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EXHIBIT 2.2

ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD.
as the Company
STATE HARVEST HOLDINGS LIMITED
as the Guarantor
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
a New York banking corporation
as the Trustee

INDENTURE
Dated July 25, 2007

1.0% Guaranteed Senior Secured Convertible Notes due 2012

CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

TIA |  |  | Indenture
Section |  |  | Section
310 | (a)(1) |  | 7.07
| (a)(2) |  | 7.07
| (a)(3) |  | 15.14
| (a)(4) |  | N.A.
| (a)(5) |  | 7.07
| (b) |  | 7.07
| (c) |  | N.A.
311 | (a) |  | 7.14
| (b) |  | 7.14
| (c) |  | N.A.
312 | (a) |  | 2.11
| (b) |  | 15.03
| (c) |  | 15.03
313 | (a) |  | 7.12
| (b)(1) |  | N.A.
| (b)(2) |  | 7.12
| (c) |  | 15.03
| (d) |  | 7.12
314 | (a) |  | 4.31; 15.03; 15.05
| (b) |  | N.A.
| (c)(1) |  | 15.05
| (c)(2) |  | 15.05
| (c)(3) |  | N.A.
| (d) |  | N.A.
| (e) |  | 15.05
| (f) |  | 4.29
315 | (a) |  | 7.01
| (b) |  | 6.08; 15.03
| (c) |  | 7.01
| (d) |  | 7.01
| (e) |  | 6.09
316 | (a) (last sentence) |  | N.A.
| (a)(1)(A) |  | 6.07
| (a)(1)(B) |  | 6.07
| (a)(2) |  | N.A.
| (b) |  | 6.04
| (c) |  | 2.09
317 | (a)(1) |  | 6.02
| (a)(2) |  | 6.02
| (b) |  | 4.03

318 | (a) |  | 15.01
| (b) |  | N.A
| (c) |  | 15.01

N.A. Means Not Applicable.
Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purposes, be deemed to be part of this Indenture.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

|  | Page |
ARTICLE 1 |  |  |  |
DEFINITIONS |  |  |  |
Section 1.01. Definitions |  |  | 1 |
Section 1.02. Other Definitions |  |  | 31 |
Section 1.03. Rules of Construction. |  |  | 32 |
Section 1.04. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. |  |  | 33 |
ARTICLE 2 |  |  |  |
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES |  |  |  |
Section 2.01. Designation Amount and Issue of Notes |  |  | 33 |
Section 2.02. Form of Notes |  |  | 33 |
Section 2.03. Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest |  |  | 35 |
Section 2.04. Execution of Notes |  |  | 36 |
Section 2.05. Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer |  |  | 36 |
Section 2.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes |  |  | 39 |
Section 2.07. Temporary Notes |  |  | 40 |
Section 2.08. Cancellation of Notes |  |  | 40 |
Section 2.09. Defaulted Interest |  |  | 40 |
Section 2.10. ISIN Numbers |  |  | 41 |
Section 2.11. Holder Lists |  |  | 41 |
ARTICLE 3 |  |  |  |
REDEMPTION AND REPURCHASE OF NOTES |  |  |  |
Section 3.01. Redemption at Maturity |  |  | 41 |
Section 3.02. Offer to Purchase |  |  | 41 |
Section 3.03. Mandatory Redemption upon reset |  |  | 44 |
ARTICLE 4 |  |  |  |
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY |  |  |  |
Section 4.01. Payment of Principal and Interest |  |  | 44 |
Section 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency |  |  | 45 |
Section 4.03. Provisions as to Paying Agent |  |  | 45 |
Section 4.04. Existence |  |  | 46 |
Section 4.05. Maintenance of Properties |  |  | 46 |

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Section 4.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims |  |  | 47 |
Section 4.07. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws |  |  | 47 |
Section 4.08. Payments for Consent |  |  | 47 |
Section 4.09. Incurrence of Additional Debt; Financial Covenants |  |  | 48 |
Section 4.10. Restricted Payments |  |  | 48 |
Section 4.11. Liens |  |  | 50 |
Section 4.12. Asset Sales |  |  | 50 |
Section 4.13. Restrictions on Distributions from Subsidiaries |  |  | 52 |
Section 4.14. Affiliate Transactions |  |  | 53 |
Section 4.15. Issuance or Sale of Capital Stock of Subsidiaries |  |  | 54 |
Section 4.16. Maintenance of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth |  |  | 55 |
Section 4.17. Repurchase at the Option of Holders Following a Change of Control |  |  | 55 |
Section 4.18. Future Guarantors |  |  | 55 |
Section 4.19. Business Activities; Charter Documents |  |  | 56 |
Section 4.20. Sale and Leaseback Transactions |  |  | 56 |
Section 4.21. Impairment of Security Interest |  |  | 57 |
Section 4.22. Amendments to Security Documents |  |  | 57 |
Section 4.23. Use of Proceeds |  |  | 57 |
Section 4.24. Maintenance of Insurance |  |  | 57 |
Section 4.25. Repurchase Upon Termination of Trading |  |  | 57 |
Section 4.26. Government Approvals and Licenses; Compliance with Law |  |  | 58 |
Section 4.27. Engage Qualified Auditing Firms |  |  | 58 |
Section 4.28. Notes to Rank Senior |  |  | 58 |
Section 4.29. Compliance Certificate |  |  | 58 |
Section 4.30. Additional Interest Notice |  |  | 59 |
Section 4.31. Reports by the Company and Provision of Information |  |  | 59 |
Section 4.32. Corporate Agreements. |  |  | 60 |
Section 4.33. Change in Foreign Ownership Restrictions. |  |  | 60 |
ARTICLE 5 |  |  |  |
SUCCESSORS |  |  |  |
Section 5.01. Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets |  |  | 60 |
Section 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted |  |  | 62 |
ARTICLE 6 |  |  |  |
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND NOTEHOLDERS ON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT |  |  |  |
Section 6.01. Events of Default |  |  | 63 |
Section 6.02. Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor |  |  | 66 |
Section 6.03. Application of Monies Collected by Trustee |  |  | 68 |
Section 6.04. Proceedings by Noteholder |  |  | 68 |
Section 6.05. Proceedings by Trustee |  |  | 69 |
Section 6.06. Remedies Cumulative and Continuing |  |  | 69 |

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Section 6.07. Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders of the Notes |  |  | 70 |
Section 6.08. Notice of Default |  |  | 70 |
Section 6.09. Undertaking to Pay Costs |  |  | 71 |
ARTICLE 7 |  |  |  |
THE TRUSTEE |  |  |  |
Section 7.01. Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee |  |  | 71 |
Section 7.02. Rights of Trustee |  |  | 72 |
Section 7.03. No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc |  |  | 75 |
Section 7.04. Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents, Collateral Agents, Common Depositary or Registrar May Own Notes |  |  | 75 |
Section 7.05. Monies to Be Held in Trust |  |  | 75 |
Section 7.06. Compensation and Expenses of Trustee |  |  | 75 |
Section 7.07. Eligibility and Disqualification of Trustee |  |  | 76 |
Section 7.08. Resignation or Removal of Trustee |  |  | 77 |
Section 7.09. Acceptance by Successor Trustee |  |  | 78 |
Section 7.10. Succession by Merger |  |  | 78 |
Section 7.11. Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company |  |  | 79 |
Section 7.12. Reports by Trustee to Holders |  |  | 79 |
Section 7.13. Certain Provisions |  |  | 80 |
Section 7.14. Preferential Collection of Claims against Company |  |  | 80 |
ARTICLE 8 |  |  |  |
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES |  |  |  |
Section 8.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders |  |  | 80 |
Section 8.02. Supplemental Indenture with Consent of Noteholders |  |  | 82 |
Section 8.03. Effect of Supplemental Indenture |  |  | 83 |
Section 8.04. Notation on Notes |  |  | 84 |
Section 8.05. Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished to Trustee |  |  | 84 |
ARTICLE 9 |  |  |  |
GUARANTEES |  |  |  |
Section 9.01. Guarantee |  |  | 84 |
Section 9.02. Limitation on Guarantor Liability |  |  | 86 |
Section 9.03. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee |  |  | 86 |
Section 9.04. Guarantors May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms |  |  | 87 |
Section 9.05. Releases Following Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets, Etc |  |  | 88 |

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ARTICLE 10 |  |  |  |
COLLATERAL AND SECURITY |  |  |  |
Section 10.01. Security Documents |  |  | 88 |
Section 10.02. Future Guarantor Pledgors |  |  | 90 |
Section 10.03. Recording and Opinions |  |  | 91 |
Section 10.04. Release of Collateral |  |  | 92 |
Section 10.05. Authorization of Actions to Be Taken by the Trustee Under the Security Documents |  |  | 93 |
Section 10.06. Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee Under the Security Documents |  |  | 93 |
Section 10.07. Termination of Security Interest |  |  | 93 |
ARTICLE 11 |  |  |  |
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE |  |  |  |
Section 11.01. Discharge of Indenture |  |  | 93 |
Section 11.02. Deposited Monies to Be Held in Trust by Trustee |  |  | 94 |
Section 11.03. Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held |  |  | 94 |
Section 11.04. Return of Unclaimed Monies |  |  | 95 |
Section 11.05. Reinstatement |  |  | 95 |
ARTICLE 12 |  |  |  |
THE NOTEHOLDERS |  |  |  |
Section 12.01. Action by Noteholders |  |  | 95 |
Section 12.02. Proof of Execution by Noteholders |  |  | 95 |
Section 12.03. Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners |  |  | 96 |
Section 12.04. Company-owned Notes Disregarded |  |  | 96 |
Section 12.05. Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound |  |  | 96 |
ARTICLE 13 |  |  |  |
MEETINGS OF NOTEHOLDERS |  |  |  |
Section 13.01. Purpose of Meetings |  |  | 97 |
Section 13.02. Call of Meetings by Company or Noteholders |  |  | 97 |
Section 13.03. Qualifications for Voting |  |  | 98 |
Section 13.04. Regulations |  |  | 98 |
Section 13.05. Voting |  |  | 98 |
Section 13.06. No Delay of Rights by Meeting |  |  | 99 |
ARTICLE 14 |  |  |  |
CONVERSION OF NOTES |  |  |  |

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Section 14.01. Right to Convert |  |  | 99 |
Section 14.02. Exercise of Conversion Right; Issuance of Common Stock on Conversion; No Adjustment for Interest or Dividends |  |  | 100 |
Section 14.03. Cash Payments in Lieu of Fractional Shares |  |  | 101 |
Section 14.04. Conversion Rate |  |  | 102 |
Section 14.05. Adjustment of Conversion Rate |  |  | 102 |
Section 14.06. Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale |  |  | 111 |
Section 14.07. Taxes on Shares Issued |  |  | 112 |
Section 14.08. Reservation of Shares; Shares to Be Fully Paid; Compliance with Governmental Requirements; Listing of Common Stock |  |  | 112 |
Section 14.09. Responsibility of Trustee |  |  | 112 |
Section 14.10. Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions |  |  | 113 |
Section 14.11. Shareholder Rights Plans |  |  | 114 |
ARTICLE 15 |  |  |  |
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS |  |  |  |
Section 15.01. Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors; Trust Indenture Act Controls |  |  | 114 |
Section 15.02. Official Acts by Successor Corporation |  |  | 114 |
Section 15.03. Addresses for Notices, Etc. |  |  | 115 |
Section 15.04. Governing Law, Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process |  |  | 116 |
Section 15.05. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates to Trustee |  |  | 116 |
Section 15.06. Legal Holidays |  |  | 117 |
Section 15.07. Company Responsible for Making Calculations |  |  | 117 |
Section 15.08. Benefits of Indenture |  |  | 117 |
Section 15.09. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. |  |  | 117 |
Section 15.10. Authenticating Agent |  |  | 118 |
Section 15.11. Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations |  |  | 118 |
Section 15.12. Execution in Counterparts |  |  | 119 |
Section 15.13. Severability |  |  | 119 |
Section 15.14. Appointment of Co-Trustee |  |  | 119 |

Exhibit A - FORM OF NOTE
Exhibit B - FORM OF NOTATION OF GUARANTEE
Exhibit C - FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER
Exhibit D - FORM OF RESTRICTIVE LEGEND FOR COMMON STOCK ISSUED UPON CONVERSION
Exhibit E - FORM OF SECURITY DOCUMENTS
Exhibit F - CORPORATE AGREEMENTS
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INDENTURE
INDENTURE dated July 25, 2007, between ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD., a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands (hereinafter called the “Company”), the parties listed on the signature pages hereto, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as trustee hereunder (hereinafter called the “Trustee”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issue of its 1.0% Guaranteed Senior Secured Convertible Notes due 2012 (hereinafter called the “Notes”), in an aggregate principal amount of $40,000,000 and, to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, each Guarantor has duly authorized the issue of its Guarantee of the Notes and, to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Guarantee is to be issued and delivered, each Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the Notes, the certificate of authentication to be borne by the Notes, a form of notation of Guarantee, a form of Assignment, a form of Purchase Notice and a form of Conversion Notice to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided for; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent, as in this Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to constitute this Indenture a valid agreement according to its terms, have been done and performed, and the execution of this Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Notes have in all respects been duly authorized,
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Notes by the holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of the Notes (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01. Definitions.
The terms defined in this Section (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section. All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined in the Securities Act (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Securities Act as in force at the date of the execution of this Indenture. The words “herein”, “hereof”, “hereunder” and words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular.

