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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
 
FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): January 4, 2024
 
OPKO Health, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
 
Delaware
 
001-33528
 
75-2402409
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
 
(Commission
File Number)
 
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
 
4400 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami,
Florida
 
33137
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
 
(Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (305575-4100
 
Not Applicable
Former name or former address, if changed since last report
 
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
 
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
 
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
 
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
 
Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share
OPK
NASDAQ Global Select Market
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
 
Emerging growth company                  
 
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.                  ☐
 


 
 

ITEM 1.01.
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
 
On January 9, 2024 (the “Closing Date”), OPKO Health, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), completed its previously announced private offering of $230.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “144A Notes”) in accordance with the terms of a note purchase agreement (the “144A Note Purchase Agreement”) entered into on January 4, 2024 by and between by the Company and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (the “Initial Purchaser”).  The $230.0 million aggregate principal amount of 144A Notes includes $30.0 million aggregate principal amount of 144A Notes purchased on the Closing Date by the Initial Purchaser in accordance with its exercise in full of its option to purchase additional 144A Notes under the 144A Note Purchase Agreement. 
 
Additionally, on the Closing Date, the Company issued and sold approximately $71.1 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Affiliate Notes” and, together with the 144A Notes, the “Notes”) pursuant to the terms of a note purchase agreement entered into on January 4, 2024 (the “Affiliate Note Purchase Agreement”) by and among the Company and certain investors including, Frost Gamma Investments Trust, a trust controlled by Phillip Frost, M.D., the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Jane H. Hsiao, Ph.D., MBA, the Company’s Vice-Chairman and Chief Technical Officer (collectively, the “Affiliate Purchasers”).  Pursuant to the Affiliate Note Purchase Agreement, the Company issued and sold the Affiliate Notes to the Affiliate Purchasers in exchange for $55.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s existing 5% convertible promissory notes (the “Existing 5% Notes”), together with approximately $16.1 million of accrued but unpaid interest thereon, held by the Affiliate Purchasers.
 
The Company received net proceeds from the issuance of the 144A Notes of approximately $221.4 million, after deducting fees and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company used approximately $50.0 million of the net proceeds from the offering of the 144A Notes to repurchase shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), from purchasers of the 144A Notes in privately negotiated transactions effected with or through the Initial Purchaser or its affiliate.  The purchase price per share of the Common Stock repurchased in such transactions equaled the closing sale price of the Common Stock on January 4, 2024, which was $0.9067 per share. Also, contemporaneously with the pricing of the 144A Notes, the Company entered into separate, privately negotiated transactions with certain holders of the Company’s outstanding 4.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2025 to repurchase, on the Closing Date, approximately $144.4 million aggregate principal amount of such notes, all of which notes were retired by the Company upon its acquisition thereof.  The Company effected such repurchases for cash, using $146.3 million of the net proceeds from the offering of the 144A Notes.
 
As described below, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, the Notes are convertible into cash, shares of Common Stock (the “Conversion Shares”) or a combination thereof, at the Company’s election.  The Notes and the Conversion Shares have not been, and will not be, registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any other securities laws, and the Notes and any Conversion Shares may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the Securities Act or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and other applicable securities laws. The 144A Notes were offered only to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and the Affiliate Notes were offered in a concurrent private placement in reliance upon the exemption from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act based in part on representations made by the Affiliate Purchasers, including that each Affiliate Purchaser is an “accredited investor,” as defined in Rule 501(a) promulgated under the Securities Act.  Neither this Current Report on Form 8-K, nor any exhibit attached hereto, is an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities described herein or therein.
 
The Notes were issued under, and are governed by, an indenture, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Indenture”), by and between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).  The Affiliate Notes constitute part of the same series as the 144A Notes. However, the Affiliate Notes were initially issued in certificated form, are not initially fungible with the 144A Notes and are subject to different transfer restrictions than the 144A Notes, in each case as set forth in the Indenture.  A summary of the terms of the Notes is as follows:
 
Interest and Maturity. The Notes bear interest at 3.75% per annum, which accrues from the Closing Date, and is payable semiannually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, beginning on July 15, 2024. The Notes will mature on January 15, 2029 unless earlier purchased or converted in accordance with their terms.
 
Ranking. The Notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company and rank senior in right of payment to any indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes, and equal in right of payment with all of the Company’s existing and future unsecured indebtedness that is not so subordinated. The Notes are effectively subordinated to all of the Company’s existing and future secured indebtedness to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness and structurally subordinated to all existing and future liabilities (including trade payables) of the Company’s subsidiaries.
 
Redemption. The Company may not redeem the Notes prior to maturity and no “sinking fund” is provided for the Notes.
 
Conversion.  Holders may convert their Notes at their option prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding September 15, 2028, but only under the following circumstances:
 
 
during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on March 31, 2024 (and only during such calendar quarter), if the last reported sale price of Common Stock for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during the period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on, and including, the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the applicable conversion price on each applicable trading day;
 
 
during the five consecutive business day period after any ten consecutive trading day period in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each trading day of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of Common Stock and the applicable conversion rate on each such trading day; or
 
 
upon the occurrence of specified corporate events set forth in the Indenture.
 
On or after September 15, 2028, until the close of business on the business day immediately preceding the maturity date, holders may convert their Notes at any time, regardless of the foregoing circumstances. The conversion rate of the Notes is initially equal to 869.5652 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $1.15 per share of Common Stock), subject to adjustment as set forth in the Indenture.
 
In addition, following the occurrence of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change (as defined in the Indenture), the Company will, in certain circumstances described in the Indenture, increase the conversion rate for a holder that converts its Notes in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change.
 
The Company may settle conversions of Notes through payment or delivery, as the case may be, of cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination thereof, at the Company’s election. However, before the Company has available and has reserved the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable under the Notes,  the Company must elect to deliver solely cash or, subject to certain limitations, a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock upon conversion.
 
Fundamental Change. If the Company undergoes a Fundamental Change (as defined in the Indenture), subject to certain conditions, holders of the Notes may require the Company to purchase for cash all or part of such holders’ Notes at a fundamental change purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be purchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the fundamental change purchase date.
 
Events of Default. The Indenture provides for customary events of default which include (subject in certain cases to customary grace and cure periods), among others, the following: nonpayment of principal or interest; breach of covenants or other agreements in the Indenture; defaults in failure to pay certain other indebtedness; judgment defaults; and certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency. Generally, if an event of default occurs and is continuing under the Indenture, the Trustee or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding may declare 100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any on all then-outstanding Notes to be immediately due and payable.  In certain circumstances, the Company may, for a period of time, elect to pay additional interest on the Notes as the sole remedy to holders of the Notes in the case of an event of default related to certain failures by the Company to comply with certain reporting covenants in the Indenture.
 
The foregoing description of the Indenture, the Notes, the 144A Note Purchase Agreement and the Affiliate Note Purchase Agreement is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Indenture, the form of Note, the 144A Note Purchase Agreement and the Affiliate Note Purchase Agreement, which are filed as Exhibit 4.1, Exhibit 4.2, Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.
 
ITEM 1.02.
Termination of a Material Definitive Agreement.
 
The information contained in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K with respect to the Company’s acquisition of the Existing 5% Notes from the Affiliate Purchasers is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.02.  The Existing 5% Notes, as amended, were to mature in 2025, and the Company retired all Existing 5% Notes upon its acquisition thereof from the Affiliate Purchasers, following which no such notes remain issued or outstanding.  A description of the material terms of the Existing 5% Notes is contained in Note 7 to the Company’s unaudited consolidated financial statements contained in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, and such description is incorporated by reference in this Item 1.02.
 
ITEM 2.03.
Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
 
The information contained in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference in this Item 2.03.
 
ITEM 3.02.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
 
The information contained in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K, is incorporated by reference in this Item 3.02.
 
ITEM 9.01.
Financial Statements and Exhibits.
 
 
(d)
Exhibits
 
Exhibit 
No.
 
Description
   
 
4.2   Form of 3.75% Convertible Senior Note due 2029 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit A of the Indenture filed as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K).
10.1*   Purchase Agreement, dated January 4, 2024, by and between the Company and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representative of the Initial Purchasers named therein.
10.2*   Convertible Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of January 4, 2024, by and among the Company and certain investors, including Frost Gamma Investments Trust and Jane H. Hsiao, Ph.D., MBA.
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*   Pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K, schedules and similar attachments to this exhibit have been omitted because they do not contain information material to an investment or voting decision and such information is not otherwise disclosed in such exhibit. The Company will supplementally provide a copy of any omitted schedule or similar attachment to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.
 
 

 
SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
   
OPKO Health, Inc.
       
   
By:
/s/ Steven D. Rubin
Date: January 9, 2024
 
Name:
Steven D. Rubin
   
Title:
Executive Vice President-Administration
       
 
 

Exhibit 4.1

 

 

 

OPKO HEALTH, INC.

 

(Company)

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

 

(Trustee)

 

 

3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029

 

INDENTURE

Dated as of January 9, 2024
 

 


 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PAGE

 

ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION         1

 

Section 1.01         Definitions; Terms Generally         1

Section 1.02         References to Interest         14

Section 1.03         Acts of Holders         15

 

ARTICLE 2. THE NOTES         16

 

Section 2.01         Title and Terms; Payments         16

Section 2.02         Ranking         17

Section 2.03         Denominations         17

Section 2.04         Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating         17

Section 2.05         Temporary Notes         18

Section 2.06         Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange         18

Section 2.07         Transfer Restrictions         20

Section 2.08         Expiration of Restrictions         23

Section 2.09         Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes         24

Section 2.10         Persons Deemed Owners         25

Section 2.11         Transfer and Exchange         25

Section 2.12         Cancellation         29

Section 2.13         CUSIP Numbers         30

Section 2.14         Payment and Computation of Interest         30

Section 2.15         Business Day         30

 

ARTICLE 3. PURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF THE HOLDERS         30

 

Section 3.01         Purchase at Option of Holders upon a Fundamental Change         30

Section 3.02         Fundamental Change Company Notice         31

Section 3.03         Purchase Procedures         32

Section 3.04         Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice         33

Section 3.05         Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice         33

Section 3.06         Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price         34

Section 3.07         Notes Purchased in Whole or in Part         34

Section 3.08         Covenant To Comply with Applicable Laws upon Purchase of Notes         34

Section 3.09         Repayment to the Company         35

 

ARTICLE 4. CONVERSION         35

 

Section 4.01         Right To Convert         35

Section 4.02         Conversion Procedures         38

Section 4.03         Settlement Upon Conversion         40

Section 4.04         Adjustment of Conversion Rate         44

Section 4.05         Discretionary Adjustments         54

Section 4.06         Adjustment to Conversion Rate Upon Conversion in Connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change         55

Section 4.07         Effect of Recapitalization, Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale         56

Section 4.08         Certain Covenants         58

Section 4.09         Responsibility of Trustee         59

Section 4.10         Notice of Adjustment to the Trustee         59

Section 4.11         Notice to Holders         59

Section 4.12         Exchange in Lieu of Conversion.         61

 

ARTICLE 5. COVENANTS         61

 

Section 5.01         Payment of Principal, Interest and Fundamental Change Purchase Price         61

Section 5.02         Maintenance of Office or Agency         62

Section 5.03         Provisions as to Paying Agent         62

Section 5.04         Reports         64

Section 5.05         Statements as to Defaults         64

Section 5.06         Additional Interest Notice         65

Section 5.07         Compliance Certificate and Opinions of Counsel         65

Section 5.08         Additional Interest         66

Section 5.09         Corporate Existence         67

Section 5.10         Restriction on Resales         67

Section 5.11         Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders         67

 

ARTICLE 6. REMEDIES         68

 

Section 6.01         Events of Default         68

Section 6.02         Acceleration; Waiver         69

Section 6.03         Additional Interest         70

Section 6.04         Control by Majority         71

Section 6.05         Limitation on Suits         71

Section 6.06         Rights of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert         72

Section 6.07         Collection of Indebtedness; Suit for Enforcement by Trustee         72

Section 6.08         Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes         72

Section 6.09         Trustee May File Proofs of Claim         73

Section 6.10         Restoration of Rights and Remedies         73

Section 6.11         Rights and Remedies Cumulative         73

Section 6.12         Delay or Omission Not a Waiver         73

Section 6.13         Priorities         73

Section 6.14         Undertaking for Costs         74

Section 6.15         Waiver of Stay, Extension and Usury Laws         74

 

ARTICLE 7. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE         75

 

Section 7.01         Discharge of Liability on Notes         75

Section 7.02         Deposited Monies to be Held in Trust by Trustee         75

Section 7.03         Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held         75

Section 7.04         Return of Unclaimed Monies         76

Section 7.05         Reinstatement         76

 

ARTICLE 8. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES         76

 

Section 8.01         Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders         76

Section 8.02         Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders         77

Section 8.03         Notice of Amendment or Supplement         78

Section 8.04         Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc.         78

 

ARTICLE 9. SUCCESSOR COMPANY         79

 

Section 9.01         Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms         79

Section 9.02         Successor Corporation to be Substituted         79

Section 9.03         Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee         80

 

ARTICLE 10. THE TRUSTEE         80

 

Section 10.01         Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee         80

Section 10.02         Notice of Defaults         82

Section 10.03         Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc.         82

Section 10.04         No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc.         83

Section 10.05         Trustee, Paying Agents, Exchange Agents or Registrar May Own Notes         83

Section 10.06         Monies to be Held in Trust         83

Section 10.07         Compensation and Expenses of Trustee         84

Section 10.08         Officers Certificate as Evidence         84

Section 10.09         [Reserved].         85

Section 10.10         Eligibility of Trustee         85

Section 10.11         Resignation or Removal of Trustee         85

Section 10.12         Acceptance by Successor Trustee         86

Section 10.13         Succession by Merger, Etc.         87

Section 10.14         [Reserved]         87

Section 10.15         Trustees Application for Instructions from the Company         87

 

ARTICLE 11. NO REDEMPTION         87

 

Section 11.01         No Redemption         87

 

ARTICLE 12. MISCELLANEOUS         88

 

Section 12.01         Effect on Successors and Assigns         88

Section 12.02         Governing Law         88

Section 12.03         No Note Interest Created         88

Section 12.04         Voting.         88

Section 12.05         Benefits of Indenture.         88

Section 12.06         Calculations         89

Section 12.07         Execution in Counterparts; Electronic Signatures         89

Section 12.08         Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company         89

Section 12.09         No Recourse Against Others         90

Section 12.10         Tax Withholding         90

Section 12.11         Waiver of Jury Trial         91

Section 12.12         U.S.A. Patriot Act         91

Section 12.13         Force Majeure         91

 

 

SCHEDULE

 

Schedule A         Make-Whole Table         Schedule A-1

 

EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit A         Form of Note         A-1

 

Exhibit B         Form of Free Transferability Certificate         B-1

 

Exhibit C         Form of Restricted Stock Legend         C-1

 

Exhibit D         Form of Affiliate Restricted Stock Legend         D-1

 

 

 

 

INDENTURE, dated as of January 9, 2024, between OPKO Health, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the “Company”), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).

 

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

 

WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of the Company’s 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”), having the terms, tenor, amount and other provisions hereinafter set forth, and, to provide therefor, has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and

 

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Notes, when duly executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Company, the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture, 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, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Notes by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the benefit of the Company and the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders, as follows:

 

ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

 

Section 1.01    Definitions; Terms Generally. The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (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 1.01. 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 word “or” is not exclusive and the word “including” means including without limitation. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning as the word “shall.” The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular.

 

“1% Exception” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(h) hereof.

 

“Act” has the meaning specified in Section 1.03 hereof.

 

“Additional Interest” means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section 5.08 and Section 6.03 hereof.

 

“Additional Notes” means any Notes (other than the Initial Notes) issued under this Indenture in accordance with Section 2.01 hereof, with the same terms as the Initial Notes.

 

“Additional Shares” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(a) hereof.

 

“Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

 

“Affiliate Notes” means Notes sold by the Company to any Affiliate Person (as either a Holder or beneficial owner thereof) and any Note issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof, other than any such Note that has been sold to (as either a Holder or beneficial owner thereof) a non-Affiliate of the Company (which has not been an Affiliate of the Company within the three months preceding such sale) pursuant to, and in accordance with, a registration statement that is effective under the Securities Act at the time of sale or pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

 

“Affiliate Notes Legend” has the meaning specified in the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

“Affiliate Person” means each of (i) Frost Gamma Investments Trust, (ii) Ever Eagle Limited and (iii) Jane H. Hsiao, Ph.D., MBA.

 

“Affiliate Restricted Stock Legend” means a legend substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit D hereto.

 

“Agent Members” has the meaning specified in Section 2.06(b) hereof.

 

“Aggregate Share Cap” means 184,760,252 shares of Common Stock (subject to proportionate adjustment for share dividends, share splits or share combinations with respect to the Common Stock).

 

“Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any matter at any time, the policies and procedures of a Depositary, if any, that are applicable to such matter at such time.

 

“Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Notes.

 

“Authorized Officer” means any Person (whether designated by name or office) appointed as an officer by or pursuant to a Board Resolution; provided that written notice of such appointment shall have been given in writing to the Trustee.

 

“Bid Solicitation Agent” means the Company or the Person appointed by the Company, from time to time, to solicit secondary market bid quotations for the Trading Price of the Notes in accordance with Section 4.01(b)(ii) hereof. The Company will be the initial Bid Solicitation Agent. The Company may appoint another Person as the Bid Solicitation Agent without notice to Holders.

 

“Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.

 

“Board Resolution” when used with reference to the Company means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors 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 Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or to be closed.

 

“Capital Stock” means, for any Person, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) the equity of such Person, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.

 

“Capped Combination Settlement” means Combination Settlement where the Specified Dollar Amount is equal to the Capped Combination Settlement Cash Amount.

 

“Capped Combination Settlement Cash Amount” means, on any VWAP Trading Day during the relevant Observation Period, the greater of (x) $1,000 and (y) an amount equal to:

 

60 × (DCV - DC × VWAP)

 

where,

 

DCV         =         the Daily Conversion Value on such VWAP Trading Day;

 

DC         =         the Daily Share Cap on such VWAP Trading Day; and

 

VWAP         =         the Daily VWAP on such VWAP Trading Day.

 

“Cash Settlement” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a) hereof.

 

“Clause A Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c) hereof.

 

“Clause B Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c) hereof.

 

“Clause C Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c) hereof.

 

“Close of Business” means 5:00 p.m., New York City time.

 

“Combination Settlement” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a) hereof.

 

“Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

“Common Equity” of any Person means the Capital Stock of such Person that is generally entitled (a) to vote in the election of directors of such Person or (b) if such Person is not a corporation, to vote or otherwise participate in the selection of the governing body, partners, managers or others that will control the management or policies of such Person.

 

“Common Stock” means, subject to ‎Section 4.07, the common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, at the date of this Indenture.

 

“common stock” includes any stock of any class of Capital Stock 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 issuer thereof and which is not subject to redemption by the issuer thereof.

 

“Company” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture, and subject to the provisions of Article 9, shall include its successors and assigns.

 

“Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Company by an Officer thereof.

 

“Conversion Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 5.02 hereof.

 

“Conversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.02(b) hereof.

 

“Conversion Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 4.02(b) hereof.

 

“Conversion Price” means, in respect of each Note, as of any date, $1,000 divided by the Conversion Rate in effect on such date.

 

“Conversion Rate” means initially 869.5652 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to adjustment as set forth herein.

 

“Corporate Trust Office” means, with respect to the office of the Trustee, the designated corporate trust office of the Trustee, which office at the date hereof is located at U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, 2 Concourse Parkway, Suite 800, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).

 

“Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, with respect to the Global Notes, or any successor entity.

 

“Daily Conversion Value” means, for each of the 60 consecutive VWAP Trading Days during any Observation Period, one-sixtieth (1/60th) of the product of (i) the Conversion Rate in effect on such VWAP Trading Day and (ii) the Daily VWAP on such VWAP Trading Day.

 

“Daily Measurement Value” means the Specified Dollar Amount divided by 60.

 

“Daily Settlement Amount” shall consist of, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each of the 60 consecutive VWAP Trading Days during the Observation Period, (i) cash equal to the lesser of (A) the Daily Measurement Value and (B) the Daily Conversion Value for the relevant VWAP Trading Day; and (ii) if the Daily Conversion Value exceeds the Daily Measurement Value, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (A) the difference between the Daily Conversion Value and the Daily Measurement Value, divided by (B) the Daily VWAP for such VWAP Trading Day.

 

“Daily Share Cap” means an amount, rounded down to the nearest 1/10,000th of a share, equal to:

 

AC

60 ×

N

 

$1,000

where,

 

AC         =         the Aggregate Share Cap; and

 

N         =         the Notional Aggregate Principal Amount.

 

“Daily VWAP” means, for each of the 60 consecutive VWAP Trading Days during the applicable Observation Period (or, if applicable, the VWAP Trading Day referred to in Section 4.03(b)(i)), the per share volume-weighted average price as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page “OPK <equity> AQR” (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such VWAP Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of the Common Stock on such VWAP Trading Day determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company). The “Daily VWAP” will be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.

 

“Default” means any event that is, or with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.

 

“Default Settlement Method” means, with respect to any conversion of Notes, (i) if the Conversion Date for such conversion is before the date on which the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition, Capped Combination Settlement and (ii) in all other cases, Combination Settlement with a Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes of $1,000; provided that the then-applicable Default Settlement Method is subject to change in accordance with Section 4.03.

 

“Depositary” means, with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in the form of a Global Note, The Depository Trust Company or the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Depositary” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Depositary” as used with respect to the Notes of any such series shall mean the Depositary with respect to the Notes of that series.

 

“Distributed Property” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c) hereof.

 

“Dollar” or “$” means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or currency of the United States of America that is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts at the time of payment.

 

“effective date” means, as used in Sections 4.01, 4.04 and 4.05, the first date on which the shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange in the applicable market, regular way, reflecting the relevant share split or share combination, as applicable.

 

“Effective Date” means, with respect to a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, as applicable, the date such Fundamental Change or Make-Whole Fundamental Change, as applicable, occurs or becomes effective.

 

“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01 hereof.

 

“Ex-Dividend Date” means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question. For the avoidance of doubt, any alternative trading convention on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market in respect of shares of Common Stock under a separate ticker symbol or CUSIP number shall not be considered “regular way” for this purpose.

 

“Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

“Form of Assignment and Transfer” means the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” attached as Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

“Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice” means the “Form of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice” attached as Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

“Form of Notice of Conversion means the “Form of Notice of Conversion” attached as Attachment 1 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

“Free Trade Date” means the date that is one year after the Last Original Issuance Date of such Note.

 

“Free Transferability Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B.

 

“Freely Tradable” means, with respect to any Notes, that such Notes are eligible to be sold by a Person who is not an affiliate of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 144) and has not been an affiliate of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 144) during the immediately preceding 90 days without any volume or manner of sale restrictions under the Securities Act.

 

“Fundamental Change” shall be deemed to have occurred at the time after the Notes are originally issued and prior to the Maturity Date if any of the following occurs:

 

(1)    any “person” or “group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company, its wholly-owned Subsidiaries and the respective employee benefit plans of the Company and its wholly-owned Subsidiaries, and other than the Permitted Owners, files a Schedule TO or any schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act disclosing that such “person” or “group” has become the direct or indirect ultimate “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s Common Stock representing more than 50.0% of the voting power of the Company’s Common Stock, or a Permitted Owner has (or any “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act including any Permitted Owner has) become the direct or indirect ultimate “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Company’s Common Stock representing more than 55.0% of the voting power of the Company’s Common Stock;

 

(2)    the consummation of (A) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of Common Stock (other than changes resulting from a subdivision or combination) pursuant to which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets (other than a transaction or event described in clause (B) below), (B) any share exchange, consolidation, merger or similar event involving the Company pursuant to which Common Stock will be converted into or exchanged for, cash, securities or other property or (C) any sale, lease or other transfer in one transaction or a series of related transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than one or more of the Company's wholly owned Subsidiaries; provided that any such event described in clause (B) above where the holders of the Company’s voting stock immediately prior to such event own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the voting stock of the continuing or surviving person or transferee or the parent thereof immediately after such event and such holders’ proportional voting power immediately after such transaction vis-â-vis each other with respect to the securities they receive in such transaction will be in substantially the same proportions as their respective voting power vis-â-vis each other immediately prior to such transaction will not constitute a Fundamental Change under such clause (B);

 

(3)    the Company’s stockholders approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or

 

(4)    the Common Stock (or American Depositary Receipts or American Depositary Shares representing Common Stock (collectively, “ADRs”) or other common stock, Common Equity interests or ordinary shares into which the Notes are then convertible) ceases to be listed on any of The New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Capital Market or the NYSE American (or their respective successors);

 

provided, however, that in the case of a transaction or event described in clause (1) or (2) above, if at least 90% of the consideration received or to be received by holders of the Common Stock (excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights) in the transaction or transactions that would otherwise constitute a “Fundamental Change” consists of shares of common stock, ordinary shares, Common Equity interests or ADRs that are traded on any of The New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Capital Market or the NYSE American (or their respective successors) or that will be so traded when issued or exchanged in connection with the transaction that would otherwise constitute a “Fundamental Change” under clause (1) or (2) above, and as a result of such transaction or transactions, the Notes become convertible into such consideration, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights (subject to settlement in accordance with the provisions of Sections 4.03, 4.04 and 4.06 hereof), such event shall not be a “Fundamental Change.” If any transaction in which the Common Stock is replaced by the securities of another entity occurs, following completion of any related Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period (or, in the case of a transaction that would have been a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change but for the proviso immediately following clause (4) of this definition, following the Effective Date of such transaction), references to the Company in this definition shall instead be references to such other entity.

 

“Fundamental Change Company Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 3.02(a) hereof.

 

“Fundamental Change Expiration Time” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(a) hereof.

 

“Fundamental Change Purchase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a) hereof.

 

“Fundamental Change Purchase Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(a) hereof.

 

“Fundamental Change Purchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(a) hereof.

 

“Global Note” means a Note evidencing all or part of a series of Notes, issued to the Depositary for such series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depositary or nominee.

 

“Holder” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered in the Register.

 

“Indenture” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time.

 

“Initial Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01 hereof.

 

“Initial Purchaser” means J.P. Morgan Securities LLC.

 

“Interest Payment Date” means, with respect to the payment of interest on the Notes, each January 15 and July 15 of each year, beginning on July 15, 2024.

 

“Issue Date” means, with respect to any Note, the first date of original issuance of such Note (and not, for the avoidance of doubt, the date of issuance of any Note issued in whole or in part upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Sections 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 2.11 or 3.07).

 

“Last Original Issuance Date” means with respect to any Notes issued pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, and any Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof, the date of this Indenture.

 

“Last Reported Sale Price” of the Common Stock for any Trading Day means the closing sale price per share (or, if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the last bid and last ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average last bid and the average last ask prices) on that Trading Day as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded. If the Common Stock is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant Trading Day, the “Last Reported Sale Price” will be the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If the Common Stock is not so quoted, the “Last Reported Sale Price” will be the mid-point of the last bid and last ask prices for the Common Stock on the relevant Trading Day from a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm selected by the Company for this purpose, which may be the Initial Purchaser. Any such determination will be conclusive absent manifest error. The “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session hours.

 

“Make-Whole Fundamental Change” means any event that (i) is a Fundamental Change (subject to any exceptions or exclusions to the definition thereof) or (ii) would be a Fundamental Change, but for the proviso in clause (2) of the definition of “Fundamental Change.”

 

“Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(a) hereof.

 

“Maturity Date” means January 15, 2029.

 

“Maximum Conversion Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(d) hereof.

 

“Maximum Number of Underlying Shares” means, as of any date, the product of (i) the Maximum Conversion Rate on such date multiplied by (ii) the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes (including all Affiliate Notes) plus (b) prior to the earlier of the expiration and any exercise in full of the Initial Purchaser’s option to purchase additional Notes as set forth in the Purchase Agreement, the aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be so purchased, in the case of sub-clauses (a) and (b) of clause (ii), expressed in thousands.

 

“Measurement Period” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(b) hereof.

 

“Note” or “Notes” has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of the Recitals of this Indenture.

 

“Notice of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(f) hereof.

 

“Notional Aggregate Principal Amount” means $301,054,000.

 

“Observation Period” means, with respect to any Note surrendered for conversion, (i)  if the relevant Conversion Date occurs prior to September 15, 2028, the 60 consecutive VWAP Trading Days beginning on, and including, the second VWAP Trading Day after such Conversion Date; and (ii) if the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after September 15, 2028, the 60 consecutive VWAP Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 62nd Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date.

 

“Offer Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(e) hereof.

 

“Officer” or “officer” shall mean, with respect to the Company, the Chief Executive Officer, the Senior Vice President – Chief Financial Officer – Chief Accounting Officer – Treasurer, the President and Vice Chairman, the Chief Technical Officer and Vice Chairman, the Chief Innovation Officer, the Executive Vice President – Administration or the Assistant General Counsel and Secretary, and any other Person whom the Company deems an officer and delivers written notice of such fact to the Trustee.

 

“Officers Certificate” means a certificate signed by an Authorized Officer and delivered to the Trustee.

 

“Open of Business” means 9:00 a.m., New York City time.

 

“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an employee of, or counsel for, the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.

 

“Outstanding” means, subject to Section 12.04, with respect to the Notes, any Notes authenticated by the Trustee except (i) Notes canceled by it, (ii) Notes delivered to it for cancellation, (iii) Notes paid pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof and (iv)(A) Notes replaced pursuant to Section 2.09 hereof, on and after the time such Note is replaced (unless the Trustee and the Company receive proof satisfactory to them that such Note is held by a bona fide purchaser), (B) Notes converted pursuant to Article 4 hereof, on and after their Conversion Date, (C) any and all Notes, as of the Maturity Date, if the Paying Agent holds, in accordance with this Indenture, money sufficient to pay all of the Notes then payable, and (D) any and all Notes owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Subsidiary of the Company.

