be payable quarterly in arrears on each payment date, commencing on May&nbsp;15, 2021. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may elect to pay contract adjustment payments on the
purchase contracts in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of cash and shares of our common stock, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a contract adjustment payment method to apply as described in this prospectus supplement.
If we elect, or have previously irrevocably elected, to make any contract adjustment payment, or any portion thereof, in shares of our common stock, such shares will be valued for such purpose at the average of the daily VWAPs per share of our
common stock over the five consecutive trading day period ending on the second trading day immediately </FONT></P>
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preceding the applicable payment date (the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;five-day</FONT> average price&#148;), <I>multiplied by</I> 97%. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We have the right to defer the payment of contract
adjustment payments until no later than the purchase contract settlement date; <I>provided</I> that upon a fundamental change early settlement or if you elect to settle your purchase contract early, in each case as described in this prospectus
supplement, we will pay deferred contract adjustment payments (including compounded contract adjustment payments thereon) on such purchase contract to, but excluding, the fundamental change early settlement date or to, but excluding, the payment
date immediately preceding the early settlement date in connection with your election to settle your purchase contract early, as applicable. Any deferred contract adjustment payments will accrue additional contract adjustment payments at the rate of
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per year until paid, compounded quarterly, to, but&nbsp;excluding, the payment date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we exercise our option to defer the payment of contract adjustment payments, then until the deferred contract adjustment payments
(including compounded contract adjustment payments thereon) have been paid, we will not declare or pay dividends on, make distributions on, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of our capital
stock (including the convertible preferred stock and our &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% Series B Preferred Stock (which we refer to as the &#147;Series B preferred stock&#148;)), subject to the exceptions set forth under &#147;Description of the Purchase
Contracts&#151;Contract Adjustment Payments.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon our bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, holders of our Equity Units will have no claims against us or our estate for any
accrued and unpaid (including any deferred) contract adjustment payments. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Treasury Units </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Treasury Unit is a unit created from a Corporate Unit and consists of a purchase contract and a 1/10th undivided beneficial ownership interest in a
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">zero-coupon</FONT> U.S. Treasury security with a principal amount of $1,000 that matures on or prior to February&nbsp;15, 2024 (e.g., CUSIP No. 912820L47), which we refer to as a &#147;Treasury security.&#148;
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The ownership interest in the
Treasury security that is a component of a Treasury Unit will be owned by you, but will be pledged to us through the collateral agent to secure your obligation to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contract. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of Treasury Units will be entitled to receive
quarterly contract adjustment payments payable by us as described above, subject to our right to defer contract adjustment payments. The holders of the Treasury Units will continue to receive the quarterly dividend payments (when, as and if declared
by our board of </FONT></P>
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directors) on the shares of convertible preferred stock that were released to them when they created the Treasury Units as long as they continue to hold such shares (subject to any modifications
made thereon pursuant to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Creating Treasury Units and Recreating Corporate Units </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to certain exceptions described in this prospectus supplement, each holder of Corporate Units will have the right, at any time prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible
preferred stock and other than during a blackout period (as defined under &#147;Description of the Equity Units&#151;Creating Treasury Units by Substituting a Treasury Security for Convertible Preferred Stock&#148;), to substitute for the related
convertible preferred stock held by the collateral agent Treasury securities in an aggregate principal amount at maturity equal to $1,000&nbsp;<I>multiplied</I>&nbsp;by the number of shares of convertible preferred stock for which substitution is
being made. Because the convertible preferred stock is issued with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share, holders of Corporate Units may make this substitution only in integral multiples of 10 Corporate Units. This substitution will create
Treasury Units, and the related shares of convertible preferred stock will be released to the holder and be tradable separately from the Treasury Units. After a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, holders of Corporate Units
may not create Treasury Units, and holders of Treasury Units may not recreate Corporate Units. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, subject to certain exceptions described in this prospectus supplement, each holder of Treasury Units will have the right, at
any time prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock and other than during a blackout period, to substitute for the related Treasury securities held by the collateral agent a number of shares of convertible preferred stock
with a per share $1,000 liquidation preference equal to the aggregate principal amount at maturity of the Treasury securities with respect to which substitution is being made <I>divided by</I> $1,000. Because the convertible preferred stock is
issued with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share, holders of Treasury Units may make this substitution only in integral multiples of 10 Treasury Units. This substitution will recreate Corporate Units, and the collateral agent will release
from the pledge the related Treasury securities. After a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, holders of Treasury Units may not recreate Corporate Units. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No Equity Units may be created or recreated from Series B
preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD> <P><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to certain exceptions described in this prospectus supplement, each holder of Corporate Units will have the right, during a period specified in this prospectus supplement preceding
the first day of the </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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final remarketing period, to substitute for the related convertible preferred stock held by the collateral agent cash in an amount equal to $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of
convertible preferred stock for which substitution is being made. Because the convertible preferred stock is issued with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share, holders of Corporate Units may make this substitution only in integral multiples
of 10 Corporate Units. This substitution will create Cash Settled Units, and the share(s) of convertible preferred stock will be released to the holder and be tradable separately from the Corporate Units. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A holder of Treasury Units may not create Cash Settled
Units, and a holder of Cash Settled Units may not create Treasury Units or recreate Corporate Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No Equity Units may be created or recreated from Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts at Your Option </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You can settle a purchase contract for cash at any time prior to the close of business on the scheduled trading day immediately preceding the first day of the market value averaging period,
subject to certain exceptions and conditions described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement&#148; in this prospectus supplement. Upon early settlement of any purchase contracts, except following a fundamental
change as described below, we will deliver a number of newly-issued shares of our common stock determined over a 20 consecutive trading day period beginning on the trading day immediately following the day you exercise this right, which we refer to
as the &#147;early settlement averaging period.&#148; The number of shares of our common stock we will deliver will equal 85% of the number of shares of our common stock that would be deliverable for each purchase contract as described in
&#147;&#151;Settlement Rate&#148; above as if the applicable market value were the average of the daily VWAPs of our common stock during the early settlement averaging period. Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may settle early, other
than in connection with a fundamental change as described below, only in integral multiples of 10 Equity Units. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, upon the occurrence of a &#147;fundamental change&#148; as defined in &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early
Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change,&#148; you will have the right, subject to certain exceptions and conditions described in this prospectus supplement, to settle your purchase contracts early at the settlement rate determined as described above
under &#147;Settlement Rate&#148; (and not at a reduced rate as described in the immediately preceding paragraph), but over a market value averaging period as described in this prospectus supplement, plus an additional make-whole amount of shares
determined as described in this prospectus supplement. See &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change.&#148; </FONT></P>
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fundamental change only in integral multiples of 10 Equity Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As a holder of Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units, you may satisfy your obligation to pay the aggregate purchase price for our common stock under the purchase contracts as
follows: </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">through the automatic application of the proceeds of a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock during a final remarketing period, in
the case of Corporate Units, in the manner described in this prospectus supplement; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">through the automatic application of the proceeds of the Treasury securities, in the case of a Treasury Unit; the cash held by the collateral agent, in
the case of a Cash Settled Unit; or a portion of the proceeds from the Treasury portfolio if it has replaced the convertible preferred stock underlying the Corporate Units in a successful optional remarketing; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">through early settlement of your purchase contracts in the manner described in this prospectus supplement; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">through the automatic delivery to us of your convertible preferred stock held as part of Corporate Units as described below if no successful
remarketing of the convertible preferred stock has occurred prior to the purchase contract settlement date and none of the above events has taken place. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contracts and our rights and obligations and the rights and obligations of the holders of the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units under the purchase contracts
will terminate without any further action upon certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization involving us (and not a bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization involving only our subsidiaries), which we refer to as &#147;termination
events.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The Convertible Preferred Stock </I></B></FONT></P>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of the convertible preferred stock will receive, when, as and if declared by our board of directors, cumulative dividends at the rate of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per year (the
&#147;dividend rate&#148;) on the $1,000 liquidation preference per share. Dividends on the convertible preferred stock will accumulate from the first date of original issuance of the convertible preferred stock and will be payable when, as and if
declared by our board of directors, quarterly in arrears on each payment date, beginning on May&nbsp;15, 2021. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may elect to pay dividends on the convertible preferred stock in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of cash and shares
of our common stock, unless we have previously irrevocably </FONT></P>
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elected a dividend payment method to apply as described in this prospectus supplement. If we elect, or have previously irrevocably elected, to make any such payment of a declared dividend, or any
portion thereof, in shares of our common stock, such shares will be valued for such purpose at the applicable <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">five-day</FONT> average price, <I>multiplied by</I> 97%. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased as described under
&#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock&#148; below. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Cumulative dividends on the convertible preferred stock will only be paid when, as and if declared by our board of directors. Dividends on the convertible preferred
stock will accumulate even if any of our agreements prohibit the current payment of dividends, we do not have earnings or funds legally available to pay such dividends or we do not declare the payment of dividends. Any accumulated but unpaid
dividends will accumulate additional dividends at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such dividend rate may be adjusted in connection with a remarketing) until paid, compounded quarterly, to, but excluding, the payment date. We may declare and
pay accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) on a payment date in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination thereof, as described above, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment
method to apply. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon),
including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record
date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs, following the final remarketing (whether successful or failed), we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on
the convertible preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However,
the right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such convertible preferred stock for so
long as the convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the holders of such convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are
subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any share of convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, unless all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) for all
preceding dividend periods have been declared and paid, or a sufficient sum or number of shares of our common stock has been set apart for the payment of such dividends upon, all outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock, we will not:
(i)&nbsp;declare and pay dividends on any capital stock ranking, as to dividends, on parity with or junior to the convertible preferred stock, including the Series B preferred stock (if any); (ii)&nbsp;redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for any
consideration, or make any other distribution of cash or other property, directly or indirectly, on or with respect to, any capital stock ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, on parity with or junior to the convertible preferred stock,
including the Series B preferred stock (if any); or (iii)&nbsp;redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for any consideration, or make any other distribution of cash or other property, directly or indirectly, on or with respect to the purchase
contracts or make any payments (including any contract adjustment payments) under the purchase contracts or any payment under any agreement similar to that of the purchase contract and pledge agreement, subject to certain exceptions. See
&#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Dividends.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The convertible preferred stock has no maturity date and will remain outstanding unless converted by holders or redeemed by us. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Ranking </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The convertible preferred stock will rank, with respect to dividend rights or rights upon our liquidation, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up</FONT> or dissolution:
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">senior to all classes or series of our common stock and to any other class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking junior to the
convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">on parity with any class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking on parity with the convertible preferred stock, including the
Series B preferred stock (if any); </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">junior to any other class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking senior to the convertible preferred stock; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">junior to our existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities (including trade payables). </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The term &#147;capital stock&#148; does not include convertible or exchangeable debt securities, which, prior to conversion or exchange, will rank senior in right of
payment to the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of the convertible preferred stock will not have the right to receive any payment or distribution
unless all of our liabilities are first paid in full and the priority of any senior stock is satisfied. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We currently have no capital stock outstanding that is senior to or on parity with the convertible preferred stock. If and when issued, any Series B preferred stock
will rank on parity with the convertible preferred stock. We own substantially all the capital stock of our subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2020, we had $3,446&nbsp;million principal amount of outstanding long-term indebtedness, all of which is
senior in right of payment to the convertible preferred stock. In addition, the convertible preferred stock will be structurally subordinated to all debt, preferred stock and other liabilities of our subsidiaries, which means that creditors and
preferred stockholders of our subsidiaries will be paid from the assets of such subsidiaries before holders of the convertible preferred stock would have any claims to those assets. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Liquidation Preference </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we liquidate, dissolve or wind up, holders of shares of convertible preferred stock will have the right to receive $1,000 per share of convertible preferred stock, plus accumulated but unpaid
dividends, if any (whether or not authorized or declared) up to, but excluding, the date of payment, before any payment is made to holders of our common stock and any other class or series of capital stock ranking junior to the convertible preferred
stock as to liquidation rights, but subject to the prior payment in full of all of our liabilities and the preferences of our senior stock. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Limited Voting Rights </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock will generally have no voting rights, except as set forth in this prospectus supplement. However, if dividends on any shares of convertible
preferred stock are in arrears and unpaid for the equivalent of six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive, holders of the outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock, together with holders of any other series of our preferred
stock ranking equally with the convertible preferred stock as to payment of dividends and upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the Series B preferred stock (if any)) and are exercisable, will be entitled to vote for the
election of two additional directors to our board, subject to the terms and to the limited extent described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Limited Voting Rights&#151;Preferred Stock Directors.&#148; In matters where
holders of the convertible preferred stock are entitled to vote, each share of convertible preferred stock will be entitled to one vote. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We do not have the right to redeem the convertible preferred stock prior to March&nbsp;22, 2024. We may redeem for cash all or part of the convertible preferred stock, at our option, on or after
March&nbsp;22, 2024 at a redemption price equal to 100% of the liquidation preference of the shares of convertible preferred stock to be redeemed, plus any accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared) to, but excluding, the redemption
date. No &#147;sinking fund&#148; is provided for the convertible preferred stock, which means that we are not required to redeem or retire the convertible preferred stock periodically. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will give notice of any redemption not less than 25 scheduled trading days nor more than 90 calendar days before the redemption date by notice to each holder of
convertible preferred stock. In no event will we give any notice of redemption prior to the earlier of a remarketing settlement date and the purchase contract settlement date. See &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Optional
Redemption.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or
prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025 as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Remarketing&#148; and &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any shares of convertible preferred stock are redeemed, we must also redeem a proportionate number of outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock, if any, on the
same redemption date. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of Corporate Units do not have the right to convert their ownership interests in the convertible preferred stock that are a part of such Corporate Units. Only shares of convertible
preferred stock that are not a part of Corporate Units may be converted. Holders of such separate shares of convertible preferred stock that are not a part of Corporate Units may convert their shares at their option prior to February&nbsp;15, 2024
only upon the occurrence of a fundamental change if such fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. In order for a holder of Corporate Units to separate their convertible preferred stock from the
purchase contracts to convert the convertible preferred stock in connection with a fundamental change, the holder must either (1)&nbsp;create Treasury Units (at any time other than during a blackout period), (2) settle the related purchase contracts
early (at any time other than during a blackout period) or (3)&nbsp;during the period after the date we give notice of a final remarketing, create Cash Settled Units on or prior to the second business day immediately preceding the first day of the
final remarketing period. If a fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock can convert such shares at any time from or after the effective
date of such transaction as described in this prospectus supplement. Conversions in connection with such fundamental change will be settled on the second business day following the final trading day of a 20 consecutive trading day period beginning
on and including the 21st scheduled trading day immediately preceding the fundamental change conversion deadline (as defined herein under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion Rights&#151;General&#148;).
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On and after February&nbsp;15, 2024, holders of shares of convertible preferred stock may, at their option, at any time and from time to time, convert their shares, all
as described in this prospectus supplement. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The conversion rate is initially shares of our common stock per share of convertible preferred stock (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances), which is
equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per share of our common stock. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, (a)&nbsp;the dividend rate on the convertible preferred
stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than or equal to the reference price, the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an amount equal to
$1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price on such date (rounded to the nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred
stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock.&#148; The changes to the terms of the
convertible preferred stock in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, if any, will become effective on the settlement date of such remarketing. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon surrender of convertible preferred stock for conversion, we will deliver to the converting holder in
respect of each $1,000 liquidation preference of the convertible preferred stock being converted (i)&nbsp;a share of Series B preferred stock or, solely with respect to conversions in connection with a redemption (an &#147;induced conversion&#148;),
up to $1,000 in cash plus all accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared), if any, on such converted convertible preferred stock to, but excluding, the payment date immediately preceding the relevant conversion date and
(ii)&nbsp;shares of our common stock (if any), as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A conversion of shares of convertible preferred stock will be deemed for these purposes to be an induced conversion if such shares have
been called for redemption and the relevant conversion date occurs from, and including, the date of our notice of redemption to, and including, the business day immediately preceding the redemption date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The amount of cash (in the case of an induced conversion)
and number of shares of our common stock, if any, due upon conversion will be calculated based on daily conversion values calculated over a 20 trading day observation period, as described under &#147;Description of
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the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion Rights&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion.&#148; In the case of an induced conversion, the converting holder will also receive all accumulated but
unpaid dividends (whether or not declared), if any, on such converted convertible preferred stock to, but excluding, the payment date immediately preceding the relevant conversion date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">There will be no make-whole amount of shares or increase to the conversion rate for conversions of the
convertible preferred stock in connection with a fundamental change, except for the limited case where the fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock and the &#147;stock price&#148; (as defined
under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#148; below) for such fundamental change is less than $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per share of our common stock (subject to
adjustment in certain circumstances), which initially equals the conversion price of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will not make any payments in respect of, or adjust the conversion rate to account for, accumulated but unpaid dividends, if any, on
the convertible preferred stock to the conversion date except as described in this prospectus supplement. However, all shares of Series B preferred stock delivered to a converting holder upon conversion will have initial accumulated dividends at
issuance (the &#147;initial accumulated dividends&#148;) equal to the amount of any accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock (including compounded dividends thereon) to, but excluding, date of issuance of such Series B
preferred stock to the converting holder. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD> <P><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Unless (i)&nbsp;a termination event has occurred, (ii)&nbsp;there are any accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock in respect of prior dividend periods or
(iii)&nbsp;we have not declared a dividend payable on the November&nbsp;15, 2023 payment date, we may elect, at our option, to remarket the convertible preferred stock during a period (which we refer to as the &#147;optional remarketing
window&#148;) beginning on and including November&nbsp;15, 2023 and ending on and including February&nbsp;1, 2024. Any remarketing in the optional remarketing window will occur during a five-business day remarketing period (which we refer to as an
&#147;optional remarketing period&#148;) consisting of five sequential possible remarketing dates selected by us and will include the shares of convertible preferred stock underlying the Corporate Units and separate shares of convertible preferred
stock whose holders have elected to participate in the remarketing as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing of Shares That Are Not Included in Corporate Units.&#148; We may attempt remarketings during
multiple optional remarketing periods in the optional remarketing window so long as we issue a press release and give to the depositary at least 15 calendar days&#146; notice prior to the first day of any optional remarketing
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period as described below. We refer to a remarketing that occurs during an optional remarketing period as an &#147;optional remarketing&#148; and the date we price the convertible preferred stock
offered in an optional remarketing as the &#147;optional remarketing date.&#148; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we elect to conduct an optional remarketing, the remarketing agent will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain, and the optional remarketing will be considered
successful if the remarketing agent is able to obtain, a price (i)&nbsp;for shares of convertible preferred stock that are components of Corporate Units equal to at least 100% of the aggregate Treasury portfolio purchase price (as defined in
&#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Optional Remarketing&#148;) and (ii)&nbsp;for shares of convertible preferred stock that are not included in Corporate Units, at least equal to the separate convertible preferred stock purchase price
(as defined in &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing of Shares That Are Not Included in Corporate Units&#148;), which will be the same price, on a per share basis, as shares of convertible preferred stock included in
Corporate Units. To obtain that price, (a)&nbsp;the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than or equal to the reference price, the
conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an amount equal to $1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price on such date (rounded to the nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT>
of a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred
Stock&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock.&#148; The increased dividend rate and/or increased conversion rate will be a fixed dividend rate and/or conversion rate (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances) determined by, and any other
changes to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock will be determined by, our board of directors, after consultation with the remarketing agent, as the rate(s) the
convertible preferred stock should bear and the terms the convertible preferred stock should include in order for the net remarketing proceeds to equal at least the sum of (x) 100% of the purchase price of the Treasury portfolio and (y)&nbsp;the
separate convertible preferred stock purchase price for shares of convertible preferred stock that are not included in Corporate Units whose holders have elected to participate in the remarketing. We will not decrease the conversion rate or the
dividend rate in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. We will issue a press release and request that the depositary notify its participants holding Corporate Units, Treasury Units, and separate shares of
convertible preferred stock of our election to conduct an optional remarketing no later than 15 calendar days prior to the date we begin such optional remarketing. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the modifications, if any, made to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with the optional remarketing as described above will
become effective on the settlement date for such optional remarketing; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">dividends will continue to be payable on the convertible preferred stock quarterly at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such dividend rate may be
adjusted in connection with such remarketing), when, as and if declared by our board of directors; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the portion of the proceeds from the remarketing attributable to shares of convertible preferred stock that were components of Corporate Units that is
equal to the &#147;Treasury portfolio purchase price,&#148; as defined in &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Optional Remarketing,&#148; will automatically be applied to purchase the Treasury portfolio and any remaining proceeds will
be promptly remitted to the holder after the optional remarketing settlement date; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">proceeds from the remarketing attributable to holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock who have elected to participate in the
remarketing will be remitted by the remarketing agent for the benefit of such holders on the optional remarketing settlement date. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The &#147;Treasury portfolio&#148; is a portfolio of U.S. Treasury securities consisting of (i)&nbsp;U.S. Treasury securities (or principal or interest strips thereof)
that mature on or prior to the purchase contract settlement date in an aggregate amount at maturity equal to $1,000 <I>multiplied by </I>the number of shares of convertible preferred stock included in the Corporate Units on the optional remarketing
date and (ii)&nbsp;U.S. Treasury securities (or principal or interest strips thereof) that mature on or prior to the purchase contract settlement date in an aggregate amount equal to the dividend payment that would have been due on such date
(without giving effect to any increase of the dividend rate following a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, and whether or not such dividend is authorized or declared) on the shares underlying the undivided beneficial
ownership interests in the convertible preferred stock included in the Corporate Units on the optional remarketing date. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Treasury portfolio will be substituted for the shares of convertible preferred stock that are components of the Corporate Units and, solely with respect to the
Treasury securities described in clause (i)&nbsp;above in the description of the Treasury portfolio, such Treasury securities will be pledged to us through the collateral agent to secure the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations under the
purchase contracts. When paid at maturity, an amount of the Treasury portfolio equal to the $1,000 initial liquidation preference of the substituted shares will automatically be applied to satisfy the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations to
purchase our common stock under the </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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purchase contracts on the purchase contract settlement date. See &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Remarketing&#148; in this prospectus supplement. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we do not elect to conduct an optional remarketing, or no optional remarketing succeeds for any reason, the terms of the convertible preferred stock will not be
modified and the shares of convertible preferred stock (other than separate shares of convertible preferred stock) will continue to be components of Corporate Units and the remarketing agent will use its reasonable best efforts to remarket the
convertible preferred stock during the final remarketing period as described below. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the convertible preferred stock has not been successfully remarketed in the optional remarketing window, a termination event has not previously occurred and you do not create a Cash Settled Unit or a
Treasury Unit as described in this prospectus supplement, the convertible preferred stock that is part of your Corporate Units, together with any separate shares of convertible preferred stock that have been submitted for remarketing, will be
remarketed during a five-business day remarketing period ending on February&nbsp;13, 2024 (the second business day immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date) until the remarketing is successful. We refer to this period as the
&#147;final remarketing period,&#148; a remarketing that occurs during this period as a &#147;final remarketing,&#148; and the date we price the convertible preferred stock offered in a final remarketing as the &#147;final remarketing date.&#148;
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The remarketing agent will remarket the
convertible preferred stock underlying the Corporate Units, and any separate shares of convertible preferred stock whose holders have elected to participate in the remarketing, during each business day of the final remarketing period until the
remarketing is successful. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The remarketing agent
will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain, and the final remarketing will be considered successful if the remarketing agent is able to obtain, a price that results in proceeds of at least $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of
convertible preferred stock being remarketed. To obtain that price, (a)&nbsp;the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than or equal
to the reference price, the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an amount equal to $1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price on such date (rounded to the nearest <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described under
&#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock.&#148; The increased dividend rate and/or increased conversion rate will be a fixed dividend rate
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and/or conversion rate (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances) determined by, and any other changes to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with a successful
remarketing of the convertible preferred stock will be determined by, our board of directors, after consultation with the remarketing agent, as the rate(s) the convertible preferred stock should bear and the terms the convertible preferred stock
should include in order for the net remarketing proceeds to equal at least $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock being remarketed. We will not decrease the conversion rate or the dividend rate in connection
with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. We will issue a press release and request that the depositary notify its participants holding Corporate Units, Treasury Units and separate shares of convertible preferred stock of the
final remarketing as described in this prospectus supplement. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the final remarketing is successful: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon), including with
respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding
the purchase contract settlement date; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">dividends will continue to be payable on the convertible preferred stock quarterly at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such dividend rate may be
adjusted in connection with such remarketing), when, as and if declared by our board of directors; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">modifications, if any, made to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with the final remarketing as described above will take
effect on the settlement date for the final remarketing; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a portion of the proceeds from the remarketing equal to $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the aggregate number of shares of convertible preferred stock
underlying Corporate Units that were remarketed will automatically be applied to satisfy in full the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts on the purchase contract settlement date,
and any remaining proceeds will be promptly remitted to the holder after the purchase contract settlement date; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">proceeds from the remarketing attributable to holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock who have elected to participate in the
remarketing will be remitted by the remarketing agent for the benefit of such holders on the purchase contract settlement date. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the convertible preferred stock has not been successfully remarketed on or prior to the last day of the final remarketing period, the
terms of the convertible preferred stock will not be modified, and all shares of convertible preferred stock held as part of Corporate </FONT></P>
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Units will be automatically delivered to us on the purchase contract settlement date in full satisfaction of the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations to purchase our common stock under the
related purchase contracts on the purchase contract settlement date, as described under &#147;&#151;Automatic Settlement upon Failed Final Remarketing&#148; below. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, except in the case of a
dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon), including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement
date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs, following the final remarketing
(whether successful or failed), we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of
the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such
accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such convertible preferred stock for so long as the convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the holders of such convertible
preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We refer to each optional remarketing and the final remarketing described below as a &#147;remarketing.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:38%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">During the applicable blackout period relating to a
remarketing, you may not settle a purchase contract early, you may not create Treasury Units and you may not recreate Corporate Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Changes in Connection with Remarketing </FONT></P></TD>
<TD> <P><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, (a)&nbsp;the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price
on the pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than or equal to the reference price, the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an amount equal to $1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing
price on such date (rounded to the nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to
March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock.&#148; The changes to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with a successful
remarketing of the convertible preferred </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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stock, if any, will become effective on the settlement date of such remarketing, which will be, (i)&nbsp;in the case of an optional remarketing, the second business day following the optional
remarketing date (or such other date as we and the remarketing agent agree upon) and (ii)&nbsp;in the case of the final remarketing period, the purchase contract settlement date. The increased dividend rate and/or increased conversion rate will be a
fixed dividend rate and/or conversion rate (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances) determined by, and any other changes to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred
stock will be determined by, our board of directors, after consultation with the remarketing agent, as the rate(s) the convertible preferred stock should bear and the terms the convertible preferred stock should include in order for the net
remarketing proceeds to equal (a)&nbsp;in the case of a final remarketing, at least $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock being remarketed and (b)&nbsp;in the case of an optional remarketing, at least the
sum of (x) 100% of the purchase price of the Treasury portfolio and (y)&nbsp;the separate convertible preferred stock purchase price for shares of convertible preferred stock that are not included in Corporate Units whose holders have elected to
participate in the remarketing. We will not decrease the conversion rate or the dividend rate in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the convertible preferred stock is not successfully remarketed, no terms of the convertible preferred stock will be changed. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Election Not to Participate in the Remarketing </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You may elect not to participate in any remarketing and to retain the convertible preferred stock underlying your Corporate Units by: </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">creating Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units as described above; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">settling purchase contracts early as described above. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Whether or not you participate in the remarketing, upon a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock your shares of convertible preferred stock will
become subject to the modified provisions described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Remarketing&#148; and &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Participation in a Remarketing by Holders of Separate Shares of Convertible Preferred Stock
</FONT></P></TD>
<TD> <P><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock that are not part of the Corporate Units may elect, in the manner described in this prospectus supplement, to have their shares remarketed by
the remarketing agent along with the shares included in the Corporate Units. See &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing of Shares That Are Not Included in Corporate Units.&#148; Such holders may also participate in any
remarketing by recreating </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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Corporate Units from their Treasury Units at any time other than during a blackout period, as described under &#147;Description of the Equity Units&#151;Creating Treasury Units by Substituting a
Treasury Security for Convertible Preferred Stock.&#148; Whether or not you participate in the remarketing, upon a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock your shares of convertible preferred stock will become subject to the
modified provisions described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Remarketing&#148; and &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing.&#148; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Automatic Settlement upon Failed Final Remarketing </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the convertible preferred stock has not been successfully remarketed on or prior to the last day of the final remarketing period, all shares of convertible preferred stock held as part of
Corporate Units will be delivered to us on the purchase contract settlement date in full satisfaction of the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts on the purchase contract
settlement date unless the holder separately cash settles the purchase contracts as described below. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The ownership interest in the convertible preferred stock underlying a Corporate Unit will be automatically delivered to us, thereby satisfying such holder&#146;s
obligations to us under the related purchase contracts in full, unless, prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second business day immediately prior to the purchase contract settlement date, the holder provides written notice of an
intention&nbsp;to settle the related purchase contracts with separate cash and on or prior to the business day immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date delivers to the securities intermediary $1,000 in cash per 10 purchase
contracts. Holders of Corporate Units may settle their purchase contracts with separate such cash only in integral multiples of 10 Corporate Units. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The Series B Preferred Stock</I></B>
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Issuance </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may issue an aggregate of up to 1,000,000 shares of Series B preferred stock, or 1,150,000 shares if the underwriters exercised in full their over-allotment option on the Corporate Units,
upon optional conversion of the convertible preferred stock as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion Rights&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion.&#148; The Series B preferred stock will not be pledged to us
to secure your obligation under any purchase contract. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD> <P><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of the Series B preferred stock will receive, when, as and if declared by our board of directors, cumulative dividends at the dividend rate on the $1,000 liquidation preference per
share. The Series B preferred stock delivered to a holder upon conversion will have initial accumulated dividends at issuance. Dividends on the Series B preferred stock will continue to accumulate from the date of
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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original issuance of the Series B preferred stock and will be payable when, as and if declared by our board of directors, quarterly in arrears on each payment date, beginning on the first payment
date following the date on which the Series B preferred stock is first issued. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may elect to pay dividends on the Series B preferred stock in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of cash and shares of our common stock, unless we
have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment method to apply as described in this prospectus supplement. If we elect, or have previously irrevocably elected, to make any such payment of a declared dividend, or any portion thereof, in
shares of our common stock, such shares will be valued for such purpose at the applicable <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">five-day</FONT> average price, <I>multiplied by</I> 97%. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Series B preferred stock will not be subject to remarketing. In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the dividend rate on
the Series B preferred stock may be increased as described under &#147;Description of the Series B Preferred Stock&#151;Increased Dividend Rate&#148; below. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dividends on the Series B preferred stock will accumulate even if any of our agreements prohibit the current payment of dividends, we do not have earnings or funds
legally available to pay such dividends or we do not declare the payment of dividends. Any accumulated but unpaid dividends will accumulate additional dividends at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such dividend rate may be adjusted in
connection with a remarketing) until paid, compounded quarterly, to, but excluding, the payment date. We may declare and pay accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) on a payment date in cash, shares of our common
stock, or a combination thereof, as described above, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment method to apply. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon),
including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock, if any, as of the close of
business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs, we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the outstanding Series B preferred stock
(if any) on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of Series B preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such
accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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with respect to such Series B preferred stock for so long as the Series B preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the holders of such Series B preferred stock
as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any share of Series B preferred stock remains outstanding, unless all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) for all
preceding dividend periods have been declared and paid, or a sufficient sum or number of shares of our common stock has been set apart for the payment of such dividends upon, all outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock, we will not:
(i)&nbsp;declare and pay dividends on any capital stock ranking, as to dividends, on parity with or junior to the Series B preferred stock, including the convertible preferred stock; (ii)&nbsp;redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for any
consideration, or make any other distribution of cash or other property, directly or indirectly, on or with respect to, any capital stock ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, on parity with or junior to the Series B preferred stock,
including the convertible preferred stock; or (iii)&nbsp;redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for any consideration, or make any other distribution of cash or other property, directly or indirectly, on or with respect to the purchase contracts or
make payments (including any contract adjustment payments) under the purchase contracts or any payment under any agreement similar to that of the purchase contract and pledge agreement, subject to certain exceptions. See &#147;Description of the
Series B Preferred Stock&#151;Dividends.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Maturity </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Series B preferred stock has no maturity date and will remain outstanding unless redeemed by us. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Ranking </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Series B preferred stock will rank, with respect to dividend rights or rights upon our liquidation, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up</FONT> or dissolution:
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">senior to all classes or series of our common stock and to any other class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking junior to the
Series B preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">on parity with any class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking on parity with the Series B preferred stock, including the
convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">junior to any other class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking senior to the Series B preferred stock; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">junior to our existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities (including trade payables). </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The term &#147;capital stock&#148; does not include convertible or exchangeable debt securities, which, prior to conversion or exchange, will rank senior in right of
payment to the Series B preferred stock. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of the Series B preferred stock will not have the right to receive any payment or distribution unless
all of our liabilities are first paid in full and the priority of any senior stock is satisfied. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We currently have no capital stock outstanding that is senior to or on parity with the Series B preferred stock. When issued, our convertible preferred stock will rank
on parity with the Series B preferred stock. All our long-term indebtedness will rank senior in right of payment to the Series B preferred stock. In addition, the Series B preferred stock will be structurally subordinated to all debt, preferred
stock and other liabilities of our subsidiaries, which means that creditors and preferred stockholders of our subsidiaries will be paid from the assets of such subsidiaries before holders of the Series B preferred stock would have any claims to
those assets. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Liquidation Preference </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we liquidate, dissolve or wind up, holders of shares of Series B preferred stock will have the right to receive $1,000 per share of Series B preferred stock, <I>plus</I> accumulated but
unpaid dividends, if any (whether or not authorized or declared) up to, but excluding, the date of payment, before any payment is made to holders of our common stock and any other class or series of capital stock ranking junior to the Series B
preferred stock as to liquidation rights, but subject to the prior payment in full of all of our liabilities and the preferences of our senior stock. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Limited Voting Rights </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of Series B preferred stock will generally have no voting rights, except as set forth in this prospectus supplement. However, if dividends on any shares of Series B preferred
stock are in arrears and unpaid for the equivalent of six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive, holders of the outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock, together with holders of any other series of our preferred stock ranking
equally with the Series B preferred stock as to payment of dividends and upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the convertible preferred stock) and are exercisable, will be entitled to vote for the election of two
additional directors to our board, subject to the terms and to the limited extent described under &#147;Description of the Series B Preferred Stock&#151;Limited Voting Rights&#151;Preferred Stock Directors.&#148; In matters where holders of the
Series B preferred stock are entitled to vote, each share of Series B preferred stock will be entitled to one vote. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Redemption at Our Option </FONT></P></TD>
<TD> <P><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We do not have the right to redeem the Series B preferred stock prior to March&nbsp;22, 2024. We may redeem for cash all or part of the Series B preferred stock, at our option, on or after
March&nbsp;22, 2024 at a redemption price equal to 100% of the liquidation preference of the shares of Series B preferred stock to be redeemed, plus any accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared) to, but excluding, the redemption
date. No &#147;sinking fund&#148; is provided for the </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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Series B preferred stock, which means that we are not required to redeem or retire the Series B preferred stock periodically. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will give notice of any redemption not less than 25 scheduled trading days nor more than 90 calendar days before the redemption date by notice to each holder of
Series B preferred stock. In no event will we give any notice of redemption prior to the earlier of a remarketing settlement date and the purchase contract settlement date. See &#147;Description of the Series B Preferred Stock&#151;Optional
Redemption.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a
later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025 as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Remarketing&#148; and &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing.&#148; In that case, the earliest
redemption date for the Series B preferred stock will be changed to such later date. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any shares of Series B preferred stock are redeemed, we must also redeem a proportionate number of outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock, if any, on the
same redemption date. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Increased Dividend Rate </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased as described under &#147;Description of the
Purchase Contracts&#151;Remarketing&#148; and &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing.&#148; In that case, the dividend rate on the Series B preferred stock will be increased to be equal to such increased dividend rate
on the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I></I></B><I></I><B><I>Miscellaneous</I></B><I></I><B><I></I></B> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Listing of the Units </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We intend to apply for listing of the Corporate Units on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &#147;AESC.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For a summary of United States federal income tax consequences relating to an investment in the Equity Units, see &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences.&#148;
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Form and Book-Entry System </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units will be issued in certificated form and registered in the name of Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., the nominee of The Depository Trust Company, and
evidenced by one or more global securities held in certificated form. Except under limited circumstances, a beneficial owner will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of securities certificates. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You should consider carefully all the information set forth and incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus and, in particular, you should evaluate
the specific factors set forth under &#147;Risk Factors&#148; beginning on <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">page&nbsp;S-40,</FONT> of this prospectus supplement before deciding whether to invest in the Equity Units. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="38%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Use of Proceeds </FONT></P></TD>
<TD><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We expect to receive net proceeds from this offering of approximately $ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;million (or approximately
$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; million if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full), after deducting the offering expenses and the underwriting discount. We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering to
develop our renewables business, U.S. utility businesses, LNG infrastructure, and for other developments determined by management. See &#147;Use of Proceeds.&#148; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>The Offering&#151;Explanatory Diagrams </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following diagrams illustrate some of the key features of
the Corporate Units and Treasury Units as well as the transformation of Corporate Units into Treasury Units and separate shares of convertible preferred stock. No Equity Units may be created or recreated from Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following diagrams assume that the convertible preferred
stock is successfully remarketed during the final remarketing period. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Corporate Units </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Corporate Unit initially consists of two components as described below: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-TOP:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>1/10th Ownership Interest in a</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Share of Convertible
Preferred</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Stock(1)</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>


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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(Owed to Holder)</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our Common Stock at Purchase</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contract Settlement Date</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(February 15, 2024)</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">+</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contract Adjustment Payments</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per annum paid</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">quarterly(2)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(Owed to
Holder)</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dividends &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per annum paid</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">quarterly(3)</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(following a successful remarketing of</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the convertible preferred stock,</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">dividends may be payable at an</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">increased rate)</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(Owed to Us)</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$100 at</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Purchase Contract Settlement</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Date</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(February 15, 2024)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:2.00em" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(Owed to
Holder)</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:2.00em" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No fixed redemption or maturity date(4)</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px" align="left"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2.80em; text-indent:-0.80em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8194;&#8201;$100 plus accumulated but unpaid dividends upon our optional redemption, or</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2.80em; text-indent:-0.80em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8194;&#8201;upon earlier
conversion, 1/10th ownership interest in a Series B preferred share (or, in connection with an induced conversion, up to $100 in cash plus all accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared), if any, on such converted convertible
preferred stock to, but excluding, the payment date immediately preceding the relevant conversion date) and shares of our common stock, if any, at 1/10th of the conversion rate calculated over an observation period as described
herein</FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="line-height:8px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:11%">&nbsp;</P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The holder of a Corporate Unit owns the 1/10th undivided beneficial ownership interest in the share of convertible preferred stock that forms a part of the Corporate
Unit but will pledge it to us through the collateral agent to secure its obligation under the related purchase contract. If the Treasury portfolio has replaced the convertible preferred stock as a result of a successful optional remarketing prior to
the final remarketing period, the applicable ownership interests in the Treasury portfolio will replace the interest in the convertible preferred stock as a component of the Corporate Unit. Unless the purchase contract is terminated as a result of
our bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, the proceeds from the applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio will be used to satisfy the holder&#146;s obligation under the related purchase contract. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contract adjustment payments may be deferred as described in this prospectus supplement, and may be paid in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination thereof,
unless we have previously irrevocably elected a contract adjustment payment method to apply. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dividends will only be paid when, as and if declared by our board of directors, are cumulative, and may be paid, at our election, in cash, shares of our common stock,
or a combination thereof. Except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon), including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared,
will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The convertible preferred stock has no scheduled redemption date or maturity date, and will remain outstanding unless converted by holders or redeemed by us.
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Treasury Units </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A Treasury Unit consists of two
components as described below:</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">(1)</SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" NOWRAP ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Purchase Contract</B></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-TOP:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-TOP:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>1/10th Ownership Interest in</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Treasury
Security(2)</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>


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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(Owed to Holder)</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our Common Stock at Purchase</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contract Settlement Date</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(February 15, 2024)</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">+</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contract Adjustment Payments</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per annum paid</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">quarterly(3)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(Owed to Us)</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$100 at</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Purchase Contract Settlement</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Date</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(February 15, 2024)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(Owed to
Holder)</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$100 at Maturity</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(on or prior to February&nbsp;15, 2024)</FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="line-height:8px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:11%">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Treasury Units may only be created with integral multiples of 10 Corporate Units. As a result, the creation of 10 Treasury Units will result in the release of one share
of convertible preferred stock held by the collateral agent. After a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, holders of Corporate Units may not create Treasury Units, and holders of Treasury Units may not recreate Corporate Units.
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The holder of a Treasury Unit owns a 1/10th undivided beneficial ownership interest in the Treasury security that forms a part of the Treasury Unit but will pledge it
to us through the collateral agent to secure its obligation under the related purchase contract. Unless the purchase contract is terminated as a result of our bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or the holder recreates a Corporate Unit, the
proceeds from the Treasury securities will be used to satisfy the holder&#146;s obligation under the related purchase contract. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contract adjustment payments may be deferred as described in this prospectus supplement, and may be paid in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination thereof,
unless we have previously irrevocably elected a contract adjustment payment method to apply. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Transforming Corporate Units into Treasury Units and Separate Shares of Convertible Preferred
Stock </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Because the convertible preferred
stock is issued with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share, holders of Corporate Units may only create Treasury Units in integral multiples of 10 Corporate Units. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To create 10 Treasury Units, a holder must separate 10 Corporate Units into their two components (10 purchase contracts and one share of convertible
preferred stock)and combine the purchase contracts with a Treasury security having a principal amount at maturity of $1,000 that matures on or prior to February&nbsp;15, 2024. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR style = "page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The share of convertible preferred stock, which is no longer a component of a Corporate Unit, will be released to the holder and be tradable as a
separate security. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A holder will own the Treasury security that forms a part of the 10 Treasury Units, but will pledge it to us through the collateral agent to secure its
obligation under the related purchase contract. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Treasury security together with the 10 purchase contracts will constitute 10 Treasury Units. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">During a blackout period (as described under &#147;Description of the Equity Units&#151;Creating Treasury Units by Substituting a Treasury Security for
Convertible Preferred Stock&#148;) or following a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, a holder may not create Treasury Units or recreate Corporate Units. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Unless a blackout period is occurring or a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock has occurred, the holder may also transform 10
Treasury Units and one share of convertible preferred stock into 10 Corporate Units. Following that transformation, the Treasury security, which will no longer be a component of the Treasury Unit, will be released from the pledge under the purchase
contract and pledge agreement and delivered to the holder, and will be tradable as a separate security. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following illustration depicts the transformation of 10 Corporate Units into 10 Treasury Units and one separate share of convertible
preferred. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Stock Pledged to<BR>Us(1)(2)</B></FONT></P></TD>
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STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(Owed to Holder) Our Common Stock at Purchase Contract Settlement Date</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">+</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">Dividends&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per annum paid quarterly(4) (following a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred
stock,</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">dividends may be payable at an increased rate)</FONT></P></TD>
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2024)</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(Owed to Holder) No fixed redemption or maturity date</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px" align="left"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&#149;&#8195;&#8195;&#8202;$1,000 upon our optional redemption, or</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(Owed to Us) $1,000 at Purchase Contract Settlement Date (February 15, 2024)</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(Owed to Holder) $1,000 at Maturity (on or prior to February&nbsp;15, 2024)(5)</FONT></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"></P></TD>
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date</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px" align="left"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&#149;&#8195;&#8195;&#8202;$1,000 upon our optional redemption,
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Stock Pledged to<BR>Us(1)(2)</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Treasury</B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Security Pledged to<BR>Us</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Preferred Stock<BR>Released to<BR>Holder(1)(2)</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>


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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&#149;&#8195;&#8195;&#8202;upon earlier conversion, (i)&nbsp;a share of Series B preferred stock<SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">(6) (other than for induced
conversions, in which case a holder will instead receive up to $1,000 in cash plus all accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared), if any, on such converted convertible preferred stock to, but excluding, the payment date immediately
preceding the relevant conversion date) and (ii)&nbsp;shares of our common stock (if any) at the conversion rate per share of convertible preferred stock (following a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the conversion rate may
be increased) calculated over an observation period as described herein</SUP></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&#149;&#8195;&#8195;&#8202;upon earlier conversion, (i)&nbsp;a share of Series B preferred stock<B><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">(6)</SUP></B> (other than for
induced conversions, in which case a holder will instead receive up to $1,000 in cash plus all accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared), if any, on such converted convertible preferred stock to, but excluding, the payment date
immediately preceding the relevant conversion date) and (ii)&nbsp;shares of our common stock (if any) at the conversion rate per share of convertible preferred stock (following a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the
conversion rate may be increased) calculated over an observation period as described herein</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="6" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-TOP:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-TOP:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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Units</B></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle" COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>10 Treasury Units</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle" ALIGN="center" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Separate
Share of</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Convertible</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Preferred Stock</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(1)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">Each share of convertible preferred stock will be issued with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share. Each holder of a Corporate Unit will own a 1/10th, or 10%,
undivided beneficial ownership interest in one share of convertible preferred stock. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(2)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">The convertible preferred stock will be issued with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(3)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">Contract adjustment payments may be deferred as described in this prospectus supplement, and may be paid in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination thereof,
unless we have previously irrevocably elected a contract adjustment payment method to apply. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(4)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">Dividends will only be paid when, as and if declared by our board of directors, are cumulative, and may be paid, at our election, in cash, shares of our common stock,
or a combination thereof, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment method to apply. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(5)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">The holder of a Treasury Unit owns a 1/10th undivided beneficial ownership interest the Treasury security that forms a part of the Treasury Unit.