“Additional Assets” means:
(a) any Property (other than cash, Cash Equivalent and securities) to be owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and used in a Related Business; or
(b) Capital Stock of a Person that becomes a Subsidiary of the Company as a result of the acquisition of such Capital Stock by the Company or another Subsidiary of the Company from any Person other than the Company or an Affiliate of the Company; provided, however, that, in the case of clause (b), such Subsidiary is primarily engaged in a Related Business.
“Additional Interest” means any additional interest payable on the outstanding Notes pursuant to Section 2(d) of the Registration Rights Agreement.
“Affiliate” of any specified Person means:
(a) any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person, or
(b) any other Person who is a director or officer of:
(1) such specified Person,
(2) any Subsidiary of such specified Person, or
(3) any Person described in clause (a) above.
For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with respect to any Person, means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing. For purposes of Section 4.12 and Section 4.14 and the definition of “Additional Assets” only, “Affiliate” shall also mean any Beneficial Owner of shares representing 5% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Stock (on a fully diluted basis) of the Company or of rights or warrants to purchase such Voting Stock (whether or not currently exercisable) and any Person who would be an Affiliate of any such Beneficial Owner pursuant to the first sentence hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall Citadel Equity Fund Ltd. or any of its Affiliates be considered an Affiliate of the Company.
“Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer, repurchase or exchange of or for beneficial interests in any Global Note, the rules and procedures of Euroclear and Clearstream that apply to such transfer, repurchase or exchange.
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“Asset Sale” means any sale, lease, transfer, issuance or other disposition (or series of related sales, leases, transfers, issuances or dispositions) by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including any disposition by means of a merger, consolidation or similar transaction (each referred to for the purposes of this definition as a “disposition”), of
(a) any shares of Capital Stock of a Subsidiary of the Company (other than directors’ qualifying shares), or
(b) any other Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries outside of the ordinary course of business of the Company or such Subsidiary,
other than, in the case of clause (a) or (b) above,
(1) any disposition by a Subsidiary of the Company to the Company or by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries to a Wholly Owned Subsidiary,
(2) any disposition that constitutes a Permitted Investment or Restricted Payment permitted by Section 4.10,
(3) any disposition effected in compliance with the first paragraph of Section 5.01,
(4) any disposition of inventory of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, or inventory or other property that in the reasonable judgment of the Company have become uneconomic, obsolete or worn out,
(5) the sale or discount of accounts receivable in connection with the compromise or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business, and
(6) any disposition in a single transaction or a series of related transactions of assets for aggregate consideration of less than $2.5 million.
“Attributable Debt” in respect of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction means, at any date of determination,
(a) if such Sale and Leaseback Transaction is a Capital Lease Obligation, the amount of Debt represented thereby according to the definition of “Capital Lease Obligations,” and
(b) in all other instances, the present value (discounted at the weighted average interest rate borne by the Notes, compounded annually in the most recently completed twelve months) of the total obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction (including any period for which such lease has been extended).
“Average Life” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to any Debt or Preferred Stock, the quotient obtained by dividing:
(a) the sum of the product of the numbers of years (rounded to the nearest one-twelfth of one year) from the date of determination to the dates of each successive scheduled principal payment of such Debt or redemption or similar payment with respect to such Preferred Stock multiplied by the amount of such payment by
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(b) the sum of all such payments.
“Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors, or the law of any other jurisdiction relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, winding up, liquidation, reorganization or relief of debtors.
“Beneficial Owner” has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any particular “person” (as such term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), such “person” shall be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition or passage of time. The terms “Beneficially Owns” and “Beneficially Owned” have a corresponding meaning.
“Board of Directors” means (1) in respect of a corporation, the board of directors of the corporation, or (except if used in the definition of “Change of Control”) any duly authorized committee thereof; and (2) in respect of any other Person, the board or committee of that Person serving an equivalent function.
“Board Resolution” of a Person means a copy of a resolution (in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee) certified by the secretary or an assistant secretary (or individual performing comparable duties) of the applicable Person to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Person and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Legal Holiday.
“BVI” means the British Virgin Islands.
“Capital Expenditures” means expenditures (whether paid in cash or other consideration or accrued as a liability and including that portion of Capital Lease Obligations which is capitalized on the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries) by the Company and its Subsidiaries that, in conformity with GAAP, are included in “additions to property, plant and equipment” on the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
“Capital Lease Obligations” means any obligation under a lease that is required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP; and the amount of Debt represented by such obligation shall be the capitalized amount of such obligations determined in accordance with GAAP; and the Stated Maturity thereof shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date upon which such lease may be terminated by the lessee without payment of a penalty. For purposes of Section 4.11 a Capital Lease Obligation shall be deemed secured by a Lien on the Property being leased.
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“Capital Stock” means, with respect to any Person, any shares or other equivalents (however designated) of any class of corporate stock or partnership interests or any other participations, rights, warrants, options or other interests in the nature of an equity interest in such Person, including Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt security convertible or exchangeable into such equity interest.
“Capital Stock Sale Proceeds” means the aggregate cash proceeds received by the Company from the issuance or sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any such Subsidiary for the benefit of their employees) by the Company of its Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) after the Issue Date, net of attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement agents’ fees, discounts or commissions and brokerage, consultant and other fees actually incurred in connection with such issuance or sale and net of taxes paid or payable as a result thereof.
“Cash Equivalents” means any of the following:
(a) Investments in U.S. Government Securities maturing within 365 days of the date of acquisition thereof;
(b) Investments in time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit and money market deposits maturing within 90 days of the date of acquisition thereof issued by a bank or trust company organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof having capital, surplus and undivided profits aggregating in excess of $500 million and whose long-term debt is rated “A-3” or “A-” or higher according to Moody’s or S&P (or such similar equivalent rating by at least one “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Rule 436 under the Securities Act));
(c) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than 30 days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (a) entered into with:
(1) a bank meeting the qualifications described in clause (b) above, or
(2) any primary government securities dealer reporting to the Market Reports Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
(d) Investments in commercial paper, maturing not more than 90 days after the date of acquisition, issued by a corporation (other than an Affiliate of the Company) organized and in existence under the laws of the United States of America with a rating at the time as of which any Investment therein is made of “P-1” (or higher) according to Moody’s or “A-1” (or higher) according to S&P (or such similar equivalent rating by at least one “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Rule 436 under the Securities Act));
(e) direct obligations (or certificates representing an ownership interest in such obligations) of any state of the United States of America (including any agency or instrumentality thereof) for the payment of which the full faith and credit of such state are pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the issuer’s option, provided that:
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(1) the long-term debt of such state is rated “A-3” or “A-” or higher according to Moody’s or S&P (or such similar equivalent rating by at least one “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Rule 436 under the Securities Act)), and
(2) such obligations mature within 180 days of the date of acquisition thereof; and
(f) time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit and money market deposits with (i) Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank and China Merchants Bank or (ii) any other bank or trust company organized under the laws of the PRC whose long-term debt is rated as high or higher than any of those banks.
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following events:
(a) the Permitted Holders cease to be the Beneficial Owners, directly or indirectly, of at least 30% (on a fully diluted basis) of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company, whether as a result of the issuance of securities of the Company, any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution of the Company, any direct or indirect transfer of securities by the Permitted Holders or otherwise (for purposes of this definition of “Chang of Control”, the Permitted Holders will be deemed to Beneficially Own any Voting Stock of a specified corporation held by a parent corporation so long as the Permitted Holders Beneficially Own, directly or indirectly, in the aggregate more than 30% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such parent corporation); or
(c) any “person” or “group” of related persons (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than one or more Permitted Holders, acquires Control of the Company. The term “Control” as used in the preceding sentence means the right to appoint and/or remove all or the majority of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors or other governing body, whether obtained directly or indirectly, and whether obtained by ownership of share capital, the possession of voting rights, contract or otherwise; or
(c) any “person” or “group” of related persons (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than one or more Permitted Holders, is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% (on a fully diluted basis) of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company (or its successor by merger, consolidation or purchase of all or substantially all of its assets) (for the purposes of this definition of “Change of Control”, such person or group shall be deemed to Beneficially Own any Voting Stock of a specified corporation held by a parent corporation so long as such person or group Beneficially Owns, directly or indirectly, in the aggregate more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such parent corporation); or
(d) the sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or other disposition, directly or indirectly, of all or substantially all the Property of the Company and its Subsidiaries, considered as a whole (other than a disposition of such Property as an entirety or virtually as an entirety to a Wholly Owned Subsidiary or one or more Permitted Holders), shall have occurred, or the Company merges, consolidates or amalgamates with or into any other Person (other than one or more Permitted Holders) or any other Person (other than one or more Permitted Holders) merges, consolidates or amalgamates with or into the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company is reclassified into or exchanged for cash, securities or other Property, other than any such transaction where:
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(1) the outstanding Voting Stock of the Company is reclassified into or exchanged for other Voting Stock of the Company or for Voting Stock of the Surviving Person, and
(2) the holders of the Voting Stock of the Company immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, not less than a majority of the Voting Stock of the Company or the Surviving Person immediately after such transaction and in substantially the same proportion as before the transaction; or
(e) Continuing Directors cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company then in office; or
(f) the shareholders of the Company shall have approved any plan of liquidation or dissolution of the Company.
“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, and any successor thereto.
“Closing Sale Price” of the shares of Common Stock on any date means (i) if Common Stock is primarily traded on a securities exchange, the last sale price on such securities exchange on the applicable day, or if no sale occurred on such day, the mean between the closing “bid” and “asked” prices on such day, (ii) if the principal market for Common Stock is in the over-the-counter market, the closing sale price on the applicable day as published by The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc. or similar organization, or if such price is not so published on such day, the mean between the closing “bid” and “asked” prices, if available, on such day, which prices may be obtained from any reputable pricing service, broker or dealer, and (iii) if neither clause (i) nor clause (ii) is applicable, the Fair Market Value as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company or an Independent Financial Advisor, as applicable. The Closing Sale Price shall be determined based on regular market hours without reference to extended after hours trading or pre-market trading.
“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Collateral” means all the collateral described in the Security Documents.
“Collateral Agent” means The Bank of New York, and any successor collateral agent appointed pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
“Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Commodity Price Protection Agreement” means, in respect of a Person, any forward contract, commodity swap agreement, commodity option agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in commodity prices.
“Common Depositary” means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in global form, The Bank of New York Depository (Nominees) Limited, or registered assigns, as the Common Depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream with respect to the Notes, and any and all successors thereto appointed as depositary hereunder and having become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture.
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“Common Stock” means any stock of any class of the Company which has no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company and which is not subject to redemption by the Company. Subject to the provisions of Section 14.06, however, shares issuable on conversion of Notes shall include only shares of the class designated as common stock of the Company at the date of this Indenture (namely, the Common Stock, with no par value) or shares of any class or classes resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and which have no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company and which are not subject to redemption by the Company; provided that, if at any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class then so issuable on conversion shall be substantially in the proportion which the total number of shares of such class resulting from all such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.
“Company” means the limited liability company named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture, and, subject to the provisions of Article 5 and Section 14.06, shall include its successors and assigns and, for purposes of any provision contained herein and required by the TIA, each other obligor on the indenture securities.
“Consigning Shareholders” means Dr. Han Gengchen, Mr. Yang Yasheng, Mr. Yuan Liang, Mr. Zhao Yuping, Mr. Zhang Weidong, Mr. Chen Weicheng, Mr. Zhang Yingli and each other Person from time to time owning shares in an Operating Subsidiary.
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, the total interest expense of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries, plus, to the extent not included in such total interest expense, and to the extent Incurred by the Company or its Subsidiaries, without duplication,
(a) interest expense attributable to leases constituting part of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction and to Capital Lease Obligations,
(b) amortization of debt discount and debt issuance cost, including commitment fees,
(c) capitalized interest,
(d) non-cash interest expense,
(e) commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and banker’s acceptance financing,
(f) net costs associated with Hedging Obligations (including amortization of fees),
(g) Disqualified Stock Dividends (other than dividends payable in Capital Stock other than Disqualified Stock),
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(h) Preferred Stock Dividends (other than dividends payable in Capital Stock other than Disqualified Stock) of Subsidiaries,
(i) interest accruing on any Debt of any other Person to the extent such Debt is guaranteed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and
(j) the cash contributions to any employee stock ownership plan or similar trust, if any and to the extent such contributions are used by such plan or trust to pay interest or fees to any Person (other than the Company) in connection with Debt Incurred by such plan or trust.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income (loss) of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries; provided, however, that there shall not be included in such Consolidated Net Income:
(a) any net income (loss) of any Person (other than the Company) if such Person is not a Subsidiary of the Company, except that:
(1) subject to the exclusions contained in clauses (c), (d) and (e) below, equity of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries in the net income of any such Person for such period shall be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash distributed by such Person during such period to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend or other distribution to such Subsidiary, to the limitations contained in clause (b) below), and
(2) the equity of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries in a net loss of any such Person for such period shall be included in determining such Consolidated Net Income,
(b) any net income (loss) of any Subsidiary of the Company if such Subsidiary is subject to restrictions, directly or indirectly, on the payment of dividends or the making of distributions, directly or indirectly, to the Company, except that:
(1) subject to the exclusions contained in clauses (c), (d) and (e) below, the equity of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries in the net income of any such Subsidiary for such period shall be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash distributed by such Subsidiary during such period to the Company or another of its Subsidiaries as a dividend or other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend or other distribution to another Subsidiary of the Company, to the limitation contained in this clause), and
(2) the equity of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries in a net loss of any such Subsidiary for such period shall be included in determining such Consolidated Net Income,
(c) any gain (but not loss) realized upon the sale or other disposition of any Property of the Company or any of its consolidated Subsidiaries (including pursuant to any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) that is not sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business,
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(d) any extraordinary gain or loss, and
(e) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles.
“Consolidated Net Worth” means the total of the amounts shown on the consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the end of the most recent Fiscal Quarter of the Company ending prior to the taking of any action for the purpose of which the determination is being made, as:
(a) the par or stated value of all outstanding Capital Stock of the Company, plus
(b) paid-in capital or capital surplus relating to such Capital Stock, plus
(c) any retained earnings or earned surplus, less:
(1) any accumulated deficit, and
(2) any amounts attributable to Disqualified Stock or any equity security convertible into or exchangeable for Debt, the cost of treasury stock and the principal amount of any promissory notes receivable from the sale of Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, each item to be determined in conformity with GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Tangible Worth” means, as of any date of determination, the Consolidated Net Worth less the Intangible Assets.
“Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors who (a) was a member of the Board of Directors on the date of this Indenture or (b) was nominated for election to the Board of Directors by, or whose election was ratified with the approval of, a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of the Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election.
“Conversion Price” as of any day will equal $100,000 divided by the Conversion Rate as of such date.
“Corporate Agreements” means the contractual arrangements and agreements (including, without limitation, with respect to the consignment of equity interests, the provision of technical and consulting services and the transfer of intellectual property) between SHHL, Origin Biotechnology, the Operating Subsidiaries and such Operating Subsidiaries respective shareholders as set out in Exhibit F hereto.
“Corporate Trust Office” shall be the address of the Trustee specified in Section 15.03 hereof, or such other address as to which the Trustee may give notice to the Company.
“Credit Facilities” means, with respect to the Operating Subsidiaries, one or more debt or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders in the PRC providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables or inventory financing (including through the sale of receivables or inventory to such lenders or to special purpose, bankruptcy remote entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables or inventory) or trade letters of credit, in each case together with any Refinancings thereof by any lender or syndicate of lenders.
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“Currency Exchange Protection Agreement” means, in respect of a Person, any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, currency option or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect such Person against fluctuations in currency exchange rates.
“Custodian” means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in global form, the Person specified in Section 2.02(e) as Custodian with respect to the Notes, and any and all successors thereto appointed as custodian hereunder and having become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture.
“Debt” means, with respect to any Person on any date of determination (without duplication):
(a) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of:
(1) debt of such Person for money borrowed, and
(2) debt evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or other similar instruments for the payment of which such Person is responsible or liable;
(b) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person and all Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions entered into by such Person;
(c) all obligations of such Person representing the deferred purchase price of Property, all conditional sale obligations of such Person and all obligations of such Person under any title retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of business);
(d) all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction (other than obligations with respect to letters of credit securing obligations (other than obligations described in (a) through (c) above) entered into in the ordinary course of business of such Person to the extent such letters of credit are not drawn upon or, if and to the extent drawn upon, such drawing is reimbursed no later than the third Business Day following receipt by such Person of a demand for reimbursement following payment on the letter of credit);
(e) the amount of all obligations of such Person with respect to the Repayment of any Disqualified Stock or, with respect to any Subsidiary of such Person, any Preferred Stock (but excluding, in each case, any accrued dividends);
(f) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (a) through (e) above of other Persons and all dividends of other Persons for the payment of which, in either case, such Person is responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, including by means of any guarantee;
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(g) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (a) through (f) above of other Persons secured by any Lien on any Property of such Person (whether or not such obligation is assumed by such Person), the amount of such obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the Fair Market Value of such Property and the amount of the obligation so secured; and
(h) to the extent not otherwise included in this definition, Hedging Obligations of such Person.
The amount of Debt of any Person at any date shall be the outstanding balance, or the accreted value of such Debt in the case of Debt issued with original issue discount, at such date of all unconditional obligations as described above and the maximum liability, upon the occurrence of the contingency giving rise to the obligation, of any contingent obligations at such date. The amount of Debt represented by a Hedging Obligation shall be equal to the notional amount of such Hedging Obligation.
“Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
“Definitive Note” means a certificated Note registered in the name of the holder thereof and issued in accordance with Section 2.05 or 2.07 hereof, in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto except that such Note shall not bear the Global Note Legend and shall not have the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global Note” attached thereto.
“Disqualified Stock” means any Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable, in either case at the option of the holder thereof) or otherwise:
(a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise,
(b) is or may become redeemable or repurchaseable at the option of the holder thereof (except that any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders of such Capital Stock have the right to require the Company to repurchase such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a Change of Control or an Asset Sale shall not constitute Disqualified Stock if the terms of such Capital Stock provide that the Company may not repurchase or redeem any such Capital Stock pursuant to such provisions unless such repurchase or redemption complies with Section 4.10 hereof), in whole or in part, or
(c) is convertible or exchangeable at the option of the holder thereof for Debt or Disqualified Stock,
on or prior to, in the case of clause (a), (b) or (c), the first anniversary of the Stated Maturity of the Notes.
“Disqualified Stock Dividends” means all dividends with respect to Disqualified Stock of the Company held by Persons other than a Wholly Owned Subsidiary. The amount of any such dividend shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing such dividend by the difference between one and the maximum statutory federal and/or other applicable income tax rate (expressed as a decimal number between 1 and 0) then applicable to the Company.
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“EBITDA” means, for any period, an amount equal to, for the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries:
(a) the sum of Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus the following to the extent reducing Consolidated Net Income for such period:
(1) the provision for taxes based on income or profits or utilized in computing net loss,
(2) Consolidated Interest Expense,
(3) depreciation,
(4) amortization of intangibles, and
(5) any other non-cash items (other than any such non-cash item to the extent that it represents an accrual of, or reserve for, cash expenditures in any future period or amortization of a prepaid cash expense paid in a period prior to the period that is subject to calculation), minus
(b) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period.
Notwithstanding the foregoing clause (a), the provision for taxes and the depreciation, amortization and non-cash items of a Subsidiary of the Company shall be added to Consolidated Net Income to compute EBITDA only to the extent (and in the same proportion) that the net income of such Subsidiary was included in calculating Consolidated Net Income and only if a corresponding amount would be permitted at the date of determination to be dividended to the Company by such Subsidiary without prior approval (that has not been obtained), pursuant to the terms of its charter and all agreements, instruments, judgments, decrees, orders, statutes, rules and governmental regulations applicable to such Subsidiary or its shareholders.
“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank, S.A./N.V., and any successor thereto.
“Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as in effect from time to time.
“Ex-Dividend Time” means, with respect to any distribution on shares of Common Stock, the first date on which the shares of Common Stock trade regular way on the principal securities market on which the shares of Common Stock are then traded without the right to receive such distribution.
“Fair Market Value” means, with respect to any Property at the time of determination, the price that could be negotiated in an arm’s-length free market transaction, for cash, between a willing seller and a willing buyer, neither of whom is under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction. Fair Market Value shall be determined, except as otherwise provided,
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(a) if such Property has a Fair Market Value equal to or less than $1.0 million, by any Officer of the Company,
(b) if such Property has a Fair Market Value in excess of $1.0 million, by a majority of the Board of Directors and evidenced by a Board Resolution delivered to the Trustee, or
(c) if such Property has a Fair Market Value in excess of $5.0 million, by an Independent Financial Advisor and evidenced by a written opinion from such Independent Financial Advisor dated within 30 days of the relevant transaction delivered to the Trustee.
“Financial and Operational Trigger” means, for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, that net income for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008 shall be less than US$16,000,000 (or its equivalent in RMB, calculated at the exchange rate for conversion of US dollars into RMB quoted by the People’s Bank of China on the last Business Day of such Fiscal Quarter).
The calculation of“net income” for the purposes of this definition shall be as reported in the Company’s audited financial statements for the applicable fiscal year, and shall be made in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, after deducting “income tax expense” and the amount, if any, for minority interest that may arise, but without adding any “other comprehensive income” or any extraordinary income and without deducting any non-cash interest expense.
“Fiscal Quarter” means each of the three month periods ending on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31.
“GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on the Issue Date, including those set forth in:
(a) the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,
(b) the statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board,
(c) such other statements by such other entity as approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession, and
(d) the rules and regulations of the Commission governing the inclusion of financial statements (including pro forma financial statements) in periodic reports required to be filed pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act, including opinions and pronouncements in staff accounting bulletins and similar written statements from the accounting staff of the Commission.
All ratios and computations based on GAAP contained in this Indenture will be computed in conformity with GAAP.
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“Global Note Legend” means the legend set forth on all Global Notes issued under this Indenture.
“Global Notes” means the global Notes in the form of Exhibit A hereto issued in accordance with Article 2 hereof.
“Governmental Approval” means any authorization of or by, consent of, approval of, license from, ruling of, permit from, tariff by, rate of, certification by, exemption from, filing with (except any filing relating to the perfection of security interests), variance from, claim of, order from, judgment from, decree of, publication to or by, notice to, declaration of or with or registration by or with any Governmental Authority, whether tacit or express.
“Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, national, provincial, municipal, local, territorial or other government department, ministry (including local counterparts thereof), commission, board, agency, regulatory authority, instrumentality, judicial or administrative body, domestic or foreign.
“guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Debt of any other Person and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of such Person:
(a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Debt of such other Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreements to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take-or-pay or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise), or
(b) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part);
provided, however, that the term “guarantee” shall not include:
(1) endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business, or
(2) a contractual commitment by one Person to invest in another Person for so long as such Investment is reasonably expected to constitute a Permitted Investment under clause (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of “Permitted Investment.”
The term “guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding meaning. The term “guarantor” shall mean any Person Guarantee ing any obligation.
“Guarantee” means the Guarantee of the Notes by each of the Guarantors pursuant to Article 9 and in the form of the Guarantee attached as Exhibit B and any additional Guarantee of the Notes to be executed by any Subsidiary of the Company pursuant to Section 4.18.
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“Guarantor” means SHHL, and any other Subsidiary of the Company that becomes a Guarantor pursuant to Section 4.18 or who otherwise executes and delivers a supplemental indenture (in form satisfactory to the Trustee) to the Trustee providing for a Guarantee; provided that any Person constituting a Guarantor as described above shall cease to constitute a Guarantor when its respective Guarantee is released in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
“Hedging Obligation” of any Person means any obligation of such Person pursuant to any Interest Rate Agreement, Currency Exchange Protection Agreement, Commodity Price Protection Agreement or any other similar agreement or arrangement
“Incur” means, with respect to any Debt or other obligation of any Person, to create, issue, incur (by merger, conversion, exchange or otherwise), extend, assume, Guarantee or become liable in respect of such Debt or other obligation or the recording, as required pursuant to GAAP or otherwise, of any such Debt or obligation on the balance sheet of such Person (and “Incurrence” and “Incurred” shall have meanings correlative to the foregoing); provided, however, that a change in GAAP that results in an obligation of such Person that exists at such time, and is not theretofore classified as Debt, becoming Debt shall not be deemed an Incurrence of such Debt; and provided further, however, that any Debt or other obligations of a Person existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by merger, consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be Incurred by such Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Subsidiary.
“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented.
“Independent Financial Advisor” means an investment banking firm of international standing or any third party appraiser of international standing, provided that such firm or appraiser is not an Affiliate of the Company.
“Initial Security Documents” means (i) the Share Charge dated on or about the date hereof granted by the Company in favor of the Collateral Agent in respect of shares held in SHHL, and (ii) the Equity Pledge given by SHHL in favor of the Collateral Agent over all its equity interests in Origin Biotechnology.
“Intangible Assets” shall mean as of the date of any determination thereof the total amount of all assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries classified as goodwill, patents, trade names, trademarks, copyrights, franchises, experimental expense, organization expense, unamortized debt discount and expense, deferred assets other than prepaid insurance and prepaid taxes, the excess of cost of shares acquired over book value of related assets and such other assets as are properly classified as “intangible assets” in accordance with GAAP.
“Interest” means, when used with reference to the Notes, any interest payable under the terms of the Notes, including Additional Interest, if any.
“Interest Rate Agreement” means, for any Person, any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement or other similar agreement designed to protect against fluctuations in interest rates.
“Investment” by any Person means any direct or indirect loan (other than advances to customers in the ordinary course of business that are recorded as accounts receivable on the balance sheet of such Person), advance or other extension of credit or capital contribution (by means of transfers of cash or other Property to others or payments for Property or services for the account or use of others, or otherwise) to, or Incurrence of a Guarantee of any obligation of, or purchase or acquisition of Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidence of Debt issued by, any other Person.
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In determining the amount of any Investment made by transfer of any Property other than cash, such Property shall be valued at its Fair Market Value at the time of such Investment.
“Investor Rights Agreement” means the investor rights agreement dated the Issue Date by and among the Company, the Shareholders and Citadel Equity Fund Ltd.
“Issue Date” means July 25, 2007.
“Legal Holiday” means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the City of New York, the PRC, London, England, Hong Kong, the city in which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is located or any other place of payment on the Notes are authorized by law, regulation or executive order to remain closed.
“Leverage Ratio” means, as at any date of determination, the ratio of:
(a) the outstanding Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as at the date of determination, to
(b) aggregate EBITDA for the most recently completed four Fiscal Quarters prior to such date of determination;
(1) if:
(A) since the beginning of such period the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has Incurred any Debt that remains outstanding or Repaid any Debt, or
(B) the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Leverage Ratio is an Incurrence or Repayment of Debt,
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Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis to such Incurrence or Repayment as if such Debt was Incurred or Repaid on the first day of such period, provided that, in the event of any such Repayment of Debt, EBITDA for such period shall be calculated as if the Company or such Subsidiary had not earned any interest income actually earned during such period in respect of the funds used to Repay such Debt, and provided further that the amount of Debt Incurred under revolving credit facilities shall be deemed to be the average daily balance of such Debt during such period (or any shorter period in which such facilities are outstanding) and
(2) if:
(A) since the beginning of such period, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall have made any Asset Sale or an Investment (by merger or otherwise) in any Subsidiary of the Company (or any Person that becomes such a Subsidiary) or an acquisition of Property,
(B) the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Leverage Ratio is such an Asset Sale, Investment or acquisition, or
(C) since the beginning of such period any Person (that subsequently became a Subsidiary of the Company or was merged with or into the Company or any of its Subsidiaries since the beginning of such period) shall have made such an Asset Sale, Investment or acquisition,
EBITDA for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect to such Asset Sale, Investment or acquisition as if such Asset Sale, Investment or acquisition occurred on the first day of such period.
If any Debt bears a floating rate of interest and is being given pro forma effect, the interest expense on such Debt shall be calculated as if the base interest rate in effect for such floating rate of interest on the date of determination had been the applicable base interest rate for the entire period (taking into account any Interest Rate Agreement applicable to such Debt if such Interest Rate Agreement has a remaining term in excess of 12 months). In the event the Capital Stock of any Subsidiary of the Company is sold during the period, the Company shall be deemed, for purposes of clause (1) above, to have Repaid during such period the Debt of such Subsidiary to the extent the Company and its continuing Subsidiaries are no longer liable for such Debt after such sale.
“Lien” means, with respect to any Property of any Person, any mortgage or deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, security interest, lien, charge, easement (other than any easement not materially impairing usefulness or marketability), encumbrance, preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever on or with respect to such Property (including any Capital Lease Obligation, conditional sale or other title retention agreement having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing or any Sale and Leaseback Transaction).
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the property, business, operations, financial condition, liabilities or capitalization of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (b) the ability of any such Person to perform its payment obligations or any of its material obligations under any of the Transaction Documents to which such Person is a party, (c) the validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents, (d) the material rights and remedies of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, under any of the Transaction Documents or (e) the timely payment of any principal or premium of, or interest on, any of the Notes.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.
“Net Available Cash” from any Asset Sale means cash payments received therefrom (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise, but only as and when received, but excluding any other consideration received in the form of assumption by the acquiring Person of Debt or other obligations relating to the Property that is the subject of such Asset Sale or received in any other non-cash form), in each case net of:
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(a) all legal, title and recording tax expenses, commissions and other fees and expenses incurred, and all U.S. federal, state, national, provincial, foreign and local taxes required to be accrued as a liability under GAAP, as a consequence of such Asset Sale,
(b) all payments made on or in respect of any Debt that is secured by any Property subject to such Asset Sale, in accordance with the terms of any Lien upon such Property, or which must by its terms, or in order to obtain a necessary consent to such Asset Sale, or by applicable law, be repaid out of the proceeds from such Asset Sale,
(c) all distributions and other payments required to be made to minority interest holders in Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a result of such Asset Sale, and
(d) the deduction of appropriate amounts provided by the seller as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any liabilities associated with the Property disposed of in such Asset Sale and retained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries after such Asset Sale.
“Note Obligations” means the Notes, the Guarantees and all other obligations of any obligor under this Indenture, the Notes, the Guarantees and the Security Documents.
“Noteholder” or “holder” as applied to any Note, or other similar terms (but excluding the term “Beneficial Holder”), means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is registered on the Registrar’s books.
“Notes Purchase Agreement” means the Notes Purchase Agreement dated July 25, 2007 by and among the Company, SHHL, the Operating Subsidiaries, the Shareholders and Citadel Equity Fund Ltd.
“Notes” is defined in the preamble.
“Notice Date” means the date of mailing of the notice pursuant to Section 3.02(b).
“Obligations” means all obligations for principal, premium, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Debt.
“Officer” means, with respect to the Company, its Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”) and the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer, or the Secretary or Assistant Secretary.
“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, signed by two Officers of the Company, at least one of whom shall be the principal executive officer or principal financial officer of the Company, and which certificate meets the requirements of Section 15.05 hereof and is delivered to the Trustee.
“Operating Subsidiaries” means, as at the date of this Indenture, (i) Origin Biotechnology, (ii) Beijing Origin Seed Limited, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the PRC and (1) 34.4% of the registered capital of which is owned by Han Gengshen, (2) 28.675% of the registered capital of which is owned by Yang Yasheng, (3) 25.8% of the registered capital of which is owned by Yuan Liang, (4) 3.995% of the registered capital of which is owned by Zhao Yuping, (5) 3.13% of the registered capital of which is owned by Zhang Weidong and (6) 1.96% of the registered capital of which is owned by Chen Weicheng, (iii) Henan Origin Cotton Technology Development Limited, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the PRC and (1) 90.0% of the registered capital of which is owned by Beijing Origin Seed Limited, (2) 4.1% of the registered capital of which is owned by Zhang Yingli and (3) 3.86% of the registered capital of which is owned by Yang Yasheng, (iv) Changchun Origin Seed Technology Development Limited, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the PRC and (1) 99.0% of the registered capital of which is owned by Beijing Origin Seed Limited and (2) 1.0% of the registered capital of which is owned by Han Gengchen, (v) Denong Zhengcheng Seed Limited, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the PRC and 97.62% of the registered capital of which is owned by Beijing Origin Seed Limited and (vi) each other Person from time to time organized and existing under the laws of the PRC whose financial reporting is consolidated with the Company in any audited financial statements filed by the Company with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act.
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“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion, in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, from legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee and which meets the requirements of Section 15.05 hereof.
“Origin Biotechnology” means Beijing Origin State Harvest Biotechnology Limited, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the PRC and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SHHL.
“Outstanding”, when used with reference to Notes and subject to the provisions of Section 12.04, means, as of any particular time, all Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:
(a) Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Notes, or portions thereof, (i) for the redemption of which monies in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any paying agent (other than the Company) or (ii) which shall have been otherwise discharged in accordance with Article 11;
(c) Notes in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.06; and
(d) Notes converted into Common Stock pursuant to Article 14 and Notes deemed not outstanding pursuant to Article 3.
“Participant” means any participant in the Euroclear or Clearstream systems under the “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear” and the “General Terms and Conditions of Clearstream” respectively.
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“Permitted Holders” means Dr. Han Gengchen (PRC ID No. 110223550623143), , Mr. Yuan Liang (Hong Kong ID No. P118142(8)) and Mr. Yang Yasheng (PRC ID No. 350102630401035), and the estate, spouse, ancestors and lineal descendants of any of the foregoing, the legal representatives of any of the foregoing and the trust ees of any bona fide trusts of which the foregoing are the sole beneficiaries or the grantors, or any Person of which the foregoing Beneficially Owns, individually or collectively with any of the foregoing, at least 30% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of such Person.
“Permitted Investment” means any Investment by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in:
(a) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries engaged in a Related Business;
(b) any Person that will, upon the making of such Investment, become a Subsidiary of the Company, provided that the primary business of such Subsidiary is a Related Business;
(c) any Person if as a result of such Investment such Person is merged or consolidated with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all its Property to, the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company, provided that such Person’s primary business is a Related Business;
(d) cash and Cash Equivalents;
(e) receivables owing to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, if created or acquired in the ordinary course of business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with customary trade terms; provided, however, that such trade terms may include such concessionary trade terms as the Company or such Subsidiary deems reasonable under the circumstances;
(f) payroll, travel and similar advances to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances ultimately to be treated as expenses under GAAP and that are made in the ordinary course of business;
(g) stock, obligations or other securities received in settlement of debts created in the ordinary course of business and owing to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or in satisfaction of judgments;
(h) any Person to the extent such Investment represents the non-cash portion of the consideration received in connection with (A) an Asset Sale consummated in compliance with Section 4.12 or (B) any disposition of Property not constituting an Asset Sale;
(i) Hedging Obligations by the Company or any Guarantor that are otherwise permitted to be incurred under this Indenture, and which were entered into for financial management of interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates or commodity prices and are directly related to transactions entered into by such Person in the ordinary course of its business, and not for speculative purposes; and
(j) other Investments made for Fair Market Value that do not exceed 10% of the aggregate amount of Consolidated Net Income accrued during the period (treated as one accounting period) from the beginning of the Fiscal Quarter after the Issue Date to the end of the most recent Fiscal Quarter ending prior to the date of such Investment (or if the aggregate amount of Consolidated Net Income for such period shall be a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit).
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“Permitted Liens” means:
(a) Liens in favor of the Company or the Guarantors;
(b) Liens securing, or created for the benefit of securing, the Notes and the Guarantees;
(c) Liens securing Debt of an Operating Subsidiary under Credit Facilities, provided that any such Lien is limited to the Property of such Operating Subsidiary;
(d) leases, licenses, subleases and sublicenses of assets (including, without limitation, real property and intellectual property rights) which do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of the Subsidiaries;
(e) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or levies on the Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries if the same shall not at the time be delinquent or thereafter can be paid without penalty, or are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently concluded, provided that any reserve or other appropriate provision that shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor;
(f) Liens imposed by law, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’ Liens and other similar Liens, on the Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries arising in the ordinary course of business and securing payment of obligations that are not more than 60 days past due or are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings;
(g) Liens on the Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries Incurred in the ordinary course of business to secure performance of obligations with respect to statutory or regulatory requirements, performance or return-of-money bonds, surety bonds or other obligations of a like nature and Incurred in a manner consistent with industry practice, in each case which are not Incurred in connection with the borrowing of money, the obtaining of advances or credit or the payment of the deferred purchase price of Property and which do not in the aggregate impair in any material respect the use of Property in the operation of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole;
(h) Liens on Property at the time the Company or any of its Subsidiaries acquired such Property, including any acquisition by means of a merger or consolidation with or into the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided, however, that any such Lien may not extend to any other Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; provided further, that such Liens shall not have been Incurred in anticipation of or in connection with the transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which such Property was acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(i) Liens on the Property of a Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company; provided, however, that any such Lien may not extend to any other Property of the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company that is not a direct Subsidiary of such Person; provided further, that any such Lien was not Incurred in anticipation of or in connection with the transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which such Person became a Subsidiary of the Company;
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(j) pledges or deposits by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under workers’ compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws or similar legislation, or good faith deposits in connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Debt) or leases to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is party, or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of the Company, or deposits for the payment of rent, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(k) utility easements, building restrictions and such other encumbrances or charges against real Property as are of a nature generally existing with respect to properties of a similar character;
(l) Liens existing on the Issue Date not otherwise described in clauses (a) through (h) above;
(m) Liens on the Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to secure any Refinancing, in whole or in part, of any Debt secured by Liens referred to in clause (h), (i) or (l) above; provided, however, that any such Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same Property that secured the original Lien (together with improvements and accessions to such Property), and the aggregate principal amount of Debt (and other obligations thereunder) that is secured by such Lien shall not be increased to an amount greater than the sum of:
(1) the outstanding principal amount, or, if greater, the committed amount, of the Debt (and other obligations thereunder) secured by Liens described under clause (h), (i) or (l) above, as the case may be, at the time the original Lien became a Permitted Lien under this Indenture, and
(2) an amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses, including premiums and defeasance costs, incurred by the Company or such Subsidiary in connection with such Refinancing; and
(n) judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default so long as such Lien is adequately bonded and any appropriate legal proceedings which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment have not been finally terminated or the period within which such proceedings may be initiated has not expired.
“Permitted Refinancing Debt” means any Debt that Refinances any other Debt, including any successive Refinancings, so long as:
(a) such Debt is in an aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue discount, an aggregate issue price) not in excess of the sum of:
(1) the aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue discount, the aggregate accreted value) then outstanding of the Debt being Refinanced, and
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(2) an amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses, including premiums and defeasance costs, related to such Refinancing,
(b) the Average Life of such Debt is equal to or greater than the Average Life of the Debt being Refinanced,
(c) the Stated Maturity of such Debt is no earlier than the Stated Maturity of the Debt being Refinanced,
(d) the new Debt shall not be senior in right of payment to the Debt that is being Refinanced, and
(e) the new Debt, the proceeds of which are used to Refinance the Notes or any Debt that is pari passu with or subordinate to the Notes or a Guarantee, shall only be permitted if (A) in case the Notes are refinanced in part or the Debt to be Refinanced is pari passu with the Notes or a Guarantee, such new Debt, by its terms or by terms of any agreement or instrument pursuant to which such new Debt is outstanding, is expressly made pari passu with, or subordinate in right of payment to, the remaining Notes or such Guarantee, or (B) in case the Debt to be Refinanced is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or a Guarantee, such new Debt, by its terms or by the terms of any agreement or instrument to which such new Debt is issued or remains outstanding, is expressly made subordinate in right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantee at least to the extent that the Debt to be Refinanced is subordinated to the Notes or the Guarantee;
provided, however, that Permitted Refinancing Debt shall not include the Debt of any Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor, if such Debt is used to Refinance Debt of the Company or a Subsidiary.
“Person” means a corporation, an association, a partnership, a limited liability company, an individual, a joint venture, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a government or an agency or a political subdivision thereof.
“PRC” means the People’s Republic of China, exclusive of Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong.
“Predecessor Note” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same Debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same Debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Note.
“Preferred Stock” means any Capital Stock of a Person, however designated, which entitles the holder thereof to a preference with respect to the payment of dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such Person, over shares of any other class of Capital Stock issued by such Person.
“Preferred Stock Dividends” means all dividends with respect to Preferred Stock of the Company’s Subsidiaries held by Persons other than the Company or any of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries. The amount of any such dividend shall be equal to the quotient obtained by dividing such dividend by the difference between one and the maximum statutory federal and/or other applicable income tax rate (expressed as a decimal number between 1 and 0) then applicable to the issuer of such Preferred Stock.
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“pro forma” means, with respect to any calculation made or required to be made pursuant to the terms hereof, a calculation performed in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Act, as interpreted in good faith by the Board of Directors after consultation with the independent certified public accountants of the Company, or otherwise a calculation made in good faith by the Board of Directors after consultation with the independent certified public accountants of the Company, as the case may be.
“Property” means, with respect to any Person, any interest of such Person in any kind of property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, or tangible or intangible, including intellectual property rights and Capital Stock in, and other securities of, any other Person. For purposes of any calculation required pursuant to this Indenture, the value of any Property shall be its Fair Market Value.
“Redemption Price” means the amount calculated in accordance with the following formula, rounded (if necessary) to two decimal places with 0.005 being rounded upwards:

Redemption Price = I x (1 + r)d/360
Where: |  |
I | = | Issue price (100% of principal amount) of the Notes;
r | = | 16.0% expressed as a decimal; and
d | = | number of days from and including the Issue Date to but excluding, the date for redemption or repurchase, calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of 12 months of 30 days each, and in the case of an incomplete month, the actual number of days elapsed.