 

“Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal amount of, interest on, or the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, any Notes on behalf of the Company.

 

“Permitted Owners” means Phillip Frost, M.D. or entities directly or indirectly controlled by him or established for the benefit of him or his descendants or spouses or charities.

 

“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

 

“Physical Notes” means permanent certificated Notes in definitive, fully registered form issued in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

“Physical Settlement” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.03(a) hereof.

 

“Preliminary Offering Memorandum” means the Preliminary Offering Memorandum dated January 3, 2024 related to the offering of the Initial Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes).

 

“Purchase Agreement” means that certain Purchase Agreement, dated January 4, 2024, between the Company and the Initial Purchaser.

 

“record date” means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock (or other applicable security) have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or such other security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of holders of Common Stock (or such other security) entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors, by statute, by contract or otherwise).

 

“Reference Property” has the meaning specified in Section 4.07(a) hereof.

 

“Reference Property Unit” has the meaning specified in Section 4.07(a) hereof.

 

“Register” and “Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 2.06.

 

“Regular Record Date” means, with respect to any Interest Payment Date, January 1 (whether or not a Business Day) or July 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.

 

“Reporting Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.03 hereof.

 

“Resale Restriction Termination Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.08(b)(ii) hereof.

 

“Responsible Officer” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer within the corporate trust department or any other successor group of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and who in each case shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.

 

“Restricted Global Note” has the meaning specified in Section 2.08(b)(i) hereof.

 

“Restricted Note” has the meaning specified in Section 2.07(a)(i) hereof.

 

“Restricted Notes Legend” has the meaning specified in the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

“Restricted Stock” has the meaning specified in Section 2.07(c)(i) hereof.

 

“Restricted Stock Legend” means a legend substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit C hereto.

 

“Rule 144” means Rule 144 under the Securities Act (including any successor rule thereto), as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

“Scheduled Trading Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading. If the Common Stock is not listed or admitted for trading, “Scheduled Trading Day” means a Business Day.

 

“Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

“Settlement Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a) hereof.

 

“Settlement Election” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a) hereof.

 

“Settlement Election Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a) hereof.

 

“Settlement Method” means, with respect to any conversion of Notes, Physical Settlement, Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement, as elected (or deemed to be elected) by the Company in accordance with Section 4.03(a)(i) hereof; provided that the Company shall not be permitted to elect Physical Settlement or Combination Settlement (other than Capped Combination Settlement) until after the Share Reservation Condition has been satisfied.

 

“Share Exchange Event” has the meaning specified in Section 4.07(a) hereof.

 

“Share Reservation Condition” means that the Company has duly authorized and reserved for issuance (by all necessary corporate action and arrangements with the transfer agent for the Company’s Common Stock) upon conversion of the Notes (including the Affiliate Notes) a number of authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock that have not been issued or reserved for any other purpose, and/or a number of shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company that have not been reserved for any other purpose, equal to the Maximum Number of Underlying Shares, and has provided notice thereof to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in accordance with Section 12.08.

 

“Significant Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, a Subsidiary of such Person that would constitute a “significant subsidiary” as such term is defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, as in effect on the date of this Indenture.

 

“Specified Dollar Amount” means the maximum cash amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes to be received by the Holder upon conversion as specified in the Company’s Specified Dollar Amount Election Notice (which may be part of the Settlement Election Notice).

 

“Specified Dollar Amount Election” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a) hereof.

 

“Specified Dollar Amount Election Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 4.03(a) hereof.

 

“Spin-Off” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c) hereof.

 

“Stock Price” has the meaning specified in Section 4.06(c) hereof.

 

“Subsidiary” of any Person means (a) any corporation, association or other business entity other than a partnership of which more than 50% of the outstanding total voting power ordinarily entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers, trustees or other voting members of the governing body thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other Subsidiaries or (b) any partnership the sole general partner or the managing general partner of which is the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or the only general partners of which are the Company or of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company (or any combination thereof).

 

“Successor Company” has the meaning specified in Section 9.01(a) hereof.

 

“Trading Day” means a day on which (i) trading in the Common Stock (or other security for which a closing sale price must be determined) generally occurs on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or, if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not then listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then listed or, if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then traded, and (ii) a Last Reported Sale Price for the Common Stock (or closing sale price for such other security) is available on such securities exchange or market. If the Common Stock (or such other security) is not so listed or traded, “Trading Day” means a “Business Day.”

 

“Trading Price” of the Notes on any Trading Day means the average of the secondary market bid quotations obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent for $1,000,000 principal amount of the Notes at approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City time, on such Trading Day from three independent nationally recognized securities dealers selected by the Company, which may include the Initial Purchaser; provided that, if three such bids cannot reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent but two such bids are obtained, then the average of the two bids shall be used, and if only one such bid can reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent that one bid shall be used. If the Bid Solicitation Agent cannot reasonably obtain at least one bid for $1,000,000 principal amount of the Notes from a nationally recognized securities dealer on a Trading Day, then the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes on such Trading Day will be deemed to be less than 98% of the product of (i) the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on such Trading Day and (ii) the Conversion Rate in effect on such Trading Day. Any such determination will be conclusive absent manifest error. If (x) the Company is not acting as Bid Solicitation Agent and the Company does not instruct the Bid Solicitation Agent to obtain bids when required, or the Bid Solicitation Agent fails to solicit bids when required, or (y) the Company is acting as Bid Solicitation Agent and it fails to make such determination, then, in either case, the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of the Notes will be deemed to be less than 98% of the product of (i) the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock and (ii) the Conversion Rate, in each case, for each Trading Day on which the Company or the Bid Solicitation Agent fails to do so, as the case may be.

 

“transfer” as used in Section 2.07 hereof has the meaning specified in Section 2.07(d) hereof.

 

“Trigger Event” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c) hereof.

 

“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to Section 10.12 hereof, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.

 

“Uniform Commercial Code” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York from time to time.

 

“U.S.” means the United States of America.

 

“Valuation Period” has the meaning specified in Section 4.04(c) hereof.

 

“VWAP Market Disruption Event” means (i) a failure by the primary U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading to open for trading during its regular trading session or (ii) the occurrence or existence, prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Scheduled Trading Day for the Common Stock for more than a one half-hour period in the aggregate during regular trading hours of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant securities exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options contracts or future contracts relating to the Common Stock.

 

“VWAP Trading Day” means a day on which (i) there is no VWAP Market Disruption Event and (ii) trading in the Common Stock generally occurs on the Nasdaq Global Select Market or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then listed or admitted for trading. If the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, “VWAP Trading Day” means a “Business Day.”

 

Section 1.02    References to Interest. Any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note in the Indenture shall be deemed to include Additional Interest, if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant hereto. Any express mention of the payment of Additional Interest in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.

 

Section 1.03    Acts of Holders. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or of the holding by any Person of Notes, shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 10.01 hereof) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.

 

(b)    The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

 

(c)    The amount of Notes held by any Person executing any such instrument or writings as the Holder thereof, and the numbers of such Notes, and the date of his holding the same, may be proved by the production of such Notes or by a certificate executed, as depositary, by any trust company, bank, banker or member of a national securities exchange (wherever situated), if such certificate is in form satisfactory to the Trustee, showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the Notes therein described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person executing such instrument or writing as the Holder thereof, if such certificate or affidavit is in form satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee and the Company may assume that such ownership of any Notes continues until (1) another certificate bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Notes is produced or (2) such Notes are produced by some other Person or (3)  such Notes are no longer Outstanding.

 

(d)    The fact and date of execution of any such instrument or writing and the amount and number of Notes held by the Person so executing such instrument or writing may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient; and the Trustee may in any instance require further proof with respect to any of the matters referred to in this Section 1.03.

 

(e)    The principal amount and serial numbers of Notes held by any Person, and the date of holding the same, shall be proved by the Registrar.

 

(f)    Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Note shall bind every future Holder of the same Note and the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Note.

 

(g)    The Company may but shall not be obligated to set a record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders of any Outstanding Notes of any series entitled to vote or consent to any action by vote or consent authorized or permitted by, without limitation, Section 2.11, 6.02, 6.04, 6.05, 8.02 or 10.11. Such record date shall be not less than 10 nor more than 60 days prior to the first solicitation of such consent or the date of the most recent list of Holders of such Notes furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.13 prior to such solicitation.

 

(h)    If the Company solicits from Holders any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option, fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or other Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the Close of Business on the record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of the Outstanding Notes have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Notes shall be computed as of the record date; provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture not later than six months after the record date.

 

ARTICLE 2.
THE NOTES

 

Section 2.01    Title and Terms; Payments.

 

The aggregate principal amount of Notes (including Affiliate Notes) that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is initially limited to $301,054,000 aggregate principal amount (the “Initial Notes”) except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Sections 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 2.09, 2.11, 3.07 or 4.02. The Initial Notes shall be composed of (a) $230,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Restricted Notes and (b) $71,054,000 aggregate principal amount of Affiliate Notes. The Company may, from time to time after the execution of this Indenture, without notice to or the consent of the Holders, execute and deliver to the Trustee for authentication Additional Notes that do not constitute Affiliate Notes in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and deliver said Additional Notes to or upon receipt of a Company Order, without any further action by the Company hereunder; provided, however, that (1)  if any such Additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes or securities law purposes, any such Additional Notes will have one or more separate CUSIP numbers so long as they remain not fungible; (2) such Additional Notes must have the same terms as the Initial Notes (other than differences in the issue date, the issue price, the date from which interest shall accrue and, if applicable, restrictions on transfer in respect of such Additional Notes); and (3) the Trustee must receive an Officer’s Certificate upon which it can rely to the effect that such issuance of Additional Notes complies with the provisions of this Indenture, including each provision of this paragraph.

 

The Notes shall be known and designated as the “3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029” of the Company. The principal amount shall be payable on the Maturity Date.

 

The principal amount of any Physical Notes shall be payable at the Corporate Trust Office and at any other office or agency in the continental United States maintained by the Company for such purpose. Interest on Physical Notes will be payable (i) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or less of Notes, by check mailed to such Holders at the address set forth in the Register and (ii) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of more than $1,000,000 of Notes, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to an account within the United States designated by such Holder in a written application delivered by such Holder to the Trustee and the Paying Agent not later than the relevant Regular Record Date for such interest payment, which application shall remain in effect until such Holder notifies the Trustee and Paying Agent to the contrary in writing. The Company will pay or cause the Paying Agent to pay principal of, and interest on, Global Notes in immediately available funds to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered holder of such Global Note, on each Interest Payment Date, Fundamental Change Purchase Date or other payment date, as the case may be.

 

Any Notes repurchased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries will be retired and no longer Outstanding hereunder.

 

Section 2.02    Ranking. The Notes constitute general unsecured, senior obligations of the Company.

 

Section 2.03    Denominations. The Notes shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons and in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

Section 2.04    Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The Notes shall be executed by manual, facsimile or other electronic signature on behalf of the Company by any Officer of the Company.

 

Notes bearing the manual, facsimile or other electronic signatures of individuals who were, at the time of signing such Notes, an Officer of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individual has ceased to hold such office prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did not hold such office at the date of such Notes.

 

At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes. The Company Order shall specify the amount of Notes to be authenticated, and shall further specify the amount of such Notes to be issued as one or more Global Notes or as one or more Physical Notes. The Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes as provided in this Indenture and not otherwise.

 

Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.

 

No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Note a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by an authorized signatory of the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.

 

Section 2.05    Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Physical Notes, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Notes that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the Physical Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the Officer executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by such Officer’s execution of such Notes; provided that any such temporary Notes shall bear legends on the face of such Notes as set forth in the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A and/or Sections 2.07 and 2.11.

 

After the preparation of Physical Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for Physical Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at any office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 5.02, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, upon Company Order, authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of Physical Notes of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as Physical Notes.

 

Section 2.06    Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

 

(a)    The Company shall cause to be kept at the applicable Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register in the continental United States (the register maintained in such office and in any other office or agency designated pursuant to Section 5.02 being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the “Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes. The Trustee is hereby appointed “Registrar” (the “Registrar”) for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided.

 

Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at an office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 5.02 for such purpose, the Company shall execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, each such Note bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Indenture (including the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A and Sections 2.07 and 2.11).

 

At the option of the Holder and subject to the other provisions of Sections 2.07 and 2.11, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver, the Notes which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.

 

All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.

 

No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Company and the Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 2.11 not involving any transfer.

 

Neither the Company nor the Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of any Note in the circumstances set forth in Section 2.11(a)(iv).

 

(b)    Neither any members of, or participants in, the Depositary (collectively, the “Agent Members”) nor any other Persons on whose behalf any Agent Member may act shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note registered in the name of the Depositary or any nominee thereof, or under any such Global Note, and the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner and Holder of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. The Trustee shall have no liability, responsibility or obligation to any Agent Members or any other Person on whose behalf Agent Members may act with respect to (i) any ownership interests in the Global Note, (ii) the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee, (iii) any notice required hereunder, (iv) any payments under or with respect to the Global Note or (v) actions taken or not taken by any Agent Members.

 

(c)    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 or electronic certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, or impair, as between the Depositary, its Agent Members and any other Person on whose behalf an Agent Member may act, the operation of customary practices of such Persons governing the exercise of the rights of a Holder of any Note. The registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action that a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.

 

Section 2.07    Transfer Restrictions.

 

(a)    Restricted Notes.

 

(i)    Every Note (other than an Affiliate Note) (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution thereof) that bears, or that is required under this Section 2.07 to bear, the Restricted Notes Legend will be deemed to be a “Restricted Note.” Each Restricted Note will be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Indenture (including in the Restricted Notes Legend) and will bear a restricted CUSIP number for the Notes (which CUSIP number will be distinct from the CUSIP number for the Affiliate Notes) unless such restrictions on transfer are eliminated or otherwise waived by written consent of the Company (including without limitation, by the Company’s delivery of the Free Transferability Certificate as provided herein), and each Holder of a Restricted Note, by such Holder’s acceptance of such Restricted Note, will be deemed to be bound by the applicable restrictions on transfer applicable to such Restricted Note.

 

(ii)    Until the Resale Restriction Termination Date, any Note will bear the Restricted Notes Legend unless:

 

(A)    such Note, was transferred (1) to the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or (2) pursuant to a registration statement that was effective under the Securities Act at the time of such transfer; or

 

(B)    such Note was transferred in accordance with Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act; or

 

(C)    the Company delivers written notice to the Trustee and the Registrar (including, without limitation, by the Company’s delivery of the Free Transferability Certificate as provided herein) stating that the Restricted Notes Legend may be removed from such Note and all Applicable Procedures have been complied with; or

 

(D)    such Note is an Affiliate Note, in which case it shall bear the Affiliate Restricted Notes Legend.

 

(iii)    In addition, with respect to any Note other than an Affiliate Note, until the Resale Restriction Termination Date:

 

(A)    no transfer of any Note will be registered by the Registrar unless the transferring Holder delivers a notice substantially in the form of the Form of Assignment and Transfer, with the appropriate box checked, to the Trustee and such transfer complies with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Restricted Notes Legend; and

 

(B)    the Registrar will not register any transfer of any Note that is a Restricted Note to a Person that is an affiliate of the Company or has been an affiliate of the Company (within the meaning of Rule 144) within the 90 days immediately preceding the date of such proposed transfer.

 

(iv)    On and after the Resale Restriction Termination Date, any Note (other than an Affiliate Note) will bear the Restricted Notes Legend at any time the Company determinates that, to comply with law, such Note must bear the Restricted Notes Legend.

 

(v)    No Notes bearing, or required to bear, the Restricted Notes Legend (or any interest therein) may be exchanged for, or transferred with the Holder taking delivery in the form of, Notes bearing, or required to bear, the Affiliate Notes Legend (or any interest therein).

 

(b)    Affiliate Notes.

 

(i)    Each Affiliate Note will be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Indenture (including in the Affiliate Notes Legend) and will bear a restricted CUSIP number for the Notes (which CUSIP number will be distinct from the CUSIP number for the Restricted Notes) unless such restrictions on transfer are eliminated or otherwise waived by written consent of the Company, and each Holder of an Affiliate Note, by such Holder’s acceptance of such Affiliate Note, will be deemed to be bound by the applicable restrictions on transfer applicable to such Affiliate Note.

 

(ii)    Any Affiliate Note will bear the Affiliate Notes Legend unless:

 

(A)    such Note was transferred (1) to the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company or (2) to a non-Affiliate of the Company pursuant to a registration statement that was effective under the Securities Act at the time of such transfer; or

 

(B)    such Note was transferred to a non-Affiliate of the Company pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act; or

 

(C)    the date on which the Holder (or in the case of a Global Note, the beneficial owner) of such Note (x) has a “holding period” (determined pursuant to Rule 144(d) under the Securities Act) of at least one year and (y) is not an Affiliate of the Company (and has not been an Affiliate of the Company during the three months immediately preceding).

 

(iii)    In addition, no transfer of any Affiliate Note will be registered by the Registrar unless the transferring Holder delivers a notice substantially in the form of the Form of Assignment and Transfer, with the appropriate box checked, to the Trustee and such transfer complies with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Affiliate Notes Legend.

 

(iv)    Any Affiliate Note will bear the Affiliate Notes Legend at any time the Company determinates that, to comply with law, such Note should bear the Affiliate Notes Legend.

 

(v)    No Notes bearing, or required to bear, the Affiliate Notes Legend (or any interest therein) may be exchanged for, or transferred with the Holder taking delivery in the form of, Notes bearing, or required to bear, the Restricted Notes Legend (or any interest therein), other than following a transfer of such Affiliate Note to a non-Affiliate of the Company (which shall not include, for the avoidance of doubt, a Person that was an Affiliate of the Company during the three months immediately preceding) pursuant to (A) Rule 144 under the Securities Act or (B) a registration statement that was effective under the Securities Act at the time of such transfer.

 

(c)    Restricted Stock.

 

(i)    Every share of Common Stock that bears, or that is required under this Section 2.07 to bear, the Restricted Stock Legend or the Affiliate Restricted Stock Legend, as applicable, will be deemed to be “Restricted Stock.” Each share of Restricted Stock will be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Indenture (including in the Restricted Stock Legend or the Affiliate Restricted Stock Legend, as applicable) and will bear a restricted CUSIP number (and the restricted CUSIP number for the Common Stock that bears, or is required to bear, the Restricted Stock Legend shall be different than the restricted CUSIP number for the Common Stock that bears, or is required to bear, the Affiliate Stock Legend) unless such restrictions on transfer are eliminated or otherwise waived by written consent (including, without limitation, but with respect solely to Notes that are not Affiliate Notes, by the Company’s delivery of the Free Transferability Certificate as provided herein) of the Company, and each Holder of Restricted Stock, by such Holder’s acceptance of Restricted Stock, will be deemed to be bound by the restrictions on transfer applicable to such Restricted Stock.

 

(ii)    Until the Resale Restriction Termination Date, any shares of Common Stock issued upon the conversion of a Restricted Note will be issued in book-entry form and will bear the Restricted Stock Legend, unless the Company delivers written notice to the Trustee, the Registrar and the transfer agent for the Common Stock stating that such shares of Common Stock need not bear the Restricted Stock Legend.

 

(iii)    On and after the Resale Restriction Termination Date, shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of a Restricted Note will be issued in book-entry or certificated form (as determined by the Company) and will bear the Restricted Stock Legend at any time the Company reasonably determines that, to comply with law, such shares of Common Stock must bear the Restricted Stock Legend.

 

(iv)    Any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of an Affiliate Note will be issued in book-entry form and will bear the Affiliate Restricted Stock Legend at any time the Company reasonably determines that, to comply with law, such shares of Common Stock must bear the Affiliate Restricted Stock Legend.

 

(d)    As used in this Section 2.07, the term “transfer” means any sale, pledge, transfer, loan, hypothecation or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Note or any Affiliate Note, any interest therein (including, without limitation, any beneficial interest therein) or any Restricted Stock.

 

Section 2.08    Expiration of Restrictions.

 

(a)    Physical Notes. Any Physical Note (or any security issued in exchange or substitution therefor) that does not constitute a Restricted Note or Affiliate Note may be exchanged for a new Note or Notes of like tenor and aggregate principal amount that do not bear the Restricted Notes Legend or Affiliate Notes Legend, as applicable. To exercise such right of exchange, the Holder of such Note must surrender such Note in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.11 and deliver any additional documentation reasonably required by the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar in connection with such exchange.

 

(b)    Restricted Global Notes; Resale Restriction Termination Date.

 

(i)    If, on the Free Trade Date, or the next succeeding Business Day if the Free Trade Date is not a Business Day, any Notes are represented by a Global Note that is a Restricted Note (any such Global Note, a “Restricted Global Note”), the Company will use reasonable efforts to effect an exchange of every beneficial interest in each Restricted Global Note for beneficial interests in Global Notes that are not subject to the restrictions set forth in the Restricted Notes Legend and in Section 2.07 hereof on or prior to the 375th day after the Last Original Issuance Date.

 

(ii)    To effect such automatic exchange, the Company will (A) deliver to the Depositary an instruction letter for the Depositary’s mandatory exchange process within a period of time that is reasonably likely to result in such exchange occurring on or prior to the 375th day after the Last Original Issuance Date and (B) deliver to each of the Trustee and the Registrar a duly completed Free Transferability Certificate promptly after the Free Trade Date. The first date on which both the Trustee and the Registrar have received the Free Transferability Certificate will be known as the “Resale Restriction Termination Date.”

 

(iii)    Immediately upon receipt of the Free Transferability Certificate by each of the Trustee and the Registrar:

 

(A)     the Restricted Notes Legend will be deemed removed from each of the Global Notes specified in such Free Transferability Certificate and the restricted CUSIP number will be deemed removed from each of such Global Notes and deemed replaced with an unrestricted CUSIP number specified in the relevant Free Transferability Certificate;

 

(B)     the Restricted Stock Legend will be deemed removed from any shares of Common Stock previously issued upon conversion of the Notes; and

 

(C)    thereafter, shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes will be assigned an unrestricted CUSIP number and will not bear the Restricted Stock Legend (except as provided in Section 2.07(c)(iii)) or any similar legend.

 

(iv)    Promptly after the Resale Restriction Termination Date, the Company will provide Bloomberg L.P. (if then generally in use) with a copy of the Free Transferability Certificate and will direct Bloomberg L.P. (if then generally in use) to adjust its screen page for the Notes to indicate that the Notes are no longer Restricted Notes and are then identified by an unrestricted CUSIP number.

 

(v)    Prior to the Company’s delivery of the Free Transferability Certificate and afterwards, the Company and the Trustee will comply with the Applicable Procedures and otherwise use reasonable efforts to cause each Global Note to be identified by an unrestricted CUSIP number in the facilities of the Depositary by the date the Free Transferability Certificate is delivered to the Trustee and the Registrar or as promptly as possible thereafter.

 

(vi)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections 2.08(b)(i), (ii) or (iii), the Company will not be required to deliver the Free Transferability Certificate if it reasonably believes that removal of the Restricted Notes Legend or the changes to the CUSIP numbers for the Notes could result in or facilitate transfers of the Notes in violation of applicable law.

 

(vii)    For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 2.08(b) shall not apply to Affiliate Notes.

 

(c)    Affiliate Notes. The Affiliate Notes Legend shall be removed from Affiliate Notes (and the restrictions on transfer therein contained shall cease to apply) only in connection with a transfer pursuant to Section 2.07(b).

 

Section 2.09    Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes. If any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Note of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless and such other reasonable requirements as may be imposed by the Company as permitted by Section 8-405 of the Uniform Commercial Code have been satisfied, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

 

In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Note, pay such Note.

 

Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section 2.09, the Company may require payment by the Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.

 

Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section 2.09 in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.

 

The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.

 

Section 2.10    Persons Deemed Owners

 

. Prior to due presentment of a Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any agent of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar may treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered in the Register as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of the principal of such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee, the Registrar nor any agent of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

Section 2.11    Transfer and Exchange.

 

(a)    Provisions Applicable to All Transfers and Exchanges.

 

(i)    Subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 2.07 and this Section 2.11, Physical Notes and beneficial interests in Global Notes may be transferred or exchanged from time to time as desired, and each such transfer or exchange will be noted by the Registrar in the Register.

 

(ii)    All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange in accordance with this Indenture will be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

(iii)    No service charge will be imposed on any Holder of a Physical Note or any owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Note for any exchange or registration of transfer, but each of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar may require such Holder or owner of a beneficial interest to pay a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed in connection with such registration of transfer or exchange.

 

(iv)    Unless the Company specifies otherwise, none of the Company, the Trustee, the Registrar or any co-Registrar will be required to exchange or register a transfer of any Note (i) that has been surrendered for conversion or (ii) as to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been delivered and not withdrawn, except to the extent any portion of such Note is not subject to the foregoing.

 

(v)    The Trustee will have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depositary participants or beneficial owners of interests in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

 

(vi)    Each Holder agrees to indemnify the Trustee from any transfer, exchange or assignment of such Holder’s Note in violation of any provision of this Indenture and/or applicable federal or state securities laws.

 

(b)    In General; Transfer and Exchange of Beneficial Interests in Global Notes. So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless otherwise required by law, except to the extent required by Section 2.11(c):

 

(i)    all Notes will be represented by one or more Global Notes (provided that Affiliate Notes may be represented by one or more Physical Notes);

 

(ii)    every transfer and exchange of a beneficial interest in a Global Note will be effected through the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and the provisions of this Indenture (including the restrictions on transfer set forth in Section 2.07);

 

(iii)    each Global Note may be transferred only as a whole and only (A) by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary, (B) by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or to another nominee of the Depositary or (C) by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary; and

 

(iv)    no Affiliate Note may be transferred into a Global Note other than a Global Note representing solely Affiliate Notes other than in connection with a transfer pursuant to Section 2.07(b).

 

(c)    Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes.

 

(i)    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, each Global Note will be exchanged for Physical Notes if the Depositary delivers notice to the Company that:

 

(A)    the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue to act as Depositary; or

 

(B)    the Depositary is no longer permitted under applicable law to continue as Depositary for such Global Note;

 

and, in each case, the Company promptly delivers a copy of such notice to the Trustee and the Company fails to appoint a successor Depositary within 90 days after receiving notice from the Depositary.

 

In each such case, each Global Note will be deemed surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Trustee will cause each Global Note to be canceled in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, and the Company, in accordance with Section 2.04, will promptly execute, and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee will, in accordance with Section 2.04, will promptly authenticate and deliver, for each beneficial interest in each Global Note so exchanged, an aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes equal to the aggregate principal amount of such beneficial interest, registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary specifies, and bearing any legends that such Physical Notes are required to bear under Section 2.07.

 

(ii)    In addition, if (x) the Company, in its sole discretion, notifies the Trustee in writing that it wishes to terminate and exchange all or part of a Global Note for Physical Notes and the beneficial owners of the majority of the principal amount of such Global Note (or portion thereof) to be exchanged consent to such exchange, the Company may exchange all beneficial interests in such Global Note (or portion thereof) for Physical Notes by delivering a written request to the Registrar or (y) an Event of Default has occurred with regard to the Notes represented by the relevant Global Note and such Event of Default has not been cured or waived, any owner of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may deliver a written request to the Registrar to exchange such beneficial interest for Physical Notes.

 

In such case, (A) the Registrar will deliver notice of such request to the Company and the Trustee, which notice will identify the aggregate principal amount of such beneficial interest and the CUSIP number(s) of the relevant Global Note; (B) the Company will, in accordance with Section 2.04, promptly execute, and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee, in accordance with Section 2.04, will promptly authenticate and deliver, to such owner, for the beneficial interest so exchanged by such owner, Physical Notes registered in such owner’s name having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such beneficial interest and bearing any legends that such Physical Notes are required to bear under Section 2.07; and (C) the Registrar, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, will cause the principal amount of such Global Note to be decreased by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest so exchanged. If all of the beneficial interests in a Global Note are so exchanged, such Global Note will be deemed surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Trustee will cause such Global Note to be canceled in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.

 

(d)    Transfer and Exchange of Physical Notes.

 

(i)    If Physical Notes are issued, a Holder may transfer a Physical Note by: (A) surrendering such Physical Note for registration of transfer to the Registrar, together with any endorsements or instruments of transfer required by any of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar; (B) if such Physical Note is a Restricted Note or Affiliate Note, delivering any documentation that the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar require to ensure that such transfer complies with Section 2.07 and any applicable securities laws; and (C) satisfying all other requirements for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.11 and in Section 2.07. Upon the satisfaction of conditions (A), (B) and (C), the Company, in accordance with Section 2.04, will promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order, will, in accordance with Section 2.04, promptly authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Physical Notes, of any authorized denomination, having like aggregate principal amount and bearing any restrictive legends required by Section 2.07 and/or the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

(ii)    If Physical Notes are issued, a Holder may exchange a Physical Note for other Physical Notes of any authorized denominations and aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be exchanged by surrendering such Notes, together with any endorsements or instruments of transfer required by any of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar, at any office or agency maintained by the Company for such purposes pursuant to Section 5.02. Whenever a Holder surrenders Notes for exchange, the Company, in accordance with Section 2.04, will promptly execute and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order, will, in accordance with Section 2.04, promptly authenticate and deliver the Notes that such Holder is entitled to receive, bearing registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding and any restrictive legends that such Physical Notes are required to bear under Section 2.07.