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">(6)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">The Series B preferred stock will be issued with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Illustrative Remarketing Timeline </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Optional Remarketing </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following timeline is for illustrative purposes only and
is not definitive. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="text-indent:0.63em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Date</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-left:0.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">T-15</FONT> calendar days</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will issue a press release and request that the depositary notify its participants
holding Corporate Units, Treasury Units and separate shares of convertible preferred stock as to the dates of and procedures to be followed in the optional remarketing.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-left:0.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">T-2</FONT> business days (2 business days prior to the first day of the optional remarketing period)</FONT></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;Last day prior to the optional remarketing period to create Treasury Units from
Corporate Units and recreate Corporate Units from Treasury Units (holders may once again be able to create and recreate units if the optional remarketing is not successful as of the last day of the optional remarketing period).</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;Last day
for holders of Corporate Units or Treasury Units to settle the related purchase contract early (holders may once again be able to settle the related purchase contract early if the optional remarketing is not successful as of the last day of the
optional remarketing period) and to pay the purchase price in connection therewith.</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;Last day for holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock to give notice
of their election to participate in the remarketing.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-left:0.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">T</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">First business day of the optional remarketing period.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-left:0.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">T to T+4 business days (5
business days beginning on, and including, the first day of the optional remarketing period)</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Five
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">business-day</FONT> optional remarketing period:</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;If no successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock occurs as of the last
day of the optional remarketing period, we will cause a notice of the failed remarketing of convertible preferred stock to be published before 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day following the last of the five business days comprising
the optional remarketing period.</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;If a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock occurs, (i)&nbsp;we will cause a notice of the successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock to be
published before 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day immediately following the date of such successful remarketing, (ii)&nbsp;the remarketing agent will purchase the Treasury portfolio and (iii)&nbsp;we will request the depositary to
notify its participants holding separate shares of convertible preferred stock, if any, of the modified terms established for the convertible preferred stock during the optional remarketing on the business day following the date on which the
convertible</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<P STYLE="text-indent:0.63em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Date</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">preferred stock was successfully remarketed. The
increased dividend rate, increased conversion rate and/or modified earliest redemption date will become effective on the settlement date of the remarketing, which will be the second business day following the date on which the convertible preferred
stock was successfully remarketed (or such other date as we and the marketing agent may agree).</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;We have the right to postpone any optional remarketing that has not concluded in our
absolute discretion on any day of the relevant optional remarketing period.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-left:0.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">T+5 (5 business days after
the first day of the optional remarketing)</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">First business day following a failed optional remarketing that we may give notice of
another optional remarketing period.</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Final Remarketing
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following timeline is for
illustrative purposes only and is not definitive. For purposes of this timeline, we have assumed that there was no termination event with respect to the purchase contracts or a successful optional remarketing. The dates in this timeline are based on
the time periods set forth in the purchase contract and pledge agreement. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-left:0.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">January&nbsp;18,&nbsp;2024</FONT></P></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;We will issue a press release and request that the depositary notify its participants
holding Corporate Units, Treasury Units and separate shares of convertible preferred stock of the final remarketing period beginning on February&nbsp;7, 2024 and ending on February&nbsp;13, 2024. We will give notice to holders of Corporate Units,
Treasury Units and separate shares of convertible preferred stock of the procedures to be followed in the final remarketing.</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;First day of the period during which holders of Corporate Units may create Cash
Settled Units.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-left:0.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February 5, 2024 (2 business
days prior to the first day of the final remarketing period)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px">
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;Last day to create Treasury Units from Corporate Units, create Cash Settled Units from
Corporate Units and recreate Corporate Units from Treasury Units.</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;Last day for holders of Corporate Units or Treasury Units to settle the related purchase contract early and to pay the purchase price in connection therewith.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px; margin-left:2.00em; text-indent:-1.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&#8195;&#8201;&#8201;Last day
for holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock to give notice of their election to participate in the remarketing.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-left:0.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February&nbsp;7, 2024 through
February&nbsp;13, 2024 (final remarketing period)</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will attempt a remarketing during the final remarketing period. We may elect to
postpone the final remarketing on any day other than the last business day of the final remarketing period. If a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock has not occurred on or prior to the last day of the final remarketing period,
we will cause a notice of the failed remarketing of the convertible preferred stock to be published before 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day immediately following the last date of the final remarketing period.</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top" STYLE="BORDER-LEFT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-left:8px"> <P STYLE="margin-left:0.50em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">February&nbsp;15,
2024</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" STYLE="BORDER-RIGHT:1px solid #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000; padding-right:8px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Purchase contract settlement date and settlement date for any successful final
remarketing of the convertible preferred stock.</FONT></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_5"></A>FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND RISK FACTOR SUMMARY
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This prospectus supplement includes or
incorporates by reference statements concerning our expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, strategies, and future events or performance. Such statements are &#147;forward-looking statements&#148; within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Although we believe that these forward-looking statements and the underlying assumptions are reasonable, we cannot assure you that they will prove to be correct. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and
uncertainties, and there are factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in our forward- looking statements. In addition to the factors described under &#147;Risk Factors&#148; in this prospectus
supplement or the risk factors incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement, some of these factors include: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the economic climate, particularly the state of the economy in the areas in which we operate and the state of the economy in China, which impacts
demand for electricity in many of our key markets, including the fact that the global economy faces considerable uncertainty for the foreseeable future, which further increases many of the risks discussed in this Form
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K;</FONT> </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in inflation, demand for power, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, including our ability to hedge our interest rate and
foreign currency risk; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in the price of electricity at which our generation businesses sell into the wholesale market and our utility businesses purchase to distribute
to their customers, and the success of our risk management practices, such as our ability to hedge our exposure to such market price risk; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in the prices and availability of coal, gas and other fuels (including our ability to have fuel transported to our facilities) and the success
of our risk management practices, such as our ability to hedge our exposure to such market price risk, and our ability to meet credit support requirements for fuel and power supply contracts; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in and access to the financial markets, particularly changes affecting the availability and cost of capital in order to refinance existing debt
and finance capital expenditures, acquisitions, investments and other corporate purposes; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to fulfill our obligations, manage liquidity and comply with covenants under our recourse and
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-recourse</FONT> debt, including our ability to manage our significant liquidity needs and to comply with covenants under our revolving credit facility and other existing financing obligations;
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to receive funds from our subsidiaries by way of dividends, fees, interest, loans or otherwise; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in our or any of our subsidiaries&#146; corporate credit ratings or the ratings of our or any of our subsidiaries&#146; debt securities or
preferred stock, and changes in the rating agencies&#146; ratings criteria; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to purchase and sell assets at attractive prices and on other attractive terms; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to compete in markets where we do business; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to operate power generation, distribution and transmission facilities, including managing availability, outages and equipment failures;
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to manage our operational and maintenance costs and the performance and reliability of our generating plants, including our ability to
reduce unscheduled down times; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to enter into long-term contracts, which limit volatility in our results of operations and cash flow, such as power purchase agreement,
fuel supply, and other agreements and to manage counterparty credit risks in these agreements; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">variations in weather, especially mild winters and cooler summers in the areas in which we operate, the occurrence of difficult hydrological conditions
for our hydropower plants, as well as hurricanes and other storms and disasters, wildfires and low levels of wind or sunlight for our wind and solar facilities; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">pandemics, or the future outbreak of any other highly infectious or contagious disease, including the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">COVID-19</FONT>
pandemic; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the performance of our contracts by our contract counterparties, including suppliers or customers; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">severe weather and natural disasters; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to raise sufficient capital to fund development projects or to successfully execute our development projects; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the success of our initiatives in renewable energy projects and energy storage projects; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the availability of government incentives or policies that support the development of renewable energy generation projects;
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to keep up with advances in technology; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in number of customers or in customer usage; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the operations of our joint ventures and equity method investments that we do not control; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to achieve reasonable rate treatment in our utility businesses; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in laws, rules and regulations affecting our international businesses, particularly in developing countries; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in laws, rules and regulations affecting our utilities businesses, including, but not limited to, regulations which may affect competition, the
ability to recover net utility assets and other potential stranded costs by our utilities; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in law resulting from new local, state, federal or international energy legislation and changes in political or regulatory oversight or
incentives affecting our wind business and solar projects, our other renewables projects and our initiatives in greenhouse gas reductions and energy storage, including government policies or tax incentives; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in environmental laws, including requirements for reduced emissions, greenhouse gas legislation, regulation, and/or treaties and coal
combustion residuals regulation and remediation; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in tax laws, including U.S. tax reform, and challenges to our tax positions; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the effects of litigation and government and regulatory investigations; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the performance of our acquisitions; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to maintain adequate insurance; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>

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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">decreases in the value of pension plan assets, increases in pension plan expenses, and our ability to fund defined benefit pension and other
postretirement plans at our subsidiaries; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">losses on the sale or write-down of assets due to impairment events or changes in management intent with regard to either holding or selling certain
assets; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in accounting standards, corporate governance and securities law requirements; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">our ability to attract and retain talented directors, management and other personnel; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">cyber-attacks and information security breaches; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">data privacy. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">These factors, in addition to others described herein under &#147;Risk Factors,&#148; in our Annual Report and in subsequent securities
filings, should not be construed as a comprehensive listing of factors that could cause results to vary from our forward-looking information. </FONT></P>
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whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. If one or more forward-looking statements are updated, no inference should be drawn that additional updates will be made with respect to those or other forward-looking statements.
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_6"></A>RISK FACTORS </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>Investing in the Equity Units involves a high degree of
risk. You should carefully consider the risks discussed below, together with the financial and other information contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, before deciding whether to
invest in the Equity Units. In addition to the risk factors discussed below, please read &#147;Risk Factors&#148; in our Annual Report, which is incorporated herein by reference, and &#147;Forward-Looking Information and Risk Factor Summary&#148;
herein and in our Annual Report, for more information about important risks that you should consider before investing in the Equity Units. The Equity Units are not an appropriate investment for you if you are unsophisticated with respect to the
complex terms of the Equity Units or financial matters. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Risk Factors Relating to the Equity Units </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Holders of Corporate Units must first separate their shares of convertible preferred stock from the related purchase contracts to
convert their convertible preferred stock in connection with a fundamental change that occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, which will require holders to bear related costs and is subject to certain
conditions. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon the occurrence of a
fundamental change that occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock (and only upon the occurrence of a fundamental change that occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock), the
convertible preferred stock will become convertible before the purchase contract settlement date. If a holder of a Corporate Unit desires to convert the convertible preferred stock that is a part of a Corporate Unit, the holder must first separate
the convertible preferred stock, which would require the holder to (1)&nbsp;create Treasury Units (at any time other than during a blackout period), (2) settle the related purchase contracts early (at any time other than during a blackout period) or
(3)&nbsp;during the period after the date we give notice of a final remarketing, create Cash Settled Units on or prior to the second business day immediately preceding the first day of the final remarketing period. We will not compensate you for the
cost of the Treasury security to create a Treasury Unit, the amount of cash to create a Cash Settled Unit or for any financing cost you may bear in making the required cash payment in connection with creation of Cash Settled Units or an early
settlement of the purchase contracts upon a fundamental change. In addition, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to purchase the specified Treasury security necessary to create the Treasury Unit, obtain the necessary financing to create a
Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit or early settle the related purchase contract upon a fundamental change. If you cannot obtain that financing, you will not be able to separate the convertible preferred stock from the purchase contracts and,
accordingly, you will not be able to convert the convertible preferred stock. There will be no make-whole amount of shares or increase to the conversion rate for conversions of the convertible preferred stock in connection with a fundamental change,
except for the limited case where (x)&nbsp;the &#147;stock price&#148; (as defined under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#148; below) for such fundamental change is less than
$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per share of our common stock (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances), which initially equals the conversion price of the convertible preferred stock (the
&#147;conversion price&#148;) and (y)&nbsp;such fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Further, the ability to separate the convertible preferred stock from the purchase contract by creating Treasury Units or settling early
is subject to certain conditions. Holders of Corporate Units may create Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units only in integral multiples of 10 Corporate Units. After a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, holders of Corporate
Units may not create Treasury Units, and holders of Treasury Units may not recreate Corporate Units. The ability to create Treasury Units is also subject to certain exceptions and additional blackout periods described in this prospectus supplement.
Cash Settled Units may only be created during the period after the date we give notice of a final remarketing and on or prior to the second business day immediately preceding the first day of the final remarketing period. Also, the ability to
exercise a fundamental change early settlement right with respect to a holder&#146;s purchase contracts will not be available if a registration statement is required to be effective in connection with the exercise of such right but it is not then
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effective or a blackout period is continuing, all as described more fully under &#147;&#151;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change.&#148; See also
&#147;&#151;The delivery of make-whole shares upon a fundamental change early settlement of the purchase contracts may not adequately compensate you&#148; and &#147;&#151;You may not be able to exercise your right to settle a purchase contract prior
to the purchase contract settlement date unless a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;) is in effect and a prospectus is available covering the shares of our common stock and other
securities, if any, deliverable upon early settlement of a purchase contract&#148; for further restrictions on your ability to exercise a fundamental change early settlement of purchase contracts. Any of the foregoing limitations could prohibit you
from separating the convertible preferred stock from the purchase contracts, which would prevent you from being able to convert the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>If you do not settle your related purchase contracts with separate cash following a failed final remarketing, you may lose any
conversion value of the convertible preferred stock in excess of its liquidation preference and the ability to continue to hold your convertible preferred stock. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a final remarketing fails for any reason, all ownership
interests in the convertible preferred stock held as part of Corporate Units will be delivered to us on the purchase contract settlement date in full satisfaction of the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations to purchase our common stock under the
related purchase contracts on the purchase contract settlement date. The ownership interest in convertible preferred stock underlying a Corporate Unit will be automatically delivered to us, thereby satisfying such holder&#146;s obligations to us
under the related purchase contracts in full, unless, prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second business day immediately prior to the purchase contract settlement date, the holder provides written notice of an intention to settle the
related purchase contracts with separate cash and on or prior to the business day immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date delivers to the securities intermediary $1,000 in cash per 10 purchase contracts. Holders of Corporate
Units may settle their purchase contracts with separate cash only in integral multiples of 10 Corporate Units. A holder of Corporate Units that has not so elected to settle with separate cash will lose any value of the convertible preferred stock in
excess of the liquidation preference thereof, and will not be able to continue to hold the convertible preferred stock and receive dividends or convert the convertible preferred stock at a future date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>If you participate in a remarketing that is ultimately
successful, you will no longer hold the remarketed convertible preferred stock and the proceeds from the remarketing may not adequately compensate you. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will remarket the convertible preferred stock as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Remarketing,&#148;
&#147;&#151;Optional Remarketing&#148; and &#147;&#151;Final Remarketing&#148; below. If a remarketing is successful, a portion of the proceeds from the remarketing will be applied, in the case of the Corporate Units, to purchase the Treasury
portfolio (in the case of an optional remarketing) or against a holder&#146;s obligation to pay the purchase price upon settlement of the related purchase contracts (in the case of a final remarketing). Any remaining proceeds from the remarketing
will be remitted to the benefit of the relevant holders. In order to elect not to participate in any remarketing and retain the undivided beneficial ownership interests in shares of convertible preferred stock underlying the convertible preferred
stock comprising part of your Corporate Units, you must (1)&nbsp;create Treasury Units (at any time other than during a blackout period), (2) settle the related purchase contracts early (at any time other than during a blackout period) or
(3)&nbsp;during the period after the date we give notice of a final remarketing, create Cash Settled Units on or prior to the second business day immediately preceding the first day of the final remarketing period. If you do not do one of the
foregoing, the shares of convertible preferred stock underlying the undivided beneficial ownership interests in convertible preferred stock comprising part of your Corporate Units will be remarketed and, if successful, you will no longer have any
rights with respect to such convertible preferred stock other than to receive the proceeds of such remarketing in excess of the Treasury portfolio purchase price (in the case of an optional remarketing) or in excess of $100 (in the case of a final
remarketing), in each case, per Corporate Unit, as described herein. As a result, you will only receive the proceeds obtained in such remarketing (or, in the case where your convertible preferred stock was held as a part of Corporate Units, the
excess thereof over the Treasury portfolio purchase </FONT></P>
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price (in the case of an optional remarketing) or in excess of $100 (in the case of a final remarketing), in each case, per Corporate Unit), which may not adequately compensate you for the
conversion value of the convertible preferred stock or the lost option time value of your convertible preferred stock or the loss of future dividends, and you will not be able to continue to hold the convertible preferred stock, or sell or convert
the convertible preferred stock at a future date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The trading prices for the Corporate Units, Treasury Units, convertible preferred stock and Series B preferred stock are expected to
be affected by, among other things, the trading prices of our common stock, the general level of interest rates and our credit quality. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The trading prices of Corporate Units, which we intend to apply to list on the New York Stock Exchange, and Treasury Units, convertible
preferred stock and Series B preferred stock in the secondary market are expected to be affected by, among other things, the trading prices of our common stock, the general level of interest rates and our credit quality. It is impossible to predict
whether the price of our common stock or interest rates will rise or fall. The price of our common stock could be subject to wide fluctuations in the future in response to many events or factors, including those discussed in the risk factors herein
and in our Annual Report, as may be supplemented by subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-Q,</FONT> and the factors listed in &#147;Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factor Summary&#148; in this
prospectus supplement, many of which events and factors are beyond our control. Fluctuations in interest rates may give rise to arbitrage opportunities based upon changes in the relative value of the common stock underlying the purchase contracts
and of the other components of the Equity Units. Any such arbitrage could, in turn, affect the trading prices of the Corporate Units, Treasury Units, convertible preferred stock, Series B preferred stock and our common stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>If you hold Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash
Settled Units, you will not be entitled to any rights with respect to our common stock or Series B preferred stock, but you will be subject to any changes made with respect to our common stock or (in the case of Corporate Units) Series B preferred
stock. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you hold Corporate Units,
Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units, you will not be entitled to any rights with respect to our common stock or Series B preferred stock, such as voting rights and rights to receive dividends or other distributions thereon. However, you will be
subject to any changes affecting our common stock and (in the case of the Corporate Units) also to any changes affecting Series B preferred stock. With respect to the purchase contracts that form a part of the Equity Units, you will only be entitled
to rights with respect to our common stock if and when we deliver shares of our common stock in exchange for Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units on the purchase contract settlement date, or on the settlement date for any early
settlement, as the case may be, and you will only be deemed a holder of such common stock on the applicable record date, if any, for the exercise of those rights or the receipt of dividends or distributions in respect of such common stock occurring
after that date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">With respect to any shares of
our common stock (if any) or Series B preferred stock (if any) you receive in connection with a conversion of any share of convertible preferred stock (whether a part of Corporate Units or held separately), you will not be entitled to any rights
with respect to our common stock or Series B preferred stock prior to the last trading day of the observation period. For example, if an amendment is proposed to our sixth restated certificate of incorporation or amended and restated <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">by-laws</FONT> requiring common stockholder approval and the record date for determining the common stockholders of record entitled to vote on the amendment occurs prior to the last trading day of the observation period,
such holder will not be entitled to vote on the amendment, although such holder will nevertheless be subject to any changes affecting our common stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The Equity Units and convertible preferred stock provide limited anti-dilution adjustments, and an event could occur that adversely
affects the value of the Equity Units, the convertible preferred stock or our common stock but that does not result in an anti-dilution adjustment. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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in certain circumstances arising from stock splits and combinations, stock </FONT></P>
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dividends, certain cash dividends and certain other events. We will not adjust the maximum settlement rate or the conversion rate for other events, including without limitation third party tender
or exchange offers for our common stock, issuances and purchases of our common stock in connection with dividend reinvestment plans, employee stock option grants, ordinary dividends below a specified threshold, offerings of common stock by us for
cash or in connection with an acquisition, and share issuances pursuant to options and other convertible securities outstanding on the date we issue the Equity Units. See &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Anti-dilution
Adjustments&#148; and &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion Rate Adjustments.&#148; There can be no assurance that an event that adversely affects the value of the Equity Units, the convertible preferred stock or our
common stock, but does not result in an adjustment to the maximum settlement rate or the conversion rate, will not occur. Further, other than as described under &#147;Underwriting,&#148; we are not restricted from issuing additional common stock
during the term of the stock purchase contracts and have no obligation to consider your interests for any reason. If we issue additional shares of our common stock, those issuances may materially and adversely affect the price of our common stock,
the convertible preferred stock and, because of the relationship of the number of shares holders are to receive on the purchase contract settlement date to the price of our common stock, those issuances may adversely affect the trading prices of the
Equity Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Some significant
restructuring transactions may not constitute a fundamental change, in which case you would not have the right to any make-whole shares upon an early settlement of the purchase contracts or to convert your convertible preferred stock prior to a
successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon the occurrence of a fundamental change, you have the right to (i)&nbsp;exercise your fundamental change early settlement right with respect to your purchase contracts, entitling you to receive
additional value in respect of make-whole shares for such purchase contracts in certain circumstances and (ii)&nbsp;if the fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock,&nbsp;convert your separate
shares of convertible preferred stock (although there will be no make-whole amount of shares or increase to the conversion rate for any such conversions except for the limited case where the stock price for such fundamental change is less than the
conversion price). However, the fundamental change provisions will not compensate holders of Equity Units (or allow for conversions of shares of convertible preferred stock) in the event of other transactions that could result in lost option time
value. For example, transactions such as leveraged recapitalizations, refinancings, restructurings, or acquisitions initiated by us may not constitute a fundamental change. In the event of any such transaction, holders of Equity Units do not have a
fundamental change early settlement right with respect to their purchase contracts and holders of convertible preferred stock do not have a right to convert such shares, even though each of these transactions could increase the amount of our
indebtedness, or otherwise adversely affect our capital structure or any credit ratings, thereby adversely affecting the holders of Equity Units and convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Your rights to the pledged assets underlying the Equity
Units will be subject to our security interest and may be affected by a bankruptcy proceeding. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As a holder of Equity Units, you will own the interests in the convertible preferred stock, Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities or
cash, as applicable, that are a component of the Equity Units. However, those interests will be pledged to us through the collateral agent to secure your obligations under the related purchase contracts. As a result, your rights to the pledged
assets will be subject to our security interest. In addition, notwithstanding the automatic termination of the purchase contracts, in the event that we become the subject of a case under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the delivery of the pledged assets
to you may be delayed by the imposition of the automatic stay under Section&nbsp;362 of the Bankruptcy Code, or other relief sought by the collateral agent, the purchase contract agent or another party asserting an interest in the pledged assets.
Moreover, claims arising out of the convertible preferred stock will be subject to the equitable jurisdiction and powers of the bankruptcy court. </FONT></P>
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Indenture Act and the obligations of the purchase contract agent are limited. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contract and pledge agreement among us, the purchase contract agent and the collateral agent will not be qualified as an indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, or the Trust
Indenture Act, and the purchase contract agent and collateral agent will not be required to qualify as a trustee under the Trust Indenture Act. Thus, you will not have the benefit of the protection of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the
purchase contract and pledge agreement or the purchase contract agent. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The secondary market for the Equity Units, the convertible preferred stock and the Series B preferred stock may be illiquid. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We are unable to predict how the Equity Units, the convertible preferred stock or the Series B preferred stock
will trade in the secondary market or whether that market will be liquid or illiquid. There is currently no secondary market for the Equity Units, the convertible preferred stock or the Series B preferred stock. We intend to apply for listing of the
Corporate Units on the New York Stock Exchange, although there is no guarantee that the Corporate Units will be approved for listing. We have no obligation or current intention to apply for any separate listing of the Treasury Units, the Cash
Settled Units, the convertible preferred stock or the Series B preferred stock on any stock exchange. We have been advised by the representative that the underwriters presently intend to make a market for the Equity Units, the convertible preferred
stock and (if and when issued) the Series B preferred stock. However, they are not obligated to do so and any market making may be discontinued at any time without notice. There can be no assurance as to the liquidity of any market that may develop
for the Corporate Units, Treasury Units, Cash Settled Units, convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock, your ability to sell such securities or whether a trading market, if it develops, will continue. For example, if only a small
number of shares of convertible preferred stock is converted, the Series B preferred stock will be illiquid. In addition, in the event that sufficient numbers of Corporate Units are converted to Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units, the liquidity of
Corporate Units could be adversely affected. We cannot provide assurance that the Corporate Units will be accepted by the New York Stock Exchange for listing, that the Corporate Units will not be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange if listed,
or that trading in the Corporate Units will not be suspended as a result of elections to create Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units, or recreate Corporate Units through the substitution of collateral that causes the number of these securities to
fall below the applicable requirements for listing securities on the New York Stock Exchange. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>We may defer contract adjustment payments under the purchase contracts that are a part of the Equity Units, and this may have an adverse effect on the trading prices of the Equity Units.
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may, at our option, defer the payment
of all or part of the contract adjustment payments under the purchase contracts through the purchase contract settlement date, as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Contract Adjustment Payments.&#148; If we exercise our
right to defer contract adjustment payments, the market price of the Equity Units is likely to be adversely affected. As a result of the existence of our deferral rights, the market price of the Equity Units may be more volatile than the market
prices of other securities that are not subject to these optional deferrals. Although we do have the ability to elect to pay all or part of contract adjustment payments in shares of our common stock (unless we have previously elected a different
contract payment adjustment method), you will be subject to the risk that we may not be able to pay such deferred contract adjustment payments (including compounded contract adjustment payments thereon) in the future. You will have no claim to any
accrued and unpaid contract adjustment payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred contract adjustment payments and compounded contract adjustment payments thereon) in the event of our bankruptcy or insolvency. Unlike holders of convertible
preferred stock and Series B preferred stock who have a right to vote for the election of two additional directors to our board under the circumstances described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Limited Voting
Rights&#151;Preferred Stock Directors&#148; and &#147;Description of the Series B Preferred Stock&#151;Limited Voting Rights&#151;Preferred Stock Directors&#148;, holders of the Equity Units do not have similar rights in connection with the deferral
of </FONT></P>
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contract adjustment payments. In addition, if we make such a deferral, and you use the accrual method of accounting for tax purposes, you may be required to continue to recognize income for U.S.
federal income tax purposes in respect of the purchase contracts in advance of your receipt of any corresponding cash payments.</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex"> </SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The trading price of the Corporate Units or any separate shares of convertible preferred stock or Series B
preferred stock may not fully reflect the value of their accumulated but unpaid dividends.<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex"> </SUP></FONT> </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Corporate Units and any separate shares of convertible
preferred stock or Series B preferred stock may trade at a price that does not fully reflect the value of accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock, however, such accumulated but unpaid dividends
(including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) for so long as such convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends
will be payable to the holders of such convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock, as applicable, as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever).
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>We are both an operating company and a
holding company and may require cash from our subsidiaries to make current payments on the Equity Units or dividends on the convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you own Equity Units in the form of Corporate Units, you are entitled to receive periodic payments
representing dividends on the convertible preferred stock (to the extent declared by our board of directors) and contract adjustment payments on the purchase contracts, subject to our right to defer the contract adjustment payments. The convertible
preferred stock, Series B preferred stock and contract adjustment payments are solely the obligations of the Company, and no other entity will have any obligation, contingent or otherwise, to make payments in respect of the purchase contracts, the
convertible preferred stock or the Series B preferred stock. We are a holding company for several direct and indirect subsidiaries. Our subsidiaries will have no obligation to make the contract adjustment payments or pay any amount in respect of the
convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock. Accordingly, we may depend, in part, on dividends and other distributions from our subsidiaries to generate the funds necessary to meet our contract adjustment payment obligations or to pay
amounts in respect of the convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock. As an equity holder of our subsidiaries, our ability to participate in any distribution of assets of any subsidiary is structurally subordinate to the claims of the
creditors of that subsidiary. If we are unable to obtain cash from our subsidiaries, we may be unable to fund required contract adjustment payments or to pay amounts in respect of the convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Recent and future regulatory actions and
other events may adversely affect the trading price and liquidity of the Equity Units and the convertible preferred stock. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We expect that many investors in, and potential purchasers of, the Equity Units and shares of convertible preferred stock will employ, or
seek to employ, an arbitrage strategy with respect to the Equity Units and/or the convertible preferred stock. Investors that employ an arbitrage strategy with respect to equity-linked instruments typically implement that strategy by selling short
the common stock underlying the equity-linked instrument and dynamically adjusting their short position while they hold such equity-linked instrument. Investors may also implement this hedging strategy by entering into swaps on our common stock in
lieu of or in addition to short selling our common stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The SEC and other regulatory and self-regulatory authorities have implemented various rules and taken certain actions, and may adopt additional rules in the future and take other actions, that may affect
those engaging in short selling activity involving equity securities (including our common stock). Such rules and actions include Rule 201 of SEC regulation SHO, the adoption by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. and the national
securities exchanges of a &#147;Limit <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Up-Limit</FONT> Down&#148; program, the imposition of market-wide </FONT></P>
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circuit breaker systems that halt trading of securities for certain periods following specific market declines, and the implementation of certain regulatory reforms stemming from the enactment
and implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Past regulatory actions, including emergency actions or regulations, have had a significant effect on the trading prices and liquidity of equity-linked instruments.
Any governmental or regulatory action that similarly restricts the ability of investors in, or potential purchasers of, the Equity Units or convertible preferred stock to effect short sales of our common stock, borrow our common stock or enter into
swaps on our common stock could similarly adversely affect the trading price and the liquidity of the Equity Units and the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Volatility in the market price and trading volume of our common stock could adversely affect the trading price of the Equity Units
and the convertible preferred stock. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The
stock market in recent years has experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated to the operating performance of companies. The market price of our common stock could fluctuate significantly for many reasons,
including in response to the risks described in this section, elsewhere in this prospectus supplement or the documents we have incorporated by reference in this prospectus supplement or for reasons unrelated to our operations, such as reports by
industry analysts, investor perceptions or negative announcements by our customers, competitors or counterparties regarding their own performance, the ongoing <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">COVID-19</FONT> pandemic, as well as industry conditions
and general financial, economic and political instability. A decrease in the market price of our common stock would likely adversely affect the trading price of the Equity Units and the convertible preferred stock. The market price of our common
stock could also be affected by possible sales of our common stock by investors who view the Equity Units or convertible preferred stock as a more attractive means of equity participation in us and by hedging or arbitrage trading activity that we
expect to develop involving our common stock. This trading activity could, in turn, affect the trading prices of the Equity Units and the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Our Equity Units and convertible preferred stock may
adversely affect the market price of our common stock. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The market price of our common stock is likely to be influenced by our Equity Units and our convertible preferred stock. For example, the market price of our common stock could become more volatile and
could be depressed by: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">investors&#146; anticipation of the sale into the market of a substantial number of additional shares of our common stock issued upon settlement of the
purchase contracts or conversion of our convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">possible sales of our common stock by investors who view our Equity Units or convertible preferred stock as a more attractive means of equity
participation in us than owning shares of our common stock; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">hedging or arbitrage trading activity that we expect to develop involving our Equity Units or convertible preferred stock and our common stock.
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Upon early settlement of
the purchase contracts or conversion of the convertible preferred stock, you may receive less valuable consideration than expected because the value of our common stock may decline after you exercise your early settlement right or conversion right
but before we settle our related obligation and because the Series B preferred stock may trade at less than its $1,000 liquidation preference. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A holder of Equity Units that elects to settle its purchase contract early and a holder of separate shares of convertible preferred stock
that elects to convert such shares, in each case, will be exposed to fluctuations in the value of our common stock and, upon optional conversion of the convertible preferred stock, in the value of the Series B preferred stock during the period from
the date such holder exercises such right until the date we settle our related obligation. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon exercise of an early settlement right with respect to any purchase contracts, the
amount of consideration you receive upon such settlement will be determined (other than upon the occurrence of certain fundamental changes as described herein) by reference to the volume-weighted average price of our common stock for each trading
day in a 20 trading day averaging period. Similarly, upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock, the amount of consideration that you will receive upon conversion of your convertible preferred stock will be determined by reference to the
volume-weighted average price of our common stock for each trading day in a 20 trading day observation period. If the price of our common stock decreases during any such period, the amount and/or value of consideration you receive will be adversely
affected. In addition, if the market price of our common stock at the end of such period is below the average volume-weighted average price of our common stock during such period, the value of any shares of our common stock that you will receive in
satisfaction of our obligation in respect of your purchase contracts or convertible preferred stock, as the case may be, will be less than the value used to determine the number of shares that you will receive. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Additionally, you may receive less valuable consideration
than expected upon optional conversion of the convertible preferred stock because the Series B preferred stock may trade at prices below its $1,000 liquidation preference per share. See &#147;&#151;Risk Factors Relating to the Series B Preferred
Stock&#151;The trading price of the Series B preferred stock issued upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock may be less than its $1,000 liquidation preference per share.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Non-U.S. holders may be subject to U.S. federal income tax, including withholding tax, in connection with
the sale or other disposition of an Equity Unit, our convertible preferred stock, our Series B preferred stock, our common stock or a purchase contract. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Under the &#147;FIRPTA&#148; tax rules, a non-U.S. holder
(as defined in &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#148;) who sells or otherwise disposes of a Corporate Unit, our common stock, our convertible preferred stock, our Series B preferred stock or, possibly, a
purchase contract, may be subject to U.S. federal income tax, and withholding at a 15% rate on the amount realized, with respect to the sale or other disposition if we are a United States real property holding corporation at any time within the
five-year period preceding the sale or other disposition (or the non-U.S. holder&#146;s holding period, if shorter). We have not determined whether or not we are currently a United States real property holding corporation. Even if we are not
currently a United States real property holding corporation, our business strategy, which includes increasing our operations in the United States, or fluctuations in the relative values of our assets may cause us to become a United States real
property holding corporation in the future. Accordingly, if you acquire Equity Units, there can be no assurance that we will not be a United States real property holding corporation during your ownership of the Equity Units or shares of our
convertible preferred stock, common stock, Series B preferred stock or purchase contracts. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Although certain exceptions to the FIRPTA tax rules may apply if our common stock is regularly traded on an established securities market, these exceptions do not apply to large holdings. In particular,
if you hold more than 5% of our outstanding common stock (or, if it is regularly traded on an established securities market, our outstanding convertible preferred stock) at any time during the five-year period ending on the date of a redemption or
other disposition of the relevant stock, you likely will be subject to U.S. federal income tax upon the disposition and may in some circumstances be subject to withholding at a 15% rate on the amount realized. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The rules applicable to interests in United States real
property holding corporations are complex, and there is significant uncertainty about the application of these rules to the Equity Units, convertible preferred stock, Series B preferred stock and purchase contracts. Accordingly, in some
circumstances, even if you are eligible for an exemption from such withholding, unless you can demonstrate your eligibility for such an exemption to the satisfaction of the applicable withholding agent you may be subject to withholding and be
required to file a U.S. tax return in order to obtain a refund. See &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to Non-U.S. Holders&#151;Sale, Exchange, or Other Taxable Disposition of the Equity
Units, Common Stock or Series B Preferred Stock.&#148; </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>In certain circumstances, you may be treated as receiving a taxable distribution or be
required to recognize income without a corresponding receipt of cash. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may, at our option, pay dividends on the convertible preferred stock and the Series B preferred stock wholly or partly in our common stock, as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible
Preferred Stock&#151;Dividends,&#148; and &#147;Description of the Series B Preferred Stock&#151;Dividends.&#148; Any such dividends will nonetheless be treated as distributions taxable in the same manner as cash distributions. Likewise, you may be
required to recognize ordinary income without a corresponding receipt of cash with respect to any contract adjustment payments paid wholly or partly in our common stock and any contract adjustment payments that are deferred, each as described under
&#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Contract Adjustment Payments.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You may also be treated as receiving a dividend from us without a corresponding receipt of cash upon a conversion of convertible preferred stock into common stock and Series B preferred stock as discussed
in &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock into Common Stock and Series B Preferred Stock.&#148;
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, for U.S. federal income tax
purposes, you may be treated as receiving a constructive distribution from us with respect to the convertible preferred stock without a corresponding receipt of cash if (1) the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock is adjusted (or fails
to be adjusted) and, as a result of the adjustment (or failure to adjust), your proportionate interest in our assets or earnings and profits is increased, and (2) the adjustment (or failure to adjust) is not made pursuant to a bona fide, reasonable
anti-dilution formula. For example, if the conversion rate is adjusted as a result of a distribution that is taxable to the holders of our common stock, such as an increase in our quarterly cash dividends, you will be deemed to have received a
&#147;constructive distribution&#148; for U.S. federal income tax purposes. See &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Constructive
Distributions&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Similarly, certain
adjustments to the number of shares of common stock that you are entitled to receive on a purchase contract settlement date, or as a result of early settlement of a purchase contract, to account for certain events such as stock splits and
combinations, stock dividends, certain cash dividends and certain other actions by us that modify our capital structure, as discussed under &#147;Description of Purchase Contracts&#151;Anti-Dilution Adjustments,&#148; may result in a deemed
distribution to you for U.S. federal income tax purposes even though you will not receive any cash payment. For example, if the settlement rate is adjusted as a result of a distribution that is taxable to our common stockholders, such as an increase
in our quarterly cash dividends, you might be required to include an amount in income for U.S. federal income tax purposes, notwithstanding the fact that you will not actually receive any distribution. See &#147;Material United States Federal Income
and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Purchase Contracts&#151;Constructive Distributions&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you are a non-U.S. holder (as defined in &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#148;), any dividends
and constructive dividends will generally be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax at a rate of 30% or such lower rate as may be specified by an applicable treaty. Because there would be no cash from which to withhold the tax, the withholding
agent may withhold from other payments made to you on the Equity Units. See &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to Non-U.S. Holders&#151;U.S. Federal Income and Withholding Tax.&#148;
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Risk Factors Relating to the Convertible Preferred Stock
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The convertible preferred stock ranks
junior to all of our indebtedness and other liabilities. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of our bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization or other <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up,</FONT> our assets will be available to pay the liquidation preference of the convertible
preferred stock only after all of our indebtedness and other liabilities have been paid. In addition, we are a holding company for several direct and indirect subsidiaries and </FONT></P>
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the convertible preferred stock will be structurally junior to all existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities (including trade payables) of our subsidiaries and any capital stock of
our subsidiaries not held by us. The holders of the convertible preferred stock have no right to participate in the distribution of assets of our subsidiaries (except to the extent that the Company has satisfied all of its liabilities and has
recognized claims or interests in the assets of such subsidiaries). Consequently, if we are forced to liquidate our assets to pay our creditors, we may not have sufficient assets remaining to pay the liquidation preference of any or all of the
convertible preferred stock then outstanding. We and our subsidiaries may incur substantial amounts of additional debt and other obligations. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We currently have no capital stock outstanding that is senior to or on parity with the convertible preferred stock. If and when issued,
any Series B preferred stock will rank on parity with the convertible preferred stock. We own substantially all the capital stock of our subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2020, we had $3,446&nbsp;million principal amount of outstanding long-term
indebtedness, all of which is senior in right of payment to the convertible preferred stock. In addition, the convertible preferred stock will be structurally subordinated to all debt, preferred stock and other liabilities of our subsidiaries, which
means that creditors and preferred stockholders of our subsidiaries will be paid from the assets of such subsidiaries before holders of the convertible preferred stock would have any claims to those assets. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Your ability to convert the convertible preferred
stock, and therefore your ability to participate in an increase in the price of our common stock, is limited. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of convertible preferred stock that are not a part of Corporate Units may participate in any appreciation of our stock price above
the conversion price of $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if they convert their convertible preferred stock as described in this prospectus supplement. This means that you must separate the shares of
convertible preferred stock from the purchase contacts, which will cost you money and is subject to limitations. In addition, even if the convertible preferred stock has been separated from the related purchase contract, the ability to convert is
limited only to conversions (i)&nbsp;in connection with a fundamental change that occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock and (ii)&nbsp;on or after February&nbsp;15, 2024. Holders do not have the right to convert
the convertible preferred stock other than in these circumstances, which will limit the ability to participate in any appreciation of our common stock that could be captured through a conversion. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Dividends on the convertible preferred stock are only
payable if declared by our board of directors and permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law and such dividends may be restricted by the terms of agreements governing future indebtedness. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Quarterly dividends on the convertible preferred stock will
be paid only if declared by our board of directors. The board of directors is not legally obligated or required to declare quarterly dividends on the convertible preferred stock even if we have funds available for such purposes. In addition, even if
our board of directors declares a dividend, we can only make payments of cash in respect of dividends from legally available funds under the Delaware General Corporation Law, as determined by our board of directors, and such funds may not be
available to pay cash dividends on the convertible preferred stock. If we do not declare and pay dividends on the convertible preferred stock, the market price of the convertible preferred stock is likely to be adversely affected. As a result of our
ability to not pay dividends on the convertible preferred stock, the market price of the convertible preferred stock may be more volatile than the market prices of other securities that are not subject to such a feature. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, the agreements governing any future indebtedness
of ours may further limit our ability to pay cash dividends on our capital stock, including the convertible preferred stock. In the event that the agreements governing any such indebtedness restrict our ability to pay dividends in cash on the
convertible preferred stock, we may be unable to pay dividends in cash on the convertible preferred stock unless we can refinance the amounts outstanding under such agreements or obtain a consent or amendment under such agreements. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>If there are accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock on
the purchase contract settlement date, and a dividend deficiency event occurs, we will have no obligation to pay such accumulated but unpaid dividends on the purchase contract settlement date. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As described above, dividends on the convertible preferred
stock will be paid only if declared by our board of directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon), including with respect to
the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding
the purchase contract settlement date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs, following the final remarketing (whether successful or failed), we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred
stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such
accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such convertible preferred stock for so long as the convertible
preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the holders of such convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid
(if ever). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As a result, if you participate in a
final remarketing that is successful, and a dividend deficiency event occurs, you will not receive any of the accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock, and will no longer hold the convertible preferred stock or have any
right to receive any such dividends. If there is a failed final remarketing, all ownership interests in shares of convertible preferred stock held as part of Corporate Units will be delivered to us on the purchase contract settlement date (other
than any shares for which the holder thereof has made a timely election to not have such shares so delivered, as described in &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Automatic Settlement Upon Failed Final Remarketing&#148;). If a
dividend deficiency event occurs in this case, we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible
preferred stock as of the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. You therefore risk losing any accumulated but unpaid dividends (which may be substantial) in connection with any final remarketing where a dividend
deficiency event occurs. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If, on the purchase
contract settlement date, because of the occurrence of a dividend deficiency event, there are accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) on the convertible preferred stock, following the final remarketing (whether
failed or successful), such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such convertible preferred stock for
so long as the convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the holders of such convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are
subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>We may issue additional series of preferred stock that rank equally to the convertible preferred stock as to liquidation preference.
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Neither our sixth restated certificate
of incorporation nor the certificate of designations establishing the designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions of the convertible preferred stock
prohibits us from issuing additional series of preferred stock that would rank on parity with the convertible preferred stock as to liquidation preference, including the Series B preferred stock. Our sixth restated certificate of incorporation
provides that we have the authority to issue 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock, including the 1,000,000 shares (or 1,150,000 shares if the underwriters&#146; over-allotment option is exercised in full) of convertible preferred stock that are a
part of the </FONT></P>
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Corporate Units being offered for sale pursuant to this prospectus supplement and the Series B preferred stock into which the convertible preferred stock may convert. The issuances of other
series of preferred stock could have the effect of reducing the amounts available to the holders of the convertible preferred stock in the event of our liquidation, dissolution or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up.</FONT> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Upon a successful remarketing of the convertible
preferred stock, the terms of your shares of convertible preferred stock may be modified even if you elect not to participate in the remarketing. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">When we attempt to remarket the convertible preferred stock, the remarketing agent will agree to use its reasonable best efforts to sell
the convertible preferred stock included in the remarketing. In connection with the remarketing, we and the remarketing agent may remarket the convertible preferred stock with different terms prior to the remarketing, including (a)&nbsp;the dividend
rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than or equal to the reference price, the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be
increased to an amount equal to $1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price on such date (rounded to the nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date
for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock.&#148; If the
remarketing is successful, the modified terms will apply to all the shares of convertible preferred stock, including those shares that were not included in the remarketing. However, holders of shares of convertible preferred stock must elect to
participate in the remarketing before knowing what the modified terms of the shares will be. Whenever we remarket the convertible preferred stock, we will notify holders of Corporate Units and separate shares of convertible preferred stock of such
remarketing. You may determine that the revised terms are not as favorable to you as you would deem appropriate. However, we will not decrease the conversion rate or the dividend rate in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible
preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The convertible preferred
stock has no maturity or mandatory redemption date. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The convertible preferred stock is a perpetual equity security. The convertible preferred stock has no maturity or mandatory redemption date and is not redeemable at the option of investors. Accordingly,
the convertible preferred stock will remain outstanding indefinitely unless a holder of shares of convertible preferred stock decides to convert it or, subject to the conditions described herein, we elect to redeem it. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The convertible preferred stock can only be converted
in limited situations. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Prior to the
purchase contract settlement date, which is February&nbsp;15, 2024, the convertible preferred stock can only be converted if the shares of convertible preferred stock have been separated from the related purchase contract, as described herein, and
only upon the occurrence of a fundamental change if such fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. On and after February&nbsp;15, 2024, holders of shares of convertible preferred stock that are
not a part of Corporate Units, at their option, may, at any time and from time to time, convert some or all of their outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock. If the specific conditions for conversion are not met, you will not be able to
convert your convertible preferred stock, and you may not be able to receive the value of the Series B preferred stock (or, in the case of induced conversions, cash) and common stock (if any) into which the convertible preferred stock would
otherwise be convertible. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>On or after
March&nbsp;22, 2024, we may redeem any or all of the convertible preferred stock, and upon any redemption of your convertible preferred stock or any conversion of your convertible preferred stock in connection with a redemption, you will not receive
any make-whole cash or shares or other compensation for future dividends or lost time value of your convertible preferred stock. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On or after March&nbsp;22, 2024 (or such later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025 as is determined in connection with a
successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock), we may redeem any or all of the </FONT></P>
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shares of convertible preferred stock. If any shares of convertible preferred stock are redeemed, we must also redeem a proportionate number of outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock, if
any, on the same redemption date. The redemption price of the convertible preferred stock will equal 100% of the liquidation preference of the shares of convertible preferred stock to be redeemed, plus any accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether
or not declared) to, but excluding, the redemption date. If we call any convertible preferred stock for redemption, you may convert your shares of convertible preferred stock at any time until the close of business on the business day preceding the
redemption date. Upon any such conversion or redemption, we will not be required to pay any make-whole cash or shares or otherwise compensate you in any way, including for any future dividend payments, if any, that you would have otherwise received
or any other lost time value of your convertible preferred stock. In addition, unless the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock is changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025, the convertible preferred
stock that is purchased in a final remarketing could be redeemed by us as soon as March&nbsp;22, 2024, which is 25 scheduled trading days after such purchase, meaning purchasers in a remarketing may not have any assurance that the call option
embedded in the convertible preferred stock has any meaningful time value, or mechanism for compensation for the loss thereof, or rights to future dividends. Because of these features, it is possible that the remarketing price for the convertible
preferred stock in any successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock is less than that which could be obtained for a convertible security without these features, or that there may not be a successful remarketing of the convertible
preferred stock at all. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>You will have no
right to vote for directors until and unless dividends on any shares of convertible preferred stock are in arrears and unpaid for the equivalent of six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Until and unless dividends on any shares of convertible
preferred stock are in arrears and unpaid for the equivalent of six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive, you will have no voting rights with respect to the election of directors. If dividends on any shares of convertible preferred
stock are in arrears and unpaid for the equivalent of six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive, the holders of our convertible preferred stock, voting as a single class with all of our other classes or series of preferred stock upon
which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the Series B preferred stock (if any)) and are exercisable, will have the right to elect two additional directors to our board of directors, as described under &#147;Description of the
Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Limited Voting Rights&#148; in this prospectus supplement. These voting rights and the terms of the directors so elected will only continue until all dividends on the convertible preferred stock have been paid in
full, or declared and a sum or number of shares of our common stock sufficient for such payment is set aside for payment. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>There will be no make-whole amount of shares or increase to the conversion rate for conversions of the convertible preferred stock
in connection with a fundamental change prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, except in limited circumstances. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">There will be no make-whole amount of shares or increase to the conversion rate for conversions of the convertible preferred stock in
connection with a fundamental change, except in the limited case where the fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock and the stock price for such fundamental change is less than the conversion
price. Upon any such conversion, we will pay or deliver, as applicable, shares of Series B preferred Stock (or, in the case of induced conversions, cash) and shares of our common stock (if any), based solely on the then-applicable conversion rate.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>You may convert your convertible preferred
stock only in limited circumstances. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If
a fundamental change occurs on or after a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, holders of the convertible preferred stock (whether or not held as part of an Equity Unit) will not be able to convert their shares upon such
fundamental change, which means they must wait until February&nbsp;15, 2024 to convert their shares of convertible preferred stock. This may adversely affect the value of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
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certain circumstances by a fundamental change could discourage a potential acquiror. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, a holder may elect to convert separate shares of convertible preferred stock in connection with such
fundamental change. If the stock price (as defined in &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#151;Calculation of Make-Whole Shares&#148;) is less than the conversion price, the conversion rate for
such conversion may be increased. The conversion rights of the holders of the convertible preferred stock could make it more difficult or more expensive for a third party to acquire us, including potential third parties that seek a transaction with
us that would be attractive to you. See &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion Rights.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Our future credit facilities may limit our ability to pay any cash amount upon the conversion of the convertible preferred stock.
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our future credit facilities may
prohibit or otherwise limit us from making any cash payments on the conversion of any shares of convertible preferred stock, including if there is a default under any such facility or, </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">after giving effect to such conversion (and any additional indebtedness incurred in connection with such conversion), we would not be in pro forma compliance with our financial covenants under that
facility. Any new credit facility that we may enter into may have similar restrictions. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Risk Factors Relating to the Purchase Contracts </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The purchase contract gives you the entire risk of a decline in the price of our common stock without any participation in an
increase in the price of our common stock. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The number of shares of our common stock that you will receive upon the settlement of a purchase contract is not fixed but instead will
depend on the average of the daily VWAPs per share of our common stock during a 20 consecutive trading day market value averaging period, which we refer to as the applicable market value. The market value per share of our common stock you receive on
the purchase contract settlement date will be no greater than the reference price of $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (which is the closing price of our common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on
March&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2021, the date the Corporate Units are priced). If the applicable market value of our common stock is less than the reference price, you will receive a number of shares of our common stock with a value (based on the
applicable market value) of less than $100. Accordingly, you assume the risk that the market value of our common stock may decline, and that the decline could be substantial. If the applicable market value of the common stock is greater than the
reference price, you will receive a number of shares of our common stock with a value equal to only $100 (based on the applicable market value). As a result, under the purchase contract, you will never receive shares with a value (based on the
applicable market value) in excess of $100, which means you will never participate in any appreciation of our stock price above the reference price. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, because the number of shares delivered to you on the purchase contract settlement date will be based upon the applicable
market value, which is in turn calculated on the basis of the average of the daily VWAPs per share of our common stock during the market value averaging period, the shares of our common stock you receive on the purchase contract settlement date may
be worth less than the shares of our common stock you would have received had the applicable market value been equal to the daily VWAP per share of our common stock on the purchase contract settlement date or the average of the daily VWAPs per share
of our common stock over a different period of days. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you elect to settle your purchase contracts early (other than in connection with a fundamental change), you will receive a number of shares of our common stock per purchase contract equal to 85% of the
settlement rate calculated as described above but based on the applicable market value of our common stock for a 20 consecutive trading day averaging period following your election to early settle. In this case, even if the applicable market value
of the common stock is greater than the reference price, you will receive a number of shares of our common stock with a value equal to only $85 (based on the applicable market value). </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>You may not be able to exercise your right to settle a purchase contract prior to the
purchase contract settlement date unless a registration statement under the Securities Act is in effect and a prospectus is available covering the shares of our common stock and other securities, if any, deliverable upon early settlement of a
purchase contract. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The early settlement
right and the fundamental change early settlement right under the purchase contracts are subject to the condition that, if required under the U.S. federal securities laws, we have a registration statement under the Securities Act in effect and an
available prospectus covering the shares of our common stock and other securities, if any, deliverable upon settlement of a purchase contract. Although we have agreed to use our commercially reasonable efforts to have such a registration statement
in effect and to provide a prospectus if so required under the U.S. federal securities laws, any failure or inability to maintain an effective registration statement or to have available a prospectus covering the shares of our common stock and other
securities, if any, deliverable upon early settlement of a purchase contract, including as a result of pending corporate events or announcements that prevent the delivery of a current prospectus, may prevent or delay an early settlement, however,
you will not be entitled to any compensation on the account of such occurrence. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The delivery of make-whole shares upon a fundamental change early settlement of the purchase contracts may not adequately compensate you. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a fundamental change (as defined below under
&#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#148;) occurs prior to the purchase contract settlement date and you exercise your fundamental change early settlement right with respect to your purchase
contracts, you will not be entitled to receive additional value in respect of make-whole shares for such purchase contracts if the stock price (as defined under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental
Change&#148; below) is in excess of $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per share (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances). A description of how the number of make-whole shares will be determined is set
forth under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#151;Calculation of Make-Whole Shares.&#148; There is no make-whole amount of shares or increase to the conversion rate for conversions of the
convertible preferred stock in connection with a fundamental change, except for the limited case where the fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock and the stock price for such fundamental change
is less than the conversion price, all as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#148; below. Moreover, in no event will the conversion rate per share of convertible preferred
stock as a result of this adjustment exceed &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;shares of our common stock, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances in the same manner as the conversion rate for the
convertible preferred stock as set forth under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion Rate Adjustments.&#148; The make-whole shares in respect of the purchase contracts may not adequately compensate you for any lost
value of your Equity Units and/or convertible preferred stock as a result of such transaction. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, in the event that a holder seeks to exercise its fundamental change early settlement right in respect of its purchase contracts and a registration statement is required to be effective in
connection with the exercise of such right but no such registration statement is then effective or a blackout period is continuing, the holder&#146;s exercise of such right will be void unless and until the registration statement is effective. For
so long as there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, we will not be required to file such registration statement or provide such a prospectus, and the fundamental change early settlement right
will not be available, until we have publicly disclosed such transaction or development, provided that we will use commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our obligation to pay or deliver the make-whole shares upon
exercise of your fundamental change early settlement right with respect to your purchase contracts could be considered a penalty, in which case the enforceability thereof would be subject to general principles of equity. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The fundamental change early settlement rights triggered under certain circumstances
by a fundamental change could discourage a potential acquiror. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a fundamental change occurs prior to the purchase contract settlement date, then, following the fundamental change, each holder of a purchase contract, subject to certain conditions, will have the
right to settle the purchase contract early on the fundamental change early settlement date at, in some circumstances, an increased settlement rate, as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a
Fundamental Change.&#148; The fundamental change early settlement right with respect to the purchase contracts and the increased settlement rate triggered under certain circumstances by a fundamental change could discourage a potential acquiror,
including potential acquirors that otherwise seek a transaction with us that would be attractive to you. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Contract adjustment payments may be treated as ordinary income and, if paid to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT>
holders, subject to 30% withholding tax. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The U.S. federal income tax treatment of contract adjustment payments is unclear. These payments may constitute taxable ordinary income to
a U.S. holder (as defined in &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#148;) when received or accrued, in accordance with the U.S. holder&#146;s regular method of tax accounting and, if paid to a <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holder (as defined in &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#148;), as amounts generally subject to withholding tax at a 30% rate, unless certain conditions are satisfied.