For the avoidance of doubt, if the date fixed for redemption is one of the following semi-annual dates, the Redemption Price for each US$100,000 principal amount shall be as set out in the table below in respect of such semi-annual date:

Semi-annual Date |  | Redemption Price (US$) |
January 25, 2008 |  |  | 107,703.30 |
July 25, 2008 |  |  | 116,000.00 |
January 25, 2009 |  |  | 124,935.82 |
July 25, 2009 |  |  | 134,560.00 |
January 25, 2010 |  |  | 144,925.56 |
July 25, 2010 |  |  | 156,089.60 |
January 25, 2011 |  |  | 168,113.64 |
July 25, 2011 |  |  | 181,063.94 |
January 25, 2012 |  |  | 195,011.83 |
July 25, 2012 |  |  | 210,034.17 |

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“Refinance” means, in respect of any Debt, to refinance, extend, renew, refund or Repay (in whole or in part), or to issue other Debt, in exchange or replacement for (in whole or in part), such Debt. “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.
“Registration Rights Agreement” means the registration rights agreement dated the Issue Date by and among the Company, SHHL and Citadel Equity Fund Ltd.
“Related Business” means the business of (i) developing, producing, marketing and/or distributing hybrid and other crop seeds including, without limitation, corn, rice, cotton and canola seeds and fertilizer and (ii) researching and developing transgenic technology, in the PRC or any other country, including any other activities related thereto.
“Repay” means, in respect of any Debt, to repay, prepay, repurchase, redeem, legally defease or otherwise retire such Debt. “Repayment” and “Repaid” shall have correlative meanings. For purposes of Section 4.12 and the definition of “Leverage Ratio,” Debt shall be considered to have been Repaid only to the extent the related loan commitment, if any, shall have been permanently reduced in connection therewith.
“Repurchase Amount” means, with respect to any Note, the Redemption Price plus any accrued and unpaid Interest and any other interest payable pursuant to Section 4.01 on such Note (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) and interest accrued on overdue principal (and, to the extent lawful, on overdue installments of interest) and premium, if any.
“Responsible Officer” shall mean, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.
“Restricted Payment” means:
(a) any dividend or distribution (whether made in cash, securities or other Property) declared or paid on or with respect to any shares of Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including any payment in connection with any merger or consolidation with or into the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), except for any dividend or distribution that is made solely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (and, if such Subsidiary is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, to the other shareholders of such Subsidiary on a pro rata basis or on a basis that results in the receipt by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of dividends or distributions of greater value than it would receive on a pro rata basis) or any dividend or distribution payable solely in shares of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company;
(b) the purchase, repurchase, redemption, acquisition or retirement for value of any Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than from the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) or any securities exchangeable for or convertible into any such Capital Stock, including the exercise of any option to exchange any Capital Stock (other than for or into Capital Stock of the Company that is not Disqualified Stock);
(c) the purchase, repurchase, redemption, acquisition or retirement for value, prior to the date for any scheduled maturity, sinking fund or amortization or other installment payment, of any Subordinated Obligation (other than the purchase, repurchase or other acquisition of any Subordinated Obligation purchased in anticipation of satisfying a scheduled maturity, sinking fund or amortization or other installment obligation, in each case due within one year of the date of acquisition); or
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(d) any Investment (other than Permitted Investments) in any Person.
“RMB” means the lawful currency of the PRC.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of McGraw Hill, Inc., or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.
“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any direct or indirect arrangement relating to Property now owned or hereafter acquired whereby the Company or any of its Subsidiaries transfers such Property to another Person and the Company or any of its Subsidiaries leases it from such Person.
“Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as in effect from time to time.
“Security Documents” means the Initial Security Documents executed and delivered for the benefit of the holders of Note Obligations, whenever incurred, and also for the benefit of the present and future holders of all other Note Obligations and any document perfecting such security interests, and any one or more security agreements, pledge agreements, collateral assignments, mortgages, deeds of trust or other grants or transfers for security executed and delivered by the Company or any other obligor creating a Lien upon property owned or to be acquired by the Company or such other obligor in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the holders of Note Obligations, whenever incurred, and also for the benefit of the present and future holders of all other Note Obligations and any document perfecting such security interests pursuant to the terms of Article 10 hereof.
“Senior Debt” of the Company means:
(a) all obligations consisting of the principal, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Company whether or not such post-filing interest is allowed in such proceeding) in respect of:
(1) Debt of the Company for borrowed money, and
(2) Debt of the Company evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or other similar instruments permitted under this Indenture for the payment of which the Company is responsible or liable;
(b) all Capital Lease Obligations of the Company and all Attributable Debt in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions entered into by the Company;
(c) all obligations of the Company:
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(1) for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction,
(2) under Hedging Obligations, or
(3) issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of Property and all conditional sale obligations of the Company and all obligations under any title retention agreement permitted under this Indenture; and
(d) all obligations of other Persons of the type referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c) for the payment of which the Company is responsible or liable as Guarantor;
provided, however, that Senior Debt shall not include:
(A) Debt of the Company that is by its terms subordinate in right of payment to the Notes, including any Subordinated Obligations;
(B) any Debt Incurred in violation of the provisions of this Indenture;
(C) accounts payable or any other obligations of the Company to trade creditors created or assumed by the Company in the ordinary course of business in connection with the obtaining of materials or services (including Guarantees thereof or instruments evidencing such liabilities);
(D) any liability for U.S. federal, state, national, provincial, local, foreign or other taxes owed or owing by the Company;
(E) any obligation of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries; or
(F) any obligations with respect to any Capital Stock of the Company.
To the extent that any payment of Senior Debt (whether by or on behalf of the Company as proceeds of security or enforcement or any right of setoff or otherwise) is declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be paid to a trustee, receiver or other similar party under any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law, then if such payment is recovered by, or paid over to, such trustee, receiver or other similar party, the Senior Debt or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if such payment had not occurred.
“Senior Debt” of any Guarantor has a correlative meaning.
“Shareholder Approval” means such approval as may be required by the applicable rules and regulations of the Nasdaq Global Market (or any successor entity) from shareholders of the Company with respect to the transactions contemplated under the Transaction Documents, including the issuance of all of the shares of Common Stock in excess of 19.99% of the issued and outstanding Common Stock on the Issue Date.
“Shareholders” means Dr. Han Gengshen, Mr. Yang Yasheng and Mr. Yuan Liang.
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“SHHL” means State Harvest Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company.
“Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” of the Company within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission.
“Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any installment of interest or principal on any series of Debt (including, without limitation, a scheduled repayment or a scheduled sinking fund payment), the date on which the payment of interest or principal was scheduled to be paid in the original documentation governing such Debt, and will not include any contingent obligations to repay, redeem or repurchase any such interest or principal prior to the date originally scheduled for the payment hereof.
“Subordinated Obligation” means any Debt of the Company or any Guarantor (whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter Incurred) that is subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Notes or the applicable Guarantee pursuant to a written agreement to that effect.
“Subsidiary,” (i) with respect to any Person, means (x) any corporation of which the outstanding Capital Stock having a majority of the votes entitled to be cast in the election of directors under ordinary circumstances shall at the time be owned, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, by such Person or (y) any other Person of which a majority of the voting interest under ordinary circumstances is at the time, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, owned by such Person or (ii) with respect to the Company, means each other Person whose financial reporting is consolidated with the Company in any audited financial statements filed by the Company with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act.
“Surviving Person” means the surviving Person formed by a merger, consolidation or amalgamation and, for purposes of Section 5.01, a Person to whom all or substantially all of the Property of the Company or a Guarantor is sold, transferred, assigned, leased, conveyed or otherwise disposed.
“Termination of Trading” will be deemed to have occurred if, (i) the Common Stock (or other common stock, depositary receipts, ordinary shares or other certificates representing common equity interests into which the Notes are then convertible) is neither listed for trading on a United States national securities exchange, listed for trading on a United States national or regional securities exchange nor approved for trading on any of the Nasdaq’s Capital Market, Global Market or Global Select Market, (ii) trading in the Common Stock on any such exchange or market has been suspended for more than fifteen (15) consecutive Trading Days, or (iii) a transaction or event (whether by means of an exchange offer, liquidation, tender offer, consolidation, merger, combination, reclassification, recapitalization or otherwise) occurs in connection with which all or substantially all of the Common Stock is exchanged for, converted into, or acquired for, consideration which is not all or substantially all common stock, depositary receipts, ordinary shares or other certificates representing common equity interests that are (or, upon consummation of or immediately following such transaction or event, will be) listed on a United States national securities exchange or approved (or, upon consummation of or immediately following such transaction or event, will be approved) for quotation on the Nasdaq Capital Market, Nasdaq Global Market, Nasdaq Global Select Market or any similar United States system of automated dissemination of quotations of securities prices.
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“TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided, however, that, in the event the TIA is amended after such date “TIA” or “Trust Indenture Act” means, to the extent required by any such amendments, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
“Transaction Document” means this Indenture, the Notes, the Guarantees, Notes Purchase Agreement, the Investor Rights Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement, the Security Documents, certain Non-Competition Agreements dated the Issue Date by and between the Company and each Shareholder, or any of them as the context may so require.
“Trading Day” shall mean (x) if the applicable security is quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market, Global Select Market or Capital Market, a day on which trades may be made thereon, (y) if the applicable security is listed or admitted for trading on the American Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange or another national securities exchange, a day on which the American Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange or another national securities exchange is open for business, or (z) if the applicable security is not so listed, admitted for trading or quoted, any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
“Trading Market” means the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the Nasdaq Capital Market, the American Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE Archipelago Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Market or the Nasdaq Global Select Market.
“Trading Reference VWAP” means, as of June 30 or December 31 of each year, the simple arithmetic average of the VWAPs for the thirty (30) Trading Days preceding such June 30 or December 31, as the case may be, as proportionally adjusted for any subdivision, consolidation, reclassification or similar event of the Common Stock; provided that if the actual Trading Reference VWAP be less than $5.00, the Trading Reference VWAP shall be deemed to be exactly $5.00.
“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean such successor Trustee.
“U.S. Government Securities” means direct obligations (or certificates representing an ownership interest in such obligations) of the United States of America (including any agency or instrumentality thereof) for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America are pledged and which are not callable or redeemable at the issuer’s option.
“Voting Stock” of any Person means all classes of Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) of such Person then outstanding and normally entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof.
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“VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted for trading as reported by Bloomberg Financial L.P. through its “Volume at Price” functions (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time); or (b) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted on a Trading Market and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported in the “Pink Sheets” published by Pink Sheets, LLC (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the average of the highest closing bid price and lowest closing ask price of any of the market makers for such security as reported, and in each of the foregoing clauses ignoring any block trade (which for purposes of this definition means any transfer of more than 100,000 shares). If the VWAP cannot be calculated for such security on such date on any of the foregoing bases, the VWAP of such security on such date shall be the fair market value as mutually determined by the Company and the Noteholders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding.
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” means, at any time, a Subsidiary all the Voting Stock of which (except directors’ qualifying shares) is at such time owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company and its other Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.
Section 1.02. Other Definitions.

Ter m |  | Defined in Section
“Additional Interest Notice” |  | 4.31
“Adjustment Event” |  | 14.05(n)
“Affiliate Transaction” |  | 4.14
“Allocable Excess Proceeds” |  | 4.12
“Asset Sale Offer” |  | 4.12
“Authentication Order” |  | 2.04
“Authorized Agent” |  | 15.04
“Benefited Party” |  | 9.01
“Change of Control Offer” |  | 4.17(a)
“Conversion Date” |  | 14.02
“Conversion Notice” |  | 14.02
“Conversion Rate” |  | 14.04
“Current Market Price” |  | 14.05(j)
“Determination Date” |  | 14.05(n)
“Event of Default” |  | 6.01
“Excess Proceeds” |  | 4.12
“Exchange Act Filings” |  | 4.33(a)
“Expiration Time” |  | 14.05(f)
“Future Guarantor” |  | 9.03
“Future Guarantor Pledgor” |  | 10.02(b)
“Guarantor Pledgor” |  | 10.02(b)
“Interest Payment Date” |  | 2.03
“Issuable Maximum” |  | 14.01(c)

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“Mandatory Redemption Amount” |  | 3.03
“Mandatory Redemption Date” |  | 3.03
“Non-electing share” |  | 14.06
“Offer Amount” |  | 3.02(b)
“Offer Period” |  | 3.02(c)
“Offer to Purchase” |  | 3.02(a)
“Paying Agent” |  | 4.02
“Purchase Date” |  | 3.02(c)
“Purchase Price” |  | 3.02(b)
“Purchased Shares” |  | 14.05(f)
“Record Date” |  | 14.05(j)
“Registrar” |  | 4.02
“Rule 144A Information” |  | 4.33(b)
“Securities” |  | 14.05(d)
“Security Register” |  | 4.02
“Termination of Trading Offer” |  | 4.26
“Trigger Event” |  | 14.05(d)

Section 1.03. Rules of Construction.
(a) Unless the context otherwise requires:
(i) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(ii) an accounting term not otherwise defined herein has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;
(iii) “or” is not exclusive;
(iv) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular;
(v) all references in this instrument to “Articles,” “Sections” and other subdivisions are to the designated Articles, Sections and subdivisions of this instrument as originally executed;
(vi) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
(vii) “including” means “including without limitation;”
(viii) provisions apply to successive events and transactions;
(ix) “$” means the lawful currency of the United States of America; and
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(x) references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement or successor sections or rules adopted by the Commission from time to time thereunder.
Section 1.04. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act..
This Indenture is subject to the mandatory provisions of the TIA, which are incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms have the following meanings:
“indenture securities” means the Notes.
“indenture security holder” means a Holder.
“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.
“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.
“obligor” on the indenture securities means the Company and any other obligor on the indenture securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by Commission rule have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.
ARTICLE 2
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES
Section 2.01. Designation Amount and Issue of Notes.
The Notes shall be designated as “1.0% Guaranteed Senior Secured Convertible Notes due 2012”. Notes in the initial aggregate principal amount of $40,000,000 upon the execution of this Indenture, or from time to time thereafter, may be executed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver said Notes to or upon the written order of the Company, signed by its Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”), the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or Assistant Secretary, without any further action by the Company hereunder.
Section 2.02. Form of Notes.
(a) The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A. The terms and provisions contained in the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.
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(b) Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends, endorsements or changes as the officers executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required by the Custodian, the Common Depositary or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed, or to conform to usage, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.
(c) So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Common Depositary, or unless otherwise required by law, or otherwise contemplated by Section 2.05(a), all of the Notes will be represented by one or more Notes in global form registered in the name of the Common Depositary or the nominee of the Common Depositary. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in any such Global Note shall be effected through the Common Depositary in accordance with this Indenture and the applicable procedures of the Common Depositary. Except as provided in Section 2.05(a), beneficial owners of a Global Note shall not be entitled to have certificates registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of certificates in definitive form and will not be considered holders of such Global Note.
(d) Any Global Note shall represent such of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect redemptions, repurchases, conversions, transfers, exchanges or further issuances permitted hereby. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon instructions given by the holder of such Notes in accordance with this Indenture. Payment of principal of, premium, if any, and Interest on any Global Note shall be made to the holder of such Note.
(e) This Section 2.02(e) shall apply only to Global Notes deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Common Depositary. Participants shall have no rights under this Indenture or any Global Note with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the Common Depositary or by the Trustee as custodian for the Common Depositary, and the Common Depositary shall be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Common Depositary or impair, as between the Common Depositary and Participants, the Applicable Procedures or the operation of customary practices of the Common Depositary governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Note.
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The provisions of the “Terms and Conditions Governing Use of Euroclear” and the “General Terms and Conditions of Clearstream” and “Customer Handbook” of Clearstream shall be applicable to transfers of beneficial interests in Global Notes that are held by Participants through Euroclear or Clearstream.
The Company shall exchange Global Notes for Definitive Notes if: (1) at any time either Euroclear or Clearstream or any alternative clearing agency on behalf of which the Notes evidenced by the Global Note may be held is closed for business for a continuous period of 14 days (other than reason of holidays, statutory or otherwise) or announces an intention permanently to cease business or does in fact do so, and, in either case, the Company shall not have appointed a successor Common Depositary within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, or (2) upon written request of a holder or the Trustee if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
Upon the occurrence of any of the events set forth in clauses (1) or (2) of the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company shall execute, and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section 2.04 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, Definitive Notes, in authorized denominations, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Notes in exchange for such Global Notes.
Upon the exchange of a Global Note for Definitive Notes, such Global Note shall be cancelled by the Trustee or an agent of the Company or the Trustee. Definitive Notes issued in exchange for a Global Note pursuant to this Section shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Common Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its Participants or its Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Trustee or an agent of the Company or the Trustee in writing. The Trustee or such agent shall deliver such Definitive Notes to or as directed by the Persons in whose names such Definitive Notes are so registered or to the Common Depositary.
Section 2.03. Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest.
The Notes shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $100,000 principal amount and integral multiples of US$1,000 in excess thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear Interest from the date specified on the face of the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto. Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months.
The Person in whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the Security Register at the close of business on any record date with respect to any interest payment date shall be entitled to receive the Interest payable on such interest payment date, except that the Interest payable upon redemption or repurchase will be payable to the Person to whom principal is payable pursuant to such redemption or repurchase (unless the redemption date or the repurchase date, as the case may be, falls after a record date and on or prior to the corresponding interest payment date, in which case accrued and unpaid Interest to, but excluding, such redemption date or repurchase date shall be payable on such interest payment date to the holders of such Notes registered as such on the applicable record date).
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Note (or portion thereof) is converted into Common Stock during the period after a record date for the payment of Interest to, but excluding, the next succeeding interest payment date and such Note (or portion thereof) has been called or tendered for redemption on a redemption date which occurs during such period, the Company shall not be required to pay interest on such interest payment date in respect of any such Note (or portion thereof). Interest shall be payable at the office of the Company maintained by the Company for such purposes in the City of New York, which shall initially be an office or agency of the Trustee. The Company shall pay Interest (i) on any Notes in certificated form by (x) check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it appears in the Security Register (or upon written notice, by wire transfer in immediately available funds, if such Person is entitled to Interest on aggregate principal in excess of $1 million) or (y) by transfer to an account maintained by such person in the City of New York or (ii) on any Global Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Common Depositary or its nominee. The term “record date” with respect to any interest payment date shall mean the January 11 or July 11 preceding the applicable January 25 or July 25 interest payment date (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), respectively.
Section 2.04. Execution of Notes.
The Notes shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature of its Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”) and attested by the manual or facsimile signature of its Secretary or any of its Assistant Secretaries or its Treasurer or any of its Assistant Treasurers (which may be printed, engraved or otherwise reproduced thereon, by facsimile or otherwise). Only such Notes as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth on the form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto upon a written order of the Company signed by an Officer (an “Authentication Order”), manually executed by the Trustee (or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by Section 15.10), shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon any Note executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be such officer before the Notes so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Notes had not ceased to be such officer of the Company, and any Note may be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Note, shall be the proper officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an officer.
Section 2.05. Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer.
(a) As provided herein, interests in a Global Note will be exchanged, upon 45 days’ notice by a holder of an interest in such Global Note for Definitive Notes. Each Global Note shall be deposited with the Common Depositary, which shall hold such Global Note in safe custody for the account of Euroclear and/or Clearstream and instruct Euroclear or Clearstream or both of them, as the case may be, to credit the principal amounts of the Notes represented by such Global Note to the holder’s distribution account with Euroclear or Clearstream. Each relevant Global Note shall be exchangeable in whole for an interest, equal to the principal amount of such Global Note being exchanged, for Definitive Notes in the same principal amount, upon request of Euroclear or Clearstream to the Registrar, but only upon delivery by Euroclear or Clearstream, acting on behalf of the beneficial owners of such interests, to the Registrar at its principal office in the City of New York, of certificates substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto. The delivery to the Registrar of any certificate in the form referred to above may be relied upon by the Company, the Trustee and the Registrar as conclusive evidence that related certificates have been delivered to Euroclear or Clearstream as contemplated by the terms of this Section.
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(b) In accordance with the terms of a Global Note and this Indenture, the Registrar shall deliver at the cost of the Company, upon not less than 45 days’ notice to the Registrar by Euroclear or Clearstream, the relevant Definitive Notes in exchange for interests in such Global Note. For this purpose, the Registrar is authorized and it shall (A) authenticate each such Definitive Note and (B) deliver each such Definitive Note to or to the order of Euroclear or Clearstream, in exchange for interests in such Global Note. The Registrar shall promptly notify the Company upon receipt of a request for issue of Definitive Notes the aggregate principal amount of the relevant Global Note to be exchanged in connection therewith. The Company undertakes to deliver to, or to the order of, the Registrar sufficient numbers of duly executed Definitive Notes to enable the Registrar to comply with its obligations under this Section 2.05(b). Such exchange shall be made free of charge to the holder and the beneficial owners of the relevant Global Note and to the holders of the Definitive Notes issued in exchange as provided above, except that a Person receiving Definitive Notes must bear the cost of insurance, postage, transportation and the like in the event that such Person does not receive such Definitive Notes in person at the offices of a Registrar. Notwithstanding the above, interests in a Global Note shall be exchangeable in whole (but not in part) at the cost of the Company for Definitive Notes under the conditions described in Section 2.02(e).
(c) Upon any exchange of an interest in a Global Note for Definitive Notes, the relevant Global Note shall be endorsed by the Trustee or the Registrar to reflect the reduction of its principal amount by the aggregate principal amount so exchanged. Until exchanged in full, the holder of any interest in any Global Note shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Definitive Notes authenticated and delivered hereunder. Once exchanged in full, a Global Note shall be canceled and disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary procedures and a certificate of disposition will be sent to the Company, upon the Company’s written request.
(d) The Trustee or the Registrar shall cause all Global Notes and Definitive Notes delivered to it and held by it hereunder to be maintained in safe custody in accordance with this Section.
(e) The Security Register shall be in written form in the English language and shall include a record of the certificate number of each Note that has been issued, and shall show the amount of such Notes, the date of issue, all subsequent transfers and changes in ownership in respect thereof and the names, tax identifying numbers (if relevant to a specific holder), addresses of the holders of the Notes and any payment instructions with respect thereto (if different from a holder’s registered address).
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(f) The Registrar shall at all reasonable times during office hours make the Security Register available to the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Company and the holders of such Notes or any person authorized by the Company in writing for inspection and for taking of copies thereof or extracts therefrom, and at the expense of the Company, the Registrar shall deliver to such persons all lists of holders of such Notes, their addresses, amounts of such holdings and other details as they may request.
(g) The Registrar shall handle all requests for the registration of transfer, or exchange, repurchase or conversion, of Notes and receive certificates for the Notes deposited with the transfer agent for transfer, or exchange, repurchase or conversion, and in doing so, shall ensure that every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer, or exchange, repurchase or conversion, (if so required by the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer (in form satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar) duly executed by the holder thereof or by such holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(h) Neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of (a) any Notes or portions thereof surrendered for conversion pursuant to Article 14 or (b) any Notes or portions thereof tendered for purchase pursuant to Section 3.02 (and not withdrawn).
(i) Until the expiration of the holding period applicable to sales thereof under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act (or any successor provision), any certificate evidencing such Note (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof, other than Common Stock, if any, issued upon conversion thereof, which shall bear the legend set forth in Exhibit D, if applicable) shall bear a legend set forth in Exhibit A, unless such Note has been sold pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act (and which continues to be effective at the time of such transfer) or pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any similar provision then in force, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, with written notice thereof to the Trustee.
(j) Any stock certificate representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of such Note shall bear a legend substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
(k) The Trustee and the Registrar shall be entitled to treat a telephone, telex or facsimile communication from a person purporting to be (and who the Trustee or the Registrar believe in good faith to be) the authorized representative of the Company, named in a list furnished to the Trustee and the Registrar from time to time, as sufficient instructions and authority of the Company for the Trustee and the Registrar to act in accordance with this Section.
(l) Title to the Notes shall pass by delivery. However, title to Notes issued in the form of Global Notes held through Euroclear and Clearstream shall be transferable only in accordance with the rules and procedures of Euroclear and Clearstream, as appropriate.
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Section 2.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.
In case any Note shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in its discretion may execute, and upon its written request the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, a new Note, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case, the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
Following receipt by the Trustee or such authenticating agent, as the case may be, of satisfactory security or indemnity and evidence, as described in the preceding paragraph, the Trustee or such authenticating agent may authenticate any such substituted Note and make available for delivery such Note. Upon the issuance of any substituted Note, the Company or the Trustee, as the case may be, may require the payment by the holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses connected therewith. In case any Note which has matured or is about to mature or has been called for redemption or has been tendered for repurchase upon a Termination of Trading (and not withdrawn) or is to be converted into Common Stock shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, instead of issuing a substitute Note, pay or authorize the payment of or convert or authorize the conversion of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the case may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or in connection with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company, the Trustee and, if applicable, any paying agent or conversion agent evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any Note is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. If, after the delivery of such replacement Note, a protected purchaser of the original Note in lieu of which such replacement Note was issued presents for payment, registration or conversion of such original Note, the Trustee shall be entitled to recover such replacement Note from the Person to whom it was delivered or any Person taking therefrom, except a protected purchaser, and shall be entitled to recover upon the security or indemnity provided therefor to the extent of any loss, damage, cost or expense incurred by the Company, the Trustee and any authenticating agent in connection therewith.
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Section 2.07. Temporary Notes.
Pending the preparation of Notes in certificated form, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon the written request of the Company, authenticate and deliver temporary Notes (printed or lithographed). Temporary Notes shall be issuable in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the Notes in certificated form, but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Notes, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Note shall be executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or such authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Notes in certificated form. Without unreasonable delay, the Company will execute and deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent Notes in certificated form and thereupon any or all temporary Notes may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02 and the Trustee or such authenticating agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange for such temporary Notes an equal aggregate principal amount of Notes in certificated form. Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Notes in certificated form authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 2.08. Cancellation of Notes.
All Notes surrendered for the purpose of payment, redemption, repurchase, conversion, exchange or registration of transfer shall, if surrendered to the Company or any paying agent or any Registrar or any conversion agent, be surrendered to the Trustee and promptly canceled by it, or, if surrendered to the Trustee, shall be promptly canceled by it, and no Notes shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose of such canceled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures. If the Company shall acquire any of the Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption, repurchase or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
Section 2.09. Defaulted Interest.
If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, it shall pay the defaulted interest in any lawful manner plus, to the extent lawful, interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the Persons who are holders on a subsequent special record date, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes and in Section 4.01 hereof. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of defaulted interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment. The Company shall fix or cause to be fixed each such special record date and payment date; provided that no such special record date shall be less than 10 days prior to the related Interest Payment Date for such defaulted interest. At least 15 days before the special record date, the Company (or, upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company) shall mail or cause to be mailed to holders a notice that states the special record date, the related Interest Payment Date and the amount of such interest to be paid.
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Section 2.10. ISIN Numbers.
The Company in issuing the Notes may use ISIN numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use ISIN numbers in notices of redemption or repurchases as a convenience to Noteholders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption or a repurchase and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption or repurchase shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the ISIN numbers.
Section 2.11. Holder Lists.
The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of the holders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall cause to be furnished to the Trustee at least semiannually on January 11 and July 11 of each year a listing of holders dated within ten days of the date on which the list is furnished and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list, in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of holders.
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION AND REPURCHASE OF NOTES
Section 3.01. Redemption at Maturity.
Unless previously redeemed or converted or purchased and cancelled in accordance with this Indenture, the Company shall redeem the Notes at the Repurchase Amount on July 25, 2012.
The Notes may not be redeemed at the election of the Company, in whole or in part at any time prior to July 25, 2012.
Section 3.02. Offer to Purchase.
(a) In the event that, pursuant to Section 4.12, Section 4.17 or Section 4.25 hereof, the Company shall be required to commence an Asset Sale Offer, a Change of Control Offer or a Termination of Trading Offer (each of the foregoing, an “Offer to Purchase”), respectively, it shall follow the procedures specified below.
(b) The Company shall commence the Offer to Purchase by sending, by first-class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, to each holder at such holder’s address appearing in the Security Register, a notice the terms of which shall govern the Offer to Purchase stating:
(i) that the Offer to Purchase is being made pursuant to this Section and Section 4.12, Section 4.17 or Section 4.25, as the case may be, and, in the case of a Change of Control Offer or Termination of Trading Offer, that such event has occurred, the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such event and that a Change of Control Offer or Termination of Trading Offer is being made pursuant to Section 4.17 or Section 4.25, respectively;
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(ii) the principal amount of Notes required to be purchased pursuant to Section 4.12, Section 4.17 or Section 4.25, as the case may be (the “Offer Amount”), the purchase price set forth in Section 4.12, Section 4.17 or Section 4.25, as applicable (the “Purchase Price”), the Offer Period and the Purchase Date (each as defined below);
(iii) except as provided in clause (ix), that all Notes timely tendered and not withdrawn shall be accepted for payment;
(iv) that any Note not tendered or accepted for payment shall continue to accrue interest;
(v) that, unless the Company defaults in making such payment, any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Offer to Purchase shall cease to accrue interest after the Purchase Date;
(vi) that holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to an Offer to Purchase may elect to have Notes purchased in integral multiples of $100,000 only;
(vii) that holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Offer to Purchase shall be required to surrender the Note, with the form entitled “Purchase Notice” on the reverse of the Note completed, or transfer by book-entry transfer, to the Company, the Common Depositary, if appointed by the Company, or a Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice before the close of business on the third Business Day before the Purchase Date;
(viii) that holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Company, the Common Depositary or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives, not later than the expiration of the Offer Period, a telegram, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the holder, the principal amount of the Note (or portions thereof) the holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such holder is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased;
(ix) that, in the case of an Asset Sale Offer, if the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by holders exceeds the Offer Amount, the Company shall select the Notes to be purchased on a pro rata basis (with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Company so that only Notes in denominations of $100,000 or integral multiples thereof shall be purchased);
(x) that holders whose Notes were purchased in part shall be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered (or transferred by book-entry transfer); and
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(xi) any other procedures the holders must follow in order to tender their Notes (or portions thereof) for payment and the procedures that holders must follow in order to withdraw an election to tender Notes (or portions thereof) for payment.
(c) The Offer to Purchase shall remain open for a period of at least 30 days but no more than 60 days following its commencement, except to the extent that a longer period is required by applicable law (the “Offer Period”). No later than five (5) Business Days (and in any event no later than the 60th day following any Change of Control or Termination of Trading) after the termination of the Offer Period (the “Purchase Date”), the Company shall purchase the Offer Amount or, if less than the Offer Amount has been tendered, all Notes tendered in response to the Offer to Purchase. Payment for any Notes so purchased shall be made in the same manner as interest payments are made. The Company shall publicly announce the results of the Offer to Purchase on the Purchase Date.
(d) On or prior to the Purchase Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:
(i) accept for payment (on a pro rata basis to the extent necessary in connection with an Asset Sale Offer) from each tendering holder, the Offer Amount of Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Offer to Purchase, or if less than the Offer Amount has been tendered, all Notes tendered; and
(ii) surrender to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted to be cancelled by the Trustee in accordance Section 2.08 hereof, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being purchased by the Company and that such Notes or portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Company in accordance with the terms of this Section.
(e) Upon receipt of the Notes in accordance with Section 3.02(d)(i), the Company shall promptly, and in any event within one (1) Business Day after the Purchase Date, deliver to each tendering holder the Purchase Price. In the event that any portion of the Notes surrendered is not purchased by the Company, the Company shall promptly execute and issue a new Note in a principal amount equal to such unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered, and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order in accordance with Section 2.04 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) such new Note to such holder, in a principal amount equal to any unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered; provided, however, that each such new Note shall be in a principal amount of $100,000 or an integral multiple of US$1,000 in excess thereof. Any Note not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the holder thereof.
(f) If the Purchase Date is on or after a record date for the payment of interest and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, any accrued and unpaid Interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of business on such record date for the payment of interest, and no further Interest shall be payable to holders who tender Notes pursuant to the Offer to Purchase.
(g) The Company shall comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the Offer to Purchase. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with Section 4.12, Section 4.17 or Section 4.25, as applicable, this Section or other provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall comply with applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under Section 4.12, Section 4.17 or Section 4.25, as applicable, this Section or such other provision by virtue of such compliance.
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Section 3.03. Mandatory Redemption upon reset.
In the event that, as at June 30 or December 31 of any year, commencing with December 31, 2008 (such date, a “Mandatory Redemption Date”), the Conversion Rate is adjusted so that each $100,000 principal amount of the Notes shall be convertible into more than 11, 738 shares of Common Stock, the Company shall be required to redeem on a pro rata basis at the Redemption Price, Notes with an aggregate principal amount (“Mandatory Redemption Amount”) calculated in accordance with the following formula, rounded upwards (if necessary) to the nearest $100,000:
Mandatory Redemption Amount = A - (M x C)
Where:

| A | = | aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding on such Mandatory Redemption Date

| M | = | 4,692,234

| C | = | the Conversion Price on such Mandatory Redemption Date

provided the applicable Conversion Rate is greater than the Conversion Rate applicable on the immediately preceding Mandatory Redemption Date, if any.
The Redemption Price in respect of any Mandatory Redemption Amount shall be paid in full to Noteholders by the Company within three (3) months of the relevant Mandatory Redemption Date.
ARTICLE 4
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
Section 4.01. Payment of Principal and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of (including the purchase price upon an Offer to Purchase or the repurchase price upon repurchase, in each case pursuant to Article 3) and Interest, on each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Notes.
The Company shall pay, from time to time on demand, interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) accrued on overdue principal and premium, if any, at a rate that is 5% per annum in excess of the rate then in effect from the due date and ending on the date immediately preceding the related Interest Payment Date; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods), from time to time on demand at the same rate to the extent lawful.
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Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Section 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain an office or agency in the City of New York, where the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (“Registrar”) or for presentation for payment or for conversion, redemption or repurchase (“Paying Agent”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Registrar shall keep a register (the “Security Register”) of the Notes and of their registration of transfer and exchange. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency not designated or appointed by the Trustee. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office.
The Company may also from time to time designate co-registrars and one or more offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations. The Company will give prompt written notice of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as paying agent, Registrar, Custodian and conversion agent and each of the Corporate Trust Office and the office of agency of the Trustee in City of New York, shall be considered as one such office or agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid purposes. The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar, paying agent or co-registrar not a party to this Indenture, which shall incorporate the terms of the TIA.
So long as the Trustee is the Registrar, the Trustee agrees to mail, or cause to be mailed, the notices set forth in Section 7.08(a) and the third paragraph of Section 7.09. If co-registrars have been appointed in accordance with this Section, the Trustee shall mail such notices only to the Company and the holders of Notes it can identify from its records.
Section 4.03. Provisions as to Paying Agent.
(a) If the Company shall appoint a paying agent other than the Trustee, or if the Trustee shall appoint such a paying agent, the Company will cause such paying agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument incorporating the terms of the TIA and in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section:
(i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of or Interest on the Notes (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any other obligor on the Notes) in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Notes;
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(ii) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the Company (or by any other obligor on the Notes) to make any payment of the principal of or Interest on the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and
(iii) that at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust.
The Company shall, on the Business Day prior to each due date of the principal or Interest on the Notes, deposit with the paying agent a sum (in funds which are immediately available on the due date for such payment) sufficient to pay such principal or Interest, and (unless such paying agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action; provided that if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit shall be received by the paying agent by 10:00 a.m. New York City time, on such date.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own paying agent, it will, on the Business Day prior to each due date of the principal of or Interest on the Notes, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal or Interest so becoming due and will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company (or any other obligor under the Notes) to make any payment of the principal of or Interest on the Notes when the same shall become due and payable.
(c) Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or any paying agent hereunder as required by this Section, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained and upon such payment by the Company or any paying agent to the Trustee, the Company or such paying agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such sums.
(d) Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is subject to Sections 11.03 and 11.04.
The Trustee shall not be responsible for the actions of any other paying agents (including the Company if acting as its own paying agent) and shall have no control of any funds held by such other paying agents.
Section 4.04. Existence.
Subject to Article 5, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence and rights (charter and statutory); provided that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right if the Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Noteholders.
Section 4.05. Maintenance of Properties.
The Company will use its best endeavors to cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of its business or the business of any Significant Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order, fair wear and tear excepted, and supplied with all necessary equipment and will use its best endeavors to cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of its business or the business of any subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Noteholders.
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Section 4.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Company will pay or discharge, or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same may become delinquent, (i) all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Significant Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary, (ii) all claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien or charge upon the property of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary and (iii) all stamp taxes and other duties, if any, which may be imposed by the United States or any political subdivision thereof or therein, or which may be imposed under the laws of any other applicable jurisdiction, in connection with the issuance, transfer, exchange, conversion, redemption or repurchase of any Notes or with respect to this Indenture; provided that, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim (A) if the failure to do so will not, in the aggregate, have a material adverse impact on the Company, or (B) if the amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.
Section 4.07. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal of or Interest on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 4.08. Payments for Consent.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to or for the benefit of any holder for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or provisions of this Indenture or the Notes unless such consideration is offered to be paid and is paid to all holders that consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth in the solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or agreement.
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Section 4.09. Incurrence of Additional Debt; Financial Covenants.
(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, Incur, directly or indirectly, any Debt unless, after giving effect to the application of the proceeds thereof, no Default or Event of Default would occur as a consequence of such Incurrence or be continuing following such Incurrence.
(b) The Company shall maintain a Leverage Ratio, as determined as of the last day of each Fiscal Quarter, for the four Fiscal Quarters ending on such day, not exceeding (x) 6.30 to 1.00 from the Issue Date through September 30, 2007, (y) 5.00 to 1.00 from October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2008 and (z) 3.50 to 1.00 thereafter.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section,
(i) the Company shall not, and shall not permit any Guarantor to, Incur any Debt pursuant to this covenant if the proceeds thereof are used, directly or indirectly, to Refinance any Subordinated Obligations unless such Debt shall be subordinated to the Notes or the applicable Guarantee, as the case may be, to at least the same extent as such Subordinated Debt;
(ii) the Company shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries that is not a Guarantor to Incur any Debt pursuant to this covenant if the proceeds thereof are sed, directly or indirectly, to Refinance any Debt of the Company or any Guarantor; and
(iii) accrual of interest, accretion or amortization of original issue discount and the payment of interest or dividends in the form of additional Debt, will be deemed not to be an Incurrence of Debt for purposes of this Section.
Section 4.10. Restricted Payments.
The Company shall not make, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment if at the time of, and after giving effect to, such proposed Restricted Payment,
(a) a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, or
(b) the Company could not Incur at least $1.00 of additional Debt in compliance with Section 4.09, or
(c) the aggregate amount of such Restricted Payment and all other Restricted Payments declared or made since the Issue Date (the amount of any Restricted Payment, if made other than in cash, to be based upon Fair Market Value at the time of such Restricted Payment) would exceed an amount equal to the sum of:
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(1) 10% of the aggregate amount of Consolidated Net Income accrued during the period (treated as one accounting period) from the beginning of the Fiscal Quarter after the Issue Date to the end of the most recent Fiscal Quarter ending prior to the date of such Restricted Payment (or if the aggregate amount of Consolidated Net Income for such period shall be a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit), plus
(2) 100% of the Capital Stock Sale Proceeds, plus
(3) the sum of:
(A) the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the Company or any Guarantor from the issuance or sale after the Issue Date of convertible or exchangeable Debt that has been converted into or exchanged for Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company, and
(B) the aggregate amount by which Debt (other than Subordinated Obligations) of the Company or any Guarantor is reduced on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet on or after the Issue Date upon the conversion or exchange of any Debt issued or sold on or prior to the Issue Date that is convertible or exchangeable for Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company,
excluding, in the case of clause (A) or (B):
(x) any such Debt issued or sold to the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any such Subsidiary for the benefit of their employees, and
(y) the aggregate amount of any cash or other Property distributed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries upon any such conversion or exchange, plus
(4) an amount equal to the net reduction in Investments in any Person other than the Company or any of its Subsidiaries resulting from dividends, repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of Property, in each case to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from such Person.
Notwithstanding the foregoing limitation, the Company may:
(a) pay dividends on its Capital Stock within 60 days of the declaration thereof if, on the declaration date, such dividends could have been paid in compliance with the Indenture; provided, however, that at the time of such payment of such dividend, no other Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or result therefrom); provided further, however, that such dividend shall be included in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments;
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(b) purchase, repurchase, redeem, legally defease, acquire or retire for value Capital Stock of t h e Company or Subordinated Obligations in exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Capital Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock and other than Capital Stock issued or sold to a Subsidiary of the Company or an employee stock ownership plan or trust established by the Company or any such Subsidiary for the benefit of their employees); provided, however, that
(1) such purchase, repurchase, redemption, legal defeasance, acquisition or retirement shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments and
(2) the Capital Stock Sale Proceeds from such exchange or sale shall be excluded from the calculation pursuant to clause (c)(2) above; and
(c) purchase, repurchase, redeem, legally defease, acquire or retire for value any Subordinated Obligations in exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of, Permitted Refinancing Debt; provided, however, that such purchase, repurchase, redemption, legal defeasance, acquisition or retirement shall be excluded in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments.
Section 4.11. Liens.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, Incur or suffer to exist, any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of its Property (including Capital Stock of any of its Subsidiaries), whether owned at the Issue Date or thereafter acquired, or any interest therein or any income or profits therefrom, unless it has made or will make effective provision whereby the Notes or the applicable Guarantee will be secured by such Lien equally and ratably with (or, if such other Debt constitutes Subordinated Debt, prior to) all other Debt of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries secured by such Lien for so long as such other Debt is secured by such Lien.
Section 4.12. Asset Sales.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, consummate any Asset Sale unless:
(a) the Company or such Subsidiary receives consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value of the Property subject to such Asset Sale;
(b) at least 75% of the consideration paid to the Company or such Subsidiary in connection with such Asset Sale is in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents or the assumption by the purchaser of liabilities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than contingent liabilities or liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Notes or the applicable Guarantee) as a result of which the Company and its Subsidiaries are no longer obligated with respect to such liabilities;
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(c) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur as a result of such Asset Sale;
(d) the Company could Incur at least US$1.00 of Debt in compliance with Section 4.09 after giving effect to such Asset Sale; and
(e) the Company delivers an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee certifying that such Asset Sale complies with the foregoing clauses (a) to (d).
The Net Available Cash (or any portion thereof) from Asset Sales may be applied by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to the extent the Company or such Subsidiary elects (or is required by the terms of any Debt) to reinvest in Additional Assets (including by means of an Investment in Additional Assets by any Subsidiary of the Company with Net Available Cash received by the Company or another Subsidiary of the Company).
Any Net Available Cash from an Asset Sale not applied in accordance with the preceding paragraph within 120 days from the date of the receipt of such Net Available Cash shall constitute “Excess Proceeds”.
When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $5.0 million (taking into account income earned on such Excess Proceeds, if any), the Company will be required to make an offer to repurchase (the “Asset Sale Offer”) the Notes, which offer shall be in the amount of the Allocable Excess Proceeds (rounded to the nearest $100,000), on a pro rata basis according to principal amount, at the Repurchase Amount, in accordance with the procedures (including prorating in the event of oversubscription) set forth in Section 3.02. To the extent that any portion of the amount of Net Available Cash remains after compliance with the preceding sentence and provided that all holders of Notes have been given the opportunity to tender their Notes for repurchase in accordance with Section 3.02, the Company or such Subsidiary may use such remaining amount first to Repay the Credit Facilities or any other Senior Debt of the Company or any Guarantor or Debt of any Subsidiary of the Company that is not a Guarantor (excluding, in any such case, any Debt owed to the Company or an Affiliate of the Company), and only thereafter, for any purpose permitted by this Indenture, and the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset to zero.
The term “Allocable Excess Proceeds” shall mean the product of:
(a) the Excess Proceeds and
(b) a fraction,
(1) the numerator of which is the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding on the date of the Asset Sale Offer, and
(2) the denominator of which is the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding on the date of the Asset Sale Offer and the aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of other Debt of the Company outstanding on the date of the Asset Sale Offer that is pari passu in right of payment with the Notes and subject to terms and conditions in respect of Asset Sales similar in all material respects to this Section and requiring the Company to make an offer to repurchase such Debt at substantially the same time as the Asset Sale Offer.
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Section 4.13. Restrictions on Distributions from Subsidiaries.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist any consensual restriction on the right of any of its Subsidiaries to:
(a) pay dividends, in cash or otherwise, or make any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock owned by, or pay any Debt or other obligation owed, to, the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company,
(b) make any loans or advances to the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company, or
(c) transfer any of its Property to the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company.
The foregoing limitations will not apply:
(1) with respect to clauses (a), (b) and (c), to restrictions:
(A) in effect on the Issue Date (including, without limitation, restrictions pursuant to the Notes and this Indenture),
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(B) relating to Debt of any Subsidiary of the Company and existing at the time it became a Subsidiary of the Company if such restriction was not created in connection with or in anticipation of the transaction or series of transactions pursuant to which such Subsidiary became a Subsidiary of the Company or was acquired by the Company, or
(C) that result from the Refinancing of Debt Incurred pursuant to an agreement referred to in clause (1)(A) or (B) above or in clause (2)(A) or (B) below, provided such restrictions are not less favorable to the holders of Notes than those under the agreement evidencing the Debt so Refinanced, and
(2) with respect to clause (c) only, to restrictions:
(A) relating to Debt that is permitted to be Incurred and secured without also securing the Notes or the applicable Guarantee in compliance with Section 4.09 and Section 4.11 that limit the right of the debtor to dispose of the Property securing such Debt,
(B) encumbering Property at the time such Property was acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, so long as such restrictions relate solely to the Property so acquired and were not created in connection with or in anticipation of such acquisition,
(C) resulting from customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of leases or customary provisions in other agreements that restrict assignment of such agreements or rights thereunder, or
(D) customary restrictions contained in asset sale agreements limiting the transfer of such Property pending the closing of such sale.
Section 4.14. Affiliate Transactions.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, conduct any business or enter into or suffer to exist any transaction or series of transactions (including the purchase, sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or exchange of any Property or the rendering of any service) with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate of the Company (an “Affiliate Transaction”), unless:
(a) the terms of such Affiliate Transaction are:
(1) set forth in writing,
(2) in the best interest of the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, and
(3) no less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that could be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company,
(b) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value in excess of $1.0 million, the Board of Directors (including a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors) approves such Affiliate Transaction and, in its good faith judgment, believes that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clauses (a)(2) and (3) of this paragraph as evidenced by a Board Resolution promptly delivered to the Trustee, and
(c) if such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments or value in excess of $5.0 million, the Company obtains a written opinion from an Independent Financial Advisor to the effect that the consideration to be paid or received in connection with such Affiliate Transaction is fair, from a financial point of view, to the Company and its Subsidiaries.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing limitation, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may enter into or suffer to exist the following:
(a) any transaction or series of transactions between the Company and one or more of its Subsidiaries or between two or more of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, provided that no more than 5% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock (on a fully diluted basis) of any such Subsidiary is owned by an Affiliate of the Company (other than any Subsidiary of the Company);
(b) any Restricted Payment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 4.10 or any Permitted Investment;
(c) the payment of compensation (including amounts paid pursuant to employee benefit plans) for the personal services of officers, directors and employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, so long as the Board of Directors in good faith shall have approved the terms thereof and deemed the services theretofore or thereafter to be performed for such compensation to be fair consideration therefor; and
(d) loans and advances to employees made in the ordinary course of business and consistent with the past practices of the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, provided that such loans and advances do not exceed $300,000 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding; provided, however, that the Company and its Subsidiaries shall comply in all material respects with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith that would be applicable to an issuer with debt securities registered under the Securities Act relating to such loans and advances.
Section 4.15. Issuance or Sale of Capital Stock of Subsidiaries.
The Company shall not:
(a) sell, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of any shares of Capital Stock of any of its Subsidiaries, or
(b) permit any Subsidiary of the Company to, directly or indirectly, issue or sell or otherwise dispose of any shares of its Capital Stock,
other than, in the case of either (a) or (b):
(1) directors’ qualifying shares,
(2) to secure the Notes,
(3) to the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, or
(4) a disposition of 100% of the shares of Capital Stock of such Subsidiary; provided, however, that, in the case of this clause (4),
(A) such disposition is effected in compliance with Section 4.12, and
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(B) upon consummation of such disposition and execution and delivery of a supplemental indenture in form satisfactory to the Trustee, such Subsidiary shall be released from any Guarantee previously made by such Subsidiary.
Section 4.16. Maintenance of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth.
The Company shall not, on the Issue Date (after giving effect to the issuance of the Notes) or at the end of any Fiscal Quarter thereafter, permit its Consolidated Tangible Net Worth to be less than the Consolidated Tangible Net Worth Threshold. The “Consolidated Tangible Net Worth Threshold” shall be equal to $157,000,000 (or its equivalent in RMB, calculated at the exchange rate for conversion of US dollars into RMB quoted by the People’s Bank of China on the Issue Date or the last Business Day of such Fiscal Quarter, as the case may be) from the Issue Date until redemption or conversion or purchase and cancellation in full of the Notes in accordance with this Indenture.
Section 4.17. Repurchase at the Option of Holders Following a Change of Control.
(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall, within 7 days thereafter notify the Trustee and the holders of such Change of Control, and within 30 days of a Change of Control, make an offer (the “Change of Control Offer”) pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 3.02. Each holder shall have the right to accept such offer and require the Company to repurchase all or any portion (equal to $100,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of such holder’s Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer at a purchase price, in cash equal to the Repurchase Amount.
(b) The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer following a Change of Control if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and purchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer.
Section 4.18. Future Guarantors.
(a) None of the Operating Subsidiaries shall be required to execute or deliver to the Trustee any Guarantee; provided, however, that each of the Operating Subsidiaries hereby agrees, and each of the Company and SHHL hereby agrees, jointly and severally, following a change in PRC law or interpretation in PRC law by which the Operating Subsidiaries are permitted to grant a Guarantee in respect of the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture, to execute and deliver to the Trustee a Guarantee to the fullest extent permitted under then applicable laws (including the laws of the PRC) and subject to obtaining all necessary Governmental Approvals; provided, that, where Company delivers an Officer’s Certificate which references advice received from the Company’s accountants to the effect that the grant of such Guarantee would be the direct and sole cause requiring such Operating Subsidiary to separately file audited financial statements pursuant to Regulation S-X (or its equivalent or successor provision) on an ongoing basis and such Operating Subsidiary is not already filing such financial statements, the obligation of such Operating Subsidiary to grant a Guarantee pursuant to this paragraph (a) shall be suspended for so long as the grant of such Guarantee would be the direct and sole cause requiring such Operating Subsidiary to file such financial statements.
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(b) Subject to paragraph (c) below, the Company shall cause each Person that becomes a Subsidiary following the Issue Date to execute and deliver to the Trustee a Guarantee at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws (including the laws of the PRC) and subject to obtaining all necessary Governmental Approval.
(c) Paragraph (b) shall only apply to a Subsidiary incorporated in the PRC following a change in PRC law or interpretation in PRC law by which such Subsidiary is permitted to grant a Guarantee in respect of the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture, whereupon such future PRC Subsidiaries shall execute and deliver to the Trustee an equivalent Guarantee in accordance with paragraph (b) above; provided, that, where Company delivers an Officer’s Certificate which references advice received from the Company’s accountants to the effect that the grant of such Guarantee would be the direct and sole cause requiring such Subsidiary to separately file audited financial statements pursuant to Regulation S-X (or its equivalent or successor provision) on an ongoing basis and such Subsidiary is not already filing such financial statements, the obligation of such Subsidiary to grant a Guarantee pursuant to paragraph (b) above shall be suspended for so long as the grant of such Guarantee would be the direct and sole cause requiring such Operating Subsidiary to file such financial statements.
Section 4.19. Business Activities; Charter Documents.
(a) The Company shall not, and the Company shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, engage in any business other than a Related Business.
(b) The Company shall not, and the Company shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amend, alter, waive or repeal any provision of the certificate of incorporation, memorandum and articles of association or any other organizational or constitutional documents of the Company or its Subsidiaries in a way that would be adverse to the interests of the holders of the Notes.
Section 4.20. Sale and Leaseback Transactions.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction with respect to any Property unless:
(a) the Company or such Subsidiary would be entitled to:
(1) Incur Debt in an amount equal to the Attributable Debt with respect to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction in compliance with Section 4.09 and
(2) create a Lien on such Property securing such Attributable Debt without also securing the Notes or the applicable Guarantee pursuant to Section 4.11 and
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(b) such Sale and Leaseback Transaction is effected in compliance with Section 4.12.
Section 4.21. Impairment of Security Interest.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, take or omit to take any action that might or would have the result of materially impairing the security interest with respect to the Collateral for the benefit of the Trustee and the holders of the Notes, and the Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, grant to any Person other than the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Trustee, the holders of the Notes and the other beneficiaries described in the Security Documents, any interest whatsoever in any of the Collateral.
Section 4.22. Amendments to Security Documents.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amend, waive or otherwise modify, or permit or consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification, the Security Documents in any way that would be adverse to the holders of the Notes.
Section 4.23. Use of Proceeds.
The Company will not use the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes, in any amount, for any purpose other than for Capital Expenditures, acquisitions and general corporate purposes, and pending the application of all of such net proceeds in such manner, to invest the portion of such net proceeds not yet so applied in Cash Equivalents; provided that the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating to the effect that all relevant Governmental Approval has been obtained from the relevant Governmental Authority, and no violation of laws, rules, regulations or orders of any Governmental Authority by any of the Company or the Subsidiaries has occurred or will occur in connection with, or as a result of, the consummation of any such acquisition or performance of their respective obligations under the related transaction documents within 30 days after the consummation of any such acquisition.
Section 4.24. Maintenance of Insurance.
The Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, maintain the currently existing and additional insurance policies to be obtained covering the risks of the business carried on by the Company.
Section 4.25. Repurchase Upon Termination of Trading.
Upon the occurrence of a Termination of Trading, the Company shall, within 7 days thereafter notify the Trustee and the holders of such Termination of Trading, and within 30 days of a Termination of Trading, make an offer (the “Termination of Trading Offer”) pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 3.02. Each holder shall have the right to accept such offer and require the Company to repurchase all or any portion (equal to $100,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000) of such holder’s Notes pursuant to the Termination of Trading Offer at a purchase price, in cash equal to the Repurchase Amount.
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Section 4.26. Government Approvals and Licenses; Compliance with Law.
The Company shall, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to, (a) obtain and maintain in full force and effect all Governmental Approvals, authorizations, consents, permits, concessions and licenses as are necessary to engage in a Related Business, (b) preserve and maintain good and valid title to its properties and assets (including land-use rights) free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens and (c) comply with all laws, regulations, orders, judgments and decrees of any governmental body, except to the extent that failure so to obtain, maintain, preserve and comply would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (1) the business, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (2) the ability of the Company or any Guarantor to perform its obligations under the Notes, the relevant Guarantee of the Notes or this Indenture.
Section 4.27. Engage Qualified Auditing Firms.
The Company shall maintain the engagement of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. or shall appoint any one of the following accounting firms as auditor of the Company and its Subsidiaries to audit the Company’s consolidated annual financial statements and perform interim reviews of the Company’s consolidated quarterly financial statements, all in accordance with Regulation S-X: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, KPMG, BDO International, Grant Thornton International, RSM International, Baker Tilly International, Horwath International, Moores Rowland International, Moss Adams, J.H. Cohn, Crowe Chizek and Co. LLC, Plante & Moran PLLC or BKD LLP.
Section 4.28. Notes to Rank Senior.
The Notes are senior secured obligations of the Company and rank pari passu in right of payment with all existing and future debt of the Company that is not subordinated to the Notes and rank senior in right of payment to any future subordinated obligations of the Company, other than with respect to debt incurred pursuant to working capital facilities in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $25,000,000 at any time. The Guarantees are senior unsecured obligations of the Guarantors and rank pari passu in right of payment with all existing and future debt of the Guarantors that is not subordinated to the Guarantees and rank senior in right of payment to any future subordinated obligations of the Guarantors, other than with respect to debt incurred pursuant to working capital facilities in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $25,000,000 at any time.
Section 4.29. Compliance Certificate.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, a certificate signed by either the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting officer of the Company, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signer thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and the status thereof of which the signer may have knowledge.
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The Company will deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon becoming aware of (i) any default in the performance or observance of any covenant, agreement or condition contained in this Indenture, or (ii) any Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate specifying with particularity such Default or Event of Default and further stating what action the Company has taken, is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
Any notice required to be given under this Section shall be delivered to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 4.30. Additional Interest Notice.
In the event that the Company is required to pay Additional Interest to holders of Notes pursuant to the terms hereof, the Company will provide written notice (“Additional Interest Notice”) to the Trustee and the holders of the Company’s obligation to pay Additional Interest no later than fifteen (15) days prior to the proposed payment date for the Additional Interest, and the Additional Interest Notice shall set forth the amount of Additional Interest to be paid by the Company on such payment date.
Section 4.31. Reports by the Company and Provision of Information.
(a) At any time when the Company is subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, and to the extent such reports, information and documents are not available on the Commission’s EDGAR System, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 30 days after it files with the Commission copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may be rules and regulations prescribe), if any, which the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (“Exchange Act Filings”); provided, however, the Company shall not be required to deliver to the Trustee any materials for which the Company has sought and received confidential treatment by the Commission. The Company shall promptly provide written notice to the Trustee if and when it begins to make all of its Exchange Act Filings via the Commission’s EDGAR System in lieu of paper filings. Delivery of such annual reports, information and documents and other reports to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on an Officer’s Certificate).
(b) At any time when the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, upon the request of a holder of the Notes, the Company will promptly furnish or cause to be furnished Rule 144A Information to such holder, to a prospective purchaser of such Notes designated by such holder, to a beneficial owner of such Notes (as designated in writing to the Company by such holder) or to a prospective purchaser designated by such beneficial owner, as the case may be, in order to permit compliance by such holder or beneficial owner with Rule 144A in connection with the resale of such Notes by such holder or beneficial owner; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to furnish such information in connection with any request made on or after the date which is five years from the later of the Issue Date and the date such Notes (or any predecessor Notes or the Notes surrendered for conversion) was acquired from the Company or an “affiliate” of the Company within the meaning of Rule 144; and provided further, that the Company shall not be required to furnish such information at any time to a prospective purchaser located outside the United States who is not a “U.S. Person” within the meaning of Regulation S if such Securities may then be sold to such prospective purchaser in accordance with Regulation S (or any successor provision thereto). As used herein, “Rule 144A Information” means such information as is specified pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the U.S. Securities Act (or any successor provision thereto).
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Section 4.32. Corporate Agreements.
Each of SHHL, Origin Biotechnology and the Operating Subsidiaries shall, and shall procure that the Consigning Shareholders shall, (i) exercise its rights and comply with its obligations under each Corporate Agreement to which it is party and (ii) not amend or waive, assign or transfer, terminate suspend or abandon, all or any part of a Corporate Agreement such that it would have a Material Adverse Effect without the prior written consent of the Trustee (acting on the written instructions of the holders of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding).
Section 4.33. Change in Foreign Ownership Restrictions.
If, at any time following a change in PRC law regulating the foreign ownership of entities engaged in a Related Business, any Capital Stock of an Operating Subsidiary (other than Origin Biotechnology) may be legally transferred to SHHL then SHHL shall, and shall procure that each relevant Consigning Shareholder and Operating Subsidiary shall, take all such action and do all such things to effect, to the fullest extent permitted by PRC law, the transfer of such Capital Stock to SHHL.
ARTICLE 5
SUCCESSORS
Section 5.01. Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets.
(a) The Company shall not merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or into any other Person (other than a merger of a Wholly Owned Subsidiary into the Company) or sell, transfer, assign, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its Property in any one transaction or series of transactions unless:
(i) the Company shall be the Surviving Person in such merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or the Surviving Person (if other than the Company) formed by such merger, consolidation or amalgamation or to which such sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or disposition is made shall be a corporation organized and existing under BVI laws;
(ii) the Surviving Person (if other than the Company) expressly assumes, by supplemental indenture in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such Surviving Person, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, all the Notes, according to their tenor, and the due and punctual performance and observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company;
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(iii) in the case of a sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all the Property of the Company, such Property shall have been transferred as an entirety or virtually as an entirety to one Person;
(iv) immediately before and after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions on a pro forma basis (and treating, for purposes of this clause (iv) and clause (v) below, any Debt that becomes, or is anticipated to become, an obligation of the Surviving Person or any Subsidiary of the Company as a result of such transaction or series of transactions as having been Incurred by the Surviving Person or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction or series of transactions), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(v) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions on a pro forma basis, the Surviving Person shall have a Consolidated Net Worth in an amount which is not less than the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company immediately prior to such transaction or series of transactions;
(vi) the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such transaction or series of transactions and the supplemental indenture, if any, in respect thereto comply with this covenant and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction or series of transactions have been satisfied; and
(vii) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal and/or other applicable income tax purposes as a result of such transaction and will be subject to United States federal and/or other applicable income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such transaction had not occurred.
The foregoing provisions (other than clause (iv)) shall not apply to any transaction or series of transactions which constitute an Asset Sale if the Company has complied with Section 4.12.
(b) The Company shall not permit any Guarantor to merge, consolidate or amalgamate with or into any other Person (other than a merger of a Wholly Owned Subsidiary into the Company or such Guarantor) or sell, transfer, assign, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all its Property in any one transaction or series of transactions unless:
(i) the Surviving Person (if other than such Guarantor) expressly assumes, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, by supplemental indenture in form satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee by such Surviving Person, the due and punctual performance and observance of all the obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee;
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(ii) in the case of a sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all the Property of such Guarantor, such Property shall have been transferred as an entirety or virtually as an entirety to one Person;
(iii) immediately before and after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions on a pro forma basis (and treating, for purposes of this clause (iii) and clause (iv) below, any Debt that becomes, or is anticipated to become, an obligation of the Surviving Person, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction or series of transactions as having been Incurred by the Surviving Person, the Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction or series of transactions), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(iv) immediately after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions on a pro forma basis, the Company shall have a Consolidated Net Worth in an amount which is not less than the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company immediately prior to such transaction or series of transactions;
(v) the Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such transaction or series of transactions and the supplemental indenture, if any, in respect thereto comply with this covenant and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction or series of transactions have been satisfied; and
(vi) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the holders will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal and/or other applicable income tax purposes as a result of such transaction and will be subject to United States federal and/or other applicable income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such transaction had not occurred.
The foregoing provisions (other than clause (iii)) shall not apply to any transaction or series of transactions which constitute an Asset Sale if the Company has complied with Section 4.12.
Section 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted.
The Surviving Person shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of the Company or a Guarantor, as applicable, under this Indenture; provided, however, that the predecessor entity shall not be released from any of the obligations or covenants under this Indenture, including with respect to the payment of the Notes and obligations under the Guarantee, as the case may be, in the case of:
(a) a sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance or other disposition (unless such sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance or other disposition is of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, taken as a whole or, in the case of a Guarantor, such sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance or other disposition is of all or substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor to a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) a Subsidiary of the Company, or such portion of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor ceases to be a Subsidiary of the Company), or
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(b) a lease.
ARTICLE 6
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND NOTEHOLDERS ON AN EVENT OF DEFAULT
Section 6.01. Events of Default.
In case one or more of the following Events of Default (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body) shall have occurred and be continuing:
(a) default in the payment of any installment of Interest upon any of the Notes as and when the same shall become due and payable and continuance of such default for a period of thirty (30) days; or
(b) default in the payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, on, any of the Notes as and when the same shall become due and payable either at maturity or in connection with any redemption, repurchase or otherwise, in each case pursuant to Article 3, by acceleration or otherwise, and continuance of such default for a period of thirty (30) days; or
(c) default in the Company’s obligation to provide an Offer to Purchase when required in connection with an Asset Sale, a Change of Control or Termination of Trading as provided in Section 3.02; or
(d) failure to comply with Section 5.01;
(e) failure on the part of the Company duly to observe or perform any other of the covenants or agreements on the part of the Company in the Notes or in this Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with) continued for a period of thirty (30) days after the date on which written notice of such failure, requiring the Company to remedy the same, shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee, or the Company and a Responsible Officer of the Trustee by the holders of at least twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 12.04; or
(f) the Company, any of its Significant Subsidiaries (or any group of Subsidiaries that, when taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:
(i) commences a voluntary case or gives notice of intention to make a proposal under any Bankruptcy Law;
(ii) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case or consents to its dissolution or winding up;
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(iii) consents to the appointment of a receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, liquidator, trustee or custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property;
(iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or
(v) admits in writing its inability to pay its debts as they become due or otherwise admits its insolvency; or
(g) a court of competen t jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:
(i) is for relief against the Company, any of its Significant Subsidiaries (or any group of Subsidiaries that, when taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) in an involuntary case; or
(ii) appoints a receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, liquidator, trustee or custodian of the Company, any of its Significant Subsidiaries (or any group of Subsidiaries that, when taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) for all or substantially all of the property of the Company, any of its Significant Subsidiaries (or any group of Subsidiaries that, when taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary); or
(iii) orders the liquidation of the Company, any of its Significant Subsidiaries (or any group of Subsidiaries that, when taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary);
and such order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive days;
(h) a default under any Debt by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that results in acceleration of the maturity of such Debt, or failure to pay any such Debt when due, in an aggregate amount greater than $2.0 million or its foreign currency equivalent at the time and continuance of such default for a period of thirty (30) days;
(i) any final non-appealable judgment or judgments for, the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $2.0 million (or its foreign currency equivalent at the time) that shall be rendered against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(j) any Guarantee ceases to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with the terms of such Guarantee or applicable law) or any Guarantor or a group of Guarantors that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Guarantee;
(k) any default by the Company, any other Guarantor Pledgor under the Security Documents or Future Guarantor Pledgor in any of its obligations under the Security Documents, which adversely affects the enforceability, validity, perfection or priority of the applicable Lien on the Collateral or which adversely affects the condition or value of the Collateral, taken as a whole, in any material respect; the security interest under the Security Documents shall, at any time, cease to be in full force and effect for any reason other than the satisfaction in full of all obligations under the Indenture and discharge of the Indenture or any security interest created thereunder shall be declared invalid or unenforceable or the Company or any Guarantor shall assert, in any pleading in any court of competent jurisdiction, that any such security interest is invalid or unenforceable;
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(l) the Company or any Future Guarantor Pledgor denies or disaffirms its obligations under any Security Document or, other than in accordance with this Indenture and the Security Documents, any Security Document ceases to be or is not in full force and effect or the Collateral Agent ceases to have a first priority interest in the Collateral;
(m) the Company or the Operating Subsidiaries amends or modifies their respective constitutive documents in such a manner that would have a Material Adverse Effect or engages any business other than a Related Business;
(n) the Indenture, the Notes, any Guarantee or any loan made directly or indirectly from the Company to the Operating Subsidiaries or any Security Document, shall be (A) declared by any Governmental Authority to be illegal or unenforceable or (B) terminated prior to its scheduled termination date;
(o) (i) the confiscation, expropriation or nationalization by any Governmental Authority of any Property of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (ii) if such revocation or repudiation could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the revocation or repudiation by any Governmental Authority of any previously granted Governmental Approval to the Operating Subsidiaries that is material to the operation of the Related Business; or (iii) the imposition or introduction of material and discriminatory taxes, tariffs, royalties, customs or excise duties imposed on the Operating Subsidiaries, or the material and discriminatory withdrawal or suspension of material privileges or specifically granted material rights of a fiscal nature;
(p) failure by the Company or any Affiliate thereof (other than any Person who is an Affiliate solely because such Person is a holder of Notes) to cure any non-compliance with any of the agreements in the Investor Rights Agreement or the Registration Rights Agreement within 30 days after written notice from the other party (or parties) to such agreements demanding the cure of such non-compliance if such failure continues for 30 days after written notice is given to the Company by the Trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding specifying the default, demanding that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default,”