 

(iii)    If Physical Notes are issued, a Holder may transfer or exchange a Physical Note for a beneficial interest in a Global Note by (A) surrendering such Physical Note for registration of transfer or exchange, together with any endorsements or instruments of transfer required by any of the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar, at any office or agency maintained by the Company for such purposes pursuant to Section 5.05; (B) if such Physical Note is a Restricted Note or an Affiliate Note, delivering any documentation the Company, the Trustee or the Registrar reasonably require to ensure that such transfer complies with Section 2.07 and any applicable securities laws; (C) satisfying all other requirements for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.11 and Section 2.07; and (D) providing written instructions to the Trustee to make, or to direct the Registrar to make, an adjustment in its books and records with respect to the applicable Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by such Global Note, which instructions will contain information regarding the Depositary account to be credited with such increase. Upon the satisfaction of conditions (A), (B), (C) and (D), the Trustee will cancel such Physical Note and cause, or direct the Registrar to cause, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of such Physical Note, and will credit or cause to be credited the account of the Person specified in the instructions provided by the exchanging Holder in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Physical Note. If no Global Notes are then Outstanding, the Company, in accordance with Section 2.04, will promptly use reasonable efforts to execute and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order, will, in accordance with Section 2.04, authenticate, a new Global Note in the appropriate aggregate principal amount. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Affiliate Note that is a Physical Note may be transferred into a Global Note other than a Global Note representing solely Affiliate Notes other than in connection with a transfer pursuant to Section 2.07(b).

 

Section 2.12    Cancellation. The Company at any time may deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and may deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and sold. The Trustee shall cancel all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment, purchase, repurchase, conversion or cancellation in accordance with its customary practices. The Notes acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, while held by or on behalf of the Company or such Subsidiary, shall not entitle the Holder thereof to convert the Notes. The Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes it has paid in full or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. The Company or any Subsidiary of the Company may from time to time repurchase Notes in open market purchases or negotiated transactions without giving prior notice to Holders. Any Notes purchased by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company will be retired and no longer Outstanding under this Indenture.

 

The Registrar shall retain, in accordance with its customary procedures, copies of all letters, notices and other written communications received pursuant to this Section 2.12. The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters, notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving of reasonable written notice to the Registrar.

 

Section 2.13    CUSIP Numbers. In issuing the Notes, the Company may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use); provided that the Trustee shall have no liability for any defect in the CUSIP numbers as they appear on any Notes, notice or elsewhere and; provided further, 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 on such notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP” numbers. Any Affiliate Note identified by a “CUSIP” number shall bear a distinct CUSIP number from all other Notes until such time as such Affiliate Note is transferred pursuant to Section 2.07(b).

 

Section 2.14    Payment and Computation of Interest. The Notes will bear cash interest at a rate of 3.75% per year until the Maturity Date. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for (i) in the case of the Initial Notes, January 9, 2024 or (ii) in the case of any Additional Notes, the date provided under such Notes. Interest will be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the Close of Business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date semiannually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date; provided, alternate record dates may be established by the Company and the Trustee with respect to any interest not paid on its originally scheduled due date. Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and, for partial months, on the basis of the number of days actually elapsed in a 30-day month. For the avoidance of doubt, the payment, or lack of payment, of interest on Notes surrendered for conversion will be governed by Section 4.03(d).

 

Section 2.15    Business Day. If any Interest Payment Date, the Maturity Date or any Fundamental Change Purchase Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the required payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest on such payment will accrue in respect of the delay.

 

ARTICLE 3.
PURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF THE HOLDERS

 

Section 3.01    Purchase at Option of Holders upon a Fundamental Change. If a Fundamental Change occurs at any time prior to the Maturity Date, then each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to purchase for cash all or any portion of such Holder’s Notes such that the remaining principal amount of each Note that is not purchased in full equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof, on a date (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Date”) specified by the Company that is not less than 20 Business Days or more than 35 Business Days following the date on which the Company delivers the Fundamental Change Company Notice, at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Purchase Date (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Price”); provided, however, that if the Company purchases a Note on a Fundamental Change Purchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Interest Payment Date corresponding to such Regular Record Date, the Company shall instead pay the full amount of such accrued and unpaid interest on such Note on the Interest Payment Date to the Holder of record of such Note as of such Regular Record Date and the Fundamental Change Purchase Price shall then be equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Note the Company purchases on such Fundamental Change Purchase Date; provided, further, that the Fundamental Change Purchase Date may be postponed to allow the Company to comply with applicable law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall be no purchase of any Notes pursuant to this Section 3.01 if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to the Fundamental Change Purchase Date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to such Notes). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes held by it during the acceleration of the Notes (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price with respect to such Notes) and shall deem to be canceled any instructions for book-entry transfer of the Notes in compliance with the Applicable Procedures, in which case, upon such return or cancellation, as the case may be, the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be required to purchase, or to make an offer to purchase, the Notes upon a Fundamental Change if a third party makes such an offer in the same manner, at the same time and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company as set forth in this Article 3 and such third party purchases all Notes validly surrendered for purchase and not validly withdrawn under its offer in the same manner, at the same time and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company as set forth in this Article 3.

 

Section 3.02    Fundamental Change Company Notice.

 

(a)    General. On or before the 20th Business Day after the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall provide to all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent (in the case of any Paying Agent other than the Trustee) a written notice (the “Fundamental Change Company Notice”) of the occurrence of such Fundamental Change and of the purchase right at the option of the Holders arising as a result thereof. Such notice shall be sent by first class mail or, in the case of any Global Notes, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures for providing notices. Simultaneously with providing such Fundamental Change Company Notice, the Company shall publish a press release and publish such information on the Company’s website.

 

Each Fundamental Change Company Notice shall specify:

 

(i)    the events causing the Fundamental Change;

 

(ii)    the Effective Date of the Fundamental Change;

 

(iii)    the last date on which a Holder of Notes may exercise the purchase right pursuant to Section 3.01;

 

(iv)    the Fundamental Change Purchase Price;

 

(v)    the Fundamental Change Purchase Date;

 

(vi)    the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;

 

(vii)    the applicable Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the applicable Conversion Rate resulting from the Fundamental Change;

 

(viii)    that such Fundamental Change also constitutes a Make-Whole Fundamental Change;

 

(ix)    if applicable, that the Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only if the Holder withdraws the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice in accordance with this Indenture;

 

(x)    that the Holder must exercise the purchase right prior to the Fundamental Change Expiration Time;

 

(xi)    that the Holder shall have the right to withdraw any Notes surrendered for purchase prior to the Fundamental Change Expiration Time; and

 

(xii)    the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to purchase their Notes.

 

(b)    No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders’ purchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings for the purchase of the Notes pursuant to Section 3.01.

 

(c)    At the Company’s written request, the Trustee shall give such notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that, in all cases, the text of such Fundamental Change Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company; provided, further that the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee, at least five (5) Business Days before the Fundamental Change Company Notice is required to be mailed (or such shorter period agreed to by the Trustee), an Officer’s Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the complete form of such notice and the information to be stated in such notice. Neither the Trustee nor the Paying Agent shall be responsible for determining if a Fundamental Change has occurred or for delivering a Fundamental Change Company Notice to Holders or for the content of the Fundamental Change Company Notice.

 

Section 3.03    Purchase Procedures.

 

(a)    Purchases of Notes under Section 3.01 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:

 

(i)    if the Notes to be purchased are Physical Notes, delivery to the Paying Agent by the Holder of a duly completed notice (the “Fundamental Change Purchase Notice”), in the form set forth in Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, together with the Notes duly endorsed for transfer, prior to Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Purchase Date, (the “Fundamental Change Expiration Time”); and

 

(ii)    if the Notes to be purchased are Global Notes, delivery of the Notes, by book-entry transfer, in compliance with the Applicable Procedures and the satisfaction of any other requirements of the Depositary in connection with delivering beneficial interests in a Global Note for purchase, by the Fundamental Change Expiration Time.

 

The Fundamental Change Purchase Notice in respect of any Notes to be purchased shall state:

 

(i)    if certificated, the certificate numbers of such Notes;

 

(ii)    the portion of the principal amount of such Notes to be purchased, which must be such that the principal amount of each Note that is not to be purchased in full equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof; and

 

(iii)    that such Notes are to be purchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Notes and this Indenture.

 

(b)    Notice to Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Purchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.

 

Section 3.04    Effect of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice. Upon receipt by the Paying Agent of a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice specified in Section 3.03, the Holder of the Note in respect of which such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice was given shall (unless such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice is withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.05) thereafter be entitled to receive solely the Fundamental Change Purchase Price in cash with respect to such Note (and any previously accrued and unpaid interest on such Note). Such Fundamental Change Purchase Price shall be paid to such Holder, subject to receipt of funds by the Paying Agent, on the later of (x) the applicable Fundamental Change Purchase Date (provided the conditions in this Article 3 have been satisfied) and (y) the time of delivery or book-entry transfer of such Note to the Paying Agent by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 3.01.

 

Section 3.05    Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Purchase Notice. A Fundamental Change Purchase Notice may be withdrawn (in whole or in part) by means of a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the Paying Agent in accordance with the Fundamental Change Company Notice at any time prior to the Fundamental Change Expiration Time specifying:

 

(a)    the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted;

 

(b)    if certificated, the certificate numbers of the withdrawn Notes; and

 

(c)    the principal amount, if any, of each Note that remains subject to the Fundamental Change Purchase Notice which must be such that the principal amount not to be purchased equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof;

 

provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the notice must comply with the Applicable Procedures.

 

The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice, has been withdrawn in compliance with the provisions of this Section 3.05.

 

Section 3.06    Deposit of Fundamental Change Purchase Price. Prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of either of them is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided herein) an amount of money (in immediately available funds if deposited on such Business Day) sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of all the Notes or portions thereof that are to be purchased as of the Fundamental Change Purchase Date. If the Paying Agent holds cash sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of the Notes for which a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice has been delivered and not validly withdrawn in accordance with this Indenture on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date then as of such Fundamental Change Purchase Date (a) such Notes will cease to be Outstanding and interest will cease to accrue thereon (whether or not book-entry transfer of such Notes is made or such Notes have been delivered to the Paying Agent) and (b) all other rights of the Holders in respect thereof will terminate (other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Purchase Price and any previously accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes upon delivery or book-entry transfer of such Notes).

 

Section 3.07    Notes Purchased in Whole or in Part. Any Note that is to be purchased pursuant to this Article 3, whether in whole or in part, shall be surrendered at the office of the Paying Agent (with due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing) and, to the extent that only a part of the Note so surrendered is to be purchased, the Company shall execute and, upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Note, without service charge, a new Note or Notes, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate principal amount equal to, and in exchange for, the portion of the principal amount of the Note so surrendered that is not purchased.

 

Section 3.08    Covenant To Comply with Applicable Laws upon Purchase of Notes. In connection with any offer to purchase Notes under Section 3.01, the Company shall, in each case if required by law (i) comply with Rule 13e-4, Rule 14d-3, Rule 14e-1 and any other tender offer rules under the Exchange Act that may then be applicable, (ii) file a Schedule TO, including all required exhibits thereto, and any other required schedule under the Exchange Act and (iii) otherwise comply with all U.S. federal or state securities laws applicable to the Company in connection with such purchase offer, in each case, so as to permit the rights and obligations under this Article 3 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified under this Article 3, subject to applicable law.

 

Section 3.09    Repayment to the Company. To the extent that the aggregate amount of cash deposited by the Company pursuant to Section 3.06 exceeds the aggregate Fundamental Change Purchase Price of the Notes or portions thereof that the Company is obligated to purchase as of the Fundamental Change Purchase Date then, following the Fundamental Change Purchase Date the Paying Agent shall promptly return any such excess to the Company.

 

ARTICLE 4.
CONVERSION

 

Section 4.01    Right To Convert. (a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Indenture, each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert any or all of its Notes, or any portion thereof, such that the principal amount that remains Outstanding of each Note that is not converted in full equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof, into the Settlement Amount determined in accordance with Section 4.03(a)(ii) hereof, (x) prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding September 15, 2028, only upon satisfaction of one or more of the conditions described in Section 4.01(b) hereof, and (y) on or after September 15, 2028, at any time prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date regardless of the conditions described in Section 4.01(b) hereof.

 

(b)    Prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding September 15, 2028, a Holder may surrender all or any portion (such that the principal amount that remains Outstanding of each Note that is not converted in full equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of its Notes for conversion during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on March 31, 2024 (and only during such calendar quarter) if the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or not consecutive) during the period of 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the last Trading Day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the applicable Conversion Price in effect on each applicable Trading Day.

 

(ii)    Prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding September 15, 2028, a Holder may surrender all or any portion (such that the principal amount that remains Outstanding of each Note that is not converted in full equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of its Notes for conversion during the five (5) consecutive Business Day period after any ten (10) consecutive Trading Day period (the “Measurement Period”) in which the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, as determined following a request by a Holder in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 4.01(b)(ii), for each Trading Day of such Measurement Period was less than 98% of the product of (x) the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on such Trading Day and (y) the Conversion Rate in effect on such Trading Day. The Trading Price shall be determined by the Company or the Bid Solicitation Agent, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 4.01(b)(ii) and the definition of “Trading Price” set forth in Section 1.01 hereof. The Company shall provide notice to the Bid Solicitation Agent of the three independent nationally recognized securities dealers selected by the Company in accordance with the definition of Trading Price, along with the appropriate contact information for each. The Bid Solicitation Agent (if other than the Company) shall have no obligation to determine the Trading Price of the Notes unless the Company has requested such determination; and the Company shall have no obligation to make such request (or, if the Company is acting as Bid Solicitation Agent, the Company shall have no obligation to determine the Trading Price) unless a Holder of a Note provides it with reasonable evidence that the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes would be less than 98% of the product of (x) the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on such Trading Day and (y) the Conversion Rate in effect on such Trading Day. At such time, the Company shall instruct the Bid Solicitation Agent (if other than the Company) to determine (or, if the Company is acting as Bid Solicitation Agent, it shall determine) the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of the Notes beginning on the next Trading Day and on each successive Trading Day until the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for a Trading Day is greater than or equal to 98% of the product of (x) the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on such Trading Day and (y) the Conversion Rate in effect on such Trading Day. Whenever the condition to conversion set forth in this Section 4.01(b)(ii) has been met, the Company shall promptly so notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee). If, at any time after the condition to conversion set forth in this Section 4.01(b)(ii) has been met, the condition to conversion set forth in this Section 4.01(b)(ii) ceases to be met, the Company will so notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee). The Trustee shall have no obligation to determine the Trading Price of the Notes.

 

(iii)    If the Company (x) issues to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants (other than any issuance of any rights, options or warrants issued under a stockholder rights plan that are (A) transferable with shares of Common Stock, including shares of Common Stock delivered upon conversion, and (B) not exercisable until the occurrence of a triggering event; provided that such rights, options or warrants will be deemed issued under this subclause (x) upon the separation of such rights, options or warrants from the Common Stock, or upon the occurrence of such triggering event) entitling them for a period of not more than 60 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock, at a price per share less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance; or (y) distributes to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock the Company’s assets, debt securities or rights to purchase the Company’s securities (other than (A) rights described in the immediately preceding subclause (x) or (B) any issuance of any rights, options or warrants issued under a stockholder rights plan that are (1) transferable with shares of Common Stock, including shares of Common Stock delivered upon conversion, and (2) not exercisable until the occurrence of a triggering event), which distribution has a per share value, as reasonably determined by the Company in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner, exceeding 10% of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such distribution, then, in either case, the Company must deliver notice of such issuance or distribution, and of the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance or distribution, to the Holders at least 70 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance or distribution. After the Company has delivered such notice, Holders may surrender their Notes for conversion at any time until the earlier of (a) Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding such Ex-Dividend Date and (b) the Company’s announcement that such issuance or distribution will not take place, even if the Notes are not otherwise convertible at such time.

 

(iv)    If the Company publicly announces a transaction or event that would, if consummated, constitute a Fundamental Change, a Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Share Exchange Event, or if any such transaction or event occurs (regardless of whether the Holders would have the right to require the Company to purchase their Notes pursuant to Article 3), the Company shall provide notice (a “Specified Corporate Transaction Notice”) of such specified corporate transaction or event to the Holders promptly following the first public announcement by the Company of such transaction or event or, in the case that no public announcement is made, promptly following the occurrence of such transaction or event. Upon receiving notice or otherwise becoming aware of a transaction or event that would, if consummated, constitute a Fundamental Change, Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Share Exchange Event, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to announce or cause the announcement of such transaction or event in time to deliver the related Specified Corporate Transaction Notice at least 70 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the anticipated effective date for such transaction or event; provided that in no event will the Company be required to provide such notice to the Holders before the earlier of such time as the Company or its Affiliates (a) have publicly disclosed or acknowledged the circumstances giving rise to such transaction or event and (b) are required to publicly disclose under applicable law or the rules of any stock exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed the circumstances giving rise to such transaction or event. For any such potential Fundamental Change, Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Share Exchange Event, the Specified Corporate Transaction Notice shall describe:

 

(A)    the transaction or event;

 

(B)    the anticipated effective date of such transaction or event;

 

(C)    the Holders’ right to convert their Notes in accordance with Section 4.01(b)(iv);

 

(D)    the Conversion Rate in effect on the date the Company provides such notice;

 

(E)    whether an adjustment to the Conversion Rate is expected to be made pursuant to Section 4.04 as a result of such transaction or event and the formula for determining any such adjustment;

 

(F)    whether the relevant transaction or event is expected to constitute a Share Exchange Event, and, if so, that the Notes will become convertible into Reference Property, subject to the settlement provisions of this Indenture;

 

(G)    whether the relevant transaction or event is expected to constitute a Fundamental Change, and, if so, that Holders will have the right to require the Company to purchase their Notes pursuant to Article 3; and

 

(H)    whether the relevant transaction or event is expected to constitute a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, and, if so, that the Conversion Rate will be increased under Section 4.06 for Notes converted in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

 

Upon the Company’s delivery of a Specified Corporate Transaction Notice, a Holder may surrender its Notes for conversion at any time until the 35th Trading Day immediately following the effective date of such transaction or event or, if such transaction or event constitutes a Fundamental Change, the Business Day immediately preceding the related Fundamental Change Purchase Date. The Trustee shall have no responsibility to confirm the occurrence of any Fundamental Change, Make-Whole Fundamental Change or Share Exchange Event, and the Trustee may rely on an Officer’s Certificate with respect to whether any such event has occurred.

 

Section 4.02    Conversion Procedures.

 

(a)    Each Note shall be convertible at the office of the Conversion Agent and, if applicable, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.

 

(b)    To exercise the conversion privilege with respect to a beneficial interest in a Global Note, the Holder must comply with the Applicable Procedures for converting a beneficial interest in a Global Note and pay the funds, if any, required by Section 4.02(f) and any taxes or duties if required pursuant to Section 4.02(g), and the Conversion Agent must be informed of the conversion in accordance with the customary practice of the Depositary.

 

To exercise the conversion privilege with respect to any Physical Notes, the Holder of such Physical Notes shall:

 

(i)    complete and manually sign a conversion notice in the form set forth in the Form of Notice of Conversion (the “Conversion Notice”) or a facsimile of the Conversion Notice;

 

(ii)    deliver the Conversion Notice, which is irrevocable, and the Physical Note to the Conversion Agent;

 

(iii)    if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents;

 

(iv)    if required, pay all transfer or similar governmental charges or duties as set forth in Section 4.02(g); and

 

(v)    if required, make any payment required under Section 4.02(f).

 

If a Note has been submitted for purchase pursuant to a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice such Note may not be converted except to the extent such Note has been withdrawn by the Holder and is no longer submitted for purchase pursuant to a Fundamental Change Purchase Notice or unless such Fundamental Change Purchase Notice is withdrawn in accordance with Section 3.05 hereof prior to the relevant Fundamental Change Expiration Time.

 

For any Note, the date on which the Holder of such Note satisfies all of the applicable requirements set forth above with respect to such Note shall be the “Conversion Date” with respect to such Note.

 

Each conversion shall be deemed to have been effected as to any such Notes (or portion thereof) surrendered for conversion at the Close of Business on the applicable Conversion Date; provided, however, that except to the extent required by Section 4.04 hereof, the Person in whose name any shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon conversion, if any, shall be treated as a stockholder of record (i) as of the Close of Business on the last VWAP Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period in the case of Combination Settlement and (ii) as of the Close of Business on the Conversion Date in the case of Physical Settlement. For the avoidance of doubt, until a Holder is deemed to become the holder of record of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Holder’s Notes as contemplated in the immediately preceding sentence, such Holder shall not have any rights as a holder of the Common Stock with respect to the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Notes. At the Close of Business on the Conversion Date for a Note, the converting Holder shall no longer be the Holder of such Note.

 

(c)    Endorsement. Any Notes surrendered for conversion shall, unless shares of Common Stock issuable on conversion are to be issued in the same name as the registration of such Notes, be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the Holder or its duly authorized attorney.

 

(d)    Physical Notes. If any Physical Notes in a denomination greater than $1,000 shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of the Physical Notes so surrendered, without charge, new Physical Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Physical Notes.

 

(e)    Global Notes. Upon the conversion of a beneficial interest in Global Notes, the Conversion Agent shall make a notation in its records 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.

 

(f)    Interest Due Upon Conversion. If a Holder converts a Note after the Close of Business on a Regular Record Date but prior to the Open of Business on the Interest Payment Date corresponding to such Regular Record Date, such Holder must accompany such Note with an amount of cash equal to the amount of interest that will be payable on such Note on the corresponding Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that a Holder need not make such payment (1) if the Conversion Date follows the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date; (2) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Purchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date; or (3) to the extent of any overdue interest, if any overdue interest exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Notes.

 

(g)    Taxes Due upon Conversion. If a Holder converts a Note, the Company will pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on the issue of any shares of the Common Stock upon the conversion, unless the tax is due because the Holder requests that any shares be issued in a name other than the Holder’s name, in which case the Holder will pay that tax.

 

Section 4.03    Settlement Upon Conversion.

 

(a)    Settlement. Subject to this Section 4.03 and Sections 4.04 and 4.06 hereof, upon conversion of any Note, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, to Holders, in full satisfaction of its conversion obligation under Section 4.01 hereof, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, a Settlement Amount consisting of, at the election of the Company, solely cash (“Cash Settlement”), solely shares of Common Stock (together with cash in lieu of any fractional share of Common Stock pursuant to Section 4.03(b)) (“Physical Settlement”) or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock (“Combination Settlement”).

 

(i)    Settlement Election. All conversions occurring on or after September 15, 2028 shall be settled using the same Settlement Method. Prior to September 15, 2028, the Company will use the same Settlement Method for all conversions occurring on the same Conversion Date, but the Company shall not have any obligation to use the same Settlement Method with respect to conversions that occur on different Conversion Dates. If the Company elects a Settlement Method (a “Settlement Election”) and a Specified Dollar Amount, if applicable (a “Specified Dollar Amount Election”), then the Company shall provide to the Holders so converting through the Trustee a notice of such Settlement Method (each such notice, a “Settlement Election Notice”) or such Specified Dollar Amount (each such notice, a “Specified Dollar Amount Election Notice”), no later than the Close of Business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately following the related Conversion Date (or, in the case of any conversions occurring on or after September 15, 2028, no later than September 15, 2028). If the Company does not timely elect a Settlement Method, then the Company shall be deemed to have elected the Default Settlement Method that would apply to a conversion of Notes at the relevant time. If the Company elects Combination Settlement but does not timely notify converting Holders of the Specified Dollar Amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, such Specified Dollar Amount will be deemed to be the Capped Combination Settlement Cash Amount or, following satisfaction of the Share Reservation Condition, $1,000.

 

If the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition, the Company may, from time to time prior to September 15, 2028, by sending notice of the new Default Settlement Method to all Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee), change the Default Settlement Method to any Settlement Method that the Company is then permitted to elect. If the Company changes the Default Settlement Method in accordance with this Section 4.03(a)(i), the Company shall, concurrently with providing notice to all Holders of such change, either post the Default Settlement Method on the Company’s website or disclose the same in a Current Report on Form 8-K (or any successor form) that is filed with the Commission.

 

In addition, by notice to all Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee), the Company may, prior to September 15, 2028, at its option, irrevocably elect to satisfy its conversion obligation with respect to the Notes through any Settlement Method that the Company is then permitted to elect for all Conversion Dates occurring subsequent to delivery of such notice. Concurrently with providing notice to all Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of an election to irrevocably fix the Settlement Method, the Company shall update the Default Settlement Method if necessary and promptly file with, or furnish to, the Commission a Current Report on Form 8-K (or any successor form) disclosing, issue a press release announcing or post on the Company’s website an announcement, that the Company has elected to irrevocably fix the Settlement Method (and describing such Settlement Method). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no such irrevocable election shall affect any Settlement Method theretofore elected (or deemed to be elected) with respect to any Note pursuant to this Section 4.03. For the avoidance of doubt, such an irrevocable election, if made, shall be effective without the need to amend this Indenture or the Notes, including pursuant to Section 8.01(k). However, the Company may nonetheless choose to execute such an amendment at its option.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture or the Notes, unless and until the Company satisfies the Share Reservation Condition, the Company shall be prohibited from electing Physical Settlement or Combination Settlement; provided that, before the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition, the Company shall be permitted to elect Capped Combination Settlement. The Company shall promptly notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing if the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any obligation to monitor or determine whether the Share Reservation Condition has been satisfied.

 

(ii)    Settlement Amount. The cash, shares of Common Stock or combination of cash and shares of Common Stock in respect of any conversion of Notes (the “Settlement Amount”) shall be computed as follows:

 

(A)    if the Company elects Physical Settlement, the Company shall deliver to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of its Notes being converted, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the applicable Conversion Rate, together with cash in lieu of any fractional shares of Common Stock pursuant to Section 4.03(b);

 

(B)    if the Company elects Cash Settlement, the Company shall pay to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of its Notes being converted, cash in an amount equal to the sum of the Daily Conversion Values for each of the 60 consecutive VWAP Trading Days during the related Observation Period; and

 

(C)    if the Company elects (or is deemed to have elected) Combination Settlement, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of its Notes being converted, an amount of cash and number of shares of Common Stock, if any, equal to the sum of the Daily Settlement Amounts for each of the 60 consecutive VWAP Trading Days during the related Observation Period.

 

(iii)    Delivery Obligation. The Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, the Settlement Amount due in respect of its conversion obligation under Section 4.03 hereof, (i) on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date, if the Company elects Physical Settlement and (ii) on the second Business Day immediately following the last VWAP Trading Day of the related Observation Period, if the Company elects Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement.

 

(b)    Fractional Shares. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will not issue fractional shares of Common Stock as part of the Settlement Amount due with respect to any converted Note. Instead, if any Settlement Amount includes a fraction of a share of the Common Stock, the Company will, in lieu of delivering such fraction of a share of Common Stock, pay an amount of cash equal to the product of such fraction of a share and (i) in a Physical Settlement, the Daily VWAP on the relevant Conversion Date, or if such Conversion Date is not a VWAP Trading Day, the immediately preceding VWAP Trading Day or (ii) in a Combination Settlement, the Daily VWAP on the last VWAP Trading Day of the relevant Observation Period (subject to Section 4.03(c) immediately below).

 

(c)    Conversion of Multiple Notes by a Single Holder. If a Holder surrenders more than one Note for conversion on a single Conversion Date or with respect to which a single Observation Period (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the same VWAP Trading Days therein) would apply, the Company will calculate the amount of cash and the number of shares of Common Stock due with respect to such Notes as if such Holder had surrendered for conversion one Note having an aggregate principal amount equal to the sum of the principal amounts of each of the Notes surrendered for conversion by such Holder on the same Conversion Date.

 

(d)    Settlement of Accrued Interest and Deemed Payment of Principal. If a Holder converts a Note, the Company will not adjust the Conversion Rate to account for any accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, and the Company’s delivery or payment, as the case may be, of cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock into which a Note is convertible will be deemed to satisfy and discharge in full the Company’s obligation to pay the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, such Note to, but excluding, the Conversion Date; provided, however, that subject to Section 4.02(f), if a Holder converts a Note after the Close of Business on a Regular Record Date and prior to the Open of Business on the corresponding Interest Payment Date, the Company will still be obligated to pay the interest due on such Interest Payment Date to the Holder of such Note on such Regular Record Date.

 

As a result, except as otherwise provided in the proviso to the immediately preceding sentence, any accrued and unpaid interest with respect to a converted Note will be deemed to be paid in full rather than canceled, extinguished or forfeited. In addition, if the Settlement Amount for any Note includes both cash and shares of the Common Stock, accrued and unpaid interest will be deemed to be paid first out of the amount of cash delivered upon such conversion.

 

(e)    Notices. Whenever a Conversion Date occurs with respect to a Note, the Conversion Agent will, as promptly as possible, and in no event later than the Open of Business on the Business Day immediately following such Conversion Date, deliver to the Company and the Trustee, if it is not then the Conversion Agent, notice that a Conversion Date has occurred, which notice will state such Conversion Date, the principal amount of Notes converted on such Conversion Date and the names of the Holders that converted Notes on such Conversion Date.

 

On the first Business Day immediately following the last VWAP Trading Day of the Observation Period applicable to any Note surrendered for conversion in a Cash Settlement or a Combination Settlement, the Company will deliver a written notice to the Conversion Agent and the Trustee (if not also the Conversion Agent) stating the amount of cash and the number of shares of Common Stock, if any, that the Company is obligated to pay or deliver, as the case may be, to satisfy its conversion obligation with respect to each Note converted on such Conversion Date.

 

Section 4.04    Adjustment of Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate will be adjusted as described in this Section 4.04, except that the Company shall not make any adjustment to the Conversion Rate if Holders participate (other than in the case of (x) a share split or share combination or (y) a tender or exchange offer) at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock and solely as a result of holding the Notes, in any of the transactions described below without having to convert their Notes, as if they held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the applicable Conversion Rate, multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder.