See &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Purchase Contracts&#151;Contract Adjustment Payments&#148; and &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax
Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-U.S.</FONT> Holders&#151;U.S. Federal Income and Withholding Tax.&#148; You should consult your tax advisor concerning the tax treatment of contract adjustment payments.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Risk Factors Relating to the Series B Preferred Stock
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The Series B preferred stock ranks
junior to all of our indebtedness and other liabilities. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of our bankruptcy, liquidation, reorganization or other <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up,</FONT> our assets will be available to pay the liquidation preference of the Series B
preferred stock only after all of our indebtedness and other liabilities have been paid. In addition, we are a holding company for several direct and indirect subsidiaries and the Series B preferred stock will be structurally junior to all existing
and future indebtedness and other liabilities (including trade payables) of our subsidiaries and any capital stock of our subsidiaries not held by us. The holders of the Series B preferred stock have no right to participate in the distribution of
assets of our subsidiaries (except to the extent that the Company has satisfied all of its liabilities and has recognized claims or interests in the assets of such subsidiaries). Consequently, if we are forced to liquidate our assets to pay our
creditors, we may not have sufficient assets remaining to pay the liquidation preference of any or all of the Series B preferred stock then outstanding. We and our subsidiaries may incur substantial amounts of additional debt and other obligations.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We currently have no capital stock outstanding
that is senior to or on parity with the Series B preferred stock. When issued, our convertible preferred stock will rank on parity with the Series B preferred stock. We own substantially all the capital stock of our subsidiaries. As of December 31,
2020, we had $3,446&nbsp;million principal amount of outstanding long-term indebtedness, all of which is senior in right of payment to the Series B preferred stock. In addition, the Series B preferred stock will be structurally subordinated to all
debt, preferred stock and other liabilities of our subsidiaries, which means that creditors and preferred stockholders of our subsidiaries will be paid from the assets of such subsidiaries before holders of the Series B preferred stock would have
any claims to those assets. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Dividends on the Series B preferred stock are only payable if declared by our board of
directors and permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law and such dividends may be restricted by the terms of agreements governing future indebtedness. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Quarterly dividends on the Series B preferred stock will be
paid only if declared by our board of directors. The board of directors is not legally obligated or required to declare quarterly dividends on the Series B preferred stock even if we have funds available for such purposes. In addition, even if our
board of directors declares a dividend, we can only make payments of cash in respect of dividends from legally available funds under the Delaware General Corporation Law, as determined by our board of directors, and such funds may not be available
to pay cash dividends on the Series B preferred stock. If we do not declare and pay dividends on the Series B preferred stock, the market price of the Series B preferred stock is likely to be adversely affected. As a result of our ability to not pay
dividends on the Series B preferred stock, the market price of the Series B preferred stock may be more volatile than the market prices of other securities that are not subject to such a feature. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, the agreements governing any future indebtedness
of ours may further limit our ability to pay cash dividends on our capital stock, including the Series B preferred stock, if any. In the event that the agreements governing any such indebtedness restrict our ability to pay dividends in cash on the
Series B preferred stock, we may be unable to pay dividends in cash on the Series B preferred stock unless we can refinance the amounts outstanding under such agreements or obtain a consent or amendment under such agreements. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>If there are accumulated but unpaid dividends on the
Series B preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date, and a dividend deficiency event occurs, we will have no obligation to pay such accumulated but unpaid dividends on the purchase contract settlement date. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As described above, dividends on the Series B preferred
stock will be paid only if declared by our board of directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends on the Series B preferred stock (including compounded dividends),
including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the Series B preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date
immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs, we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the Series B preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date
to the holders of the shares of Series B preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including
compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such Series B preferred stock for so long as the Series B preferred stock remains outstanding, and such
dividends will be payable to the holders of such convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As a result, if a dividend deficiency event occurs, you will
not receive any of the accumulated but unpaid dividends on the Series B preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date. You therefore risk losing any accumulated but unpaid dividends (which may be substantial) where a dividend deficiency
event occurs. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If, on the purchase contract
settlement date, because of the occurrence of a dividend deficiency event, there are accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) on the Series B preferred stock, such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including
compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such Series B preferred stock for so long as the Series B preferred stock remains outstanding, and such
dividends will be payable to the holders of such Series B preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>We may issue additional series of preferred stock that rank equally to the Series B
preferred stock as to liquidation preference. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Neither our sixth restated certificate of incorporation nor the certificate of designations establishing the designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and
qualifications, limitations or restrictions of the Series B preferred stock prohibits us from issuing additional series of preferred stock that would rank on parity with the Series B preferred stock as to liquidation preference, including the
convertible preferred stock. Our sixth restated certificate of incorporation provides that we have the authority to issue 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock, including the 1,000,000 shares (or 1,150,000 shares if the underwriters&#146;
over-allotment option is exercised in full) of Series B preferred stock that are issuable upon optional conversion of the convertible preferred stock as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion
Rights&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion.&#148; The issuances of other series of preferred stock could have the effect of reducing the amounts available to the holders of the Series B preferred stock in the event of our liquidation, dissolution or <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up.</FONT> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The Series B preferred stock has no maturity or mandatory redemption date. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Series B preferred stock is a perpetual equity security.
The Series B preferred stock has no maturity or mandatory redemption date and is not redeemable at the option of investors. Accordingly, the Series B preferred stock will remain outstanding indefinitely unless we elect to redeem it. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>On or after March&nbsp;22, 2024, we may redeem any or
all of the Series B preferred stock, and upon any redemption of your Series B preferred stock, you will not receive any make-whole cash or shares or other compensation for future dividends or lost time value of your Series B preferred stock.
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On or after March&nbsp;22, 2024, we may
redeem any or all of the shares of Series B preferred stock. If any shares of Series B preferred stock are redeemed, we must also redeem a proportionate number of outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock, if any, on the same redemption
date. The redemption price of the Series B preferred stock will equal 100% of the liquidation preference of the shares of Series B preferred stock to be redeemed, plus any accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared) to, but excluding,
the redemption date. Upon any such redemption, we will not be required to pay any make-whole cash or shares or otherwise compensate you in any way, including for any future dividend payments that you would have otherwise received. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>You will have no right to vote for directors until and
unless dividends on any shares of Series B preferred stock are in arrears and unpaid for the equivalent of six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Until and unless dividends on any shares of Series B
preferred stock are in arrears and unpaid for the equivalent of six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive, you will have no voting rights with respect to the election of directors. If dividends on any shares of Series B preferred
stock are in arrears and unpaid for the equivalent of six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive, the holders of our Series B preferred stock, voting as a single class with all of our other classes or series of preferred stock upon
which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the convertible preferred stock) and are exercisable, will have the right to elect two additional directors to our board of directors, as described under &#147;Description of the Series B
Preferred Stock&#151;Limited Voting Rights&#148; in this prospectus supplement. These voting rights and the terms of the directors so elected will only continue until all dividends on the Series B preferred stock have been paid in full, or declared
and a sum or number of shares of our common stock sufficient for such payment is set aside for payment. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The trading price of the Series B preferred stock issued upon conversion of the
convertible preferred stock may be less than its $1,000 liquidation preference per share. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The dividend rate and other terms of the Series B preferred stock may not be the same as the terms of similar securities issued at the time. In addition, there will be no protections in connection with
fundamental changes or similar corporate transactions. As a result, the Series B preferred stock may trade at prices below its $1,000 liquidation preference per share. There also may be no liquid market for the Series B preferred stock, especially
if holders convert their convertible preferred stock into Series B preferred stock and common stock (if any) at a time when few shares of convertible preferred stock have been or are being converted. In addition, the Series B preferred stock will
trade separately from the convertible preferred stock, and it is likely that the Series B preferred stock will trade at a discount to the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The Series B preferred stock will not contain
provisions to afford protection to holders of the Series B preferred stock in the event of a fundamental corporate transactions involving us. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Series B preferred stock will not contain provisions to afford protection to holders of the Series B preferred stock in the event of a
fundamental corporate transactions involving us except to the extent described under &#147;Description of the Series B Preferred Stock&#151;Limited Voting Rights&#151;When a Supermajority Vote is Required.&#148; For example, there may be no
protection afforded to holders with respect to transactions such as leveraged recapitalizations, refinancings, restructurings, or other acquisitions initiated by us. In the event of any such transaction, we, our capital structure or our credit
ratings may be adversely affected. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>If
Series B preferred stock is issued in connection with a conversion of convertible preferred stock, you may be treated as participating in a &#147;listed transaction&#148; for U.S. federal income tax purposes. </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the Series B preferred stock received upon conversion of
convertible preferred stock is issued (i)&nbsp;with dividends and (ii) (x) with a fair market value in excess of the amount for which it may be redeemed by a <I>de minimis</I> amount or more or (y) in between dividend payment dates such that the
first dividend payment on the Series B preferred stock represents a disproportionately large yield per period as compared to later dividend payments, then, under a technical reading of applicable Treasury regulations, the Series B preferred stock
may be presumed to be &#147;fast-pay stock.&#148; If the Series B preferred stock constitutes fast-pay stock, then the issuance of the Series B preferred stock will qualify as a &#147;listed transaction&#148; under applicable Treasury regulations,
and persons who are then beneficial owners of the Series B preferred stock that are required to file a U.S. federal income tax return will be required to file a disclosure statement on Internal Revenue Service (&#147;IRS&#148;) Form 8886 (or
successor form) with their U.S. federal income tax returns identifying their participation in a &#147;reportable transaction&#148; and to mail a copy of the form to the IRS Office of Tax Shelter Analysis. Failure to comply with these disclosure
requirements may result in onerous penalties. If, at the time the Series B preferred stock is issued, we believe that the Series B preferred stock could be treated as described in the fast-pay stock regulations, we intend to file a protective
disclosure statement on IRS Form 8886 with respect to the Series B preferred stock. See &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Series B Preferred Stock Acquired Upon
Conversion&#151;Potential Treatment as Fast-Pay Stock.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>If the Series B preferred stock is treated as &#147;nonqualified preferred stock,&#148; upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock into common stock and Series B preferred stock, you may be
treated as recognizing gain or as receiving a taxable dividend even though you do not receive any cash upon conversion. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We expect to treat the Series B preferred stock you receive upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock as &#147;nonqualified
preferred stock&#148; within the meaning of Section 351(g) of the Code. Under this treatment, the fair market value of the Series B preferred stock you receive would be treated in the same way as cash and, depending on your particular circumstances,
you might either recognize gain (if any) or be treated as receiving a dividend for U.S. federal income tax purposes, as discussed in &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate </FONT></P>
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Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion into Common Stock and Series B Preferred Stock.&#148; If you are a non-U.S. holder (as
defined in &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#148;)&nbsp;and you recognize gain upon receipt of the Series B preferred stock in a conversion of your convertible preferred stock, you may be subject to U.S.
federal income tax and withholding at a 15% rate on the amount realized, if we are a United States real property holding corporation at any time within the five-year period preceding the conversion (or during your holding period, if shorter), as
described in &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Non-U.S. Holders&#151; Sale, Exchange, Conversion or Other Taxable Disposition of the Equity Units, Convertible Preferred Stock, Common Stock or Series B
Preferred Stock.&#148; If you are a non-U.S. holder and you are treated as receiving a dividend, you will generally be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax at a rate of 30% on the dividend amount. See &#147;Material United States Federal Income
and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to Non-U.S. Holders&#151;U.S. Federal Income and Withholding Tax.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Risk Factors Relating to our Common Stock </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>The price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly, which could negatively affect us and holders of our common stock.
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contracts are settled for
shares of our common stock and the convertible preferred stock is convertible into our common stock and/or cash, in each case, based on the market price of our common stock. The market price of our common stock may fluctuate significantly in
response to many factors, including: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">investors&#146; perceptions of the prospects of the commodities markets and more broadly, the energy markets; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">differences between our actual financial and operating results and those expected by investors and analysts; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">changes in analyst reports, recommendations or earnings estimates regarding us, other comparable companies or the industry generally, and our ability
to meet those estimates; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">actual or anticipated fluctuations in quarterly financial operating results; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">sales, or anticipated sales, of large blocks of our stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the realization of any of the other risk factors included in, or incorporated by reference to, this prospectus supplement;
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the ongoing <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">COVID-19</FONT> pandemic; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">general market and economic conditions. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders who receive our common stock upon settlement of their purchase contracts or conversion of their convertible preferred stock will
be subject to the risk of volatile and depressed market prices of our common stock. In addition, many of the factors listed above are beyond our control. These factors may cause the market price of our common stock to decline, regardless of the
financial condition, results of operations, business or prospects of us and our subsidiaries. It is impossible to assure holders of Equity Units and the convertible preferred stock that the market price of our common stock will not fall in the
future. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Future sales of our shares could
depress the market price of our common stock. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We are not restricted from selling common stock in the future, including securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, common stock. The market price of
our common stock could decline as a result of sales of shares of our common stock made after this offering or the perception that such sales could occur, and these sales, or the possibility that these sales may occur, could make it more difficult
for us to sell equity securities in the future at a time and at a price that we deem appropriate. In the future, we may issue our common stock in connection with investments or acquisitions. The amount of such common stock issued could constitute a
material portion of our then outstanding common stock. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or publish inaccurate or
unfavorable research about our business, our share price and trading volume could decline. </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The trading market for our common stock will depend in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. If few securities or industry analysts cover
our company, the trading price for our common shares would be negatively impacted. If one or more of the analysts who covers us downgrades our common stock or publishes inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our share price would
likely decline. If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage of us or fails to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our common stock could decrease, which could cause our share price and trading volume to decline. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_7"></A>USE OF PROCEEDS </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The net proceeds from this offering are estimated to be
approximately $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We intend to use up to
$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of the net proceeds towards our renewables business, up to $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;of the net proceeds towards our U.S.
utilities business and the remainder of the net proceeds towards LNG infrastructure and other developments determined by management. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_8"></A>ACCOUNTING TREATMENT </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The proceeds from the sale of the Corporate Units will be
allocated between the purchase contracts and the convertible preferred stock based on the fair value of each at the date of the offering. It is expected that the aggregate liquidation preference of the convertible preferred stock will be recorded as
equity at inception. The present value of the Corporate Unit contract adjustment payments will be initially charged to shareowners&#146; equity, with an offsetting credit to liabilities. This liability is accreted over three years by interest
charges based on a constant rate calculation. Subsequent contract adjustment payments reduce this liability. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contracts are forward transactions in our common stock. Upon settlement of each purchase contract, we will receive $100 on
the purchase contract and will issue the requisite number of shares of our common stock. The $100 that we receive will be credited to shareowners&#146; equity. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Before the issuance of our common stock upon settlement of the purchase contracts, the purchase contracts will be reflected in our diluted
earnings per share calculations using the treasury stock method. Under this method, the number of shares of our common stock used in calculating diluted earnings per share (based on the settlement formula applied at the end of the reporting period)
is deemed to be increased by the excess, if any, of the number of shares that would be issued upon settlement of the purchase contracts over the number of shares that could be purchased by us in the market (at the average market price during the
period) using the proceeds receivable upon settlement. Consequently we anticipate there will be no dilutive effect on our earnings per share from the purchase contracts prior to settlement. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Convertible securities factor into the earnings per share calculation using either the &#147;if-converted
method&#148; or the &#147;treasury stock method&#148; as appropriate, if dilutive. Such securities are assumed to be converted at the beginning of the period, with the resulting common shares included in the denominator of the diluted earnings per
share calculation for the entire period being presented. Diluted earnings per share also includes certain shares that are contingently issuable. Contingent shares are included if such shares would be issuable as of the end of the reporting period
assuming the end of the reporting period was the end of the contingency period. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A convertible security (such as convertible preferred stock) that requires the liquidation preference to be settled in another class of nonconvertible preferred stock (or cash in certain circumstances)
would apply the treasury stock method of accounting in computing diluted earnings per share. This computation would reflect the dilutive impact of issuing common stock to the extent that the conversion value of the convertible preferred stock
exceeds its liquidation preference. The contingent shares issuable for the excess would be included in the denominator of diluted earnings per share during such times. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Before the settlement of the convertible preferred stock, the
applicable conversion value feature will be accounted for using the treasury stock method previously described. As a result, we anticipate there will be no dilutive effect on our earnings per share except during periods when the average market price
of our common stock is above $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On August&nbsp;5, 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Accounting Standard Update 2020-06, which simplifies the
accounting for certain financial instruments with characteristics of liabilities and equity, including convertible instruments and contracts on an entity&#146;s own equity. The Company will apply the new standard beginning in January 2022 but does
not expect any significant impacts from the implementation of the new standard with respect to the accounting for this transaction. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_9"></A>DESCRIPTION OF THE EQUITY UNITS </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>The following is a summary of some of the terms of the
Equity Units. This summary, together with the summary of the terms of the purchase contracts, the purchase contract and pledge agreement, the convertible preferred stock, the Series B preferred stock and our common stock set forth under the captions
&#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts,&#148; &#147;Certain Provisions of the Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement,&#148; &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#148; and &#147;Description of the Series B Preferred Stock&#148;
and &#147;Description of Common Stock&#148; is a description of the material terms of the Equity Units but does not purport to be complete, and we refer you to the agreements which will govern your rights as holders of the Equity Units and which
have been or will be filed or incorporated by reference as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus supplement is a part. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>As used in this Description of the Equity Units, &#147;we,&#148; &#147;us,&#148; &#147;our&#148; or &#147;the Company&#148; refer only
to The AES Corporation and any successor obligor, and not to any of its subsidiaries. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>General </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will issue the Equity Units under the purchase contract and pledge agreement between us and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as purchase contract agent (in such capacity, the &#147;purchase
contract agent&#148;), as collateral agent, custodial agent and securities intermediary (in such capacities, the &#147;collateral agent&#148;). The Equity Units may be Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units. The Equity Units will
initially consist of 10,000,000 Corporate Units (or 11,500,000 Corporate Units if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full), each with a stated amount of $100. Each Corporate Unit offered by us will consist of: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) a purchase contract under which: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">on February&nbsp;15, 2024, which we refer to as the &#147;purchase contract settlement date,&#148; the holder will purchase from us and we will sell to
the holder, unless the purchase contract terminates prior to that date as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Termination&#148; or is settled early as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase
Contracts&#151;Early Settlement&#148; or &#147;&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#148; below, for $100, a number of shares of our common stock equal to the settlement rate described under &#147;Description of the Purchase
Contracts&#151;Purchase of Common Stock,&#148; &#147;&#151;Early Settlement&#148; or &#147;&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change,&#148; as the case may be, plus, in the case of an early settlement upon a fundamental change, an additional
make-whole amount of shares as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#151;Calculation of Make-Whole Shares;&#148; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">we will pay to the holder quarterly contract adjustment payments at the rate of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the stated amount of $100 per year,
subject to our right to defer such contract adjustment payments, payable in cash, shares of our common stock or a combination thereof, at our election, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a contract adjustment payment method to apply; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) either: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a 1/10th, or 10%, undivided beneficial ownership in one share of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Convertible Preferred Stock,
without par value, with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share (the &#147;convertible preferred stock&#148;), issued by us; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">following a successful optional remarketing, the applicable ownership interest in a portfolio of U.S. Treasury securities, which we refer to as the
&#147;Treasury portfolio.&#148; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Applicable ownership interest&#148; means, with respect to a Corporate Unit and the U.S. Treasury securities in the Treasury
portfolio, (1)&nbsp;a 1/10th, or 10%, undivided beneficial ownership interest in $1,000 face amount of U.S. Treasury securities (or principal or interest strips thereof) included in the Treasury portfolio that mature on or prior to the purchase
contract settlement date and (2)&nbsp;a &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% undivided beneficial ownership interest in $1,000 </FONT></P>
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face amount of U.S. Treasury securities (or principal or interest strips thereof) included in the Treasury portfolio that mature on or prior to the purchase contract settlement date, which
results in an amount equal to the dividend payment that would have been due in respect of the convertible preferred stock on such date (without giving effect to any increase of the dividend rate following a successful remarketing of the convertible
preferred stock, and whether or not such dividend is authorized or declared). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The fair market value of the Corporate Units we issue will be recorded in our financial statements based on an allocation between the purchase contracts and the convertible preferred stock in proportion
to their respective fair market values at the time of issuance. Under the purchase contract and pledge agreement, you will be deemed to have agreed to allocate the entire purchase price to your convertible preferred stock as described under
&#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;U.S. Holders&#151;Equity Units&#151;Allocation of Purchase Price.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As long as a unit is in the form of a Corporate Unit, any ownership interest in a share of convertible preferred stock or, solely with
respect to the Treasury securities described in clause (1)&nbsp;of the definition of applicable ownership interest, any applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio forming a part of the Corporate Unit will be pledged to us through the
collateral agent to secure your obligation to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contract. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Creating Treasury Units by Substituting a Treasury Security for Convertible Preferred Stock </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each holder of 10 Corporate Units may create, at any time other than (i)&nbsp;if we elect an optional remarketing, during the period from
5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second business day immediately preceding the first day of any optional remarketing period until the settlement date of such remarketing or the date we announce that no successful optional remarketing has
occurred during the optional remarketing period, (ii)&nbsp;following any successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock and (iii)&nbsp;after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second business day immediately preceding the first day of
the final remarketing period (we refer to each such period as a &#147;blackout period&#148;), 10 Treasury Units by substituting for the share of convertible preferred stock that is a component of 10 Corporate Units a
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">zero-coupon</FONT> U.S. Treasury security with a principal amount of $1,000 that matures on or prior to February&nbsp;15, 2024 (e.g., CUSIP No. 912820L47), which we refer to as a &#147;Treasury security.&#148; This
substitution would create 10 Treasury Units, and the related share of convertible preferred stock would be released to the holder and would be separately tradable from the Treasury Units. Because the convertible preferred stock is issued with a
liquidation preference of $1,000 per share, holders of Corporate Units may make this substitution only in integral multiples of 10 Corporate Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each Treasury Unit will consist of: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) a purchase contract under which: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the holder will agree to purchase from us on the purchase contract settlement date, unless the purchase contract terminates prior to that date as
described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Termination&#148; or is settled early as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement&#148; or &#147;&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental
Change&#148; below, for $100, a number of shares of our common stock equal to the settlement rate, plus, in the case of an early settlement upon a fundamental change, an additional make-whole amount of shares; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">we will pay to the holder quarterly contract adjustment payments at the rate of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the stated amount of $100 per year,
subject to our right to defer such contract adjustment payments, payable in cash, shares of our common stock or a combination thereof, at our election, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a contract adjustment payment method to apply; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) a 1/10th undivided
beneficial ownership interest in a Treasury security. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The term &#147;business day&#148; means any day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or any other day on which banking institutions and trust companies in New York City, New York are authorized or required
by law or executive order to remain closed. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To create 10 Treasury Units, a holder is required to: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">deposit with the collateral agent a Treasury security, which must be purchased in the open market at the expense of the Corporate Unit holder, unless
otherwise owned by the holder; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">transfer to the purchase contract agent 10 Corporate Units, accompanied by a notice stating that the holder of the Corporate Units has deposited the
Treasury security with the collateral agent, and requesting in writing that the purchase contract agent instruct the collateral agent in writing to release the related share of convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Promptly following receipt of written instructions from the
purchase contract agent and receipt of the Treasury security, the collateral agent will release the related share of convertible preferred stock from the pledge and deliver it to the purchase contract agent on behalf of the holder, free and clear of
our security interest. The purchase contract agent then will: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">cancel the 10 Corporate Units; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">transfer the related share of convertible preferred stock to the holder; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">deliver 10 Treasury Units to the holder. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Treasury Unit holder&#146;s beneficial ownership interest in the Treasury security will be pledged to us through the collateral agent
to secure the holder&#146;s obligation to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts. The share of convertible preferred stock thereafter will trade and be transferable separately from the Treasury Units. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders who create Treasury Units or recreate Corporate
Units, as discussed below, will be responsible for any fees or expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) payable to the collateral agent in connection with substitutions of collateral. See &#147;Certain Provisions of the Purchase
Contract and Pledge Agreement&#151;Miscellaneous.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Recreating Corporate Units from Treasury Units </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each holder of 10 Treasury Units will have the right, at any time other than during a blackout period, to substitute for the related
Treasury security held by the collateral agent one share of convertible preferred stock for each such 10 Treasury Units. This substitution would recreate Corporate Units and the applicable Treasury security would be released to the holder. Because
the convertible preferred stock is issued with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share, holders of Treasury Units may make the substitution only in integral multiples of 10 Treasury Units. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To recreate 10 Corporate Units, a holder is required to:
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">deposit with the collateral agent one share of convertible preferred stock, which must be purchased in the open market at the expense of the Treasury
Unit holder, unless otherwise owned by the holder; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">transfer to the purchase contract agent 10 Treasury Units, accompanied by a notice stating that the holder of the Treasury Units has deposited one
share of convertible preferred stock with the collateral agent, and requesting in writing that the purchase contract agent instruct the collateral agent in writing to release the related Treasury security. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Promptly following receipt of written instructions from the
purchase contract agent and receipt of the share of convertible preferred stock, the collateral agent will release the related Treasury security from the pledge and promptly instruct the securities intermediary to transfer such Treasury security to
the purchase contract agent on behalf of the holder, free and clear of our security interest. The purchase contract agent then will: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">cancel the 10 Treasury Units; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">transfer the related Treasury security to the holder; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">deliver 10 Corporate Units to the holder. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The share of convertible preferred stock will be substituted for the Treasury security and will be pledged to us through the collateral
agent to secure the holder&#146;s obligation to purchase shares of our common stock under the related purchase contracts. The Treasury security thereafter will trade and be transferable separately from the Corporate Units. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No Equity Units may be created or recreated from Series B
preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Creating Cash Settled Units from Corporate
Units </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each holder of 10 Corporate Units may
create, only during the period after the date we give notice of the final remarketing period and prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second business day immediately preceding the first day of the final remarketing period, Cash Settled
Units by substituting for a share of convertible preferred stock that is a component of the Corporate Units $1,000 in cash. This substitution would create 10 Cash Settled Units, and the related share of convertible preferred stock would be released
to the holder and would be separately tradable from the Cash Settled Units. Because the convertible preferred stock is issued with a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share, holders of Corporate Units may make this substitution only in integral
multiples of 10 Corporate Units. Holders of Cash Settled Units do not have the right to recreate Corporate Units or create Treasury Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each Cash Settled Unit will consist of: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) a purchase contract under which: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the holder will agree to purchase from us on the purchase contract settlement date, unless the purchase contract terminates prior to that date as
described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Termination&#148; or is settled early as described under &#147;&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#148; below, for $100, a number of shares of our common stock equal to
the settlement rate, plus, in the case of an early settlement upon a fundamental change, an additional make-whole amount of shares; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR style = "page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">we will pay to the holder the final quarterly contract adjustment payment due on the purchase contract settlement date (including any accrued and
unpaid deferred contract adjustment payments and compounded contract adjustment payments thereon), payable in cash, shares of our common stock or a combination thereof, at our election, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a contract
adjustment payment method to apply; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) $100 in cash. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To create 10 Cash Settled Units, a holder is required to: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">deposit with the collateral agent $1,000 in cash; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">transfer to the purchase contract agent 10 Corporate Units, accompanied by a notice stating that the holder of the Corporate Units has deposited $1,000
in cash with the collateral agent, and requesting in writing that the purchase contract agent instruct the collateral agent in writing to release the related share of convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Promptly following receipt of written instructions from the
purchase contract agent and receipt of cash, the collateral agent will release the related share of convertible preferred stock from the pledge and deliver it to the purchase contract agent on behalf of the holder, free and clear of our security
interest. The purchase contract agent then will: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">cancel the 10 Corporate Units; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">transfer the related share of convertible preferred stock to the holder; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">deliver 10 Cash Settled Units to the holder. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The cash will be substituted for the share of convertible preferred stock and will be pledged to us through the collateral agent to secure
the holder&#146;s obligation to purchase shares of our common stock under the related purchase contract. Cash held as a component of the Cash Settled Unit will be held in a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-interest</FONT> bearing account as set
forth in the purchase contract and pledge agreement. The share of convertible preferred stock thereafter will trade separately from the Cash Settled Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders who create Cash Settled Units, as discussed below, will be responsible for any fees or expenses payable to the collateral agent
(including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) in connection with substitutions of collateral. See &#147;Certain Provisions of Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement&#151;Miscellaneous.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No Equity Units may be created or recreated from Series B
preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Current Payments </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units will receive
quarterly contract adjustment payments payable by us at the rate of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per year on the stated amount of $100 per Equity Unit until the earliest of the purchase contract settlement date, the fundamental change early settlement
date (in the case of a fundamental change where the holder has elected to settle its purchase contracts early in connection with such fundamental change as described in &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a
Fundamental Change&#148;) and the most recent payment date on or before an early settlement as described in &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement.&#148; Holders of Cash Settled Units will receive the final quarterly
contract adjustment payment payable by us on the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date. In addition, holders of Corporate Units will receive, when, as and if declared by our board of directors, quarterly cash distributions consisting of dividends on
the convertible preferred stock attributable to such Corporate Units (and distributions on the applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio, if any, to the extent convertible preferred stock attributable to such Corporate Units has been
replaced by the Treasury portfolio), equivalent to &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per annum on the liquidation preference of the convertible preferred stock. Any contract adjustment payments and distributions in respect of dividends on the convertible
preferred stock may be paid in cash, shares of our common stock or a combination thereof, at our election, as described herein, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment method or contract adjustment payment method to apply.
There will be no distributions in respect of the Treasury securities that are a component of the Treasury Units or the cash that is a component of the Cash Settled Units, but to the extent that such holders of Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units,
as the case may be, continue to hold the shares of convertible preferred stock that were released to them when such Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units were created, such holders will continue to receive, when, as and if declared by our board of
directors, quarterly dividend payments on their separate shares of convertible preferred stock for as long as they continue to hold such shares. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will make all contract adjustment payments quarterly in arrears on each payment date (except where such date is not a business day, in
which case contract adjustment payments will be payable as of the next subsequent business day, without adjustment), commencing on May&nbsp;15, 2021. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We have the right to defer payment of quarterly contract adjustment payments as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase
Contracts&#151;Contract Adjustment Payments.&#148; We are not obligated to declare or pay dividends on the convertible preferred stock, as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Dividends,&#148; except that all
accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock (including compounded dividends thereon), including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of
the shares of convertible preferred stock as of </FONT></P>
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the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date, whether or not declared, unless such payment is not permitted under the Delaware General
Corporation Law (a &#147;dividend deficiency event&#148;). If a dividend deficiency event occurs, following the final remarketing (whether successful or failed), we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the
convertible preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the
right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such convertible preferred stock for so long
as the convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the holders of such convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are
subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Listing
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We intend to apply for listing of the
Corporate Units on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &#147;AESC.&#148; Unless and until substitution has been made as described above, none of the convertible preferred stock component of a Corporate Unit, the Treasury security component
of a Treasury Unit nor the cash component of a Cash Settled Unit will trade separately from Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units. The convertible preferred stock component will trade as a unit with the purchase contract component of
the Corporate Units, the Treasury security component will trade as a unit with the purchase contract component of the Treasury Units and the cash component will trade as a unit with the purchase contract component of the Cash Settled Units. In
addition, if Treasury Units, Cash Settled Units, shares of convertible preferred stock or shares of Series B preferred stock issued upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock are separately traded to a sufficient extent that the applicable
exchange listing requirements are met, we may, but have no obligation to, cause the Treasury Units, Cash Settled Units or convertible preferred stock to be listed on the exchange on which the Corporate Units are then listed, including, if
applicable, the New York Stock Exchange. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Voting and Certain
Other Rights </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of purchase contracts
forming part of the Corporate Units, Treasury Units, or Cash Settled Units, in their capacities as such holders, will have no voting or other rights in respect of our common stock. Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock, whether or not
part of a Corporate Unit, and holders of shares of Series B preferred stock will have only the limited voting rights described in &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Limited Voting Rights&#148; and &#147;Description of the
Series B Preferred Stock&#151;Limited Voting Rights,&#148; respectively. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_10"></A>DESCRIPTION OF THE PURCHASE CONTRACTS </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>The following is a summary of certain provisions of the
purchase contracts, which will be issued pursuant to the purchase contract and pledge agreement among us, the purchase contract agent and the collateral agent, the custodial agent and the securities intermediary. The following summary does not
purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, all of the provisions of the purchase contracts, including the definitions in the purchase contracts of certain terms. Wherever particular sections or
defined terms of the purchase contracts are referred to, such sections or defined terms are incorporated into this prospectus supplement by reference. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>As used in this Description of the Purchase Contracts, &#147;we,&#148; &#147;us,&#148; &#147;our&#148; or &#147;the Company&#148; refer
only to The AES Corporation and any successor obligor, and not to any of its subsidiaries. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Purchase of Common Stock </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each purchase contract that is a part of a Corporate Unit, a Treasury Unit or a Cash Settled Unit will obligate its holder to purchase, and us to sell, on the purchase contract settlement date (unless the
purchase contract terminates prior to that date as described under &#147;&#151;Termination&#148; or is settled early at the holder&#146;s option as described under &#147;&#151;Early Settlement&#148; or &#147;&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental
Change&#148;), for $100 in cash, a number of shares of our common stock equal to the settlement rate (together with cash, if applicable, in lieu of any fractional shares of common stock in the manner described below). The number of shares of our
common stock issuable upon settlement of each purchase contract on the purchase contract settlement date (which we call the &#147;settlement rate&#148;) will be rounded to the nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share
and determined as follows, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances as described under &#147;&#151;Anti-dilution Adjustments&#148; below: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) If the applicable market value of our common stock is less than or equal to
$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, which we refer to as the &#147;reference price,&#148; the settlement rate will be
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shares of our common stock (which we refer to as the &#147;maximum settlement rate&#148;). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Accordingly, if the market price for our common stock decreases from the date of this prospectus supplement and
during the market value averaging period (described below), the aggregate market value of the shares of our common stock issued upon settlement of each purchase contract will be less than the stated amount of $100, assuming that the market price on
the purchase contract settlement date is the same as the applicable market value of the common stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) If the applicable market value of our common stock is greater than the reference price, the settlement rate will be a number of shares
of our common stock equal to $100 <I>divided by</I> that applicable market value. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Accordingly, if the market price for the common stock increases from the date of this prospectus supplement and during the market value averaging period, the aggregate market value of the shares of our
common stock issued upon settlement of each purchase contract will be equal to the stated amount of $100, assuming that the market price of the common stock on the purchase contract settlement date is the same as the applicable market value of the
common stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The reference price initially
equals the closing price of our common stock on the New York Stock Exchange on March &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2021. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you elect to settle your purchase contract early in the manner described under &#147;&#151;Early Settlement,&#148; the number of shares
of our common stock issuable upon settlement of such purchase contract will be equal to 85% of the settlement rate determined in the manner set forth above but over a 20 consecutive trading day period beginning on the trading day immediately
following the day you exercise your early settlement right, which we refer to as the &#147;early settlement averaging period.&#148; If you elect to settle your purchase contract early upon a fundamental change, the number of shares of our common
stock issuable upon settlement will be determined as described under &#147;&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change.&#148; </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The &#147;applicable market value&#148; of our common stock means the average of the daily
VWAPs of our common stock during the market value averaging period. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The &#147;market value averaging period&#148; means the 20 consecutive trading day period beginning on, and including, the 21st scheduled trading day immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement
date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The &#147;daily VWAP&#148; of our common
stock means, for each relevant trading day, the per share volume weighted average price as displayed under the heading Bloomberg VWAP on Bloomberg page &#147;AES &lt;EQUITY&gt; AQR&#148; (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in
respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading on the relevant trading day until the scheduled close of trading on the relevant trading day (or if such VWAP is unavailable, the market price of one share of our common stock on such trading
day determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by us). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A &#147;trading day&#148; means (a)&nbsp;a day (i)&nbsp;on which the New York Stock Exchange, or, if our common stock is not then listed
on the New York Stock Exchange, the principal exchange or quotation system on which our common stock is listed or admitted for trading, is scheduled to be open for business and (ii)&nbsp;on which there has not occurred or does not exist a market
disruption event, or (b)&nbsp;if our common stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, a &#147;trading day&#148; means a business day. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A &#147;market disruption event&#148; means (i)&nbsp;a failure by the primary U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on
which our common stock is listed or admitted for trading to open for trading during its regular trading session or (ii)&nbsp;the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any scheduled trading day for our common stock for
more than one half-hour period in the aggregate during regular trading hours of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant stock exchange or otherwise) in our common
stock or in any options contracts or futures contracts relating to our common stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a market disruption event occurs on any scheduled trading day during the market value averaging period or any early settlement averaging period, we will notify investors on the calendar day on which
such event occurs. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If 20 trading days for our
common stock have not occurred during the period from, and including, the first day of the market value averaging period to, and including, the second scheduled trading day immediately prior to the purchase contract settlement date, all remaining
trading days in the market value averaging period will be deemed to occur on that second scheduled trading day immediately prior to the purchase contract settlement date, and the daily VWAP of our common stock for each of those remaining trading
days will be the daily VWAP of our common stock on that second scheduled trading day or, if such day is not a trading day, the closing price as of such day. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will not issue any fractional shares of our common stock upon settlement of a purchase contract. Instead of a fractional share, the
holder will receive an amount of cash equal to the percentage of a whole share represented by such fractional share <I>multiplied by</I> the closing price of our common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement
date (or the trading day immediately preceding the relevant date for delivery of shares of our common stock, in the case of early settlement). If, however, a holder surrenders for settlement more than one purchase contract on the same date, then the
number of shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to such purchase contracts will be computed based upon the aggregate number of purchase contracts surrendered on such date or, if the Equity Units are held in global book-entry form, based on
such other aggregate number of purchase contracts being surrendered by the holder on the same date as DTC may otherwise request. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The &#147;closing price&#148; per share of our common stock means, on any date of determination, the closing sale price (or if no closing
sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either </FONT></P>
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case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which our
common stock is traded. If our common stock is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, the &#147;closing price&#148; will be the last quoted bid price for our common stock in the <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">over-the-counter</FONT></FONT> market on the relevant date as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If our common stock is not so quoted, the &#147;closing
price&#148; will be the average of the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">mid-point</FONT> of the last bid and ask prices for our common stock on the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms
selected by us for this purpose. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Unless:
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a holder has settled the related purchase contracts early by delivery of cash to the purchase contract agent in the manner described under
&#147;&#151;Early Settlement&#148; or &#147;&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#148;; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">an event described under &#147;&#151;Termination&#148; has occurred, </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">then, on the purchase contract settlement date, </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in the case of Corporate Units where there has been a successful remarketing, a portion of the proceeds from the final remarketing, or the proceeds at
maturity of the portion of the Treasury portfolio described in clause (i)&nbsp;of such definition from an earlier optional remarketing, as applicable, equal to $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock
underlying the Corporate Units that were remarketed will automatically be applied to satisfy in full the holders&#146; obligations to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts and any excess proceeds will be delivered to the
purchase contract agent for the benefit of the holders whose shares of convertible preferred stock were remarketed; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in the case of Corporate Units where there has not been a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock (i)&nbsp;except in the case of a
dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon), including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement
date as described under &#147;&#151;Final Remarketing&#148; and (ii)&nbsp;immediately following such payment, each holder will be deemed to have automatically delivered to us on the purchase contract settlement date the ownership interests in the
shares of convertible preferred stock that are a part of such Corporate Units (unless such holder has elected to settle the related purchase contracts in cash as described under &#147;&#151;Final Remarketing&#148;) to satisfy in full the
holder&#146;s obligations to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in the case of Treasury Units, the cash proceeds of the related Treasury securities, when paid at maturity, will automatically be applied to satisfy in
full the holder&#146;s obligation to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts and any excess proceeds will be delivered to the purchase contract agent for the benefit of the holders of the Treasury Units; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in the case of Cash Settled Units, the cash component of such units will automatically be applied to satisfy in full the holder&#146;s obligation to
purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our common stock will then be issued and delivered to the holder or the holder&#146;s designee, promptly following presentation and surrender of the certificate evidencing the Corporate Units, the
Treasury Units or the Cash Settled Units, if in certificated form, and payment by the holder of any transfer or similar taxes payable in connection with the issuance of our common stock to any person other than the holder. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Prior to the settlement of a purchase contract, the shares of
our common stock underlying each purchase contract will not be outstanding, and the holder of a purchase contract will not have any voting rights, rights to dividends or other distributions or other rights of a holder of our common stock by virtue
of holding such purchase contract. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By purchasing a Corporate Unit, a Treasury Unit or a Cash Settled Unit, a holder will be
deemed to have, among other things: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">irrevocably appointed the purchase contract agent as its
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorney-in-fact</FONT></FONT> to enter into and perform the purchase contract and the related purchase contract and pledge agreement in the name of and on behalf of such holder; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">agreed to be bound by the terms and provisions of the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units and perform its obligations under the
related purchase contract and the purchase contract and pledge agreement. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, each beneficial owner of an Equity Unit, by acceptance of the beneficial interest therein, will be deemed to have agreed to treat itself as the owner of the related convertible preferred
stock, applicable interest in the Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities or cash, as the case may be. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Remarketing </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will enter into a remarketing agreement with a nationally recognized investment banking firm, as remarketing agent. Pursuant to the remarketing agreement, remarketing of the convertible preferred stock
underlying the Corporate Units and any separate shares of convertible preferred stock whose holders have elected to participate in the remarketing will be attempted as described below. We refer to each of an &#147;optional remarketing&#148; and the
&#147;final remarketing&#148; (each as defined below) as a &#147;remarketing.&#148; No remarketing will occur if a termination event has occurred or, in the case of an optional remarketing, certain other events have occurred as described below.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As described under &#147;Description of the
Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing,&#148; in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, (a)&nbsp;the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the
pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than or equal to the reference price, the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an amount equal to $1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price
on such date (rounded to the nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to
March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock.&#148; Dividends will continue to be payable quarterly at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such
dividend rate may be adjusted in connection with such remarketing), when, as and if declared by our board of directors. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">During any blackout period you do not have the right to: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">settle a purchase contract early; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">create Treasury Units; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">create Cash Settled Units; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">recreate Corporate Units from Treasury Units. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that a
registration statement with regard to the full amount of the convertible preferred stock to be remarketed will be effective in a form that may be used by the remarketing agent in connection with the remarketing process (unless such registration
statement is not required under the applicable laws and regulations that are in effect at that time or unless we conduct any remarketing in accordance with an exemption under the securities laws). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Optional Remarketing </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Unless (i)&nbsp;a termination event has occurred,
(ii)&nbsp;there are any accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock in respect of prior dividend periods or (iii)&nbsp;we have not declared a dividend payable </FONT></P>
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on the November&nbsp;15, 2023 payment date, we may elect, at our option, to, on one or more occasions as specified herein, remarket the convertible preferred stock during a period (which we call
the &#147;optional remarketing window&#148;) beginning on and including November&nbsp;15, 2023 and ending on and including February&nbsp;1, 2024. Any remarketing in the optional remarketing window will occur during a five-business day remarketing
period (which we call an &#147;optional remarketing period&#148;) consisting of five sequential possible remarketing dates selected by us and will include shares of convertible preferred stock underlying Corporate Units and other shares of
convertible preferred stock of holders that have elected to include those shares in the remarketing as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing of Shares That Are Not Included in Corporate Units.&#148; We
may attempt remarketings during multiple optional remarketing periods in the optional remarketing window so long as we issue a press release and give to the depositary at least 15 calendar days&#146; notice prior to the first day of any optional
remarketing period as described below. We refer to a remarketing that occurs during the optional remarketing window as an &#147;optional remarketing&#148; and the date we price the convertible preferred stock offered in an optional remarketing as
the &#147;optional remarketing date.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we
elect to conduct an optional remarketing, the remarketing agent will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain a price (i)&nbsp;for shares of convertible preferred stock that are components of Corporate Units, that results in proceeds of at least
100% of the Treasury portfolio purchase price described below and (ii)&nbsp;for shares of convertible preferred stock that are not part of Corporate Units, at least equal to the separate convertible preferred stock purchase price (as defined in
&#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing of Shares That Are Not Included in Corporate Units&#148;), which will be the same price, on a per share basis, as the shares of convertible preferred stock included as components
of Corporate Units. To obtain that price, (a)&nbsp;the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than or equal to the reference price,
the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an amount equal to $1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price on such date (rounded to the nearest
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described under
&#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock.&#148; The increased dividend rate and/or increased conversion rate will be a fixed dividend rate and/or conversion rate (subject to adjustment in
certain circumstances) determined by, and any other changes to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock will be determined by, our board of directors, after
consultation with the remarketing agent, as the rate(s) the convertible preferred stock should bear and the terms the convertible preferred stock should include in order for the net remarketing proceeds to equal at least the sum of (x) 100% of the
purchase price of the Treasury portfolio and (y)&nbsp;the separate convertible preferred stock purchase price for shares of convertible preferred stock that are not included in Corporate Units whose holders have elected to participate in the
remarketing. We will not decrease the conversion rate or the dividend rate in connection with a successful optional remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will issue a press release and request that the depositary
notify its participants holding Corporate Units, Treasury Units, and separate shares of convertible preferred stock as to the dates and procedures to be followed in the optional remarketing no later than 15 calendar days prior to the date we begin
the optional remarketing. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Following a successful
optional remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the remarketing agent will purchase the Treasury portfolio at the Treasury portfolio purchase price (as defined below), and deduct such price from the proceeds of the optional remarketing. Any
remaining proceeds will be promptly remitted after the optional remarketing settlement date by the remarketing agent for the benefit of the holders whose shares of convertible preferred stock were remarketed. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We have the right to elect not to attempt or to postpone any
optional remarketing that has not concluded in our absolute discretion on any day of the relevant optional remarketing period. </FONT></P>
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</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">settlement of the remarketed convertible preferred stock will occur on the second business day following the optional remarketing date, or such other
date we and the remarketing agent agree to (we refer to such settlement date as the &#147;optional remarketing settlement date&#148;); </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the dividend rate and/or conversion rate (subject to the immediately succeeding bullet) of all outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock
(whether or not the holders of such shares elected to participate in the remarketing) will be increased, if applicable, on the optional remarketing settlement date; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">if applicable, the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock will be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21,
2025, effective on the optional remarketing settlement date; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any terms of the remarketed convertible preferred stock modified by us in accordance with the certificate of designations establishing the
designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions of the convertible preferred stock (the &#147;certificate of designations&#148;) will become effective on the
optional remarketing settlement date, if applicable; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">dividends will continue to be payable on the convertible preferred stock quarterly at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such dividend rate may be
adjusted in connection with such remarketing), when, as and if declared by our board of directors; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">your Corporate Units will consist of a purchase contract and the applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio, as described above; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">you may no longer create Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units or recreate Corporate Units from Treasury Units. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we do not elect to conduct an optional remarketing in the
optional remarketing window, or no optional remarketing succeeds for any reason, the terms of the convertible preferred stock will not be modified and the shares of convertible preferred stock (other than separate shares of convertible preferred
stock) will continue to be components of the Corporate Units and the remarketing agent will use its reasonable best efforts to remarket the convertible preferred stock during the final remarketing period as described below. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For the purposes of a successful optional remarketing,
&#147;Treasury portfolio purchase price&#148; means the lowest aggregate <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ask-side</FONT> price quoted by a primary U.S. government securities dealer to the quotation agent selected by us between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00
p.m., New York City time, on the optional remarketing date for the purchase of the Treasury portfolio for settlement on the optional remarketing settlement date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Following a successful optional remarketing, the remarketing
agent will purchase, at the Treasury portfolio purchase price, the Treasury portfolio. If U.S. Treasury securities (or principal or interest strips thereof) that are to be included in the Treasury portfolio in connection with a successful optional
remarketing have a yield that is less than zero, the Treasury portfolio will consist of an amount in cash equal to the aggregate principal amount at maturity of the U.S. Treasury securities described in the description of the Treasury portfolio
under &#147;Description of the Equity Units.&#148; If the provisions set forth in this paragraph apply, references in this prospectus supplement to a &#147;Treasury security&#148; and &#147;U.S. Treasury securities (or principal or interest strips
thereof)&#148; in connection with the Treasury portfolio will, thereafter, be deemed to be references to such amount in cash. Neither we, the purchase contract agent, the collateral agent nor anyone else will invest that cash. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The applicable ownership interests in the Treasury portfolio
will be substituted for the shares of convertible preferred stock that are components of the Corporate Units and, solely with respect to the Treasury securities described in clause (1)&nbsp;of the definition of applicable ownership interest, such
applicable ownership interests will be pledged to us through the collateral agent to secure the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations under the purchase contracts. On the purchase contract settlement date, a portion of the proceeds from the
Treasury portfolio equal to </FONT></P>
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$1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock that are components of the Corporate Units at the time of remarketing will automatically be applied to satisfy the
Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations to purchase our common stock under the purchase contracts. In addition, proceeds from the Treasury portfolio equal to the dividend payment that would have been due in respect of the shares of convertible
preferred stock that were components of the Corporate Units at the time of the remarketing (without giving effect to any increase of the dividend rate following a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, and whether or not such
dividend is authorized or declared) will be paid to holders on the purchase contract settlement date. Any failure to apply proceeds as described above solely as a result of a failure by the U.S. government to pay the principal amount of or any
interest on any Treasury security in the Treasury portfolio will not constitute an event of default under a purchase contract. If, as a result of any such failure, there are insufficient proceeds from the Treasury portfolio to satisfy the Corporate
Unit holders&#146; obligations to purchase common stock under the purchase contracts, we will delay settlement of the purchase contracts until such time as such proceeds are available. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we elect to remarket the convertible preferred stock during an optional remarketing period and a successful
remarketing of the convertible preferred stock has not occurred on or prior to the last day of the optional remarketing period, we will cause a notice of the failed remarketing of the convertible preferred stock to be published before 9:00 a.m., New
York City time, on the business day immediately following the last date of the optional remarketing period. This notice will be validly published by making a timely release to any appropriate news agency, including, without limitation, Bloomberg
Business News and the Dow Jones News Service. We will similarly cause a notice of a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock to be published before 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day immediately following the date of
such successful remarketing and we will request the depositary to notify its participants holding separate shares of convertible preferred stock, if any, of the modified terms established for the convertible preferred stock during the optional
remarketing on the business day following the date on which the convertible preferred stock was successfully remarketed. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Final Remarketing </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Unless (i)&nbsp;a termination event has occurred or (ii)&nbsp;the Treasury portfolio has replaced the convertible preferred stock as a
component of the Corporate Units as a result of a successful optional remarketing, the remarketing agent will remarket the shares of convertible preferred stock that are components of the Corporate Units and any separate shares of convertible
preferred stock whose holders have elected to participate in the remarketing as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing of Shares That Are Not Included in Corporate Units,&#148; during each day of the
five business day period ending on February&nbsp;13, 2024 (the second business day immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date) until the remarketing is successful. We refer to such period as the &#147;final remarketing period,&#148;
the remarketing during this period as the &#147;final remarketing&#148; and the date we price the convertible preferred stock offered in the final marketing as the &#147;final remarketing date.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The remarketing agent will use its reasonable best efforts to
obtain, and the remarketing will be considered successful if the remarketing agent is able to obtain, a price that results in proceeds of at least $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock being remarketed. To
obtain that price, (a)&nbsp;the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than or equal to the reference price, the conversion rate of
the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an amount equal to $1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price on such date (rounded to the nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share) and/or
(c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Terms of the
Remarketed Preferred Stock.&#148; The increased dividend rate and/or increased conversion rate will be a fixed dividend rate and/or conversion rate (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances) determined by, and any other changes to the terms of
the convertible preferred stock in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock will be determined by, our board of </FONT></P>
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directors, after consultation with the remarketing agent, as the rate(s) the convertible preferred stock should bear and the terms the convertible preferred stock should include in order for the
net remarketing proceeds to equal at least $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock being remarketed. We will not decrease the conversion rate or the dividend rate in connection with a successful remarketing of
the convertible preferred stock. We will issue a press release and request that the depositary notify its participants holding Corporate Units, Treasury Units and separate shares of convertible preferred stock of the remarketing no later than
January&nbsp;18, 2024. In our notice of a final remarketing, we will set forth the dates of the final remarketing period, applicable procedures for holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock to participate in the final remarketing,
the applicable procedures for holders of Corporate Units to create Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units, if applicable, the applicable procedures for holders of Corporate Units to settle their purchase contracts early and any other applicable
procedures, including the procedures that must be followed by a holder of an ownership interest in a share of convertible preferred stock that is a part of a Corporate Unit in the case of a failed final remarketing if such holder wishes not to have
its ownership interests in shares of convertible preferred stock automatically delivered to us as described in this prospectus supplement in satisfaction of its obligation under the related purchase contracts. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We have the right to postpone the final remarketing in our
absolute discretion on any day prior to the last business day of the final remarketing period. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the final remarketing is successful: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">settlement of the remarketed convertible preferred stock will occur on the purchase contract settlement date; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon), including with
respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately
preceding the purchase contract settlement date; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the dividend rate and/or conversion rate of all outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock (whether or not the holder of such shares elected to
participate in the remarketing) will be increased, if applicable, effective on the purchase contract settlement date; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">if applicable, the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock will be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21,
2025, effective on the purchase contract settlement date; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">dividends will continue to be payable on the convertible preferred stock quarterly at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such dividend rate may be
adjusted in connection with such remarketing), when, as and if declared by our board of directors; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a portion of the proceeds from the remarketing equal to $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock underlying
Corporate Units that were remarketed will automatically be applied to satisfy in full the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts on the purchase contract settlement date, and any
remaining proceeds will be promptly remitted to such holders on the purchase contract settlement date pro rata in accordance with their respective interests; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">proceeds from the remarketing attributable to holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock who have elected to participate in the
remarketing will be remitted by the remarketing agent to the custodial agent for remittance pro rata to such holders on the purchase contract settlement date. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If (1)&nbsp;despite using its reasonable best efforts, the
remarketing agent cannot remarket the related convertible preferred stock on or prior to the last day of the final remarketing period, at a price equal to or greater than $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the aggregate number of shares of convertible
preferred stock to be remarketed or (2)&nbsp;the </FONT></P>
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final remarketing has not occurred on or prior to the last day of the final remarketing period because a condition precedent to the remarketing has not been fulfilled, in each case resulting in a
failed remarketing, the ownership interests in the shares of convertible preferred stock held as a part of Corporate Units will be automatically delivered to us, on the purchase contract settlement date, in full satisfaction of the Corporate Unit
holder&#146;s obligation to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contract, unless the holder has elected otherwise, as set forth under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Automatic Settlement Upon Failed Final
Remarketing.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing,
except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon), including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the
purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs,
following the final remarketing (whether successful or failed), we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of
convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will
continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such convertible preferred stock for so long as the convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the
holders of such convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock has not occurred on or prior to the last day of
the final remarketing period, we will cause a notice of the failed remarketing of the convertible preferred stock to be published before 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the business day immediately following the last date of the final remarketing
period. This notice will be validly published by making a timely release to any appropriate news agency, including, without limitation, Bloomberg Business News and the Dow Jones News Service. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Early Settlement </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the conditions described below, a holder of Corporate Units or Treasury Units may elect to settle the related purchase
contracts at any time prior to the close of business on the scheduled trading day immediately preceding the first day of the market value averaging period, other than during a blackout period. In the case of Corporate Units and Treasury Units, such
early settlement may only be made in integral multiples of 10 purchase contracts. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In order to settle purchase contracts early, a holder of Equity Units must deliver to the purchase contract agent (1)&nbsp;a completed &#147;Election to Settle Early&#148; form, along with the Corporate