(q) (i) any party to a Corporate Agreement fails to duly observe or perform its obligations under any Corporate Agreement and such non-performance would have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) any Corporate Agreement (A) is declared by any Governmental Authority to be illegal or unenforceable or (B) is terminated prior to its scheduled termination date,
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then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or 6.01(g)), unless the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the holders of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding hereunder determined in accordance with Section 12.04, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Noteholders), may declare the principal of all the Notes, the Interest accrued thereon to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall be immediately due and payable, anything in this Indenture or in the Notes contained to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or 6.01(g) occurs, the principal of all the Notes and the Interest accrued thereon shall be immediately and automatically due and payable without necessity of further action.
This provision, however, is subject to the conditions that if, at any time after the principal of the Notes shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, (i) the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of Interest upon all Notes and the principal of any and all Notes which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on overdue installments of Interest (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) and on such principal at the rate borne by the Notes, to the date of such payment or deposit) and amounts due to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.06, (ii) if any and all defaults under this Indenture, other than the nonpayment of principal of and accrued Interest on Notes which shall have become due by acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to Section 6.07, then and in every such case the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all Defaults or Events of Default and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences; but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent thereon. The Company shall notify in writing a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, promptly upon becoming aware thereof, of any Event of Default.
In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of such waiver or rescission and annulment or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the holders of Notes, and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the holders of Notes, and the Trustee shall continue as though no such proceeding had been taken.
Section 6.02. Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor.
The Company covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the payment of any installment of Interest upon any of the Notes as and when the same shall become due and payable, and such default shall have continued for a period of thirty (30) days, or (b) in case default shall be made in the payment of the principal of any of the Notes as and when the same shall have become due and payable, whether at maturity of the Notes or in connection with any redemption or repurchase, by or under this Indenture by declaration or otherwise, then, upon demand of the Trustee, the Company will pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, the whole amount that then shall have become due and payable on all such Notes for principal or Interest, as the case may be, with interest upon the overdue principal and (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) upon the overdue installments of Interest at the rate borne by the Notes, plus 1% and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06. Until such demand by the Trustee, the Company may pay the principal of and Interest on the Notes to the registered holders, whether or not the Notes are overdue.
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In case the Company shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any actions or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Company or any other obligor on the Notes and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes wherever situated the monies adjudged or decreed to be payable.
In case there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes under any Bankruptcy Law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the case of any other judicial proceedings relative to the Company or such other obligor upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and Interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and of the Noteholders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on the Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of any amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06, and to take any other action with respect to such claims, including participating as a member of any official committee of creditors, as it reasonably deems necessary or advisable, and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Noteholders to make such payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Noteholders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements, including counsel fees and expenses incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies, securities and other property which the holders of the Notes may be entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
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All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the holders of the Notes.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any holders of the Notes parties to any such proceedings.
Section 6.03. Application of Monies Collected by Trustee.
Any monies or property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the order following, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies or property, upon presentation of the several Notes and either (i) stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, or (ii) upon surrender thereof, if fully paid.
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.06 in connection with the Trustee’s performance of its duties under this Indenture, the Security Documents or the Notes, including the collection or distribution of such amounts held or realized or in connection with expenses incurred in enforcing its remedies under the Security Documents and preserving the Collateral and all amounts for which the Trustee is entitled to indemnification under the Security Documents;
SECOND: In case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of Interest on the Notes in default in the order of the maturity of the installments of such Interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of Interest at the rate specified in the Notes, such payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto;
THIRD: In case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid to the payment of the whole amount then owing and unpaid upon the Notes for principal and Interest, with Interest on the overdue principal and (to the extent that such Interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon overdue installments of Interest at the rate specified in the Notes, and in case such monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and unpaid upon the Notes, then to the payment of such principal and Interest without preference or priority of principal over Interest, or of Interest over principal, or of any installment of Interest over any other installment of Interest, or of any Note over any other Note, ratably to the aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid Interest; and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or the Guarantors or to whomever may be lawfully entitled thereto.
Section 6.04. Proceedings by Noteholder.
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No holder of any Note shall have any right by virtue of or by reference to any provision of this Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless (a) such holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, (b) the holders of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall have offered to the Trustee such security or indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Trustee for sixty (60) days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.07; it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and holder of every Note with every other taker and holder and the Trustee, that no one or more holders of Notes shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by reference to any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other holder of Notes, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all holders of Notes (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section each and every Noteholder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note, the right of any holder of any Note to receive payment of the principal of (including the purchase price upon an Offer to Purchase or the repurchase price, in each case pursuant to Article 3) and accrued Interest on such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such Note or in the event of an Offer to Purchase or a repurchase, as the case may be, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates against the Company shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such holder.
Anything in this Indenture or the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding, the holder of any Note, without the consent of either the Trustee or the holder of any other Note, in its own behalf and for its own benefit, may enforce, and may institute and maintain any proceeding suitable to enforce, its rights of conversion as provided herein.
Section 6.05. Proceedings by Trustee.
In case of an Event of Default, the Trustee may, in its discretion, proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as are necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
Section 6.06. Remedies Cumulative and Continuing.
Except as provided in Section 2.06, all powers and remedies given by this Article to the Trustee or to the Noteholders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the holders of the Notes, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any holder of any of the Notes to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Default or Event of Default occurring and continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such default or any acquiescence therein, and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.04, every power and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Noteholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Noteholders.
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Section 6.07. Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders of the Notes.
The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 12.04 shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee; provided that (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, (b) the Trustee may take any other action which is not inconsistent with such direction, (c) the Trustee may decline to take any action that would benefit some Noteholder to the detriment of other Noteholders and (d) the Trustee may decline to take any action that would involve the Trustee in personal liability. Subject to Section 6.01, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 12.04 may, on behalf of the holders of all of the Notes, waive any past Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except (i) a default in the payment of Interest on, or the principal of, the Notes, (ii) a failure by the Company to convert any Notes into Common Stock, (iii) a default in the payment of the purchase price pursuant to Section 3.02, or (iv) a default in respect of a covenant or provisions hereof which under Article 8 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holders of each or all of the Notes then outstanding or affected thereby. Upon any such waiver, the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any Default or Event of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section, said Default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Notes and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. This Section 6.07 shall be in lieu of §316(a)1(B) of the TIA and such TIA §316(a)1(B) is hereby expressly excluded from this Indenture, as permitted by the TIA.
Section 6.08. Notice of Default.
If the Trustee receives notice of any Default or Event of Default from the Company, the Trustee shall mail to all Noteholders, as the names and addresses of such holders appear upon the Security Register, Notice of the Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs, unless the Default or Event of Default shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice; provided that except in the case of default in the payment of the principal of or Interest on any of the Notes, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Noteholders.
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Section 6.09. Undertaking to Pay Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each holder of any Note by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in its discretion, require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided that the provisions of this Section (to the extent permitted by law) shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Noteholder, or group of Noteholders, holding in the aggregate more than ten percent in principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 12.04, or to any suit instituted by any Noteholder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or Interest on any Note on or after the due date expressed in such Note or to any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Note in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.
ARTICLE 7
THE TRUSTEE
Section 7.01. Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.
The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default which may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default has occurred (which has not been cured or waived), the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants, duties or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
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(ii) in the absence of bad faith and willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee under this Indenture, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the written direction of the holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined as provided in Section 12.04 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee under this Indenture;
(d) whether or not therein provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section and the provisions of the TIA;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable in respect of any payment (as to the correctness of amount, entitlement to receive or any other matters relating to payment) or notice effected by the Company or any paying agent or any records maintained by any co-registrar with respect to the Notes;
(f) if any party fails to deliver a notice relating to an event the fact of which, pursuant to this Indenture, requires notice to be sent to the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely on its failure to receive such notice as reason to act as if no such event occurred; and
(g) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default hereunder unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office shall have been notified in writing of such Default or Event of Default by the Company or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if there is reasonable ground for believing that the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
Section 7.02. Rights of Trustee.
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Subject to its duties and responsibilities under Section 7.01 and the TIA:
(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document (whether in its original or facsimile form) believed by it in good faith to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties.
(b) Any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company; the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such certificate as sufficient and conclusive evidence of the fulfillment of the applicable conditions precedent, in which event it shall be conclusive and binding on the Noteholders.
(c) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its own selection and any advice or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel; the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such opinion as sufficient and conclusive evidence of the fulfillment of the applicable conditions precedent, in which event it shall be conclusive and binding on the Noteholders.
(d) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or direction of any of the Noteholders pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless such Noteholders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby.
(e) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the expense of the Company, and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.
(f) The Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed by it with due care hereunder.
(g) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.
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(h) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.
(i) The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officers’ Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officers’ Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.
(j) Any permissive right or authority granted to the Trustee shall not be construed as a mandatory duty.
(k) The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder.
(l) The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance of the Company’s covenants herein.
(m) Neither the Trustee nor any clearing system through which the Notes are traded shall have any obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance, and shall not be responsible or liable for compliance, with restrictions on transfer, exchange, redemption, purchase or repurchase, as applicable, of minimum denominations imposed hereunder or under applicable law or regulation with respect of any transfer, exchange, redemption, purchase or repurchase, as applicable, of interest in any Note.
(n) In the event the Trustee receives inconsistent or conflicting requests and indemnity from two or more groups of Noteholders, each representing less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee, in its sole discretion, may determine what action, if any, will be taken.
(o) The Trustee is entitled to enter into business transactions with the Company, its Affiliates or any entity related thereto without accounting for any profit. However, the Trustee must comply with Section 7.07 and Section 7.14.
(p) In connection with the exercise of its functions (including but not limited to those in relation to any proposed modification, authorization, waiver or substitution), the Trustee will have regard to the interests of the Noteholders as a class, and will not have regard to the consequences of such exercise for individual Noteholders. The Trustee will not be entitled to require, nor will any Noteholder be entitled to claim, from the Company or any Guarantor, any indemnification or payment in respect of any tax consequences of any such exercise upon individual Noteholders.
(q) The Trustee may refrain from taking any action in any jurisdiction if the taking of such action in that jurisdiction would, in its opinion based upon legal advice in the relevant jurisdiction, be contrary to any law of that jurisdiction or, to the extent applicable, of the State of New York. Furthermore, the Trustee may also refrain from taking such action if it would otherwise render it liable to any person in that jurisdiction or the State of New York or if, in its opinion based upon such legal advice, it would not have the power to do the relevant thing in that jurisdiction by virtue of any applicable law in that jurisdiction or in the State of New York or if it is determined by any court or other competent authority in that jurisdiction or in the State of New York that it does not have such power.
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Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, the Trustee shall not be obligated to take any action with respect to an Event of Default pursuant to Sections 6.01(k), 6.01(m) and 6.01(o), unless it has been first notified to do so in writing by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes.
Section 7.03. No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc.
The recitals contained herein and in the Notes (except in the Trustee’s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Notes or the proceeds of any Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 7.04. Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents, Collateral Agents, Common Depositary or Registrar May Own Notes.
The Trustee, any paying agent, any conversion agent, Collateral Agent, Common Depositary or Registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, paying agent, conversion agent, Collateral Agent, Common Depositary or Registrar.
Section 7.05. Monies to Be Held in Trust.
Subject to the provisions of Section 11.04, all monies received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received. Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as may be agreed in writing from time to time by the Company and the Trustee.
Section 7.06. Compensation and Expenses of Trustee.
The Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, such compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in any capacity (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) as mutually agreed to from time to time in writing between the Company and the Trustee, and the Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture and the Security Documents (including the compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Company and each Guarantor, jointly and severally, also covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee (or any officer, director or employee of the Trustee) in any capacity under this Indenture and the Security Documents (which, for the avoidance of doubt, includes its duties as Collateral Agent, paying agent, conversion agent, Common Depositary or Registrar) and its agents and any authenticating agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee) incurred without gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee or such officers, directors, employees and agents or authenticating agent, as the case may be, and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust or in any other capacity hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, any holder or any other Person) of liability in the premises. The obligations of the Company under this Section to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances shall be secured by a lien prior to that of the Notes upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of the holders of particular Notes. The obligation of the Company under this Section shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Article 11 hereof, the termination of this Indenture and the Security Documents, the resignation or removal of the Trustee or payment in full of the Notes through the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations. This Section 7.06 shall be in lieu of TIA §315(e) and such TIA §315(e) is hereby expressly excluded from this Indenture as permitted by the TIA.
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To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section, the Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest on particular Notes. Such Lien shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture pursuant to Article 11 hereof, the termination of this Indenture and the Security Documents, the resignation or removal of the Trustee or payment in full of the Notes through the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations.
When the Trustee and its agents and any authenticating agent incur expenses or render services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(f) or (g) with respect to the Company occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.
Section 7.07. Eligibility and Disqualification of Trustee.
The Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA § 310(a). Notwithstanding TIA §310(b), there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 (or, if such Person is a member of a bank holding company system, its bank holding company shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000). If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. The Trustee shall comply with TIA § 310(b), provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA § 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities or certificates of interest or participation in other securities of the Company are outstanding if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA § 310(b)(1) are met. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
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Section 7.08. Resignation or Removal of Trustee.
(a) The Trustee may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company and to the holders of Notes. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment sixty (60) days after the mailing of such notice of resignation to the Noteholders, the resigning Trustee may, upon ten (10) Business Days’ notice to the Company and the Noteholders, petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or, any Noteholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six (6) months may, subject to the provisions of Section 6.09, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.09 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Noteholder; or
(ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section 6.09, any Noteholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six (6) months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee; provided that if no successor Trustee shall have been appointed and have accepted appointment sixty (60) days after either the Company or such Noteholder has removed the Trustee, or the Trustee resigns, the Trustee so removed may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
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(c) The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee which shall be deemed appointed as successor trustee unless, within ten (10) days after notice to the Company of such nomination, the Company objects thereto, in which case the Trustee so removed or any Noteholder, or, if such Trustee so removed or any Noteholder fails to act, the Company, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in Section 7.08(a) provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 7.09.
(e) Notwithstanding the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section, the Company’s obligations under Section 7.06 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.
Section 7.09. Acceptance by Successor Trustee.
Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 7.08 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amount then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to act. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a lien upon all property and funds held or collected by such trustee as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of holders of particular Notes, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section unless, at the time of such acceptance, such successor trustee shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.07.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section, the Company (or the former trustee, at the written direction of the Company) shall mail or cause to be mailed notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder to the holders of Notes at their addresses as they shall appear on the Security Register. If the Company fails to mail such notice within ten (10) days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Company.
Section 7.10. Succession by Merger.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including any trust created by this Indenture), shall be the successor to the Trustee hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, provided that in the case of any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, such corporation shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.09. The Trustee shall provide the Company with a written notice within thirty (30) days after the closing of such merger, conversion or consolidation.
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In any case where at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent appointed by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee or any authenticating agent appointed by such successor trustee may authenticate such Notes in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force that is provided in the Notes or in this Indenture; provided that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
Section 7.11. Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company.
Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company (other than with regard to any action proposed to be taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee that affects the rights of the holders of the Notes under this Indenture) may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than three (3) Business Days after the date any Officer of the Company actually receives such application, unless any such Officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of an omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.
Section 7.12. Reports by Trustee to Holders.
If required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, within 60 days after each May 15 beginning with the May 15 following the date of this Indenture, the Trustee shall mail to each holder a brief report dated as of such May 15 that complies with Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to the extent required thereby. The Trustee shall also comply with Section 313(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to holders shall be filed with the Commission, each automated quotation system and each Trading Market or stock exchange (if any) on which the Notes are listed. The Company agrees to promptly notify the Trustee whenever the Notes become listed on any such Trading Market, stock exchange or automated quotation system and any delisting thereof.
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Section 7.13. Certain Provisions.
Each Noteholder by accepting a Note authorizes and directs on his or her behalf the Trustee to enter into and to take such actions and to make such acknowledgements as are set forth in this Indenture or other documents entered into in connection therewith.
The Trustee shall not be responsible for the legality, validity, effectiveness, suitability, adequacy or enforceability of any of the Security Documents or any obligation or rights created or purported to be created thereby or pursuant thereto or any security or the priority thereof constituted or purported to be constituted thereby or pursuant thereto, nor shall it be responsible or liable to any person because of any invalidity of any provision of such documents or the unenforceability thereof, whether arising from statute, law or decision of any court. The Trustee shall be under no obligation to monitor or supervise the functions of the Collateral Agent under the Security Documents and shall be entitled to assume that the Collateral Agent is properly performing its functions and obligations thereunder and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any diminution in the value of or loss occasioned to the assets subject thereto by reason of the act or omission by the Collateral Agent in relation to its functions thereunder. The Trustee shall have no responsibility whatsoever to the Company, any Guarantor or any Noteholder as regards any deficiency which might arise because the Trustee is subject to any tax in respect of the Security Documents, the security created thereby or any part thereof or any income therefrom or any proceeds thereof.
Section 7.14. Preferential Collection of Claims against Company.
The Trustee shall comply with TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent indicated.
ARTICLE 8
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 8.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Noteholders.
The Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors, and the Trustee may, from time to time, and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) make provision with respect to the conversion rights of the holders of Notes pursuant to the requirements of Section 14.05 and the purchase obligations of the Company pursuant to the requirements of Section 3.02.;
(b) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee as security for the Notes, any property or assets;
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(c) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor Person of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company pursuant to Article 11;
(d) to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants, restrictions or conditions as the Board of Directors and the Trustee shall consider to be for the benefit of the holders of Notes, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such additional covenants, restrictions or conditions a Default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set forth; provided that, in respect of any such additional covenant, restriction or condition, such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after Default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other Defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such Default;
(e) to provide for the issuance under this Indenture of Notes in coupon form (including Notes registrable as to principal only) and to provide for exchangeability of such Notes with the Notes issued hereunder in fully registered form and to make all appropriate changes for such purpose;
(f) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture that may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental indenture, or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions arising under this Indenture that shall not materially adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Notes;
(g) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes;
(h) add additional Guarantees or additional obligors with respect to the Notes or release Guarantors from guarantees as permitted by the terms of this Indenture;
(i) to comply with any requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain qualifying, or maintaining the qualification of, this Indenture under the TIA;
(j) further secure the Notes, or release all or any portion of the Collateral pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents; or
(k) to increase, from time to time, the per annum interest rate on the Notes for any period.
Upon the written request of the Company, accompanied by a copy of the resolutions of the Board of Directors certified by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary authorizing the execution of any supplemental indenture (in form satisfactory to the Trustee), the Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained and to accept the conveyance, transfer and assignment of any property thereunder; provided that the Trustee shall not be obligated to, but may in its discretion, enter into any supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
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Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of the holders of any of the Notes at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 8.02.
Section 8.02. Supplemental Indenture with Consent of Noteholders.
With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 12) of the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, the Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors, and the Trustee may, from time to time and at any time, enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Notes; provided that no such supplemental indenture shall:
(a) extend the fixed maturity of any Note;
(b) reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of Interest thereon;
(c) reduce the principal amount thereof or reduce any amount payable on redemption or repurchase thereof;
(d) change the obligation of the Company to repurchase any Note upon the happening of a Termination of Trading in a manner adverse to the holders of Notes;
(e) impair the right of any Noteholder to institute suit for the payment thereof;
(f) make the principal thereof or Interest thereon payable in any coin or currency other than that provided in the Notes;
(g) impair the right to convert the Notes into Common Stock or reduce the number of shares of Common Stock or any other property receivable by a Noteholder upon conversion subject to the terms set forth herein, including Section 14.05, in each case, without the consent of the holder of each Note so affected;
(h) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 6.07, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the holder of each Note so affected;
(i) change any obligation of the Company to maintain an office or agency in the places and for the purposes set forth in Section 4.02;
(j) reduce the quorum or voting requirements set forth in Article 13;
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(k) subordinate the Notes or any Guarantee to any other obligation of the Company or the applicable Guarantor;
(l) release the security interest granted in favor of the holders of the Notes in the Collateral other than pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents;
(m) release any other security interest that may have been granted in favor of the holders of the Notes other than pursuant to the terms of such security interest;
(n) reduce any premium payable upon a Change of Control or, at any time after a Change of Control has occurred, change the time at which the Change of Control Offer relating thereto must be made or at which the Notes must be repurchased pursuant to such Change of Control Offer;
(o) at any time after the Company is obligated to make an Asset Sale Offer with the Excess Proceeds from Asset Sales, change the time at which such Asset Sale Offer must be made or at which the Notes must be repurchased pursuant thereto;
(p) make any change in any Guarantee that would adversely affect the holders; or
(q) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Notes, the holders of which are required to consent to any such supplemental indenture,
in each case, without the consent of the holders of all Notes then outstanding.
Upon the written request of the Company, accompanied by a copy of the resolutions of the Board of Directors certified by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture (in form satisfactory to the Trustee), and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of the Noteholders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Noteholders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 8.03. Effect of Supplemental Indenture.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article, this Indenture shall be and shall be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Company and the holders of the Notes shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder, subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and shall be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
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Every supplemental indenture and each modification or amendment to this Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees thereunder shall comply with the TIA as then in effect, if then required to so comply.
Section 8.04. Notation on Notes.
Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may, at the Company’s expense, be prepared and executed by the Company, authenticated by the Trustee (or an authenticating agent duly appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 15.10) and delivered in exchange for the Notes then outstanding, upon surrender of such Notes then outstanding.
Section 8.05. Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished to Trustee.
Prior to entering into any supplemental indenture, or any amendment to any Security Document, the Trustee shall be provided with, in addition to the documents required by Section 15.05, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture or amendment to any Security Document executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this Article and is otherwise authorized or permitted by this Indenture and, where applicable, the Security Documents.
ARTICLE 9
GUARANTEES
Section 9.01. Guarantee.
Subject to this Article 9, each Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees to each holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns: (a) the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes, subject to any applicable grace period, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, the due and punctual payment of interest on the overdue principal of and premium, if any, and, to the extent permitted by law, interest, and the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the Company to the holders or the Trustee under this Indenture or any other agreement with or for the benefit of the holders or the Trustee, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (b) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, that same shall be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration pursuant to Section 6.01, redemption or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed or any performance so guaranteed for whatever reason, the Guarantors shall be jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately. Each Guarantor agrees that this is a guarantee of payment and not a guarantee of collection.
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Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations with regard to its Guarantee shall be joint and several, unconditional, irrespective of the validity or enforceability of the Notes or the obligations of the Company under this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, the recovery of any judgment against the Company or any other obligor with respect to this Indenture, the Notes or the Obligations of the Company under this Indenture or the Notes, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstances (other than complete performance) which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor. Each Guarantor further, to the extent permitted by law, waives and relinquishes all claims, rights and remedies accorded by applicable law to guarantors and agrees not to assert or take advantage of any such claims, rights or remedies, including but not limited to: (a) any right to require any of the Trustee, the holders or the Company (each a “Benefited Party”), as a condition of payment or performance by such Guarantor, to (1) proceed against the Company, any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the Obligations under the Guarantees or any other Person, (2) proceed against or exhaust any security held from the Company, any such other guarantor or any other Person, (3) proceed against or have resort to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of any Benefited Party in favor of the Company or any other Person, or (4) pursue any other remedy in the power of any Benefited Party whatsoever; (b) any defense arising by reason of the incapacity, lack of authority or any disability or other defense of the Company including any defense based on or arising out of the lack of validity or the unenforceability of the Obligations under the Guarantees or any agreement or instrument relating thereto or by reason of the cessation of the liability of the Company from any cause other than payment in full of the Obligations under the Guarantees; (c) any defense based upon any statute or rule of law which provides that the obligation of a surety must be neither larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal; (d) any defense based upon any Benefited Party’s errors or omissions in the administration of the Obligations under the Guarantees, except behavior which amounts to bad faith; (e)(1) any principles or provisions of law, statutory or otherwise, which are or might be in conflict with the terms of the Guarantees and any legal or equitable discharge of such Guarantor’s obligations hereunder, (2) the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting such Guarantor’s liability hereunder or the enforcement hereof, (3) any rights to set-offs, recoupments and counterclaims and (4) promptness, diligence and any requirement that any Benefited Party protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest or lien or any property subject thereto; (f) notices, demands, presentations, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor and notices of any action or inaction, including acceptance of the Guarantees, notices of Default under the Notes or any agreement or instrument related thereto, notices of any renewal, extension or modification of the Obligations under the Guarantees or any agreement related thereto, and notices of any extension of credit to the Company and any right to consent to any thereof; (g) to the extent permitted under applicable law, the benefits of any “One Action” rule and (h) any defenses or benefits that may be derived from or afforded by law which limit the liability of or exonerate guarantors or sureties, or which may conflict with the terms of the Guarantees. Except to the extent expressly provided herein, including Section 9.05, each Guarantor hereby covenants that its Guarantee shall not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations contained in its Guarantee and this Indenture.
If any holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company, the Guarantors or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to either the Company or the Guarantors, any amount paid by either to the Trustee or such holder, the Guarantee of such Guarantor, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect.
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Each Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the holders in respect of any obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all obligations guaranteed hereby. Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Section 6.01 hereof for the purposes of this Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such obligations as provided in Section 6.01 hereof, such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors for the purpose of this Guarantee. The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the holders under the Guarantee.
Section 9.02. Limitation on Guarantor Liability.
(a) Each Guarantor, and by its acceptance of Notes, each holder, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the Guarantee of such Guarantor not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar foreign, federal or state law, or the laws of any applicable jurisdiction, to the extent applicable to any guarantee. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Trustee, the holders and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that each Guarantor’s liability shall be that amount from time to time equal to the aggregate liability of such Guarantor under the guarantee, but shall be limited to the lesser of (a) the aggregate amount of the Company’s obligations under the Notes and this Indenture or (b) the amount, if any, which would not have (1) rendered the Guarantor “insolvent” (as such term is defined in Bankruptcy Law and in the Debtor and Creditor Law of the State of New York) or (2) left it with unreasonably small capital at the time its guarantee with respect to the Notes was entered into, after giving effect to the incurrence of existing Debt immediately before such time; provided, however, it shall be a presumption in any lawsuit or proceeding in which a Guarantor is a party that the amount guaranteed pursuant to the guarantee with respect to the Notes is the amount described in clause (a) above unless any creditor, or representative of creditors of the Guarantor, or debtor in possession or trustee in bankruptcy of the Guarantor, otherwise proves in a lawsuit that the aggregate liability of the Guarantor is limited to the amount described in clause (b).
(b) In making any determination as to the solvency or sufficiency of capital of a Guarantor in accordance with the proviso of Section 9.02(a), the right of each Guarantor to contribution from other Guarantors and any other rights such Guarantor may have, contractual or otherwise, shall be taken into account.
Section 9.03. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee.
To evidence its Guarantee set forth in Section 9.01, each Guarantor hereby agrees that a notation of such Guarantee in substantially the form included in Exhibit B attached hereto shall be endorsed by an Officer of such Guarantor on each Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and that this Indenture shall be executed on behalf of such Guarantor by its President or one of its Vice Presidents.
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Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in Section 9.01 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Note a notation of such Guarantee.
If an Officer whose signature is on this Indenture or on the Guarantee no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note on which a Guarantee is endorsed, the Guarantee shall be valid nevertheless.
The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors.
The Company, SHHL and each Operating Subsidiary hereby agrees that it shall cause each Person that becomes obligated to provide a Guarantee pursuant to Section 4.18 (each, a “Future Guarantor”) to execute a supplemental indenture in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, pursuant to which such Person provides the guarantee set forth in this Article 9 and otherwise assumes the obligations and accepts the rights of a Guarantor under this Indenture, in each case with the same effect and to the same extent as if such Person had been named herein as a Guarantor. The Company, SHHL and each Operating Subsidiary also hereby agrees to cause each such new Guarantor to evidence its guarantee by endorsing a notation of such guarantee on each Note as provided in this Section.
Section 9.04. Guarantors May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 9.05, no Guarantor may consolidate with or merge with or into (whether or not such Guarantor is the Surviving Person) another Person whether or not affiliated with such Guarantor unless:
(a) subject to Section 9.05, the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than a Guarantor or the Company) unconditionally assumes all the obligations of such Guarantor, pursuant to a supplemental indenture in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee, under this Indenture, the Guarantee on the terms set forth herein or therein; and
(b) the Guarantor complies with the requirements of Article 5 hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance and upon the assumption by the successor Person, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form and substance to the Trustee, of the Guarantee endorsed upon the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Guarantor, such successor Person shall succeed to and be substituted for the Guarantor with the same effect as if it had been named herein as a Guarantor. Such successor Person thereupon may cause to be signed any or all of the Guarantees to be endorsed upon all of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee. All the Guarantees so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Guarantees theretofore and thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Guarantees had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
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Except as set forth in Articles 4 and 5, and notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Notes shall prevent any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or another Guarantor, or shall prevent any sale or conveyance of the property of a Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Company or another Guarantor.
Section 9.05. Releases Following Merger, Consolidation or Sale of Assets, Etc.
In the event of a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of any Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a sale or other disposition of all of the Capital Stock of any Guarantor, in each case to a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such transactions) a Subsidiary of the Company, then such Guarantor (in the event of a sale or other disposition, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, of all of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor) or the corporation acquiring the property (in the event of a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor) shall be released and relieved of any obligations under its Guarantee; provided that the net proceeds of such sale or other disposition shall be applied in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture, including without limitation Section 4.12. Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such sale or other disposition was made by the Company in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, including without limitation Section 4.12, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its obligations under its Guarantee.
Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under its Guarantee shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of and interest on the Notes and for the other obligations of any Guarantor under this Indenture as provided in this Article 9.
ARTICLE 10
COLLATERAL AND SECURITY
Section 10.01. Security Documents.
(a) The due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on the Notes when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether on an Interest Payment Date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of and interest on the Notes and performance of all other obligations of the Company to the holders or the Trustee under this Indenture and the Notes, according to the terms hereunder or thereunder, are secured as provided in the Security Documents, including the Initial Security Documents which the Company and SHHL have entered into simultaneously with the execution of this Indenture and which are attached as Exhibit E hereto. Each holder, by its acceptance thereof, consents and agrees to the terms of the Security Documents (including, without limitation, the provisions providing for foreclosure and release of Collateral) as the same may be in effect or may be amended from time to time in accordance with its terms and authorizes and directs the Trustee to enter into the Security Documents and to perform its obligations and exercise its rights thereunder as a Secured Party in accordance therewith. The Company will do or cause to be done all such acts and things as may be required by applicable law or may be necessary or proper, or as may be required by the provisions of the Security Documents, to assure and confirm to the Trustee the security interest in the Collateral contemplated hereby, by the Security Documents or any part thereof, as from time to time constituted, so as to render the same available for the security and benefit of this Indenture and of the Notes secured hereby, according to the intent and purposes herein expressed. The Company will take, and will cause its Subsidiaries to take, any and all actions reasonably required to cause the Security Documents to create and maintain, as security for the Obligations of the Company hereunder, a valid and enforceable perfected first priority Lien in and on all the Collateral, in favor of the Trustee, as Secured Party, for the benefit of the holders, superior to and prior to the rights of all third Persons and subject to no other Liens than Permitted Liens.