 

(a)    If the Company exclusively issues shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on all or substantially all shares of the Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×

OS1

 

OS0

 

where,

 

CR0 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date of such dividend or distribution, or immediately prior to the Open of Business on the effective date of such share split or combination, as applicable;

 

CR1 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date or such effective date, as applicable;

 

OS0 =         the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date or such effective date, as applicable; and

 

OS1 =         the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend, distribution, share split or share combination, as applicable.

 

Any adjustment made under this Section 4.04(a) shall become effective immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately after the Open of Business on the effective date for such share split or share combination, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 4.04(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

 

(b)    If the Company issues to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a stockholders rights plan) entitling them, for a period of not more than 60 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance, to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock, at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate will be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×

OS0 + X

 

OS0 + Y

 

CR0 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance;

 

CR1 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;

 

OS0 =         the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;

 

X =         the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and

 

Y =         the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants divided by the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights, options or warrants.

 

Any increase made under this Section 4.04(b) will be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are issued and shall become effective immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance. To the extent that such rights, options or warrants are not exercised prior to their expiration or shares of Common Stock are not delivered upon the expiration of such rights, options or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase with respect to the issuance of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered. If such rights, options or warrants are not so issued, or if such rights, options or warrants are not exercised prior to their expiration, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance had not occurred.

 

For purposes of this Section 4.04(b) and Section 4.01(b)(iii)(x) hereof, in determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle the holders of the Common Stock to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share less than such average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of the Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Company in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner.

 

(c)    If the Company distributes shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness, other assets or property of the Company or rights, options or warrants to acquire its Capital Stock or other securities, to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock, excluding:

 

(i)    dividends, distributions or issuances (including share splits) as to which an adjustment was effected (or would have been effected but for the 1% Exception) pursuant to Section 4.04(a) hereof or Section 4.04(b) hereof;

 

(ii)    dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash as to which the provisions set forth in Section 4.04(d) below shall apply;

 

(iii)    Spin-Offs as to which the provisions set forth below in this Section 4.04(c) shall apply; and

 

(iv)    dividends or distributions of Reference Property upon conversion of, or exchange for, Common Stock pursuant to any Share Exchange Event (as defined below under Section 4.07);

 

(any of such shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, other assets or property or rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock or other securities of the Company, the “Distributed Property”), then the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×

SP0

 

SP0 - FMV

 

where,

 

CR0 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution;

 

CR1 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date;

 

SP0 =         the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; and

 

FMV =         the fair market value (as determined by the Company in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) of Distributed Property with respect to each outstanding share of the Common Stock as of the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution.

 

If “FMV” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than the “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of Notes shall receive, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes it holds, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock and without having to convert its Notes, the amount and kind of Distributed Property that such Holder would have received as if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the record date for the distribution.

 

Any increase made pursuant to the formula above will become effective immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution. If such distribution (including a Spin-Off) is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

 

With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 4.04(c) where there has been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock of shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to any Subsidiaries of the Company or business units of the Company, and such Capital Stock or similar equity interest is listed or quoted (or will be listed or quoted upon the consummation of the distribution) on a U.S. national securities exchange (a “Spin-Off”), the Conversion Rate will be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 × 

FMV0 + MP0

 

MP0 

 

where,

 

CR0 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the end of the Valuation Period;

 

CR1 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the end of the Valuation Period;

 

FMV0 =         the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of Common Stock applicable to one share of Common Stock (determined by reference to the definition of “Last Reported Sale Price” as if references therein to “Common Stock” were to such Capital Stock or similar equity interest) over the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period after, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of the Spin-Off (the “Valuation Period”); and

 

MP0 =         the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of Common Stock over the Valuation Period.

 

The increase to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph shall occur at the Close of Business on the last Trading Day of the Valuation Period; provided that (x) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Physical Settlement is applicable, if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the Valuation Period, the reference to “10” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of such Spin-Off to, and including, such Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate and (y) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement is applicable, for any Trading Day that falls within the relevant Observation Period for such conversion and within the Valuation Period, the reference to “10” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of such Spin-Off to, and including, such Trading Day in determining the Conversion Rate as of such Trading Day.

 

For purposes of the second adjustment formula set forth in this Section 4.04(c), (i) the Last Reported Sale Price of any Capital Stock or similar equity interest shall be calculated in a manner analogous to that used to calculate the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock in the definition of “Last Reported Sale Price” set forth in Section 1.01 hereof, (ii) whether a day is a Trading Day (and whether a day is a Scheduled Trading Day) for such Capital Stock or similar equity interest shall be determined in a manner analogous to that used to determine whether a day is a Trading Day (or whether a day is a Scheduled Trading Day) for the Common Stock and (iii) whether a day is a Trading Day to be included in a Valuation Period will be determined based on whether a day is a Trading Day for both the Common Stock and such Capital Stock or similar equity interest.

 

Subject to Section 4.04(g), for the purposes of this Section 4.04(c), rights, options or warrants distributed to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock entitling them to acquire the Company’s Capital Stock or other securities (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights, options or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (a “Trigger Event”): (1) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock; (2) are not exercisable; and (3) are also issued in respect of future issuances of Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 4.04(c) (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 4.04(c) will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights, options or 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 4.04(c). If any such rights, options or warrants, distributed prior to the first date of original issuance of the Initial Notes are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights, options 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 Ex-Dividend Date of such deemed distribution (in which case the original rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to terminate and expire on such date without exercise by any of the holders). In addition, in the event of any distribution or deemed distribution of rights, options 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 4.04(c) was made, (1) in the case of any such rights, options or warrants which shall all have been redeemed or purchased without exercise by any Holders thereof, upon such final redemption or purchase (x) the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options or warrants had not been issued and (y) the Conversion Rate shall then again be readjusted to give effect to such distribution, deemed distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or purchase price received by holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights, options or warrants (assuming each such holder had retained such rights, options or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or purchase, and (2) in the case of such rights, options or warrants which 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.

 

For purposes of Section 4.04(a) hereof, Section 4.04(b) hereof and this Section 4.04(c), if any dividend or distribution to which this Section 4.04(c) applies includes one or both of:

 

(A)    a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock to which Section 4.04(a) hereof also applies (the “Clause A Distribution”); or

 

(B)    an issuance of rights, options or warrants entitling holders of the Common Stock to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock to which Section 4.04(b) hereof also applies (the “Clause B Distribution”),

 

then (i) such dividend or distribution, other than the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution, shall be deemed to be a distribution to which this Section 4.04(c) applies (the “Clause C Distribution”) and any Conversion Rate adjustment required to be made under this Section 4.04(c) with respect to such Clause C Distribution shall be made, (ii) the Clause B Distribution, if any, shall be deemed to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by Section 4.04(b) hereof with respect thereto shall then be made, except that, if determined by the Company, (A) the “Ex-Dividend Date” of the Clause B Distribution and the Clause A Distribution, if any, shall be deemed to be the Ex-Dividend Date of the Clause C Distribution and (B) any shares of Common Stock included in the Clause A Distribution or the Clause B Distribution shall not be deemed to be “outstanding immediately prior to the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date” within the meaning of Section 4.04(b) hereof, and (iii) the Clause A Distribution, if any, shall be deemed to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution or the Clause B Distribution, as the case may be, except that, if determined by the Company, (A) the “Ex-Dividend Date” of the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution, if any, shall be deemed to be the Ex-Dividend Date of the Clause C Distribution, and (B) any shares of Common Stock included in the Clause A Distribution shall not be deemed to be “outstanding immediately prior to the Open of Business on such Ex-Dividend Date or such effective date” within the meaning of Section 4.04(a) hereof.

 

(d)    If any cash dividend or distribution is made to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×

SP0

 

SP0 - C

 

where,

 

CR0 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution;

 

CR1 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution;

 

SP0 =         the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; and

 

C =         the amount in cash per share of Common Stock that the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock.

 

If “C” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder shall receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes it holds, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of shares of the Common Stock and without having to convert its Notes, the amount of cash that such Holder would have received if such Holder had owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the record date for such cash dividend or distribution. Any such increase made under this clause (d) shall become effective immediately after the Open of Business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines not to pay such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.

 

(e)    If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries make a payment in respect of a tender or exchange offer for the Common Stock (other than an odd-lot tender offer), to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of the Common Stock exceeds the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (the “Offer Expiration Date”), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:

 

CR1 = CR0 ×

AC + (SP1 × OS1)

 

OS0 × SP1

 

where,

 

CR0 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the Close of Business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date;

 

CR1 =         the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the Close of Business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date;

 

AC =         the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Company in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner) paid or payable for shares of Common Stock purchased in such tender or exchange offer;

 

OS0 =         the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Offer Expiration Date (prior to giving effect to the purchase of all shares accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer);

 

OS1 =         the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the Offer Expiration Date (after giving effect to the purchase of all shares accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); and

 

SP1 =         the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date.

 

The increase to the Conversion Rate under this Section 4.04(e) shall occur at the Close of Business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date; provided that (x) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Physical Settlement is applicable, if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date of any tender or exchange offer, references to “10” or “10th” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date of such tender or exchange offer to, and including, such Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate and (y) in respect of any conversion of Notes for which Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement is applicable, for any Trading Day that falls within the relevant Observation Period for such conversion and within the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date of any tender or exchange offer, references to “10” or “10th” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Offer Expiration Date of such tender or exchange offer to, and including, such Trading Day in determining the Conversion Rate as of such Trading Day.

 

If the Company, or one of the Company’s Subsidiaries, is obligated to purchase the Common Stock pursuant to any such tender or exchange offer described in this Section 4.04(e) but the Company, or such Subsidiary, is permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such purchase or all such purchases are rescinded, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such tender or exchange offer had not been made or had been made only in respect of the purchases that have been effected.

 

(f)    Special Settlement Provisions.

 

In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if a Conversion Rate adjustment becomes effective on any Ex-Dividend Date as described in Sections 4.04(a) through (e) hereof, and a Holder that has converted its Notes with a Conversion Date occurring on or after such Ex-Dividend Date and on or prior to the related record date would be treated as the record holder of shares of Common Stock as of the related Conversion Date as described under Section 4.03 hereof based on an adjusted Conversion Rate for such Ex-Dividend Date, then, notwithstanding the foregoing Conversion Rate adjustment provisions, the Conversion Rate adjustment relating to such Ex-Dividend Date will not be made for such converting Holder. Instead, such Holder shall be treated as if such Holder were the registered owner of the shares of Common Stock on an unadjusted basis and participated in the related dividend, distribution or other event giving rise to such adjustment.

 

In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if, in the case of any conversion of a Note to which Combination Settlement applies, on any VWAP Trading Day during the Observation Period corresponding to the Conversion Date for such Note, shares of Common Stock are deliverable as part of the Daily Settlement Amount for such VWAP Trading Day, and

 

(i)    the record date for any issuance, dividend or distribution, the effective date for any share split or combination or the Offer Expiration Date for any tender or exchange offer by the Company or its Subsidiaries that, in each case, would require an adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to any of Section 4.04(a) through (e) occurs prior to the Company’s delivery of such shares of Common Stock to the converting Holder;

 

(ii)    the applicable Conversion Rate for such VWAP Trading Day will not reflect such adjustment; and

 

(iii)    the shares of Common Stock that the Company shall deliver to the converting Holder with respect to such VWAP Trading Day are not entitled to participate in the relevant event (because such shares were not held by such Holder on the related record date, effective date, Offer Expiration Date or otherwise),

 

then the Company will (i) in the case of any such issuance, dividend or distribution, deliver to the Holder of such Note, on the date on which such issuance, dividend or distribution is paid or made, the consideration that a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of shares of Common Stock included in the Daily Settlement Amount for such VWAP Trading Day would be entitled to receive in respect of such issuance, dividend or distribution or (ii) in the case of any such share split or combination, tender or exchange offer, adjust the number of shares of Common Stock that the Company delivers to such Holder as part of the Daily Settlement Amount for such VWAP Trading Day in a manner that appropriately (as determined by the Company in consultation with a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm, which may be the Initial Purchaser, retained for this purpose) reflects the relevant transaction or event.

 

(g)    Poison Pill. If a Holder converts a Note, to the extent that the Company has a rights plan in effect, if Physical Settlement applies to such Note, on the Conversion Date applicable to such Note, and if Combination Settlement applies to such Note on any VWAP Trading Day in the Observation Period applicable to such Note, the Holder converting such Note will receive, in addition to any shares of Common Stock otherwise received in connection with such conversion on such Conversion Date or such VWAP Trading Day, as the case may be, the rights under the rights plan, unless prior to such Conversion Date or such VWAP Trading Day, as the case may be, the rights have separated from the Common Stock, in which case, and only in such case, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company distributed to all holders of the Common Stock, Distributed Property as described in Section 4.04(c) hereof, subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of such rights.

 

(h)    Deferral of Adjustments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Company will not be required to adjust the Conversion Rate unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent (1%); provided, however, that any such minor adjustments that are not required to be made will be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment, and provided, further, that any such adjustment of less than one percent (1%) that has not been made shall be made upon the earliest occurrence of (v) the Effective Date for any Fundamental Change or Make-Whole Fundamental Change, (w) in the case of any Note to which Physical Settlement applies or to which Cash Settlement applies following a replacement of Common Stock by the Reference Property consisting solely of cash, prior to the Close of Business on the Conversion Date, (x) in the case of any Note to which Cash Settlement or Combination Settlement applies (other than as described in the immediately preceding clause (w)), prior to the Open of Business on the first VWAP Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period and each subsequent VWAP Trading Day of the Observation Period, (y) on any date on which all deferred adjustments would result in an aggregate change to the Conversion Rate of at least one percent (1%) and (z) prior to the Close of Business on any other date on which the Conversion Rate is referred to for purpose of determining the consideration deliverable upon settlement of a Note. The provisions described in the preceding sentence shall be referred to as the “1% Exception.” In addition, the Company shall not account for such deferrals when determining whether any of the conditions to conversion have been satisfied or what number of shares of Common Stock a Holder would have held on a given day had it converted its Notes.

 

(i)    Limitation on Adjustments. Except as stated in this Section 4.04, the Company will not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock or the right to purchase shares of Common Stock or such convertible or exchangeable securities. If, however, the application of the formulas in Sections 4.04(a) through (e) hereof would result in a decrease in the Conversion Rate, then, except to the extent of any readjustment to the Conversion Rate, no adjustment to the Conversion Rate will be made (other than as a result of a reverse share split or share combination).

 

In addition, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Conversion Rate will not be adjusted:

 

(i)    on account of stock repurchases that are not tender or exchange offers referred to in Section 4.04(e) hereof, including structured or derivative transactions, or transactions pursuant to a stock repurchase program approved by the Board of Directors or otherwise;

 

(ii)    upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on the Company’s securities and the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of Common Stock under any plan;

 

(iii)    upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase those shares pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant benefit plan, program or agreement of or assumed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

 

(iv)    upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security not described in Section 4.04(i)(iii) immediately above and outstanding as of the date the Notes were first issued;

 

(v)    for a change in the par value of the Common Stock; or

 

(vi)    for accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes, if any.

 

(j)    For purposes of this Section 4.04, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company so long as the Company does not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock 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.

 

Section 4.05    Discretionary Adjustments.

 

(a)    Discretionary Adjustments. Whenever any provision of this Indenture requires the Company to calculate the Last Reported Sale Prices, the Daily VWAPs or any function thereof over a span of multiple days (including during an Observation Period), the Company will make appropriate adjustments to each to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the effective date, Ex-Dividend Date or Offer Expiration Date of the event occurs, at any time during the period when such Last Reported Sale Prices, the Daily VWAPs or function thereof is to be calculated.

 

Section 4.06    Adjustment to Conversion Rate Upon Conversion in Connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

 

(a)    Increase in the Conversion Rate. If a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs and a Holder elects to convert its Notes in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, then the Company shall, to the extent provided herein, increase the Conversion Rate for the Notes so surrendered for conversion by a number of additional shares of Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”), as described in this Section 4.06. A conversion of Notes shall be deemed for these purposes to be “in connection with” a Make-Whole Fundamental Change if the relevant Conversion Notice is received by the Conversion Agent during the period from, and including, the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change up to, and including, the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately prior to the related Fundamental Change Purchase Date or, if such Make-Whole Fundamental Change is not also a Fundamental Change, the 35th Business Day immediately following the Effective Date for such Make-Whole Fundamental Change (such period, the “Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period”).

 

(b)    Cash Mergers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if the consideration paid to holders of the Common Stock in any Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (2) of the definition of “Fundamental Change” is composed entirely of cash, then, for any conversion of Notes following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the payment and delivery obligations upon the conversion of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be calculated based solely on the Stock Price (determined in the manner described in Section 4.07(c)) for such Make-Whole Fundamental Change and shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the applicable Conversion Rate (including any adjustment as described in this Section 4.06) multiplied by such Stock Price. In such event, the Company’s conversion obligation will be determined and paid to Holders in cash on the second Business Day following the applicable Conversion Date. Otherwise, the Company will settle any conversion of the Notes following the Effective Date for a Make-Whole Fundamental Change in accordance with Section 4.03 hereof (but subject to Section 4.04 hereof).

 

(c)    Determining the Number of Additional Shares. The number of Additional Shares, if any, by which the Conversion Rate will be increased for a Holder that converts its Notes in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change shall be determined by reference to the table attached as Schedule A hereto, based on the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change and the price (the “Stock Price”), as determined under the two immediately following sentences. If the holders of the Common Stock receive only cash in a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (2) of the definition of “Fundamental Change,” then the Stock Price shall be the cash amount paid per share of Common Stock. Otherwise, the Stock Price shall be the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the five (5) consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change.

 

(d)    Interpolation and Limits. The exact Stock Price and Effective Date may not be set forth in the table in Schedule A, in which case:

 

(i)    If the Stock Price is between two Stock Prices in the table in Schedule A or the Effective Date is between two Effective Dates in the table in Schedule A, the number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased shall be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of Additional Shares set forth for the higher and lower Stock Prices and the earlier and later Effective Dates, as applicable, based on a 365- or 366-day year, as applicable.

 

(ii)    If the Stock Price is greater than $7.0000 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table in Schedule A hereof), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate.

 

(iii)    If the Stock Price is less than $0.9067 per share (subject to adjustments in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table in Schedule A hereof), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Conversion Rate be increased on account of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change to exceed 1,102.9006 shares of Common Stock per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to adjustments in the same manner as the Conversion Rate is required to be adjusted as set forth in Section 4.04 hereof (the “Maximum Conversion Rate”).

 

(iv)    The Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table in Schedule A hereto shall be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate of the Notes is otherwise required to be adjusted. The adjusted Stock Prices shall equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such adjustment giving rise to the Stock Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. The number of Additional Shares set forth in such table in Schedule A shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Conversion Rate is required to be adjusted as set forth in Section 4.04.

 

(e)    Notices. The Company shall notify the Holders of the Effective Date of any Make-Whole Fundamental Change and issue a press release announcing such Effective Date no later than five (5) Business Days after such Effective Date.

 

Section 4.07    Effect of Recapitalization, Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale.

 

(a)    Share Exchange Events. In the case of:

 

(i)    any recapitalization, reclassification or change of Common Stock (other than changes resulting from a subdivision or combination);

 

(ii)    any consolidation, merger, combination or similar transaction involving the Company;

 

(iii)    any sale, lease or other transfer to a third party of substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries; or

 

(iv)    any statutory share exchange,

 

in each case, as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, or represent solely the right to receive, stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) (any such event, a “Share Exchange Event” and any such stock, other securities or other property or assets, “Reference Property,” and the amount of Reference Property that a holder of one share of Common Stock immediately prior to such Share Exchange Event would have been entitled to receive upon the occurrence of such Share Exchange Event, a “Reference Property Unit”), then the Company or the successor or purchasing company, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture providing that, at and after the effective time of such Share Exchange Event, the consideration due upon conversion of any Notes, and the conditions to any such conversion, will be determined in the same manner as if each reference to any number of shares of Common Stock in Article 4 were instead a reference to the same number of Reference Property Units.

 

If a Share Exchange Event causes the Common Stock to be converted into, or exchanged for, or represent solely the right to receive, more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of stockholder election), then (i) the Reference Property shall be deemed to be the weighted average, per share of Common Stock, of the types and amounts of consideration actually received by holders of Common Stock, and (ii) the Reference Property Unit for purposes of the immediately preceding paragraph shall refer to the consideration referred to in clause (i) attributable to one share of Common Stock. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of such weighted average as soon as practicable after such determination is made. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if the holders of Common Stock receive only cash in such Share Exchange Event, then for all conversions that occur after the effective date of such Share Exchange Event (A) the consideration due upon conversion of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be solely cash in an amount equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date (as may be increased pursuant to Section 4.06), multiplied by the price paid per share of Common Stock in such Share Exchange Event and (B) the Company shall satisfy the Conversion Obligation by paying cash to converting Holders on the second Business Day immediately following the Conversion Date. For these purposes, the Daily VWAP or Last Reported Sale Price of any Reference Property Unit or portion thereof that does not consist of a class of securities will be the fair value of such Reference Property unit or portion thereof, as applicable, determined in good faith by the Company (or, in the case of cash denominated in U.S. dollars, the face amount thereof).

 

Such supplemental indenture described in the second immediately preceding paragraph shall provide, to the extent the Reference Property is comprised, in whole or in part, of Common Equity, for anti-dilution and other adjustments that are as nearly equivalent as possible to the adjustments provided for in this Article 4. If the Reference Property in respect of any Share Exchange Event includes shares of stock, securities or other property or assets of a Person other than the Company or, in the case of a transaction described in Article 9, the Successor Company, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other Person and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of Notes, including the right of Holders to require the Company to purchase their Notes upon a Fundamental Change pursuant to Article 3, as the Board of Directors shall reasonably consider necessary by reason of the foregoing.

 

(b)    If the Company executes a supplemental indenture pursuant to this Section 4.07, as promptly as practicable, the Company shall file with the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate briefly describing such Share Exchange Event, the composition of a Reference Property Unit for such Share Exchange Event, any adjustment to be made with respect thereto and that all conditions precedent to such Share Exchange Event under this Indenture have been complied with. Any failure to deliver such Officer’s Certificate shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture. The Company shall also issue a press release containing such information and shall make such press release available on its website.

 

(c)    The Company shall not become a party to any Share Exchange Event unless its terms are consistent with this Section 4.07. None of the foregoing provisions shall affect the right of a Holder of Notes to convert its Notes as set forth in Section 4.01 and Section 4.02 prior to the effective date of such Share Exchange Event.

 

(d)    The provisions of this Section 4.07 shall apply successively to successive Share Exchange Events.

 

Section 4.08    Certain Covenants.

 

(a)    Reservation of Shares. The Company shall at all times reserve, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares held in treasury, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (i) prior to the date on which the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition, the Aggregate Share Cap and (ii) on and after the date on which the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition, the Maximum Number of Underlying Shares.

 

(b)    Certain other Covenants. The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock that may be issued upon conversion of Notes shall be issued in book-entry form (or certificated form if applicable pursuant to Section 2.07(c)(iii)), shall be newly issued shares or treasury shares, shall be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and shall be free from preemptive rights and free from any tax, lien or charge (other than those created by the Holder or due to a change in registered owner). The Company shall list or cause to have quoted any shares of Common Stock to be issued upon conversion of Notes on each national securities exchange or over-the-counter or other domestic market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted.

 

Section 4.09    Responsibility of Trustee. The Trustee and any Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Notes to determine or calculate the Conversion Rate, to determine whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the Conversion Rate, or to confirm the accuracy of any such adjustment when made or the appropriateness of 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 other securities or property that may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Notes; and the Trustee and the 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 Notes for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article 4. The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including without limitation its right to be compensated, reimbursed and indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, including its capacity as Conversion Agent.

 

Section 4.10    Notice of Adjustment to the Trustee. Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly (i) file with the Trustee and any Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment; provided that unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officer’s 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 and (ii) deliver written notice to the Holders, at his or her last address appearing on the Register provided for in Section 2.06 of this Indenture, stating that such adjustment has become effective and the Conversion Rate or conversion privilege as adjusted. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality, effectiveness or validity of any such adjustment and shall not be an Event of Default under this Indenture.

 

Section 4.11    Notice to Holders.

 

(a)    Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions. The Company shall deliver written notices of the events specified below at the times specified below and containing the information specified below unless, in each case (i) pursuant to this Indenture, the Company is already required to deliver notice of such event containing at least the information specified below at an earlier time or (ii) the Company, at the time it is required to deliver a notice, does not have knowledge of all of the information required to be included in such notice, in which case, the Company shall (A) deliver notice at such time containing only the information that it has knowledge of at such time (if it has knowledge of any such information at such time), and (B) promptly upon obtaining knowledge of any such information not already included in a notice delivered by the Company, deliver notice to each Holder containing such information. In each case, the failure by the Company to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such event.

 

(i)    Issuances, Distributions, and Dividends and Distributions. If the Company (A) announces any issuance of any rights, options or warrants that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.04(b) hereof; (B) authorizes any distribution that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.04(c) hereof (including any separation of rights from the Common Stock described in Section 4.04(g) hereof); or (C) announces any dividend or distribution that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.04(d) hereof, then the Company shall deliver to the Holders, as promptly as practicable after the holders of the Common Stock are notified of such event, notice describing such issuance, dividend or distribution, as the case may be, and stating the expected Ex-Dividend Date and record date for such issuance, dividend or distribution, as the case may be. In addition, the Company shall deliver to the Holders written notice if the consideration included in such issuance, dividend or distribution, or the Ex-Dividend Date or record date of such issuance, dividend or distribution, as the case may be, changes.

 

(ii)    Tender and Exchange Offers. If the Company announces any tender or exchange offer that could require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 4.04(e) hereof, the Company shall deliver to the Holders on the day it announces such tender or exchange offer, and, if the Company is required to file with the Commission a Schedule TO in connection with such tender or exchange offer, an additional written notice (i) when the Company first files such Schedule TO, which notice shall include the address at which such Schedule TO is available on the Commission’s EDGAR system (or any successor thereto), and (ii) whenever the Company files an amendment to such Schedule TO, which notice shall include the address at which such amendment is available on the Commission’s EDGAR system (or any successor thereto).

 

(iii)    [Reserved].

 

(iv)    Dissolutions, Liquidations and Winding-Ups. If there is a voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company, the Company shall deliver notice to the Holders at promptly as possible, but in any event prior to the earlier of (i) the date on which such dissolution, liquidation or winding-up, as the case may be, is expected to become effective or occur, and (ii) 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 dissolution, liquidation or winding-up, as the case may be, which notice shall state the expected effective date and record date for such event, as applicable, and the amount and kind of property that a holder of one share of the Common Stock is expected to be entitled, or may elect, to receive in such event. The Company shall deliver an additional written notice to Holders, as promptly as practicable, whenever the expected effective date or record date, as applicable, or the amount and kind of property that a holder of one share of the Common Stock is expected to be entitled to receive in such event, changes.

 

Section 4.12    Exchange in Lieu of Conversion.

 

(a)    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article 4, when a Holder surrenders a Note for conversion, the Company may, at its election, direct the Conversion Agent to surrender, on or prior to the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the first VWAP Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period (or if the Company has elected Physical Settlement, on or prior to the Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date), such Notes to a financial institution designated by the Company for exchange in lieu of conversion. In order to accept any Notes surrendered for conversion, the designated financial institution must agree to pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, in exchange for such Notes, all of the cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination thereof due upon conversion, all in accordance with Section 4.02. By the Close of Business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the first VWAP Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period (or, if the Company has elected Physical Settlement, by the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date), the Company shall notify the Holder surrendering Notes for conversion that the Company has directed the designated financial institution to make an exchange in lieu of conversion.

 

(b)    If the designated financial institution accepts any such Notes, it will pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, the cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination thereof due upon conversion to the Conversion Agent, and the Conversion Agent shall pay and/or deliver such cash, shares of Common Stock (and cash in lieu of fractional shares) or combination thereof to such Holder on the second Business Day immediately following the last VWAP Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period (or, if the Company has elected Physical Settlement, on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date). Any Notes exchanged by the designated financial institution will remain outstanding. If the designated financial institution agrees to accept any Notes for exchange but does not timely pay and/or deliver the related cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination thereof, as the case may be, or if such designated financial institution does not accept the Notes for exchange, the Company shall convert the Notes and pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, the cash, shares or Common Stock or a combination thereof due upon conversion on the second Business Day immediately following the last VWAP Trading Day of the applicable Observation Period (or, if the Company has elected Physical Settlement, on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date) as set forth in Section 4.02. The Company’s designation of a financial institution to which the Notes may be submitted for exchange does not require the financial institution to accept any Notes (unless the financial institution has separately made an agreement with the Company to do so). The Company may, but will not be obligated to, enter into a separate agreement with any designated financial institution that would compensate it for any such transaction.

 

ARTICLE 5.
COVENANTS

 

Section 5.01    Payment of Principal, Interest and Fundamental Change Purchase Price.

 

The Company covenants and agrees that it will cause to be paid the principal of (including the Fundamental Change Purchase Price) and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Notes.

 

Section 5.02    Maintenance of Office or Agency.

 

The Company will maintain in the continental United States an office of the Paying Agent, an office of the Registrar and an office or agency where Notes may be surrendered for conversion (“Conversion Agent”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency of the Trustee.

 

The Company may also from time to time designate as co-registrars one or more other 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; provided that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the continental United States for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The terms “Paying Agent” and “Conversion Agent” include any such additional or other offices or agencies, as applicable.