Unit or Treasury Unit certificate, if they are in certificated form and (2)&nbsp;a cash payment in immediately available funds in an amount equal to: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$100 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of purchase contracts being settled; <I>plus</I> </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">if the &#147;early settlement date&#148; (as defined below) for any purchase contract occurs during the period from the close of business on any record
date to the opening of business on the related payment date, an amount equal to the contract adjustment payments payable on the payment date with respect to the purchase contracts being settled, unless we have elected to defer the contract
adjustment payments payable on such date. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as you hold Equity Units as a beneficial interest in a global security certificate deposited with the depositary, procedures for early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements
between the depositary and the purchase contract agent. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The early settlement right is also subject to the condition that, if we determine that it is
required under U.S. federal securities laws, we have a registration statement under the Securities Act in effect and an available prospectus covering the shares of our common stock and other securities, if any, deliverable upon settlement of a
purchase contract. We have agreed that, if required under U.S. federal securities laws, we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to (1)&nbsp;have a registration statement in effect covering those shares of our common stock and other
securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the purchase contracts being settled and (2)&nbsp;provide a prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with the early settlement right (it being
understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, we will not be required to file such registration statement or provide such a prospectus, and the early settlement right will not be
available, until we have publicly disclosed such transaction or development, <I>provided</I> that we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially reasonable to do so). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon early settlement, except as described below in
&#147;&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change,&#148; we will issue, for each purchase contract being settled, 85% of the number of shares of our common stock that would be deliverable for each purchase contract as described in
&#147;&#151;Purchase of Common Stock&#148; above as if the &#147;applicable market value&#148; were the average of the daily VWAPs of our common stock during the early settlement averaging period. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will cause the related shares of convertible preferred
stock or applicable ownership interests in the Treasury portfolio or Treasury securities, as the case may be, underlying the Equity Units and (if applicable) securing such purchase contract to be released from the pledge under the purchase contract
and pledge agreement, and delivered within two business days following the early settlement date, to the purchase contract agent on behalf of the holder, free and clear of our security interest. In addition, we will issue the number of shares of our
common stock to be issued upon settlement of the purchase contract within two business days following the last day of the early settlement averaging period, to the purchase contract agent for delivery to the holder. Upon early settlement, the holder
will be entitled to receive any accrued and unpaid contract adjustment payments (including any accrued and unpaid deferred contract adjustment payments and compounded contract adjustment payments thereon) to, but excluding, the payment date
immediately preceding the early settlement date. The holder&#146;s right to receive future contract adjustment payments will terminate (except for contract adjustment payments payable to the holders of record on the applicable record date), and no
adjustment will be made to or for the holder on account of any amounts accrued in respect of contract adjustment payments since the most recent payment date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the purchase contract agent receives a completed &#147;Election to Settle Early&#148; form, along with the Corporate Unit or Treasury
Unit certificate, if they are in certificated form, and payment of $100 for each purchase contract being settled prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on any business day and all conditions to early settlement have been satisfied, then that day
will be considered the &#147;early settlement date.&#148; If the purchase contract agent receives the foregoing on or after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on any business day or at any time on a day that is not a business day, then the next business
day will be considered the &#147;early settlement date.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a fundamental change (as defined below) occurs prior to the purchase contract settlement date, then, following the fundamental change,
each holder of a purchase contract, subject to certain conditions described in this prospectus supplement, will have the right to settle the purchase contract early on the fundamental change early settlement date (as defined below) at the settlement
rate determined as if the applicable market value equaled the stock price (as defined below under &#147;&#151;Calculation of Make-Whole Shares&#148;), <I>plus</I> an additional number of shares determined as set forth below (such additional number
referred to as the &#147;make-whole shares&#148;). We refer to this right as the &#147;fundamental change early settlement right.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A &#147;fundamental change&#148; will be deemed to have occurred at the time after the
Equity Units are originally issued if any of the following occurs: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(i) any transaction or event (whether by means of a share exchange or tender offer applicable to our common stock, a liquidation, consolidation, recapitalization, reclassification, combination or merger
of us or a sale, lease or other transfer of all or substantially all of our consolidated assets) or a series of related transactions or events occurs pursuant to which 50% or more of our outstanding common stock is exchanged for, converted into or
constitutes solely the right to receive cash, securities or other property, more than 10% of which consists of cash, securities or other property that is not, or will not be upon consummation of such transaction, listed on a United States national
or regional securities exchange for a period of 30 or more consecutive trading days; or </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(ii) our common stock ceases to be listed or quoted on a United States national or regional securities exchange for 30 or more consecutive trading days. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The fundamental change early settlement right is subject to
the condition that at such time, if so required under U.S. federal securities laws, there is in effect a registration statement and an available prospectus covering shares of our common stock and other securities, if any, to be delivered pursuant to
the purchase contracts being settled. We have agreed that, if required under U.S. federal securities laws, we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to (1)&nbsp;have a registration statement in effect covering our common stock and other
securities, if any, to be delivered in respect of the purchase contracts being settled and (2)&nbsp;provide a prospectus in connection therewith, in each case in a form that may be used in connection with the early settlement upon a fundamental
change (it being understood that if there is a material business transaction or development that has not yet been publicly disclosed, we will not be required to file such registration statement or provide such a prospectus, and the fundamental
change early settlement right will not be available, until we have publicly disclosed such transaction or development, <I>provided</I> that we will use our commercially reasonable efforts to make such disclosure as soon as it is commercially
reasonable to do so). The fundamental change early settlement date will be postponed by the number of days during the period on which no such registration statement is effective, except that the fundamental change early settlement date will not be
postponed beyond the purchase contract settlement date. If, but for the exception contained in the immediately preceding sentence, the fundamental change early settlement date would occur on or after the purchase contract settlement date, we will
deliver to any holder of purchase contracts on the purchase contract settlement date the applicable number of make-whole shares in addition to a number of shares equal to the settlement rate, determined as if the applicable market value were equal
to the stock price (as defined below under &#147;&#151;Calculation of Make-Whole Shares&#148;) in such fundamental change. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will provide each holder of Equity Units with a notice of a fundamental change within five business days after the effective date of
the fundamental change. The notice will specify: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) a date on which the fundamental change early settlement will occur (the &#147;fundamental change early settlement date&#148;), which
will be at least 10 business days after the effective date of such fundamental change but, subject to the foregoing, no later than the earlier of (x) 20 business days after the effective date of such fundamental change and (y)&nbsp;one business day
prior to (i)&nbsp;the first day of the commencement of an optional remarketing period, or (ii)&nbsp;if we have not specified an optional remarketing period or the optional remarketing is not successful, the first day of the commencement of the final
remarketing period or, if the final remarketing is not successful, the purchase contract settlement date; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) the date by which holders must exercise the fundamental change early settlement right; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3) the settlement rate and number of make-whole shares;
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) the amount and kind (per share of our common
stock) of the cash, securities and other consideration receivable by the holder upon settlement; and </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(5) the amount of accrued and unpaid contract adjustment payments (including any deferred
contract adjustment payments and compounded contract adjustment payments thereon), if any, that will be paid upon settlement to holders exercising the fundamental change early settlement right. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the final remarketing
period begins less than 10 business days following the occurrence of a fundamental change, the notice will specify the purchase contract settlement date as the fundamental change early settlement date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To exercise the fundamental change early settlement right, a
holder must, no later than the second business day prior to the fundamental change early settlement date: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">deliver to the purchase contract agent a completed &#147;Election to Settle Early Following a Fundamental Change&#148; form;
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">deliver to the purchase contract agent the certificate evidencing the holder&#146;s Corporate Units or Treasury Units, if in certificated form; and
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">deliver to the purchase contract agent cash in immediately available funds equal to $100 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of purchase contracts being
settled. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as you hold
Equity Units as a beneficial interest in a global security certificate deposited with the depositary, procedures for fundamental change early settlement will also be governed by standing arrangements between the depositary and the purchase contract
agent. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you exercise the fundamental change
early settlement right, we will deliver to you on the fundamental change early settlement date for each purchase contract with respect to which you have elected fundamental change early settlement, a number of shares of our common stock (or exchange
property units as defined under &#147;&#151;Reorganization Events&#148;, if applicable) equal to the settlement rate described above <I>plus</I> the additional make-whole shares, together with accrued and unpaid contract adjustment payments to the
fundamental change early settlement date; <I>provided</I> that if a fundamental change early settlement date falls after a record date and on or prior to the corresponding payment date, we will pay the full amount of accrued and unpaid contract
adjustment payments, if any, due on such payment date to the holder of record at the close of business on the corresponding record date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The holder will also receive on the fundamental change early settlement date the shares of convertible preferred stock or the applicable
ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio or Treasury securities underlying the Corporate Units or Treasury Units, as the case may be, with respect to which such holder is effecting a fundamental change early settlement, which, in each case, if
applicable, will have been released from the pledge under the purchase contract and pledge agreement and delivered to the purchase contract agent, on behalf of the holder, free and clear of our security interest. If a holder does not elect to
exercise the fundamental change early settlement right, its Corporate Units or Treasury Units will remain outstanding and subject to normal settlement on the purchase contract settlement date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of Corporate Units and Treasury Units may exercise the fundamental change early settlement right only
in integral multiples of 10 purchase contracts. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The terms of the convertible preferred stock provide that if a fundamental change occurs on or after a successful remarketing of the
convertible preferred stock, there will be no fundamental change conversion right. See &#147;&#151;Conversion Rights&#151;Adjusted Conversion Rate Upon a Fundamental Change.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Calculation of Make-Whole
Shares</I></B><B>.</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The number of make-whole shares per purchase contract applicable to a fundamental change early settlement will be determined by reference to the table below, based on the date on
</FONT></P>
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which the fundamental change occurs or becomes effective (the &#147;effective date&#148;) and the &#147;stock price&#148; in the fundamental change, which will be: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in the case of a fundamental change described in clause (i)&nbsp;of the definition of fundamental change above where all holders of our common stock
receive only cash in the fundamental change, the cash amount paid per share of our common stock; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in all other cases, the average of the closing prices of our common stock for the 10 consecutive trading days immediately prior to but not including
the effective date. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For
purposes of this &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#148; section, the stock prices set forth in the first row of the table (i.e., the column headers) will be adjusted upon the occurrence of certain events requiring anti-dilution
adjustments to the maximum settlement rate in a manner inversely proportional to the adjustments to the maximum settlement rate. Each of the make-whole share amounts in the table will be adjusted upon the occurrence of certain events requiring
anti-dilution adjustments to the maximum settlement rate in the same manner and at the same time as the maximum settlement rate. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Stock Price </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The actual stock price and
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">if the actual stock price is between two stock prices on the table or the actual effective date is between two effective dates on the table, the amount
of make-whole shares will be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the make-whole share amounts set forth for the two stock prices and the two effective dates on the table based on a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">365-day</FONT>
year, as applicable; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">if the stock price exceeds $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per share, subject to adjustment in the same manner as the stock prices in
the table above, then the make-whole share amount will be zero; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">if the stock price is less than $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per share, subject to adjustment in the same manner as the stock
prices in the table above (the &#147;minimum stock price&#148;), then the make-whole share amount will be determined as if the stock price equaled the minimum stock price, using straight-line interpolation, as described above, if the actual
effective date is between two effective dates on the table. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Contract Adjustment Payments </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contract adjustment payments in respect of Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units will be payable in cash, shares of our common stock or a combination thereof, unless we have previously
irrevocably elected a contract adjustment payment method to apply, at a rate per year of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the stated amount of $100 per purchase contract. Contract adjustment payments payable for any period will be computed (1)&nbsp;for
any full quarterly period 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 and (2)&nbsp;for any period shorter than a full quarterly period, on the basis of a <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> month and, for any period less than a month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> month. Contract adjustment payments will accrue from the date
of original issuance of the Corporate Units to (but excluding) the earliest occurrence of a termination event, the purchase contract settlement date, the fundamental change early settlement date (if applicable) and the most recent payment date on or
before any early settlement of the related purchase contracts (if applicable), and will be payable quarterly in arrears on February&nbsp;15, May&nbsp;15, August&nbsp;15 and November&nbsp;15 of each year, commencing on May&nbsp;15, 2021 (each, a
&#147;payment date&#148;). </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contract adjustment payments will be payable to the holders of purchase contracts as they
appear on the books and records of the purchase contract agent at the close of business on the relevant record dates, which will be the first day of the month in which the relevant payment date falls (whether or not a business day) or if the Equity
Units are held in global book-entry form, the record date will be the business day immediately preceding the applicable payment date. Contract adjustment payments will be payable to such record holders notwithstanding the occurrence of any early
settlement date or fundamental change early settlement date following a record date and on or prior to the open of business on the related payment date, except that holders will be required to pay us, in connection with any early settlement (other
than in connection with a fundamental change), an equivalent payment as described under &#147;&#151;Early Settlement&#148; above. These distributions will be paid through the purchase contract agent, who will distribute amounts received in respect
of the contract adjustment payments for the benefit of the holders of the purchase contracts relating to the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any date on which contract adjustment payments are to be
made is not a business day, then payment of the contract adjustment payments payable on that date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a business day and no interest or payment will be paid in respect of the delay, if any. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our obligations with respect to contract adjustment payments
will be subordinated and junior in right of payment to our existing and future indebtedness. Upon certain events of our bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization, holders of our Equity Units will have no claims against us or our estate for any
accrued and unpaid (including any deferred) contract adjustment payments. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may, at our option and upon prior written notice to the holders of the Equity Units and the purchase contract agent, defer the payment of contract adjustment payments on the related purchase contracts
forming a part of the Equity Units until the purchase contract settlement date; <I>provided</I>, <I>however</I>, that in (x)&nbsp;an early settlement upon a fundamental change, we will pay deferred contract adjustment payments (including compounded
contract adjustment payments thereon as described below) to, but excluding, the fundamental change early settlement date and (y)&nbsp;an early settlement other than upon a fundamental change, we will pay deferred contract adjustment payments
(including compounded contract adjustment payments thereon as described below) to, but excluding, the payment date immediately preceding the early settlement date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Deferred contract adjustment payments will accrue additional
contract adjustment payments at the rate of&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per year until paid, compounded quarterly, which is equal to the rate of total distributions on the Corporate Units (compounding on each succeeding payment date), to, but
excluding, the date such deferred contract adjustment payments are made. We refer to these additional contract adjustment payments that accrue on deferred contract adjustment payments as &#147;compounded contract adjustment payments.&#148; We may
pay any such deferred contract adjustment payments (including compounded contract adjustment payments thereon) on any scheduled payment date. If the purchase contracts are terminated (upon the occurrence of certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency
or reorganization with respect to us), the right to receive contract adjustment payments and deferred contract adjustment payments (including compounded contract adjustment payments thereon) will also terminate. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we exercise our option to defer the payment of contract
adjustment payments, then, until the deferred contract adjustment payments (including compounded contract adjustment payments thereon) have been paid, we will not declare or pay any dividends or make any distributions on, or redeem, purchase or
acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of our capital stock (including the convertible preferred stock and Series B preferred stock). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The restrictions listed above do not apply to: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of our capital stock in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement
with or for the benefit of employees, officers, directors, </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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agents or consultants or a stock purchase or dividend reinvestment plan, or the satisfaction of our obligations pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date that the contract
adjustment payment is deferred requiring us to purchase, redeem or acquire our capital stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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class or series of our capital stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any purchase of, or payment of cash in lieu of, fractional interests in shares of our capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions
of such capital stock or the securities being converted or exchanged; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any dividend or distribution in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or stock issuable upon exercise of such
warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks equally with or junior to such stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">redemptions, exchanges or repurchases of, or with respect to, any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan outstanding on the date that the
contract adjustment payment is deferred or the declaration or payment thereunder of a dividend or distribution of or with respect to rights in the future; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">payments on any trust preferred securities, subordinated debentures, junior subordinated debentures or junior subordinated notes, or any guarantees of
any of the foregoing, in each case, that rank equal in right of payment to the contract adjustment payments, so long as the amount of payments made on account of such securities or guarantees and the purchase contracts is paid on all such securities
and guarantees and the purchase contracts then outstanding on a pro rata basis in proportion to the full payment to which each series of such securities, guarantees or purchase contracts is then entitled if paid in full;
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR style = "page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">delivery of Series B preferred stock and (if applicable) our common stock, and/or payment of cash in lieu of any fractional share of our common stock,
in each case, upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR style = "page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">payments on the convertible preferred stock or the Series B preferred stock (if any), in each case so long as the amount of payments made on account of
such convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock (if any) and the purchase contracts is paid on all such convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock (if any) and the purchase contracts then outstanding on a pro rata basis in
proportion to the full payment to which each such convertible preferred stock, Series B preferred stock or purchase contract is then entitled if paid in full; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR style = "page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any payment of deferred interest or principal on, or repayment, redemption or repurchase of, parity or junior securities that, if not made, would cause
us to breach the terms of the instrument governing such parity or junior securities. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Method of Payment of Contract Adjustment Payments </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the limitations described below, we may elect to
pay any contract adjustment payment (or any portion of any contract adjustment payment) on the Equity Units (whether or not for a current quarterly period or any prior quarterly period), determined in our sole discretion: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR style = "page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in cash; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR style = "page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">by delivery of shares of our common stock; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR style = "page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">through any combination of cash and shares of our common stock. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will make each contract adjustment payment in cash, except
to the extent we elect, or have previously elected, to make all or any portion of such payment in shares of our common stock. To the extent we do not elect to defer such payment, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a contract adjustment
payment method, we will give the holders of the Equity Units notice of any election with respect to any particular contract adjustment payment and the portion of such payment that will be made in cash and the portion that will be made in common
stock no later than eight scheduled trading days prior to the payment date for such contract adjustment payment. </FONT></P>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">S-82
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we elect, or have previously irrevocably elected, to make any such contract adjustment
payment, or any portion thereof, in shares of our common stock, such shares will be valued for such purpose at the average of the daily VWAPs per share of our common stock over the five consecutive trading day period ending on the second trading day
immediately preceding the applicable payment date (the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;five-day</FONT> average price&#148;), <I>multiplied by</I> 97%. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Without the consent of any holders of purchase contracts, we may, by notice to such holders through the purchase contract agent,
irrevocably elect whether we will pay contract adjustment payments in cash, shares of our common stock or a combination thereof (a &#147;contract adjustment payment method&#148;) and, if applicable, the amount or percentage of a contract adjustment
payment to be paid in common stock that will apply to any contract adjustment payment following such notice (unless a contract adjustment payment method has previously been designated) and, subject to the foregoing, specify the effective time of
such election (which may be any time subsequent to the delivery of such notice). Our irrevocable election of a contract adjustment payment method as described herein may be made by us in our sole discretion. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No fractional shares of our common stock will be delivered to
the holders of the Equity Units in respect of contract adjustment payments. We will instead pay a cash adjustment to each holder that would otherwise be entitled to a fraction of a share of our common stock based on (i)&nbsp;the <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">five-day</FONT> average price and (ii)&nbsp;the aggregate number of Equity Units held by such holder (or, if the Equity Units are held in global book-entry form, based on the applicable procedures of the depositary for
determining such number of Equity Units). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To the
extent a shelf registration statement is required in our reasonable judgment in connection with the issuance of or for resales of common stock issued as a contract adjustment payment, including contract adjustment payments paid in connection with a
fundamental change early settlement, we will, to the extent such a registration statement is not currently filed and effective, use our commercially reasonable efforts to file and maintain the effectiveness of such a shelf registration statement
until the earlier of such time as all such shares of our common stock have been resold thereunder and such time as all such shares are freely tradable by <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-affiliates</FONT> of ours without registration. To the
extent applicable, we will also use our commercially reasonable efforts to have the shares of our common stock qualified or registered under applicable state securities laws, if required, and approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange (or
if our common stock is not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which our common stock is then listed). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Anti-dilution Adjustments </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The maximum settlement rate will be subject to the following
adjustments: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) If we issue common stock as a
dividend or distribution on our common stock to all or substantially all holders of our common stock, or if we effect a share split or share combination, the maximum settlement rate will be adjusted based on the following formula: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT> =
SR<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT> x (OS<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT>/OS<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT>) </I></FONT></P>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">S-83
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where, </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></I></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution or immediately prior to the open of business
on the effective date for such share split or share combination, as the case may be;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></I></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately after the close of business on such record date or such effective date, as the case may be;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>OS<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></I></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the close of business on such record date or such effective date, as the case may be, in each case,
prior to giving effect to such event; and</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>OS<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></I></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the number of shares of our common stock that would be outstanding immediately after, and solely as a result of, such event.</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any adjustment made
pursuant to this paragraph (1)&nbsp;will become effective as of the close of business on (x)&nbsp;the record date for such dividend or other distribution or (y)&nbsp;the effective date for such share split or share combination becomes effective, as
applicable. If any dividend or distribution in this paragraph (1)&nbsp;is declared but not so paid or made, the new maximum settlement rate will be readjusted, on the date that our board of directors determines not to pay or make such dividend or
distribution, to the maximum settlement rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) If we distribute to all or substantially all holders of our common stock any rights, options or warrants entitling them for a period
of not more than 60 calendar days after the date of distribution thereof to subscribe for or purchase our common stock, in any case at an exercise price per share of our common stock less than the closing price of our common stock on the trading day
immediately preceding the date of announcement of such distribution, the maximum settlement rate will be increased based on the following formula: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></FONT></I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = SR</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> x (OS</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> + X) / OS</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> + Y) </FONT></I></FONT></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where, </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></I></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such distribution;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></I></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately after the close of business on such record date;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>OS<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></I></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such distribution;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>X</I></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the total number of shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>Y</I></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the number of shares of our common stock equal to the quotient of (A)&nbsp;the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants <I>divided by</I> (B)&nbsp;the
closing price of our common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the date of announcement for the distribution of such rights, options or warrants.</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any right, option or
warrant described in this paragraph (2)&nbsp;is not exercised prior to the expiration of the exercisability thereof (and as a result no additional shares of our common stock are delivered or issued pursuant to such rights or warrants), the new
maximum settlement rate will be readjusted, as of the date of such expiration, to the maximum settlement rate that would then be in effect had the increase with respect to the distribution of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis
of delivery or issuance of only the number of shares of our common stock actually delivered. </FONT></P>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">S-84
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of this paragraph (2), in determining whether any rights, options or warrants
entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of our common stock at a price per share of our common stock less than the closing price of our common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such
distribution, and in determining the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants, there will be taken into account any consideration received by us for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or
conversion thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined in good faith by our board of directors. Any increase made under this paragraph (2)&nbsp;will be made successively whenever any such rights, options or
warrants are distributed and will become effective immediately after the close of business on the record date for such distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3)(a) If we distribute shares of capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other assets or property of us or rights, options or
warrants to acquire our capital stock or other securities to all or substantially all holders of our common stock (excluding (i)&nbsp;any dividend, distribution, share split and share combination described in clause (1)&nbsp;or (2)&nbsp;above,
(ii)&nbsp;any dividend or distribution paid exclusively in cash, and (iii)&nbsp;any <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">spin-off</FONT> to which the provisions in clause (3)(b) below apply), the maximum settlement rate will be increased based on the
following formula: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></FONT></I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1<I></I>
</SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = SR</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> x SP</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> / (SP</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> &#150; FMV) </FONT></I></FONT></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where, </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such distribution;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately after the close of business on such record date;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the closing price of our common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution;
and</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">FMV</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the fair market value (as determined in good faith by our board of directors), on the record date for such dividend or distribution, of the shares of capital stock, evidences of
indebtedness, assets or property so distributed, expressed as an amount per share of our common stock.</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">An adjustment to the
maximum settlement rate made pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph shall become effective as of the close of business on the record date for such distribution. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, if
&#147;FMV&#148; (as defined above) is equal to or greater than &#147;SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#148; (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each holder of a purchase contract will receive, for each purchase contract, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of shares of
our common stock, the amount of such distributed shares of capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other assets or property that such holder would have received if such holder owned a number of shares of our common stock equal to the maximum
settlement rate on the record date for such dividend or distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) However, if we distribute to all or substantially all holders of our common stock, capital stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a subsidiary or other business
unit, that is, or, when issued, will be, listed or admitted for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange, which we refer to as a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;spin-off&#148;,</FONT> then the maximum settlement rate will instead be
increased based on the following formula: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></FONT></I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1<I></I></SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = SR</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> x (FMV</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> +&nbsp;MP</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">) / MP</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> </FONT></I></FONT></FONT></P>
 <p STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">S-85
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where, </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately prior to the end of the valuation period (as defined below);</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately after the end of the valuation period;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">FMV</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the average of the closing prices of the capital stock or similar equity interests distributed to holders of our common stock applicable to one share of our common stock over
each of the 10 consecutive trading days commencing on, and including, the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such dividend or distribution with respect to our common stock on the New York Stock Exchange or such other U.S.
national or regional exchange or market that is at that time the principal exchange or market for our common stock (the &#147;valuation period&#148;); and</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">MP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0 </SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the average of the closing prices of our common stock over the valuation period.</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The adjustment to the
maximum settlement rate under this paragraph (3)(b) will occur at the close of business on the last trading day of the valuation period; <I>provided</I> that if a holder elects to early settle the purchase contracts, or the purchase contract
settlement date occurs, in either case, during the valuation period, references with respect to 10 trading days will be deemed replaced with such lesser number of trading days as have elapsed between the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date of such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">spin-off</FONT> and the date on which such holder elected its early settlement right, or the business day immediately preceding the purchase contract
settlement date, as the case may be, in determining the maximum settlement rate. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any dividend or distribution described in this paragraph (3)(b)&nbsp;is declared but not so paid or made, the new maximum settlement rate will be readjusted, as of the date our board of directors
determines not to pay or make such dividend or distribution, to the maximum settlement rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) If any regular, quarterly cash dividend or distribution
is made to all or substantially all holders of our common stock during any quarterly fiscal period exceeds $0.1505 per share (the &#147;reference dividend&#148;), the maximum settlement rate will be increased based on the following formula:
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></FONT></I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1<I></I>
</SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = SR</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> x [(SP</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> &#150; T) / (SP</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> &#150; C)] </FONT></I></FONT></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where, </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><DIV ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the record date for such distribution;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately after the close of business on such record date;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="page-break-inside:avoid">
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the closing price of our common stock on the record date for such distribution;</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">C</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the amount in cash per share we distribute to holders of our common stock; and</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="font-size:1pt">
<TD HEIGHT="8"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD>
<TD HEIGHT="8" COLSPAN="2"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">T</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the reference dividend; <I>provided</I> that if the dividend or distribution is not a regular quarterly cash dividend, the reference dividend will be deemed to be
zero.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, if &#147;C&#148; (as defined above) is equal to or greater than &#147;SP</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#148; (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each holder
of a purchase contract will receive, for each purchase contract, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of shares of our common stock, the amount of distributed cash that such holder would have received if such holder owned a number of
shares of our common stock equal to the maximum settlement rate on the record date for such cash dividend or distribution. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The reference dividend will be subject to an inversely proportional adjustment whenever the
maximum settlement rate is adjusted, other than pursuant to this paragraph (4). The reference dividend will be zero in the case of a cash dividend that is not a regular quarterly dividend. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any increase to the maximum settlement rate made pursuant to this paragraph (4)&nbsp;shall become effective as
of the close of business on the record date for such dividend or distribution. If any dividend or distribution described in this paragraph (4)&nbsp;is declared but not so paid or made, the new maximum settlement rate will be readjusted, as of the
date our board of directors determines not to pay or make such dividend or distribution, to the maximum settlement rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(5) If we or any of our subsidiaries makes a payment in
respect of a tender offer or exchange offer for our common stock, other than an odd lot tender offer, to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of our common stock validly tendered or
exchanged exceeds the closing price of a share of our common stock on the trading day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the maximum settlement rate will be increased
based on the following formula: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>SR<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></FONT></I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1<I></I></SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = SR</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> x </FONT></I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">[<I></I>(<I>FMV + </I>(<I>SP<FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></FONT></I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1<I></I>
</SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> x OS</FONT><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1<I></I></SUB><I></I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">)<I></I>]<I> / </I>(<I>SP<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></FONT></I><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1<I></I></SUB><I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> x OS</FONT><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></I><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0<I></I></SUB><I></I><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">)<I>
</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where, </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the trading day immediately following the date on which such tender or exchange offer
expires;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the maximum settlement rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the trading day immediately following the date on which such tender or exchange offer
expires;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">FMV</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the fair market value (as determined in good faith by our board of directors, whose good faith determination will be conclusive), at the close of business on the trading day
immediately following the date on which such tender or exchange offer expires, of the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration paid or payable for shares validly tendered or exchanged and not withdrawn as of the expiration
date;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the last time tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (prior to
giving effect to the purchase or exchange of shares pursuant to such tender or exchange offer);</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately after the last time tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (after giving
effect to the purchase or exchange of shares pursuant to such tender or exchange offer); and</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the closing price of our common stock for the trading day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires.</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE></DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The adjustment to the
maximum settlement rate under the preceding paragraph (5)&nbsp;shall become effective at the close of business on the trading day immediately following the date on which such tender or exchange offer expires. If we or one of our subsidiaries is
obligated to purchase our common stock pursuant to any such tender or exchange offer but is permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such purchase or all such purchases are rescinded, the new maximum settlement rate shall be
readjusted to be the maximum settlement rate that would be in effect if such tender or exchange offer had not been made. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The term <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;ex-dividend</FONT> date,&#148; when used with respect to any issuance or distribution on
our common stock or any other security, means the first date on which our common stock or such other security, as applicable, trades, regular way, on the principal U.S. securities exchange or market on which our common stock or such other security,
as applicable, is listed or traded at that time, without the right to receive the issuance or distribution in question, from the Company or the issuer of such security, as the case may be, or, if applicable, from the seller of our common stock or
such security, as the case may be, on such exchange or market (in the form of due bills or otherwise) as determined by such exchange or market. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we have a shareholders rights plan involving the issuance of share purchase rights or
other similar rights to all or substantially all holders of our common stock in effect upon settlement of a purchase contract, you will receive, in addition to the common stock issuable upon settlement of any purchase contract, the related rights
for the common stock under the shareholders rights plan, unless, prior to any settlement of a purchase contract, the rights have separated from the common stock, in which case the maximum settlement rate will be adjusted at the time of separation as
if we made a distribution to all holders of our common stock as described in clause (3)(a)&nbsp;above, subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of the rights under the shareholder rights plan. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You might be treated as receiving a constructive distribution
from us if (1)&nbsp;the maximum settlement rate under the purchase contract is adjusted and as a result of such adjustment your proportionate interest in our assets or earnings and profits is increased and (2)&nbsp;the adjustment is not made
pursuant to a <I>bona fide</I>, reasonable anti-dilution formula. For example, an adjustment to the maximum settlement rate would not be considered made pursuant to such a formula if the adjustment were made to compensate you for taxable
distributions with respect to our common stock (such as if we increase the cash dividend on our common stock). Thus, under certain circumstances, an increase in the maximum settlement rate might give rise to a taxable dividend to you even though you
will not receive any cash related thereto. In addition, in certain situations, you might be treated as receiving a constructive distribution if we fail to adjust the maximum settlement rate. Any deemed distribution will be taxable as a dividend,
return of capital, or capital gain in accordance with the earnings and profits rules described below under &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Common Stock Acquired under
a Purchase Contract or upon Conversion&#151;Distributions.&#148; In addition, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holders (as defined in &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#148;) may, in certain
circumstances, be deemed to have received a distribution subject to United States federal withholding tax. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, we may increase the maximum settlement rate if our board of directors deems it advisable to avoid or diminish any income tax
to holders of our common stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of shares (or rights to acquire shares) or from any event treated as a dividend or distribution for income tax purposes or for any other reasons. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Adjustments to the maximum settlement rate will be calculated
to the nearest ten thousandth of a share. No adjustment to the maximum settlement rate will be required unless the adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent in the maximum settlement rate. If any adjustment is not
required to be made because it would not change the maximum settlement rate by at least one percent, then the adjustment will be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. All adjustments will be made not later than the
purchase contract settlement date, any early settlement date and the time at which we are required to determine the relevant settlement rate or amount of make-whole shares (if applicable) in connection with any settlement with respect to the
purchase contracts. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No adjustment to the maximum
settlement rate will be made if holders of Equity Units participate, as a result of holding the Equity Units and without having to settle the purchase contracts that form part of the Equity Units, in the transaction that would otherwise give rise to
an adjustment as if they held, per purchase contract, a number of shares of our common stock equal to the maximum settlement rate, at the same time and upon the same terms as the holders of common stock participate in the transaction. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except as described above, the maximum settlement rate will
not be adjusted: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">upon the issuance of any shares of our common stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest
payable on our securities and the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of our common stock under any plan; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">upon the issuance of options, restricted stock or other awards in connection with any employment contract, executive compensation plan, benefit plan or
other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or independent contractors or the exercise of such options or other awards; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">upon the issuance of any shares of our common stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security
outstanding as of the date the Equity Units were first issued; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">for a change in the par value or no par value of the common stock; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">for accrued and unpaid contract adjustment payments. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will, as promptly as practicable after the maximum
settlement rate is adjusted, provide written notice of the adjustment to the holders of Equity Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If an adjustment is made to the maximum settlement rate, an adjustment also will be made to the reference price on an inversely
proportional basis solely to determine which of the clauses of the definition of settlement rate will be applicable to determine the settlement rate with respect to the purchase contract settlement date, any early settlement date or any fundamental
change early settlement date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any adjustment
to the maximum settlement rate becomes effective, or any effective date, expiration time, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-date</FONT> or record date for any stock split or reverse stock split, tender or exchange offer, issuance, dividend or
distribution (relating to a required maximum settlement rate adjustment) occurs, during the period beginning on, and including, (i)&nbsp;the open of business on a first trading day of the market value averaging period or (ii)&nbsp;in the case of any
early settlement or fundamental change early settlement, the relevant early settlement date or the fundamental change early settlement date and, in each case, ending on, and including, the date on which we deliver shares of our common stock under
the related purchase contract, we will make appropriate adjustments to the maximum settlement rate, the reference price and/or the number of shares of our common stock deliverable upon settlement with respect to the purchase contract, in each case,
consistent with the methodology used to determine the anti-dilution adjustments set forth above. If any adjustment to the maximum settlement rate becomes effective, or any effective date, expiration time,
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-date</FONT> or record date for any stock split or reverse stock split, tender or exchange offer, issuance, dividend or distribution (in each case, relating to a required maximum settlement rate adjustment) occurs,
during the period used to determine the applicable market value, the &#147;stock price&#148; or any other averaging period or similar period hereunder, we will make appropriate adjustments to the applicable prices, consistent with the methodology
used to determine the anti-dilution adjustments set forth above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Reorganization Events </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following events are defined as &#147;reorganization events&#148;: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any recapitalization, reclassification or change of our common stock (other than changes resulting from a subdivision or combination);
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any consolidation, merger or combination involving us; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any sale, lease or other transfer to another person of the consolidated assets of ours and our subsidiaries substantially as an entirety; or
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any statutory exchange of our common stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in each case, as a result of which our common stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets
(including cash or any combination thereof) (&#147;exchange property&#148;). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Following the effective date of a reorganization event, the settlement rate will be determined by reference to the value of an exchange property unit, and we will deliver, upon settlement of any purchase
contract, a number of exchange property units equal to the number of shares of our common stock that we would otherwise be </FONT></P>
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required to deliver. An &#147;exchange property unit&#148; is the kind and amount of exchange property receivable in such reorganization event (without any interest thereon, and without any right
to dividends or distribution thereon which have a record date that is prior to the applicable settlement date) per share of our common stock by a holder of common stock that is not a person with which we are consolidated or into which we are merged
or which merged into us or to which such sale or transfer was made, as the case may be (we refer to any such person as a &#147;constituent person&#148;), or an affiliate of a constituent person, to the extent such reorganization event provides for
different treatment of common stock held by the constituent person and/or the affiliates of the constituent person, on the one hand, and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-affiliates</FONT> of a constituent person, on the other hand. In the event
holders of our common stock (other than any constituent person or affiliate thereof) have the opportunity to elect the form of consideration to be received in such transaction, the exchange property unit that holders of the Corporate Units or
Treasury Units are entitled to receive will be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration received by the holders of our common stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of such a reorganization event, the person
formed by such consolidation or surviving such merger or, if other than us, the person which acquires our assets and those of our subsidiaries substantially as an entirety will execute and deliver to the purchase contract agent an agreement
providing that the holder of each Equity Unit that remains outstanding after the reorganization event (if any) will have the rights described in the preceding paragraph and expressly assuming all of our obligations under the purchase contracts, the
purchase contract and pledge agreement, the convertible preferred stock, any Series B preferred stock and the remarketing agreement. Such supplemental agreement will provide for adjustments to the amount of any securities constituting all or a
portion of an exchange property unit and/or adjustments to the maximum settlement rate, which, for events subsequent to the effective date of such reorganization event, will be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable, as determined by us in our
sole commercially reasonable discretion, to the adjustments provided for under &#147;&#151;Anti-dilution Adjustments&#148; above (it being understood that no such adjustments will be required with respect to any portion of the exchange property that
consists of cash). In connection with any reorganization event, we will also adjust the reference dividend based on the number of shares of our common stock comprising an exchange property unit and (if applicable) the value of any <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-stock</FONT> consideration comprising an exchange property unit. If an exchange property unit is composed solely of <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-stock</FONT> consideration, the reference dividend will be zero.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The provisions described in the preceding three
paragraphs will similarly apply to successive reorganization events. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Termination </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contract and pledge agreement provides that the purchase contracts and the obligations and rights of us and of the holders of Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units
thereunder, including the holders&#146; obligation and right to purchase and receive shares of our common stock and the right to receive accrued and unpaid contract adjustment payments (including deferred contract adjustment payments), will
immediately and automatically terminate upon the occurrence of certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization with respect to us. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon any such termination and receipt of written notice from the purchase contract agent of the same, the collateral agent will release
the convertible preferred stock, the relevant portion of the applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities or cash, as the case may be, from the pledge arrangement and transfer such convertible preferred stock, the
relevant portion of the applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities or cash to the purchase contract agent for distribution to the holders of Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units. Upon any
termination, however, such release and distribution may be subject to a delay. In the event that we become the subject of a case under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, such delay may occur as a result of the automatic stay under Section&nbsp;362 of the
U.S. Bankruptcy Code or other relief sought by the collateral agent, the purchase contract agent or other party </FONT></P>
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asserting an interest in the pledged assets or contending that such termination is not effective and may continue until such automatic stay has been lifted or efforts to obtain such other relief
has been resolved against such party. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Moreover,
claims arising out of the convertible preferred stock will be subject to the equitable jurisdiction and powers of the bankruptcy court. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Pledged Assets and Pledge </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The shares of convertible preferred stock that are a component of the Corporate Units or, following a successful optional remarketing,
solely with respect to the Treasury securities described in clause (1)&nbsp;of the definition of applicable ownership interest, the applicable ownership interests in the Treasury portfolio, that are a component of the Corporate Units or, if
substituted, the Treasury securities that are a component of the Treasury Units or cash that is a component of the Cash Settled Units, collectively, the &#147;pledged assets,&#148; will be pledged to the collateral agent for our benefit pursuant to
the purchase contract and pledge agreement to secure your obligation to purchase shares of our common stock under the related purchase contracts. The rights of the holders of the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units with respect to
such pledged assets will be subject to our security interest therein. No holder of Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units will be permitted to withdraw the pledged assets related to such Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled
Units from the pledge arrangement except: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in the case of Corporate Units, to substitute a Treasury security or cash, as the case may be, for the related convertible preferred stock as provided
for under &#147;Description of the Equity Units&#151;Creating Treasury Units by Substituting a Treasury Security for Convertible Preferred Stock&#148; and &#147;Description of the Equity Units&#151;Creating Cash Settled Units from Corporate
Units&#148;; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in the case of Treasury Units, to substitute convertible preferred stock for the related Treasury security, as provided for under &#147;Description of
the Equity Units&#151;Recreating Corporate Units from Treasury Units&#148;; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">upon any early settlement, cash settlement or termination of the related purchase contracts. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to our security interest and the terms of the
purchase contract and pledge agreement, each holder of Corporate Units, unless the Treasury portfolio has replaced the convertible preferred stock as a component of the Corporate Units, will be entitled through the purchase contract agent and the
collateral agent to all of the proportional rights and preferences of the related convertible preferred stock. Each holder of Treasury Units and each holder of Corporate Units, if the Treasury portfolio has replaced the convertible preferred stock
as a component of the Corporate Units, will retain ownership of the related Treasury securities or, solely with respect to the Treasury securities described in clause (1)&nbsp;of the definition of applicable ownership interest, the applicable
ownership interests in the Treasury portfolio, as applicable, pledged in respect of the related purchase contracts. Each holder of Cash Settled Units will retain ownership of the related cash pledged in respect of the related purchase contracts. We
will have no interest in the pledged assets other than our security interest. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except as described in &#147;Certain Provisions of the Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement&#151;General,&#148; upon receipt of distributions on the pledged assets, the collateral agent will distribute
such payments to the purchase contract agent, which in turn will distribute those payments, together with contract adjustment payments received from us, to the holders in whose names the Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units are
registered at the close of business on the record date preceding the date of such distribution. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_11"></A>CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AND PLEDGE
AGREEMENT </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>The following is a summary of
certain provisions of the purchase contract and pledge agreement among us, the purchase contract agent and the collateral agent, the custodial agent and the securities intermediary. The following summary does not purport to be complete and is
subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, all of the provisions of the purchase contract and pledge agreement, including the definitions in the purchase contract and pledge agreement of certain terms. Wherever particular sections
or defined terms of the purchase contract and pledge agreement are referred to, such sections or defined terms are incorporated into this prospectus supplement by reference. </I></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>As used in this Description of the Purchase Contract and
Pledge Agreement, &#147;we,&#148; &#147;us,&#148; &#147;our&#148; or &#147;the Company&#148; refer only to The AES Corporation and any successor obligor, and not to any of its subsidiaries. </I></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>General </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Except as described under &#147;&#151;Book-Entry System for Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled
Units&#148; below, payments on the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units will be payable, the purchase contracts will be settled and transfers of the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units will be registrable at the
designated corporate trust office of the purchase contract agent in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. In addition, if the Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units do not remain in book-entry only form, we have the option
to make payments on the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as shown on the security register or by a wire transfer to the account designated by the holder by a prior
written notice. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Shares of our common stock will
be delivered on the purchase contract settlement date (or earlier upon early settlement), or, if the purchase contracts have terminated, the related pledged assets will be delivered (potentially after a delay as a result of the imposition of the
automatic stay under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, see &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Termination&#148;) at the designated corporate trust office of the purchase contract agent upon presentation and surrender of the applicable
Corporate Unit, Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit certificate, if in certificated form. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units are in certificated form and a holder fails to present and surrender the certificate evidencing the Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled
Units to the purchase contract agent on or prior to the purchase contract settlement date, the shares of our common stock issuable upon settlement of the related purchase contract will be registered in the name of the purchase contract agent. The
shares of our common stock, together with any distributions, will be held by the purchase contract agent as agent for the benefit of the holder until the certificate is presented and surrendered or the holder provides satisfactory evidence that the
certificate has been destroyed, lost or stolen, together with satisfactory indemnity or security to the purchase contract agent and us. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the purchase contracts terminate prior to the purchase contract settlement date, the related pledged assets are transferred to the
purchase contract agent for distribution to the holders, and a holder fails to present and surrender the certificate evidencing the holder&#146;s Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units, if in certificated form, to the purchase
contract agent, the related pledged assets delivered to the purchase contract agent and payments on the pledged assets will be held by the purchase contract agent as agent for the benefit of the holder until the applicable certificate is presented,
if in certificated form, or the holder provides the evidence and indemnity or security described above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No service charge will be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units,
except for any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contract agent will have no obligation to invest or to pay interest on any
amounts held by the purchase contract agent pending payment to any holder. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Modification </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contract and pledge agreement will contain provisions permitting us, the purchase contract agent and the collateral agent, to modify the purchase contract and pledge agreement without the
consent of the holders for any of the following purposes: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to evidence the succession of another person to our obligations; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to add to the covenants for the benefit of holders or to surrender any of our rights or powers under those agreements; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment of a successor purchase contract agent or a successor collateral agent or securities
intermediary; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to conform the provisions of the purchase contract and pledge agreement to the description contained in the preliminary prospectus supplement for this
offering, as supplemented by the related pricing term sheet; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">irrevocably elect a contract adjustment payment method to apply; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to cure any ambiguity, defect, inconsistency or mistake; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under the purchase contract and pledge agreement that do not adversely affect
the interests of any holders of Equity Units in any material respect. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contract and pledge agreement will contain provisions preventing us, the purchase contract agent and the collateral agent, subject to certain limited exceptions, from modifying the terms of
the purchase contracts and the purchase contract and pledge agreement without the consent of the holders of not less than a majority of the outstanding purchase contracts. However, no modification may, without the consent of the holder of each
outstanding purchase contract affected thereby: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">subject to our right to defer contract adjustment payments, change any payment date; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">change the place or currency or method of payment; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of a purchase contract or any contract adjustment payment or deferred contract adjustment
payment (including compounded contract adjustment payments thereon); </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">except as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement&#148; or &#147;&#151;Anti-dilution Adjustments,&#148;
reduce the number of shares of our common stock purchasable under a purchase contract, increase the purchase price of the shares of our common stock issuable on settlement of any purchase contract, change the purchase contract settlement date or the
right to early settlement; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">adversely affect the holder&#146;s rights under a purchase contract in any material respect (<I>provided</I> that any amendment made solely to conform
the provisions of the purchase contract and pledge agreement to the description contained in the preliminary prospectus supplement for this offering, as supplemented by the related pricing term sheet, will not be deemed to adversely affect the
interests of the holders); </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">change the amount or type of collateral required to be pledged to secure a holder&#146;s obligations under the purchase contract and pledge agreement,
impair the right of the holder of any purchase contract to receive distributions on such collateral, or otherwise adversely affect the holder&#146;s rights in or to such collateral; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">reduce any contract adjustment payments or any deferred contract adjustment payments (including compounded contract adjustment payments); or
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">reduce the above-stated percentage of outstanding purchase contracts whose holders&#146; consent is required for the modification or amendment of the
provisions of the purchase contracts and the purchase contract and pledge agreement; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>provided</I> that if any amendment or proposal would adversely affect only the Corporate Units, only the Treasury Units or only the Cash Settled Units, then only the affected voting group of holders
will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal, and such amendment or proposal will not be effective except with the consent of the holders of not less than a majority of such voting group or, if referred to in the immediately preceding
eight bullets above, all of the holders of such voting group. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will be entitled to set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the holders of outstanding Equity Units entitled to give or take any demand, direction, consent or other action under the
Equity Units, in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the purchase contract and pledge agreement. In certain circumstances, the purchase contract agent also will be entitled to set a record date for action by holders. If such a
record date is set for any action to be taken by holders of particular Equity Units, such action may be taken only by persons who are holders of such Equity Units at the close of business on the record date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>No Consent to Assumption; Agreement by Purchasers </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each holder of a Corporate Unit, a Treasury Unit or a Cash
Settled Unit will be deemed under the terms of the purchase contract and pledge agreement, by the purchase of such Corporate Unit, Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit, to have expressly withheld any consent to the assumption (i.e., affirmance) of the
related purchase contracts by us, our receiver, liquidator or trustee in the event that we become the subject of a case under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or other similar state or federal law providing for reorganization or liquidation. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Merger, Sale or Lease </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will covenant in the purchase contract and pledge
agreement that we will not merge or consolidate with any entity or sell, convey, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of our assets unless: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">either we are the continuing corporation or the successor entity is an entity duly organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or
the District of Columbia and treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and this other entity expressly assumes all of our obligations under the purchase contracts, the purchase contract and pledge agreement, the convertible
preferred stock, any Series B preferred stock and the remarketing agreement by one or more supplemental agreements; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">we are not, or such successor entity is not, immediately after such merger, consolidation, sale, conveyance, transfer, assignment or other disposition,
in default of payment obligations under the purchase contracts, the purchase contract and pledge agreement, the convertible preferred stock, any Series B preferred stock or the remarketing agreement or in material default in the performance of any
other obligations thereunder; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">an officer&#146;s certificate and opinion of counsel is delivered to the purchase contract agent. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance
(other than by way of lease), transfer, assignment or other disposition, and upon any such assumption by the successor corporation or limited liability company, such successor corporation or limited liability company will succeed to and be
substituted for us, with the same effect as if it had been named in the purchase contract and pledge agreement as us and we will be relieved of any further obligation under the purchase contract and pledge agreement and under the Corporate Units,
Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Title </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We, the purchase contract agent and the collateral agent may
treat the registered owner of any Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units as the absolute owner of the Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash </FONT></P>
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Settled Units for the purpose of making payment (subject to the record date provisions described above), settling the related purchase contracts and for all other purposes. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Replacement of Equity Unit Certificates </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event that physical certificates have been issued,
any mutilated Corporate Unit, Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit certificate will be replaced by us at the expense of the holder upon surrender of the certificate to the purchase contract agent. Corporate Unit, Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit
certificates that become destroyed, lost or stolen will be replaced by us at the expense of the holder upon delivery to us and the purchase contract agent of satisfactory evidence of their destruction, loss or theft satisfactory to us and the
purchase contract agent. In the case of a destroyed, lost or stolen Corporate Unit, Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit certificate, an indemnity or security satisfactory to the purchase contract agent and us shall be furnished at the expense of the
holder before a replacement certificate will be issued. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, we will not be obligated to issue any Corporate Unit, Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit certificates on or after the business day immediately preceding the earliest of any
early settlement date, any fundamental change early settlement date, the purchase contract settlement date or the date on which the purchase contracts have terminated. The purchase contract and pledge agreement will provide that, in lieu of the
delivery of a replacement Corporate Unit, Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit certificate following any of these dates, the purchase contract agent, upon delivery of the evidence and indemnity or security described above, will deliver the shares of
our common stock issuable pursuant to the purchase contracts included in the Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units evidenced by the certificate, or, if the purchase contracts have terminated prior to the purchase contract settlement
date, transfer the pledged assets included in the Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units evidenced by the certificate. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Governing Law </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contracts and the purchase contract and pledge agreement will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of
the State of New York. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Information Concerning the Purchase
Contract Agent and the Collateral Agent </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas will be the purchase contract agent and the collateral agent. The purchase contract agent will act as
the agent for the holders of Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units. The purchase contract agent will not be obligated to take any discretionary action in connection with a default under the terms of the Corporate Units, the Treasury
Units, the Cash Settled Units or the purchase contract and pledge agreement. The collateral agent will act solely as our agent and will not assume any obligation or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the holders of the Corporate
Units, the Treasury Units and the Cash Settled Units except for the obligations owed by a pledgee of property to the owner thereof under the purchase contract and pledge agreement and applicable law. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas and its affiliates
maintain banking relationships with us. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The
purchase contract and pledge agreement will contain provisions limiting the liability of and providing indemnification to the purchase contract agent and the collateral agent. The purchase contract and pledge agreement also will contain provisions
under which the purchase contract agent or the collateral agent may resign or be replaced. Such resignation or replacement will be effective upon the earlier to occur of (i)&nbsp;as indicated in the notice of resignation or removal or (ii)&nbsp;the
appointment of a successor. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Miscellaneous </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase contract and pledge agreement will provide that
we will pay all fees and expenses (including fees and expenses of counsel and agents) related to the retention of the collateral agent and the purchase contract </FONT></P>
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agent. Holders who elect to substitute the related pledged assets, thereby creating Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units or recreating Corporate Units, however, will be responsible for any fees
or expenses (including fees and expenses of counsel and agents) payable in connection with such substitution, as well as for any commissions, fees or other expenses incurred in acquiring the pledged assets to be substituted. We will not be
responsible for any such fees or expenses. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Book-Entry System
for Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Depository Trust Company, or &#147;DTC,&#148; which we refer to along with its successors in this capacity as the depositary, will act as securities depositary for the Corporate Units, Treasury Units
and Cash Settled Units. The Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units will be issued only as fully registered securities registered in the name of Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., the depositary&#146;s nominee. One or more fully registered global
security certificates, representing the total aggregate number of Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units, will be issued and will be deposited with the depositary or its custodian and will bear a legend regarding the restrictions on
exchanges and registration of transfer referred to below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The laws of some jurisdictions may require that some purchasers of securities take physical delivery of securities in certificated form. These laws may impair the ability to transfer beneficial interests
in the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units so long as the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units are represented by global security certificates. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">DTC advises that it is a limited-purpose trust company
organized under the New York Banking Law, a &#147;banking organization&#148; within the meaning of the New York Banking Law, a member of the Federal Reserve System, a &#147;clearing corporation&#148; within the meaning of the New York Uniform
Commercial Code and a &#147;clearing agency&#148; registered pursuant to the provisions of Section&nbsp;1A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#147;Exchange Act&#148;). The depositary holds securities that its participants
deposit with the depositary. The depositary also facilitates the settlement among participants of securities transactions, including transfers and pledges, in deposited securities through electronic computerized book-entry changes in
participants&#146; accounts, thereby eliminating the need for physical movement of securities certificates. Direct participants include securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies, clearing corporations and certain other organizations.