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(b) Not later than November 30, 2007, the Company, SHHL and each Operating Subsidiary shall procure that each Consigning Shareholder shall pledge in favor of Origin Biotechnology, and will execute and deliver to Origin Biotechnology equity pledges in respect of, all Capital Stock of each Operating Subsidiary owned by it and use its best efforts to obtain any necessary Governmental Approvals with respect thereto, and will take all other actions reasonably required to create and maintain a valid and enforceable perfected first priority Lien in and on such Capital Stock in favor of Origin Biotechnology.
(c) If at any time after the Issue Date there is a change in PRC law or interpretation in PRC law that permits the encumbrance of the Operating Subsidiaries’ assets or Property by a Lien without the approval of any governmental body of the PRC, then the Company and SHHL shall cause the Operating Subsidiaries to, concurrently:
(i) execute and deliver to the Trustee a Security Document upon substantially the same terms granting a Lien upon such property to the Trustee for the benefit of the holders of Notes, which Lien shall be first priority if such assets or Property is not then encumbered by any other Lien (other than Liens required by law) or a second priority Lien if such assets or Property is at that time so encumbered;
(ii) cause the Lien to be granted in such Security Document to be duly perfected in any manner permitted by law; and
(iii) deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel confirming as to such Security Document the matters set forth as to the Security Documents and Liens thereunder in the Opinions of Counsel delivered to holders on the Issue Date and, if the property subject to such Security Document is an interest in real estate, such local counsel opinions, insurance policies, surveys and other supporting documents as may be required by applicable law.
(d) Notwithstanding (i) anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Security Documents, the Notes or any other instrument governing, evidencing or relating to any Debt, (ii) the time, order or method of attachment of any Liens, (iii) the time or order of filing or recording of financing statements or other documents filed or recorded to perfect any Lien upon any Collateral, (iv) the time of taking possession or control over any Collateral or (v) the rules for determining priority under BVI law, PRC law or any other law of any relevant jurisdiction governing relative priorities of secured creditors:
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(A) the Liens will rank at least equally and ratably with all valid, enforceable and perfected Liens, whenever granted upon any present or future Collateral, but only to the extent such Liens are permitted under this Indenture to exist and to rank equally and ratably with the Notes and the Guarantees; and
(B) all proceeds of the Collateral applied under the Security Documents shall be allocated and distributed as set forth in Section 6.03.
Section 10.02. Future Guarantor Pledgors.
(a) (i)Subject to clauses (ii) and (iii) below, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable laws (including the laws of the PRC), the Company and SHHL shall pledge and shall cause each Future Guarantor to pledge the Capital Stock of any current or future Subsidiary (other than the Capital Stock of SHHL and Origin Biotechnology already pledged under the Security Documents) in each case owned by the Company, SHHL or such Future Guarantor, on a first priority basis (subject to Permitted Liens) in order to secure the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture and of such Future Guarantor under its Guarantee, and use its best efforts to obtain any necessary Governmental Approvals and take all other actions necessary thereto.
(ii) Clause (i) shall not apply to any current or future PRC-incorporated Subsidiary of any Future Guarantor (other than a wholly foreign-owned enterprise incorporated in the PRC) unless and until there is a change in PRC law or interpretation in PRC law that permits the pledge of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary to secure the obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture.
(iii) Where, as a result of PRC law regulating the foreign ownership of entities engaged in a Related Business, the Capital Stock of any PRC-incorporated Subsidiary of any Future Guarantor (other than a wholly foreign-owned enterprise) is not owned directly or indirectly by such Future Guarantor, clauses (i) and (ii) shall not apply and such Future Guarantor shall procure, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable laws (including the laws of the PRC), that each Person directly or indirectly owning the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary shall pledge such Capital Stock in favor of Origin Biotechnology in accordance with the processes set forth in Section 10.01(b).
(b) Each Guarantor that pledges Capital Stock of a Subsidiary after the Issue Date is referred to as a “Future Guarantor Pledgor” and, upon giving such pledge, will be a “Guarantor Pledgor.”
(c) Upon each pledge by the Company, SHHL or a Future Guarantor of the Capital Stock of any current or future Subsidiary in accordance with Section 10.02(a), the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that entry into the applicable pledge agreement has been duly and validly authorized and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) in the opinion of such counsel, such action has been taken with respect to the recording, registering and filing of or with respect to this Indenture and the applicable pledge agreement and all other instruments of further assurance as are necessary to make effective the first priority lien (subject to Permitted Liens) created by such pledge agreement in the Capital Stock referenced in Section 10.02(a), and referencing the details of such action; or (ii) in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to make such first priority lien (subject to Permitted Liens) effective; provided that any such Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officers’ Certificate or certificates of public officials with respect to matters of fact.
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(d) All Opinions of Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 10.02(c) may contain assumptions, qualifications, exceptions and limitations as are appropriate and customary for similar opinions relating to the nature of the Capital Stock pledged.
(e) Upon each pledge by the Company, SHHL or any Future Guarantor of the Capital Stock of any current or future Subsidiary in accordance with Section 10.02(a), the Company will give notice, file, register or record any supplemental indentures, financing statements, continuation statements, pledge agreements or other instruments or cause each such Future Guarantor Pledgor to give notice, file, register or record any supplemental indentures, financing statements, continuation statements, pledge agreements or other instruments and take any other actions necessary in order to perfect and protect the first priority lien (subject to Permitted Liens) thereby created.
Section 10.03. Recording and Opinions.
(a) The Company will furnish to the Trustee within three months after each anniversary of the Issue Date, an Opinion of Counsel, dated as of such date, stating either that (i) in the opinion of such counsel, action has been taken with respect to the recording, registering, filing, re-recording, re-registering and re-filing of all supplemental indentures, financing statements, continuation statements or other instruments of further assurance as is necessary to maintain the Lien of the Security Documents and reciting with respect to the security interest in the Collateral the details of such action or referring to prior Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, and stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, based on relevant laws as in effect on the date of such Opinion of Counsel, all financing statements and continuation statements have been executed and filed that are necessary as of such date and during the succeeding twelve (12) months fully to preserve and protect, to the extent such protection and preservation are possible by filing, the rights of the holders and the Trustee hereunder and under the Security Documents with respect to the security interest in the Collateral; or (ii) in the opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to maintain such Lien and assignment.
(b) So long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and subject to certain terms and conditions, the Company and the Guarantors will be entitled to receive all cash dividends, interest and other payments made upon or with respect to the Collateral pledged by them.
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(c) So long as there has occurred no Event of Default, then the Company and the Guarantors shall have the right to exercise any voting and other consensual rights pertaining to the Collateral pledged by them.
(d) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or Event of Default, all rights of the Company and the Guarantors to receive all cash dividends, interest and other payments made upon or with respect to the Collateral will cease and such cash dividends, interest and other payments will be paid to the Collateral Agent;
(e) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) all rights of the Company and the Guarantors to exercise such voting or other consensual rights will cease, and all such rights will become vested in the Collateral Agent, which, to the extent permitted by law, will have the sole right to exercise such voting and other consensual rights; and
(ii) the Collateral Agent may sell the Collateral or any part of the Collateral in accordance with the terms of the Security Documents. The Collateral Agent, in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, will distribute all funds distributed under the Security Documents and received by the Collateral Agent to the Trustee for the benefit of the holders of the Notes.
Section 10.04. Release of Collateral.
(a) Subject to subsections (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 10.04, Collateral may be released from the Lien and security interest created by the Security Documents at any time or from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the Security Documents or as provided hereby. In addition, upon the request of the Company pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate, upon which the Trustee may conclusively rely, certifying that all conditions precedent hereunder have been met and stating whether or not such release is in connection with an Asset Sale, at the sole cost and expense of the Company, the Trustee will release Collateral that is sold, conveyed or disposed of in compliance with the provisions of this Indenture; provided, that if such sale, conveyance or disposition constitutes an Asset Sale, the Company will apply the Net Available Cash in accordance with Section 4.12 hereof. Upon receipt of such Officers’ Certificate the Trustee shall execute, deliver or acknowledge any necessary or proper instruments of termination, satisfaction or release to evidence the release of any Collateral permitted to be released pursuant to this Indenture or the Security Documents.
(b) No Collateral may be released from the Lien and security interest created by the Security Documents pursuant to the provisions of the Security Documents unless the certificate required by this Section has been delivered to the Trustee.
(c) At any time when a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the maturity of the Notes has been accelerated (whether by declaration or otherwise), no release of Collateral pursuant to the provisions of the Security Documents will be effective as against the holders.
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(d) The release of any Collateral from the terms of this Indenture and the Security Documents will not be deemed to impair the security under this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof if and to the extent the Collateral is released pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents and hereof.
Section 10.05. Authorization of Actions to Be Taken by the Trustee Under the Security Documents.
Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01 and 7.02 hereof, the Trustee may, in its sole discretion and without the consent of the holders, take, on behalf of the holders, all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to:
(a) enforce any of the terms of the Security Documents; and
(b) collect and receive any and all amounts payable in respect of the Obligations of the Company hereunder.
The Trustee will have power to institute and maintain such suits and proceedings as it may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any acts that may be unlawful or in violation of the Security Documents or this Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Trustee may deem expedient to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the holders in the Collateral (including power to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the security interest hereunder or be prejudicial to the interests of the holders or of the Trustee).
Section 10.06. Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee Under the Security Documents.
The Trustee is authorized to receive any funds for the benefit of the holders distributed under the Security Documents, and to make further distributions of such funds to the holders according to the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 10.07. Termination of Security Interest.
Upon the payment in full of all Obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the Notes, the Trustee will, at the request of the Company, release the Liens pursuant to this Indenture and the Security Documents.
ARTICLE 11
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
Section 11.01. Discharge of Indenture.
When (a) the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all Notes theretofore authenticated (other than any Notes that have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or in substitution for which other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered) and not theretofore canceled, or (b) all the Notes not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable within three (3) years or are to be called for redemption within three years under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption, and the Company shall deposit with the Trustee, in trust, funds sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption of all of the Notes (other than any Notes that shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and in lieu of or in substitution for which other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered) not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and Interest due or to become due to such date of maturity or redemption date, as the case may be, accompanied by a verification report, as to the sufficiency of the deposited amount, from an independent certified accountant or other financial professional satisfactory to the Trustee, and if the Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, and in the case of either clause (a) or (b), no Default or Event of Default with respect to this Indenture or the Notes shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or shall occur as a result of such deposit and such deposit shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other instrument or agreement to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound, then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) remaining rights of registration of transfer, substitution and exchange and conversion of Notes, (ii) rights hereunder of Noteholders to receive payments of principal of and Interest on the Notes and the other rights, duties and obligations of Noteholders, as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the amounts, if any, so deposited with the Trustee and (iii) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Trustee hereunder), and the Trustee, on written demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as required by Section 15.05 and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture; the Company, however, hereby agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter incurred by the Trustee and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter rendered by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Notes. The Trustee shall hold in trust money deposited with it pursuant to this Article. It shall apply the deposited money through the Paying Agent and in accordance with this Indenture to the payment of principal of and Interest on the Notes.
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Section 11.02. Deposited Monies to Be Held in Trust by Trustee.
Subject to Section 11.04, all monies deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 11.01 shall be held in trust for the sole benefit of the Noteholders, and such monies shall be applied by the Trustee to the payment, either directly or through any paying agent (including the Company if acting as its own paying agent), to the holders of the particular Notes for the payment or redemption of which such monies have been deposited with the Trustee of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal, premium, if any, and Interest.
Section 11.03. Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held.
Upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, all monies then held by any paying agent of the Notes (other than the Trustee) shall, upon written request of the Company, be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee, and thereupon such paying agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such monies.
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Section 11.04. Return of Unclaimed Monies.
Subject to the requirements of applicable law, any monies deposited with or paid to the Trustee for payment of the principal or Interest on Notes and not applied but remaining unclaimed by the holders of Notes for two (2) years (or such shorter period of time under applicable escheat law) after the date upon which the principal of or Interest on such Notes, as the case may be, shall have become due and payable, shall be repaid to the Company by the Trustee on demand and all liability of the Trustee shall thereupon cease with respect to such monies; and the holder of any of the Notes shall thereafter look only to the Company for any payment that such holder may be entitled to collect unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another Person.
Section 11.05. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or the paying agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with Section 11.02 by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 11.01 until such time as the Trustee or the paying agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 11.02; provided that, if the Company makes any payment of Interest on or principal of any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or paying agent.
ARTICLE 12
THE NOTEHOLDERS
Section 12.01. Action by Noteholders.
Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the holders of a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Notes may take any action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that, at the time of taking any such action, the holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Noteholders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the record of the holders of Notes voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Noteholders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article 13, or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Noteholders. Whenever the Company or the Trustee solicits the taking of any action by the Noteholders, the Company or the Trustee may fix in advance of such solicitation a date as the record date for determining holders entitled to take such action. The record date shall be not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of such action.
Section 12.02. Proof of Execution by Noteholders.
Subject to the provisions of Sections 7.01, 7.02 and 13.04, proof of the execution of any instrument by a Noteholder or its agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Notes shall be proved by the registry of such Notes or by a certificate of the Registrar.
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The record of any Noteholders’ meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 13.05.
Section 12.03. Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners.
The Company, the Trustee, any paying agent, any conversion agent, any Collateral Agent, Common Depositary and any Registrar may deem the Person in whose name such Note shall be registered upon the Security Register to be, and may treat it as, the absolute owner of such Note (whether or not such Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon made by any Person other than the Company or any Registrar) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and Interest on such Note, for conversion of such Note and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any paying agent, Collateral Agent, Common Depositary, conversion agent nor any Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any holder for the time being, or upon such holder’s order, shall be valid and, to the extent of the sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies payable upon any such Note.
Section 12.04. Company-owned Notes Disregarded.
In determining whether the holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of the Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture, Notes which are owned by the Company or any other obligor on the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of any such determination; provided that, for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent, waiver or other action, only Notes which a Responsible Officer knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this Section if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right to vote such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company, any other obligor on the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company or any such other obligor. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full protection to the Trustee. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officers’ Certificate listing and identifying all Notes, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above-described Persons, and, subject to Section 7.01, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers’ Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Notes not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
Section 12.05. Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound
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At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 12.01, of the taking of any action by the holders of the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any holder of a Note which is shown by the evidence to be included in the Notes the holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 12.02, revoke such action so far as concerns such Note. Except as aforesaid, any such action taken by the holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon all future holders and owners of such Note and of any Notes issued in exchange or substitution therefor, irrespective of whether any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Note or any Note issued in exchange or substitution therefor.
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ARTICLE 13
MEETINGS OF NOTEHOLDERS
Section 13.01. Purpose of Meetings.
A meeting of Noteholders may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article for any of the following purposes:
(a) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee or to give any directions to the Trustee permitted under this Indenture, or to consent to the waiving of any Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by Noteholders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article 6;
(b) to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant to the provisions of Article 7;
(c) to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.02; or
(d) to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of the holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of the Notes under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.
Section 13.02. Call of Meetings by Company or Noteholders.
In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a resolution of its Board of Directors, or the holders of at least twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Noteholders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have mailed the notice of such meeting within twenty (20) days after receipt of such request, then the Company or such Noteholders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 13.01 by mailing notice a notice of meeting. Notice of every meeting of the Noteholders, setting forth the time and place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting and the establishment of any record date pursuant to Section 12.01, shall be mailed to holders of Notes at their addresses as they shall appear on the Security Register. Such notice shall also be mailed to the Company. Such notices shall be mailed not less than twenty (20) nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
Any meeting of Noteholders shall be valid without notice if the holders of all Notes then outstanding are present in person or by proxy or if notice is waived before or after the meeting by the holders of all Notes outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.
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Section 13.03. Qualifications for Voting.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Noteholders, a person shall (a) be a holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting or (b) be a person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting. The only persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Noteholders shall be the persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
Section 13.04. Regulations.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Noteholders, in regard to proof of the holding of Notes and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit.
The Company or the Noteholders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes represented at the meeting and entitled to vote at the meeting.
Subject to the provisions of Section 12.04, at any meeting each Noteholder or proxyholder shall be entitled to one vote for each $100,000 principal amount of Notes held or represented by him; provided that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Note challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than by virtue of Notes held by him or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating him as the proxy to vote on behalf of other Noteholders. Any meeting of Noteholders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 13.02 may be adjourned from time to time by the holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented at the meeting, whether or not constituting a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding, the latter of which shall constitute a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
Section 13.05. Voting.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of the Noteholders shall be by written ballot on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the holders of Notes or of their representatives by proxy and the outstanding principal amount of the Notes held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of the Noteholders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting, and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was mailed as provided in Section 13.02. The record shall show the principal amount of the Notes voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.
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Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.
Section 13.06. No Delay of Rights by Meeting.
Nothing contained in this Article shall be deemed or construed to authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of the Noteholders or any rights expressly or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Noteholders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the Notes.
ARTICLE 14
CONVERSION OF NOTES
Section 14.01. Right to Convert.
(a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, the holder of any Note shall have the right, at such holder’s option at any time prior to the close of business on the date of maturity of the Notes, to convert the principal amount of the Note, or any portion of such principal amount which is a multiple of $100,000, into fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock (as such shares shall then be constituted) at the Conversion Rate in effect at such time, by surrender of the Note so to be converted in whole or in part, together with any required funds, under the circumstances described in this Section and in the manner provided in Section 14.02.
(b) A Note in respect of which a holder is electing to exercise its option to require the Company to purchase such holder’s Notes upon an Asset Sale Offer, Change of Control Offer or Termination of Trading Offer pursuant to Section 3.02 may be converted only if such holder withdraws its election in accordance with Section 3.02. A holder of Notes is not entitled to any rights of a holder of Common Stock until such holder has converted his Notes to Common Stock, and only to the extent such Notes are deemed to have been converted to Common Stock under this Article.
(c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if the Company has not obtained Shareholder Approval, then the Company may not issue, upon conversion of the Notes, a number of shares of Common Stock which, when aggregated with any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Note on or after the Issue Date and prior to such Conversion Date, would exceed 4,692,234 shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment for forward and reverse stock splits, recapitalizations and the like) (such number of shares, the “Issuable Maximum”). Where, on any Conversion Date, the number of shares of Common Stock otherwise issuable as a result of the exercise of conversion rights by holders of Notes exceeds the Issuable Maximum, such holders shall have a pro rata entitlement, calculated on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be converted by such holders on such Conversion Date, to exercise their conversion rights up to the Issuable Maximum.
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Section 14.02. Exercise of Conversion Right; Issuance of Common Stock on Conversion; No Adjustment for Interest or Dividends.
In order to exercise the conversion right with respect to any Note in certificated form, the Company must receive at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose or, at the option of such holder, the Corporate Trust Office, such Note with the original or facsimile of the form entitled “Conversion Notice” on the reverse thereof, duly completed and manually signed, together with such Notes duly endorsed for transfer, accompanied by the funds, if any, required by this Section. Such notice shall also state the name or names (with address or addresses) in which the certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock which shall be issuable on such conversion shall be issued, and shall be accompanied by transfer or similar taxes, if required pursuant to Section 14.07.
In order to exercise the conversion right with respect to any interest in a Global Note, the beneficial holder must complete, or cause to be completed, the appropriate instruction form for conversion pursuant to the Common Depositary’s book-entry conversion program, deliver, or cause to be delivered, by book-entry delivery an interest in such Global Note, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents if required by the Company or the Trustee or conversion agent, and pay the funds, if any, required by this Section and any transfer taxes if required pursuant to Section 14.07.
As promptly as practicable after satisfaction of the requirements for conversion set forth above, subject to compliance with any restrictions on transfer if shares issuable on conversion are to be issued in a name other than that of the Noteholder (as if such transfer were a transfer of the Note or Notes (or portion thereof) so converted), the Company shall issue and shall deliver to such Noteholder at the office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose pursuant to Section 4.02 a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of such Note or portion thereof as determined by the Company in accordance with the provisions of this Article and a check or cash in respect of any fractional interest in respect of a share of Common Stock arising upon such conversion, calculated by the Company as provided in Section 14.03. In case any Note of a denomination greater than $100,000 shall be surrendered for partial conversion, and subject to Section 2.03, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the holder of the Note so surrendered, without charge to such holder, a new Note or Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Note.
Each conversion shall be deemed to have been effected as to any such Note (or portion thereof) on the date (the “Conversion Date”) on which the requirements set forth above in this Section have been satisfied as to such Note (or portion thereof), and the Person whose name is entered in the Company's register of members for Common Stock upon such conversion shall be deemed to have become on said date the holder of record of the shares set out against his name in such register; provided that any surrender on any date when the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed shall constitute such Person the record holder for all purposes at such time as his name is entered on the register after the books are open again, but such conversion shall be at the Conversion Rate in effect on the date upon which such Note shall be surrendered.
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Any Note or portion thereof surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of business on the record date for any Interest Payment Date to the close of business on the Business Day preceding such Interest Payment Date shall be accompanied by payment, in immediately available funds or other funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the Interest otherwise payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount being converted; provided that no such payment need be made (1) if the Company has specified a Purchase Date that is after a record date and on or prior to the next Interest Payment Date or (2) to the extent of any overdue Interest, if any overdue Interest exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Note. Except as provided above in this Section, no payment or other adjustment shall be made for Interest accrued on any Note converted or for dividends on any shares issued upon the conversion of such Note as provided in this Article.
Upon the conversion of an interest in a Global Note, the Trustee (or other conversion agent appointed by the Company), or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee (or other conversion agent appointed by the Company), shall make a notation on such Global Note as to the reduction in the principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversions of Notes effected through any conversion agent other than the Trustee.
Upon the conversion of a Note, that portion of the accrued but unpaid Interest, including accrued Additional Interest, if any, to the Conversion Date, with respect to the converted Note shall not be canceled, extinguished or forfeited, but rather shall be deemed to be paid in full to the holder thereof through delivery of the Common Stock (together with the cash payment, if any in lieu of fractional shares) in exchange for the Note being converted pursuant to the provisions hereof, and the Fair Market Value of such shares of Common Stock (together with any such cash payment in lieu of fractional shares) shall be treated as issued, to the extent thereof, first in exchange for and in satisfaction of the Company’s obligation to pay the principal amount of the converted Note, the accrued but unpaid Interest, including accrued Additional Interest, if any, through the Conversion Date and the balance, if any, of such Fair Market Value of such Common Stock (and any such cash payment) shall be treated as issued in exchange for and in satisfaction of the right to convert the Note being converted pursuant to the provisions hereof.
Section 14.03. Cash Payments in Lieu of Fractional Shares.
No fractional shares of Common Stock or scrip certificates representing fractional shares shall be issued upon conversion of Notes. If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same holder, the number of full shares that shall be issuable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted hereby) so surrendered. If any fractional share of stock would be issuable upon the conversion of any Note or Notes, the Company shall make an adjustment and payment therefor in cash at the Closing Sale Price on the last Trading Day immediately preceding the Conversion Date thereof to the holder of Notes.
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Section 14.04. Conversion Rate.
Each $100,000 principal amount of the Notes shall be initially convertible into 8,695 shares of Common Stock at the initial Conversion Price of $11.50 per share, as specified in the form of Note (herein called the “Conversion Rate”) attached as Exhibit A hereto, subject to adjustment as provided in this Article.
Section 14.05. Adjustment of Conversion Rate.
The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company as follows:
(a) In case the Company shall hereafter pay a dividend or make a distribution to all holders of the outstanding Common Stock in shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate shall be increased so that the same shall equal the rate determined by multiplying the Conversion Rate in effect at the opening of business on the date following the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution by a fraction,
(i) the numerator of which shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution plus the total number of shares of Common Stock constituting such dividend or other distribution; and
(ii) the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination,
such increase to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purpose of this paragraph (a), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company. The Company will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 14.05(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
(b) In case the Company shall issue rights or warrants to all holders of its outstanding shares of Common Stock entitling them (for a period expiring within forty-five (45) days after the date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants) to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the Current Market Price immediately preceding the date such distribution is first publicly announced by the Company, the Conversion Rate shall be increased so that the same shall equal the rate determined by multiplying the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants by a fraction,
(i) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants plus the total number of additional shares of Common Stock offered for subscription or purchase, and
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(ii) the denominator of which shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants plus the number of shares that the aggregate offering price of the total number of shares so offered would purchase at a price equal to the Current Market Price immediately preceding the date such distribution is first publicly announced by the Company,
such adjustment shall be successively made whenever any such rights or warrants are issued, and shall become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants. To the extent that shares of Common Stock are not delivered after the expiration of such rights or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the adjustments made upon the issuance of such rights or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered. If such rights or warrants are not so issued, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants had not been fixed. In determining whether any rights or warrants entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price less than the Current Market Price immediately preceding the date such distribution is first publicly announced by the Company, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors.
(c) In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, and, conversely, in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be combined into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such combination becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, such increase or reduction, as the case may be, to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision or combination becomes effective.
(d) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of Common Stock shares of any class of capital stock of the Company or evidences of its indebtedness or assets (including securities, but excluding any rights or warrants referred to in Section 14.05(b), and excluding any dividend or distribution (x) paid exclusively in cash or (y) referred to in Section 14.05(a) (any of the foregoing hereinafter in this Section 14.05(d) called the “Securities”)), then, in each such case (unless the Company elects to reserve such Securities for distribution to the Noteholders upon the conversion of the Notes so that any such holder converting Notes will receive upon such conversion, in addition to the shares of Common Stock to which such holder is entitled, the amount and kind of such Securities which such holder would have received if such holder had converted its Notes into Common Stock immediately prior to the Record Date for such distribution of the Securities) the Conversion Rate shall be increased so that the same shall be equal to the rate determined by multiplying the Conversion Rate in effect on the Record Date with respect to such distribution by a fraction,
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(i) the numerator of which shall be the Current Market Price on such Record Date; and
(ii) the denominator of which shall be the Current Market Price on such Record Date less the Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive, and described in a resolution of the Board of Directors) on the Record Date of the portion of the Securities so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock,
such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following such Record Date; provided that, if the then Fair Market Value (as so determined) of the portion of the Securities so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock is equal to or greater than the Current Market Price on the Record Date, in lieu of the foregoing adjustment, adequate provision shall be made so that each Noteholder shall have the right to receive upon conversion the amount of Securities such holder would have received had such holder converted each Note on the Record Date. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. If the Board of Directors determines the Fair Market Value of any distribution for purposes of this Section 14.05(d) by reference to the actual or when issued trading market for any securities, it must in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period used in computing the Current Market Price on the applicable Record Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Securities distributed by the Company to all holders of its Common Stock consist of capital stock of, or similar equity interests in, a Subsidiary or other business unit, the Conversion Rate shall be increased so that the same shall be equal to the rate determined by multiplying the Conversion Rate in effect on the Record Date with respect to such distribution by a fraction,
(i) the numerator of which shall be the sum of (A) the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the ten (10) Trading Days commencing on and including the fifth Trading Day after the Ex-Dividend Time plus (B) the Fair Market Value of the securities distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock for which this Section 14.05(d) applies, which shall equal the number of Securities distributed in respect of each share of Common Stock multiplied by the average of the closing sale prices of those Securities distributed (where such closing sale prices are available) for the ten (10) Trading Days commencing on and including the fifth Trading Day after the Ex-Dividend Time; and
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(ii) the denominator of which shall be the average of the Closing Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the ten (10) Trading Days commencing on and including the fifth Trading Day after the Ex-Dividend Time,
such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following such Record Date; provided that the Company may in lieu of the foregoing adjustment make adequate provision so that each Noteholder shall have the right to receive upon conversion the amount of Securities such holder would have received had such holder converted each Note on the Record Date with respect to such distribution.
Rights or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of Common Stock entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Company’s capital stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (“Trigger Event”): (i) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock; (ii) are not exercisable; and (iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights and warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 14.05(d). If any such right or warrant, including any such existing rights or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences of indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and record date with respect to new rights or warrants with such rights (and a termination or expiration of the existing rights or warrants without exercise by any of the holders thereof). In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the preceding sentence) with respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section was made, (1) in the case of any such rights or warrants that shall all have been redeemed or repurchased without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted upon such final redemption or repurchase to give effect to such distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or repurchase price received by a holder or holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or repurchase, and (2) in the case of such rights or warrants that shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights and warrants had not been issued.
No adjustment of the Conversion Rate shall be made pursuant to this Section 14.05(d) in respect of rights or warrants distributed or deemed distributed on any Trigger Event to the extent that such rights or warrants are actually distributed, or reserved by the Company for distribution to holders of Notes upon conversion by such holders of Notes to Common Stock.
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For purposes of this Section 14.05(d) and Sections 14.05(a) and 14.05(b), any dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.05(d) is applicable that also includes shares of Common Stock, or rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock (or both), shall be deemed instead to be (1) a dividend or distribution of the evidences of indebtedness, assets or shares of capital stock other than such shares of Common Stock or rights or warrants (and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by this Section 14.05(d) with respect to such dividend or distribution shall then be made) immediately followed by (2) a dividend or distribution of such shares of Common Stock or such rights or warrants (and any further Conversion Rate adjustment required by Sections 14.05(a) and 14.05(b) with respect to such dividend or distribution shall then be made), except (A) the Record Date of such dividend or distribution shall be substituted as “the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution”, “the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants” and “the date fixed for such determination” within the meaning of Sections 14.05(a) and 14.05(b) and (B) any shares of Common Stock included in such dividend or distribution shall not be deemed “outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination” within the meaning of Section 14.05(a).
(e) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common Stock cash (excluding any dividend or distribution in connection with the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary), then, in such case, the Conversion Rate shall be increased so that the same shall equal the rate determined by multiplying the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on such Record Date by a fraction,
(i) the numerator of which shall be the Current Market Price on such Record Date; and
(ii) the denominator of which shall be the Current Market Price on such Record Date less the amount of cash so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock,
such adjustment to be effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the Record Date; provided that if the portion of the cash so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock is equal to or greater than the Current Market Price on the Record Date, in lieu of the foregoing adjustment, adequate provision shall be made so that each Noteholder shall have the right to receive upon conversion the amount of cash such holder would have received had such holder converted each Note on the Record Date. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
(f) In case a tender or exchange offer made by the Company or any Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common Stock shall expire and such tender or exchange offer (as amended upon the expiration thereof) shall require the payment to shareholders of consideration per share of Common Stock having a Fair Market Value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a resolution of the Board of Directors) that as of the last time (the “Expiration Time”) tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (as it may be amended) exceeds the Closing Sale Price of a share of Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Time, the Conversion Rate shall be increased so that the same shall equal the rate determined by multiplying the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Expiration Time by a fraction,
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(i) the numerator of which shall be the sum of (x) the Fair Market Value (determined as aforesaid) of the aggregate consideration payable to shareholders based on the acceptance (up to any maximum specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer) of all shares validly tendered or exchanged and not withdrawn as of the Expiration Time (the shares deemed so accepted up to any such maximum, being referred to as the “Purchased Shares”) and (y) the product of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (less any Purchased Shares) at the Expiration Time and the Closing Sale Price of a share of Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Time, and
(ii) the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered or exchanged shares) at the Expiration Time multiplied by the Closing Sale Price of a share of Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Time,
such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the Expiration Time. If the Company is obligated to purchase shares pursuant to any such tender or exchange offer, but the Company is permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such purchases or all such purchases are rescinded, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such tender or exchange offer had not been made.
(g) On June 30 and December 31 of each year, beginning with September 30, 2008, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted to equal the quotient obtained by dividing (i) $100,000 by (ii) the Trading Reference VWAP; provided that no such adjustment shall be made if the number of shares issuable upon conversion of the Notes at such adjusted Conversion Rate would be lower than the number of shares issuable at then existing Conversion Rate (after giving effect to prior adjustments permitted pursuant to this clause).
(h) If at any time after the Issue Date the Company shall issue or sell its Common Stock at a price per share less than the Current Market Price then in effect (and in the case of subclauses (ii) or (iii) below, issue or sell Common Stock or any other securities exercisable into shares of Common Stock, whose stock compensation expense per share, as determined in accordance with GAAP, is less than the Current Market Price then in effect), the Conversion Rate shall be increased such that the Conversion Price is equal to the lowest price or stock compensation expense per share at which the Company has issued or sold its Common Stock after the Issue Date such adjustment to take effect as of the date of the issuance or sale of such Common Stock; provided, however, that no adjustment shall be made to the Conversion Price for (i) the issuance of Common Stock pursuant to the conversion or exercise of convertible or exercisable securities issued or outstanding on or prior to the Issue Date or the Notes, (ii) the issuance of Common Stock or any other securities exercisable into shares of Common Stock pursuant to exercise of stock options granted or reserved under the Company's employee stock options existing on the Issue Date or adopted thereafter, or (iii) the issuance, after the Issue Date, of Common Stock or any other securities exercisable into shares of Common Stock issued or granted to third-party consultants or employees of the Company and its subsidiaries under the Company's employee stock options or pursuant to written contractual arrangements relating to the compensation for the services rendered to the Company or its subsidiaries by such consultants or employees, to the extent that all such shares or securities issued under subclauses (ii) or (iii) in this paragraph, in the aggregate, on a cumulative basis and without double counting, do not exceed five percent (5%) of the Common Stock of the Company issued and outstanding immediately prior to such issuance.
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(i) If and at each time, upon completion of the annual audit of the Company’s financial statements a Financial and Operational Trigger shall have occurred in the immediately preceding fiscal year, then within five (5) Business Days following issuance of the audit report for such fiscal year, the Conversion Rate per Note shall be adjusted (such adjustment to take effect as of the date of its determination) to equal:
Conversion Rate then in effect + [(A x B) / C],
where