 

The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as the Paying Agent, Registrar, Custodian and Conversion Agent, and its Corporate Trust Office, which shall be in the continental United States, shall be considered as one such office or agency of the Company for each of the aforesaid purposes. The Company may, however, change the Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to the Holders. The Company or its Affiliates may act as Paying Agent or Registrar.

 

With respect to any Global Note, the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall be the place of payment where such Global Note may be presented or surrendered for payment or conversion or for registration of transfer or exchange, or where successor Notes may be delivered in exchange therefor; provided, however, that any such payment, conversion, presentation, surrender or delivery effected pursuant to the Applicable Procedures for such Global Note shall be deemed to have been effected at the place of payment for such Global Note in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.

 

Section 5.03    Provisions as to Paying Agent.

 

(a)    If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, the Company will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 5.03:

 

(i)    that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or any Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, the Notes held in trust for the benefit of the holders of the Notes;

 

(ii)    that it will give the Trustee prompt written notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or any Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, 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 or before each due date of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or any Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal, accrued and unpaid interest, or any Fundamental Change Purchase Price, as the case may be, 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 must be received by the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date.

 

(b)    If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or any Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, the Notes, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such amount 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 to make any such payment when the same shall become due and payable.

 

(c)    Anything in this Section 5.03 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 5.04, 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)    Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or any Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, accrued and unpaid interest, or any Fundamental Change Purchase Price has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on request of the Company contained in an Officer’s Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that before the Trustee or such Paying Agent are required to make any such repayment, the Company shall cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general circulation in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 calendar days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.

 

Section 5.04    Reports.

 

(a)    The Company will file with the Trustee, within 15 calendar days after it is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the quarterly and annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports, if any, that it is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (excluding any information, documents or reports, or portions thereof, subject to confidential treatment and any correspondence with the Commission). Any such report, information or document that the Company files with the Commission through the EDGAR system (or any successor thereto) will be deemed to be delivered to the Trustee for the purposes of this Section 5.04 at the time of such filing through the EDGAR system (or such successor thereto); provided, however, that the Trustee shall have no responsibility to determine whether such filings have been made.

 

(b)    Delivery of any such reports, information and documents to the Trustee shall be for informational purposes only, and the Trustee’s receipt of such reports, information and documents 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).

 

(c)    At any time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company will, so long as any of the Notes or the shares of Common Stock delivered upon conversion of the Notes will, at such time, constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, promptly provide to the Trustee and will, upon written request, provide to any Holder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser of such Notes or such shares of Common Stock the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to facilitate the resale of such Notes or such shares of Common Stock pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The Company will take such further action as any Holder or beneficial owner of such Notes or such shares of Common Stock may reasonably request from time to time to enable such Holder or beneficial owner to resell such Notes or such shares of Common Stock in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act, as such rule may be amended from time to time.

 

Section 5.05    Statements as to Defaults. The Company is required to deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (beginning with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2024), an Officer’s Certificate, stating whether or not to the 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 under this Indenture) and, if the Company is in default, specifying all such Default or Event of Defaults and the nature and the status thereof of which he or she may have knowledge. In addition, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible, and in any event within 30 calendar days after the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the details of such Default or Event of Default, its status and the action that the Company proposes to take with respect thereto. Such Officer’s Certificate shall also comply with any additional requirements set forth in Section 5.07 hereof. The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any default or event of default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof.

 

Section 5.06    Additional Interest Notice. If Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to Section 5.08 hereof or Section 6.03 hereof, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate, prior to the Regular Record Date for each applicable Interest Payment Date, to that effect stating (a) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable and (b) the date on which such interest is payable. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the Corporate Trust Office such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable. If the Company has paid Additional Interest directly to the Persons entitled to it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the particulars of such payment. For the avoidance of doubt, Additional Interest shall not be payable pursuant to ‎Section 5.08 in respect of the Affiliate Notes.

 

Section 5.07    Compliance Certificate and Opinions of Counsel.

 

(a)    Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

 

(b)    Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:

 

(i)    a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;

 

(ii)    a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;

 

(iii)    a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and

 

(iv)    a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

 

(c)    All applications, requests, certificates, statements or other instruments given under this Indenture shall be without personal recourse to any individual giving the same and may include an express statement to such effect.

 

Section 5.08    Additional Interest.

 

(a)    If, at any time during the six-month period beginning on, and including, the date that is six months after the Last Original Issuance Date, the Company fails to timely file (subject to any applicable extension or grace period, including pursuant to Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act) any document or report that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods thereunder and other than current reports on Form 8-K), or the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes) are not otherwise Freely Tradable, including pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, by Holders other than “affiliates” (within the meaning of Rule 144) of the Company or Holders that were “affiliates” (within the meaning of Rule 144) of the Company during the 90 days immediately preceding the date of the proposed transfer (as a result of restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes) the Company shall pay Additional Interest that will accrue on the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes) at the rate of 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes) then Outstanding for each day during such period for which the Company’s failure to file has occurred and is continuing or for which the restrictions on transfer are applicable; provided that such period shall end on the date that is one year from the Last Original Issuance Date.

 

(b)    The Company will use reasonable efforts to cause the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes), to bear an unrestricted CUSIP number no later than the 375th day after the Last Original Issuance Date of the Notes, subject to DTC procedures. If, and for so long as, the Restricted Notes Legend has not been removed (or deemed removed) from the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes), the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes) are not assigned (or deemed assigned) an unrestricted CUSIP number or the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes) are not otherwise Freely Tradable by Holders other than “affiliates” (within the meaning of Rule 144) of the Company or Holders that were “affiliates” (within the meaning of Rule 144) of the Company during the 90 days immediately preceding the date of the proposed transfer (without restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes) as of the 375th day after the Last Original Issuance Date, the Company will pay Additional Interest on the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes). Additional Interest will accrue on the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes) at the rate of 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes) then Outstanding until such Restricted Notes Legend is removed (or deemed removed), the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes) are assigned (or deemed assigned) an unrestricted CUSIP number and the Notes (other than the Affiliate Notes) are Freely Tradable.

 

(c)    Such Additional Interest that is payable shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date following accrual in the same manner as regular interest on the Notes and, subject to 5.08(d), will be in addition to any Additional Interest that may accrue as described under Section 6.03.

 

(d)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event will any Additional Interest that may accrue as a result of the Company’s failure to timely file any document or report that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable extension or grace periods thereunder, including pursuant to Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act, and other than reports on Form 8-K), as described in this Section 5.08, together with any interest that may accrue as described in Section 6.03, accrue at a rate in excess of 0.50% per annum, regardless of the number of events or circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay such Additional Interest.

 

(e)    For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of this Section 5.08 shall not apply to the Affiliate Notes and Additional Interest shall not accrue on the Affiliate Notes as set forth in this Section 5.08.

 

Section 5.09    Corporate Existence. Subject to Article 9, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if, in the judgment of the Company, the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company.

 

Section 5.10    Restriction on Resales. Any Note or Common Stock issued upon the conversion or exchange of a Note that is repurchased or owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company (or any Person who was an Affiliate of the Company at any time during the three months preceding) may not be resold by the Company or any such Affiliate (or any such Person, as the case may be) unless registered under the Securities Act or resold pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in a transaction that results in such Note or Common Stock, as the case may be, no longer being a “restricted security” (as defined in Rule 144).

 

Section 5.11    Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders. The Trustee will preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of all Holders. If at any time the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:

 

(a)    semi-annually, not later than the 15th day after each Regular Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, containing all the information in the possession or control of the Company, or any of its Paying Agents other than the Trustee, of the names and addresses of the Holders, as of such preceding Regular Record Date, and

 

(b)    at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished.

 

ARTICLE 6.
REMEDIES

 

Section 6.01    Events of Default. Each of the following events shall be an “Event of Default” with respect to the Notes:

 

(a)    default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, and the default continues for a period of 30 calendar days;

 

(b)    default in the payment of the principal of any Note (including the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon required purchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

 

(c)    failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Article 4 hereof to convert the Notes into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, upon exercise of a Holder’s conversion right and such failure continues for a period of five (5) Business Days;

 

(d)    failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Article 9 hereof;

 

(e)    failure by the Company to issue a notice in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.01 hereof or Section 4.01(b)(iv) hereof and such failure continues for a period of five (5) Business Days;

 

(f)    failure by the Company for 60 days after written notice from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding (a copy of which notice, if given by Holders, must also be given to the Trustee) has been received by the Company to comply with any of its other agreements contained in the Notes or this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section 6.01 specifically provided for or that is not applicable to the Notes), which notice shall state that it is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;

 

(g)    default by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $30,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent at the time) in the aggregate of the Company and/or any of the Subsidiaries of the Company, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created (i) resulting in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable or (ii) constituting a failure to pay the principal or interest of any such indebtedness when due and payable at its stated maturity, upon redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, and such acceleration shall not have been rescinded or annulled or such failure to pay shall not have been cured, as the case may be, within 30 calendar days after written notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding has been received;

 

(h)    a final judgment or judgments for the payment of $30,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent at the time) or more (excluding any amounts covered by insurance or bond) rendered against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by a court of competent jurisdiction, which judgment is not discharged, stayed, vacated, paid or otherwise satisfied within 60 days after (i) the date on which the right to appeal thereof has expired if no such appeal has commenced, or (ii) the date on which all rights to appeal have been extinguished; or

 

(i)    the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking the liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any substantial part of the Company’s or such Significant Subsidiary of the Company’s property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; or

 

(j)    an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary of the Company or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days.

 

Section 6.02    Acceleration; Waiver.

 

(a)    If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) hereof or Section 6.01(j) hereof with respect to the Company) occurs and is continuing, and is known to the Trustee, the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may, and the Trustee at the request of such Holders shall, declare 100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all the Notes then Outstanding to be due and payable immediately. Upon such a declaration, such principal and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall be due and payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(i) or Section 6.01(j) with respect to the Company occurs and is continuing, 100% of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all Notes shall automatically become due and payable.

 

(b)    The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Notes at the time Outstanding, by written notice to the Trustee and the Company, may waive any current Default or Event of Default (except with respect to (i) any failure by the Company to pay the principal of or accrued interest on the Notes (including the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable), (ii) any failure by the Company to comply with its obligations to purchase Notes when required to do so under Article 3, (iii) any failure by the Company to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes or (iv) any covenant or provision of this Indenture or the Notes that cannot be modified or amended without the consent of all Holders as provided for in Section 8.02) and may rescind any acceleration of the notes if (x) the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (y) all existing Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the principal of and interest on the Notes have become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived.

 

(c)    Each Holder shall have the right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of: (i) the principal (including the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, if applicable) of; (ii) accrued and unpaid interest on; and (iii) the consideration due upon conversion of its Notes, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for herein, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery, as the case may be, and such right to receive such payment or delivery, as the case may be, on or after such respective dates shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

 

Section 6.03    Additional Interest.

 

(a)    Notwithstanding Section 6.02 hereof, to the extent the Company elects, the sole remedy for an Event of Default under Section 6.01(f) relating to the Company’s failure to comply with Section 5.04(a) hereof (such Event of Default, a “Reporting Event of Default”), will (i) for the first 90 days after the occurrence of such Reporting Event of Default (beginning on, and including, the date on which such Reporting Event of Default first occurs) consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Notes equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of such Notes then Outstanding for each day during such 90-day period on which such Event of Default is continuing and (ii) for the period from, and including, the 91st day after the occurrence of such Reporting Event of Default to, and including the 360th day after the occurrence of such Reporting Event of Default, consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Notes equal to 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes Outstanding for each day during such additional 270-day period on which such Reporting Event of Default is continuing (subject to 6.03(d), in addition to any Additional Interest that may accrue as described under Section 5.08).

 

(b)    On the 361st day after the date on which the Reporting Event of Default occurred (if such Reporting Event of Default has not been cured or waived prior to such 361st day), the Notes will be subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02 hereof.

 

(c)    In order to elect to pay the Additional Interest as the sole remedy during the first 360 days after the occurrence of a Reporting Event of Default, the Company must notify all Holders of Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent of such election prior to the beginning of such 360-day period. Upon the Company’s failure to timely give such notice, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02 hereof. In the event the Company does not elect to pay Additional Interest following a Reporting Event of Default or the Company elects to pay Additional Interest but does not pay the Additional Interest when due, the Notes will be subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02 hereof. Except as provided in the Section 6.03(d) below, nothing in this Section 6.03 shall affect the rights of Holders of Notes in the event of the occurrence of any other Event of Default.

 

(d)    Such Additional Interest will be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date following accrual in the same manner as regular interest on the Notes and will be in addition to any Additional Interest that may accrue pursuant to Section 5.08. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall the Additional Interest payable pursuant to this Section 6.03 and any Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 5.08 as a result of the Company’s failure to timely file any document or report that it is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods thereunder and other than reports on Form 8-K) accrue at a rate in excess of 0.50% per annum, regardless of the number of events or circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay such Additional Interest.

 

(e)    With regard to any Reporting Event of Default, no Additional Interest shall accrue, and no right to declare the principal or other amounts due and payable in respect of the Notes shall exist, after such Reporting Event of Default has been cured.

 

Section 6.04    Control by Majority. At any time, the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the then Outstanding Notes may direct in writing the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or, subject to the Trustee’s duties under Article 12 hereof, that the Trustee determines to be unduly prejudicial to the rights of a Holder or to the Trustee, or that would potentially involve the Trustee in personal liability unless the Trustee is offered indemnity or security satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense to the Trustee that may result from the Trustee’s instituting such proceeding as the Trustee. Prior to taking any action hereunder, the Trustee will be entitled to indemnification or security satisfactory to it in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by taking or not taking such action.

 

Section 6.05    Limitation on Suits. Subject to Section 6.06 hereof, no Holder may pursue a remedy with respect to this Indenture or the Notes unless:

 

(a)    such Holder has previously delivered to the Trustee written notice that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

 

(b)    the Holders of at least 25% of the aggregate principal amount of the then Outstanding Notes deliver to the Trustee a written request that the Trustee pursue a remedy with respect to such Event of Default;

 

(c)    such Holder or Holders have offered and, if requested, provided to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or other expense of compliance with such written request;

 

(d)    the Trustee has not complied with such written request within 60 days after receipt of such written request and offer of indemnity or security; and

 

(e)    during such 60-day period, the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the then Outstanding Notes did not deliver to the Trustee a direction inconsistent with such written request.

 

Section 6.06    Rights of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in this Indenture, the right, which is absolute and unconditional, of any Holder to receive payment of the principal of, interest on, Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, on or after the respective due date, and to convert its Notes and receive the payment or delivery of cash, shares of Common Stock or combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be, due with respect to such Notes in accordance with Article 4 hereof, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment or conversion rights, will not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder and will not be subject to the requirements of Section 6.05 hereof.

 

Section 6.07    Collection of Indebtedness; Suit for Enforcement by Trustee. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a), 6.01(b) or 6.01(c) hereof occurs and is continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount of principal of, interest on, Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, and the amount of cash, the number of shares of Common Stock or the combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be, due upon the conversion of, the Notes, as the case may be, and such further amount as is sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, as well as any other amounts that may be due under Section 10.07 hereof.

 

Section 6.08    Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the compensation, and reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.

 

Section 6.09    Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company, its creditors or its property and, unless prohibited by law or applicable regulations, will be entitled to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and any custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee consents to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 10.07 hereof. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 10.07 hereof out of the estate in any such proceeding, will be denied for any reason, payment of the same will be secured by a lien on, and is paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Holders may be entitled to receive in such proceeding, whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. Nothing herein contained will be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to, or to accept or to adopt on behalf of any Holder, any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.

 

Section 6.10    Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.

 

Section 6.11    Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes in Section 2.09 hereof, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.

 

Section 6.12    Delay or Omission Not a Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article 6 or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time and as often as may be deemed expedient by the Trustee (subject to the limitations contained in this Indenture) or by the Holders, as the case may be.

 

Section 6.13    Priorities. If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article 6, it will pay out the money in the following order:

 

FIRST: to the Trustee, its agents and attorneys for amounts due under Section 10.07 hereof, including payment of all compensation, expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the costs and expenses of collection;

 

SECOND: to the Holders, for any amounts due and unpaid on the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest on, Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, and any cash due upon conversion of, any Note, without preference or priority of any kind, according to such amounts due and payable on all of the Notes; and

 

THIRD: the balance, if any, to the Company or to such other party as a court of competent jurisdiction directs.

 

The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to the Holders pursuant to this Section 6.13. If the Trustee so fixes a record date and a payment date, at least 15 calendar days prior to such record date, the Trustee will deliver to each Holder a written notice, which notice will state such record date, such payment date and the amount of such payment.

 

Section 6.14    Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder, by such Holder’s acceptance of a Note, 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, however, that the provisions of this Section 6.14 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, any Note on or after the due date expressed or provided for in this Indenture or to any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Note in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 hereof.

 

Section 6.15    Waiver of Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants that, to the extent that it may lawfully do so, it will 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 wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company, to the extent that 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 instead suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.

 

ARTICLE 7.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE

 

Section 7.01    Discharge of Liability on Notes. When (a) the Company shall deliver to the Registrar for cancellation all Notes theretofore authenticated (other than any Notes that have been 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 (whether on the Maturity Date, on any Fundamental Change Purchase Date, upon conversion or otherwise) and the Company shall deposit with the Trustee, in trust, or deliver to the Holders, as applicable, an amount of cash, a number of shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be (solely to settle amounts due with respect to outstanding conversions), sufficient to pay all amounts due on all of such 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, accompanied, except in the event the Notes are due and payable solely in cash at the Maturity Date or upon an earlier Fundamental Change Purchase Date, by a verification report as to the sufficiency of the deposited amount from an independent certified accountant or other financial professional reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, and if the Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) rights hereunder of Holders to receive from such trust all amounts owing upon the Notes and the other rights, duties and obligations of Holders, as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the amounts, if any, so deposited with the Trustee and (ii) the rights, obligations and immunities of the Trustee hereunder), and the Trustee, on written demand of the Company accompanied by an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture; the Company, however, hereby agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred by the Trustee, including the fees and expenses of its counsel, and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably and properly rendered by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Notes.

 

Section 7.02    Deposited Monies to be Held in Trust by Trustee. Subject to Section 7.04 hereof, all monies and shares of Common Stock, as the case may be, deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.01 hereof shall be held in trust for the sole benefit of the Holders of the Notes, and such monies and shares of Common Stock 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 settlement of which such monies or shares of Common Stock, or both, as the case may be, have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums or amounts due and to become due thereon for principal and interest, if any.

 

Section 7.03    Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held. Upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, all monies and shares of Common Stock, as the case may be, then held by any Paying Agent (if 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 and shares of Common Stock, or both, as the case may be.

 

Section 7.04    Return of Unclaimed Monies. Subject to the requirements of applicable law, any monies and shares of Common Stock deposited with or paid to the Trustee for payment of the principal of or interest, if any, on the Notes and not applied but remaining unclaimed by the Holders of the Notes for two (2) years after the date upon which the principal of or interest, if any, 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 shares of Common Stock; and the Holder shall thereafter look only to the Company for any payment or delivery that such Holder may be entitled to collect unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another Person.

 

Section 7.05    Reinstatement. If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or shares of Common Stock, or both, as the case may be, in accordance with Section 7.02 hereof 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 the Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 7.01 hereof until such time as the Trustee or the Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money and shares of Common Stock in accordance with Section 7.02 hereof; provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of interest on, principal of or payment or delivery in respect 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 or shares of Common Stock, if any, held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.

 

ARTICLE 8.
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

 

Section 8.01    Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.

 

Without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:

 

(a)    to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency in this Indenture or the Notes that does not materially adversely affect the rights of the Holders of the Notes;

 

(b)    to conform the terms of this Indenture or the Notes to the description thereof in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, as supplemented by the pricing term sheet related to the offering of the Notes as such provision is set forth in an Officer’s Certificate;

 

(c)    to evidence the succession by a Successor Company and to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the Company’s obligations under the Indenture;

 

(d)    to add guarantees with respect to the Notes;

 

(e)    to secure the Notes;

 

(f)    to add to the Company’s covenants further covenants, restrictions or conditions for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company by the Indenture;

 

(g)    to make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder (other than any Holder that consents to such change);

 

(h)    to provide for a successor Trustee;

 

(i)    upon the occurrence of a Share Exchange Event, solely (x) to provide that the Notes are convertible into Reference Property, as required under Section 4.07, and (y) to effect the related changes to the terms of the Notes required under Section 4.07, in each case, in accordance with the applicable provisions hereof;

 

(j)    to comply with the Applicable Procedures; or

 

(k)    to irrevocably elect a Settlement Method or eliminate, in the aggregate, any one or more Settlement Methods or, in the case of Combination Settlement, irrevocably elect a Specified Dollar Amount, in each case, solely to the extent that the elected (or remaining) Settlement Method is one that the Indenture would permit the Company to make with respect to all future conversions of Notes.

 

Section 8.02    Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.

 

With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, Notes) (i) the Company, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders under this Indenture and (ii) any past Default or compliance with any covenants or provisions of this Indenture may be waived (other than a Default or an Event of Default resulting from the failure to pay principal or interest on the Notes, to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price or to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the amount of cash, the number of shares of Common Stock or combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be, due upon conversion of a Note); provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture or waiver shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby:

 

(a)    reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of Notes then Outstanding necessary to waive any past Default or Event of Default;

 

(b)    reduce the rate of interest on any Note or change the time for payment of interest on any Note;

 

(c)    reduce the principal of any Note or change the Maturity Date of any Note;

 

(d)    change the place or currency of payment on any Note;

 

(e)    except as required by this Indenture, make any change that impairs or adversely affects the conversion rights of any Notes;

 

(f)    reduce the Fundamental Change Purchase Price of any Note or amend or modify in any manner adverse to the rights of the Holders of the Notes the Company’s obligation to pay the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in the covenants, definitions or otherwise;

 

(g)    impair the right of any Holder of Notes to receive payment of principal of, and interest, if any, on, its Notes, or the right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of the amount of cash, the number of shares of Common Stock or the combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be, due upon conversion of its Notes on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery, as the case may be, with respect to such Holder’s Notes;

 

(h)    modify the ranking provisions of this Indenture in a manner that is adverse to the rights of the Holders of the Notes; or

 

(i)    make any change to the provisions of this Article 8 that requires each Holder’s consent or in the waiver provisions of this Indenture if such change is adverse to the rights of Holders of the Notes.

 

It shall not be necessary for any Act or consent of Holders under this Section 8.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act or consent shall approve the substance thereof. The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to consent to any indenture supplemental hereto. If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to consent to such supplemental indenture, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that, unless such consent shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having been obtained prior to the date which is 90 calendar days after such record date, any such consent previously given shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect.

 

Section 8.03    Notice of Amendment or Supplement. After an amendment or supplement under this Article 8 becomes effective, the Company shall provide to the Holders (with a copy to the Trustee) a written notice briefly describing such amendment or supplement. However, the failure to give such notice to all the Holders (or any copy to the Trustee), or any defect in the notice, shall not impair or affect the validity of the amendment or supplement.

 

Section 8.04    Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc.. The Trustee shall sign any amendment or supplement authorized pursuant to this Article 8 if the amendment or supplement does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. If it does, the Trustee may, but need not, sign it. In signing or refusing to sign such amendment or supplement, the Trustee shall receive, and, shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel provided at the expense of the Company providing that such amendment or supplement is authorized or permitted by the Indenture and that such amendment or supplement is the valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms.

 

ARTICLE 9.
SUCCESSOR COMPANY

 

Section 9.01    Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms. The Company shall not amalgamate or consolidate with, merge with or into or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to another Person, unless:

 

(a)    the resulting, surviving transferee or successor Person (the “Successor Company”) is a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia;

 

(b)    immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under this Indenture with respect to the Notes; and

 

(c)    all the conditions specified in this Article 9 are met.

 

Upon any such amalgamation, consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall succeed to, and may exercise every right and power of the Company under this Indenture, and the Company shall be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and the Indenture except in the case of any such lease.

 

For purposes of this Section 9.01, the conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company to another Person, which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiary or Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to another Person.

 

Section 9.02    Successor Corporation to be Substituted. In case of any such amalgamation, consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and upon the assumption by the Successor Company (if other than the Company), by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of (including any Fundamental Change Purchase Price) and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the Notes, the due and punctual delivery or payment, as the case may be, of any Settlement Amount due upon conversion of the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed by the Company under this Indenture, such Successor Company shall succeed to and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part; provided, however, that in the case of a conveyance, transfer or lease to one or more of its Subsidiaries of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company, the Notes will remain convertible based on the Common Stock and into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be, in accordance with Section 4.03 hereof, but subject to adjustment (if any) in accordance with Section 4.07 hereof. Such Successor Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Successor Company instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Notes that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Notes that such Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Notes so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In the event of any such amalgamation, consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer (but not in the case of a lease), the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article 9 may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person shall be released from its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Notes and from its obligations under this Indenture.

 

In case of any such amalgamation, consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.

 

Section 9.03    Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee. In the case of any such amalgamation, merger, consolidation, conveyance, transfer or lease the Trustee shall receive an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that any such amalgamation, consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such assumption and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, complies with the provisions of this Indenture.

 

ARTICLE 10.
THE TRUSTEE

 

Section 10.01    Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.

 

(a)    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 and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. In case an Event of Default has occurred (which has not been cured or waived) and the Trustee has notice of such fact, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care in their exercise, as a prudent person would use in the conduct of his or her own affairs.

 

(b)    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:

 

(i)    prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred:

 

(A)    the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture and applicable law, 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 or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and

 

(B)    in the absence of bad faith 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, 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 any mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein);

 

(ii)    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;

 

(iii)    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 1.03 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;

 

(iv)    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;

 

(v)    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; and

 

(vi)    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.

 

None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any 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 10.02    Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall give the Holders notice of any Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has knowledge or is deemed to have notice under Section 10.03(a) within 90 days after the occurrence thereof so long as such Default is continuing; provided that (except in the case of any Default in the payment of principal amount of, or interest on, any of the Notes or Fundamental Change Purchase Price or a default in the delivery of the consideration due upon conversion), the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as it in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of Notes.

 

Section 10.03    Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc. Except as otherwise provided in Section 10.01:

 

(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 Officer’s 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 Board Resolution;

 

(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;

 

(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 Holders pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture (including upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default), unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, 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, in its discretion, 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 reasonable 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;

 

(h)    in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, consequential or punitive loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action;

 

(i)    the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a Default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Notes and the Indenture;

 

(j)    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;

 

(k)    the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder; and

 

(l)    the Trustee may request that the Company deliver a certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture.

 

Section 10.04    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 10.05    Trustee, Paying Agents, Exchange Agents or Registrar May Own Notes. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent 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 or Registrar.

 

Section 10.06    Monies to be Held in Trust. Subject to the provisions of Section 10.07, all monies and properties 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 10.07    Compensation and Expenses of Trustee. The Company 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 will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable, out-of-pocket expenses, disbursements and advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including the reasonable 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 may arise from its negligence or willful misconduct.

 

The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee (or any officer, director or employee of the Trustee), in any capacity under this Indenture and its agents and any Authenticating Agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all loss, liability, claim or expense incurred without negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee or such officers, directors, employees and agent 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, a Holder or any other Person) of liability in the premises. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of its obligations hereunder. The Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee may have one firm of separate counsel except in the event local counsel shall be required and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel and local counsel, as applicable. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

 

The obligations of the Company under this Section 10.07 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.

 

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(i) and 6.01(j) 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 10.08    Officers Certificate as Evidence. Except as otherwise provided in Section 10.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee.

 

Section 10.09    [Reserved].

 

Section 10.10    Eligibility of Trustee. 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 10.10 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. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.10, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.

 

Section 10.11    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 thirty (30) days after the providing of such notice of resignation to the Holders, the resigning Trustee may, upon ten (10) Business Days’ notice to the Company and the Holders, petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or, if any Holder 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 6.14, 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 10.10 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder; or

 

(ii)    the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged as 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 6.14, any Holder 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, however, that if no successor Trustee shall have been appointed and have accepted appointment thirty (30) days after either the Company or the Holders has removed the Trustee, the Trustee so removed may petition at the Company’s expense 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.

 

(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 Holder, or if such Trustee so removed or any Holder fails to act, the Company, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as provided in Section 10.11(a), may petition, at the expense of the Company, 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 10.11 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 10.12.

 

Section 10.12    Acceptance by Successor Trustee. Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 10.11 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 10.07, 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 10.07.

 

No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 10.12 unless, at the time of such acceptance, such successor trustee shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 10.10.

 

Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section 10.12, 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 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 10.13    Succession by Merger, Etc. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or exchanged or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, exchange 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 10.10.

In case 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, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, exchange or consolidation.

 

Section 10.14    [Reserved].

 

Section 10.15    Trustees 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.

 

ARTICLE 11.
NO REDEMPTION

 

Section 11.01    No Redemption. The Notes shall not be redeemable by the Company prior to the Maturity Date, and no sinking fund is provided for the Notes.  

 

ARTICLE 12.
MISCELLANEOUS

 

Section 12.01    Effect on Successors and Assigns. All agreements of the Company, the Trustee, the Registrar, the Paying Agent, the Bid Solicitation Agent and the Conversion Agent in this Indenture and the Notes will bind their respective successors.

 

Section 12.02    Governing Law. This Indenture and the Notes, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to the Indenture or the Notes, will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company hereby irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of any Federal or State court located in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York, New York in any suit, action or proceeding based on or arising out of or relating to this Indenture or any Notes and irrevocably agrees that all claims in respect of such suit or proceeding may be determined in any such court. The Company irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may have to the laying of the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding brought in an inconvenient forum. The Company agrees that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such a court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company, and may be enforced in any courts to the jurisdiction of which the Company is subject by a suit upon such judgment, provided that service of process is effected upon the Company in the manner specified herein or as otherwise permitted by law.