The depositary is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Depository Trust&nbsp;&amp; Clearing Corporation (&#147;DTCC&#148;). DTCC is the holding company for DTC, National Securities Clearing Corporation, and Fixed Income Clearing Corporation, all of
which are registered clearing agencies. DTCC is owned by the users of its regulated subsidiaries. Access to the depositary&#146;s system is also available to others, including securities brokers and dealers, banks, trust companies and clearing
corporations that clear transactions through or maintain a custodial relationship with a direct participant, either directly or indirectly. The rules applicable to the depositary and its participants are on file with the SEC. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will issue the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash
Settled Units in definitive certificated form if the depositary notifies us that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary or the depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary is not
appointed by us within 90 calendar days. In addition, beneficial interests in a global security certificate may be exchanged for definitive certificated Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units upon request by or on behalf of the
depositary in accordance with customary procedures following the request of a beneficial owner seeking to exercise or enforce its rights under such Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units. If we determine at any time that the Corporate
Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units will no longer be represented by global security certificates, we will inform the depositary of such determination and the depositary will, in turn, notify participants of their right to withdraw their
beneficial interest from the global security certificates, and if such participants elect to withdraw their beneficial interests, we will issue certificates in definitive form in exchange for such beneficial interests in the global security
certificates. Any global Corporate Unit, Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit, or portion thereof that is exchangeable pursuant to this paragraph will be exchangeable for Corporate Unit, Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit certificates, as the case may
be, registered in the names </FONT></P>
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directed by the depositary. We expect that these instructions will be based upon directions received by the depositary from its participants with respect to ownership of beneficial interests in
the global security certificates. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As long as the
depositary or its nominee is the registered owner of the global security certificates, the depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, will be considered the sole owner and holder of the global security certificates and all Corporate Units,
Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units represented by these certificates for all purposes under the Corporate Units, Treasury Units, Cash Settled Units and the purchase contract and pledge agreement. Except in the limited circumstances referred to
above, owners of beneficial interests in global security certificates: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">will not be entitled to have the Corporate Units, the Treasury Units or the Cash Settled Units represented by these global security certificates
registered in their names, and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">will not be considered to be owners or holders of the global security certificates or any Corporate Units, Treasury Units or Cash Settled Units
represented by these certificates for any purpose under the Corporate Units, Treasury Units, Cash Settled Units or the purchase contract and pledge agreement. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All payments on the Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash
Settled Units represented by the global security certificates and all transfers and deliveries of related convertible preferred stock, Treasury securities, cash, Series B preferred stock and common stock will be made to the depositary or its
nominee, as the case may be, as the holder of the securities. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Ownership of beneficial interests in the global security certificates will be limited to participants or persons that may hold beneficial interests through institutions that have accounts with the
depositary or its nominee. Ownership of beneficial interests in global security certificates will be shown only on, and the transfer of those ownership interests will be effected only through, records maintained by the depositary or its nominee,
with respect to participants&#146; interests, or any participant, with respect to interests of persons held by the participant on their behalf. Procedures for settlement of purchase contracts on the purchase contract settlement date, or upon early
settlement, will be governed by arrangements among the depositary, participants and persons that may hold beneficial interests through participants designed to permit settlement without the physical movement of certificates. Payments, transfers,
deliveries, exchanges and other matters relating to beneficial interests in global security certificates may be subject to various policies and procedures adopted by the depositary from time to time. None of us, the purchase contract agent or any
agent of us or the purchase contract agent will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the depositary&#146;s or any participant&#146;s records relating to, or for payments made on account of, beneficial interests in global security
certificates, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any of the depositary&#146;s records or any participant&#146;s records relating to these beneficial ownership interests. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Although the depositary has agreed to the foregoing
procedures in order to facilitate transfers of interest in the global security certificates among participants, the depositary is under no obligation to perform or continue to perform these procedures, and these procedures may be discontinued at any
time. We will not have any responsibility for the performance by the depositary or its direct participants or indirect participants under the rules and procedures governing the depositary. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The information in this section concerning the depositary and its book-entry system has been obtained from
sources that we believe to be reliable, but we have not attempted to verify the accuracy of this information. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_12"></A>DESCRIPTION OF THE CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>The following is a summary of certain
provisions of the convertible preferred stock. The following summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, all of the provisions of our sixth restated certificate of incorporation, as
amended, including the certificate of designations establishing the designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions on the convertible preferred stock and our
amended and restated <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">by-laws,</FONT> as currently in effect, and applicable laws. Wherever particular provisions or defined terms of the convertible preferred stock are referred to, such provisions or defined terms
are incorporated into this prospectus supplement by reference. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>As used in this Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock, &#147;we,&#148; &#147;us,&#148; &#147;our&#148; or &#147;the Company&#148; refer only to The AES Corporation and any successor obligor,
and not to any of its subsidiaries. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>General
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Under our sixth restated certificate of
incorporation, as amended, our board of directors designated up to 1,150,000 shares of our authorized but unissued preferred stock as, and approved a certificate of designations creating, a series of our preferred stock, designated as the
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Convertible Preferred Stock, which we refer to as the &#147;convertible preferred stock.&#148; We will not (i)&nbsp;change any terms of the convertible preferred stock except as set forth in
the certificate of designations and (ii)&nbsp;issue any additional shares of convertible preferred stock other than in accordance with the certificate of designations. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will issue an aggregate of up to 1,000,000 shares of
convertible preferred stock, or 1,150,000 shares if the underwriters exercised in full their over-allotment option on the Corporate Units. When issued in accordance with this prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, the convertible
preferred stock will be validly issued, fully paid and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-assessable.</FONT> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each Corporate Unit includes a 1/10th, or 10%, undivided beneficial ownership interest in one share of convertible preferred stock with an
initial $1,000 liquidation preference that corresponds to the stated amount of $100 per Corporate Unit. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We do not intend to list the convertible preferred stock that are not a part of Corporate Units on any securities exchange. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Ranking </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The convertible preferred stock, with respect to dividend rights or rights upon our liquidation, <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up</FONT> or dissolution, ranks: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">senior to all classes or series of our common stock and to any other class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking junior to the
convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">on parity with&nbsp;any class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking on parity with the convertible preferred stock, including
the Series B preferred stock (if any); </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">junior to any other class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking senior to the convertible preferred stock; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">junior to our existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities (including trade payables). </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The term &#147;capital stock&#148; does not include
convertible or exchangeable debt securities, which, prior to conversion or exchange, will rank senior in right of payment to the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of the convertible
preferred stock will not have the right to receive any payment or distribution unless all of our liabilities are first paid in full and the priority of any senior stock is satisfied. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We currently have no capital stock outstanding that is senior to or on parity with the convertible preferred
stock. If and when issued, any Series B preferred stock will rank on parity with the convertible preferred stock. We own substantially all the capital stock of our subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2020, we had $3,446&nbsp;million principal amount of
outstanding long-term indebtedness, all of which is senior in right of payment to the convertible preferred stock. In addition, the convertible preferred stock will be structurally subordinated to all debt, preferred stock and other liabilities of
our subsidiaries, which means that creditors and preferred stockholders of our subsidiaries will be paid from the assets of such subsidiaries before holders of the convertible preferred stock would have any claims to those assets. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Dividends </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of the convertible preferred stock will receive, when, as and if declared by our board of directors,
cumulative dividends, at the rate of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per year (the &#147;dividend rate&#148;) on the $1,000 liquidation preference per share of convertible preferred stock, payable in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of
cash and shares of our common stock, at our election, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment method to apply. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dividends will accumulate from the first date of original issuance of the convertible preferred stock and will be payable when, as and if
declared by our board of directors quarterly in arrears on February&nbsp;15, May&nbsp;15, August&nbsp;15 and November&nbsp;15 of each year (each, a &#147;payment date&#148;) beginning on May&nbsp;15, 2021, to the person whose name appears in our
stock records at the close of business on the applicable record date, which will be the first day of the month in which the relevant payment date falls (whether or not a business day) or, if (x)&nbsp;the Corporate Units are held in global book-entry
form and (y)&nbsp;the separate shares of convertible preferred stock are held in global book-entry form, the record date will be the business day immediately preceding the applicable payment date. We refer to each period beginning on and including a
payment date (or, in respect of the first dividend period, the first date of original issuance of the convertible preferred stock) to, but excluding, the next payment date as a &#147;dividend period.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will calculate dividends on the convertible preferred
stock 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 (and for any period less than a month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> month). Dollar amounts resulting from that calculation will be rounded to the nearest cent, with <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">one-half</FONT> cent being rounded upward. Dividends on the convertible
preferred stock will cease to accumulate upon conversion or redemption, as the case may be, as described below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a payment date falls on a date that is not a business day, such payment date will be postponed to the next succeeding business day;
<I>provided</I> that, if such business day falls in the next succeeding calendar month, the payment date will be brought forward to the immediately preceding business day. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dividends on the convertible preferred stock will accumulate
whether or not: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">we have earnings; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">those dividends are authorized or declared. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any shares of convertible preferred stock remain outstanding, except as described
below, unless full cumulative dividends on the convertible preferred stock for all past dividend periods (including compounded dividends thereon) have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum or number of shares of our
common stock sufficient for the payment thereof is set apart for payment, we will not: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">declare and pay or declare and set aside for payment of dividends, and we will not declare and make any distribution of cash or other property,
directly or indirectly, on or with respect to any shares of our common stock or shares of any other class or series of our capital stock ranking, as to dividends, on parity with or junior to the convertible preferred stock, including the Series B
preferred stock (if any), for any period; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for any consideration, or make any other distribution of cash or other property, directly or indirectly, on or
with respect to, or pay or make available any monies for a sinking fund for the redemption of, any common stock or shares of any other class or series of our capital stock ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, on parity with or junior to the
convertible preferred stock, including the Series B preferred stock (if any); or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for any consideration, or make any other distribution of cash or other property, directly or indirectly, on or
with respect to the purchase contracts or make any payments (including any contract adjustment payments) under the purchase contracts or any payment under any similar agreement providing for the issuance by us of capital stock on a forward basis.
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The foregoing sentence,
however, will not prohibit: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock ranking junior to the convertible preferred stock in connection with any
employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of current or former employees, officers, directors or consultants; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">purchases of shares of our common stock pursuant to a contractually binding requirement to buy stock existing prior to the commencement of the first
dividend period for which dividends are unpaid, including under a contractually binding stock repurchase plan; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the purchase of, or the payment of cash in lieu of, fractional interests in shares of capital stock ranking junior to the convertible preferred stock
issued by us (i)&nbsp;in connection with a bona fide acquisition of a business or (ii)&nbsp;pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for such capital stock;
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any declaration of a dividend on our capital stock in connection with the implementation of a shareholders rights plan designed to protect us against
unsolicited offers to acquire our capital stock, or the issuance of our capital stock under any such plan in the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">dividends or distributions payable solely in capital stock ranking junior to the convertible preferred stock, or warrants, options or rights to acquire
such capital stock, other than any indebtedness or our capital stock ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, on parity with or senior to the convertible preferred stock, including the Series B preferred stock (if any), in each case,
convertible into, exercisable for or exchangeable for our capital stock ranking junior to the convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">delivery of Series B preferred stock and (if applicable) our common stock, and/or payment of cash in lieu of any fractional share of our common stock,
in each case, upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the conversion of our capital stock into, or exchange of our capital stock for, other shares of any class or series of capital stock ranking equally to
the convertible preferred stock, so long as the liquidation preference of such class or series of capital stock issued upon conversion or exchange is less than or equal to the liquidation preference of the capital stock surrendered for conversion or
exchange; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">payments on the purchase contracts or the Series B preferred stock (if any), in each case so long as the amount of payments made on account of such
purchase contracts or Series B preferred stock (if any) and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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the convertible preferred stock is paid on all such purchase contracts or Series B preferred stock (if any) and the convertible preferred stock then outstanding on a pro rata basis in proportion
to the full payment to which each such purchase contract, Series B preferred stock or convertible preferred stock is then entitled if paid in full; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the conversion into or exchange for other shares of any class or series of capital stock ranking junior to the convertible preferred stock.
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will not permit any of our
subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of our stock unless we could, under the above paragraph, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner. We refer to the provisions described in
this paragraph and the above paragraph as the &#147;dividend blocker provisions.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">When we do not pay dividends in full (or do not set apart a sum sufficient to pay them in full) on the convertible preferred stock and the shares of any other class or series of capital stock ranking, as
to dividends, on parity with the convertible preferred stock (including the Series B preferred stock, if any), we will declare any dividends upon the convertible preferred stock and each such other class or series of capital stock ranking, as to
dividends, on parity with the convertible preferred stock pro rata, so that the amount of dividends declared per share of convertible preferred stock and such other class or series of capital stock will in all cases bear to each other the same ratio
that accumulated but unpaid dividends per share on the convertible preferred stock and such other class or series of capital stock (which will not include any accumulation in respect of unpaid dividends on such other class or series of capital stock
for prior dividend periods if such other class or series of capital stock does not have a cumulative dividend) bear to each other. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any accumulated but unpaid dividends will accumulate additional dividends at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such dividend rate may
be adjusted in connection with a remarketing) until paid, compounded quarterly, to, but excluding, the payment date. We refer to these additional dividends that accumulate on accumulated but unpaid dividends as &#147;compounded dividends&#148; and
the payments in respect thereof as &#147;compounded dividend payments.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock are not entitled to any dividends in excess of the full cumulative dividends (including compounded dividends) on the convertible preferred stock as
described above. Any dividend payment made on the convertible preferred stock will first be credited against the earliest accumulated but unpaid dividends due with respect to those shares which remain payable. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No dividend will be paid unless and until our board of
directors declares a dividend payable with respect to the convertible preferred stock. Our ability to declare and pay dividends and make other distributions with respect to our capital stock, including the convertible preferred stock, may be limited
by the terms of any indentures, loan agreements or other financing arrangements that we enter into in the future. In addition, our ability to declare and pay dividends may be limited by the Delaware General Corporation Law. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon), including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on
the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs,
following the final remarketing (whether successful or failed), we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of
convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will
continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such convertible preferred stock for so long as the convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the
holders of such convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Method of Payment of Dividends </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the limitations described below, we may pay any
dividend (or any portion of any dividend) on the convertible preferred stock (whether or not for a current dividend period or any prior dividend period), determined in the sole discretion of our board of directors: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in cash; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">by delivery of shares of our common stock; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">through any combination of cash and shares of our common stock. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will make each payment of a dividend on the convertible
preferred stock in cash, except to the extent we elect, or have previously elected, to make all or any portion of such payment in shares of our common stock. Unless we have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment method to apply, we will
give the holders of the convertible preferred stock notice of any election with respect to any particular dividend payment, the portion of such payment that will be made in cash and the portion of such payment that will be made in common stock no
later than eight scheduled trading days prior to the payment date for such dividend. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we elect, or have previously irrevocably elected, to make any such payment of a dividend, or any portion thereof, in shares of our common stock, such shares will be valued for such purpose at the
average of the daily VWAPs per share of our common stock over the five consecutive trading day period ending on the second trading day immediately preceding the applicable payment date (the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;five-day</FONT>
average price&#148;), <I>multiplied by</I> 97%. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Without the consent of any holders of the convertible preferred stock, we may, by notice to such holders, irrevocably elect whether we
will pay dividend payments in cash, shares of our common stock or a combination thereof (a &#147;dividend payment method&#148;) and, if applicable, the amount or percentage of a dividend payment to be paid in common stock that will apply to any
dividend payment following such notice (unless a dividend payment method has previously been designated) and, subject to the foregoing, specify the effective time of such election (which may be any time subsequent to the delivery of such notice).
Our irrevocable election of a dividend payment method as described herein may be made by us in our sole discretion. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No fractional shares of our common stock will be delivered to the holders of the convertible preferred stock in respect of dividends. We
will instead pay a cash adjustment to each holder that would otherwise be entitled to a fraction of a share of our common stock based on (i)&nbsp;the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">five-day</FONT> average price and (ii)&nbsp;the aggregate number
of shares of convertible preferred stock held by such holder (or, if the convertible preferred stock is held in global book-entry form, based on the applicable procedures of the depositary for determining such number of shares). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To the extent a shelf registration
statement is required in our reasonable judgment in connection with the issuance of or for resales of common stock issued as payment of a dividend, we will, to the extent such a registration statement is not currently filed and effective, use our
commercially reasonable efforts to file and maintain the effectiveness of such a shelf registration statement until the earlier of such time as all such shares of our common stock have been resold thereunder and such time as all such shares are
freely tradable by <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-affiliates</FONT> of ours without registration.</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex"> </SUP></FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To the extent applicable, we will also use our commercially reasonable efforts to have the shares of our common stock qualified or registered under applicable state securities laws, if required, and
approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange (or if our common stock is not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which our common stock is then listed). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any dividends paid in shares of our common stock will be
subject to the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange, if applicable. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Liquidation Preference </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution
or winding up of our affairs, before any distribution or payment will be made to holders of shares of our common stock or any other class or series of capital stock ranking, as to rights upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of our affairs, junior to the convertible preferred stock, holders of shares of convertible preferred stock are entitled to be paid out of our assets legally available for distribution to our stockholders, after payment of or provision
for our debts and other liabilities, a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share of convertible preferred stock, <I>plus</I> an amount equal to any accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not authorized or declared) up to but excluding the
date of payment, but subject to the prior payment in full of all our liabilities and the payment of our senior stock. If, upon our voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up, our available assets are insufficient to pay the full
amount of the liquidating distributions on all outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock and the corresponding amounts payable on all shares of each other class or series of capital stock ranking, as to liquidation rights, on parity with the
convertible preferred stock in the distribution of assets (including the Series B preferred stock, if any), then holders of shares of convertible preferred stock and each such other class or series of capital stock ranking, as to voluntary or
involuntary liquidation rights, on parity with the convertible preferred stock will share ratably in any distribution of assets in proportion to the full liquidating distributions to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock will be
entitled to written notice of any event triggering the right to receive a distribution in connection with any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs. After payment of the full amount of the liquidating
distributions to which they are entitled, holders of shares of convertible preferred stock will have no right or claim to any of our remaining assets. Our consolidation or merger with or into any other corporation, trust or other entity, or the
voluntary sale, lease, transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of our property or business, will not be deemed to constitute a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>No Maturity </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The convertible preferred stock has no maturity date, but we are permitted to redeem the convertible preferred stock as described under
&#147;&#151;Optional Redemption.&#148; Accordingly, the convertible preferred stock will remain outstanding indefinitely unless a holder of shares of convertible preferred stock decides, subject to satisfaction of the conditions described herein, to
convert it, or we elect to redeem it. See &#147;&#151;Conversion Rights,&#148; and &#147;&#151;Optional Redemption&#148; below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Optional Redemption </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We do not have the right to redeem any shares of convertible preferred stock before March&nbsp;22, 2024. On or after March&nbsp;22, 2024,
we will have the option to redeem some or all the shares of convertible preferred stock at a redemption price equal to 100% of the liquidation preference per share, <I>plus</I> any accumulated but unpaid dividends, if any (whether or not declared)
to, but excluding, the redemption date. The redemption price will be paid solely in cash. In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed
to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of a redemption, we will request that the depositary notify its participants holding convertible preferred stock or, if the convertible preferred stock is in certificated form, send a written
notice by first class mail to each holder of record of the convertible preferred stock at such holders registered address, not fewer than 25 scheduled trading days nor more than 90 calendar days prior to the redemption date, stating, among other
things, the redemption price per share of convertible preferred stock. In addition, we will (i)&nbsp;issue a press release containing such information and (ii)&nbsp;publish such information on our website. In no event will we give any notice of
redemption prior to the earlier of a remarketing settlement date and the purchase contract settlement date. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we give notice of redemption, then, by 12:00 p.m., New York City time, on the redemption
date, to the extent funds are legally available, we will, with respect to: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">shares of convertible preferred stock held by DTC or its nominees, deposit or cause to be deposited, irrevocably with DTC cash sufficient to pay the
redemption price and will give DTC irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the redemption price to holders of such shares of convertible preferred stock; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">shares of convertible preferred stock held in certificated form, deposit or cause to be deposited, irrevocably with the paying agent cash sufficient to
pay the redemption price and will give the paying agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the redemption price to holders of such shares of convertible preferred stock upon surrender to the paying agent of their certificates evidencing
their shares of convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If on the redemption date there has been irrevocably deposited with DTC or the paying agent cash sufficient to pay the redemption price for the shares of convertible preferred stock delivered for
redemption in accordance with the terms of the certificate of designations, dividends will cease to accumulate on those shares of convertible preferred stock called for redemption and all rights of holders of such shares will terminate except for
the right to receive the redemption price. Payment of the redemption price for the shares of convertible preferred stock is conditioned upon book-entry transfer of or physical delivery of certificates representing the convertible preferred stock,
together with necessary endorsements, to the paying agent, or to the paying agent&#146;s account at DTC, at any time after delivery of the redemption notice. Payment of the redemption price for the convertible preferred stock will be made
(i)&nbsp;if book-entry transfer of or physical delivery of the convertible preferred stock has been made by or on the redemption date, on the redemption date, or (ii)&nbsp;if book-entry transfer of or physical delivery of the convertible preferred
stock has not been made by or on such date, at the time of book-entry transfer of or physical delivery of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the redemption date falls after a dividend payment record date and before the related payment date, holders of the shares of
convertible preferred stock at the close of business on that dividend payment record date will be entitled to receive the full dividend payable on those shares on the corresponding payment date. The redemption price payable on such redemption date
as described above will be reduced by the amount payable per share of convertible preferred stock on the related payment date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of any partial redemption, we will select the shares of convertible preferred stock to be redeemed on a pro rata basis, by lot
or in accordance with, and subject to, DTC&#146;s applicable procedures. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We do not have the right to authorize, issue a press release or give notice of redemption unless (a)&nbsp;we have funds legally available for the payment of the aggregate redemption price and
(b)&nbsp;prior to giving the notice (i)&nbsp;all accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock (whether or not declared) for dividend periods ended prior to the date of such notice of redemption have been or contemporaneously
are declared and paid out of legally available funds and (ii)&nbsp;if the redemption date occurs following a record date and prior to the related payment date, a cash dividend for the related dividend period has been declared and sufficient funds
legally available therefor have been set aside for payment of such dividend. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any shares of convertible preferred stock are redeemed, we must also redeem a proportionate number of outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock, if any, on the same redemption date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Limited Voting Rights </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock generally
do not have any voting rights, except as set forth below and as required by law. In matters where holders of the convertible preferred stock are entitled to vote, each share of convertible preferred stock will be entitled to one vote. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Preferred Stock Directors </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If at any time dividends on the convertible preferred stock
have not been declared and paid in full for six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive (which we refer to as a &#147;preferred dividend default&#148;), holders of shares of convertible preferred stock (voting together as a class with
the holders of all other classes or series of preferred stock upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the Series B preferred stock (if any)) and are exercisable (and with voting rights allocated pro rata based on the
liquidation preference of the convertible preferred stock and each such other class or series of preferred stock)) will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional directors to serve on our board of directors (which we refer to as
&#147;preferred stock directors&#148;), until all accumulated but unpaid dividends with respect to the convertible preferred stock and any other class or series of preferred stock upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including
the Series B preferred stock (if any)) and are exercisable have been paid or declared and a sum sufficient for payment is set aside for such payment. In such a case, the number of directors serving on our board of directors will be increased by two.
For the avoidance of doubt, the election of any such preferred stock directors will not cause us to violate the corporate governance requirements of The New York Stock Exchange (or any other exchange or automated quotation system on which our
securities may be listed or quoted) that requires listed or quoted companies to have a majority of independent directors. The preferred stock directors will be elected by a plurality of the votes cast in the election to serve until the next annual
meeting and each preferred stock director will serve until his successor is duly elected and qualifies or until the director&#146;s right to hold the office terminates, whichever occurs earlier. Subject to the timing and notice requirements of our
bylaws as in effect on the date of this prospectus supplement, the election will take place at: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a special meeting called by holders of at least 10% of the outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock together with any other class or series of
preferred stock upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the Series B preferred stock, if any) and are exercisable, if this request is received more than 90 calendar days before the date fixed for our next annual or special
meeting of stockholders or, if we receive the request for a special meeting within 90 calendar days before the date fixed for our next annual or special meeting of stockholders, at our annual or special meeting of stockholders; and
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">each subsequent annual meeting (or special meeting held in its place) until all accumulated but dividends on the convertible preferred stock and on any
other class or series of preferred upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the Series B preferred stock, if any) and are exercisable have been paid in full for all past dividend periods and the dividend for the then
current dividend period has been fully paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set aside for payment. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If and when all accumulated dividends on the convertible preferred stock and all other classes or series of preferred stock upon which
equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the Series B preferred stock, if any) and are exercisable have been paid in full or a sum sufficient for such payment in full is set aside for payment, holders of shares of convertible
preferred stock will be divested of the voting rights set forth above (subject to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">re-vesting</FONT> in the event of any subsequent preferred dividend defaults) and the term of office of such preferred stock directors
so elected will terminate and the entire board of directors will be reduced accordingly. Each preferred stock director will be entitled to one vote on any matter. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>When a Supermajority Vote is Required
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any shares of convertible
preferred stock remain outstanding, we will not, without the consent or the affirmative vote of the holders of at least <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">two-thirds</FONT> of the outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock together with each
other class or series of preferred stock ranking on parity with the convertible preferred stock, including the Series B preferred stock (if any), with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon our liquidation,
dissolution or winding up and upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the Series B preferred stock, if any) (voting as a single class): </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">authorize, create or issue, or increase the number of authorized or issued shares of, any class or series of stock ranking senior to the convertible
preferred stock with respect to payment of dividends, or the </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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distribution of assets upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs, or reclassify any of our authorized capital stock into any such shares, or create, authorize or issue any
obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">amend, alter or repeal the provisions of our sixth restated certificate of incorporation so as to materially and adversely affect any right,
preference, privilege or voting power of the convertible preferred stock; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">consummate a binding share exchange or reclassification involving the shares of convertible preferred stock or a merger or consolidation of us with
another entity, unless either (i)&nbsp;the shares of convertible preferred stock remain outstanding and have rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers, taken as a whole, that are no less favorable to the holders thereof than the rights,
preferences, privileges and voting powers of the convertible preferred stock immediately prior to such consummation, taken as a whole, or (ii)&nbsp;in the case of any such merger or consolidation with respect to which we are not the surviving or
resulting entity, the shares of convertible preferred stock are converted into or exchanged for preference securities of the surviving or resulting entity or its ultimate parent, such surviving or resulting entity or ultimate parent is organized
under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and such preference securities have rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers, taken as a
whole, that are no less favorable to the holders thereof than the rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers of the convertible preferred stock immediately prior to such consummation, taken as a whole; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>provided</I> that the creation and issuance, or an increase in the
authorized or issued amount, whether pursuant to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">pre-emptive</FONT> or similar rights or otherwise, of any series of preferred stock (including the convertible preferred stock and Series B preferred stock), ranking
equally with and/or junior to the convertible preferred stock with respect to the payment of dividends (whether such dividends are cumulative or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-cumulative)</FONT> and the distribution of assets upon our
liquidation, dissolution and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up,</FONT> will not be deemed to adversely affect the rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers of the convertible preferred stock, and will not require the affirmative
vote or consent of the holders of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any amendment, alteration, repeal, share exchange, reclassification, merger or consolidation specified above would adversely affect one or more but not all series of parity stock (including the
convertible preferred stock and/or the Series B preferred stock for this purpose), then only the one or more series of parity stock adversely affected and entitled to vote, rather than all series of parity stock, will vote as a class. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Without the consent of the holders of the convertible
preferred stock, we may amend, alter, supplement, or repeal any terms of the convertible preferred stock for the following purposes: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to cure any ambiguity, defect, inconsistency or mistake, or to correct or supplement any provision contained in the certificate of designations
establishing the terms of the convertible preferred stock that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained in such certificate of designations; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">so long as such action does not adversely affect the special rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers of the convertible preferred stock, and
limitations and restrictions thereof, to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions relating to the convertible preferred stock that is not inconsistent with the provisions of the certificate of designations establishing the terms
of the convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to waive any of our rights with respect thereto; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to amend, alter, supplement or repeal any terms of the convertible preferred stock in order to conform the terms of the convertible preferred stock to
the description contained in the preliminary prospectus supplement for this offering, as supplemented by the related pricing term sheet; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to amend, alter, supplement or repeal any terms of the convertible preferred stock in order to implement the changes under &#147;&#151;Terms of the
Remarketed Preferred Stock&#148;;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex"> </SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to file a certificate of correction with respect to the Certificate of Designations to the extent permitted by Section&nbsp;103(f) of the Delaware
General Corporation Law. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock will not be entitled to vote with respect to any increase in the total number of
authorized shares of our common stock or preferred stock, any increase in the number of authorized shares of convertible preferred stock or the creation or issuance of any other class or series of capital stock, or any increase in the number of
authorized shares of any other class or series of capital stock, in each case ranking on parity with or junior to the convertible preferred stock, including the Series B preferred stock (if any), with respect to the payment of dividends and the
distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up, except as set forth above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock will not have any voting rights with respect to, and the consent of the holders of shares of convertible preferred stock is not required for, the taking of
any corporate action, including any merger or consolidation involving us or a sale of all or substantially all of our assets, regardless of the effect that such merger, consolidation or sale may have upon the powers, preferences, voting power or
other rights or privileges of the convertible preferred stock, except as set forth above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, the voting provisions above will not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which the vote would otherwise be required would occur, we have redeemed upon proper
procedures all outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Conversion Rights </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>General </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of Corporate Units do not have the right to convert their ownership interests in the convertible preferred stock that are a part
of such Corporate Units. Only shares of convertible preferred stock that are not a part of Corporate Units may be so converted. Holders of such separate shares of convertible preferred stock that are not a part of Corporate Units may convert their
shares into Series B preferred stock and common stock (if any) at their option prior to February&nbsp;15, 2024 only upon the occurrence of a fundamental change if such fundamental change occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible
preferred stock. In order for a holder of Corporate Units to separate their convertible preferred stock from the purchase contracts in order to convert the convertible preferred stock in connection with a fundamental change prior to a successful
remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the holder must either (1)&nbsp;create Treasury Units (at any time other than during a blackout period), (2) settle the related purchase contracts early (at any time other than during a blackout
period) or (3)&nbsp;during the period after the date we give notice of a final remarketing, create Cash Settled Units on or prior to the second business day immediately preceding the first day of the final remarketing period. If a fundamental change
occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, holders of separate shares of convertible preferred stock can convert such shares at any time from or after the effective date of such transaction until 35 business days
after such effective date (the &#147;fundamental change conversion deadline&#148;). Conversions in connection with such fundamental change will be settled on the second business day following the final trading day of a 20 consecutive trading day
period beginning on, and including, the 21st scheduled trading day immediately preceding the fundamental change conversion deadline (such second business day, the &#147;fundamental change settlement date&#148;). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On and after February&nbsp;15, 2024, holders of shares of
convertible preferred stock may, at their option, at any time and from time to time, convert some or all of their outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock into (i)&nbsp;shares of Series B preferred stock or, solely with respect to induced
conversions, up to $1,000 in cash plus all accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared), if any, on such converted convertible preferred stock to, but excluding, the payment date immediately preceding the relevant conversion date and
(ii)&nbsp;shares of our common stock (if any), as described under &#147;&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The conversion rate will initially be
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$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per share of our common </FONT></P>
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stock. Upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock, we will settle our obligations in the manner set forth under &#147;&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon settlement of a conversion of the convertible preferred
stock and except as set forth in the immediately succeeding paragraph, a holder will not receive payment of accumulated but unpaid dividends as described under &#147;&#151;Dividends&#148; and we will not make any payments in respect of or adjust the
conversion rate to account for accumulated but unpaid dividends to the conversion date except as provided under &#147;&#151;Adjusted Conversion Rate Upon a Fundamental Change.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a holder of shares of convertible preferred stock exercises its conversion rights, on and after the
conversion date, those shares will cease to accumulate dividends as of the end of the day immediately preceding the conversion date. A holder of shares of convertible preferred stock on the record date for the payment of a dividend will receive that
dividend notwithstanding a conversion of the convertible preferred stock following such record date to the payment date. However, convertible preferred stock surrendered for conversion after the close of business on any record date for the payment
of dividends declared and before the opening of business on the payment date relating to that record date must be accompanied by a payment in cash of an amount equal to the dividend payable in respect of those shares for the dividend period in which
the shares are converted; <I>provided</I> that no such payment need be made: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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corresponding payment date; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">if we have specified a fundamental change conversion deadline that is after a dividend payment record date and on or prior to the business day
immediately following the corresponding payment date. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In case any shares of convertible preferred stock are to be redeemed, the right to convert those shares of convertible preferred stock will terminate at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the business day
immediately preceding the redemption date, unless we default in the payment of the redemption price of those shares of convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Adjusted Conversion Rate Upon a Fundamental Change </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a fundamental change (as defined in &#147;Description of
the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental Change&#148; above) occurs prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, a holder may elect to convert separate shares of convertible preferred stock in
connection with such fundamental change (such right of conversion, the &#147;fundamental change conversion right&#148;). If the stock price (as defined in &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Early Settlement Upon a Fundamental
Change&#151;Calculation of Make-Whole Shares&#148; above) is less than $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (which we refer to as the &#147;conversion price,&#148; and which initially
equals the conversion price of the convertible preferred stock), any such conversion in connection with such fundamental change will be at an adjusted conversion rate that will be equal to (x)&nbsp;the $1,000 liquidation preference <I>plus</I> all
accumulated but unpaid dividends to, but excluding such fundamental change settlement date described below (unless the conversion date for a share of convertible preferred stock occurs after the record date for the payment of declared dividends and
prior to the related payment date, in which case the conversion rate calculation for such share will not include accumulated but unpaid dividends that will be paid to holders of record on such record date) <I>divided by</I> (y)&nbsp;the average of
the closing prices of our common stock for the five consecutive trading days ending on the second business day prior to the fundamental change settlement date (or, in the case of a fundamental change described in clause (i)&nbsp;of the definition of
fundamental change where all holders of our common stock receive only cash in the fundamental change, the cash amount paid per share of our common stock) (the amount described in clause (y), the &#147;fundamental change settlement price&#148;).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will the conversion rate exceed&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;shares of our common stock per share of convertible preferred stock (subject to
adjustment in certain circumstances as set forth under &#147;&#151;Conversion Rate Adjustments&#148;), which is equal to the $1,000 liquidation preference <I>divided by</I> 50% of
$&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (the closing price of our common stock on the pricing date of this offering, which closing price we refer to as the &#147;initial price&#148;).
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will be no fundamental change conversion right. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The initial price will be adjusted as of any date on which the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock is adjusted. The
adjusted initial price will equal the initial price applicable immediately prior to such adjustment <I>multiplied by</I> a fraction, the numerator of which is the conversion rate immediately prior to the adjustment giving rise to the stock price
adjustment and the denominator of which is the conversion rate as so adjusted. The conversion price as of any time is equal to $1,000 <I>divided by</I> the conversion rate as of such time. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A conversion of the convertible preferred stock will be deemed for these purposes to be &#147;in connection
with&#148; such a fundamental change (regardless of the stock price) if the conversion date occurs from, and including, the effective date of such fundamental change to, and including, the fundamental change conversion deadline. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If such fundamental change occurs prior to a successful
remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, we will send a notice to holders of a fundamental change within five business days after the effective date of such fundamental change (the &#147;fundamental change company notice&#148;). Such
fundamental change company notice will state: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To exercise the fundamental change conversion right, a holder of a separate share of convertible preferred stock must deliver, on or
before the close of business on the fundamental change conversion deadline, the convertible preferred stock to be converted, duly endorsed for transfer, together with a written conversion notice completed, to our conversion agent. The conversion
notice will state: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the number of shares of convertible preferred stock to be converted pursuant to the fundamental change conversion right. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the convertible preferred stock is held in global form,
the conversion notice must comply with applicable DTC procedures. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The convertible preferred stock as to which the fundamental change conversion right has been properly exercised will be converted in accordance with &#147;&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion&#148; below.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the holders of our common stock receive only
cash in a reorganization event, then notwithstanding the foregoing, for all conversions in connection with a fundamental change that occur after the effective date of such transaction, the consideration due upon conversion of each such share of
convertible preferred stock will be solely cash in an amount equal to the conversion rate as modified by this &#147;&#151;Adjusted Conversion Rate Upon a Fundamental Change,&#148; <I>multiplied by</I> the fundamental change settlement price for such
transaction. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will, to the extent applicable, comply with listing standards of the New York Stock
Exchange in connection with the issuance of our common stock upon any exercise of the fundamental change conversion right. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock represented by a beneficial interest in a global security may convert their shares by
complying with the depositary&#146;s procedures and, if required, by paying any dividends as described in this prospectus supplement. Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock in certificated form may convert some or all of their shares by
surrendering to us at our principal office or at the office of our conversion agent, as may be designated by our board of directors, the certificate or certificates, if any, for the shares of convertible preferred stock to be converted, accompanied
by a written notice stating that the holder of shares of convertible preferred stock elects to convert all or a specified whole number of those shares in accordance with the provisions described in this prospectus supplement and specifying the name
or names in which the holder of shares of convertible preferred stock wishes the certificate or certificates for any Series B preferred stock and for any shares of our common stock to be issued. If the notice specifies a name or names other than the
name of the holder of shares of convertible preferred stock, the notice will be accompanied by payment of all transfer taxes payable upon the issuance of shares of Series B preferred stock and shares of our common stock in that name or names. Other
than such transfer taxes, we will pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes that may be payable in respect of any issuance or delivery of shares of Series B preferred stock and shares of our common stock upon conversion of shares
of convertible preferred stock. The date on which the foregoing procedures have been complied with will be deemed the &#147;conversion date&#148; with respect to a share of convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As promptly as practicable after the conversion date with
respect to any shares of convertible preferred stock, we will reflect in our stock records the cancellation of the convertible preferred stock that is being converted and the issuance of such number of validly issued, fully paid and <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-assessable</FONT> shares of Series B preferred stock and validly issued, fully paid and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-assessable</FONT> shares of our common stock to which the holders of such shares of
convertible preferred stock are entitled as a result of the conversion, if any, as of the close of business on the final day of the relevant observation period. In addition, if the Series B preferred stock or common stock to be issued upon
conversion, if any, is certificated, promptly after the issuance of the Series B preferred stock certificate or common stock certificate, as the case may be (or, if the convertible preferred stock is certificated, promptly after, and in any case, no
later than two business days after the later of the surrender of the certificates representing the shares that are converted and the final day of the observation period) we will deliver or cause to be delivered (i)&nbsp;certificates representing the
number of validly issued, fully paid and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-assessable</FONT> shares of Series B preferred stock and shares of our common stock, as the case may be, to which the holders of such shares of convertible preferred
stock, or the transferee of the holder of such shares of convertible preferred stock, will be entitled, if any, and (ii)&nbsp;if the convertible preferred stock is then certificated and if less than the full number of shares of convertible preferred
stock represented by the surrendered certificate or certificates, if any, or specified in the notice, are being converted, a new certificate or certificates, of like tenor, for the number of shares represented by the surrendered certificate or
certificates, less the number of shares being converted. This conversion will be deemed to have been made at the close of business on the conversion date so that the rights of the holder of shares of convertible preferred stock as to the shares
being converted will cease, except for the right to receive the shares of Series B preferred stock or cash, as the case may be, and shares of our common stock, if any, due upon conversion. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of convertible preferred stock are not eligible to exercise any rights of a holder of shares
of Series B preferred stock or shares of our common stock until the close of business on the final day of the observation period for any conversion. If more than one share of convertible preferred stock is surrendered for conversion by the same
stockholder at the same time, the number of whole shares of our common stock issuable upon conversion of those shares of convertible preferred stock, if any, will be computed on the basis of the total number of shares of convertible preferred stock
so surrendered. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will at all times reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of our
authorized but unissued shares of capital stock, for issuance upon the conversion of shares of convertible preferred stock, a number of authorized but unissued shares of Series B preferred stock and a number of authorized but unissued shares of our
common stock that will from time to time be sufficient to permit the conversion of all outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock (assuming, for such purposes, that no conversions are induced conversions). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Before the delivery of any securities upon conversion of
shares of convertible preferred stock, we will comply with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations. All shares of Series B preferred stock and all shares of our common stock, in each case, delivered upon conversion of shares of
convertible preferred stock, if any, will, upon delivery, be duly and validly issued, fully paid and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-assessable,</FONT> free of all liens and charges and not subject to any preemptive rights. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Settlement Upon Conversion </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To satisfy our obligations with respect to a conversion in
connection with a redemption (an &#147;induced conversion&#148;), we will deliver to the converting holder in respect of each $1,000 liquidation preference of the convertible preferred stock being converted up to $1,000 in cash plus all accumulated
but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared), if any, on such converted convertible preferred stock to, but excluding, the payment date immediately preceding the relevant conversion date, and shares of our common stock (if any), as described
below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To satisfy our obligations with respect to
a conversion other than an induced conversion (an &#147;optional conversion&#148;), we will deliver to the converting holder in respect of each $1,000 liquidation preference of the convertible preferred stock being converted, a share of Series B
preferred stock and shares of our common stock (if any), as described below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A conversion of shares of convertible preferred stock will be deemed for these purposes to be an induced conversion if such shares have been called for redemption and the relevant conversion date occurs
from, and including, the effective date of our notice of redemption to, and including, the business day immediately preceding the redemption date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Settlement amounts will be computed as follows: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to satisfy our obligations with respect to an optional conversion, we will deliver to the converting holder in respect of each $1,000 liquidation
preference of the convertible preferred stock being converted a share of Series B preferred stock and a number of shares of our common stock (if any) equal to the net share settlement amount; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to satisfy our obligations with respect to an induced conversion, we will deliver to the converting holder in respect of each $1,000 liquidation
preference of the convertible preferred stock being converted a &#147;settlement amount&#148; equal to the sum of the daily settlement amounts for each of the 20 consecutive trading days during the related observation period.