| A = | the total number of shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding on a fully-diluted basis at the date of determination of such adjustment;

B = 3.0% expressed as a decimal; and

| C = | the aggregate principal amount of the Notes issued on their respective issue dates divided by the principal amount of a Note.

For the avoidance of doubt, the adjustments contemplated by this Section 14.05(i) (x) shall be made upon the occurrence of each Financial and Operational Trigger, irrespective of the number of adjustments made prior thereto pursuant to this Section 14.05(i), and (y) shall not be subject to any ceiling or floor, including the Conversion Rate and the Conversion Price, respectively.
(j) For purposes of this Section 14.05, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated:
(i) “Current Market Price” shall mean the average of the daily Closing Sale Prices per share of Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days ending on the earlier of the Trading Day immediately preceding the relevant date and the day before the “ex” date with respect to the closing of the issuance, distribution, subdivision or combination requiring such computation. For purpose of this paragraph, the term “ex” date, (1) when used with respect to any issuance or distribution, means the first date on which the Common Stock trades, regular way, on the relevant exchange or in the relevant market from which the Closing Sale Price was obtained without the right to receive such issuance or distribution, and (2) when used with respect to any subdivision or combination of shares of Common Stock, means the first date on which the Common Stock trades, regular way, on such exchange or in such market after the time at which such subdivision or combination becomes effective.
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If another issuance, distribution, subdivision or combination to which Section 14.05 applies occurs during the period applicable for calculating “Current Market Price” pursuant to the definition in the preceding paragraph, “Current Market Price” shall be calculated for such period in a manner determined by the Board of Directors to reflect the impact of such issuance, distribution, subdivision or combination on the Closing Sale Price of the Common Stock during such period.
(ii) “Record Date” shall mean, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or other applicable security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of shareholders entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors or by statute, contract or otherwise).
(k) The Company may make such increases in the Conversion Rate, in addition to those required by Section 14.05(a) through (i) as the Board of Directors considers to be advisable to avoid or diminish any income tax to holders of Common Stock or rights to purchase Common Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of stock (or rights to acquire stock) or from any event treated as such for income tax purposes.
To the extent permitted by applicable law and Nasdaq Marketplace rules, the Company from time to time may increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for any period of time if the period is at least twenty (20) Business Days, the increase is irrevocable during the period and the Board of Directors shall have made a determination that such increase would be in the best interests of the Company, which determination shall be conclusive. Whenever the Conversion Rate is increased pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Company shall mail to holders of record of the Notes a notice of the increase at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date the increased Conversion Rate takes effect, and such notice shall state the increased Conversion Rate and the period during which it will be in effect.
(l) No adjustment in the Conversion Rate shall be required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent (1%) in such rate; provided that any adjustments that by reason of this Section 14.05(l) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. All calculations under this Article shall be made by the Company and shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest one-ten thousandth (1/10,000) of a share, as the case may be. No adjustment need be made for rights to purchase Common Stock pursuant to a Company plan for reinvestment of dividends or interest or for any issuance of Common Stock or convertible or exchangeable securities or rights to purchase Common Stock or convertible or exchangeable securities. To the extent the Notes become convertible into cash, assets, property or securities (other than capital stock of the Company), no adjustment need be made thereafter as to the cash, assets, property or such securities. Interest will not accrue on any cash into which the Notes are convertible.
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(m) Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee and any conversion agent other than the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect. Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment becomes effective and shall mail such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to the holder of each Note at his last address appearing on the Security Register provided for in Section 4.02 of this Indenture, within twenty (20) days after execution thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment.
(n) In any case in which this Section provides that an adjustment shall become effective immediately after (1) a record date or Record Date for an event, (2) the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive a dividend or distribution pursuant to Section 14.05(a), (3) a date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive rights or warrants pursuant to Section 14.05(b), or (4) the Expiration Time for any tender or exchange offer pursuant to Section 14.05(f), (each a “Determination Date”), the Company may elect to defer until the occurrence of the applicable Adjustment Event (as hereinafter defined) (x) issuing to the holder of any Note converted after such Determination Date and before the occurrence of such Adjustment Event, the additional shares of Common Stock or other securities issuable upon such conversion by reason of the adjustment required by such Adjustment Event over and above the Common Stock issuable upon such conversion before giving effect to such adjustment and (y) paying to such holder any amount in cash in lieu of any fraction pursuant to Section 14.03. For purposes of this Section 14.05(n), the term “Adjustment Event” shall mean:
(i) in any case referred to in clause (1) hereof, the occurrence of such event,
(ii) in any case referred to in clause (2) hereof, the date any such dividend or distribution is paid or made,
(iii) in any case referred to in clause (3) hereof, the date of expiration of such rights or warrants, and
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(iv) in any case referred to in clause (4) hereof, the date a sale or exchange of Common Stock pursuant to such tender or exchange offer is consummated and becomes irrevocable.
(o) For purposes of this Section, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Company will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
Section 14.06. Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale.
If any of the following events occur, namely (i) any reclassification or change of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (other than (x) a subdivision or combination to which Section 14.05(c) applies) as a result of which holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash) with respect to or in exchange for such Common Stock, (ii) any consolidation, merger or combination of the Company with another Person as a result of which holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash) with respect to or in exchange for such Common Stock, or (iii) any sale or conveyance of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to any other Person as a result of which holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash) with respect to or in exchange for such Common Stock, then the Company or the successor or purchasing Person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture (in form satisfactory to the Trustee) providing that each Note shall be convertible into the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance by a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Notes (assuming, for such purposes, a sufficient number of authorized shares of Common Stock are available to convert all such Notes) immediately prior to such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance assuming such holder of Common Stock did not exercise such holder’s rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance (provided that, if the kind or amount of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance is not the same for each share of Common Stock in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised (“Non-electing share”), then for the purposes of this Section the kind and amount of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance for each Non-electing share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the Non-electing shares). Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article.
The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be mailed to each holder of Notes, at its address appearing on the Security Register provided for in Section 4.02 of this Indenture, within twenty (20) days after execution thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.
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The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications, changes, consolidations, mergers, combinations, sales and conveyances.
If this Section applies to any event or occurrence, Section 14.05 shall not apply.
Section 14.07. Taxes on Shares Issued.
The issue of stock certificates on conversions of Notes shall be made without charge to the converting Noteholder for any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax in respect of the issue thereof. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any such tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of stock in any name other than that of the holder of any Note converted, and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any such stock certificate unless and until the Person or Persons requesting the issue thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.
Section 14.08. Reservation of Shares; Shares to Be Fully Paid; Compliance with Governmental Requirements; Listing of Common Stock.
The Company shall provide, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares held in treasury, sufficient shares of Common Stock to provide for the conversion of the Notes from time to time as such Notes are presented for conversion.
Before taking any action which would cause an adjustment increasing the Conversion Rate to an amount that would cause the Conversion Price to be reduced below the then par value, if any, of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes, the Company will take all corporate action which may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary in order that the Company may validly and legally issue shares of such Common Stock at such adjusted Conversion Rate.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be issued upon conversion of Notes will upon issue be fully paid and non-assessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
The Company covenants that, if any shares of Common Stock to be provided for the purpose of conversion of Notes hereunder require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law or the laws of any other applicable jurisdiction before such shares may be validly issued upon conversion, the Company will in good faith and as expeditiously as possible, to the extent then permitted by the rules and interpretations of the Commission (or any successor thereto), endeavor to secure such registration or approval, as the case may be.
Section 14.09. Responsibility of Trustee.
The Trustee and any other conversion agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Noteholder to determine the Conversion Rate or whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. The Trustee and any other conversion agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities or property, which may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Note; and the Trustee and any other conversion agent make no representations with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Note for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 14.06 relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Noteholders upon the conversion of their Notes after any event referred to in such Section 14.06 or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officers’ Certificate (which the Company shall be obligated to file with the Trustee prior to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto.
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Section 14.10. Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions.
In case:
(a) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution) on its Common Stock that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.05; or
(b) the Company shall authorize the granting to the holders of all or substantially all of its Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any share of any class or any other rights or warrants; or
(c) of any reclassification or reorganization of the Common Stock of the Company (other than a subdivision or combination of its outstanding Common Stock, or a change in par value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value), or of any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party and for which approval of any shareholders of the Company is required, or of the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or
(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company;
the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and to be mailed to each Noteholder at such holder’s address appearing on the Security Register provided for in Section 4.02 of this Indenture, as promptly as possible but in any event at least ten (10) days prior to the applicable date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution or rights or warrants, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distribution or rights are to be determined, or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up is expected to become effective or occur, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such dividend, distribution, reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up.
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Section 14.11. Shareholder Rights Plans.
Each share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of Notes pursuant to this Article shall be entitled to receive the appropriate number of rights, if any, and the certificates representing the Common Stock issued upon such conversion shall bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the terms of any shareholder rights plan adopted by the Company, as the same may be amended from time to time. If at the time of conversion, however, the rights have separated from the shares of Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of the applicable shareholder rights agreement so that the holders of the Notes would not be entitled to receive any rights in respect of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes, the conversion rate will be adjusted in accordance with Section 14.05(d) treating all rights previously issued as Securities for purposes of such adjustment, subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of the rights.
ARTICLE 15
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 15.01. Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors; Trust Indenture Act Controls.
All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements by the Company contained in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns whether so expressed or not.
This Indenture is hereby made subject to, and shall be governed by, the provisions of the TIA required to be part of and to govern indentures qualified under the TIA; provided, however that this Section 15.01 shall not require this Indenture or the Trustee to be qualified under the TIA prior to the time such qualification is in fact required under the terms of the TIA, nor shall it constitute any admission or acknowledgment by any party that any such qualification is required prior to the time such qualification is in fact required under the terms of the TIA. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof which is required to be included in an indenture qualified under the TIA, such required provision shall control.
Section 15.02. Official Acts by Successor Corporation.
Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or officer of the Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the like board, committee or officer of any Person that shall at the time be the lawful sole successor of the Company.
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Section 15.03. Addresses for Notices, Etc.
Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the holders of Notes on the Company shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or served by being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box or sent by telecopier transmission addressed as follows:
If to the Company:
Origin Agritech Ltd.
No. 21 Sheng Ming Yuan Road
Changping District
Beijing 102206
PRC
Fax: +86 10 5890 7524
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
If to the Trustee:
The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street
Floor 4E
New York, NY 10286
U.S.A.
Attention: Global Finance Americas
Facsimile No: +1 212 815 5802/5803
The Trustee, by notice to the Company, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
Any notice or communication mailed to a Noteholder shall be mailed to such holder by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at his address as it appears on the Security Register and shall be sufficiently given to such holder if so mailed within the time prescribed. As long as the Notes are listed on any Trading Market or stock exchange and the rules of such Trading Market or stock exchange so require, any notice to the Holder shall also be published or delivered in a manner as required by the rules of such Trading Market or stock exchange.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Noteholder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Noteholders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).
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Section 15.04. Governing Law, Consent to Jurisdiction and Service of Process.
THIS INDENTURE, THE GUARANTEE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
The Company, the Guarantors and the Operating Subsidiaries irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York and the courts of the United States of America located in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York over any suit, action or proceeding with respect to this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company, the Guarantors and the Operating Subsidiaries waive any objection that they may have to the venue of any suit, action or proceeding with respect to this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States of America, in each case, located in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, or that such suit, action or proceeding brought in the courts of the State of New York or the United States of America, in each case, located in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same.
To the extent that the Company, any Guarantor or any Operating Subsidiary has or hereafter may acquire any immunity (sovereign or otherwise) from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from jurisdiction of any court or from set-off or any legal process (whether service or notice, attachment in aid or otherwise) with respect to itself or any of its property, the Company, each Guarantor and each Operating Subsidiary hereby irrevocably waives and agrees not to plead or claim such immunity in respect of its obligations under this Indenture or the Notes.
The Company, the Guarantors and the Operating Subsidiaries irrevocably appoint CT Corporation System acting through its office at 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011, U.S.A. (or its successors as agent for service of process) as its authorized agent (the “Authorized Agent”) in the Borough of Manhattan in the city of New York upon which process may be served in any law suit or proceeding, and agree that service of process upon such agent, and written notice of said service to the Company, the Guarantors and the Operating Subsidiaries, as the case may be, by the person serving the same to the address provided for the Company in Section 15.03, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company, the Guarantors and the Operating Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in any such suit or proceeding. The Company, the Guarantors and the Operating Subsidiaries, as the case may be, shall give notice to the Trustee of the appointment of a successor Authorized Agent. If for any reason CT Corporation System ceases to be able to act as the Authorized Agent of the Company, the Guarantors and the Operating Subsidiaries or ceases to have an address in the Borough of Manhattan, the city of New York, the Company, the Guarantors and the Operating Subsidiaries will appoint a successor Authorized Agent in accordance with the preceding sentence. Should the Company, any Guarantor or any Operating Subsidiary fail to appoint and/or maintain an agent for service of process, the Trustee shall be entitled to appoint one for the Company and/or each such Guarantor and/or each such Operating Subsidiary (as the case may be), at the Company’s or such Guarantor’s or such Operating Subsidiary’s cost.
Section 15.05. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates to Trustee.
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Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with, and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include: (1) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition; (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statement or opinion contained in such certificate or opinion is based; (3) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and (4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 15.06. Legal Holidays.
In any case in which the date of maturity of Interest on or principal of the Notes or the redemption date of any Note will not be a Business Day, then payment of such Interest on or principal of the Notes need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the redemption date, and no Interest shall accrue for the period from and after such date.
Section 15.07. Company Responsible for Making Calculations.
The Company will be responsible for making all calculations required under the Notes. The Company will make these calculations in good faith and absent manifest error, these calculations will be final and binding on the Noteholders. Promptly after the calculation thereof, the Company will provide to each of the Trustee and any other conversion agent and Officers’ Certificate setting forth a schedule of its calculations, and each of the Trustee and any other conversion agent is entitled to conclusively rely upon the accuracy of such calculations without independent verification. The Trustee will forward the Company’s calculations to any holder upon the written request of such holder.
Section 15.08. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any paying agent, any authenticating agent, any conversion agent, any Collateral Agent, Common Depositary, any Registrar and their successors hereunder and the holders of Notes any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 15.09. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.
The table of contents and the titles and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
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Section 15.10. Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent that shall be authorized to act on its behalf, and subject to its direction, in the authentication and delivery of Notes in connection with the original issuance thereof and transfers and exchanges of Notes hereunder, including under Sections 2.04, 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 3.02, and 14.02, as fully to all intents and purposes as though the authenticating agent had been expressly authorized by this Indenture and those Sections to authenticate and deliver Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication and delivery of Notes by the authenticating agent shall be deemed to be authentication and delivery of such Notes “by the Trustee” and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an authenticating agent shall be deemed to satisfy any requirement hereunder or in the Notes for the Trustee’s certificate of authentication. Such authenticating agent shall at all times be a Person eligible to serve as trustee hereunder pursuant to Section 7.07.
Any corporation into which any authenticating agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any authenticating agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of any authenticating agent, shall be the successor of the authenticating agent hereunder, if such successor corporation is otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or the authenticating agent or such successor corporation.
Any authenticating agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any authenticating agent by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any authenticating agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section, the Trustee shall either promptly appoint a successor authenticating agent or itself assume the duties and obligations of the former authenticating agent under this Indenture and, upon such appointment of a successor authenticating agent, if made, shall give written notice of such appointment of a successor authenticating agent to the Company and shall mail notice of such appointment of a successor authenticating agent to all holders of Notes as the names and addresses of such holders appear on the Security Register.
The Company agrees to pay to the authenticating agent from time to time such compensation for its services as shall be agreed upon in writing between the Company and the authenticating agent.
The provisions of Sections 7.02, 7.03, 7.04 and 12.03 and this Section shall be applicable to any authenticating agent.
Section 15.11. Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations.
No recourse for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or Interest on any Note, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, shareholder, employee, agent, officer, director or subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of the Notes.
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Section 15.12. Execution in Counterparts.
This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 15.13. Severability.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then (to the extent permitted by law) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 15.14. Appointment of Co-Trustee.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, following the occurrence of, and during the continuation of, an Event of Default, hereunder, if the Trustee reasonably believes that such action is either (i) required by law, rule or regulation of the jurisdiction of incorporation of the Company or the jurisdiction in which the Company’s principal place of business is located or (ii) is otherwise in the best interests of the Noteholders, the Trustee shall have the power and may execute and deliver all instruments necessary to appoint one or more Persons to act as a co-trustee or co-trustees hereunder, or separate trustee or separate trustees hereunder, in each case exclusively in such jurisdiction or jurisdictions, and to vest in such Person or Persons, in such capacity and for the benefit of the holders, such title hereunder, or any part hereof, in each case exclusively in such jurisdiction or jurisdictions, and subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties, obligations, rights and trusts in such jurisdiction or jurisdictions as the Trustee may reasonably consider necessary or desirable. Each co-trustee and separate trustee hereunder shall be authorized under applicable law to act as a co-trustee or a separate trustee, as the case may be, and shall each have a combined capital and surplus (computed in accordance with Section 3l0(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture Act) of at least US$25,000,000. If at any time a co-trustee or a separate trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
(b) Every separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and conditions:
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(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or imposed upon the Trustee shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee is not authorized to act (i) outside the jurisdiction or jurisdictions set forth in Section 15.14(a) hereof or (ii) separately without the Trustee joining in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any such jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed the Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed singly by such separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely in such jurisdiction or jurisdictions and solely at the direction of the Trustee;
(ii) no trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee hereunder; and
(iii) the Trustee may at any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or co-trustee, and the Trustee shall, following the waiver or cure of the Event of Default pursuant to the terms hereof remove any separate trustee or co-trustee appointed pursuant to Section 15.14(a) hereof in connection with such Event of Default.
(c) Any notice, request or other writing given to the Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Indenture and the conditions of this Section 15.14. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall, subject to the provisions of this Section 15.14 hereof, be vested with the estates or property specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions of this Indenture specifically including every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection or rights (including the rights to compensation, reimbursement and indemnification hereunder) to the Trustee. Every such instrument shall be filed with the Trustee.
(d) Any separate trustee or co-trustee appointed pursuant to Section 15.14(a) hereof may at any time constitute the Trustee, in the jurisdiction or jurisdictions set forth in Section 15.14(a) hereof, its agent or attorney-in-fact in such jurisdiction or jurisdictions with full power and authority, to the extent not prohibited by law in such jurisdiction or jurisdictions, to do any lawful act under or in respect of this Indenture on its behalf and in its name. If any separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall vest in and be exercised by the Trustee to the extent permitted by law, without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.
[Signature page(s) to follow.]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed.