 

Section 12.03    No Note Interest Created. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in effect, in any jurisdiction.

 

Section 12.04    Voting. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture, Notes that are owned by the Company, by any of its Subsidiaries or by any Person or entity directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination, except that in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver or other action that is to be made by a requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes, only such Notes which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding for such purposes if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee its right to so act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company, one of its Subsidiaries or a Person or entity directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or one of its Subsidiaries. The Affiliate Notes, for so long as they are held by Affiliates of the Company, will be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purposes of determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture.

 

Section 12.05    Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, will give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent, any Authenticating Agent, any Registrar or their successors hereunder or the Holders of the Notes, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.

 

Section 12.06    Calculations. Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the Company shall be responsible for making all calculations called for under the Indenture and the Notes. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determinations of the Last Reported Sale Prices, Trading Prices and Daily VWAPs of the Common Stock, the Daily Share Cap, accrued interest payable on the Notes and the Conversion Rate. The Company shall make all these calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, its calculations will be final and binding on Holders. The Company shall provide a schedule of its calculations to each of the Trustee, the Bid Solicitation Agent and the Conversion Agent, and each of the Trustee, the Bid Solicitation Agent and the Conversion Agent is entitled to rely conclusively upon the accuracy of the Company’s calculations without independent verification. The Trustee shall forward the Company’s calculations to any Holders upon the written request of that Holder. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall be responsible, or assume any liability, for any calculations under this Indenture or the Notes.

 

Whenever the Company is required to calculate or make adjustments to the Conversion Rate, the Company will do so to the nearest 1/10,000th of a share of Common Stock, rounding any additional decimal places up or down in a commercially reasonable manner.

 

Section 12.07    Execution in Counterparts; Electronic Signatures. 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. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes. Unless otherwise provided in this Indenture or in any Note, the words “execute,” “execution,” “signed” and “signature” and words of similar import used in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Indenture, any Note or any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including amendments, supplements, waivers, consents and other modifications) will be deemed to include electronic signatures and the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which will be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature in ink or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as applicable, to the fullest extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act and any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

 

Section 12.08    Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company.

 

(a)    Except as otherwise provided herein, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, election, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

 

(i)    the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing (including facsimile or electronically in PDF format) to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office; or

 

(ii)    the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid (and, in the case of securities held in book-entry form, by electronic transmission), to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office at 4400 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33137, Attn: Camielle Green, Associate General Counsel, Secretary, or at any other address furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company prior to such mailing or electronically in PDF format.

 

(b)    The Company or the Trustee, by notice given to the other in the manner provided in this Section 12.08, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

 

(c)    Whenever the Company is required to deliver notice to the Holders, the Company will, by the date it is required to deliver such notice to the Holders, deliver a copy of such notice to the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar and the Conversion Agent. Each notice to the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar and the Conversion Agent shall be sufficiently given if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid to the address most recently sent by the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar or the Conversion Agent, as the case may be, to the Company.

 

(d)    Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by the Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.

 

(e)    Where this Indenture provides for notice of any event to a Holder of a Global Note, such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary for such Note (or its designee), pursuant to its Applicable Procedures, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice.

 

Section 12.09    No Recourse Against Others. No director, officer, employee, incorporator or stockholder of the Company shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes, the Indenture or any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.

 

Section 12.10    Tax Withholding. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company or any other withholding agent is permitted to withhold, or backup withhold, from interest payments and payments upon conversion or maturity of the Notes, any amounts the Company or other withholding agent is required to withhold or backup withhold by law. If the Company or other withholding agent pays withholding taxes or backup withholding on behalf of a Holder or beneficial owner, the Company or other withholding agent may, at its option, set off any such payment against payments of cash and Common Stock payable on the Notes or proceeds paid or credited to the Holder or beneficial owner.

 

Section 12.11    Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.

 

Section 12.12    U.S.A. Patriot Act. The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each Person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.

 

Section 12.13    Force Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, epidemics or pandemics, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.

 

OPKO HEALTH, INC.

 

By:         _/s/ Steven D. Rubin_______________

Name:         Steven D. Rubin

Title:         Executive Vice President, Administration

 

 

[Signature Page to Indenture]

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

 

By:         _/s/ Gregory M. Jackson____________

Name:         Gregory M. Jackson

Title:         Vice President

 

[Signature Page to Indenture]

 

 

 

SCHEDULE A

 

MAKE-WHOLE TABLE

 

The following table sets forth the number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased per $1,000 principal amount of Notes pursuant to Section 4.06 based on the Stock Price and the Effective Date set forth below.

 

Effective Date

Stock Price

 

$0.9067

$1.0000

$1.1500

$1.5000

$2.0000

$2.5000

$3.0000

$3.5000

$4.0000

$5.0000

$6.0000

$7.0000

January 9, 2024         

233.3354

192.4200

145.6000

84.9600

46.6800

28.4960

18.2533

11.8686

7.6575

2.8300

0.6350

0.0000

January 15, 2025         

233.3354

191.8600

141.5304

78.9000

41.9350

25.3440

16.2300

10.5886

6.8550

2.5400

0.5517

0.0000

January 15, 2026         

233.3354

184.5200

130.8435

67.7933

34.2350

20.4280

13.0900

8.5571

5.5300

1.9920

0.3750

0.0000

January 15, 2027         

233.3354

172.4000

114.1652

51.8267

24.1700

14.3520

9.3067

6.1343

3.9600

1.3480

0.1433

0.0000

January 15, 2028         

233.3354

153.9000

87.3826

28.9533

12.0850

7.4680

5.0167

3.3686

2.1775

0.6800

0.0000

0.0000

January 15, 2029         

233.3354

130.4319

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

 

 

Schedule A-1

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]

 

[For Global Notes, include the following legend (the “Global Notes Legend”):]

 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.]

 

[For all Notes that are Restricted Notes, include the following legend (the “Restricted Notes Legend”):]

 

[NO AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF OPKO HEALTH, INC. (THE COMPANY) OR PERSON THAT HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY DURING THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THREE MONTHS MAY PURCHASE, OTHERWISE ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.

 

THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT), AND ACCORDINGLY, PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:

 

(1)          REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND

 

(2)          AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMPANY THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), EXCEPT:

 

(A)          TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF;

 

(B)          PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER;

 

(C)          TO A PERSON THAT YOU REASONABLY BELIEVE TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR

 

(D)          UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (INCLUDING, IF AVAILABLE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAFE HARBOR PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT).

 

THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH ABOVE. THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE MEANS THE LATEST OF: (1) THE DATE THAT IS ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST DATE OF ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME PERMITTED BY RULE 144 OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO; (2) THE DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY HAS INSTRUCTED THE TRUSTEE THAT THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS WILL NO LONGER APPLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND (3) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

 

WITH RESPECT TO ANY TRANSFER PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING CLAUSE (D), PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION ACCEPTABLE TO THEM AND MAY RELY UPON SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. NO REPRESENTATION CAN BE MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY]

 

[For all Notes that are Affiliate Notes, include the following legend (the “Affiliate Notes Legend”):]

 

[THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT), AND ACCORDINGLY, PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:

 

(1)         REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND

 

(2)         AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OPKO HEALTH, INC. (THE COMPANY) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), EXCEPT:

 

(A)          TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF;

 

(B)          PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER;

 

(C)          TO A PERSON THAT YOU REASONABLY BELIEVE TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR

 

(D)          UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (INCLUDING, IF AVAILABLE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAFE HARBOR PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT).

 

THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH ABOVE. THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE MEANS THE LATER OF: (1) THE EARLIEST OF (A) THE DATE ON WHICH THIS NOTE HAS BEEN SOLD TO A NON-AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SALE; (B) THE DATE ON WHICH THIS NOTE HAS BEEN SOLD TO A NON-AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; AND (C) THE DATE ON WHICH THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE (X) HAS A HOLDING PERIOD (DETERMINED PURSUANT TO RULE 144(d) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF AT LEAST ONE YEAR (OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR THERETO AT SUCH TIME) AND (Y) IS NOT AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY (AND HAS NOT BEEN AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY DURING THE THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING); AND (2) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW. IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE (X) HAS A HOLDING PERIOD (DETERMINED PURSUANT TO RULE 144(d) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF AT LEAST ONE YEAR (OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR THERETO AT SUCH TIME) OR (Y) IS AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY (OR HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY DURING THE THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING), THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS THEY MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE AND MAY RELY UPON TO MAKE SUCH DETERMINATION.

 

WITH RESPECT TO ANY TRANSFER PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING CLAUSE (D), PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION ACCEPTABLE TO THEM AND MAY RELY UPON SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. NO REPRESENTATION CAN BE MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

OPKO Health, Inc.

 

3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029

 

No.:         [          ]         

 

CUSIP:         [          ]

 

ISIN:         [          ]

 

Principal

Amount $         [          ] [For Global Notes, include the following: as revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in the Global Note attached hereto]

 

OPKO Health, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay to [          ] [include “Cede & Co. for Global Note] or registered assigns, the principal amount of [add principal amount in words] ($[          ]) on January 15, 2029 (the “Maturity Date”).

 

Interest Payment Dates: January 15 and July 15.

 

Regular Record Dates: January 1 and July 1.

 

Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note.

 

 

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, OPKO Health, Inc. has caused this Note to be duly executed.

 

OPKO HEALTH, INC.

 

By:                                                                

Name:

Title:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Notes of the series designated herein, referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

Dated:

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

 

By:                                                                    

Authorized Signatory

 

 

 

[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]

 

OPKO Health, Inc.

 

3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued under the Indenture dated as of January 9, 2024 by and between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, herein called the “Trustee,” and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. In the event of a conflict between the terms of the Indenture and this Note, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

 

The Company will pay cash interest on the unpaid principal amount of this Note at a rate of 3.75% per year. Interest will accrue from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from [          ][January 9, 2024]. Except as provided in the Indenture, interest will be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the Close of Business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date semiannually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date; provided that, if any Interest Payment Date, Maturity Date or Fundamental Change Purchase Date with respect to this Note falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the required payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day and no interest on such payment will accrue in respect of the delay. Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months and, for partial months, on the basis of the number of days actually elapsed in a 30-day month. Except as provided in the Indenture, no interest shall be paid with respect to Notes surrendered for conversion.

 

The Notes are not subject to redemption through the operation of any sinking fund or otherwise.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change the Holder of this Note will have the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to purchase this Note, or any portion of this Note such that the principal amount of this Note that is not purchased equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof, on the Fundamental Change Purchase Date at a price equal to the Fundamental Change Purchase Price for such Fundamental Change Purchase Date.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at its option (i) during certain periods and upon the occurrence of certain conditions specified in the Indenture, prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding September 15, 2028, and (ii) on or after September 15, 2028, at any time prior to the Close of Business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, to convert this Note or a portion of this Note such that the principal amount of this Note that is not converted equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof, into an amount of cash, a number of shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be, determined in accordance with Article 4 of the Indenture.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Company will make all payments in respect of the Fundamental Change Purchase Price for, and the principal amount of, this Note to the Holder that surrenders this Note to the Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of this Note. The Company will pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes to be effected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past Defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Note, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity satisfactory thereto, and the Trustee shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity, and shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Notes at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of the principal hereof or interest hereon, the Fundamental Change Purchase Price, and the amount of cash, the number of shares of Common Stock or the combination thereof, as the case may be, due upon conversion of this Note or after the respective due dates expressed in the Indenture.

 

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 or deliver, as the case may be, the principal of (including the Fundamental Change Purchase Price), interest on and the amount of cash, a number of shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be, due upon conversion of this Note at the time, place and rate, and in the coin and currency herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer to the Trustee, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon a new Note of this series and of like tenor for the same aggregate principal amount will be issued to the designated transferee.

 

The Notes are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or Trustee may treat the Person in whose name the Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entirety), JT TEN (= joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= custodian) and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gift to Minors Act).

 

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

 

All defined terms used in this Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. If any provision of this Note limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision of the Indenture, such provision of the Indenture shall control.

 

[No Additional Interest shall be payable on this Note by the Company pursuant to Section 5.08 of the Indenture.]

 

 

 

ATTACHMENT 1

 

[FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION]

 

To:         U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

2 Concourse Parkway

Suite 800

Atlanta, Georgia 30328

Attention: Corporate Trust Department

 

The undersigned owner of this Note hereby irrevocably exercises the option to convert this Note, or a portion hereof (which is such that the principal amount of the portion of this Note that will not be converted equals $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) below designated, into an amount of cash, a number of shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, if any, as the case may be, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that any cash payable and any shares of Common Stock issuable and deliverable upon conversion, together with any Notes representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be paid and/or issued and/or delivered, as the case may be, to the registered Holder hereof unless a different name is indicated below.

 

Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, if this notice is being delivered after the Close of Business on a Regular Record Date and prior to the Open of Business on the Interest Payment Date corresponding to such Regular Record Date, this notice must be accompanied by payment of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of this Note to be converted. If any shares of Common Stock are to be issued in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect to such issuance and transfer as set forth in the Indenture.

 

Principal amount to be converted (if less than all):

 

$________,000

 

Dated:                                                                                                    

 

 

Signature(s)

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

 

 

Signature Guarantee

 

(Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible Guarantor Institution (banks, stock brokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions) with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17Ad-15 if shares of Common Stock are to be issued, or Notes are to be delivered, other than to and in the name of the registered holder.)

 

 

Fill in if a check is to be issued, or shares of Common Stock or Notes are to be registered, otherwise than to or in the name of the registered Holder.

 

 

 

(Name)

 

 

 

(Address)

 

Please print name and address
(including zip code)

 

 

 

(Social Security or other Taxpayer
Identifying Number)

 

Dated:                                                                                                                     

 

 

Signature(s)

(Sign exactly as such Person’s name appears above)

 

 

Signature Guarantee

 

(Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible Guarantor Institution (banks, stock brokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions) with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17Ad-15 if shares of Common Stock are to be issued, or Notes are to be delivered, other than to and in the name of the registered holder.)

 

 

 

ATTACHMENT 2

 

[FORM OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE PURCHASE NOTICE]

 

To:         U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

2 Concourse Parkway

Suite 800

Atlanta, Georgia 30328

Attention: Corporate Trust Department

 

The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from OPKO Health, Inc. (the “Company”) as to the occurrence of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and specifying the Fundamental Change Purchase Date and requests and instructs the Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Indenture referred to in this Note (i) the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is such that the portion not to be purchased has a principal amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) below designated, and (ii) if such Fundamental Change Purchase Date does not occur during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Interest Payment Date corresponding to such Regular Record Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Fundamental Change Purchase Date.

 

Principal amount to be purchased (if less than all):

 

$________,000

 

Certificate number (if Notes are in certificated form):

 

 

 

Dated:                                                                                                            

 

 

Signature(s)

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

 

 

Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number

 

 

 

ATTACHMENT 3

 

[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER]

 

For value received,                                     

 

hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

 

 

 

(Please insert social security or Taxpayer Identification Number of assignee)

 

the within Note, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints ____________ to transfer the said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

In connection with any transfer of the within Note occurring prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date, as defined in the Indenture governing such Note, the undersigned confirms that such Note is being transferred:

 

To OPKO Health, Inc. or a subsidiary thereof; or

 

Pursuant to a registration statement which has become effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or

 

To a person reasonably believed to be a qualified institutional buyer in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or

 

Pursuant to an exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any other available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF THE THIRD BOX ABOVE IS CHECKED

 

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

Date: ______________________                  Signed:                                                      

 

 

Unless one of the above boxes is checked, the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any Person other than the registered Holder thereof, provided that if the fourth box is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, in its sole discretion, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company or the Trustee may reasonably request to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

If none of the foregoing boxes is checked, the Trustee or Registrar shall not be obligated to register this Note in the name of any Person other than the Holder hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of registration set forth herein and in Section 2.11 of the Indenture shall have been satisfied.

 

Dated:                                                                                                    

 

 

Signature(s)

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

 

 

 

Signature Guarantee

 

 

(Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible Guarantor Institution (banks, stock brokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions) with membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17Ad-15 if Notes are to be delivered, other than to and in the name of the registered holder.)

 

 

 

 

ATTACHMENT 4

 

[Insert for Global Note]

 

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN THE GLOBAL NOTE
Initial Principal Amount of Global Note: [          ]

 

Date

Amount of Increase in Principal Amount of Global Note

Amount of Decrease in Principal Amount of Global Note

Principal Amount of Global Note After Increase or Decrease

Notation by Registrar, Note Custodian or authorized signatory of Trustee

         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         

 

 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

[FORM OF FREE TRANSFERABILITY CERTIFICATE]

 

Officers Certificate

 

[NAME OF OFFICER], the [TITLE] of OPKO Health, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), does hereby certify, in connection with the sale of $301,054,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”) pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, dated as of January 9, 2024 (as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Indenture”), by and among the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”), that:

 

1.         The undersigned is permitted to sign this “Officer’s Certificate” on behalf of the Company, as the term “Officer’s Certificate” is defined in the Indenture.

 

2.         The undersigned has read the Indenture and the definitions therein relating thereto.

 

3.         In the opinion of the undersigned, the undersigned has made such examination as is necessary to enable the undersigned to express an informed opinion as to whether or not all conditions precedent to the delivery of this certificate provided for in the Indenture have been complied with.

 

4.         To the best knowledge of the undersigned, all conditions precedent described herein as provided for in the Indenture have been complied with.

 

5.         All Applicable Procedures in connection with the below instructions have been complied with.

 

In accordance with Section 2.08 of the Indenture, the Company hereby instructs the Trustee as follows:

 

1.         To take those actions necessary so that the Restricted Notes Legend and set forth on the Restricted Global Notes shall be deemed removed from such Global Notes in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Notes and as provided in the Indenture, without further action on the part of the Holders.

 

2.         To take those actions necessary so that the restricted CUSIP number for the Restricted Global Notes shall be removed from such Global Notes and replaced with an unrestricted CUSIP number, which unrestricted CUSIP number shall be [          ], in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Restricted Global Notes and as provided in the Indenture, without further action on the part of the Holders.

 

[Signature page follows.]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this certificate to be duly executed as of [_________________].

 

OPKO HEALTH, INC.

 

By:                                                                                   
Name:         
Title:   

      

 

 

 

EXHIBIT C

 

[FORM OF RESTRICTED STOCK LEGEND]

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT), AND ACCORDINGLY, PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:

 

(1)          REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND

 

(2)          AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OPKO HEALTH, INC. (THE COMPANY) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), EXCEPT:

 

(A)          TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF;

 

(B)          PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER;

 

(C)          TO A PERSON THAT YOU REASONABLY BELIEVE TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR

 

(D)          UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (INCLUDING, IF AVAILABLE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAFE HARBOR PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT).

 

THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH ABOVE. THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE MEANS THE LATEST OF: (1) THE DATE THAT IS ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST DATE OF ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE COMPANYS 3.75% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES DUE 2029 (THE NOTES) OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME PERMITTED BY RULE 144 OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO; (2) THE DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY HAS INSTRUCTED THE TRUSTEE FOR THE NOTES THAT THE SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO THE NOTES WILL NO LONGER APPLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THE NOTES AND (3) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

 

WITH RESPECT TO ANY TRANSFER PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING CLAUSE (D), PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE, THE COMPANY AND THE COMPANYS TRANSFER AGENT RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION ACCEPTABLE TO THEM AND MAY RELY UPON SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. NO REPRESENTATION CAN BE MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY.

 

 

 

EXHIBIT D

 

[FORM OF AFFILIATE RESTRICTED STOCK LEGEND]

 

[THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE SECURITIES ACT), AND ACCORDINGLY, PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:

 

(1)          REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND

 

(2)          AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OPKO HEALTH, INC. (THE COMPANY) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), EXCEPT:

 

(A)          TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF;

 

(B)          PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER;

 

(C)          TO A PERSON THAT YOU REASONABLY BELIEVE TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR

 

(D)          UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (INCLUDING, IF AVAILABLE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAFE HARBOR PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT).

 

THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH ABOVE. THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE MEANS THE LATER OF: (1) THE EARLIEST OF (A) THE DATE ON WHICH THIS SECURITY HAS BEEN SOLD TO A NON-AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SALE; (B) THE DATE ON WHICH THIS SECURITY HAS BEEN SOLD TO A NON-AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; AND (C) THE DATE ON WHICH THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY (X) HAS A HOLDING PERIOD (DETERMINED PURSUANT TO RULE 144(d) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF AT LEAST ONE YEAR (OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR THERETO AT SUCH TIME) AND (Y) IS NOT AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY (AND HAS NOT BEEN AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY DURING THE THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING); AND (2) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW. IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY (X) HAS A HOLDING PERIOD (DETERMINED PURSUANT TO RULE 144(d) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF AT LEAST ONE YEAR (OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR THERETO AT SUCH TIME) OR (Y) IS AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY (OR HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY DURING THE THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING), THE COMPANY AND THE COMPANYS TRANSFER AGENT RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS THEY MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE AND MAY RELY UPON TO MAKE SUCH DETERMINATION.

 

WITH RESPECT TO ANY TRANSFER PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING CLAUSE (D), PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE, THE COMPANY AND THE COMPANYS TRANSFER AGENT RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION ACCEPTABLE TO THEM AND MAY RELY UPON SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. NO REPRESENTATION CAN BE MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY.]

 

 

Exhibit 10.1

 

 

OPKO Health, Inc.

3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029

 

Purchase Agreement

 

January 4, 2024

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

As Representative of the

several Initial Purchasers listed

in Schedule 1 hereto

 

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

OPKO Health, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several initial purchasers listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Initial Purchasers”), for whom you are acting as representative (the “Representative”), $200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Firm Securities”) and, at the option of the Initial Purchasers, up to an additional $30,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Option Securities”) if and to the extent that the Initial Purchasers shall have determined to exercise the option to purchase such 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 granted to the Initial Purchasers in Section 2 hereof. The Firm Securities and the Option Securities are herein referred to as the “Securities.” Subject to the terms of the Indenture (as defined below), the Securities will be convertible into (i) before the Company satisfies the Share Reservation Condition (as hereinafter defined), solely cash or a combination of cash and shares (the “Underlying Securities”) of common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), subject to the Aggregate Share Cap (as defined hereinafter), and (ii) if the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition, cash, Underlying Securities or a combination of cash and Underlying Securities, in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), at the Company’s election in accordance with the terms of the Securities and the Indenture. The Securities will be issued pursuant to an Indenture to be dated as of January 9, 2024 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”).

 

As used in this Agreement, the terms “Aggregate Share Cap” and “Share Reservation Condition” shall each have the meaning given to such term in the Indenture.

 

Certain entities affiliated with the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and/or the Company’s Vice-Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, as well as

additional existing holders of the Company’s 5% Convertible Promissory Notes, originally due

2023 and, as amended, due January 31, 2025 (the “Affiliated Purchasers”), have agreed to purchase $71,056,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Affiliate Securities”) in a separate private placement pursuant to the exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), provided by Section 4(a)(2) thereof.

 

The Company hereby confirms its agreement with the several Initial Purchasers concerning the purchase and sale of the Securities, as follows:

 

1.         Offering Memorandum and Transaction Information. The Securities will be sold to the Initial Purchasers without being registered under the Securities Act in reliance upon an exemption therefrom. The Company has prepared a preliminary offering memorandum dated January 3, 2024 (the “Preliminary Offering Memorandum”) and will prepare an offering memorandum dated the date hereof (the “Offering Memorandum”) setting forth information concerning the Company and the Securities. Copies of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum have been, and copies of the Offering Memorandum will be, delivered by the Company to the Initial Purchasers pursuant to the terms of this purchase agreement (this “Agreement”). The Company hereby confirms that it has authorized the use by the Initial Purchasers of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the other Time of Sale Information (as defined below) and the Offering Memorandum in connection with the offering and resale of the Securities by the Initial Purchasers in the manner contemplated by this Agreement. References herein to the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum shall be deemed to refer to and include any document incorporated by reference therein and any reference to “amend,” “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Preliminary Offering Memorandum or the Offering Memorandum shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) after the date of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum or the Offering Memorandum, as applicable, and incorporated by reference therein.

 

At the time when sales of the Securities were first made (the “Time of Sale”), the Company had prepared the following information (collectively, the “Time of Sale Information”): the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, as supplemented and amended by the written communications listed on Annex A hereto.

 

2.         Purchase and Resale of the Securities. (a) The Company agrees to issue and sell the Firm Securities to the several Initial Purchasers as provided in this Agreement, and each Initial Purchaser, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements set forth herein and subject to the conditions set forth herein, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company the principal amount of Firm Securities set forth opposite such Initial Purchaser's name in Schedule 1 hereto at a price equal to 96.5% of the principal amount thereof (the “Purchase Price”) plus accrued interest, if any, from January 9, 2024 to the Closing Date (as defined below).

 

In addition, the Company agrees to issue and sell the Option Securities to the several Initial Purchasers as provided in this Agreement, and the Initial Purchasers, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements set forth herein and subject to the conditions set forth herein, shall have the option to purchase, severally and not jointly, from the Company the Option Securities at the Purchase Price plus accrued interest, if any, from January 9, 2024 to the date of payment and delivery.

 

If any Option Securities are to be purchased, the principal amount of Option Securities to be purchased by each Initial Purchaser shall be the principal amount of Option Securities which bears the same ratio to the aggregate principal amount of Option Securities being purchased as the principal amount of Firm Securities set forth opposite the name of such Initial Purchaser in Schedule 1 hereto (or such amount increased as set forth in Section 10 hereof) bears to the aggregate principal amount of Firm Securities being purchased from the Company by the several Initial Purchasers, subject, however, to such adjustments to eliminate Securities in denominations other than $1,000 as the Representative in its sole discretion shall make.

 

The Initial Purchasers may exercise the option to purchase the Option Securities at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, by written notice from the Representative to the Company; provided that any Additional Closing Date (as hereinafter defined) must occur during the thirteen calendar day period from, and including, the Closing Date. Such notice shall set forth the aggregate principal amount of Option Securities plus accrued interest as to which the option is being exercised and the date and time when the Option Securities are to be delivered and paid for which may be the same date and time as the Closing Date but shall not be earlier than the Closing Date nor later than the thirteenth calendar day from, and including, the Closing Date. Any such notice shall be given at least one business day prior to the date and time of delivery specified therein.

 

(b)         The Company understands that the Initial Purchasers intend to offer the Securities for resale on the terms set forth herein and in the Time of Sale Information. Each Initial Purchaser, severally and not jointly, represents, warrants and agrees that:

 

(i)         it is a qualified institutional buyer ( a “QIB”) within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”) and an accredited investor within the meaning of Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (“Regulation D”);

 

(ii)         it has not solicited offers for, or offered or sold, and will not solicit offers for, or offer or sell, the Securities by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) of Regulation D or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act; and

 

(iii)         it has not solicited offers for, or offered or sold, and will not solicit offers for, or offer or sell, the Securities as part of their initial offering except to persons whom it reasonably believes to be QIBs in transactions pursuant to Rule 144A and in connection with each such sale, it has taken or will take reasonable steps to ensure that the purchaser of the Securities is aware that such sale is being made in reliance on Rule 144A.

 

(c)         Each Initial Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that the Company and, for purposes of the “no registration” opinions to be delivered to the Initial Purchasers pursuant to Sections 6(f) and 6(g), counsel for the Company and counsel for the Initial Purchasers, respectively, may rely upon the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Initial Purchasers, and compliance by the Initial Purchasers with their agreements, contained in paragraph (b) above, and each Initial Purchaser hereby consents to such reliance.

 

(d)         The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Initial Purchasers may offer and sell Securities to or through any affiliate of an Initial Purchaser and that any such affiliate may offer and sell Securities purchased by it to or through any Initial Purchaser.

 

(e)          Payment for the Securities shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company to the Representative in the case of the Firm Securities, at the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell at 10:00 A.M. New York City time on January 9, 2024, or at such other time or place on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representative and the Company may agree upon in writing or, in the case of the Option Securities, on the date and at the time and place specified by the Representative in the written notice of the Initial Purchasers’ election to purchase such Option Securities (provided that any Additional Closing Date must occur during the thirteen calendar day period from, and including, the Closing Date). The time and date of such payment for, and delivery of, the Firm Securities is referred to herein as the “Closing Date” and the time and date for such payment for, and delivery of, the Option Securities, if other than the Closing Date, is herein referred to as an “Additional Closing Date.”

 

Payment for the Securities to be purchased on the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, shall be made against delivery to the nominee of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), for the respective accounts of the several Initial Purchasers of the Securities to be purchased on such date of one or more global notes representing the Securities (collectively, the “Global Note”), with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the sale of such Securities duly paid by the Company. The Global Note will be made available for inspection by the Representative at the office of J.P. Morgan Securities LLC set forth above not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the business day prior to the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be.

 

(f)         The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Initial Purchaser is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company with respect to the offering of Securities contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company or any other person. Additionally, neither the Representative nor any other Initial Purchaser is advising the Company or any other person as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. The Company shall consult with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Initial Purchasers shall have no responsibility or liability to the Company with respect thereto. Any review by the Representative or any Initial Purchaser of the Company, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of the Representative or such Initial Purchaser and shall not be on behalf of the Company or any other person.