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of an induced
conversion, the converting holder will also receive all accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not declared), if any, on such converted convertible preferred stock to, but excluding, the payment date immediately preceding the relevant
conversion date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The &#147;daily settlement
amount,&#148; for each of the 20 consecutive trading days during the observation period, will consist of: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">cash equal to the lesser of (i) $1,000 <I>divided by</I> 20 (such quotient being referred to as the &#147;daily measurement value&#148;) and
(ii)&nbsp;the daily conversion value for such trading day; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to the extent the daily conversion value for such trading day exceeds the daily measurement value, a number of shares equal to (i)&nbsp;the difference
between such daily conversion value and the daily measurement value, <I>divided by</I> (ii)&nbsp;the daily VWAP for such trading day (such number of shares, the &#147;daily net share settlement amount&#148;). </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Daily conversion value&#148; means, for each of the 20 consecutive trading days during
the observation period, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">one-twentieth</FONT> of the product of (i)&nbsp;the applicable conversion rate and (ii)&nbsp;the daily VWAP of our common stock on such trading day. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Net share settlement amount&#148; means the sum of the
daily net share settlement amounts for each of the 20 consecutive trading days during the related observation period. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#147;Observation period&#148; means, with respect to any share of convertible preferred stock being converted, the 20 consecutive trading
day period beginning on and including the second trading day after the conversion date for such share of convertible preferred stock, <I>provided</I> that if the relevant conversion date occurs on or after the date of our issuance of a notice of
redemption with respect to the convertible preferred stock as described under &#147;&#151;Optional Redemption&#148; and prior to the relevant redemption date, the observation period will be the 20 consecutive trading days beginning on, and
including, the 21st scheduled trading day immediately preceding such redemption date; <I>provided</I> further that for conversions in connection with a fundamental change prior to a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the
observation period will refer to the 20 consecutive trading day period beginning on and including the 21st scheduled trading day immediately preceding the fundamental change conversion deadline (as defined herein under &#147;Description of the
Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion Rights&#151;General&#148;). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will pay or deliver, as the case may be, the settlement amount to converting holders on the second business day following the final trading day of the relevant observation period and such holders will
be deemed to be the owners of the shares of Series B preferred stock and/or common stock included in the settlement amount, if any, on the last trading day of the relevant observation period. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will not issue fractional shares of our common stock upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock.
Instead of a fractional share, the holder will receive cash based on the daily VWAP of our common stock on the last trading day of the relevant observation period. If, however, a holder surrenders for conversion more than one share of convertible
preferred stock on the same date, then the number of shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to such conversion will be computed based upon the aggregate number of shares of convertible preferred stock surrendered for conversion on such date
or, if the convertible preferred shares are held in global book-entry form, based on such other aggregate number of convertible preferred shares being surrendered for conversion by the holder on the same date as DTC may otherwise request.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of Our Common
Stock </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of any reorganization
event, at and after the effective time of such reorganization event, the conversion rate will be determined by reference to the value of an exchange property unit, and we will deliver, upon settlement of any conversion of convertible preferred
stock, subject to the immediately succeeding sentence, a number of exchange property units equal to the number of shares of our common stock that we would otherwise be required to deliver. However, at and after the effective time of the
reorganization event, (x)&nbsp;any amount payable or deliverable, as the case may be, in cash or Series B preferred stock, as applicable, upon conversion as set forth under &#147;&#151;Conversion Rights&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion&#148; will
continue to be payable in cash or deliverable in Series B preferred stock (or, subject to the second immediately succeeding sentence, in the case of any such reorganization event in which we are not the surviving or resulting entity, preference
securities of the surviving or resulting entity or its ultimate parent, that have rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers, taken as a whole, that are no less favorable to the holders thereof than the rights, preferences, privileges and
voting powers of the Series B preferred stock immediately prior to such reorganization), as applicable, (y)&nbsp;any shares of our common stock that we would have been required to deliver upon conversion as set forth under &#147;&#151;Conversion
Rights&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion&#148; will instead be deliverable in the amount and type of exchange property that a holder of that number of shares of our common stock would have received in such transaction and (z)&nbsp;the daily VWAP and
fundamental change settlement price will be calculated based on the value of an exchange property unit that a holder of one share of our common stock would have received in </FONT></P>
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such transaction. In the event holders of our common stock (other than any constituent person or affiliate thereof) have the opportunity to elect the form of consideration to be received in such
transaction, the exchange property unit that holders of the convertible preferred stock are entitled to receive will be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration received by the holders of our common stock. We will
notify holders of the weighted average as soon as practicable after such determination is made. If the holders receive only cash in such transaction, then notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary for all conversions that occur after the
effective date of such transaction (i)&nbsp;the consideration due upon conversion of each share of convertible preferred stock will be solely cash in an amount equal to the conversion rate (as may be increased as described under
&#147;&#151;Conversion Rights&#151;Adjusted Conversion Rate Upon a Fundamental Change&#148;) in effect on the conversion date, <I>multiplied by</I> the price paid per share of our common stock in such transaction and (ii)&nbsp;we will satisfy our
conversion obligation by paying cash to converting holders on the second scheduled trading day immediately following the conversion date. In addition, we will amend the certificate of designations (1)&nbsp;to provide for anti-dilution and other
adjustments that are as nearly equivalent as possible to the adjustments described under &#147;&#151;Conversion Rate Adjustments&#148; below (it being understood that no such adjustments will be required with respect to any portion of the exchange
property that consists of cash), (2)&nbsp;in the case of any transaction that results in the common equity of any entity other than us (or our successor in such transaction) being included as exchange property, (a)&nbsp;by replacing references to
&#147;us&#148; or &#147;our&#148; (and similar references) in the definitions of &#147;fundamental change&#148; with references to that other entity and (b)&nbsp;by causing the dividend blocker provisions to apply to that other entity, with its
common equity securities being deemed stock ranking junior to the convertible preferred stock for this purpose and (3)&nbsp;to include such additional provisions to protect the interests of the holders of convertible preferred stock as our board of
directors reasonably considers necessary by reason of the foregoing. We will not become party to any such transaction unless its terms are consistent with the foregoing. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with any adjustment to the conversion rate
described below, we will also adjust the initial dividend threshold (as defined under &#147;&#151;Conversion Rate Adjustments&#148;) based on the number of shares of common stock comprising the exchange property and (if applicable) the value of any <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-stock</FONT> consideration comprising the exchange property. If the exchange property is composed solely of <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-stock</FONT> consideration, the initial dividend threshold will be zero.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The provisions described in the preceding two
paragraphs will similarly apply to successive reorganization events. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Conversion Rate Adjustments </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The applicable conversion rate will be adjusted from time to time for any of the following events that occur following the original issue date of the convertible preferred stock: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1) If we issue common stock as a dividend or distribution
on our common stock to all or substantially all holders of our common stock, or if we effect a share split or share combination, the conversion rate will be adjusted based on the following formula: </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
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STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&times;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="2" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the conversion rate in effect immediately prior to the open of
business on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such dividend or distribution, or the open of business on the effective date of such share split or share combination; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the new conversion rate in effect immediately on and after the open of
business on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such dividend or distribution, or the open of business on the effective date of such share split or share combination; </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on the <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date, or the open of business on the effective date of such share split or share combination; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend or distribution,
or the effective date of such share split or share combination. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any adjustment made pursuant to this clause (1)&nbsp;will become effective as of the open of business on (x)&nbsp;the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such dividend or other
distribution or (y)&nbsp;the date on which such split or combination becomes effective, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution described in this clause (1)&nbsp;is declared but not so paid or made, the new conversion rate will be readjusted
to the conversion rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(2) If we distribute to all or substantially all holders of our common stock any rights, warrants or options entitling them for a period
of not more than 60 calendar days after the date of distribution thereof to subscribe for or purchase our common stock, in any case at an exercise price per share of our common stock less than the closing price of our common stock on the trading day
immediately preceding the date of announcement of such distribution, the conversion rate will be increased based on the following formula: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="3"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="3"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="3"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&times;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="2" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="2" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex"></SUB></FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;X</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Y</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the conversion rate in effect immediately prior to the open of
business on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the new conversion rate in effect immediately on and after the open of business on the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on the <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">X = the aggregate number of shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to such rights, warrants or options; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Y = the number of shares of our common stock equal to the quotient of (A)&nbsp;the aggregate price payable to exercise all such rights,
warrants or options and (B)&nbsp;the closing price of our common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the date of announcement for the distribution of such rights, warrants or options. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of this clause (2), in determining whether any
rights, warrants or options entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase our common stock at less than the closing price of our common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such distribution, and in
determining the aggregate exercise price payable for such common stock, there will be taken into account any consideration received by us for such rights, warrants or options and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, with the value
of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by us. Any increase made under this clause (2)&nbsp;will be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are distributed and will become effective immediately after the
open of business on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution. If any right, warrant or option described in this clause (2)&nbsp;is not exercised or converted prior to the expiration of the exercisability
thereof, the new conversion rate will be readjusted to the conversion rate that would then be in effect if such right, warrant or option had not been so distributed. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(3)(a) If we distribute shares of capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other assets
or property of us or rights, options or warrants to acquire our capital stock or other securities to all or substantially all holders of our common stock, excluding: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(A) dividends, distributions, share splits and share
combinations described in clause (1)&nbsp;or (2)&nbsp;above; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(B) dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(C) spin-offs described below in clause (3)(b), </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">then the conversion rate will be increased based on the following formula: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="3"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&times;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="2" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="2" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#150;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;FMV</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the conversion rate in effect immediately prior to the open of
business on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the new conversion rate in effect immediately on and after the open of business on the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the closing price of our common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">FMV = the fair market value (as determined in good faith by us) of the shares of capital stock, evidences of indebtedness, assets or property distributed with respect to each outstanding share of our
common stock on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">An adjustment to the conversion rate made pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph will become effective as of the open of business on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date
for such distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, if &#147;FMV&#148; (as defined above) is equal to or greater than &#147;SP</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#148; (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each holder
of convertible preferred stock will receive, in respect of each share of convertible preferred stock, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of our common stock and without having to convert its shares of convertible preferred stock,
the amount and kind of our capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other assets or property of ours that such holder would have received if such holder owned a number of shares of our common stock equal to the conversion rate in effect on the <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for the distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) However, if we distribute to all or substantially all holders of our common stock, capital stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a subsidiary or other business
unit, that are, or, when issued, will be, listed or admitted for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange (which we refer to as a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;spin-off&#148;),</FONT> the conversion rate in effect immediately
following the 10th trading day immediately following, and including, the ex-dividend date of the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">spin-off</FONT> will be increased based on the following formula: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="3"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="3"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&times;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="2" STYLE=" BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="2" NOWRAP STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000">
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">FMV</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT>
<FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> + MP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">MP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the conversion rate in effect on the 10th trading day immediately
following, and including the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">spin-off;</FONT> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the new conversion rate immediately after the 10th trading day immediately following (and including) the <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">spin-off;</FONT> </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">FMV</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the average of the closing prices of the capital stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of our common
stock applicable to one share of our common stock over the first 10 consecutive trading days after (and including) the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">spin-off</FONT> (the
&#147;valuation period&#148;); and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">MP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the
average of the closing prices of our common stock over the valuation period. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The increase to the conversion rate under the preceding paragraph will occur at the close of business on the last trading day of the valuation period; <I>provided</I> that for any trading day that falls
within the relevant observation period for such conversion and within the valuation period, the reference to &#147;10&#148; in the preceding paragraph will be deemed replaced with such lesser number of trading days as have elapsed between the <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">spin-off</FONT> and such trading day in determining the conversion rate as of such trading day. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any such dividend or distribution described in this clause (3)(b)&nbsp;is declared but not paid or made, the
new conversion rate will be readjusted to be the conversion rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(4) If any cash dividend or distribution is made to all or substantially all holders of our common stock, other than a regular, quarterly
cash dividend that does not exceed $0.1505 per share (the &#147;initial dividend threshold&#148;), the conversion rate will be adjusted based on the following formula: </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="3"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="3"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="2" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> - IDT</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> - C</FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where, </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the conversion rate in effect immediately prior to the open of
business on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such dividend or distribution; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the conversion rate in effect immediately after the open of business on the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such dividend or distribution; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the closing price of our common stock on the trading day immediately preceding the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such distribution; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">C = the amount in cash per share we distribute to holders of our common stock; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">IDT = the initial dividend threshold; <I>provided</I> that if the dividend or distribution is not a regular quarterly cash dividend, the
initial dividend threshold will be deemed to be zero. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any increase to the conversion rate made pursuant to this clause (4)&nbsp;will become effective as of the open of business on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such dividend
or distribution. If any such dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the new conversion rate will be readjusted to the conversion rate that would be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, if &#147;C&#148; (as defined
above) is equal to or greater than &#147;SP0&#148; (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each holder of convertible preferred stock will receive, for each share of convertible preferred stock, at the same time and upon the same
terms as holders of shares of our common stock and without having to convert its shares of convertible preferred stock, the amount of cash that such holder would have received if such holder owned a number of shares of our common stock equal to the
conversion rate on the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date for such cash dividend or distribution. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The initial dividend threshold is subject to adjustment in certain circumstances in a manner inversely proportional to adjustments to the
conversion rate; <I>provided</I> that no adjustment will be made to the initial dividend threshold for any adjustment made to the conversion rate under this clause (4). </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(5) If we or any of our subsidiaries make a payment in respect of a tender offer or exchange
offer for our common stock, other than an odd lot tender offer, to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of our common stock exceeds the closing price of a share of our common stock on the
trading day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the conversion rate will be increased based on the following formula: </FONT></P>
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STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">=</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="middle" ROWSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&times;</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ROWSPAN="2" STYLE="BORDER-BOTTOM:1px solid #000000"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">AC&nbsp;+&nbsp;(SP</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;x&nbsp;OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">)</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;x&nbsp;SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the conversion rate in effect immediately prior to the close of
business on the trading day immediately following the date on which such tender or exchange offer expires; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">CR</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the conversion rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the trading day immediately following the date
on which such tender or exchange offer expires; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">AC = the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined in good faith by us) paid or payable for our common stock
purchased in such tender or exchange offer; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">0</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the number
of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the date such tender or exchange offer expires (prior to giving effect to the purchase or exchange of shares pursuant to such tender or exchange offer); </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">OS</FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately after
the date such tender or exchange offer expires (after giving effect to the purchase or exchange of shares pursuant to such tender or exchange offer); and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">SP</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUB
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; top:.4ex">1</SUB></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> = the closing price of our common stock for the trading day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer
expires. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the application of the foregoing
formula would result in a decrease in the conversion rate, no adjustment to the conversion rate will be made. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any adjustment to the conversion rate made pursuant to this clause (5)&nbsp;will become effective at the close of business on the trading
day immediately following the date on which such tender offer or exchange offer expires. If we or one of our subsidiaries is obligated to purchase our common stock pursuant to any such tender or exchange offer but is permanently prevented by
applicable law from effecting any such purchase or all such purchases are rescinded, the new conversion rate will be readjusted to be the conversion rate that would be in effect if such tender or exchange offer had not been made. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we have in effect a rights plan while any convertible
preferred stock remains outstanding, holders of convertible preferred stock will receive, upon a conversion of convertible preferred stock, in addition to shares of our common stock, if any, rights under our shareholder rights agreement unless,
prior to conversion, the rights have expired, terminated or been redeemed or unless the rights have separated from our common stock. If the rights provided for in the rights plan adopted by us have separated from our common stock in accordance with
the provisions of the applicable shareholder rights agreement so that holders of convertible preferred stock would not be entitled to receive any rights in respect of our common stock, if any, delivered upon conversion of convertible preferred
stock, the conversion rate will be adjusted at the time of separation as if we had distributed to all holders of our common stock capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other assets or property pursuant to clause (3)&nbsp;above, subject to
readjustment upon the subsequent expiration, termination or redemption of the rights. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition to the adjustments pursuant to paragraphs (1)&nbsp;through (5)&nbsp;above, we
may increase the conversion rate in order to avoid or diminish any income tax to holders of our common stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of capital stock (or rights to acquire our common stock) or from any event treated as such for
income tax purposes. We may also, from time to time, to the extent permitted by applicable law, increase the conversion rate by any amount for any period of at least 20 business days if we have determined that such increase would be in our best
interests. If we make such determination, it will be conclusive and we will mail to holders of the convertible preferred stock a notice of the increased conversion rate and the period during which it will be in effect at least 15 calendar days prior
to the date the increased conversion rate takes effect in accordance with applicable law. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No adjustment to the conversion rate will be made if holders of the convertible preferred stock, as a result of holding the convertible preferred stock and without conversion thereof, are entitled to
participate at the same time as our common stock holders participate in any of the transactions described above as if such holders of the convertible preferred stock held a number shares of our common stock equal to the conversion rate,<I>
multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock held by such holder. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As used in this section and in &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Anti-dilution Adjustments&#148; above, &#147;record date&#148; means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other
transaction or event in which the holders of our common stock (or other applicable security) have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which our common stock (or such other security) is exchanged for or converted into
any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of holders of our common stock (or such other security) entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by our board of
directors, statute, contract or otherwise). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The
conversion rate will not be adjusted except as specifically set forth in this &#147;Conversion Rate Adjustments&#148; and in &#147;&#151;Conversion Rights&#151;Adjusted Conversion Rate Upon a Fundamental Change.&#148; Without limiting the foregoing,
the conversion rate will not be adjusted for: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the issuance of our common stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on securities
of ours and the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of our common stock under any plan; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">upon the issuance of options, restricted stock or other awards in connection with any employment contract, executive compensation plan, benefit plan or
other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors, consultants or independent contractors or the exercise of such options or other awards; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the issuance of our common stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right, or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security outstanding as of the
date the convertible preferred stock was first issued; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a change in the par value of our common stock; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">accumulated but unpaid dividends. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">All required calculations will be made to the nearest cent or 1/10,000th of a share, as the case may be. We will not be required to make
an adjustment to the conversion rate unless the adjustment would require a change of at least 1% in the conversion rate. However, we will carry forward any adjustments that are less than 1% of the conversion rate and make such carried-forward
adjustments (x)&nbsp;when all such carried-forward adjustments aggregate to a change of at least 1% in the conversion rate and (y)&nbsp;regardless of whether the aggregate adjustment is less than 1% (i) on the effective date for any fundamental
change and (ii)&nbsp;on each trading day of any observation period in respect of any conversion of convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of an adjustment to the conversion rate, holders of Corporate Units and convertible preferred stock may, in certain
circumstances, be deemed to have received a distribution subject to U.S. federal income tax </FONT></P>
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as a dividend. See &#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax Consequences&#151;U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Constructive Distributions&#148; below. In
addition, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holders of Corporate Units and convertible preferred stock may, in certain circumstances, be deemed to have received a distribution subject to U.S. federal withholding tax requirements. See
&#147;Material United States Federal Income and Estate Tax <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Consequences&#151;Non-U.S.</FONT> Holders.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Adjustments of Prices </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Whenever any provision of the certificate of designations requires us to calculate the closing prices, the daily VWAPs, the daily
conversion values or the daily settlement amounts over a span of multiple days (including any observation period, the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">five-day</FONT> average price and the &#147;stock price&#148; and &#147;fundamental change
settlement price&#148; (if applicable) for purposes of this &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#148; section), we will make appropriate adjustments to each to account for any adjustment to the conversion rate that becomes
effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the conversion rate where the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ex-dividend</FONT> date of the event occurs, at any time during the period when the closing prices, the daily VWAPs, the daily
conversion values or the daily settlement amounts are to be calculated. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Transfer Agent, Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The registrar and transfer agent for the convertible preferred stock is Computershare Trust Company, N.A. The paying agent and conversion
agent for the convertible preferred stock is Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Remarketing </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The convertible preferred stock will be remarketed as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Remarketing.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock: </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the pricing date for a successful
remarketing is less than or equal to the reference price, the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an amount equal to $1,000, divided by
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price on such date (rounded to the nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the
earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025, each as described under &#147;&#151;Terms of the Remarketed Preferred Stock;&#148; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">dividends will continue to be payable on the convertible preferred stock quarterly at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such dividend rate may be
adjusted in connection with such remarketing), when, as and if declared by our board of directors. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The increased dividend rate and/or increased conversion rate will be a fixed dividend rate and/or conversion rate (subject to adjustment
in certain circumstances) determined by, and any other changes to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock will be determined by, our board of directors, after
consultation with the remarketing agent, as the rate(s) the convertible preferred stock should bear and the terms the convertible preferred stock should include in order for the net remarketing proceeds to equal (a)&nbsp;in the case of a final
remarketing, at least $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock being remarketed and (b)&nbsp;in the case of an optional remarketing, at least the sum of (x) 100% of the purchase price of the Treasury portfolio
and (y)&nbsp;the separate convertible preferred stock purchase price for shares of convertible preferred stock that are not included in Corporate Units whose holders have elected to participate in the remarketing. We will not decrease the conversion
rate or the dividend rate in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">At any time prior to a remarketing, holders of convertible
preferred stock that do not underlie Corporate Units may elect to have their shares of convertible preferred stock remarketed in such remarketing in the same manner as shares of convertible preferred stock that underlie Corporate Units by delivering
their shares along with a notice of this election to the custodial agent. The custodial agent will hold the shares of convertible preferred stock in an account separate from the collateral account in which the pledged assets will be held. Holders of
shares of convertible preferred stock electing to have their shares remarketed will also have the right to withdraw their election at any time prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second business day immediately preceding an optional
remarketing period or the final remarketing period, as applicable. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we elect to conduct an optional remarketing, the remarketing agent will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain a price (i)&nbsp;for shares of convertible preferred stock that are components of
Corporate Units, that results in proceeds of at least 100% of the Treasury portfolio purchase price and (ii)&nbsp;for shares of convertible preferred stock that are not part of Corporate Units, at least equal to the separate convertible preferred
stock purchase price (as defined below), which will be the same price, on a per share basis, as for the shares of convertible preferred stock included as components of Corporate Units. For purposes of determining the proceeds that the remarketing
agent will seek to obtain for the convertible preferred stock in an optional remarketing, the &#147;separate convertible preferred stock purchase price&#148; means the amount in cash equal to the product of (A)&nbsp;the remarketing price per share
of convertible preferred stock (as defined below) and (B)&nbsp;the number of shares of convertible preferred stock included in such remarketing that are not part of Corporate Units, which will be the same price on a per share basis, as shares of
convertible preferred stock remarketed as Corporate Units. The &#147;remarketing price per share of convertible preferred stock&#148; for an optional remarketing means, for each share of convertible preferred stock, an amount in cash equal to the
quotient of the Treasury portfolio purchase price divided by the number of shares of convertible preferred stock included in such remarketing that are held as components of Corporate Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">With respect to the final remarketing, the remarketing agent will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain a
price that results in proceeds of at least $1,000 <I>multiplied by</I> the number of shares of convertible preferred stock being remarketed. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, proceeds from the remarketing attributable to holders of
separate shares of convertible preferred stock that elected to have their shares remarketed will be remitted by the remarketing agent for the benefit of such holders on the optional remarketing settlement date (in the case of any optional
remarketing) or on the purchase contract settlement date (in the case of the final remarketing). Except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, any accumulated but unpaid dividends on such shares (including compounded dividends thereon), whether
or not declared, will be paid by us, on the purchase contract settlement date, to holders of record on the immediately preceding dividend payment record date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs, following the final remarketing (whether successful
or failed), we will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of
business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but
unpaid dividends will continue to compound) with respect to such convertible preferred stock for so long as the convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, notwithstanding such remarketing, and such dividends will be payable to the holders of
such convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). If there are any accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred
stock for prior dividend periods, or we have not declared a dividend payable on the November&nbsp;15, 2023 payment date, we may not conduct an optional remarketing. </FONT></P>
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SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, (a)&nbsp;the dividend rate on the
convertible preferred stock may be increased, (b)&nbsp;if the closing price on the pricing date for a successful remarketing is less than or equal to the reference price, the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock may be increased to an
amount equal to $1,000, divided by &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% of the closing price on such date (rounded to the nearest <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-thousandth</FONT> of
a share) and/or (c)&nbsp;the earliest redemption date for the convertible preferred stock may be changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025. The changes to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with a
successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, if any, will become effective on the settlement date of such remarketing (the &#147;remarketing settlement date&#148;), which will be, in the case of a successful optional remarketing, the
second business day following the optional remarketing date (or such other date as we and the remarketing agent agree upon) and, in the case of the final remarketing period, the purchase contract settlement date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the dividend rate and/or the conversion rate is increased,
or any other terms are modified, pursuant to a successful remarketing, the increased dividend rate and/or increased conversion rate will be a fixed dividend rate and/or conversion rate (subject to adjustment in certain circumstances) determined by,
and any other changes to the terms of the convertible preferred stock in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock will be determined by, our board of directors, after consultation with the remarketing agent, as the
rate(s) the convertible preferred stock should bear and the terms the convertible preferred stock should include in order for the net remarketing proceeds to equal (a)&nbsp;in the case of a final remarketing, at least $1,000 multiplied by the number
of shares of convertible preferred stock being remarketed and (b)&nbsp;in the case of an optional remarketing, at least the sum of (x) 100% of the purchase price of the Treasury portfolio and (y)&nbsp;the separate convertible preferred stock
purchase price for shares of convertible preferred stock that are not included in Corporate Units whose holders have elected to participate in the remarketing. We will not decrease the conversion rate or the dividend rate in connection with a
successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the convertible preferred stock is not successfully remarketed, no terms of the convertible preferred stock will be changed. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The remarketing agent is not obligated to purchase any shares
of convertible preferred stock that would otherwise remain unsold in the remarketing. None of us, the remarketing agent or any agent of us or the remarketing agent will be obligated in any case to provide funds to make payment upon tender of
convertible preferred stock for remarketing. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Automatic
Settlement Upon Failed Final Remarketing </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If
the convertible preferred stock has not been successfully remarketed on or prior to the last day of the final remarketing period, all ownership interests in shares of convertible preferred stock held as part of Corporate Units will be delivered to
us on the purchase contract settlement date in full satisfaction of the Corporate Unit holders&#146; obligations to purchase our common stock under the related purchase contracts on the purchase contract settlement date, unless the holder separately
cash settles purchase contracts as described below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Notwithstanding the foregoing, except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including
compounded dividends thereon), including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the
close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs, following the final remarketing (whether successful or failed), we will have no obligation to pay the then
accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of convertible preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the
purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue to compound)
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with respect to such convertible preferred stock for so long as the convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the holders of such convertible
preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The ownership interest in convertible preferred stock underlying a Corporate Unit will be automatically delivered to us thereby satisfying
such holder&#146;s obligations to us under the related purchase contracts in full, unless, prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second business day immediately prior to the purchase contract settlement date, the holder provides written
notice of an intention to settle the related purchase contracts with separate cash and on or prior to the business day immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date delivers to the securities intermediary $1,000 in cash per 10 purchase
contracts. Holders of Corporate Units may settle their purchase contracts with separate cash only in integral multiples of 10 Corporate Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Payment </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any separate shares of convertible preferred stock are registered in the name of DTC, as depository for the convertible
preferred stock as described herein under &#147;Book-Entry Issuance&#151;The Depository Trust Company,&#148; or DTC&#146;s nominee, payments on the convertible preferred stock will be made as described therein. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Form </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any separate shares of convertible preferred stock are registered in the name of DTC, as depository
for the convertible preferred stock as described herein under &#147;Book-Entry Issuance&#151;The Depository Trust Company,&#148; or DTC&#146;s nominee, transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in the separate shares of convertible preferred
stock will be made as described therein. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Certain Trading
Characteristics </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The convertible preferred
stock is expected to trade at a price that takes into account the value, if any, of accumulated but unpaid dividends (except for declared dividends accumulated after a record date and prior to a payment date, which dividends will be payable to the
holders as of the record date, as described above); thus, it is expected that purchasers of the convertible preferred stock will not pay, and sellers will not receive, accumulated but unpaid dividends with respect to the convertible preferred stock
that is not included in the trading price thereof. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Title
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We and any agent of ours will treat the
person or entity in whose name shares of convertible preferred stock are registered as the absolute owner of those securities for the purpose of making payments and for all other purposes irrespective of notice to the contrary. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Book-Entry Issuance&#151;The Depository Trust Company </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The shares of convertible preferred stock that form a part
of the Corporate Units will be issued in fully registered form and will be evidenced by one or more global securities held in certificated form in the name of the purchase contract agent. The shares of convertible preferred stock that do not form a
part of the Corporate Units will be evidenced by one or more global securities registered in the name of DTC&#146;s nominee, Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., or such other name as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC. Such global securities
will be deposited with the transfer agent as custodian for DTC. See &#147;Certain Provisions of the Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement&#151;Book-Entry System for Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units&#148; for a description of
DTC. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Purchases of the convertible preferred stock
under the DTC system must be made by or through direct participants, which will receive a credit for the convertible preferred stock on DTC&#146;s records. The ownership </FONT></P>
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interest of each actual purchaser of each share of convertible preferred stock (&#147;beneficial owner&#148;) is in turn to be recorded on the direct and indirect participants&#146; records.
Beneficial owners will not receive written confirmation from DTC of their purchases, but beneficial owners are expected to receive written confirmations providing details of the transactions, as well as periodic statements of their holdings, from
the direct or indirect participant through which they purchased the convertible preferred stock. Transfers of ownership interests on the convertible preferred stock are to be accomplished by entries made on the books of direct and indirect
participants acting on behalf of beneficial owners. Beneficial owners will not receive certificates representing their ownership interests in convertible preferred stock, except in the event that use of the book-entry system for the convertible
preferred stock is discontinued. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To facilitate
subsequent transfers, all convertible preferred stock deposited by direct participants with DTC are registered in the name of DTC&#146;s nominee, Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., or such other name as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC. The
deposit of the convertible preferred stock with DTC and their registration in the name of Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. or such other nominee do not effect any change in beneficial ownership. DTC has no knowledge of the actual beneficial owners of the
convertible preferred stock; DTC&#146;s records reflect only the identity of the direct participants to whose accounts the shares of convertible preferred stock are credited, which may or may not be the beneficial owners. The direct and indirect
participants will remain responsible for keeping account of their holdings on behalf of their customers. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Conveyance of notices and other communications by DTC to direct participants, by direct participants to indirect participants, and by
direct participants and indirect participants to beneficial owners, will be governed by arrangements among them, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Notices will be sent to DTC. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Neither DTC nor Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. (nor such other DTC
nominee) will consent or vote with respect to the convertible preferred stock unless authorized by a direct participant in accordance with DTC&#146;s procedures. Under its usual procedures, DTC mails an omnibus proxy to us as soon as possible after
the record date. The omnibus proxy assigns the voting or consenting rights of Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. to those direct participants to whose accounts the shares of convertible preferred stock are credited on the record date. We believe that these
arrangements will enable the beneficial owners to exercise rights equivalent in substance to the rights that can be directly exercised by a registered holder of the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Payments of dividends on the convertible preferred stock will
be made to Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. (or such other nominee of DTC). DTC&#146;s practice is to credit direct participants&#146; accounts upon DTC&#146;s receipt of funds and corresponding detail information from us or the transfer agent, on payable date
in accordance with their respective holdings shown on DTC&#146;s records. Payments by participants to beneficial owners will be governed by standing instructions and customary practices and will be the responsibility of each participant and not of
DTC or us, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Payment of dividends to Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. (or other such nominee of DTC) is our responsibility. Disbursement of such payments to direct
participants will be the responsibility of DTC, and disbursement of such payments to the beneficial owners is the responsibility of direct and indirect participants. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A beneficial owner will not be entitled to receive physical
delivery of the convertible preferred stock. Accordingly, each beneficial owner must rely on the procedures of DTC to exercise any rights under the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">DTC may discontinue providing its services as securities
depository with respect to the convertible preferred stock at any time by giving us or the transfer agent reasonable notice. In the event no successor securities depository is obtained, certificates for the convertible preferred stock will be
printed and delivered. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The information in this
section concerning DTC&#146;s book-entry system has been obtained from sources that we believe to be reliable, but neither we nor the underwriters take any responsibility for the accuracy of this information. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_13"></A>DESCRIPTION OF THE SERIES B PREFERRED STOCK </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>The following is a summary of certain provisions of the
Series B preferred stock. The following summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, all of the provisions of our sixth restated certificate of incorporation, as amended, including the
certificate of designations establishing the designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions on the Series B preferred stock and our amended and restated <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">by-laws,</FONT> as currently in effect, and applicable laws. Wherever particular provisions or defined terms of the Series B preferred stock are referred to, such provisions or defined terms are incorporated into this
prospectus supplement by reference. </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>As
used in this Description of the Series B Preferred Stock, &#147;we,&#148; &#147;us,&#148; &#147;our&#148; or &#147;the Company&#148; refer only to The AES Corporation and any successor obligor, and not to any of its subsidiaries. </I></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>General </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Under our sixth restated certificate of incorporation, as amended, our board of directors designated up to
1,150,000 shares of our authorized but unissued preferred stock as, and approved a certificate of designations creating, a series of our preferred stock, designated as the &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% Series B Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock,
which we refer to as the &#147;Series B preferred stock.&#148; We will not (i)&nbsp;change any terms of the Series B preferred stock except as set forth in the certificate of designations and (ii)&nbsp;issue any additional shares of Series B
preferred stock other than in accordance with the certificate of designations. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may issue an aggregate of up to 1,000,000 shares of Series B preferred stock, or 1,150,000 shares if the underwriters exercised in full their over-allotment option on the Corporate Units, upon optional
conversion of the convertible preferred stock as described under &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion Rights&#151;Settlement Upon Conversion.&#148; When issued in accordance with this prospectus supplement and the
accompanying prospectus, the Series B preferred stock will be validly issued, fully paid and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-assessable.</FONT> The Series B preferred stock will not be pledged to us to secure your obligation under any purchase
contract. The dividend rate and other terms of the Series B preferred stock may not be the same as the terms of similar securities issued at the time. In addition, the Series B preferred stock will have no protections in connection with fundamental
changes or similar corporate transactions. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We do
not intend to list the Series B preferred stock that are not a part of Corporate Units on any securities exchange. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Ranking </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Series B preferred stock, with respect to dividend rights or rights upon our liquidation, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up</FONT> or dissolution, will rank: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">senior to all classes or series of our common stock and to any other class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking junior to the
Series B preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">on parity with&nbsp;our convertible preferred stock and any other class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking on parity with
the Series B preferred stock, including the convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">junior to any other class or series of our capital stock expressly designated as ranking senior to the Series B preferred stock; and
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">junior to our existing and future indebtedness and other liabilities (including trade payables). </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The term &#147;capital stock&#148; does not include
convertible or exchangeable debt securities, which, prior to conversion or exchange, will rank senior in right of payment to the Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of the Series B preferred
stock will not have the right to receive any payment or distribution unless all of our liabilities are first paid in full and the priority of any senior stock is satisfied. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We currently have no capital stock outstanding that is senior
to or on parity with the Series B preferred stock. When issued, our convertible preferred stock will rank on parity with the Series B preferred stock. All our long-term indebtedness will rank senior in right of payment to the Series B preferred
stock. In addition, the Series B preferred stock will be structurally subordinated to all debt, preferred stock and other liabilities of our subsidiaries, which means that creditors and preferred stockholders of our subsidiaries will be paid from
the assets of such subsidiaries before holders of the Series B preferred stock would have any claims to those assets. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Dividends </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of the Series B preferred stock will receive, when, as and if declared by our board of directors, cumulative dividends, at the
rate of &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;% per year (the &#147;dividend rate&#148;) on the $1,000 liquidation preference per share of Series B preferred stock, payable in cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of cash and shares of our common
stock, at our election, unless we have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment method to apply. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The shares of Series B preferred stock delivered to a holder upon conversion will have initial accumulated dividends at issuance equal to
the amount of any accumulated but unpaid dividends on the convertible preferred stock (including compounded dividends thereon) to, but excluding, date of issuance of such Series B preferred stock, which we refer to as the &#147;initial accumulated
dividends.&#148; Thereafter, dividends will continue to accumulate from the first date of original issuance of the Series B preferred stock and will be payable when, as and if declared by our board of directors quarterly in arrears on
February&nbsp;15, May&nbsp;15, August&nbsp;15 and November&nbsp;15 of each year (each, a &#147;payment date&#148;) beginning on the first payment date following the date on which the Series B preferred stock is first issued, to the person whose name
appears in our stock records at the close of business on the applicable record date, which will be the first day of the month in which the relevant payment date falls (whether or not a business day) or if the shares of Series B preferred stock are
held in global book-entry form, the record date will be the business day immediately preceding the applicable payment date. We refer to each period beginning on and including a payment date (or, if no dividends have been paid on the Series B
preferred stock, the date of first issuance) to, but excluding, the next payment date as a &#147;dividend period,&#148; <I>provided</I> that accumulated dividends for the first dividend period will include initial accumulated dividends. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will calculate dividends on the Series B preferred stock
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 (and for any period less than a month, on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">30-day</FONT> month). Dollar amounts resulting from that calculation will be rounded to the nearest cent, with <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">one-half</FONT> cent being rounded upward. Dividends on the Series B preferred
stock will cease to accumulate upon redemption, as described below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a payment date falls on a date that is not a business day, such payment date will be postponed to the next succeeding business day; <I>provided</I> that, if such business day falls in the next
succeeding calendar month, the payment date will be brought forward to the immediately preceding business day. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dividends on the Series B preferred stock will accumulate whether or not: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">we have earnings; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">there are funds legally available for the payment of those dividends; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">those dividends are authorized or declared. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any shares of Series B preferred stock remain outstanding, except as described below, unless full cumulative dividends on the
Series B preferred stock for all past dividend periods (including compounded </FONT></P>
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dividends thereon) have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum or number of shares of our common stock sufficient for the payment thereof is set apart for payment,
we will not: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">declare and pay or declare and set aside for payment of dividends, and we will not declare and make any distribution of cash or other property,
directly or indirectly, on or with respect to any shares of our common stock or shares of any other class or series of our capital stock ranking, as to dividends, on parity with or junior to the Series B preferred stock, including the convertible
preferred stock, for any period; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for any consideration, or make any other distribution of cash or other property, directly or indirectly, on or
with respect to, or pay or make available any monies for a sinking fund for the redemption of, any common stock or shares of any other class or series of our capital stock ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, on parity with or junior to the
Series B preferred stock, including the convertible preferred stock; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire for any consideration, or make any other distribution of cash or other property, directly or indirectly, on or
with respect to the purchase contracts or make any payments (including any contract adjustment payments) under the purchase contracts or any payment under any similar agreement providing for the issuance by us of capital stock on a forward basis.
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The foregoing sentence,
however, will not prohibit: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">purchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock ranking junior to the Series B preferred stock in connection with any
employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of current or former employees, officers, directors or consultants; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">purchases of shares of our common stock pursuant to a contractually binding requirement to buy stock existing prior to the commencement of the first
dividend period for which dividends are unpaid, including under a contractually binding stock repurchase plan; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the purchase of, or the payment of cash in lieu of, fractional interests in shares of capital stock ranking junior to the Series B preferred stock
issued by us (i)&nbsp;in connection with a bona fide acquisition of a business or (ii)&nbsp;pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for such capital stock;
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">any declaration of a dividend on our capital stock in connection with the implementation of a shareholders rights plan designed to protect us against
unsolicited offers to acquire our capital stock, or the issuance of our capital stock under any such plan in the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">dividends or distributions payable solely in capital stock ranking junior to the Series B preferred stock, or warrants, options or rights to acquire
such capital stock, other than any indebtedness or our capital stock ranking, as to dividends or upon liquidation, on parity with or senior to the Series B preferred stock, including the convertible preferred stock, in each case, convertible into,
exercisable for or exchangeable for our capital stock ranking junior to the Series B preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">delivery of Series B preferred stock and (if applicable) our common stock, and/or payment of cash in lieu of any fractional share of our common stock,
in each case, upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the conversion of our capital stock into, or exchange of our capital stock for, other shares of any class or series of capital stock ranking equally to
the Series B preferred stock, so long as the liquidation preference of such class or series of capital stock issued upon conversion or exchange is less than or equal to the liquidation preference of the capital stock surrendered for conversion or
exchange; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">payments on the purchase contracts or the convertible preferred stock, in each case so long as the amount of payments made on account of such purchase
contracts or convertible preferred stock and the Series B preferred stock is paid on all such purchase contracts or convertible preferred stock and the Series B preferred stock then outstanding on a pro rata basis in proportion to the full payment
to which each such purchase contract, convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred stock is then entitled if paid in full; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the conversion into or exchange for other shares of any class or series of capital stock ranking junior to the Series B preferred stock.