| ORIGIN AGRITECH LIMITED
| By: |
| Name: Han Gengchen
| Title: Director

| STATE HARVEST HOLDINGS LTD.
| By: |
| Name: Han Gengchen
| Title: Director

| FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECTIONS 4.18(a), 4.32, 4.33, 9.03 AND 10.01 ONLY BEIJING ORIGIN STATE HARVEST BIOTECHNOLOGY LIMITED
| By: |
| Name: Han Gengchen Title: Director

| BEIJING ORIGIN SEED LIMITED
| By: |
| Name: Han Gengchen
| Title: Director

| HENAN ORIGIN COTTON TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
| By: |
| Name: Han Gengchen
| Title: Director

| CHANGCHUN ORIGIN SEED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
| By: |
| Name: Han Gengchen
| Title: Director

| DENONG ZHENGCHENG SEED LIMITED
| By: |
| Name: Yang Yasheng
| Title: Director

| THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee
| By: |
| Name:
| Title:"

EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR BANK S.A./N.V. (“EUROCLEAR”), OR CLEARSTREAM BANKING, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME (“CLEARSTREAM”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ITS AUTHORIZED NOMINEE OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR OR CLEARSTREAM (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO ITS AUTHORIZED NOMINEE, OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR OR CLEARSTREAM), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, ITS AUTHORIZED NOMINEE, HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]1
THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF SUCH SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”) OR OTHER SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT;
(2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN THE PERIOD SET FORTH IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (CURRENTLY TWO YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY OTHER THAN WITH RESPECT TO AFFILIATES) (A) RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OR THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF SUCH SECURITY EXCEPT (I) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (II) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (III) TO A NON-U.S. PERSON OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (IV) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IF AVAILABLE, OR (V) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND WHICH CONTINUES TO BE EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER OR (B) ENGAGE IN HEDGING TRANSACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THIS SECURITY OR THE COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF SUCH SECURITY UNLESS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT; AND
1 This legend should be included only if the Note is a Global Note.
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(3) AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY IS TRANSFERRED (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 2(A)(V) ABOVE) A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND.
[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.]2
2 This legend should be included only if the Note is a Definitive Note.
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ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD.
1.0% GUARANTEED SENIOR SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTES DUE 2012
ISIN: XS0313078726
Common Code: 03130782
No. 1 $__________
ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD., a company duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the British Virgin Islands (herein called the “Company”, which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay to The Bank of New York Depositary (Nominees) Limited, or registered assigns, as common depositary for Clearstream Banking, société anonyme and/or Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, (i) the Repurchase Amount as set forth on Schedule I hereto on July 25, 2012, (ii) interest, semi-annually on January 25 and July 25 of each year, commencing January 25, 2008 on the outstanding principal sum of the Note at said office or agency, in like coin or currency, at the rate per annum of 1.0%, from and including July 25, 2007 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for to, but excluding the following Interest Payment Date and (iii) any Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 2(d) of the Registration Rights Agreement, and (iv) interest on overdue principal and (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) interest at the rate borne by the Notes, including Additional Interest, if any, at the rate of 5% per annum.
Except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, the interest payable on the Note pursuant to the Indenture on any January 25 or July 25 will be paid to the Person entitled thereto as it appears in the Security Register at the close of business on the record date, which shall be the January 11 or July 11 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding such January 25 or July 25, as provided in the Indenture; provided that any such interest not punctually paid or duly provided for shall be payable as provided in the Indenture. The Company shall pay interest (i) on any Notes in certificated form by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it appears in the Security Register (provided that the holder of Notes with an aggregate principal amount in excess of $1,000,000 shall, at the written election of such holder, be paid by wire transfer of immediately available funds) or (ii) on any Global Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Common Depositary or its nominee.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, including, without limitation, provisions giving the holder of this Note the right to convert this Note into Common Stock of the Company on the terms and subject to the limitations referred to on the reverse hereof and as more fully specified in the Indenture. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.
This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
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This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been manually signed by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed.
ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD.
By:

Name: Han Gengchen
Title: Director
By:

Name: Yang Yasheng
Title: Director
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes described in the within-named Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By:

Authorized Signatory
Dated:
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD.
1.0% GUARANTEED SENIOR SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTE DUE 2012
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company, designated as its
1.0% Guaranteed Senior Secured Convertible Notes due 2012 (herein called the “Notes”), in an aggregate principal amount of $40,000,000 or such other amount as shown on the Security Register as being represented by this Note, issued and to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated July 25, 2007 (herein called the “Indenture”), among the Company, State Harvest Holdings Limited, as the Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (herein called the “Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the holders of the Notes. The terms of the Notes include those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C.§§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of the Indenture and, to the extent required by any such amendments, as amended from time to time (the “TIA”).
In case an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of and accrued and unpaid Interest on all Notes may be declared by either the Trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, and upon said declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee, with the consent of the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, to execute supplemental indentures adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Notes; provided that no such supplemental indenture shall (i) extend the fixed maturity of any Note, (ii) reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of Interest thereon, (iii) reduce the principal amount thereof or reduce any amount payable upon redemption or repurchase thereof, (iv) change the obligation of the Company to repurchase any Note upon the happening of a Termination of Trading in a manner adverse to the holders of Notes, (v) impair the right of any Noteholder to institute suit for the payment thereof, (vi) make the principal thereof or interest thereon payable in any coin or currency other than that provided in the Notes, (vii) impair the right to convert the Notes into Common Stock or reduce the number of shares of Common Stock or any other property receivable by a Noteholder upon conversion subject to the terms set forth in the Indenture, including Section 14.05 thereof, in each case, without the consent of the holder of each Note so affected, (viii) modify any of the provisions of Section 8.02 or Section 6.07 thereof, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of the Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the holder of each Note so affected, (ix) change any obligation of the Company to maintain an office or agency in the places and for the purposes set forth in Section 4.02 thereof, (x) reduce the quorum or voting requirements set forth in Article 13, (xi) subordinate the Notes or any Guarantee to any other obligation of the Company or the applicable Guarantor, (xii) release the security interest granted in favor of the holders on the Notes in the Collateral other than pursuant to the terms of the Security Documents, (xiii) release any security interest that may have been granted in favor of the holders of the Notes other than pursuant to the terms of such security interest, (xiv) reduce any premium payable upon a Change of Control or, at any time after a Change of Control has occurred, change the time at which the Change of Control Offer relating thereto must be made or at which the Notes must be repurchased pursuant to such Change of Control Offer, (xv) at any time after the Company is obligated to make an Asset Sale Offer with the Excess Proceeds from Asset Sales, change the time at which such Asset Sale Offer must be made or at which the Notes must be repurchased pursuant thereto, (xvi) make any change in any Guarantee that would adversely affect the holders or (xvii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Notes, the holders of which are required to consent to any such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the holders of all Notes then outstanding. Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding may on behalf of the holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default under the Indenture and its consequences except (A) a default in the payment of Interest on, or the principal of, any of the Notes, (B) a failure by the Company to convert any Notes into Common Stock of the Company, (C) a default in the payment of the purchase price pursuant to Section 3.02 of the Indenture or (D) a default in respect of a covenant or provisions of the Indenture which under Article 10 of the Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holders of each or all Notes then outstanding or affected thereby. Any such consent or waiver by the holder of this Note (unless revoked as provided in the Indenture) shall be conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon all future holders and owners of this Note and any Notes which may be issued in exchange or substitution hereof, irrespective of whether or not any notation thereof is made upon this Note or such other Notes.
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No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and Interest on this Note at the place, at the respective times, at the rate and in the coin or currency herein prescribed.
Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
The Notes are issuable in fully registered form, without coupons, in denominations of $100,000 principal amount and any multiple of $1,000 thereafter. At the office or agency of the Company referred to on the face hereof, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, without payment of any service charge but with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration or exchange of Notes, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of any other authorized denominations.
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The Notes are not subject to redemption through the operation of any sinking fund.
In the event that, as at June 30 or December 31 of any year, commencing with December 31, 2008, the Conversion Rate is adjusted so that each $100,000 principal amount of the Notes shall be convertible into more than 11, 738 shares of Common Stock, the Company shall be required to redeem on a pro rata basis at the Redemption Price, Notes with an aggregate principal amount calculated in accordance with the following formula, rounded upwards (if necessary) to the nearest $100,000:
Mandatory Redemption Amount = A - (M x C)
Where:

| A | = | aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding on such Mandatory Redemption Date

| M | = | 4,692,234

| C | = | the Conversion Price on such Mandatory Redemption Date

provided the applicable Conversion Rate is greater than the Conversion Rate applicable on the immediately preceding Mandatory Redemption Date, if any.
The Redemption Price in respect of any Mandatory Redemption Amount shall be paid in full to Noteholders by the Company within three (3) months of the relevant Mandatory Redemption Date.
In the event that the Company shall be required to commence an Asset Sale Offer, a Change of Control Offer or a Termination of Trading Offer, the Company shall mail to all holders of record of the Notes a notice which states the terms of such Offer to Purchase, and, in the case of a Change of Control Offer or Termination of Trading Offer, the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such event. Each holder shall have the right to accept such offer and require the Company to repurchase all or any portion of such holder’s Notes in cash equal to the Repurchase Amount.
Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a Offer to Purchase shall deliver to the Company such Note with the form entitled “Purchase Notice” on the reverse thereof duly completed, together with the Note, duly endorsed for transfer, at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Date, and shall deliver the Notes to the Trustee (or other paying agent appointed by the Company) as set forth in the Indenture.
If the Purchase Date falls after a record date and on or prior the corresponding Interest Payment Date, then accrued and unpaid Interest to, but excluding, the Purchase Date shall be paid on such Interest Payment Date to the holders of record of such Notes on the applicable record date instead of to the holders surrendering such Notes for repurchase on such date. The Notes will be subject to repurchase in multiples of $100,000 principal amount.
Holders have the right to withdraw any Purchase Notice by delivering to the Trustee (or other paying agent appointed by the Company) a written notice of withdrawal up to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Date all as provided in the Indenture.
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If money or cash, sufficient to pay the repurchase price of all Notes or portions thereof to be purchased as of the Purchase Date is deposited with the Trustee (or other paying agent appointed by the Company), on the Purchase Date, interest will cease to accrue on such Notes (or portions thereof) immediately after such Purchase Date, and the holder thereof shall have no other rights as such other than the right to receive the repurchase price upon surrender of such Note.
Notwithstanding anything in the Indenture or the Notes to the contrary, if the Company has not obtained Shareholder Approval, then the Company may not issue, upon conversion of the Notes, a number of shares of Common Stock which, when aggregated with any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Note on or after the Issue Date and prior to such Conversion Date, would exceed 4,692,234 shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment for forward and reverse stock splits, recapitalizations and the like). Where, on any Conversion Date, the number of shares of Common Stock otherwise issuable as a result of the exercise of conversion rights by holders of Notes exceeds the Issuable Maximum, such holders shall have a pro rata entitlement, calculated on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be converted by such holders on such Conversion Date, to exercise their conversion rights up to the Issuable Maximum.
Subject to the foregoing paragraph and occurrence of certain events and in compliance with the provisions of the Indenture, prior to the final maturity date of the Notes, the holder hereof has the right, at its option, to convert each $100,000 principal amount of the Notes into 8,695 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (a conversion price of approximately $11.50 per share), as such shares shall be constituted at the date of conversion and subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in the Indenture, upon surrender of this Note with the form entitled “Conversion Notice” on the reverse thereof duly completed, to the Company at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, or at the option of such holder, the Corporate Trust Office, and, unless the shares issuable on conversion are to be issued in the same name as this Note, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the holder or by his duly authorized attorney. The Company will notify the holder thereof in writing of any event triggering the right to convert the Notes as specified above in accordance with the Indenture.
No adjustment in respect of interest on any Note converted or dividends on any shares issued upon conversion of such Note will be made upon any conversion except as set forth in the next sentence. If this Note (or portion hereof) is surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of business on any record date for the payment of interest to the close of business on the Business Day preceding the following Interest Payment Date, this Note (or portion hereof being converted) must be accompanied by payment, in immediately available funds or other funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the interest otherwise payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount being converted; provided that no such payment shall be required (1) if the Company has specified a Purchase Date that is during such period or (2) to the extent of any overdue Interest, if any overdue interest exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Note.
No fractional shares will be issued upon any conversion, but an adjustment and payment in cash will be made, as provided in the Indenture, in respect of any fraction of a share which would otherwise be issuable upon the surrender of any Note or Notes for conversion.
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A Note in respect of which a holder is exercising its right to require repurchase upon a Asset Sale Offer, Change of Control Offer or Termination of Trading Offer on a Purchase Date may be converted only if such holder withdraws its election to exercise either such right in accordance with the terms of the Indenture.
Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, a new Note or Notes of authorized denominations for an equal aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange thereof, subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, without charge except for any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.
The Company, the Trustee, any authenticating agent, any paying agent, any conversion agent and any Registrar may deem and treat the registered holder hereof as the absolute owner of this Note (whether or not this Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone other than the Company or any Registrar) for the purpose of receiving payment hereof, or on account hereof, for the conversion hereof and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any other authenticating agent nor any paying agent nor other conversion agent nor any Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All payments made to or upon the order of such registered holder shall, to the extent of the sum or sums paid, satisfy and discharge liability for monies payable on this Note.
Subject to certain limitations imposed by the TIA, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may enter into business transactions with the Company, its Affiliates or any entity related thereto without accounting for any profit.
No recourse for the payment of the principal of or Interest on this Note, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in the Indenture or any supplemental indenture or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, shareholder, employee, agent, officer or director or subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.
This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of New York.
Terms used in this Note and defined in the Indenture are used herein as therein defined.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations.
TEN COM - as tenants in common UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - Custodian
TEN ENT - as tenant by the entireties (Cust) (Minor)
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act and not as tenants in common

| (State)

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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SCHEDULE I
ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD.
1.0% Guaranteed Senior Secured Convertible Notes due 2012
No. 1
The initial Principal Amount of this Note is FORTY MILLION DOLLARS ($40,000,000). The Company will pay the Repurchase Amount as defined below.
“Repurchase Amount” means, with respect to any Note, the Redemption Price plus any accrued and unpaid Interest on such Note (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) and interest accrued on overdue principal (and, to the extent lawful, on overdue installments of interest) and premium, if any, at a rate that is 5% per annum in excess of the rate of Interest then in effect.
“Redemption Price” means the amount calculated in accordance with the following formula, rounded (if necessary) to two decimal places with 0.005 being rounded upwards:

Redemption Price = I x (1 + r)d/360
Where: |  |
I | = | Issue price (100% of Principal Amount) of the Notes;
r | = | 16.0% expressed as a decimal; and
d | = | number of days from and including the Issue Date to but excluding, the date for redemption, calculated on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of 12 months of 30 days each, and in the case of an incomplete month, the actual number of days elapsed.

For the avoidance of doubt, if the date fixed for redemption is one of the following semi-annual dates, the Redemption Price for each US$100,000 principal amount shall be as set out in the table below in respect of such semi-annual date:

Semi-annual Date |  | Redemption Price (US$) |
January 25, 2008 |  |  | 107,703.30 |
July 25, 2008 |  |  | 116,000.00 |
January 25, 2009 |  |  | 124,935.82 |
July 25, 2009 |  |  | 134,560.00 |
January 25, 2010 |  |  | 144,925.56 |
July 25, 2010 |  |  | 156,089.60 |
January 25, 2011 |  |  | 168,113.64 |
July 25, 2011 |  |  | 181,063.94 |
January 25, 2012 |  |  | 195,011.83 |
July 25, 2012 |  |  | 210,034.17 |

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For purposes thereof, the Principal Amount has been adjusted in accordance with the terms of the Indenture as set forth below:
Date
Principal Amount
Notation Explaining Principal
Amount Recorded
Authorized Signature of Trustee or Custodian
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CONVERSION NOTICE
TO: ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD.
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The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby irrevocably exercises the option to convert this Note, or the portion thereof (which is $100,000 or a multiple thereof) below designated, into shares of Common Stock of Origin Agritech Ltd. in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that the shares issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any check in payment for fractional shares and any Notes representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture. If shares or any portion of this Note not converted are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will provide the appropriate information below and pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto. Any amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest, including additional interest, if any, accompanies this Note.
Dated:

Signature(s)
Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP.

Fill in the registration of shares of Common Stock if to be issued, and Notes if to be delivered, other than to and in the name of the registered holder:

(Name)

(Street Address)

(City, State and Zip Code)

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Please print name and address
Principal amount to be converted
(if less than all):
$

Social Security or Other Taxpayer
Identification Number:

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PURCHASE NOTICE
TO: ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD.
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The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby irrevocably acknowledges receipt of a notice from Origin Agritech Ltd. (the “Company”) regarding the right of holders to elect to require the Company to repurchase the Notes upon the occurrence of either an Asset Sale Offer, a Change of Control Offer or a Termination of Trading Offer and requests and instructs the Company to repay the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (which is $100,000 or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture at the price of the Repurchase Amount, to the registered holder hereof.
Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture. The Notes shall be purchased by the Company as of the Purchase Date pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in the Indenture.
$ principal amount of the Notes to which this Purchase Notice relates (if less than entire principal amount) pursuant to 4.12, 4.17 or 4.25 of the Indenture, check the box below:
o Section 4.12 Purchase Date:_______________
o Section 4.17
o Section 4.26
Dated:
Signature(s):
NOTICE: The above signatures of the holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever.
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Note Certificate Number (if applicable):
Principal amount to be repurchased (if less than all):
Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number:
Assignment Form
To assign this Note, fill in the form below:
(I) or (we) assign and transfer this Note to

(Insert assignee’s social security or other tax I.D. no.)

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint

as agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

Date: ______________
Your Signature: _________________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note)
Signature Guarantee:
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF NOTATION OF GUARANTEE
For value received, each Guarantor (which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture), jointly and severally, unconditionally guarantees, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to the provisions in the Indenture, dated July 25, 2007 (the “Indenture”), among Origin Agritech Ltd., as issuer (the “Company”), the Guarantor listed on the signature pages thereto and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “Trustee”), (a) the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption, repurchase or otherwise, the due and punctual payment of interest on overdue principal and premium, if any, and, to the extent permitted by law, interest and the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the Company to the holders or the Trustee all in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and (b) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, that the same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. The obligations of the Guarantor to the holders of Notes and to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article 9 of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantee. This Guarantee is subject to release as and to the extent set forth in Section 9.05 of the Indenture. Each holder of a Note, by accepting the same agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined are used herein as so defined in the Indenture.
[GUARANTOR NAME]
By:_______________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER
Origin Agritech Ltd.
No. 21 Sheng Ming Yuan Road
Changping District
Beijing 102206
PRC
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
The Bank of New York
101 Barclay Street
Floor 4E
New York, NY 10286
U.S.A.
Attention: Global Finance Americas

| Re: | 1.0% GUARANTEED SENIOR SECURED CONVERTIBLE NOTES DUE 2012

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated July 25, 2007 (the “Indenture”), among ORIGIN AGRITECH LTD., as issuer (the “Company”), the Guarantor thereto and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.
___________________, (the “Transferor”) owns and proposes to transfer the Note[s] or interest in such Note[s] in the principal amount of $___________ (the “Transfer”), to ___________________________ (the “Transferee”). In connection with the Transfer, the Transferor hereby certifies that:
[CHECK ALL THAT APPLY]
1. Check if Transferee will take delivery of a beneficial interest in the Global Note or a Definitive Note Pursuant to Rule 144A. The Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144A under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and, accordingly, the Transferor hereby further certifies that the beneficial interest or Definitive Note is being transferred to a Person that the Transferor reasonably believed and believes is purchasing the beneficial interest or Definitive Note for its own account, or for one or more accounts with respect to which such Person exercises sole investment discretion, and such Person and each such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and such Transfer is in compliance with any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States. Upon consummation of the proposed Transfer in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or Definitive Note will be subject to the restrictions on transfer enumerated in the legend printed on the Global Note and/or the Definitive Note and in the Securities Act.
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2. Check if Transferee will take delivery of a beneficial interest in the Global Note or a Definitive Note pursuant to Regulation S. The Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act and, accordingly, the Transferor hereby further certifies that (i) the Transfer is not being made to a Person in the United States and (A) at the time the buy order was originated, the Transferee was outside the United States or such Transferor and any Person acting on its behalf reasonably believed and believes that the Transferee was outside the United States or (B) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market and neither such Transferor nor any Person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was prearranged with a buyer in the United States, (ii) no directed selling efforts have been made in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(a) of Regulation S under the Securities Act, (iii) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act and (iv) if the proposed transfer is being made prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act), (A) the transfer is not being made to a U.S. Person or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person, (B) the Transferee is not a U.S. person and is not acquiring the Notes for the account or benefit of any U.S. person or is a U.S. person who purchased securities in a transaction that did not require registration under the Securities Act, (C) the Transferee understands that it may and agrees to resell the Notes only in accordance with the provisions of Regulation S, pursuant to registration under the Securities Act, or pursuant to an available exemption from registration; and understands that it may not and agrees not to engage in hedging transactions with regard to the Notes or the common stock issuable upon conversion unless in compliance with the Securities Act; (D) the Transferee acknowledges that the certificates evidencing the Notes will contain a legend to the effect that transfer is prohibited except in accordance with the provisions of Regulation S, pursuant to registration under the Securities Act, or pursuant to an available exemption from registration; and that hedging transactions involving those securities may not be conducted unless in compliance with the Securities Act; (E) the Transferee acknowledges that the Company is required to refuse to register any transfer of the securities not made in accordance with the provisions of Regulation S, pursuant to registration under the Securities Act, or pursuant to an available exemption from registration; provided, however, that if the Notes are in bearer form or foreign law prevents the Company from refusing to register securities transfers, other reasonable procedures (such as a legend described above) are implemented to prevent any transfer of the securities not made in accordance with the provisions of Regulation S. Upon consummation of the proposed transfer in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the transferred beneficial interest or Definitive Note will be subject to the restrictions on Transfer enumerated in the legend printed on the Global Note and/or the Definitive Note and in the Securities Act.
3. Check and complete if Transferee will take delivery of a beneficial interest in the Global Note or a Definitive Note pursuant to any provision of the Securities Act other than Rule 144A or Regulation S. The Transfer is being effected in compliance with the transfer restrictions applicable to beneficial interests in Global Notes and Definitive Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act and any applicable blue sky securities laws of any state of the United States, and accordingly the Transferor hereby further certifies that:
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(i) such Transfer is being effected pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act; or
(ii) such Transfer is being effected to the Company or a subsidiary thereof; or
(iii) such Transfer is being effected pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act.
This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company.

|  | [Insert Name of Transferor]
| By: |
| Name: Title:
| Dated: ______________________

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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF RESTRICTIVE LEGEND FOR
COMMON STOCK ISSUED UPON CONVERSION
THE SECURITY EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN AND WILL NOT BE REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”) OR OTHER SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT;
(2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT WITHIN THE PERIOD SET FORTH IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (CURRENTLY TWO YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY OTHER THAN WITH RESPECT TO AFFILIATES) (A) RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY EXCEPT (I) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (II) TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (III) TO A NON-U.S. PERSON OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (IV) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IF AVAILABLE, OR (V) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND WHICH CONTINUES TO BE EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER OR (B) ENGAGE IN HEDGING TRANSACTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THIS SECURITY UNLESS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT; AND
(3) AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY IS TRANSFERRED (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 2(A)(V) ABOVE) A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND.
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EXHIBIT E
FORM OF SECURITY DOCUMENTS
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EXHIBIT F
CORPORATE AGREEMENTS

1. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Zhao Yuping and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Zhao Yuping’s 3.995% shareholding of the total capital of Beijing Origin Seed Limited.

2. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Yuan Liang and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Yuan Liang’s 25.8% shareholding of the total capital of Beijing Origin Seed Limited.

3. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Yang Yasheng and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Yang Yasheng’s 28.675% shareholding of the total capital of Beijing Origin Seed Limited.

4. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Han Gengchen and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Han Gengchen’s 34.4% shareholding of the total capital of Beijing Origin Seed Limited.

5. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Zhang Weidong and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Zhang Weidong’s 3.13% shareholding of the total capital of Beijing Origin Seed Limited.

6. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Chen Weicheng and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Chen Weicheng’s 1.96% shareholding of the total capital of Beijing Origin Seed Limited.

7. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Beijing Origin Seed Limited and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Beijing Origin Seed Limited’s 90% shareholding of the total capital of Henan Origin Cotton Technology Development Limited.

8. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Zhang Yingli and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Zhang Yingli’s 4.1% shareholding of the total capital of Henan Origin Cotton Technology Development Limited.

9. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Yang Yasheng and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Yang Yasheng’s 3.86% shareholding of the total capital of Henan Origin Cotton Technology Development Limited.

10. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Beijing Origin Seed Limited and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Beijing Origin Seed Limited’s 99% shareholding of the total capital of Changchun Origin Seed Technology Development Limited.

11. | Stock Consignment Agreement dated December 25, 2004 between Han Gengchen and State Harvest Holdings Limited in respect of the consignment of Han Gengchen’s 1% shareholding of the total capital of Henan Origin Cotton Technology Development Limited.

12. | Technology Transfer Contract dated June 13, 2006 between Beijing Origin Seed Limited and Beijing Origin State Harvest Biotechnology Limited in respect of licensing of the intellectual property owned by Beijing Origin State Harvest Biotechnology Limited

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