 

3.         Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company represents and warrants to each Initial Purchaser that:

 

(a)         Preliminary Offering Memorandum. The Preliminary Offering Memorandum, as of its date, did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing by such Initial Purchaser through the Representative expressly for use in any Preliminary Offering Memorandum, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Initial Purchaser consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

 

(b)         Time of Sale Information. The Time of Sale Information, at the Time of Sale, did not, and at the Closing Date and as of any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing by such Initial Purchaser through the Representative expressly for use in such Time of Sale Information, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Initial Purchaser consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof. No statement of material fact included in the Offering Memorandum has been omitted from the Time of Sale Information and no statement of material fact included in the Time of Sale Information that is required to be included in the Offering Memorandum has been omitted therefrom.

 

(c)         Additional Written Communications. The Company (including its agents and representatives, other than the Initial Purchasers in their capacity as such) has not prepared, made, used, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare, make, use, authorize, approve or refer to any “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities (each such communication by the Company or its agents and representatives (other than a communication referred to in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) below) an “Issuer Written Communication”) other than (i) the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, (ii) the Offering Memorandum, (iii) the documents listed on Annex A hereto, including a term sheet substantially in the form of Annex B hereto, which constitute part of the Time of Sale Information, and (iv) each electronic road show and any other written communications approved in writing in advance by the Representative. Each such Issuer Written Communication does not conflict with the information contained in the Time of Sale Information, and when taken together with the Time of Sale Information, did not, and at the Closing Date and as of any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in each such Issuer Written Communication in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing by such Initial Purchaser through the Representative expressly for use in such Issuer Written Communication, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Initial Purchaser consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

 

(d)         Offering Memorandum. As of the date of the Offering Memorandum and as of the Closing Date and as of any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, the Offering Memorandum does not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing by such Initial Purchaser through the Representative expressly for use in the Offering Memorandum, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Initial Purchaser consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.

 

(e)         Incorporated Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in the Offering Memorandum or the Time of Sale Information, when they were filed with the Commission conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”) and such documents did not, at the time of such filing, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

(f)         Financial Statements. The financial statements and the related notes thereto of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods specified; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby, it being understood that unaudited interim financial statements are subject to normal, year-end audit adjustments, which are not expected to be material; and the other financial information included or incorporated by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and presents fairly in all material respects the information shown thereby.

 

(g)         No Material Adverse Change. Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, (i) there has not been any change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of capital stock, or any material adverse change, or any development that would reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse change, in or affecting the business, properties, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained any material loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except in each case as otherwise disclosed in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

 

(h)         Organization and Good Standing. The Company and each of its subsidiaries have been duly organized and are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification, and have all power and authority necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing or have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or on the performance by the Company of its obligations under the Transaction Documents (as defined below) (a “Material Adverse Effect”). The subsidiaries listed in Schedule 2 to this Agreement are the only significant subsidiaries of the Company.

 

(i)         Capitalization. The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum under the heading “Capitalization”; all the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to any pre-emptive or similar rights; except as described in or expressly contemplated by the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, there are no outstanding rights (including, without limitation, pre-emptive rights), warrants or options to acquire, or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for, any shares of capital stock or other equity interest in the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any contract, commitment, agreement, understanding or arrangement of any kind relating to the issuance of any capital stock of the Company or any such subsidiary, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or any such rights, warrants or options; the capital stock of the Company conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum; and, except as otherwise described or incorporated by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, all the outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interests of each subsidiary owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction on voting or transfer or any other claim of any third party.

 

(j)         Stock Options. With respect to the stock options (the "Stock Options") granted pursuant to the stock-based compensation plans of the Company and its subsidiaries (the "Company Stock Plans"), (i) each Stock Option intended to qualify as an "incentive stock option" under Section 422 of the Code so qualifies, (ii) each grant of a Stock Option was duly authorized no later than the date on which the grant of such Stock Option was by its terms to be effective (the "Grant Date") by all necessary corporate action, including, as applicable, approval by the board of directors of the Company (or a duly constituted and authorized committee thereof) and any required stockholder approval by the necessary number of votes or written consents, and the award agreement governing such grant (if any) was duly executed and delivered by each party thereto, (iii) each such grant was made in accordance with the terms of the Company Stock Plans, the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, including the rules of the Nasdaq Global Select Market and any other exchange on which Company securities are traded, (iv) the per share exercise price of each Stock Option was equal to the fair market value of a share of Common Stock on the applicable Grant Date and (v) each such grant was properly accounted for in accordance with GAAP in the financial statements (including the related notes) of the Company and disclosed in the Company's filings with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws. The Company has not knowingly granted, and there is no and has been no policy or practice of the Company of granting, Stock Options prior to, or otherwise coordinate the grant of Stock Options with, the release or other public announcement of material information regarding the Company or its subsidiaries or their results of operations or prospects.

 

(k)         Due Authorization. The Company has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder; and all action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery by it of each of the Transaction Documents and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated thereby or by the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum has been duly and validly taken.

 

(l)         The Indenture. The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed and delivered in accordance with its terms by each of the parties thereto, will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles (collectively, the “Enforceability Exceptions”).

 

(m)         Purchase Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

 

(n)         The Securities. The Securities to be issued and sold by the Company hereunder have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and paid for as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

 

(o)         The Underlying Securities. Upon issuance and delivery of the Securities in accordance with this Agreement and the Indenture, the Securities will be convertible at the option of the holder thereof into (i) before the Company satisfies the Share Reservation Condition, solely cash or a combination of cash and Underlying Securities, subject to the Aggregate Share Cap, and (ii) if the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition, cash, Underlying Securities or a combination of cash and Underlying Securities, at the Company’s election, in the case of clause (i) or (ii), in accordance with the terms of the Securities and the Indenture. Before the Company satisfies the Share Reservation Condition, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Aggregate Share Cap have been duly authorized and reserved and, when issued upon conversion of the Securities in accordance with the terms of the Securities, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of the Underlying Securities will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights. If the Company satisfies the Share Reservation Condition, the maximum number of Underlying Securities initially issuable upon conversion of the Securities (including the maximum number of additional shares of Common Stock by which the Conversion Rate (as such term is defined in the Indenture) may be increased upon conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change (as such term is defined in the Indenture) and assuming (w) the Share Reservation Condition has been satisfied, (x) a single holder of the Securities converted all of the Securities, (y) the Company elects, upon such conversion of the Securities, to deliver solely shares of Common Stock, other than cash in lieu of any fractional shares, in settlement of such conversion and (z) the Initial Purchasers exercise their option to purchase the Option Securities in full (the “Maximum Number of Underlying Securities”)) will have been duly authorized and reserved and, when issued upon conversion of the Securities in accordance with the terms of the Securities, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of the Underlying Securities will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights. If the Company satisfies the Share Reservation Condition, the Company will have also duly authorized and reserved for issuance the maximum number of shares of Common Stock initially issuable upon conversion of the Affiliate Securities, assuming the Share Reservation Condition has been satisfied and after taking into account the maximum make-whole adjustment with respect to such Affiliate Securities (the “Maximum Number of Affiliate Underlying Securities”). As used in this Agreement, the term “Maximum Aggregate Number of Underlying Securities” means (i) before the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Aggregate Share Cap and, (ii) if the Company has satisfied the Share Reservation Condition, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the sum of the Maximum Number of Underlying Securities plus the Maximum Number of Affiliate Underlying Securities.

 

(p)         Descriptions of the Transaction Documents and the Common Stock. Each Transaction Document conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum. The Common Stock conforms in all material respects to the description thereof incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

 

(q)         No Violation or Default. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents; (ii) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any property or asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject; or (iii) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for any such default or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(r)         No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of each of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Securities (including the issuance of any Underlying Securities upon conversion thereof), the issuance and sale of the Affiliate Securities (including the issuance of any shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Affiliate Securities) and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum (including, without limitation, the application of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities and the Affiliate Securities as described in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum) will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, result in the termination, modification or acceleration of, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property, right or asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any property, right or asset of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (iii) result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above, for any such conflict, breach, violation or default that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(s)         No Consents Required. No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of any of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Securities (including the issuance of any Underlying Securities upon conversion thereof), the issuance and sale of the Affiliate Securities (including the issuance of any shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Affiliate Securities) and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum (including, without limitation, the application of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities and the Affiliate Securities as described in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum), except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as may be required under applicable state securities laws in connection with the purchase and resale of the Securities by the Initial Purchasers.

 

(t)         Legal Proceedings. Except as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory investigations, actions, demands, claims, suits, arbitrations, inquiries or proceedings (“Actions”) pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would have a Material Adverse Effect; and no such Actions are to the knowledge of the Company threatened.

 

(u)         Independent Accountants. Ernst & Young LLP, who has certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the Securities Act.

 

(v)         Title to Real and Personal Property. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, charges, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries, or (ii) could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(w)         Intellectual Property. (i) The Company and its subsidiaries own or have valid and enforceable rights to use all patents, trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain names and other source indicators, copyrights and copyrightable works, licenses, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) and all other worldwide intellectual property, industrial property and proprietary rights (including all registrations and applications for registration of, and all goodwill associated with, the foregoing) (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) used in or necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses; (ii) the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ conduct of their respective businesses has not infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated any Intellectual Property of any third party; (iii) none of the product candidates or other products or services of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, if commercially sold or offered for commercial sale, would infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any third party; (iv) the Company and its subsidiaries have not received any written notice and are not otherwise aware of any pending or threatened claim alleging infringement, misappropriation or other violation of any Intellectual Property of any person, or challenging the validity, enforceability, scope or ownership of any Intellectual Property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries; (v) to the knowledge of the Company, no Intellectual Property owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries has been infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated by any person; (vi) to the knowledge of the Company, all Intellectual Property owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company or any of its subsidiaries is valid and enforceable in all material respects; and (vii) the Company and its subsidiaries have taken reasonable steps in accordance with normal industry practice to maintain the confidentiality of all Intellectual Property, the value of which to the Company or any of its subsidiaries is contingent upon maintaining the confidentiality thereof.

 

(x)         No Undisclosed Relationships. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders, customers, suppliers or other affiliates of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the other, that would be required by the Securities Act to be described in a registration statement to be filed with the Commission and that is not so described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

 

(y)         Investment Company Act. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Affiliate Securities and the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, will not be required to register as an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Investment Company Act”).

 

(z)         Taxes. The Company and its subsidiaries have paid all material federal, state, local and non-U.S. taxes and filed all tax returns required to be paid or filed through the date hereof; and except as otherwise disclosed in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, there is no tax deficiency that has been asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets except as may be being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings.

 

(aa)         Licenses and Permits. The Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, sub-licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authorities that are necessary for the ownership or lease of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum (the “Permits”), except where the failure to possess or make the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of, or in default under, any of the Permits or has received, or has any reason to believe that it will receive, any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such license, certificate, permit or authorization which, individually or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(bb)         No Labor Disputes. No labor disturbance by or dispute with employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is contemplated or threatened and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by, or dispute with, the employees of any of its or its subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, contractors or customers, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of cancellation or termination with respect to any collective bargaining agreement to which it is a party.

 

(cc)         Certain Environmental Matters. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, and except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”); (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws and are each in compliance with their requirements; (iii) there are no pending or threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law against the Company or any of its subsidiaries; and (iv) there are no events or circumstances that might reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or governmental body or agency, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to Hazardous Materials or any Environmental Laws.

 

(dd)         Compliance with ERISA. (i) Each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), for which the Company or any member of its “Controlled Group” (defined as any entity, whether or not incorporated, that is under common control with the Company within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(14) of ERISA or any entity that would be regarded as a single employer with the Company under Section 414(b),(c),(m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) would have any liability (each, a “Plan”) has been maintained in compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code; (ii) no prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with respect to any Plan, excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption; (iii) for each Plan that is subject to the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, no Plan has failed (whether or not waived), or is reasonably expected to fail, to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code) applicable to such Plan; (iv) no Plan is, or is reasonably expected to be, in “at risk status” (within the meaning of Section 303(i) of ERISA), and no Plan that is a “multiemployer plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA is in “endangered status” or “critical status” (within the meaning of Sections 304 and 305 of ERISA); (v) the fair market value of the assets of each Plan exceeds the present value of all benefits accrued under such Plan (determined based on those assumptions used to fund such Plan); (vi) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA and the regulations promulgated thereunder) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (vii) each Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified, and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification; (viii) neither the Company nor any member of the Controlled Group has incurred, nor reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than contributions to the Plan or premiums to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, in the ordinary course and without default) in respect of a Plan (including a “multiemployer plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA); and (ix) none of the following events has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur: (A) a material increase in the aggregate amount of contributions required to be made to all Plans by the Company or its Controlled Group affiliates in the current fiscal year of the Company and its Controlled Group affiliates compared to the amount of such contributions made in the Company’s and its Controlled Group affiliates’ most recently completed fiscal year; or (B) a material increase in the Company and its subsidiaries’ “accumulated post-retirement benefit obligations” (within the meaning of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715-60) compared to the amount of such obligations in the Company and its subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year, except in each case with respect to the events or conditions set forth in (i) through (ix) hereof, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(ee)         Disclosure Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries maintain an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that is designed to ensure that material information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company and its subsidiaries have carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.

 

(ff)         Accounting Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries maintain systems of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that comply with the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and have been designed by, or under the supervision of, their respective principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP, including, but not limited to internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management's general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management's general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences and (v) interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Except as disclosed in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, there are no material weaknesses in the Company’s internal controls. The Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of: (i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting.

 

(gg)         eXtensible Business Reporting Language. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance, in all material respects, with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

 

(hh)         Insurance. The Company and its subsidiaries have insurance covering their respective properties, operations, personnel and businesses, including business interruption insurance, which insurance is in amounts and insures against such losses and risks as are generally deemed adequate and customary for their businesses, to protect the Company and its subsidiaries and their respective businesses; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has (i) received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order to continue such insurance or (ii) any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(ii)         No Unlawful Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any director or officer of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any employee, agent, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made or taken an act in furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government official or employee , including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law; or (iv) made, offered, agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or improper payment or benefit. The Company and its subsidiaries have instituted, maintain and enforce, and will continue to maintain and enforce, policies and procedures designed to promote and ensure compliance with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws.

 

(jj)         Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company or any of its subsidiaries conducts business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency in a jurisdiction where the Company or any of its subsidiaries conducts business (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(kk)         No Conflicts with Sanctions Laws. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, directors, officers or employees, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any agent, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government, (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”) or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”), the European Union, His Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”), or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company or any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, the Crimea Region of Ukraine, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria (each, a “Sanctioned Country”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject or target of Sanctions, (ii) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country or (iii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction, whether as initial purchaser, underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. For the past five years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country.

 

(ll)         No Restrictions on Subsidiaries. No subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock or similar ownership interest, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company.

 

(mm)         No Broker's Fees. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person (other than this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against any of them or any Initial Purchaser for a brokerage commission, finder's fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities.

 

(nn)         Rule 144A Eligibility. On the Closing Date, the Affiliate Securities and the Securities will not be of the same class as securities listed on a national securities exchange registered under Section 6 of the Exchange Act or quoted in an automated inter-dealer quotation system.

 

(oo)         No Integration. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates (as defined in Rule 501(b) of Regulation D) has, directly or through any agent, sold, offered for sale, solicited offers to buy or otherwise negotiated in respect of, any security (as defined in the Securities Act), that is or will be integrated with the sale of the Securities in a manner that would require registration of the Securities under the Securities Act.

 

(pp)         No General Solicitation. None of the Company or any of its affiliates or any other person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Initial Purchasers, as to which no representation is made) has solicited offers for, or offered or sold, the Securities by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) of Regulation D or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

 

(qq)         Securities Law Exemptions. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Initial Purchasers contained in Section 2(b) and their compliance with their agreements set forth therein, it is not necessary, in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities to the Initial Purchasers and the offer, resale and delivery of the Securities by the Initial Purchasers in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, to register the Securities or the Underlying Securities under the Securities Act or to qualify the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

(rr)          No Stabilization. The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities or the Affiliate Securities.

 

(ss)         Margin Rules. Neither the issuance, sale and delivery of the Affiliate Securities and the Securities nor the application of the proceeds thereof by the Company as described in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum will violate Regulation T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any other regulation of such Board of Governors.

 

(tt)         Forward-Looking Statements. No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.

 

(uu)         Statistical and Market Data. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company that has caused the Company to believe that the statistical and market-related data included or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in all material respects.

 

(vv)         Cybersecurity; Data Protection. The Company and its subsidiaries’ information technology assets and equipment, computers, systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, applications, and databases (including the data of their respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained by or on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries) (collectively, “IT Systems”) are adequate for, and operate and perform in all material respects as required in connection with the operation of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries as currently conducted, and to the Company’s knowledge, the IT Systems are free and clear of all material bugs, errors, defects, Trojan horses, time bombs, malware and other corruptants. The Company and its subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable controls, policies, procedures, and safeguards designed to maintain and protect their material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and data (including all personal, personally identifiable, sensitive, confidential or regulated data (“Data”)) contained on the IT Systems and used in connection with their businesses. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company and its subsidiaries have used commercially reasonable efforts to establish and maintain, and have established, maintained, implemented and complied with, reasonable information technology, information security, cybersecurity and data protection controls, policies and procedures, including oversight, access controls, encryption, technological and physical safeguards and business continuity, disaster recovery and security plans that are designed to protect against and prevent any breach, destruction, loss, unauthorized distribution, use, access, disablement, misappropriation or modification, or other compromise or misuse of, or security incident relating to, any IT Systems or Data used in connection with the operation of the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries (“Breach”). To the knowledge of the Company, there has been no Breach, and the Company and its subsidiaries have not been notified of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in any Breach, in each case, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(ww)         Privacy. The Company and its subsidiaries have complied, and are presently in compliance, in all material respects, with all applicable internal and external privacy policies, contractual obligations, industry standards, applicable laws, statutes, judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or other governmental or regulatory authority and any legal obligations regarding the collection, use, transfer, import, export, storage, protection, disposal and disclosure by the Company and its subsidiaries of Data (“Data Security Obligations”). Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notification of or complaint regarding, or are aware of any other facts that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably indicate non-compliance with any Data Security Obligation that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is no pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body alleging material non-compliance with any Data Security Obligation. The Company and its subsidiaries have taken necessary actions to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations with respect to Data that have been announced as of the date hereof, and for which any non-compliance with same would be reasonably likely to create a material liability as soon they take effect.

 

(xx)         Sarbanes-Oxley Act. There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.

 

(yy)         Compliance with Health Care Laws. Except as would not result, individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been in compliance with all applicable Health Care Laws. For purposes of this Agreement, “Health Care Laws” means all health care laws applicable to the Company, including, but not limited to: the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(b)), the Civil Monetary Penalties Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a), the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320a- 7h), the Civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. Section 3729 et seq.), the criminal False Claims Law (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(a)), the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. § 263a), all criminal laws relating to health care fraud and abuse, including but not limited to 18 U.S.C. Sections 286 and 287, and the health care fraud criminal provisions under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) (42 U.S.C. § 1320d et seq.), the exclusion laws (42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7), HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (42 U.S.C. § 17921 et seq.), Medicare (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act), Medicaid (Title XIX of the Social Security Act), and any and all other similar state, local or federal health care laws and the regulations promulgated pursuant to such laws, including, without limitation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”)’s current good manufacturing practice regulations at 21 CFR Part 820, and all other laws and regulations applicable to ownership, testing, development, manufacture, packaging, processing, use, distribution, storage, import, export or disposal of the Company’s products, each as amended from time to time. The Company and its subsidiaries have not engaged in activities which are, as applicable, cause for false claims liability, civil penalties or mandatory or permissive exclusion from Medicare, Medicaid, or any other state health care program or federal health care program, except where such noncompliance, false claims liability or civil penalties would not reasonably be expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries have received written notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority or third party alleging a material violation of any Health Care Laws, and, to the Company’s knowledge, no such claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action is threatened, that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except for a Corporate Integrity Agreement executed with the Office of Inspector General dated June 29, 2020, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries are a party to and have ongoing reporting obligations pursuant to any corporate integrity agreements, deferred prosecution agreements, monitoring agreements, consent decrees, settlement orders, plans of correction or similar agreements with or imposed by any governmental or regulatory authority. Additionally, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, to the knowledge of the Company, any of its employees, officers or directors has been excluded, suspended or debarred from participation in any U.S. federal health care program, clinical trial or clinical registry or, to the knowledge of the Company, is subject to a governmental inquiry, investigation, proceeding, or other similar action that could reasonably be expected to result in debarment, suspension, or exclusion. Except as described in the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum or as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries have received any FDA Form 483, written notice of adverse finding, warning letter, untitled letter or other correspondence or written notice from any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority alleging or asserting noncompliance with (x) any Health Care Laws or (y) any Governmental Licenses required by any such Health Care Laws.

 

(zz) Clinical Data and Regulatory Compliance. The studies, tests and preclinical and clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries were and, if still pending, are being conducted in compliance with experimental protocols, procedures and controls pursuant to accepted professional scientific standards and all applicable laws and authorizations, including, without limitation, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, except where the failure to be in compliance has not resulted and would not reasonably be expected have a Material Adverse Effect; the descriptions of the results of such studies, tests and trials contained in the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum are accurate and complete in all material respects and fairly present the data derived from such studies, tests and trials; the Company is not aware of any studies, tests or trials, the results of which the Company believes reasonably call into question the study, test, or trial results described or referred to in the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum when viewed in the context in which such results are described and the clinical state of development; and the Company and its subsidiaries have not received any notices or correspondence from any applicable governmental authority requiring the termination, suspension or material modification of any studies, tests or preclinical or clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of the Company or its subsidiaries.

 

(aaa) Medicare and Medicaid Programs. To the extent required in connection with their respective businesses, each of the Company and its subsidiaries has the requisite provider number or other authorization to bill the Medicare program and the respective Medicaid program in the state or states in which such entity operates unless failure to maintain such provider number or other authorization could not be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is subject to any pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened or contemplated action which could reasonably be expected to result either in a revocation of any provider number or authorization or in the Company’s or any subsidiary’s exclusion from the Medicare or any state Medicaid programs; the Company’s and each of its subsidiaries’ business practices have been structured in a manner reasonably designed to comply with the federal or state laws governing Medicare and state Medicaid programs, including, without limitation, Sections 1320a-7a and 1320a-7b of Title 42 of the United States Code, and the Company reasonably believes that it is in compliance with such laws; the Company and its subsidiaries have taken reasonable actions designed to ensure that they do not: (i) violate the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733 or (ii) allow any individual with an ownership or control interest (as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-3(a)(3)) in the Company or any of its subsidiary or have any officer, director or managing employee (as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-5(b)) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries who would be a person excluded from participation in any federal health care program (as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b(f)) as described in 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7(b)(8); and the Company and its subsidiaries have structured their respective businesses practices in a manner reasonably designed to comply with the federal and state laws regarding physician ownership of (or financial relationship with), and referral to, entities providing healthcare-related goods or services, and with laws requiring disclosure of financial interests held by physicians in entities to which they may refer patients for the provisions of healthcare-related goods or services, and the Company reasonably believes that it and its subsidiaries are in compliance with such laws.

 

(bbb)         No Safety Notices. (i) Except as described in the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum, there have been no recalls, field notifications, field corrections, market withdrawals or replacements, warnings, “dear doctor” letters, investigator notices, safety alerts or other notice of action relating to an alleged lack of safety, efficacy, or regulatory compliance of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ products (“Safety Notices”), except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (ii) to the Company’s knowledge, there are no facts that would be reasonably likely to result in (x) a Safety Notice with respect to the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ products or services, (y) a change in labeling of any of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ products, or (z) a termination or suspension of marketing or testing of any of the Company’s or any of its subsidiaries’ products, except, in each of cases (x), (y) or (z) such as would not, singly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

4.         Further Agreements of the Company. The Company covenants and agrees with each Initial Purchaser that:

 

(a)         Delivery of Copies. The Company will deliver to the Initial Purchasers as many copies of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, any other Time of Sale Information, any Issuer Written Communication and the Offering Memorandum (including all amendments and supplements thereto) as the Representative may reasonably request.

 

(b)         Offering Memorandum, Amendments or Supplements. Before finalizing the Offering Memorandum or making or distributing any amendment or supplement to any of the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum or filing with the Commission any document that will be incorporated by reference therein, the Company will furnish to the Representative and counsel for the Initial Purchasers a copy of the proposed Offering Memorandum or such amendment or supplement or document to be incorporated by reference therein for review, and will not distribute any such proposed Offering Memorandum, amendment or supplement or file any such document with the Commission to which the Representative reasonably objects.

 

(c)         Additional Written Communications. Before making, preparing, using, authorizing, approving or referring to any Issuer Written Communication, the Company will furnish to the Representative and counsel for the Initial Purchasers a copy of such written communication for review and will not make, prepare, use, authorize, approve or refer to any such written communication to which the Representative reasonably objects.

 

(d)         Notice to the Representative. The Company will advise the Representative promptly, and confirm such advice in writing, (i) of the issuance by any governmental or regulatory authority of any order preventing or suspending the use of any of the Time of Sale Information, any Issuer Written Communication or the Offering Memorandum or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose; (ii) of the occurrence or development of any event at any time prior to the completion of the initial offering of the Securities as a result of which any of the Time of Sale Information, any Issuer Written Communication or the Offering Memorandum as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when such Time of Sale Information, Issuer Written Communication or the Offering Memorandum is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading; and (iii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice with respect to any suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order preventing or suspending the use of any of the Time of Sale Information, any Issuer Written Communication or the Offering Memorandum or suspending any such qualification of the Securities and, if any such order is issued, will use reasonable best efforts to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

 

(e)         Ongoing Compliance of the Offering Memorandum and Time of Sale Information. (1) If at any time prior to the completion of the initial offering of the Securities (i) any event or development shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Offering Memorandum as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Offering Memorandum is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Offering Memorandum to comply with applicable law, the Company will promptly notify the Initial Purchasers thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (b) above, furnish to the Initial Purchasers such amendments or supplements to the Offering Memorandum (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in the Offering Memorandum as so amended or supplemented (or including such document to be incorporated by reference therein) will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Offering Memorandum is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Offering Memorandum will comply with applicable law and (2) if at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any event or development shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which any of the Time of Sale Information as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement any of the Time of Sale Information to comply with applicable law, the Company will promptly notify the Initial Purchasers thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (b) above, furnish to the Initial Purchasers such amendments or supplements to any of the Time of Sale Information (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in any of the Time of Sale Information as so amended or supplemented will not, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, be misleading.

 

(f)         Blue Sky Compliance. If required by applicable law, the Company will qualify the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Representative shall reasonably request and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the offering and resale of the Securities; provided that the Company shall not be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to so qualify, (ii) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not otherwise so subject.

 

(g)         Clear Market. For a period of 60 days after the date of this Agreement, the Company will not (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, or submit to, or file with, the Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, or publicly disclose the intention to undertake any of the foregoing, or (ii) enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock or any such other securities, whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the Representative, other than (A) the Securities to be sold hereunder, (B) the repurchase of shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into Common Stock as described in the Offering Memorandum under the heading “Use of proceeds,” (C) the issuance and delivery of any Underlying Securities upon conversion of the Securities, (D) the Affiliate Securities to be sold to the Affiliated Purchasers, (E) the issuance and delivery of any underlying shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Affiliate Securities, (F) any shares of Common Stock of the Company issued upon the exercise of an option or warrant or the vesting of a restricted stock unit granted under existing Company Stock Plans referred to in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, or (G) the grant of new awards under the existing Company Stock Plans (which may include options, restricted stock, restricted stock units, performance stock units or any other awards permitted under such plans).

 

(h)         Use of Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Affiliate Securities and the Securities as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum under the heading “Use of proceeds”.

 

(i)          No Stabilization. The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities or the Affiliate Securities and will not take any action prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange Act in connection with the distribution of the Securities contemplated hereby or in connection with the issuance and sale of the Affiliate Securities.

 

(j)         Underlying Securities. At all times during which the Securities are outstanding, the Company will reserve and keep available, free of pre-emptive rights, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Maximum Aggregate Number of Underlying Securities for the purpose of enabling the Company to satisfy all obligations to issue any Underlying Securities upon conversion of the Securities or to issue any shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the Affiliate Securities, as the case may be. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to cause and maintain the listing of the Maximum Aggregate Number of Underlying Securities on The Nasdaq Global Select Market (the “Exchange”).

 

(k)         Supplying Information. While the Securities remain outstanding and are “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, the Company will, during any period in which the Company is not subject to and in compliance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, furnish to holders of the Securities, prospective purchasers of the Securities designated by such holders and securities analysts, in each case upon request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.

 

(l)         DTC. The Company will assist the Initial Purchasers in arranging for the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.

 

(m)         No Resales by the Company. During the period from the Closing Date until one year after the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, if applicable, the Company will not, and will not permit any of its affiliates (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act) to, resell any of the Securities that have been acquired by any of them, except for Securities purchased by the Company or any of its affiliates and resold in a transaction registered under the Securities Act or otherwise in a transaction following which such Securities will not be “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

 

(n)         No Integration. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates (as defined in Rule 501(b) of Regulation D) will, directly or through any agent, sell, offer for sale, solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of, any security (as defined in the Securities Act), that is or will be integrated with the sale of the Securities in a manner that would require registration of the Securities under the Securities Act.