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will not permit any of our
subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of our stock unless we could, under the above paragraph, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner. We refer to the provisions described in
this paragraph and the above paragraph as the &#147;dividend blocker provisions.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">When we do not pay dividends in full (or do not set apart a sum sufficient to pay them in full) on the Series B preferred stock and the shares of any other class or series of capital stock ranking, as to
dividends, on parity with the Series B preferred stock, including the convertible preferred stock, we will declare any dividends upon the Series B preferred stock and each such other class or series of capital stock ranking, as to dividends, on
parity with the Series B preferred stock pro rata, so that the amount of dividends declared per share of Series B preferred stock and such other class or series of capital stock will in all cases bear to each other the same ratio that accumulated
but unpaid dividends per share on the Series B preferred stock and such other class or series of capital stock (which will not include any accumulation in respect of unpaid dividends on such other class or series of capital stock for prior dividend
periods if such other class or series of capital stock does not have a cumulative dividend) bear to each other. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any accumulated but unpaid dividends will accumulate additional dividends at the then-applicable dividend rate (as such dividend rate may
be adjusted in connection with a remarketing) until paid, compounded quarterly, to, but excluding, the payment date. We refer to these additional dividends that accumulate on accumulated but unpaid dividends as &#147;compounded dividends&#148; and
the payments in respect thereof as &#147;compounded dividend payments.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of Series B preferred stock are not entitled to any dividends in excess of the full cumulative dividends (including compounded dividends) on the Series B preferred stock as described
above. Any dividend payment made on the Series B preferred stock will first be credited against the earliest accumulated but unpaid dividends due with respect to those shares which remain payable. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No dividend will be paid unless and until our board of
directors declares a dividend payable with respect to the Series B preferred stock. Our ability to declare and pay dividends and make other distributions with respect to our capital stock, including the Series B preferred stock, if any, may be
limited by the terms of any indentures, loan agreements or other financing arrangements that we enter into in the future. In addition, our ability to declare and pay dividends may be limited by the Delaware General Corporation Law. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, except in the case of a dividend deficiency event, all accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon), including with respect to the February&nbsp;15, 2024 payment date, whether or not declared, will be paid
on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of Series B preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. If a dividend deficiency event occurs, we
will have no obligation to pay the then accumulated but unpaid dividends on the Series B preferred stock on the purchase contract settlement date to the holders of the shares of Series B preferred stock as of the close of business on the record date
immediately preceding the purchase contract settlement date. However, the right to receive such accumulated but unpaid dividends (including compounded dividends thereon) will continue to exist (and such accumulated but unpaid dividends will continue
to compound) with respect to such Series B preferred stock for so long as the Series B preferred stock remains outstanding, and such dividends will be payable to the holders of such Series B preferred stock as of the close of business on the record
date for the payment date on which such dividends are subsequently declared and paid (if ever). </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the limitations described below, we may pay any
dividend (or any portion of any dividend) on the Series B preferred stock (whether or not for a current dividend period or any prior dividend period), determined in the sole discretion of our board of directors: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">in cash; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">by delivery of shares of our common stock; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">through any combination of cash and shares of our common stock. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will make each payment of a dividend on the Series B
preferred stock in cash, except to the extent we elect, or have previously elected, to make all or any portion of such payment in shares of our common stock. Unless we have previously irrevocably elected a dividend payment method to apply, we will
give the holders of the Series B preferred stock notice of any election with respect to any particular dividend payment, the portion of such payment that will be made in cash and the portion of such payment that will be made in common stock no later
than eight scheduled trading days prior to the payment date for such dividend. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we elect, or have previously irrevocably elected, to make any such payment of a dividend, or any portion thereof, in shares of our common stock, such shares will be valued for such purpose at the
average of the daily VWAPs per share of our common stock over the five consecutive trading day period ending on the second trading day immediately preceding the applicable payment date (the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;five-day</FONT>
average price&#148;), <I>multiplied by</I> 97%. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Without the consent of any holders of the Series B preferred stock, we may, by notice to such holders, irrevocably elect whether we will
pay dividend payments in cash, shares of our common stock or a combination thereof (a &#147;dividend payment method&#148;) and, if applicable, the amount or percentage of a dividend payment to be paid in common stock that will apply to any dividend
payment following such notice (unless a dividend payment method has previously been designated) and, subject to the foregoing, specify the effective time of such election (which may be any time subsequent to the delivery of such notice). Our
irrevocable election of a dividend payment method as described herein may be made by us in our sole discretion. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No fractional shares of our common stock will be delivered to the holders of the Series B preferred stock in respect of dividends. We will
instead pay a cash adjustment to each holder that would otherwise be entitled to a fraction of a share of our common stock based on (i)&nbsp;the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">five-day</FONT> average price and (ii)&nbsp;the aggregate number of
shares of Series B preferred stock held by such holder (or, if the Series B preferred stock is held in global book-entry form, based on the applicable procedures of the depositary for determining such number of shares). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To the extent a shelf registration statement is required in
our reasonable judgment in connection with the issuance of or for resales of common stock issued as payment of a dividend, we will, to the extent such a registration statement is not currently filed and effective, use our commercially reasonable
efforts to file and maintain the effectiveness of such a shelf registration statement until the earlier of such time as all such shares of our common stock have been resold thereunder and such time as all such shares are freely tradable by <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-affiliates</FONT> of ours without registration. To the extent applicable, we will also use our commercially reasonable efforts to have the shares of our common stock qualified or registered under applicable state
securities laws, if required, and approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange (or if our common stock is not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which our common
stock is then listed). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any dividends paid in
shares of our common stock will be subject to the listing standards of the New York Stock Exchange, if applicable. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Liquidation Preference </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution
or winding up of our affairs, before any distribution or payment will be made to holders of shares of our common stock or any other class or series of capital stock ranking, as to rights upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of our affairs, junior to the Series B preferred stock, holders of shares of Series B preferred stock are entitled to be paid out of our assets legally available for distribution to our stockholders, after payment of or provision for our
debts and other liabilities, a liquidation preference of $1,000 per share of Series B preferred stock, <I>plus</I> an amount equal to any accumulated but unpaid dividends (whether or not authorized or declared) up to but excluding the date of
payment, but subject to the prior payment in full of all our liabilities and the payment of our senior stock. If, upon our voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up, our available assets are insufficient to pay the full amount
of the liquidating distributions on all outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock and the corresponding amounts payable on all shares of each other class or series of capital stock ranking, as to liquidation rights, on parity with the Series B
preferred stock (including the convertible preferred stock) in the distribution of assets, then holders of shares of Series B preferred stock and each such other class or series of capital stock ranking, as to voluntary or involuntary liquidation
rights, on parity with the Series B preferred stock (including the convertible preferred stock) will share ratably in any distribution of assets in proportion to the full liquidating distributions to which they would otherwise be respectively
entitled. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of Series B preferred
stock will be entitled to written notice of any event triggering the right to receive a distribution in connection with any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs. After payment of the full amount of the
liquidating distributions to which they are entitled, holders of shares of Series B preferred stock will have no right or claim to any of our remaining assets. Our consolidation or merger with or into any other corporation, trust or other entity, or
the voluntary sale, lease, transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of our property or business, will not be deemed to constitute a liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>No Maturity </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Series B preferred stock has no maturity date, but we are permitted to redeem the Series B preferred stock
as described under &#147;&#151;Optional Redemption.&#148; Accordingly, the Series B preferred stock will remain outstanding indefinitely unless redeemed by us. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Optional Redemption </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We do not have the right to redeem any shares of Series B preferred stock before March&nbsp;22, 2024. On or after March&nbsp;22, 2024, we
will have the option to redeem some or all the shares of Series B preferred stock at a redemption price equal to 100% of the liquidation preference per share, <I>plus</I> any accumulated but unpaid dividends, if any (whether or not declared) to, but
excluding, the redemption date. The redemption price will be paid solely in cash. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Series B preferred stock will not be subject to remarketing. However, if in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the earliest redemption date for the
convertible preferred stock is changed to a later date that is on or prior to March&nbsp;21, 2025 as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase Contracts&#151;Remarketing&#148; and &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred
Stock&#151;Remarketing,&#148; the earliest redemption date for the Series B preferred stock will be changed to such later date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of a redemption, we will request that the depositary notify its participants holding Series B preferred stock or, if Series B
preferred stock is in certificated form, send a written notice by first class mail to each holder of record of the Series B preferred stock at such holders registered address, not fewer than 25 scheduled trading days nor more than 90 calendar days
prior to the redemption date, stating, among other things, the redemption price per share of Series B preferred stock. In addition, we will (i)&nbsp;issue a press release containing such information and (ii)&nbsp;publish such information on our
website. In no event will we give any notice of redemption prior to the earlier of a remarketing settlement date and the purchase contract settlement date. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If we give notice of redemption, then, by 12:00 p.m., New York City time, on the redemption
date, to the extent funds are legally available, we will, with respect to: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">shares of Series B preferred stock held by DTC or its nominees, deposit or cause to be deposited, irrevocably with DTC cash sufficient to pay the
redemption price and will give DTC irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the redemption price to holders of such shares of Series B preferred stock; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">shares of Series B preferred stock held in certificated form, deposit or cause to be deposited, irrevocably with the paying agent cash sufficient to
pay the redemption price and will give the paying agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the redemption price to holders of such shares of Series B preferred stock upon surrender to the paying agent of their certificates evidencing
their shares of Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If on the redemption date there has been irrevocably deposited with DTC or the paying agent cash sufficient to pay the redemption price for the shares of Series B preferred stock delivered for redemption
in accordance with the terms of the certificate of designations, dividends will cease to accumulate on those shares of Series B preferred stock called for redemption and all rights of holders of such shares will terminate except for the right to
receive the redemption price. Payment of the redemption price for the shares of Series B preferred stock is conditioned upon book-entry transfer of or physical delivery of certificates representing the Series B preferred stock, together with
necessary endorsements, to the paying agent, or to the paying agent&#146;s account at DTC, at any time after delivery of the redemption notice. Payment of the redemption price for the Series B preferred stock will be made (i)&nbsp;if book-entry
transfer of or physical delivery of the Series B preferred stock has been made by or on the redemption date, on the redemption date, or (ii)&nbsp;if book-entry transfer of or physical delivery of the Series B preferred stock has not been made by or
on such date, at the time of book-entry transfer of or physical delivery of the Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the redemption date falls after a dividend payment record date and before the related payment date, holders of the shares of Series B
preferred stock at the close of business on that dividend payment record date will be entitled to receive the full dividend payable on those shares on the corresponding payment date. The redemption price payable on such redemption date as described
above will be reduced by the amount payable per share of Series B preferred stock on the related payment date. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of any partial redemption, we will select the shares of Series B preferred stock to be redeemed on a pro rata basis, by lot or
in accordance with, and subject to, DTC&#146;s applicable procedures. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We do not have the right to authorize, issue a press release or give notice of redemption unless (a)&nbsp;we have funds legally available for the payment of the aggregate redemption price and
(b)&nbsp;prior to giving the notice (i)&nbsp;all accumulated but unpaid dividends on the Series B preferred stock (whether or not declared) for dividend periods ended prior to the date of such notice of redemption have been or contemporaneously are
declared and paid out of legally available funds and (ii)&nbsp;if the redemption date occurs following a record date and prior to the related payment date, a cash dividend for the related dividend period has been declared and sufficient funds
legally available therefor have been set aside for payment of such dividend. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any shares of Series B preferred stock are redeemed, we must also redeem a proportionate number of outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock, if any, on the same redemption date. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Limited Voting Rights </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of Series B preferred stock generally do
not have any voting rights, except as set forth below and as required by law. In matters where holders of the Series B preferred stock are entitled to vote, each share of Series B preferred stock will be entitled to one vote. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Preferred Stock Directors </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%;padding-bottom:0px; "><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If at any time dividends on the Series
B preferred stock have not been declared and paid in full for six or more dividend periods, whether or not consecutive (which we refer to as a &#147;preferred dividend default&#148;), holders of shares of Series B preferred stock (voting together as
a class with the holders of all other classes or series of preferred stock upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the convertible preferred stock) and are exercisable (and with voting rights allocated pro rata based on
the liquidation preference of the Series B preferred stock and each such other class or series of preferred stock), will be entitled to vote for the election of two additional directors to serve on our board of directors (which we refer to as
&#147;preferred stock directors&#148;), until all accumulated but unpaid dividends with respect to the Series B preferred stock and any other class or series of preferred stock upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the
convertible preferred stock) and are exercisable have been paid or declared and a sum sufficient for payment is set aside for such payment. In such a case, the number of directors serving on our board of directors will be increased by two. For the
avoidance of doubt, the election of any such preferred stock directors will not cause us to violate the corporate governance requirements of The New York Stock Exchange (or any other exchange or automated quotation system on which our securities may
be listed or quoted) that requires listed or quoted companies to have a majority of independent directors. The preferred stock directors will be elected by a plurality of the votes cast in the election to serve until the next annual meeting and each
preferred stock director will serve until his successor is duly elected and qualifies or until the director&#146;s right to hold the office terminates, whichever occurs earlier. Subject to the timing and notice requirements of our bylaws as in
effect on the date of this prospectus supplement, the election will take place at:</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex"> </SUP></FONT><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a special meeting called by holders of at least 10% of the outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock together with any other class or series of
preferred stock upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the convertible preferred stock) and are exercisable, if this request is received more than 90 calendar days before the date fixed for our next annual or special
meeting of stockholders or, if we receive the request for a special meeting within 90 calendar days before the date fixed for our next annual or special meeting of stockholders, at our annual or special meeting of stockholders; and
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">each subsequent annual meeting (or special meeting held in its place) until all accumulated dividends on the Series B preferred stock and on any other
class or series of preferred upon which equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the convertible preferred stock) and are exercisable have been paid in full for all past dividend periods and the dividend for the then current dividend
period has been fully paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set aside for payment. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If and when all accumulated dividends on the Series B preferred stock and all other classes or series of preferred stock upon which
equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the convertible preferred stock) and are exercisable have been paid in full or a sum sufficient for such payment in full is set aside for payment, holders of shares of Series B preferred stock
will be divested of the voting rights set forth above (subject to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">re-vesting</FONT> in the event of any subsequent preferred dividend defaults) and the term of office of such preferred stock directors so elected will
terminate and the entire board of directors will be reduced accordingly. Each preferred stock director will be entitled to one vote on any matter. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>When a Supermajority Vote is Required </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any shares of Series B preferred stock remain
outstanding, we will not, without the consent or the affirmative vote of the holders of at least <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">two-thirds</FONT> of the outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock together with each other class or series of
preferred stock ranking on parity with the Series B preferred stock, including the convertible preferred stock, with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up and upon which
equivalent voting rights have been conferred (including the convertible preferred stock) (voting as a single class): </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">authorize, create or issue, or increase the number of authorized or issued shares of, any class or series of stock ranking senior to the Series B
preferred stock with respect to payment of dividends, or the </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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distribution of assets upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs, or reclassify any of our authorized capital stock into any such shares, or create, authorize or issue any
obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">amend, alter or repeal the provisions of our sixth restated certificate of incorporation so as to materially and adversely affect any right,
preference, privilege or voting power of the Series B preferred stock; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">consummate a binding share exchange or reclassification involving the shares of Series B preferred stock or a merger or consolidation of us with
another entity, unless either (i)&nbsp;the shares of Series B preferred stock remain outstanding and have rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers, taken as a whole, that are no less favorable to the holders thereof than the rights,
preferences, privileges and voting powers of the Series B preferred stock immediately prior to such consummation, taken as a whole, or (ii)&nbsp;in the case of any such merger or consolidation with respect to which we are not the surviving or
resulting entity, the shares of Series B preferred stock are converted into or exchanged for preference securities of the surviving or resulting entity or its ultimate parent, such surviving or resulting entity or ultimate parent is organized under
the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and such preference securities have rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers, taken as a whole,
that are no less favorable to the holders thereof than the rights, preferences, privileges and voting powers of the Series B preferred stock immediately prior to such consummation, taken as a whole; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>provided</I> that the creation and issuance, or an increase in the
authorized or issued amount, whether pursuant to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">pre-emptive</FONT> or similar rights or otherwise, of any series of preferred stock (including the convertible preferred stock and Series B preferred stock), ranking
equally with and/or junior to the Series B preferred stock with respect to the payment of dividends (whether such dividends are cumulative or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-cumulative)</FONT> and the distribution of assets upon our
liquidation, dissolution and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up,</FONT> will not be deemed to adversely affect the rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers of the Series B preferred stock, and will not require the affirmative vote
or consent of the holders of the Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If any amendment, alteration, repeal, share exchange, reclassification, merger or consolidation specified above would adversely affect one or more but not all series of parity stock (including the
convertible preferred stock and/or and Series B preferred stock for this purpose), then only the one or more series of parity stock adversely affected and entitled to vote, rather than all series of parity stock, will vote as a class. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Without the consent of the holders of the Series B preferred
stock, we may amend, alter, supplement, or repeal any terms of the Series B preferred stock for the following purposes: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to cure any ambiguity, defect, inconsistency or mistake, or to correct or supplement any provision contained in the certificate of designations
establishing the terms of the Series B preferred stock that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained in such certificate of designations; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">so long as such action does not adversely affect the special rights, preferences, privileges or voting powers of the Series B preferred stock, and
limitations and restrictions thereof, to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions relating to the Series B preferred stock that is not inconsistent with the provisions of the certificate of designations establishing the terms of
the Series B preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to amend, alter, supplement or repeal of any terms of the Series B preferred stock in order to&nbsp;conform the terms of the Series B preferred stock
to the description contained in the preliminary prospectus supplement for this offering, as supplemented by the related pricing term sheet; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to amend, alter, supplement or repeal of any terms of the Series B preferred stock in order to implement the changes under &#147;&#151;Increased
Dividend Rate&#148;; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to amend, alter, supplement or repeal of any terms of the Series B preferred stock in order to change the earliest redemption date for the Series B
preferred stock in connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to irrevocably elect a dividend payment method to apply; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to file a certificate of correction with respect to the Certificate of Designations to the extent permitted by Section&nbsp;103(f) of the Delaware
General Corporation Law. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of Series B preferred stock will not be entitled to vote with respect to any increase in the total number of authorized
shares of our common stock or preferred stock, any increase in the number of authorized shares of Series B preferred stock or the creation or issuance of any other class or series of capital stock, or any increase in the number of authorized shares
of any other class or series of capital stock, in each case ranking on parity with or junior to the Series B preferred stock, including the convertible preferred stock, with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets upon
liquidation, dissolution or winding up, except as set forth above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Holders of shares of Series B preferred stock will not have any voting rights with respect to, and the consent of the holders of shares of Series B preferred stock is not required for, the taking of any
corporate action, including any merger or consolidation involving us or a sale of all or substantially all of our assets, regardless of the effect that such merger, consolidation or sale may have upon the powers, preferences, voting power or other
rights or privileges of the Series B preferred stock, except as set forth above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, the voting provisions above will not apply if, at or prior to the time when the act with respect to which the vote would otherwise be required would occur, we have redeemed upon proper
procedures all outstanding shares of Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Transfer Agent, Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The registrar and transfer agent for the Series preferred stock is Computershare Trust Company, N.A. The paying agent and conversion agent
for the Series B preferred stock is Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Increased Dividend Rate </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock, the dividend rate on the convertible preferred stock may be increased as described under &#147;Description of the Purchase
Contracts&#151;Remarketing&#148; and &#147;Description of the Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Remarketing.&#148; In that case, the dividend rate on the Series B preferred stock will be increased to be equal to such increased dividend rate on the
convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Payment </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any shares of Series B preferred stock are
registered in the name of DTC, as depository for the Series B preferred stock as described herein under &#147;Book-Entry Issuance&#151;The Depository Trust Company,&#148; or DTC&#146;s nominee, payments on the Series B preferred stock will be made
as described therein. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Form </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">So long as any shares of Series B preferred stock are
registered in the name of DTC, as depository for the Series B preferred stock as described herein under &#147;Book-Entry Issuance&#151;The Depository Trust Company,&#148; or DTC&#146;s nominee, transfers and exchanges of beneficial interests in the
shares of Series B preferred stock will be made as described therein. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Certain Trading Characteristics </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Series B preferred stock is expected to trade at a price
that takes into account the value, if any, of accumulated but unpaid dividends (except for declared dividends accumulated after a record date and prior to a payment date, which dividends will be payable to the holders as of the record date, as
described above); thus, it is expected that purchasers of the Series B preferred stock will not pay, and sellers will not receive, accumulated but unpaid dividends with respect to the Series B preferred stock that is not included in the trading
price thereof. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Title </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We and any agent of ours will treat the person or entity in
whose name shares of Series B preferred stock are registered as the absolute owner of those securities for the purpose of making payments and for all other purposes irrespective of notice to the contrary. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Book-Entry Issuance&#151;The Depository Trust Company </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The shares of Series B preferred stock will be evidenced by
one or more global securities registered in the name of DTC&#146;s nominee, Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., or such other name as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC. Such global securities will be deposited with the transfer agent as
custodian for DTC. See &#147;Certain Provisions of the Purchase Contract and Pledge Agreement&#151;Book-Entry System for Corporate Units, Treasury Units and Cash Settled Units&#148; for a description of DTC. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Purchases of the Series B preferred stock under the DTC
system must be made by or through direct participants, which will receive a credit for the Series B preferred stock on DTC&#146;s records. The ownership interest of each actual purchaser of each share of Series B preferred stock (&#147;beneficial
owner&#148;) is in turn to be recorded on the direct and indirect participants&#146; records. Beneficial owners will not receive written confirmation from DTC of their purchases, but beneficial owners are expected to receive written confirmations
providing details of the transactions, as well as periodic statements of their holdings, from the direct or indirect participant through which they purchased the Series B preferred stock. Transfers of ownership interests on the Series B preferred
stock are to be accomplished by entries made on the books of direct and indirect participants acting on behalf of beneficial owners. Beneficial owners will not receive certificates representing their ownership interests in Series B preferred stock,
except in the event that use of the book-entry system for the Series B preferred stock is discontinued. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To facilitate subsequent transfers, all Series B preferred stock deposited by direct participants with DTC are registered in the name of
DTC&#146;s nominee, Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., or such other name as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC. The deposit of the Series B preferred stock with DTC and their registration in the name of Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. or such other
nominee do not effect any change in beneficial ownership. DTC has no knowledge of the actual beneficial owners of the Series B preferred stock; DTC&#146;s records reflect only the identity of the direct participants to whose accounts the shares of
Series B preferred stock are credited, which may or may not be the beneficial owners. The direct and indirect participants will remain responsible for keeping account of their holdings on behalf of their customers. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Conveyance of notices and other communications by DTC to
direct participants, by direct participants to indirect participants, and by direct participants and indirect participants to beneficial owners, will be governed by arrangements among them, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may
be in effect from time to time. Notices will be sent to DTC. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Neither DTC nor Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. (nor such other DTC nominee) will consent or vote with respect to the Series B preferred stock unless authorized by a direct participant in accordance with DTC&#146;s
procedures. Under its usual procedures, DTC mails an omnibus proxy to us as soon as possible after the record date. The omnibus proxy assigns the voting or consenting rights of Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. to those direct participants to whose accounts the
shares of </FONT></P>
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Series B preferred stock are credited on the record date. We believe that these arrangements will enable the beneficial owners to exercise rights equivalent in substance to the rights that can be
directly exercised by a registered holder of the Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Payments of dividends on the Series B preferred stock will be made to Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. (or such other nominee of DTC). DTC&#146;s practice is to credit direct participants&#146; accounts upon
DTC&#146;s receipt of funds and corresponding detail information from us or the transfer agent, on payable date in accordance with their respective holdings shown on DTC&#146;s records. Payments by participants to beneficial owners will be governed
by standing instructions and customary practices and will be the responsibility of each participant and not of DTC or us, subject to any statutory or regulatory requirements as may be in effect from time to time. Payment of dividends to
Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. (or other such nominee of DTC) is our responsibility. Disbursement of such payments to direct participants will be the responsibility of DTC, and disbursement of such payments to the beneficial owners is the responsibility of
direct and indirect participants. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A beneficial
owner will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of the Series B preferred stock. Accordingly, each beneficial owner must rely on the procedures of DTC to exercise any rights under the Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">DTC may discontinue providing its services as securities
depository with respect to the Series B preferred stock at any time by giving us or the transfer agent reasonable notice. In the event no successor securities depository is obtained, certificates for the Series B preferred stock will be printed and
delivered. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The information in this section
concerning DTC&#146;s book-entry system has been obtained from sources that we believe to be reliable, but neither we nor the underwriters take any responsibility for the accuracy of this information. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_14"></A>MATERIAL UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME AND ESTATE TAX
CONSEQUENCES </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following is a summary of
the material United States federal income tax and, in the case of <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holders (as defined below), estate tax consequences of the purchase, ownership and disposition of Equity Units (including the
components thereof), shares of our common stock acquired under a purchase contract or upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock and shares of Series B preferred stock acquired upon conversion of the convertible preferred stock. This summary
applies only to initial investors who acquire the Equity Units for cash at their initial offering price, which will be the price indicated on the cover of this prospectus supplement, and hold the Equity Units as capital assets. This summary does not
describe all of the tax consequences that may be relevant to you in light of your particular circumstances, including alternative minimum tax and Medicare contribution tax consequences, tax consequences if you are subject to special tax accounting
rules under Section&nbsp;451(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the &#147;Code&#148;), as well as differing tax consequences that may apply if you are, for instance, </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a dealer in securities; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a trader in securities that has elected the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">mark-to-market</FONT></FONT> method of
tax accounting for your securities; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a regulated investment company; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a real estate investment trust; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">tax-exempt</FONT> organization; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">an insurance company; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a person holding the Equity Units (or the components thereof), Series B preferred stock or common stock as part of a hedging, integrated, conversion or
constructive sale transaction or a straddle; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a financial institution; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a person who is an investor in a pass-through entity holding the Equity Units (or the components thereof), Series B preferred stock or common stock;
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a United States person whose &#147;functional currency&#148; is not the U.S. dollar; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a &#147;controlled foreign corporation&#148;; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a &#147;passive foreign investment company&#148;; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a U.S. expatriate. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you are a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes that holds the Equity Units (or the components thereof), our common stock or
Series B preferred stock, the tax treatment of your partners will generally depend upon the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. If you are a partner of a partnership holding the Equity Units (or the components thereof),
common stock or Series B preferred stock you should consult your tax advisor. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This summary is based upon the provisions of the Code, final, temporary and proposed Treasury regulations, administrative pronouncements and judicial decisions issued thereunder as of the date hereof.
Those authorities may change, perhaps retroactively, so as to result in U.S. federal income and estate tax consequences different from those discussed below. This summary does not address all aspects of U.S. federal income and estate taxes and does
not deal with <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.,</FONT> state, local or other tax considerations that may be relevant to investors in light of their particular circumstances. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Tax Treatment of the Equity Units </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Based on the terms of the Equity Units,&nbsp;the separate
components of an Equity Unit should be respected for U.S. federal income tax purposes in accordance with their form. We and, by purchasing a Corporate Unit, you </FONT></P>
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will be deemed to have agreed to this treatment. Under this treatment of the Equity Units, you will be treated as owning the convertible preferred stock (or after a successful remarketing, the
applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio), Treasury securities or cash constituting a part of the Corporate Units, Treasury Units, or Cash Settled Units, as applicable, for U.S. federal income tax purposes. We have not sought any
rulings concerning the treatment of the Equity Units, and this treatment is not binding on the IRS or the courts, either of which could disagree with this treatment and the explanations or conclusions contained in this summary. If you are
considering the purchase of Equity Units, you should consult your tax advisor concerning the U.S. federal income and estate tax consequences to you in light of your particular circumstances as well as any consequences arising under the laws of any
other taxing jurisdiction. The remainder of this discussion assumes that a holder of an Equity Unit will be treated for U.S. federal income tax purposes as owning the 1/10 or 10% undivided beneficial ownership interest in one share of convertible
preferred stock (or applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities or cash, as applicable) and the purchase contract separately. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This section applies to you if you are a U.S. holder. You are a &#147;U.S. holder&#148; if for U.S. federal income tax purposes you are a
beneficial owner of an Equity Unit that is: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">an individual citizen or resident of the United States; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a corporation created or organized in or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia; or
</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">an estate or trust the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Equity Units </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Allocation of Purchase Price </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purchase price of each Corporate Unit will be allocated
between the 1/10 or 10% undivided beneficial ownership interest in one share of convertible preferred stock and the purchase contract in proportion to their respective fair market values at the time of purchase. This allocation will establish your
initial tax basis in the convertible preferred stock and the purchase contract. If we are required to report this allocation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, we will report the initial fair market value of the convertible preferred stock
represented by one Corporate Unit as $100 and the initial fair market value of the purchase contract as $0 and, by purchasing a Corporate Unit, you will agree to this allocation. This allocation is not, however, binding on the IRS. The remainder of
this discussion assumes that this allocation of the purchase price of a Corporate Unit will be respected for U.S. federal income tax purposes. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Sale, Exchange, or Other Disposition of Equity Units </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon a disposition of an Equity Unit, you will be treated as
having sold, exchanged or disposed of the purchase contract and either the convertible preferred stock (or applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio, if applicable),Treasury securities or cash, as the case may be, that constitute the
Equity Unit. The proceeds realized on a disposition will be allocated between the purchase contract and the ownership interest in the convertible preferred stock, applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities or cash,
in proportion to their respective fair market values at the time of disposition. The rules governing the treatment of the disposition of the convertible preferred stock, the purchase contract, the Treasury portfolio and the Treasury securities are
summarized under &#147;&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Sale, Exchange, Successful Remarketing or Other Taxable Disposition of Convertible Preferred Stock,&#148; &#147;&#151;Treasury Portfolio&#151;Tax Basis of and Gain on the Applicable
Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio,&#148; &#147;&#151;Treasury Units&#151;Sale, Exchange or Other Taxable Disposition of Treasury Securities,&#148; and &#147;&#151;Purchase Contracts&#151;Dispositions, Including Terminations, of a Purchase
Contract&#148; below. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the disposition of Equity Units occurs when the purchase contract has a negative value
(<I>i.e.</I>, the purchase contract represents a net liability), you should generally be considered to have received additional consideration for the convertible preferred stock, Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities or cash in an amount equal to
that negative value, and to have paid that amount to be released from your obligation under the purchase contract. You should consult your tax advisor regarding a disposition of an Equity Unit at a time when the purchase contract has a negative
value. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Reorganization Event
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Depending on the circumstances, a
Reorganization Event could potentially be a taxable event and could result in consequences to the beneficial owner of the Equity Units (or components thereof), Series B preferred stock or common stock held after the Reorganization Event that differ
from those described herein. You should consult your tax advisor regarding the tax consequences of a Reorganization Event. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Convertible Preferred Stock </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Distributions on Convertible Preferred Stock </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any distribution paid on our convertible preferred stock
(including the fair market value of distributions paid in common stock and the payment of dividends in arrears, if any) will be treated as a dividend to the extent of our current and accumulated earnings and profits (as determined under U.S. federal
income tax principles) and will be includible in income by you when received by you or on your behalf. If a distribution exceeds our current and accumulated earnings and profits, the excess will first be treated as a
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">tax-free</FONT> return of your investment, up to your adjusted tax basis, in the convertible preferred stock, and thereafter as gain from the sale or exchange of the shares. Subject to applicable limitations and
restrictions, dividends paid to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-corporate</FONT> U.S. holders should be treated as &#147;qualified dividend income&#148; (as defined in the Code) taxable at favorable rates applicable to long-term capital gains.
Subject to applicable limitations and restrictions, dividends paid to corporate U.S. holders should be eligible for the dividends-received deduction. You should consult your tax advisor regarding the application of reduced tax rates and the
dividends-received deduction in your particular circumstances. We may determine not to pay a dividend currently, in which case you should consult your tax advisor regarding whether, in that circumstance, you would be required to accrue the deferred
dividend into your taxable income on a current basis. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Constructive Distributions </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You may be treated as receiving a constructive distribution from us if (1)&nbsp;the conversion rate of the convertible preferred stock is adjusted (or fails to be adjusted) and as a result of such
adjustment (or failure to adjust), your proportionate interest in our assets or earnings and profits is increased and (2)&nbsp;the adjustment (or failure to adjust) is not made pursuant to a <I>bona fide</I>, reasonable anti-dilution formula. For
example, an adjustment in the conversion rate would not be considered made pursuant to such a formula if the adjustment were made to compensate you for certain taxable distributions with respect to our common stock (including, without limitation,
adjustments in respect of taxable dividends to our common stockholders). A constructive distribution on our convertible preferred stock will generally be treated as described under &#147;&#151;Distributions on Convertible Preferred Stock&#148;
above. Thus, under certain circumstances, an increase in (or failure to decrease) the conversion rate (including in connection with a fundamental change) might give rise to a taxable dividend to you even though you will not receive any cash in
respect thereof. Any deemed distribution will be taxable as a dividend, return of capital, or capital gain in accordance with the earnings and profits rules described above under &#147;&#151;Distributions on Convertible Preferred Stock.&#148;
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Tax Basis in Convertible Preferred Stock
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Your initial tax basis in the
convertible preferred stock will equal the portion of the purchase price for the Equity Unit allocated to the convertible preferred stock as described above (see &#147;&#151;Equity Units&#151;Allocation of Purchase Price&#148; above). </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Sale, Exchange, Successful Remarketing, or Other
Taxable Disposition of Convertible Preferred Stock </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You will generally recognize capital gain or loss on the disposition of convertible preferred stock (including upon a successful remarketing of the convertible preferred stock if you participate in the
remarketing, </FONT></P>
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but subject to the discussion below regarding redemptions) equal to the difference between the amount realized on the disposition and your adjusted tax basis in the convertible preferred stock.
This gain or loss will generally be capital gain or loss, and will be long-term capital gain or loss if, at the time of the disposition, you held the convertible preferred stock for a period of more than one year. Long-term capital gains recognized
by <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-corporate</FONT> U.S. holders are subject to reduced rates. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to limitations. If you elect not to participate in a successful remarketing, you should not be treated
as having sold, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of your convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A redemption of our convertible preferred stock for cash will generally be treated as a dividend to the extent of our current and accumulated earnings and profits as determined under U.S. federal income
tax principles unless the redemption (i)&nbsp;is &#147;not essentially equivalent to a dividend&#148; within the meaning of Section&nbsp;302 of the Code or (ii)&nbsp;completely terminates the holder&#146;s interest in the Company. In determining
whether either of these tests has been satisfied, a beneficial owner generally must take into account stock actually owned as well as stock treated as constructively owned under the Code. While the determination whether either of the foregoing tests
is satisfied depends on a stockholder&#146;s particular facts and circumstances as of the time of the determination, the IRS has ruled in the past that even a small reduction in the proportionate interest held by a small minority stockholder in a
publicly traded corporation will be treated as an exchange if the stockholder exercises no control over the corporation. Any cash received upon a redemption in respect of dividends in arrears on our convertible preferred stock should be treated as
described above under &#147;&#151;Distributions on our Convertible Preferred Stock.&#148; You should consult your tax advisor regarding the proper treatment of a redemption of our convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of a failed remarketing we intend to treat the
delivery of convertible preferred stock by a U.S. holder of Corporate Units along with the delivery by us to such U.S. holder of common stock, each in satisfaction of the purchase contract, as a recapitalization for U.S. federal income tax purposes
pursuant to which the U.S. holder would not recognize gain or loss except to the extent of cash in lieu of a fractional share. You should consult your tax advisor about possible alternative treatments of a failed remarketing, including the
possibility that it could be deemed to be a redemption for cash. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock into Cash and Common Stock </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you receive cash and common stock upon a conversion of our convertible preferred stock, the conversion should be treated as a
recapitalization and, unless otherwise indicated, the following discussion assumes such treatment. Subject to the discussion below regarding potential dividend treatment, you will recognize gain, but not loss, equal to the lesser of (i)&nbsp;the
excess of the fair market value of the common stock and cash received over your tax basis in the convertible preferred stock surrendered and (ii)&nbsp;the amount of cash received (other than cash in lieu of a fractional share). The amount of gain or
loss recognized on the receipt of cash in lieu of a fractional share will be equal to the difference between the amount of cash you receive in respect of the fractional share and the portion of your tax basis in the common stock received (including
the fractional share deemed received) that is allocable to the fractional share. Any gain or loss recognized on conversion will generally be capital gain or loss and will be long-term capital gain or loss, if, at the time of the conversion, your
holding period for the convertible preferred stock exceeds one year. The tax basis of the shares of common stock received upon such a conversion (including any fractional share deemed to be received by you) will equal the tax basis of the
convertible preferred stock that was surrendered, reduced by the amount of any cash received (other than cash received in lieu of a fractional share), and increased by the amount of gain, if any, recognized (other than with respect to a fractional
share). Your holding period for shares of common stock will include the period during which you held the convertible preferred stock. To the extent that the receipt of cash (other than cash in lieu of a fractional share) has the effect of a dividend
(which generally will be the case if the receipt of cash did not result in a reduction in your equity interest in us that satisfies one of the tests set forth in the Section&nbsp;302 rules described above under &#147;&#151;Sale, Exchange, Successful
Remarketing, or Other Taxable Disposition of Convertible Preferred Stock&#148;), the cash will be taxable as a dividend as described above. Any cash or common stock received upon conversion in respect of dividends in arrears on our convertible
preferred stock should be treated as described above under &#147;&#151;Distributions on our Convertible Preferred Stock.&#148; If the conversion is not treated as a </FONT></P>
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recapitalization, you may recognize an amount of gain that is different from the amount described above. You should consult your tax advisor regarding the proper treatment of a conversion of
convertible preferred stock into cash and our common stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock into Common Stock and Series B Preferred Stock </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you receive common stock and Series B preferred stock upon a conversion of our convertible preferred stock, the conversion should be
treated as a recapitalization. We expect to treat the Series B preferred stock received by you upon a conversion of the convertible preferred stock as &#147;nonqualified preferred stock&#148; within the meaning of Section&nbsp;351(g) of the Code.
Assuming the Series B preferred stock is nonqualified preferred stock, the tax treatment of the conversion would generally be the same as the conversion of the convertible preferred stock into common stock and cash (as described above in
&#147;&#151;Conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock into Cash and Common Stock&#148;), with the fair market value of Series B preferred stock you receive being treated in the same way as cash. In such a case, you would potentially recognize gain
(or be treated as receiving a dividend, as discussed above in &#147;&#151;Conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock into Cash and Common Stock&#148;) even though you do not receive any cash upon conversion. The tax basis of the shares of common
stock received upon such a conversion would equal the tax basis of the convertible preferred stock that was surrendered, reduced by the fair market value of the Series B preferred stock received, and increased by the amount of gain, if any,
recognized. Your holding period for shares of common stock would include the period during which you held the convertible preferred stock. The tax basis of the Series B preferred stock received upon such a conversion would equal the fair market
value of the Series B preferred stock received, and your holding period in the Series B preferred stock would begin on the day following the conversion. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the Series B preferred stock were not treated as &#147;nonqualified preferred stock&#148; within the meaning of Section&nbsp;351(g) of
the Code, you generally would not recognize gain or loss upon a conversion of convertible preferred stock into common stock and Series B preferred stock, except with respect to any cash received in lieu of a fractional share. Your tax basis in the
common stock and Series B preferred stock received in such a conversion would be allocated between the common stock and the Series B preferred stock based on their relative fair market values at the time of the conversion and, in the aggregate,
would be the same as your adjusted tax basis in the convertible preferred stock surrendered (excluding the portion of the tax basis that is allocable to any fractional share), and your holding period for the common stock and Series B preferred stock
would include your holding period for the convertible preferred stock that was surrendered. The amount of any gain or loss recognized on the receipt of cash in lieu of a fractional share would be equal to the difference between the amount of cash
you receive in respect of a fractional share and the portion of your tax basis in the convertible preferred stock that is allocable to the fractional share. This gain or loss generally would be capital gain or loss and would be long-term capital
gain or loss if, at the time of conversion, your holding period for the convertible preferred stock exceeds one year. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to limitations. If the Series B preferred stock is not treated as nonqualified
preferred stock, there may be additional consequences to you as described below under &#147;&#151;Series B Preferred Stock Received upon Conversion&#151;Potential Application of Section&nbsp;306 of the Code.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>You should consult your tax advisor regarding the
proper treatment of a conversion of convertible preferred stock into our common stock and Series B preferred stock and regarding the consequences of the possible treatment of the Series B preferred stock as nonqualified preferred stock.
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Purchase Contracts
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Contract Adjustment Payments
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">There is no authority directly
addressing the U.S. federal income tax treatment of the contract adjustment payments under current law, and the treatment of these payments is unclear. Contract adjustment payments may constitute taxable ordinary income to you when received or
accrued, in accordance with your method of tax accounting. If we are ever required to file information returns with respect to contract adjustment payments, we </FONT></P>
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intend to report these payments as taxable ordinary income. Under this treatment, if you are an accrual-method taxpayer, you could be required to recognize ordinary income with respect to the
contract adjustment payments even if we pay them partly or wholly in common stock. In addition, if we defer a contract adjustment payment and you are an accrual-method taxpayer, you may be required to continue to recognize income for U.S. federal
income tax purposes in respect of the purchase contracts in advance of your receipt of any corresponding cash payments. Moreover, amounts you receive upon a disposition of an Equity Unit that are attributable to an accrued contract adjustment
payment may be treated as ordinary income to the extent not previously included in income. Alternatively, a contract adjustment payment may be treated as option premium, rather than being includible in income on a current basis. The treatment of
contract adjustment payments could affect your tax basis in a purchase contract or common stock received under a purchase contract or your amount realized upon the sale or disposition of a purchase contract (whether held as part of a Corporate Unit,
Treasury Unit or Cash Settled Unit) or the termination of a purchase contract. See &#147;&#151;Dispositions, Including Terminations, of a Purchase Contract,&#148; &#147;&#151;Acquisition of Common Stock under a Purchase Contract,&#148; and
&#147;Corporate Units&#151;Sale, Exchange or Other Disposition of the Equity Units.&#148; You should consult your tax advisor regarding the potential treatment of the contract adjustment payments as option premium. Unless otherwise stated, the
discussion herein assumes you recognize any contract adjustment payments received in income on a current basis. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In contrast to dividend payments, corporate holders will not be entitled to claim a dividends-received deduction with respect to contract
adjustment payments and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-corporate</FONT> holders will not be eligible for a reduced rate of taxation. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Dispositions, Including Terminations, of a Purchase Contract </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon a disposition of a purchase contract in connection with the sale or exchange of an Equity Unit, you will
recognize gain or loss equal to the difference between the amount realized and your adjusted tax basis in the purchase contract (if any). It is not entirely clear, however, whether the gain or loss on the disposition of a purchase contract will be
long-term capital gain or loss or short-term capital gain or loss, even if your holding period for the purchase contract exceeds one year at the time of disposition. In determining gain or loss, any contract adjustment payments previously included
in your income, but not received by you, should increase your adjusted tax basis in your purchase contract. For a discussion of the tax consequences of disposing of an Equity Unit when a purchase contract has a negative value, see &#147;&#151;Sale,
Exchange, or Other Disposition of Equity Units&#148; above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If a purchase contract terminates, you will be treated as disposing of the contract for no value. Therefore, assuming the contract adjustment payments have not been deferred and you have recognized them
as income on a current basis, you will not recognize any gain or loss. If you accrued deferred contract adjustment payments into income that you have not yet received, you should have a loss equal to your resulting basis. In any event, you will not
recognize gain or loss on the receipt of your proportionate share of the convertible preferred stock, Treasury securities, Treasury portfolio or cash upon termination of the purchase contract and you will have the same tax basis in the convertible
preferred stock, Treasury securities or Treasury portfolio, as the case may be, as before such termination. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Acquisition of Common Stock under a Purchase Contract </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You generally will not recognize gain or loss on the
purchase of our common stock under a purchase contract (including in an early settlement of a purchase contract), except with respect to any cash paid in lieu of a fractional share of common stock, which should be treated as paid in exchange for the
fractional share. Your aggregate initial tax basis in the common stock acquired under a purchase contract generally should equal (a)&nbsp;the purchase price paid for such common stock, plus (b)&nbsp;your tax basis in the purchase contract, if any,
less (c)&nbsp;any such tax basis allocable to the fractional share. The holding period for common stock received under a purchase contract will commence on the day after the common stock is acquired. See &#147;&#151;Common Stock Acquired under a
Purchase Contract or upon Conversion,&#148; below. For the treatment of the delivery of convertible preferred stock in </FONT></P>
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satisfaction of a purchase contract in the event of a failed remarketing, see the discussion above under &#147;&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Sale, Exchange, Successful Remarketing, or
Other Taxable Disposition of Convertible Preferred Stock.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event of an early settlement of a purchase contract (including an early settlement upon the occurrence of a fundamental change), you will not recognize gain or loss on the receipt of your
proportionate share of the convertible preferred stock, Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities or cash and you will have the same tax basis in the convertible preferred stock, Treasury portfolio or Treasury securities, as the case may be, as before
the early settlement. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Constructive
Distributions </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You might be treated as
receiving a constructive distribution from us if (i)&nbsp;the maximum settlement rate under the purchase contract is adjusted and as a result of such adjustment your proportionate interest in our assets or earnings and profits is increased and
(ii)&nbsp;the adjustment is not made pursuant to a<I> bona fide</I>, reasonable anti-dilution formula. For example, an adjustment to the maximum settlement rate would not be considered made pursuant to such a formula if the adjustment were made to
compensate you for taxable distributions with respect to our common stock (for example, if we increase the cash dividend on our common stock). Thus, under certain circumstances, an increase in the maximum settlement rate (including an increase in
the number of shares to be received upon a conversion in connection with a fundamental change) might give rise to a taxable dividend to you even though you will not receive any cash in respect thereof. In addition, in certain situations, you might
be treated as receiving a constructive distribution if we fail to adjust the maximum settlement rate. Any deemed distribution will be taxable as a dividend, return of capital, or capital gain in accordance with the earnings and profits rules
described below under &#147;&#151;Common Stock Acquired under a Purchase Contract or upon Conversion&#151;Distributions.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Treasury Units </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Substitution of Treasury Securities to Create Treasury Units </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You may create Treasury Units by delivering Corporate Units and Treasury securities to the collateral agent in
substitution for the convertible preferred stock. The pledged convertible preferred stock will then be released from the collateral agreement and delivered to you. You generally will not recognize gain or loss upon the delivery of the Treasury
securities or the release of the convertible preferred stock. You will continue to take into account items of income otherwise includible, with respect to the convertible preferred stock and the Treasury securities and your tax basis in the
convertible preferred stock, Treasury securities and purchase contract will not be affected by the delivery and release. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Ownership of Treasury Securities </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">By acquiring Treasury Units, you agree to treat yourself as the beneficial owner of the Treasury securities that are part of the Treasury
Units owned by you. We also agree to treat you as the owner of the Treasury securities. Your initial tax basis in the Treasury securities that are part of the Treasury Units will be equal to the amount paid for the Treasury securities. Your adjusted
tax basis in the Treasury securities will be increased by the amount of any original issue discount (&#147;OID&#148;) or acquisition discount, as applicable, included in income with respect thereto, as described below. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Original Issue Discount and Acquisition Discount
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you hold a Treasury Unit, you will be
required to treat your ownership interest in the Treasury securities constituting part of the Treasury Unit as an interest in a bond that was originally issued on the date you acquired the Treasury securities and, in the case of Treasury securities
with a maturity of more than a year, has OID equal </FONT></P>
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to the excess of the amount payable at maturity of the Treasury securities over the purchase price thereof, or, in the case of Treasury securities with a maturity of a year or less, was acquired
with acquisition discount equal to the excess of the amount payable at maturity of the Treasury securities over the purchase price thereof. You will be required to include any OID in income on a constant yield to maturity basis over the period
between the purchase date of the Treasury securities and the maturity date of the Treasury securities, regardless of your method of tax accounting and in advance of the receipt of cash attributable to the OID. If you are a cash-method taxpayer, you
will not report acquisition discount until the Treasury securities mature or you sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of the Treasury securities in a taxable transaction, unless you elect to accrue the acquisition discount on a current basis. If you
do not elect to accrue acquisition discount on a current basis, any interest expense on indebtedness you used to purchase or carry the Treasury securities, to the extent it does not exceed the daily portions of acquisition discount with respect to
the Treasury securities, will be deferred until the acquisition discount is recognized. If you are an accrual-method taxpayer (or a cash method taxpayer that elects to accrue acquisition discount), you will be required to accrue the acquisition
discount on a straight-line basis unless you elect to accrue the acquisition discount on a constant yield to maturity basis. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Sale, Exchange or Other Taxable Disposition of Treasury Securities </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You will generally recognize gain or loss on the disposition of the Treasury securities constituting part of a
Treasury Unit equal to the difference between the amount realized on the disposition and your adjusted tax basis in the Treasury securities. Amounts of OID or acquisition discount included in your gross income will increase your adjusted tax basis
in the Treasury securities. The gain or loss you recognize will generally be capital gain or loss (except to the extent of any gain realized that does not exceed an amount equal to the OID or acquisition discount on such Treasury securities not
previously included in income, which will be treated as ordinary income), and will be long-term capital gain or loss if, at the time of the disposition, your holding period for the Treasury securities exceeds one year. Long-term capital gains
recognized by <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-corporate</FONT> U.S. holders are subject to reduced rates. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to limitations. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Substitution of Convertible Preferred Stock to Recreate
Corporate Units </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you deliver Treasury
Units and convertible preferred stock to the collateral agent in exchange for Corporate Units and Treasury securities, you generally will not recognize gain or loss upon the delivery of the convertible preferred stock or the release of the Treasury
securities. You will continue to take into account items of income or deduction otherwise includible or deductible, respectively, with respect to the convertible preferred stock and the Treasury securities and your tax basis in the convertible
preferred stock, the Treasury securities and the purchase contracts will not be affected by the delivery and release. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Cash Settled Units </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You may create Cash Settled Units by delivering Corporate Units and cash to the collateral agent in substitution for the convertible
preferred stock. The pledged convertible preferred stock will then be released from the collateral agreement and delivered to you. You generally will not recognize gain or loss upon the delivery of the cash or the release of the convertible
preferred stock. You will continue to take into account items of income otherwise includible with respect to the convertible preferred stock, and your tax basis in the convertible preferred stock and purchase contracts will not be affected by the
delivery and release. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Treasury Portfolio
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Interest Income and Acquisition
Discount </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Following a successful optional
remarketing, if the Treasury portfolio contains interest-paying securities that are not Treasury strips, you will generally be required to recognize ordinary income to the extent of your<I> pro rata</I> portion of the interest paid (or, in the case
of short-term Treasury securities, acquisition discount accrued, as </FONT></P>
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discussed above in <I>&#147;&#151;</I>Treasury Securities<I>&#151;</I> Original Issue Discount and Acquisition Discount&#148;) with respect to the Treasury securities in the Treasury portfolio.
If the Treasury portfolio contains Treasury strips, the tax treatment to you with respect to interest income and acquisition discount will be the same as described above in <I>&#147;&#151;</I>Treasury Securities<I>&#151;</I> Original Issue Discount
and Acquisition Discount.&#148; You should consult your tax advisor regarding the tax treatment of your applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Tax Basis of and Gain on the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Your initial tax basis in your applicable ownership interest
in the Treasury portfolio will equal your proportionate share of the amount paid by the collateral agent for the Treasury portfolio. Your adjusted tax basis in the applicable ownership interest in the Treasury portfolio will be increased by the
amount of acquisition discount included in gross income with respect thereto, and decreased by the amount of cash received with respect to acquisition discount in the Treasury portfolio. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon the disposition or maturity of your <I>pro rata</I> portion of the Treasury securities in the Treasury
portfolio, you will recognize gain or loss on the difference between the amount realized and your adjusted tax basis in the Treasury securities. This gain or loss will generally be short-term capital gain or loss, except to the extent of any gain
realized that is attributable to accrued but unpaid interest or that does not exceed an amount equal to the ratable share of the acquisition discount on such Treasury securities not previously included in income, which will be treated as ordinary
income. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Common Stock Acquired under a
Purchase Contract or upon Conversion </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Distributions </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any distribution paid out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits (as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes) will
constitute a dividend and will be includible in income by you when received. Any such dividend will be eligible for the dividends-received deduction if you are an otherwise qualifying corporate U.S. holder that meets the holding period and other
requirements for the dividends-received deduction. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-corporate</FONT> U.S. holders that receive dividends on our common stock are eligible for a reduced rate of taxation if certain requirements are satisfied. Any
distribution on our common stock in excess of our current and accumulated earnings and profits will first be applied to reduce your tax basis in the common stock (but not below zero), and any remaining excess will be treated as gain from the sale or
exchange of your common stock, as described immediately below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Sale, Exchange or Other Taxable Disposition </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon a sale, exchange, or other taxable disposition of our common stock, you will recognize capital gain or loss in an amount equal to the
difference between the amount realized and your adjusted tax basis in the common stock. This capital gain or loss will be long-term capital gain or loss if your holding period for the shares exceeds one year at the time of the disposition. Under
U.S. federal income tax law, certain <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-corporate</FONT> U.S. holders, including individuals, are eligible for preferential tax rates in respect of long-term capital gains. The deductibility of capital losses is
subject to certain limitations. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Series B
Preferred Stock Acquired upon Conversion </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Distributions </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any distribution on our Series B preferred stock (including distributions in shares of our common stock) paid out of our current or
accumulated earnings and profits as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes will constitute a dividend and will be includible in income by you when received. Subject to the discussion below regarding Section&nbsp;1059(f), these dividends
will be eligible for the dividends-received deduction if you are an otherwise qualifying corporate U.S. holder that meets the holding period and other requirements for the </FONT></P>
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dividends-received deduction. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-corporate</FONT> U.S. holders that receive dividends on our Series B preferred stock are eligible for a reduced rate of taxation
if certain requirements are satisfied. Any distributions on our Series B preferred stock in excess of our current and accumulated earnings and profits will first be applied to reduce your tax basis in the Series B preferred stock (but not below
zero), and any remaining excess will be treated as gain from the sale or exchange of your Series B preferred stock, as described below. We may determine not to pay a dividend currently, in which case you should consult your tax advisor regarding
whether, in that circumstance, you would be required to accrue the deferred dividend into your taxable income on a current basis. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Sale, Exchange or Other Taxable Disposition </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Upon a sale, exchange, or other taxable disposition of our
Series B preferred stock, except as described below regarding redemptions and under &#147;&#151;Potential Application of Section&nbsp;306 of the Code,&#148; you generally will recognize capital gain or loss in an amount equal to the difference
between the amount realized and your adjusted tax basis in the Series B preferred stock. This capital gain or loss will be long-term capital gain or loss if your holding period for the shares exceeds one year at the time of the disposition. Under
U.S. federal income tax law, certain <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-corporate</FONT> U.S. holders, including individuals, are eligible for preferential tax rates in respect of long-term capital gains. The deductibility of capital losses is
subject to certain limitations. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A redemption of
our Series B preferred stock for cash will generally be treated as a dividend to the extent of our current and accumulated earnings and profits as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles unless the redemption (i)&nbsp;is &#147;not
essentially equivalent to a dividend&#148; within the meaning of Section&nbsp;302 of the Code or (ii)&nbsp;completely terminates the holder&#146;s interest in the Company. In determining whether either of these tests has been satisfied, you
generally must take into account stock actually owned as well as stock treated as constructively owned under the Code. While the determination whether either of the foregoing tests is satisfied depends on your particular facts and circumstances as
of the time of the determination, the IRS has ruled in the past that even a small reduction in the proportionate interest held by a small minority stockholder in a publicly traded corporation will be treated as an exchange if the exercises no
control over the corporation. Any cash received upon a redemption in respect of dividends in arrears on our Series B preferred stock should be treated as described above under &#147;&#151;Distributions.&#148; You should consult your tax advisor
regarding the proper treatment of a redemption of our Series B preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Potential Reporting as <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fast-Pay</FONT> Stock </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the event that the Series B preferred stock issued upon a conversion of convertible preferred stock is issued (i)&nbsp;with dividends
and (ii)&nbsp;(x) with a fair market value in excess of the amount for which it may be redeemed by a <I>de minimis</I> amount or more or (y)&nbsp;in between dividend payment dates such that the first dividend payment on the Series B preferred stock
represents a disproportionately large yield per period as compared to later dividend payments (the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;Fast-Pay</FONT> Stock Conditions&#148;), then, under a technical reading of applicable Treasury regulations,
the Series B preferred stock may be presumed to be <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;fast-pay</FONT> stock.&#148; While it is unlikely that the Treasury regulations were intended to characterize instruments like the Series B preferred stock as <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">fast-pay</FONT> stock and while the treatment of the Series B preferred stock as <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">fast-pay</FONT> stock would not affect its substantive tax treatment, certain filing requirements would be
imposed, as described below. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If, upon issuance,
the Series B preferred stock constitutes <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">fast-pay</FONT> stock, then the issuance of the Series B preferred stock will qualify as a &#147;listed transaction&#148; under applicable Treasury regulations and any
beneficial owner of Series B preferred stock that is required to file a U.S. federal income tax return will be required to file a disclosure statement on IRS Form 8886 (or successor form) with its tax return identifying its participation in a
&#147;reportable transaction&#148; and to mail a copy of the form to the IRS Office of Tax Shelter Analysis. Failure to comply with these disclosure requirements may result in onerous penalties. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If AES determines, at the time of issuance of Series B
preferred stock, that the Series B preferred stock could be treated as described in the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">fast-pay</FONT> stock regulations because the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fast-Pay</FONT> Stock Conditions were
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satisfied at that time, AES intends to file a protective disclosure statement on IRS Form 8886 with respect to the Series B preferred stock. In addition, material advisors to a transaction
treated as a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;fast-pay</FONT> arrangement&#148; are also required to file a disclosure statement with the IRS, and therefore advisors or other parties involved in the offering of the Equity Units or the issuance
of Series B preferred stock may file similar disclosure statements. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you receive Series B preferred stock upon a conversion of convertible preferred stock, you should consult your tax advisor as to the U.S. federal income tax consequences of the arrangements described
herein, including as to the advisability of filing disclosure statements with the IRS. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Section&nbsp;1059(f) Extraordinary Dividends </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Under Section&nbsp;1059 of the Code, if a corporate U.S. holder receives an &#147;extraordinary dividend&#148; with respect to stock that
it has held for not more than two years before the dividend announcement date of such extraordinary dividend, the corporation&#146;s adjusted basis in that stock will be reduced by the amount of the dividends-received deduction with respect to such
extraordinary dividend. Under Section&nbsp;1059(f) of the Code, all dividends received with respect to &#147;disqualified preferred stock&#148; are treated as &#147;extraordinary dividends&#148; to which the rules of Section&nbsp;1059 will apply
without regard to the period for which the taxpayer held the stock. For purposes of Section&nbsp;1059(f), &#147;disqualified preferred stock&#148; includes any preferred stock if the issue price of that stock exceeds its liquidation rights or its
stated redemption price. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As discussed above under
&#147;&#151;Potential Treatment as <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fast-Pay</FONT> Stock,&#148; upon a conversion of the convertible preferred stock, the Series B preferred stock received could be treated as (i)&nbsp;issued with a fair market value
in excess of the amount for which it may be redeemed or (ii)&nbsp;in between dividend payment dates such that the first dividend payment on the Series B preferred stock is disproportionately large as compared to later dividend payments. If either of
these conditions is met, the Series B preferred stock would potentially constitute disqualified preferred stock for purposes of Section&nbsp;1059(f), in which case dividends paid on the Series B preferred stock would be treated as extraordinary
dividends. Corporate U.S. holders that receive Series B preferred stock upon a conversion of their convertible preferred stock into should consult their tax advisors as to the application of Section&nbsp;1059 to the Series B preferred stock.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Potential Application of Section&nbsp;306
of the Code </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As described above under
&#147;&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock into Common Stock and Series B Preferred Stock,&#148; a conversion of convertible preferred stock into Series B preferred stock and common stock should be treated
as a recapitalization for U.S. federal income tax purposes. Moreover, we expect to treat the Series B preferred stock as nonqualified preferred stock within the meaning of Section&nbsp;351(g) of the Code. However, if, notwithstanding our intended
treatment, the Series B preferred stock is not treated as nonqualified preferred stock, and the effect of the receipt of the Series B preferred stock by you is treated as substantially the same as the receipt of a stock dividend (which generally
would be the case if, had you received cash instead of the Series B preferred stock, the cash would have been treated as a dividend to you, see &#147;&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock into Cash and
Common Stock&#148;), the Series B preferred stock may be treated as &#147;section 306 stock.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the Series B preferred stock is treated as section 306 stock, then, upon a sale, exchange, or other taxable disposition of the Series B preferred stock (other than a redemption), the amount realized by
you will be treated as ordinary income, except to the extent in excess of the Series B preferred stock&#146;s ratable share of the amount that would have been a dividend at the time of the conversion if, instead of the Series B preferred stock, you
had received cash in an amount equal to the fair market value of the Series B preferred stock at that time. The amounts treated as ordinary income will be treated as dividends received from us solely for purposes of being eligible for the
preferential rates of U.S. federal income tax that are applicable to dividends paid to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-corporate</FONT> holders. However, for corporate holders, these amounts will not qualify for the dividends-received deduction
under current law. Any excess of the amount realized over the sum of the amount treated as a dividend plus your </FONT></P>
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adjusted basis in the Series B preferred stock will be treated as capital gain to you. If the Series B preferred stock is treated as section 306 stock, no loss will be recognized upon a sale,
exchange, or other taxable disposition of the Series B preferred stock. The foregoing consequences do not apply if your disposition of the Series B preferred stock that is treated as section 306 stock results in a complete termination of your
interest in us. In addition, if the Series B preferred stock is treated as section 306 stock, upon a redemption (other than a redemption treated as a termination of your interest under Section&nbsp;302(b)(3) of the Code) the entire amount realized
will be treated as a distribution and as described above under &#147;&#151;Distributions.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You should consult your tax advisor regarding the application of Section&nbsp;306 of the Code to any Series B preferred stock you receive upon a conversion of convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Information Reporting and Backup Withholding
</I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In general, information reporting
requirements will apply to payments to you in respect of the Equity Units (including the components thereof), common stock and Series B preferred stock and to the proceeds of the sale or other disposition of these instruments, unless you are an
exempt recipient. Backup withholding may apply to these payments if you fail to provide a taxpayer identification number or establish certain other conditions. Amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules are not additional taxes and may be
refunded or credited against your U.S. federal income tax liability, provided the required information is timely furnished to the IRS. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Tax Consequences to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-U.S.</FONT> Holders </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This section applies to you if you are a <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holder. You are a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holder if for U.S. federal income tax purposes you are a beneficial owner of an Equity Unit that is: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a nonresident alien individual; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a foreign corporation; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a foreign estate or trust. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>U.S. Federal Income and Withholding Tax </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Interest on the Treasury Portfolio and Treasury
Securities </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the discussions
below under &#147;&#151;Information Reporting and Backup Withholding&#148; and &#147;&#151;FATCA,&#148; payments of principal or interest (including OID and acquisition discount) on the Treasury portfolio or Treasury securities held by you generally
will not be subject to U.S. federal income or withholding tax under the &#147;portfolio interest exemption,&#148; provided that: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the interest is not effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business within the United States; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">you provide to the applicable withholding agent your name and address on an IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN</FONT> or Form <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN-E</FONT></FONT> (or other applicable form) and certify, under penalties of perjury, that you are not a United States person (as defined in the Code). </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you cannot satisfy one of the requirements described above
and interest paid on the Treasury portfolio or Treasury securities held by you is not exempt from withholding because it is effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business in the United States as described below under
&#147;&#151;Effectively Connected Income,&#148; payments of interest on the Treasury portfolio or Treasury securities will be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax at a rate of 30% (or a lower rate specified by an applicable tax treaty).