 

(o)          No General Solicitation. None of the Company or any of its affiliates or any other person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Initial Purchasers, as to which no covenant is given) will solicit offers for, or offer or sell, the Securities by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) of Regulation D or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

 

5.         Certain Agreements of the Initial Purchasers. Each Initial Purchaser hereby represents and agrees that it has not and will not use, authorize use of, refer to, or participate in the planning for use of, any written communication that constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities other than (i) the Preliminary Offering Memorandum and the Offering Memorandum, (ii) a written communication that contains no “issuer information” (as defined in Rule 433(h)(2) under the Securities Act) that was not included (including through incorporation by reference) in the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum, (iii) any written communication listed on Annex A or prepared pursuant to Section 4(c) above (including any electronic road show), (iv) any written communication prepared by such Initial Purchaser and approved by the Company in advance in writing or (v) any written communication relating to or that contains the terms of the Securities and/or other information that was included (including through incorporation by reference) in the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum.

 

6.         Conditions of Initial Purchasers' Obligations. The obligation of each Initial Purchaser to purchase the Firm Securities on the Closing Date or the Option Securities on any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be as provided herein is subject to the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

 

(a)         Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company contained herein shall be true and correct on the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be; and the statements of the Company and its officers made in any certificates delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be.

 

(b)         No Downgrade. Subsequent to the earlier of (A) the Time of Sale and (B) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded any securities or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined under Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, or has changed its outlook with respect to, its rating of any securities or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading).

 

(c)         No Material Adverse Change. No event or condition of a type described in Section 3(g) hereof shall have occurred or shall exist, which event or condition is not described in the Time of Sale Information (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the Offering Memorandum (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the effect of which in the reasonable judgment of the Representative makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

 

(d)         Officer's Certificate. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, a certificate of the chief financial officer or chief accounting officer of the Company and one additional senior executive officer of the Company who is reasonably satisfactory to the Representative (i) confirming that the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct and that the Company has complied in all material respects with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to such Closing Date and (ii) confirming that, since the date of this Agreement, there has not occurred any Material Adverse Effect.

 

(e)         Comfort Letters. On the date of this Agreement and on any Closing Date or an Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, Ernst & Young LLP shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Initial Purchasers, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to initial purchasers in private offerings with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum; provided, that the letter delivered on the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to such Closing Date or such Additional Closing Date, as the case may be.

 

(f)         Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Company. Greenberg Traurig, LLP, counsel for the Company, shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, their written opinion and 10b-5 statement, dated the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, and addressed to the Initial Purchasers, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.

 

(g)         Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Initial Purchasers. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, an opinion and 10b-5 statement of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Initial Purchasers, with respect to such matters as the Representative may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

 

(h)         No Legal Impediment to Issuance. No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities.

 

(i)         Good Standing. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company.

 

(k)         DTC. The Securities shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.

 

(l)         Exchange Listing. An application for the listing of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Maximum Aggregate Number of Underlying Securities shall have been submitted to the Exchange and the Exchange shall not have raised any objections thereto.

 

(m)         Lock-up Agreements. The “lock-up” agreements, each substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, between you and certain shareholders, officers and directors of the Company relating to sales and certain other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or certain other securities, delivered to you on or before the date hereof, shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be.

 

(n)         Additional Documents. On or prior to the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, the Company shall have furnished to the Representative such further certificates and documents as the Representative may reasonably request.

 

All opinions, letters, certificates and evidence mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Initial Purchasers.

 

7.         Indemnification and Contribution.

 

(a)         Indemnification of the Initial Purchasers. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Initial Purchaser, its affiliates, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls such Initial Purchaser within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable and documented legal fees and other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred), joint or several, that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, any of the other Time of Sale Information, any Issuer Written Communication, any road show as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act (a “road show”) or the Offering Memorandum (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing by such Initial Purchaser through the Representative expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Initial Purchaser consists of the information described as such in subsection (b) below.

 

(b)         Indemnification of the Company. Each Initial Purchaser agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to such Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing by such Initial Purchaser through the Representative expressly for use in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, any of the other Time of Sale Information (including any of the other Time of Sale Information that has subsequently been amended), any Issuer Written Communication, any road show or the Offering Memorandum (or any amendment or supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Initial Purchaser consists of the following information in the Offering Memorandum furnished on behalf of each Initial Purchaser: the information contained in (i) the fourth sentence in the eighth paragraph and (ii) the nineth paragraph under the caption “Plan of distribution.”

 

(c)         Notice and Procedures. If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any person in respect of which indemnification may be sought pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such person (the “Indemnified Person”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnification may be sought (the “Indemnifying Person”) in writing; provided that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under paragraph (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided, further, that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under paragraph (a) or (b) above. If any such proceeding shall be brought or asserted against an Indemnified Person and it shall have notified the Indemnifying Person thereof, the Indemnifying Person shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person (who shall not, without the consent of the Indemnified Person, be counsel to the Indemnifying Person) to represent the Indemnified Person and any others entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Section that the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding, as incurred. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person; (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying Person shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceeding in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons, and that all such fees and expenses shall be paid or reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for any Initial Purchaser, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Initial Purchaser shall be designated in writing by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and any such separate firm for the Company, its directors, its officers and any control persons of the Company shall be designated in writing by the Company. The Indemnifying Person shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this paragraph, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 60 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request and (ii) the Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No Indemnifying Person shall, without the written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (y) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.

 

(d)         Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) or (b) above is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers, on the other, from the offering of the Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers, on the other, in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers, on the other, shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds (before deducting expenses) received by the Company from the sale of the Securities and the total discounts and commissions received by the Initial Purchasers in connection therewith, as provided in this Agreement, bear to the aggregate offering price of the Securities. The relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers, on the other, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Initial Purchasers and the parties' relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

 

(e)         Limitation on Liability. The Company and the Initial Purchasers agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Initial Purchasers were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other reasonable and documented expenses incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, in no event shall an Initial Purchaser be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total discounts and commissions received by such Initial Purchaser with respect to the offering of the Securities exceeds the amount of any damages that such Initial Purchaser has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Initial Purchasers' obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations hereunder and not joint.

 

(f)         Non-Exclusive Remedies. The remedies provided for in this Section 7 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.

 

8.         Effectiveness of Agreement. This Agreement shall become effective as of the date first written above.

 

9.         Termination. This Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representative, by notice to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and on or prior to any Closing Date or, in the case of the Option Securities, prior to the Additional Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on or by any of the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Global Select Market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in the judgment of the Representative, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

 

10.         Defaulting Initial Purchaser. (a) If, on the Closing Date or any Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, any Initial Purchaser defaults on its obligation to purchase the Securities that it has agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Securities by other persons satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Initial Purchaser, the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers do not arrange for the purchase of such Securities, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers to purchase such Securities on such terms. If other persons become obligated or agree to purchase the Securities of a defaulting Initial Purchaser, either the non‑defaulting Initial Purchasers or the Company may postpone the Closing Date or applicable Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, for up to five full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Company or counsel for the Initial Purchasers may be necessary in the Time of Sale Information, the Offering Memorandum or in any other document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Initial Purchaser” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires, any person not listed in Schedule 1 hereto that, pursuant to this Section 10, purchases Securities that a defaulting Initial Purchaser agreed but failed to purchase.

 

(b)         If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Initial Purchaser or Initial Purchasers by the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remain unpurchased on the Closing Date or the applicable Additional Closing Date, as the case may be does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of such Securities to be purchased on such date, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Initial Purchaser to purchase the principal amount of Securities that such Initial Purchaser agreed to purchase hereunder on such date plus such Initial Purchaser’s pro rata share (based on the principal amount of Securities that such Initial Purchaser agreed to purchase on such date) of the Securities of such defaulting Initial Purchaser or Initial Purchasers for which such arrangements have not been made.

 

(c)          If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Initial Purchaser or Initial Purchasers by the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remain unpurchased on the Closing Date or the applicable Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be purchased on such date, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in paragraph (b) above, then this Agreement or, with respect to any Additional Closing Date, the obligation of the Initial Purchasers to purchase Securities on such Additional Closing Date, as the case may be, shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of the Company, except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 11 hereof (provided, that, the Company shall not have any obligation to reimburse any defaulting Initial Purchaser) and except that the provisions of Section 7 hereof shall not terminate and shall remain in effect.

 

(d)         Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Initial Purchaser of any liability it may have to the Company or any non-defaulting Initial Purchaser for damages caused by its default.

 

11.         Payment of Expenses. (a) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company will pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities (and any Underlying Securities issuable upon conversion of the Securities) and any taxes payable in that connection; (ii) the costs incident to the preparation and printing of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, any other Time of Sale Information, any Issuer Written Communication and the Offering Memorandum (including any amendments and supplements thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the costs of reproducing and distributing each of the Transaction Documents; (iv) the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and independent accountants; (v) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Securities; (vi) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any paying agent (including related fees and expenses of any counsel to such parties) including any expenses of any transfer agent or registrar for the Securities or any Underlying Securities issuable upon conversion of the Securities; (vii) all expenses and application fees incurred in connection with the approval of the Securities for book-entry transfer by DTC; (viii) all expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors; (ix) all expenses and application fees related to the listing of the Maximum Aggregate Number of Underlying Securities on the Exchange; and (x) all expenses incurred in connection with the offer and sale of the Affiliate Securities (and any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Affiliate Securities).

 

(b)         If (i) this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 9, (ii) the Company for any reason fails to tender the Securities for delivery to the Initial Purchasers or (iii) the Initial Purchasers decline to purchase the Securities for any reason permitted under this Agreement, the Company agrees to reimburse the Initial Purchasers for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of their counsel) reasonably incurred by the Initial Purchasers in connection with this Agreement and the offering contemplated hereby.

 

12.         Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers and directors and any controlling persons referred to in Section 7 hereof. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any other person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision contained herein. No purchaser of Securities from any Initial Purchaser shall be deemed to be a successor merely by reason of such purchase.

 

13.         Survival. The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, representations, warranties and agreements of the Company and the Initial Purchasers contained in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of the Company or the Initial Purchasers pursuant to this Agreement or any certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the delivery of and payment for the Securities and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Company or the Initial Purchasers.

 

14.         Certain Defined Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) except where otherwise expressly provided, the term "affiliate" has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; (b) the term "business day" means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City; and (c) the term "subsidiary" has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

15.          Compliance with USA Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Initial Purchasers are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Initial Purchasers to properly identify their respective clients.         

 

16.         Miscellaneous. (a)         Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted and confirmed by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Initial Purchasers shall be given to the Representative c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179 (fax: (212) 622-8358); Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk. Notices to the Company shall be given to it at OPKO Health, Inc., 4400 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, Florida 33137; Attention: legalnotices@opko.com, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to Greenberg Traurig, P.A., 333 S.E. 2nd Ave., Suite 4400, Miami, FL 33131, Attention: Robert L. Grossman (email: GrossmanB@gtlaw.com) and Drew M. Altman (email: AltmanD@gtlaw.com).

 

(b)         Governing Law. This Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

(c)         Submission to Jurisdiction. The Company hereby submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. federal and New York state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit or proceeding in such courts. The Company agrees that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which Company is subject by a suit upon such judgment.

 

(d)         Waiver of Jury Trial. Each of the parties hereto hereby waives any right to trial by jury in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement.

 

(e)         Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.

 

(i) In the event that any Initial Purchaser that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Initial Purchaser of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

 

(ii) In the event that any Initial Purchaser that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Initial Purchaser becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Initial Purchaser are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

 

As used in this Section 16(e):

 

“BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k).

 

“Covered Entity” means any of the following:

 

(i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);

 

(ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or

 

(iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).

 

“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

 

“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

(f)         Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts (which may include counterparts delivered by any standard form of telecommunication), each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Electronic signatures complying with the New York Electronic Signatures and Records Act (N.Y. State Tech. §§ 301-309), as amended from time to time, or other applicable law will be deemed original signatures for purposes of this Agreement. Transmission by telecopy, electronic mail or other transmission method of an executed counterpart of this Agreement will constitute due and sufficient delivery of such counterpart.

 

(g)         Amendments or Waivers. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall, in the case of an amendment, be in writing and signed by the Representative and the Company, or, in the case of a waiver, be in writing an signed by the party against whom such waiver is to be effective.

 

(h)         Headings. The headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.

 

(i)         Xtract Research LLC. The Company hereby agrees that the Initial Purchasers may provide copies of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum and the Offering Memorandum relating to the offering of the Securities and any other agreements or documents relating thereto, including, without limitation, trust indentures, to Xtract Research LLC (“Xtract”) following the completion of the offering for inclusion in an online research service sponsored by Xtract, access to which is restricted to “qualified institutional buyers” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please indicate your acceptance of this Agreement by signing in the space provided below.

 

Very truly yours,

 

OPKO Health, Inc.

 

 

By_/s/ Steven D. Rubin______________________

Title: Executive Vice President, Administration

 

Accepted: As of the date first written above

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

 

For itself and on behalf of the

several Initial Purchasers listed

in Schedule 1 hereto.

 

 

By_/s/ Suraj Vasishtha________________________

Authorized Signatory

 

 

Exhibit 10.2

 

 

CONVERTIBLE NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT

 

This CONVERTIBLE NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made as of January 4, 2024 by and among OPKO Health, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each of the purchasers identified on the signature pages hereto (each, a “Purchaser” and, together, the “Purchasers”).

 

RECITALS

 

WHEREAS, the Company has entered into a note purchase agreement, dated as of the date hereof, with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representative of the several purchasers listed in Schedule 1 thereto, for the sale, in an offering exempt from registration under Section 5 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance upon Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act, of $200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”), convertible by the holder into, at the Company’s election, cash, shares of common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock (the “Offering”);

 

WHEREAS, a preliminary offering circular, dated January 3, 2024 and attached as Exhibit A hereto (as amended or supplemented prior to the execution of this Agreement, the “Preliminary Offering Circular”), a pricing term sheet attached as Exhibit B hereto (the “Term Sheet” and, together with the Preliminary Offering Circular, the “Pricing Disclosure Package”) and an offering circular, dated January 4, 2024 (the “Offering Circular”) has been or will be prepared in respect of the Offering; and

 

WHEREAS, the Company also desires to issue and sell directly to the Purchasers, and the Purchasers, severally, and not jointly with each other, desire to purchase directly from the Company on the closing date of the Offering (the “Closing Date”), the aggregate principal amount of the Notes set forth on Schedule I hereto (the “Purchaser Notes”) pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants and promises set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

 

1. The Company represents and warrants to each Purchaser that:
   
  (a) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business, and has been duly qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which it owns or leases properties or conducts any business so as to require such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing in any such jurisdiction would not (i) have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), stockholders’ equity, business or results of operations of the Company, or (ii) impair in any material respect the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement or consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (any such effect as described in clauses (i) and (ii), a “Material Adverse Effect”);
     
  (b) The Company has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder; this Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company; and, when duly executed and delivered in accordance with its terms by the other parties hereto, this Agreement will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles;
     
  (c) The Purchaser Notes have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed, issued and delivered by the Company in accordance with the terms of the indenture to be dated as of the Closing Date (the “Indenture”) between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee (the “Trustee”), and assuming due authentication of the Purchaser Notes by the Trustee, upon delivery to the Purchasers against payment therefor in accordance with the terms hereof, will be validly issued and delivered and will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits provided by the Indenture;
     
  (d) The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustee, will constitute a valid and legally binding instrument, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles;
     
 

(e)

The Purchaser Notes and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular;
     
  (f) The documents filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on or prior to the date of, and to the extent incorporated by reference in, the Preliminary Offering Circular, are hereinafter referred to as the “Exchange Act Reports” (provided that where only sections of such documents are specifically incorporated by reference, only such sections shall be considered to be part of the “Exchange Act Reports”); as of 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on the date hereof (the “Applicable Time”), the Pricing Disclosure Package (including the Exchange Act Reports), as amended and supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time, did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any statements or omissions relating to the Purchaser Notes made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by any Purchaser or an affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of such Purchaser.
     
  (g) The issue and sale of the Purchaser Notes and the performance by the Company of its obligations under the Purchaser Notes, the Indenture and this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company, in each case as amended and in effect as of the date hereof (collectively, the “Organizational Documents”), or (iii) result in any violation of any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the property or assets of the Company, except, with respect to clause (i) and (iii), for such conflicts, breaches, violations or defaults as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or governmental agency or body is required for the issue and sale of the Purchaser Notes or the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the Indenture, except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase of the Purchaser Notes by the Purchasers or for the listing of the Common Stock underlying the Purchaser Notes on the NASDAQ Global Select Market or where the failure to obtain such consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
     
  (h) The Company is not (i) in violation of its Organizational Document or (ii) in default in the performance or observance of any material obligation, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound, except, in the case of clause (ii), to the extent any such default would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and
     
  (i) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth, or incorporated by reference, in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular, and all of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable; any shares of Common Stock initially issuable upon conversion of the Purchaser Notes have been duly authorized and reserved for issuance and, when issued and delivered in accordance with the provisions of the Purchaser Notes and the Indenture, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and will conform to the description of the Common Stock contained, or incorporated by reference, in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Offering Circular.
   
2. Subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, and conditioned upon the closing of the Offering, the Company agrees to issue and sell to each Purchaser on the Closing Date, and such Purchaser agrees to purchase from the Company on the Closing Date, at a purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest (if any) thereon from January 9, 2024 to the applicable date of delivery of such Purchaser’s Purchaser Notes hereunder, the aggregate principal amount of the Purchaser Notes set forth across from such Purchaser’s name on Schedule I hereto.
   
3. As of the date hereof and upon delivery of the Purchaser Notes, each Purchaser hereby represents and warrants to the Company and agrees that:
     
  (a) Such Purchaser has the power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder; this Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by such Purchaser; and, when duly executed and delivered in accordance with its terms by the other parties hereto, this Agreement will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of such Purchaser, enforceable against such Purchaser in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles;
     
  (b) The issue and sale of the Purchaser Notes to such Purchaser and the performance by such Purchaser of its obligations under this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions herein contemplated will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which such Purchaser is a party or by which such Purchaser is bound or to which any of the property or assets of such Purchaser is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the organizational documents of such Purchaser (if such Purchaser is not a natural person) or (iii) result in any violation of any statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the property or assets of such Purchaser, except, with respect to clause (i) and (iii), for such conflicts, breaches, violations or defaults as would not reasonably be expected to impair in any material respect the ability of such Purchaser to perform its obligations under this Agreement or consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such court or governmental agency or body is required by such Purchaser for the purchase of the Purchaser Notes by such Purchaser or the consummation by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders, registrations or qualifications as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws in connection with the purchase of the Purchaser Notes by such Purchaser, for the listing of the Common Stock underlying the Purchaser Notes on the NASDAQ Global Select Market or where the failure to obtain such consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification would not reasonably be expected to impair in any material respect the ability of such Purchaser to perform such Purchaser’s obligations under this Agreement or consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement;
     
  (c) Such Purchaser understands that the Purchaser Notes and the Common Stock that may be issuable upon conversion of the Purchaser Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and acknowledges and agrees that such Purchaser Notes and Common Stock cannot and shall not be: (i) offered, resold or otherwise transferred except in compliance with the restrictive legends set forth on such Purchaser Notes and Common Stock or (ii) transferred to the CUSIP number for the Notes other than in connection with a sale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or pursuant to an effective registration statement.
     
  (d) Such Purchaser is aware that the Purchaser Notes will be substantially the same as the Notes but will not be entitled to additional interest as disclosed in the section entitled “Description of the notes—No registration rights; additional interest” in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum and will have, at the Company’s election, a different CUSIP from the Securities and, with respect to the Purchaser Notes and the Common Stock that may be issuable upon conversion of the Securities, different restrictive legends, substantially in the following form:
     
    Purchaser Notes Legend:
     
   

 

THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:

 

(1)         REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND

 

(2)         AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OPKO HEALTH, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), EXCEPT:

     
     

(A)          TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF;

 

(B)         PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER;

 

(C)          TO A PERSON THAT YOU REASONABLY BELIEVE TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR

 

(D)          UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (INCLUDING, IF AVAILABLE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAFE HARBOR PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT)

       
   

THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH ABOVE. THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE” MEANS THE LATER OF: (1) THE EARLIEST OF (A) THE DATE ON WHICH THIS NOTE HAS BEEN SOLD TO A NON-AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SALE; (B) THE DATE ON WHICH THIS NOTE HAS BEEN SOLD TO A NON-AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; AND (C) THE DATE ON WHICH THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE (X) HAS A “HOLDING PERIOD” (DETERMINED PURSUANT TO RULE 144(d) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF AT LEAST ONE YEAR (OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR THERETO AT SUCH TIME) AND (Y) IS NOT AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY (AND HAS NOT BEEN AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY DURING THE THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING); AND (2) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW. IN DETERMINING WHETHER THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE (X) HAS A “HOLDING PERIOD” (DETERMINED PURSUANT TO RULE 144(d) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF AT LEAST ONE YEAR (OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR THERETO AT SUCH TIME) OR (Y) IS AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY (OR HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY DURING THE THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING), THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS THEY MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE AND MAY RELY UPON TO MAKE SUCH DETERMINATION.

 

WITH RESPECT TO ANY TRANSFER PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING CLAUSE (D), PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION ACCEPTABLE TO THEM AND MAY RELY UPON SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. NO REPRESENTATION CAN BE MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY.

 

Common Stock Legend:

 

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND ACCORDINGLY, PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:

 

(1)          REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND

 

(2)          AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OPKO HEALTH, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE (AS DEFINED BELOW), EXCEPT:

     
   

 

(A)          TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF;

 

(B)          PURSUANT TO, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT IS EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER;

 

(C)          TO A PERSON THAT YOU REASONABLY BELIEVE TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT; OR

 

(D)          UNDER ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (INCLUDING, IF AVAILABLE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SAFE HARBOR PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT).

 

THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH ABOVE. THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE” MEANS THE LATEST OF: (1) THE DATE THAT IS ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST DATE OF ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THE COMPANY’S 3.75% CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES DUE 2029 (THE “NOTES”) OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME PERMITTED BY RULE 144 OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO; (2) THE DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY HAS INSTRUCTED THE TRUSTEE FOR THE NOTES THAT THE SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR RESTRICTIONS APPLICABLE TO THE NOTES WILL NO LONGER APPLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROCEDURES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THE NOTES AND (3) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

 

WITH RESPECT TO ANY TRANSFER PURSUANT TO THE FOREGOING CLAUSE (D), PRIOR TO THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE, THE COMPANY AND THE COMPANY’S TRANSFER AGENT RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION ACCEPTABLE TO THEM AND MAY RELY UPON SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. NO REPRESENTATION CAN BE MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY.

     
  (e) Such Purchaser is aware that the Company is under no obligation to effect any such registration with respect to the Purchaser Notes and the Common Stock that may be issuable upon conversion of the Purchaser Notes; such Purchaser has not been formed solely for the purpose of making an investment in the Purchaser Notes and is purchasing the Purchaser Notes for its own account for investment, not as a nominee or agent, and not with a view to, or for resale in connection with, the distribution thereof, and such Purchaser has no present intention of selling, granting any participation in, or otherwise distributing the same; such Purchaser does not presently have any contract, undertaking, agreement or arrangement with any person to sell, transfer or grant participations to such person or to any third person, with respect to the Purchaser Notes and the Common Stock that may be issuable upon conversion of the Purchaser Notes;
  (f) Such Purchaser acknowledges that the Company has given such Purchaser access to the corporate records and accounts of the Company, has made its officers and representatives available for interview by such Purchaser, and has furnished such Purchaser with all documents and other information required for such Purchaser to make an informed decision with respect to the investment in the Purchaser Notes and the Common Stock that may be issued upon conversion of the Purchaser Notes. Such Purchaser has received, reviewed and understood the materials and information made available to such Purchaser in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and conducted and completed its own independent due diligence with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Based on such information as such Purchaser has deemed appropriate, such Purchaser has independently made its own analysis and decision to enter into the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Except for the representations, warranties and agreements of the Company expressly set forth herein, such Purchaser is relying exclusively on its own sources of information, investment analysis and due diligence (including professional advice it deems appropriate) with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Purchaser Notes and the business, condition (financial and otherwise), management, operations, properties and prospects of the Company, including but not limited to all business, legal, regulatory, accounting, credit and tax matters
     
  (g) Such Purchaser is (a) an “accredited investor” within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (b) an Institutional Account as defined in FINRA Rule 4512(c) and (c) a sophisticated institutional investor, experienced in investing in private equity transactions and capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to all transactions and investment strategies involving a security or securities, including its participation in the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Such Purchaser has determined based on its own independent review and such professional advice as it deems appropriate that its purchase of the Purchaser Notes and participation in the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (i) are fully consistent with its financial needs, objectives and condition, (ii) comply and are fully consistent with all investment policies, guidelines and other restrictions applicable to such Purchaser, (iii) have been duly authorized and approved by all necessary action, (iv) do not and will not violate or constitute a default under such Purchaser’s charter, by-laws or other constituent document or under any law, rule, regulation, agreement or other obligation by which such Purchaser is bound and (v) are a fit, proper and suitable investment for such Purchaser, notwithstanding the substantial risks inherent in investing in or holding the Purchaser Notes. Such Purchaser is able to bear the substantial risks associated with its purchase of the Purchaser Notes, including but not limited to loss of its entire investment therein.
     
4. The Purchaser Notes to be purchased by the Purchasers hereunder will be represented by, at the Company’s election, (i) one or more definitive global securities in book-entry form which will be deposited by or on behalf of the Company with The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its designated custodian or (ii) one or more physical securities in registered certificated form. The Company will deliver the Purchaser Notes to each Purchaser (by causing DTC to credit the Purchaser Notes to the account of such Purchaser at DTC in the case of book-entry securities), against payment by or on behalf of such Purchaser of the purchase price therefor (plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any) by wire transfer in Federal (same day) funds; provided, that, any Purchaser may, in lieu of paying all or any portion of such purchase price in cash, instead exchange any or all of the Company’s issued and outstanding 5.0% Convertible Notes due 2025 (the “Existing Notes”) held by such Purchaser, which Existing Notes may be exchanged for Purchaser Notes on the basis of $1,000 principal amount of Existing Notes for each $1,000 principal amount of Purchaser Notes, and all accrued and unpaid interest on such Purchaser’s Existing Notes delivered in exchange for Purchaser Notes shall be exchanged for an equal aggregate principal amount of Purchaser Notes (rounded down to the nearest $1,000, with the remainder paid by the Company to such Purchaser in cash), in each case as set forth on Schedule I. The time and date of such delivery and payment shall be the Closing Date or such other time and date as the Purchasers and the Company may agree in writing, and each Purchaser exchanging Existing Notes for Purchaser Notes shall deliver to the Company such instruments of transfer as the Company may reasonably request to effect the surrender by such Purchaser of such Purchaser’s Existing Notes and the cancellation thereof by the Company. The Company shall notify the Purchases of the anticipated Closing Date at least two business days in advance of such date.
   
5. Each Purchaser agrees that it will not resell any of the Purchaser Notes which constitute “restricted securities” as defined by Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act other than pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under the Securities Act, in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act or otherwise in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
   
6. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and if to a Purchaser shall be delivered or sent by mail or email transmission as set forth next to such Purchaser’s signature on the signature pages hereto:
   
and if to the Company shall be delivered or sent by mail or facsimile transmission to:
   

OPKO Health, Inc.

4400 Biscayne Blvd.

Miami, FL 33137

Attention:         Adam Logal

Email:         alogal@opko.com

   
with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
   

Greenberg Traurig, P.A.

333 S.E. 2nd Avenue

Suite 4400

Miami, FL 33131

Attention:          Drew M. Altman

Email:          altmand@gtlaw.com

   
Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt thereof.
   
7. This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Purchasers and the Company, and their respective successors and permitted assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this Agreement; provided that the Company shall not assign this Agreement, or any of its rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities hereunder, without the prior written consent of the Purchasers, and no Purchaser shall assign this Agreement, or any of its rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities hereunder, without the prior written consent of the Company.
   
8. Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement.
   
9. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Purchasers, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.
   
10. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY MATTERS RELATED TO THIS TRANSACTION SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT OF LAWS THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF ANY LAW OTHER THAN THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The Company agrees that any suit or proceeding arising in respect of this agreement or our engagement will be tried exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York or, if that court does not have subject matter jurisdiction, in any state court located in The City and County of New York and the Company agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of, and to venue in, such courts.
   
11. The Company and each Purchaser hereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
   
12. This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such respective counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Electronically scanned signatures, including by email attachment, and electronic signatures, including by DocuSign, shall be deemed originals for all purposes of this Agreement.

 

 

 

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Convertible Note Purchase Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

 

COMPANY:

 

OPKO HEALTH, INC.

 

By:__/s/ Steven D. Rubin______________

Name: Steven D. Rubin

Title: Executive Vice President, Administration

 

PURCHASERS:

 

FROST GAMA INVESTMENTS TRUST

 

By:    /s/ Phillip Frost                                   

Name: Phillip Frost, M.D.

Title: Sole Trustee

 

  /s/ Jane H. Hsiao                                         

Jane H. Hsiao, Ph.D., MBA

 

EVER EAGLE LIMITED

 

By:   /s/ Yin Chung-Yao                                

Name: Yin Chung-Yao

Title: Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE I

 

 

Purchasers:

Principal Amount of Existing Notes to be Exchanged

Accumulated Interest

Principal Amount of Notes to be Purchased

Frost Gamma Investments Trust

$25,000,000

$7,308,219.13

$32,308,000

Jane H. Hsiao, Ph.D., MBA

$5,000,000

$1,452,739.96

$6,452,000

Ever Eagle Limited

$25,000,000

$7,294,520.50

$32,294,000

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT A

 

PRELIMINARY OFFERING CIRCULAR

 

 

 

 

EXHIBIT B

 

TERM SHEET

 

 
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