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Dividends, Constructive Distributions and
Contract Adjustment Payments </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dividends
received by you on our convertible preferred stock, common stock or Series B preferred stock, including a conversion or redemption treated as a dividend, as well as constructive dividends resulting from
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certain adjustments or failures to make adjustments to the conversion rate under the convertible preferred stock or maximum settlement rate under the purchase contracts and amounts treated as
ordinary income upon a disposition of Series B preferred stock if such stock is treated as section 306 stock, will generally be subject to withholding of U.S. federal income tax at a 30% rate (or a lower rate specified by an applicable tax treaty)
(see &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151; Sale, Exchange, Successful Remarketing, or Other Taxable Disposition of Convertible Preferred Stock,&#148; &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S.
Holders&#151;Series B Preferred Stock Acquired upon Conversion&#151;Sale, Exchange or Other Taxable Disposition,&#148; &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Constructive Distributions,&#148;
&#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Purchase Contracts&#151;Constructive Distributions,&#148; and &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Series B Preferred Stock Acquired upon Conversion&#151;Potential Application of
Section&nbsp;306 of the Code&#148;). In the case of dividends paid in stock, constructive dividends or a conversion of convertible preferred stock into Series B preferred stock and common stock that is treated as a dividend, you will generally be
subject to U.S. federal withholding tax at a rate of 30% on the dividend amount. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As discussed above under &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Purchase Contracts&#151;Contract Adjustment Payments,&#148; the U.S. federal income tax treatment of contract adjustment payments
is unclear. In the case of contract adjustment payments paid in stock, you will generally be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax at a rate of 30% on the amount of contract adjustment payments paid. If we are the applicable withholding agent with
respect to a contract adjustment payment, we intend to withhold on these payments at a rate of 30% (or lower applicable treaty rate), and other withholding agents will likely treat contract adjustment payments in the same manner. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">However, contract adjustment payments or dividends that are
effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business within the United States and, where a tax treaty applies, are attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment are not subject to U.S. withholding tax, although you will be required to
satisfy the relevant certification requirements to avoid 30% withholding, but instead are subject to U.S. federal income tax, as described under &#147;&#151;Effectively Connected Income&#148; below. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you are a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT>
holder of convertible preferred stock, Series B preferred stock, common stock or a purchase contract who wishes to claim the benefit of an applicable treaty rate for dividends or contract adjustment payments, you will be required to satisfy certain
certification and disclosure requirements described in &#147;&#151;Interest on the Treasury Portfolio and Treasury Securities.&#148; If you are eligible for a reduced rate of U.S. withholding tax on payments pursuant to an income tax treaty, you may
obtain a refund of any excess amounts withheld by filing an appropriate claim for refund with the IRS. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Sale, Exchange, Conversion or Other Taxable Disposition of the Equity Units, Convertible Preferred Stock, Common Stock or Series B
Preferred Stock </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following discussion
assumes that our common stock is and will continue to be regularly traded on an established securities market. You should consult your tax advisor if at any point our common stock is not so regularly traded. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">A <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holder
will generally recognize gain, or dividend treatment, on a disposition of the Equity Units, convertible preferred stock, common stock or Series B preferred stock (including conversion of convertible preferred stock) to the same extent as a U.S.
holder, as described under &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Sale, Exchange, Successful Remarketing or Other Taxable Disposition of the Convertible Preferred Stock,&#148; &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences
to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock into Cash and Common Stock,&#148; &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion of Convertible Preferred
Stock into Common Stock and Series B Preferred Stock,&#148; &#147;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Purchase Contracts&#151;Dispositions, Including Terminations, of a Purchase Contract,&#148; &#147;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Treasury
Units&#151;Sale, Exchange or Other Taxable Disposition of Treasury Securities,&#148; &#147;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Treasury Portfolio&#151;</FONT></P>
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Tax Basis of and Gain on the Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio,&#148; &#147;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Common Stock&#151;Sale, Exchange or Other Taxable
Disposition,&#148; and &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Series B Preferred Stock Received upon Conversion&#151;Sale, Exchange, Other Taxable Disposition.&#148; Any amounts treated as dividends in those discussions will be treated as
discussed above under &#147;&#151;Dividends, Constructive Distributions and Contract Adjustment Payments.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any amounts received on a disposition of the Equity Units that are attributable to accrued interest, OID or acquisition discount are
treated as described under &#147;&#151;Interest on the Treasury Portfolio and Treasury Securities,&#148; and amounts received on a disposition of a purchase contract that are attributable to an accrued contract adjustment payment may be treated as
described under &#147;&#151;Dividends, Constructive Distributions and Contract Adjustment Payments.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the discussions below under &#147;&#151;Information Reporting and Backup Withholding&#148; and &#147;&#151;FATCA,&#148; any
gain realized on the disposition of Equity Units, convertible preferred stock, common stock or Series B preferred stock generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income or withholding tax unless: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the gain is effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business in the United States (and, where an applicable treaty so provides, is also
attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment maintained by you); </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">you are an individual who is present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of the disposition and certain other conditions are
met; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">you are, in the case of a purchase contract, our convertible preferred stock, our common stock or our Series B preferred stock, considered to own an
interest in a &#147;United States real property holding corporation&#148; for U.S. federal income tax purposes at any time during the shorter of the five-year period preceding the disposition and your holding period (subject to the discussion below)
(the &#147;Relevant Period&#148;). </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Gain described in the first bullet point above generally will be subject to tax at the regular U.S. federal income tax rates and, if you are a corporation, may be subject to a branch profits tax in an
amount equal to 30% (or lower treaty rate) of your effectively connected earnings and profits as described below under &#147;&#151;Effectively Connected Income.&#148; An individual <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holder described in
the second bullet point above will be subject to a flat 30% tax rate (or any lower rate that may be specified by an applicable income tax treaty) on the gain derived from the sale, which may be offset by U.S.-source capital losses (even though the
individual is not considered a resident of the United States). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Under a regime commonly referred to as &#147;FIRPTA,&#148; generally a corporation is a United States real property holding corporation if the fair market value of its &#147;United States real property
interests,&#148; as defined in the Code and applicable Treasury regulations, equals or exceeds 50% of the aggregate fair market value of its worldwide real property interests and its other assets used or held for use in a trade or business. We have
not determined whether or not we are currently a United States real property holding corporation. Even if we are not currently a United States real property holding corporation, our business strategy, which includes increasing our operations in the
United States, or fluctuations in the relative values of our assets may cause us to become a United States real property holding corporation in the future. Accordingly, if you acquire Equity Units, there can be no assurance that we will not be a
United States real property holding corporation during your ownership of the Equity Units or shares of our convertible preferred stock, common stock or Series B preferred stock. If we are a United States real property holding corporation at any
point during the Relevant Period, and the 5% Requirement (as defined below) is met, you will generally be subject to tax on the net gain from the sale or other disposition of our convertible preferred stock, common stock, Series B preferred stock
or, possibly, a purchase contract at the regular U.S. federal income tax rates applicable to U.S. persons and could, under certain circumstances, be subject to withholding at a 15% rate on the amount realized (as discussed below). There is some
uncertainty as to whether the purchase contracts would be subject to tax under these rules. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The &#147;5% Requirement&#148; will be considered to have been met if: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of a disposition of our convertible preferred stock, (1)&nbsp;the convertible preferred stock is regularly traded on an established
securities market during the calendar year in which the sale or disposition occurs and you have owned or are deemed to have owned, at any time during the Relevant Period, more than 5% of the convertible preferred stock, or (2)&nbsp;the convertible
preferred stock is not treated as regularly traded on an established securities market during the calendar year in which the sale or disposition occurs and your convertible preferred stock had a fair market value of greater than 5% of the fair
market value of our common stock on the last date on which any of your convertible preferred stock was acquired by you. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of a disposition of our common stock, you have owned or are deemed to have owned, at any time during the Relevant Period, more than 5% of
our common stock. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of a disposition of our Series B preferred stock, (1)&nbsp;the Series B preferred stock is regularly traded on an established securities
market during the calendar year in which the sale or disposition occurs and you own or are deemed to have owned, at any time during the Relevant Period, more than 5% of the Series B preferred stock, or (2)&nbsp;the Series B preferred stock is not
regularly traded on an established securities market during the calendar year in which the sale or disposition occurs and your Series B preferred stock had a fair market value of greater than 5% of the fair market value of our regularly traded stock
with the lowest fair market value on the last date on which any of your Series B stock was acquired. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In the case of a disposition of a purchase contract (assuming that the purchase contract is, in fact, subject to tax under these rules), (1) the
purchase contracts are regularly traded on an established securities market during the calendar year in which the sale or disposition occurs and you own or are deemed to have owned, at any time during the Relevant Period, more than 5% of the
purchase contracts, or (2)&nbsp;the purchase contracts are not regularly traded on an established securities market during the calendar year in which the sale or disposition occurs and your purchase contracts had a fair market value of greater than
5% of the fair market value of our common stock on the last date on which any of your purchase contracts were acquired. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">For purposes of these rules, certain attribution rules, aggregation rules and anti-abuse rules may apply to your ownership of interests in
us. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Assuming we are a United States real property
holding corporation during the Relevant Period, withholding at a rate of 15% will generally apply to the gross proceeds of a disposition (including a redemption) of our convertible preferred stock, common stock, Series B preferred stock and possibly
a purchase contract if the 5% Requirement applies. Withholding may also apply to the conversion of the convertible preferred stock if certain conditions are met, as described below. However, withholding generally does not apply to regularly traded
interests, except in the case of a redemption. Even if an exception to FIRPTA tax applies, you may nonetheless be subject to withholding unless you can demonstrate your eligibility for the relevant exemption to the satisfaction of the applicable
withholding agent. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Special rules under FIRPTA may
apply upon a conversion of convertible preferred stock. Under these rules, if your convertible preferred stock meets the 5% Requirement described above, you will be subject to withholding at a 15% rate on your amount realized and to FIRPTA tax on
the entire amount of gain realized (even if not otherwise recognized under the rules applicable to recapitalizations, as described under &#147;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion of Convertible Preferred
Stock into Cash and Common Stock&#148; and &#147;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock into Common Stock and Series B Preferred Stock&#148;) on the disposition of your
convertible preferred stock unless (i)&nbsp;gain on the disposition of the common stock received by you upon the conversion would also be subject to FIRPTA tax and (ii)&nbsp;you satisfy certain certification requirements, in which case the amount of
gain that would be subject to FIRPTA tax and 15% withholding would be lower. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Similarly, although as discussed under &#147;Tax Consequences to U.S.
Holders&#151;Convertible Preferred Stock&#151;Sale, Exchange, Successful Remarketing, or Other Taxable Disposition of Convertible Preferred Stock,&#148; in the event of a failed remarketing we intend to treat the delivery of convertible preferred
stock by a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holder of Corporate Units in satisfaction of the purchase contract as a recapitalization for U.S. federal income tax purposes pursuant to which you would not generally recognize gain or
loss except to the extent of cash in lieu of a fractional share, if gain on the disposition of convertible preferred stock held by you would then be subject to FIRPTA tax, you may nonetheless be subject to FIRPTA tax upon your delivery of
convertible preferred stock in satisfaction of a purchase contract and be subject to withholding at a 15% rate on your amount realized, unless (i)&nbsp;gain on the disposition of the common stock received by you would also be subject to FIRPTA tax
and (ii)&nbsp;you satisfy certain certification requirements. You should consult your tax advisor regarding the potential consequences to you of a failed remarketing. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The rules applicable to interests in United States real
property holding corporations are extremely complex, and their application to the Equity Units, convertible preferred stock, Series B preferred stock and purchase contracts is unclear in significant respects. You should consult your tax advisor
regarding the application of FIRPTA in your particular circumstances. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Effectively Connected Income </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you are engaged in a trade or business in the United States and income on the Equity Units (or components thereof), our common stock or our Series B preferred stock is effectively connected with the
conduct of that trade or business (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, is attributable to a U.S. permanent established or fixed base maintained by you), although exempt from 30% U.S. withholding tax, you will be subject to U.S.
federal income tax on that income in the same manner as if you were a U.S. holder (as described above under &#147;&#151;Tax Consequences to U.S. Holders&#148;). Certain certification and disclosure requirements must be satisfied in order for
effectively connected income to be exempt from withholding. In addition, if you are a foreign corporation, you may be subject to a branch profits tax equal to 30% (or lower applicable treaty rate) of your earnings and profits for the taxable year,
subject to adjustments, that are effectively connected with the conduct by you of a trade or business in the United States. If you are engaged in a trade or business in the United States, you should read the discussion above under &#147;&#151;Tax
Consequences to U.S. Holders&#151;Series B Preferred Stock Acquired upon Conversion&#151;Potential Treatment as <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Fast-Pay</FONT> Stock&#148; concerning the potential treatment of Series B preferred stock received by
you upon a conversion of convertible preferred stock as <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">fast-pay</FONT> stock and the associated reporting requirements that might be imposed upon you. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>U.S. Federal Estate Tax </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If you are an individual
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> holder, your estate will not be subject to U.S. federal estate tax on the Treasury portfolio or Treasury securities beneficially owned by you at the time of your death, provided that any payments made
to you on the Treasury portfolio or Treasury securities, as applicable, would be eligible for exemption from the 30% withholding tax under the rules described above under &#147;&#151;U.S. Federal Income and Withholding Tax&#148; without regard to
the certification requirement described in the second bullet point regarding portfolio interest. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Convertible preferred stock, common stock acquired under a purchase contract or upon a conversion of convertible preferred stock and Series B preferred stock acquired upon a conversion of convertible
preferred stock owned by you at the time of your death will be subject to U.S. federal estate tax unless an applicable estate tax treaty provides otherwise. While not entirely clear, a purchase contract owned by you at the time of your death may be
subject to U.S. federal estate tax unless an applicable estate tax treaty provides otherwise. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Information Reporting and Backup Withholding </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Information returns are required to be filed with the IRS in connection with interest (including OID and acquisition discount) on Treasury
securities, dividends (including constructive dividends) and contract </FONT></P>
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adjustment payments (assuming they are properly treated as income). Unless you comply with certification procedures to establish that you are not a U.S. person, information returns may also be
filed with the IRS in connection with the proceeds from a sale or other disposition of the Equity Units (or components thereof), our common stock and Series B preferred stock. You may be subject to backup withholding on payments on the Equity Units
(or components thereof), our common stock or Series B preferred stock unless you comply with certification procedures to establish that you are not a U.S. person or otherwise establish an exemption. Your provision of a properly executed applicable
IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8</FONT> certifying your <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> status will permit you to avoid backup withholding. Amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules are not additional taxes
and may be refunded or credited against your U.S. federal income tax liability, provided the required information is timely furnished to the IRS. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>FATCA </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Provisions contained in the Code commonly referred to as &#145;&#145;FATCA&#146;&#146; impose a U.S. federal withholding tax of 30%
certain payments (including payments of interest in respect of the Treasury portfolio or Treasury securities, dividends (including deemed dividends) paid with respect to shares of our convertible preferred stock, common stock or Series B preferred
stock, contract adjustment payments (assuming treated as income) paid with respect to the purchase contract, and gross proceeds from the sale or disposition of the Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities, convertible preferred stock, common stock
and Series B preferred stock to &#147;foreign financial institutions&#148; (which is broadly defined for this purpose and in general includes investment vehicles) and certain other <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> entities unless
various U.S. information reporting and due diligence requirements (generally relating to ownership by U.S. persons of certain interests in or accounts with those entities) have been satisfied or an exemption applies. Under proposed Treasury
regulations, this withholding tax will not apply to the gross proceeds from the sale or other disposition of the Treasury portfolio, Treasury securities, convertible preferred stock, common stock and Series B preferred stock. The preamble to these
proposed Treasury regulations indicates that taxpayers may rely on them pending their finalization. An intergovernmental agreement between the United States and an applicable foreign country may modify the general FATCA requirements. If any
withholding is imposed, a beneficial owner that is not a foreign financial institution generally may obtain a refund of any amounts withheld by filing a U.S. federal income tax return, which may entail significant administrative burden. Prospective
investors should consult their tax advisors regarding the effects of FATCA on their investment in the Equity Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>The foregoing discussion of material U.S. federal income and estate tax considerations is for general information purposes only and is
not tax or legal advice. You should consult your tax advisor as to the particular tax consequences of owning and disposing of the Equity Units (or components thereof), our common stock and Series B preferred stock, including the applicability and
effect of any U.S. federal, state or local or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-U.S.</FONT> tax laws, and of any changes or proposed changes in applicable law. </B></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Subject to the terms and conditions stated in the
underwriting agreement between us and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, as representatives of the underwriters named below, each of the underwriters has
severally agreed to purchase, and we have agreed to sell to each underwriter, the aggregate principal amount of Equity Units set forth opposite such underwriter&#146;s name below. </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" COLSPAN="2" ALIGN="center" STYLE="border-bottom:1px solid #000000"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><B>Equity Units</B></FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Citigroup Global Markets Inc.</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Goldman Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Total</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">10,000,000</FONT></TD>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The underwriters are
committed to take and pay for all of the Equity Units being offered, if any are taken. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Equity Units sold by the underwriters to the public will initially be offered at the public offering price set forth on the cover of this prospectus supplement. Any Equity Units sold by the underwriters
to securities dealers may be sold at a discount from the public offering price of up to $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per Equity Unit. If all the Equity Units are not sold at the initial offering price, the underwriters may
change the offering price and the other selling terms. The offering of the Equity Units by the underwriters is subject to receipt and acceptance and subject to the underwriters&#146; right to reject any order in whole or in part. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">If the underwriters sell more Equity Units than the total
number set forth in the table above, the underwriters have an option to buy up to an additional 1,500,000 Equity Units from us to cover such sales. They may purchase those additional Equity Units within a
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13-day</FONT> period beginning on, and including, the issue date of the Equity Units. If any Equity Units are purchased pursuant to this option, the underwriters will severally purchase Equity Units in approximately
the same proportion as set forth above. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The
underwriters expect to deliver the Corporate Units in book-entry form only through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company against payment in New York, New York on or about March&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2021, which is five business days
following the date of pricing of the Corporate Units (such settlement cycle being herein referred to as &#147;T+5&#148;). You should note that the trading of the Corporate Units on the date of pricing or the next two succeeding business days may be
affected by the T+5 settlement. Under Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">15c6-1</FONT> of the Exchange Act, trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in two business days, unless the parties to any such trade expressly agree
otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers who wish to trade their Corporate Units on the date of pricing or the next two succeeding business days will be required, by virtue of the fact that the Corporate Units initially will settle in T+5, to specify an
alternate settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement. Purchasers of Corporate Units who wish to trade their Corporate Units on the date of pricing or the next two succeeding business days should consult their own
adviser. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Equity Units are a new issue of
securities with no established trading market. We have been advised by the underwriters that the underwriters intend to make a market in the Equity Units but are not obligated to do so and may discontinue market making at any time without notice. No
assurance can be given as to the liquidity of the trading market for the Equity Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We, our directors and certain of our executive officers have agreed that, for a period of 60 calendar days from the date of this prospectus supplement, they will not, without the prior written consent of
Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of (or enter into any transaction which is designed to, or might
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reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by such director or executive officer or
any affiliate thereof or any person in privity with such director or executive officer or any affiliate thereof), directly or indirectly, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within
the meaning of Section&nbsp;16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder, with respect to any shares of our common stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for our common
stock. The foregoing sentence will not apply to (i)&nbsp;transactions by each of the directors and executive officers involving the disposition of not more than 100,000 shares of our common stock; (ii)&nbsp;transactions by each of the directors and
executive officers relating to shares of our common stock or other securities acquired in open market transactions after the completion of this offering; (iii)&nbsp;transfers by such directors and executive officers of shares of our common stock or
common stock equivalents as a bona fide gift or by will or intestacy, including transfers to a trust where the beneficiaries of the trust are drawn solely from a group consisting of the director or executive officer and immediate family members,
<I>provided</I> that (a)&nbsp;each transferee that is not a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">not-for-profit</FONT></FONT> or religious organization agrees to be similarly restricted for the 60 day period and
(b)&nbsp;no party, including the director or executive officer, will be required to, nor will it voluntarily, file a report under Section&nbsp;16(a) of the Exchange Act, in connection with such transfer or distribution (other than a filing on Form 5
made after the expiration of the restricted period referred to in the foregoing sentence); (iv)&nbsp;transactions by such directors and executive officers, pursuant to a trading plan established pursuant to Rule
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10b5-1</FONT> under the Exchange Act in existence as of the date of this prospectus supplement; (v)&nbsp;the creation of a trading plan established pursuant to Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10b5-1</FONT>
under the Exchange Act; <I>provided</I> that no transactions are made pursuant to such plan until the expiration of the restricted period referred to in the foregoing sentence; or (vi)&nbsp;the exercise by such directors and executive officers of
options to purchase shares of our common stock pursuant to the surrender of options to purchase shares of our common stock or sale of shares of our common stock to satisfy the applicable aggregate exercise price (and applicable withholding taxes, if
applicable) required to be paid upon such exercise. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and Morgan Stanley&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC may release any of the securities subject to these <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">lock-up</FONT> agreements at any time without notice. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following table shows the underwriting discount that we are to pay to the underwriters in connection with this offering. These amounts are shown assuming both no exercise and full exercise of the
underwriters&#146; option to purchase additional Equity Units. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In connection with this
offering, the underwriters may purchase and sell the Equity Units and shares of our common stock in the open market. These transactions may include short sales, syndicate covering transactions and stabilizing transactions. Short sales involve
syndicate sales in excess of the number of Equity Units to be purchased by the underwriters in this offering, which creates a syndicate short position. &#147;Covered&#148; short sales are sales made in an amount up to the number of Equity Units
represented by the underwriters&#146; option to purchase additional Equity Units. In determining the source of Equity Units to close out the covered syndicate short position, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of Equity
Units available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which they may purchase Equity Units through the option to purchase additional Equity Units. Transactions to close out the covered syndicate short involve either purchases
of Equity Units in the open market after the distribution has been completed or the exercise of the option to purchase additional Equity Units. The underwriters may also make &#147;naked&#148; short sales of Equity Units in excess of the option to
purchase additional Equity Units. The underwriters must close out any naked short position by purchasing Equity Units in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be
downward pressure on the price of the Equity Units in the open market after pricing that will adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering. Stabilizing transactions </FONT></P>
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consist of bids for or purchases of Equity Units and shares of our common stock in the open market while the offering is in progress. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The underwriters also may impose a penalty bid. Penalty bids permit the underwriters to reclaim a selling
concession from a syndicate member when the underwriters, in covering short positions or making stabilizing purchases, repurchase Equity Units originally sold by that syndicate member. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Purchases to cover short positions and stabilizing purchases, as well as other purchases by the underwriters
for their own accounts, may have the effect of preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of the Equity Units. They may also cause the price of the Equity Units to be higher than the price that would otherwise exist in the open market in
the absence of these transactions. The underwriters may conduct these transactions on the NYSE, in the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">over-the-counter</FONT></FONT> market or otherwise. If the underwriters commence
any of these transactions, they may discontinue them at any time. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, as amended or supplemented, may be used in connection with the early settlement of the purchase contracts and the remarketing of the convertible
preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We estimate that the total
expenses of the offering, excluding the underwriting discount, will be approximately $&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and will be payable by us. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We have agreed to indemnify the several underwriters against
certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or to contribute payments the underwriters may be required to make in respect of such liabilities. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The underwriters and their respective affiliates are full service financial institutions engaged in various
activities, which may include securities trading, commercial and investment banking, financial advisory, investment management, investment research, principal investment, hedging, financing and brokerage activities. Certain of the underwriters and
their respective affiliates have, from time to time, performed, and may in the future perform, various financial advisory and investment banking services for the issuer, for which they received or will receive customary fees and expenses. In
addition, certain of the underwriters and their respective affiliates are lenders, and in some cases agents for the lenders, under our credit facilities, and an affiliate of one of the underwriters is acting as the purchase contract agent, and as
the paying agent and conversion agent for the convertible preferred stock. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Additionally, in the ordinary course of their various business activities, the underwriters and their respective affiliates have made or held, and may in the future make or hold, a broad array of
investments including serving as counterparties to certain derivative and hedging arrangements, and may have actively traded, and, in the future may actively trade, debt and equity securities (or related derivative securities), and financial
instruments (including bank loans) for their own account and for the accounts of their customers and may have in the past and at any time in the future hold long and short positions in such securities and instruments. Such investment and securities
activities may have involved, and in the future may involve, our securities and instruments. Certain of the underwriters or their affiliates that have a lending relationship with us routinely hedge their credit exposure to us consistent with their
customary risk management policies. Typically, such underwriters and their affiliates would hedge such exposure by entering into transactions which consist of either the purchase of credit default swaps or the creation of short positions in our
securities, including potentially the Equity Units offered hereby. Any such short positions could adversely affect future trading prices of the Equity Units offered hereby. The underwriters and their affiliates may also make investment
recommendations and/or publish or express independent research views in respect of such securities or financial instruments and may hold, or recommend to clients that they acquire, long and/or short positions in such securities and instruments.
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Selling Restrictions </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>European Economic Area </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Equity Units are not intended to be offered, sold or
otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area (&#147;EEA&#148;). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i)&nbsp;a
retail client as defined in point (11)&nbsp;of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU&nbsp;(as amended, &#147;MiFID II&#148;); or (ii)&nbsp;a customer within the meaning of Directive 2002/92/EC (as amended, the &#147;Insurance Mediation
Directive&#148;), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10)&nbsp;of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii)&nbsp;not a qualified investor as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended, the
&#147;Prospectus Regulation&#148;). Consequently no key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the &#147;PRIIPs Regulation&#148;) for offering or selling the Equity Units or otherwise making them available to
retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the Equity Units or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPS Regulation.&nbsp;This prospectus has been prepared
on the basis that any offer of the Equity Units in any Member State of the EEA will be made pursuant to an exemption under the Prospectus Regulation from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers of the Equity Units. This prospectus is not
a prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Regulation. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>United Kingdom </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each underwriter has represented and agreed that: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section
21 of the United Kingdom Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended, &#147;FSMA&#148;) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any Equity Units in circumstances in which section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to The AES
Corporation; and </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b) it has complied and will
comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to any Equity Units in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Hong Kong </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Equity Units may not be offered or sold by means of any
document other than (i)&nbsp;in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32, Laws of Hong Kong), or (ii)&nbsp;to &#147;professional investors&#148; within the meaning of the
Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap.571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder, or (iii)&nbsp;in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a &#147;prospectus&#148; within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance
(Cap.32, Laws of Hong Kong), and no advertisement, invitation or document relating to the Equity Units may be issued or may be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is
directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to Equity Units which are or are intended to be disposed of only
to persons outside Hong Kong or only to &#147;professional investors&#148; within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Japan </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Equity Units have not been and will not be registered
under the Financial Instruments and&nbsp;Exchange Act&nbsp;of Japan (Act No.&nbsp;25 of 1948, as amended), or the FIEA, and each underwriter has agreed that it will not offer or sell any Equity Units, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to or for
the benefit of any &#147;resident&#148; of Japan (including any person resident in Japan or any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan) or to others for reoffering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to or for the
benefit of any resident of Japan, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the FIEA and otherwise in compliance with any relevant laws and regulations of Japan. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Singapore </I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Each underwriter has acknowledged that this prospectus supplement has not been registered as a prospectus with
the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Accordingly, each underwriter has advised that it has not offered or sold any Equity Units or caused the Equity Units to be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase and will not offer or
sell any Equity Units or cause the Equity Units to be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase, and has not circulated or distributed, nor will it circulate or distribute, this prospectus supplement or any other document or
material in connection with the offer or sale, or invitation for subscription or purchase, of the Equity Units whether directly or indirectly, to any person in Singapore other than (i)&nbsp;to an institutional investor (as defined in Section&nbsp;4A
of the Securities and Futures Act (Chapter 289) of Singapore, as modified or amended from time to time (the &#147;SFA&#148;)) pursuant to Section&nbsp;274 of the SFA, (ii)&nbsp;to a relevant person (as defined in Section&nbsp;275(2) of the SFA)
pursuant to Section&nbsp;275(1) of the SFA, or any person pursuant to Section&nbsp;275(1A) of the SFA, and in accordance with the conditions specified in Section&nbsp;275 of the SFA, or (iii)&nbsp;otherwise pursuant to, and in accordance with the
conditions of, any other applicable provision of the SFA. Where the Equity Units are subscribed or purchased under Section&nbsp;275 of the SFA by a relevant person which is: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a corporation (which is not an accredited investor (as defined in Section&nbsp;4A of the SFA)) the sole business of which is to hold investments and
the entire share capital of which is owned by one or more individuals, each of whom is an accredited investor; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">a trust (where the trustee is not an accredited investor) whose sole purpose is to hold investments and each beneficiary of the trust is an individual
who is an accredited investor, securities or securities-based derivatives contracts (each term as defined in Section&nbsp;2(1) of the SFA) of that corporation or the beneficiaries&#146; rights and interest (howsoever described) in that trust will
not be transferred within six months after that corporation or that trust has acquired the Equity Units pursuant to an offer made under Section&nbsp;275 of the SFA except </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">to an institutional investor under Section&nbsp;274 of the SFA or to a relevant person, or to any person arising from an offer referred to in
Section&nbsp;275(1A) (in the case of that corporation) or Section&nbsp;276(4)(i)(B) (in the case of that trust) of the SFA; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where no consideration is or will be given for the transfer; </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">where the transfer is by operation of law; or </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">as specified in Section&nbsp;276(7) of the SFA. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Singapore SFA Product Classification&#151;Solely for the
purposes of its obligations pursuant to sections 309B(1)(a) and 309B(1)(c) of the SFA, the Company has determined, and hereby notifies all relevant persons (as defined in Section&nbsp;309A of the SFA) that the Equity Units are &#147;prescribed
capital markets products&#148; (as defined in the Securities and Futures (Capital Markets Products) Regulations 2018) and Excluded Investment Products (as defined in MAS Notice SFA <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">04-N12:</FONT> Notice on the Sale
of Investment Products and MAS Notice <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">FAA-N16:</FONT> Notice on Recommendations on Investment Products). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>Notice to Prospective Investors in Canada </I></B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Equity Units may be sold only to purchasers in the
provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Quebec purchasing, or deemed to be purchasing, as principal that are accredited investors, as defined in National Instrument <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">45-106</FONT> Prospectus Exemptions or subsection 73.3(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario), and are permitted clients, as defined in National Instrument <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">31-</FONT> 103 Registration
Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations. Any resale of the Equity Units must be made in accordance with an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the prospectus requirements of applicable securities laws. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Securities legislation in certain provinces or territories of
Canada may provide a purchaser with remedies for rescission or damages if this prospectus supplement or the accompanying prospectus (including any amendment </FONT></P>
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thereto) contains a misrepresentation, <I>provided</I> that the remedies for rescission or damages are exercised by the purchaser within the time limit prescribed by the securities legislation of
the purchaser&#146;s province or territory. The purchaser should refer to any applicable provisions of the securities legislation of the purchaser&#146;s province or territory for particulars of these rights or consult with a legal advisor.
</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Pursuant to section 3A.3 of National Instrument <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">33-105</FONT> Underwriting Conflicts (NI <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">33-105),</FONT> the underwriters are not required to comply with the disclosure requirements of NI <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">33-105</FONT>
regarding underwriter conflicts of interest in connection with this offering. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Notice to Prospective Investors in Australia </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">No placement document, prospectus, product disclosure statement or other disclosure document has been lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (&#147;ASIC&#148;), in relation to
the offering. This prospectus does not constitute a prospectus, product disclosure statement or other disclosure document under the Corporations Act 2001 (the &#147;Corporations Act&#148;), and does not purport to include the information required
for a prospectus, product disclosure statement or other disclosure document under the Corporations Act. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Any offer in Australia of the Equity Units may only be made to persons (the &#147;Exempt Investors&#148;) who are &#147;sophisticated
investors&#148; (within the meaning of section 708(8) of the Corporations Act), &#147;professional investors&#148; (within the meaning of section 708(11) of the Corporations Act) or otherwise pursuant to one or more exemptions contained in section
708 of the Corporations Act so that it is lawful to offer the Equity Units without disclosure to investors under Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Equity Units applied for by Exempt Investors in Australia must not be offered for sale in Australia in the period of 12 months after
the date of allotment under the offering, except in circumstances where disclosure to investors under Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act would not be required pursuant to an exemption under section 708 of the Corporations Act or otherwise or where
the offer is pursuant to a disclosure document which complies with Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Further, any shares of common stock issued in connection with the purchase contracts, convertible preferred stock or Series B preferred
stock must not be offered for sale in Australia in the period of 12 months after the date of issue of those shares of common stock except in circumstances where disclosure to investors under Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act would not be required
pursuant to an exemption under section 708 of the Corporations Act or otherwise or where the offer is pursuant to a disclosure document which complies with Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act. Any person acquiring Equity Units or shares of common
stock must observe such Australian on-sale restrictions. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This prospectus contains general information only and does not take account of the investment objectives, financial situation or particular needs of any particular person. It does not contain any
securities recommendations or financial product advice. Before making an investment decision, investors need to consider whether the information in this prospectus is appropriate to their needs, objectives and circumstances, and, if necessary, seek
expert advice on those matters. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Notice to Prospective
Investors in the Dubai International Financial Centre </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This prospectus relates to an Exempt Offer in accordance with the Offered Securities Rules of the Dubai Financial Services Authority (&#147;DFSA&#148;). This prospectus is intended for distribution only
to persons of a type specified in the Offered Securities Rules of the DFSA. It must not be delivered to, or relied on by, any other person. The DFSA has no responsibility for reviewing or verifying any documents in connection with Exempt Offers. The
DFSA has not approved this prospectus nor taken steps to verify the information set forth herein and has no responsibility for the prospectus. The Equity Units to which this prospectus relates may be illiquid and/or subject to restrictions on their
resale. Prospective purchasers of the Equity Units offered should conduct their own due diligence on the Equity Units. If you do not understand the contents of this prospectus you should consult an authorized financial advisor. </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Equity Units may not be publicly offered in Switzerland
and will not be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (&#147;SIX&#148;) or on any other stock exchange or regulated trading facility in Switzerland. This document has been prepared without regard to the disclosure standards for issuance prospectuses
under art. 652a or art. 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations or the disclosure standards for listing prospectuses under art. 27 ff. of the SIX Listing Rules or the listing rules of any other stock exchange or regulated trading facility in
Switzerland. Neither this document nor any other offering or marketing material relating to the Equity Units or the offering may be publicly distributed or otherwise made publicly available in Switzerland. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Neither this document nor any other offering or marketing
material relating to the offering, the Company, the Equity Units have been or will be filed with or approved by any Swiss regulatory authority. In particular, this document will not be filed with, and the offer of the Equity Units will not be
supervised by, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA (FINMA), and the offer of the Equity Units has not been and will not be authorized under the Swiss Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes (&#147;CISA&#148;). The investor
protection afforded to acquirers of interests in collective investment schemes under the CISA does not extend to acquirers of the Equity Units. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="supprom144709_16"></A>LEGAL MATTERS </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Certain legal matters in connection with the offering of the
Equity Units will be passed upon for us by Davis Polk&nbsp;&amp; Wardwell LLP, New York, New York. Certain legal matters in connection with the offering of the Equity Units will be passed upon for the underwriters by Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher&nbsp;&amp; Flom LLP, New York, New York. </FONT></P>
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STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="7"><B>The AES Corporation </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>Common Stock, Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares, </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>Debt Securities,
Warrants, Purchase Contracts and Units </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:16%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We may offer from time to time common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares representing preferred stock, debt securities, warrants,
purchase contracts or units. In addition, certain selling securityholders to be identified in a prospectus supplement may offer and sell these securities from time to time, in amounts, at prices and on terms that will be determined at the time the
securities are offered. Specific terms of these securities will be provided in supplements to this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and any supplement carefully before you invest. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol &#147;AES.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:16%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Investing in these securities involves certain risks. See
&#147;Risk Factors&#148; beginning on page 45 of our annual report on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT> for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2018, which is incorporated by reference herein. </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any
state securities commission has approved or disapproved these securities, or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense. </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>This prospectus may not be used to sell securities unless
accompanied by a prospectus supplement</B>. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The date of this
prospectus is February&nbsp;26, 2019 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We have not
authorized anyone to provide any information other than that contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of us or to which we have referred you. We take no responsibility for,
and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. We are not making an offer of these securities in any state where the offer is not permitted. You should not assume that the information contained
in or incorporated by reference in this prospectus or any prospectus supplement or in any such free writing prospectus is accurate as of any date other than their respective dates. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The terms &#147;AES&#148;, &#147;we,&#148; &#147;us,&#148;
and &#147;our&#148; refer to The AES Corporation and its subsidiaries. </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="toc144709_1"></A>THE AES CORPORATION </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">AES is a power generation and utility company, providing
affordable, sustainable energy through our diverse portfolio of thermal and renewable generation facilities and distribution businesses. Our mission is to improve lives by accelerating a safer and greener energy future. We do this by leveraging our
unique electricity platforms and the knowledge of our people to provide the energy and infrastructure solutions our customers need. Our people share a passion to help meet the world&#146;s current and increasing energy needs, while providing
communities and countries the opportunity for economic growth through the availability of reliable, affordable electric power. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We are organized into four market-oriented SBUs: US and Utilities (United States, Puerto Rico and El Salvador); South America (Chile,
Colombia, Argentina and Brazil); MCAC (Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean); and Eurasia (Europe and Asia). The first business line is generation, where we own and/or operate power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as
utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries. The second business line is utilities, where we own and/or operate utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit and sell electricity to
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">end-user</FONT> customers in the residential, commercial, industrial and governmental sectors within a defined service area. In certain circumstances, our utilities also generate and sell electricity on the wholesale
market. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Our principal executive offices are
located at 4300 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22203, and our telephone number is (703) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">522-1315.</FONT> We maintain a website at http://www.aes.com where general information about us is available. We are not
incorporating the contents of the website into this prospectus. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The name &#147;AES&#148; and our logo are AES owned trademarks, service marks or trade names. All other trademarks, trade names or service marks appearing or incorporated by reference in this prospectus
are owned by their respective holders. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>About this Prospectus
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This prospectus is part of a registration
statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, utilizing a &#147;shelf&#148; registration process. Under this shelf process, we and/or the selling securityholders may sell any combination of the securities described
in this prospectus in one or more offerings. This prospectus provides you with a general description of the securities we and/or the selling securityholders may offer. Each time we and/or the selling securityholders sell securities pursuant to the
registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, we will provide a prospectus supplement that will contain specific information about the terms of that offering. The prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information
contained in this prospectus. You should read both this prospectus and any prospectus supplement together with additional information described under the heading &#147;Where You Can Find More Information.&#148; </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We have filed or incorporated by reference exhibits to the
registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. You should read the exhibits carefully for provisions that may be important to you. </FONT></P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="toc144709_2"></A>WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy
statements and other information with the SEC. The SEC maintains an Internet site at http://www.sec.gov, from which interested persons can electronically access our SEC filings, including the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules
thereto. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The SEC allows us to &#147;incorporate
by reference&#148; the information we file with them, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is an important part of this prospectus, and
information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate by reference the documents listed below and all documents we file pursuant to Section&nbsp;13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, on or after the date of this prospectus and prior to the termination of the offering under this prospectus and any prospectus supplement (other than, in each case, documents or information deemed to have
been furnished and not filed in accordance with SEC rules): </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(a) Annual Report on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/../../../ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/874761/000087476119000012/a2018form10-k.htm">Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT></A>
for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2018; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(b)
Definitive Proxy Statement on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874761/000087476118000024/a2018definitiveproxystatem.htm">Schedule 14A</A> filed with the SEC on March&nbsp;9, 2018; </FONT></P>
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</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(c) The description of our common stock contained on <A HREF="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874761/000091205700023954/0000912057-00-023954.txt">Form
 <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-A/A</FONT></A> filed with the SEC on May&nbsp;12, 2000, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating that description. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">You may request a copy of these filings at no cost, by
writing or telephoning the office of the General Counsel, The AES Corporation, 4300 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22203, telephone number (703) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">522-1315.</FONT> </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="toc144709_3"></A>SPECIAL NOTE ON FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This prospectus, including the
documents incorporated by reference herein, contains forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as &#147;may,&#148; &#147;might,&#148; &#147;will,&#148; &#147;should,&#148;
&#147;expects,&#148; &#147;plans,&#148; &#147;anticipates,&#148; &#147;believes,&#148; &#147;estimates,&#148; &#147;predicts,&#148; &#147;potential&#148; or &#147;continue,&#148; the negative of these terms and other comparable terminology. These
forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us, may include projections of our future financial performance, our anticipated growth strategies and anticipated trends in our business. These statements
are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from the results, level
of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including those factors discussed under the captions entitled &#147;Risk Factors&#148; and &#147;Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations&#148; in our Annual Report on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT> for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2018. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Although we believe the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, level
of activity, performance or achievements. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of any of these forward-looking statements. We are under no duty to update any of these forward-looking
statements after the date of this prospectus to conform our prior statements to actual results or revised expectations. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="toc144709_4"></A>USE OF PROCEEDS </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Unless otherwise indicated in a prospectus supplement, the net proceeds from the sale of the securities will be used for general corporate
purposes, including working capital, acquisitions, retirement of debt and other business opportunities. In the case of a sale by a selling securityholder, we will not receive any of the proceeds from such sale. </FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We and/or the selling securityholders may sell, from time to
time, in one or more offerings, the following securities: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">purchase contracts; and </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">units. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will set forth in the applicable prospectus supplement or other offering material a description of the common stock, preferred stock,
depositary shares, debt securities, warrants, purchase contracts and units, which may be offered under this prospectus. Any common stock or preferred stock that we offer may include rights to acquire our common stock or preferred stock under any
shareholder rights plan then in effect, if applicable under the terms of any such plan. The terms of the offering of securities, including the initial offering price and the net proceeds to us, will be contained in the prospectus supplement or other
offering material relating to such offer. The prospectus supplement or any other offering material may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. You should carefully read this prospectus, any prospectus supplement or other
offering material before you invest in any of our securities. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="toc144709_6"></A>VALIDITY OF SECURITIES </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The validity of the securities in respect of which this prospectus is being delivered will be passed on for us by Davis Polk&nbsp;&amp;
Wardwell LLP. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><A NAME="toc144709_7"></A>EXPERTS
</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The consolidated financial statements of The
AES Corporation appearing in The AES Corporation&#146;s Annual Report (Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K)</FONT> for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2018, and the effectiveness of The AES Corporation&#146;s internal control over financial
reporting as of December&nbsp;31, 2018, have been audited by Ernst&nbsp;&amp; Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their reports thereon (which contain an explanatory paragraph describing a change to its method
of accounting for revenue as a result of the adoption of Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">2014-09,</FONT><I>&nbsp;Revenue from Contracts with Customers</I>&nbsp;(Topic 606), and the amendments in ASUs <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">2015-14,</FONT> <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">2016-08,</FONT> <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">2016-10,</FONT> <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">2016-12,</FONT> <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">2016-20,</FONT> <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">2017-10</FONT> and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">2017-13</FONT> as described in Note&nbsp;1 to the consolidated financial statements) included therein, and incorporated herein by reference. Such financial statements
are, and audited financial statements to be included in subsequently filed documents will be, incorporated herein in reliance upon the reports of Ernst&nbsp;&amp; Young LLP pertaining to such financial statements and the effectiveness of internal
control over financial reporting as of the respective dates (to the extent covered by consents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission) given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing. </FONT></P>
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</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="4"><B>(Initially Consisting of 10,000,000 Corporate Units) </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="7"><B>The AES Corporation </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:2px;border-bottom:0.5pt solid #000000;width:11%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>March &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2021 </B></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><B>Citigroup </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><B>Goldman Sachs&nbsp;&amp; Co. LLC </B></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><B>Morgan Stanley </B></FONT></P>
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