Form 8-K
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 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): February 5, 2007
READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Nevada
(State
or
Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
1-8625
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95-3885184
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(Commission
File Number)
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(I.R.S.
Employer Identification No.)
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500
Citadel Drive
Suite
300
Commerce,
California
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90040
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(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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(213)
235-2240
(Registrant’s
Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
n/a
(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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):
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Item 1.01
Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement
Trust
Preferred Securities Transactions
On
February 5, 2007, Reading International, Inc., or we, us, our or Reading,
and
our existing subsidiary, Reading New Zealand Limited, or Reading NZ, along
with
our newly formed subsidiary, Reading International Trust I, a Delaware
statutory trust, or the Trust, entered into a Purchase Agreement with Kodiak
Warehouse JPM LLC, as purchaser, pursuant to which the Trust sold to the
purchaser $50,000,000 of the Trust’s preferred securities, liquidation amount
$1,000 per preferred security. The preferred securities represent undivided
beneficial interests in the Trust’s assets, which consist essentially of
Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes of Reading and Reading NZ described
below. The Trust’s preferred securities mature on April 30, 2027, and are
redeemable, at par, at Reading’s option at any time on or after April 30,
2012.
For
accounting purposes, the transaction will be treated as the issuance of long
term subordinated debt by Reading in the amount of $50,000,000. While Reading
NZ
is a party to the Purchase Agreement and will initially be a co-borrower
with
respect to the underlying Subordinated Notes, at the election of Reading,
Reading NZ can at any time be released from any obligation or liability with
respect to the Subordinated Notes without the payment of any penalty or fee,
upon 30 days’ notice. Accordingly, in our view, notwithstanding the fact that
Reading NZ is initially a co-borrower, the Subordinated Notes, as a practical
matter, are structurally subordinated to the obligations and liabilities
of all
of our various operating subsidiaries, including Reading NZ.
The
holders of the Trust’s preferred securities are entitled to quarterly
distributions at a fixed annual rate of 9.22% during the period ending April
30,
2012 and thereafter at a variable annual rate, which will reset quarterly,
equal
to the 3-month LIBOR rate plus 4.00% per annum, of the liquidation amount
of
$1,000 per preferred security. Reading elected as part of the offering to
fix
the rate for the first 5-year period of the 20-year term, and will re-visit
the
fixed rate option at the end of that period.
Reading,
itself, purchased $1,547,000 of the Trust’s common securities, liquidation
amount $1,000 per common security. The terms and provisions of the Trust’s
preferred securities and common securities are set forth in the Trust’s Amended
and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated February 5, 2007, under which Wells
Fargo Delaware Trust Company serves as Delaware trustee.
The
Trust
used the proceeds from the sale of its preferred securities and its common
securities to purchase $51,547,000 aggregate principal amount of Floating
Rate
Junior Subordinated Notes due 2027. The terms and provisions of the Subordinated
Notes are set forth in an Indenture, dated February 5, 2007, under which
Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A. serves as indenture trustee. Reading and Reading NZ are
co-obligors under the Subordinated Notes, but, as discussed below, Reading
may
cause Reading NZ to be released as a co-obligor upon 30 days’ notice to the
indenture trustee at any time. The Subordinated Notes bear interest at the
same
annual rate as the distribution rate on the Trust’s preferred securities.
Payments under the Subordinated Notes are subordinated and junior in right
of
payment to the prior payment of all other indebtedness of Reading that, by
its
terms, is not similarly subordinated. The terms and provisions of the
Subordinated Notes are set forth in an Indenture, dated February 5, 2007,
under
which Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. serves as indenture trustee.
The
Subordinated Notes may be declared immediately due and payable at the election
of the trustee under the Indenture or the holders of 25% of aggregate principal
amount of the Trust’s outstanding preferred securities if Reading defaults in
the payment of interest or principal under the Subordinated Notes and upon
the
occurrence of other events of defaults described in the Indenture, subject
to
certain cure provisions, including the right to extend the cure period for
certain covenant defaults for up to one year, by depositing one year’s interest
with the Trustee. In the event of default, the holders of the Trust’s preferred
securities will be entitled to proceed directly against Reading and, so long
as
Reading NZ has not been released by Reading, against Reading NZ for payment
of distributions on the preferred securities.
The
Indenture relating to the Subordinated Notes requires Reading to maintain
a
minimum “net worth” (as defined) of not less than $85 million and a “net asset
value of real estate” (as defined) of not less than $165 million. Reading also
is required to maintain the following “fixed charge coverage ratio” (as
defined), calculated as of the end of each fiscal quarter for the four fiscal
quarters then ended:
· Year
1: 1.25
to
1.00
· Year
2: 1.45
to
1.00
· Year
3: 1.55
to
1.00
· Year
4 to
term: 1.65
to
1.00
Reading
intends to use the net proceeds from the preferred securities transactions
described above to retire approximately $34,200,000 principal amount of
outstanding New Zealand bank debt, which bears interest at a floating rate
of
9.15% currently, compared to the initial fixed distribution rate of 9.22%
payable on the Trust’s preferred securities. Reading’s New Zealand lenders also
typically require periodic amortization of the indebtedness. The Trust’s
preferred securities will have no such periodic principal payments.
Reading
expects to use the balance of the net proceeds for various corporate purposes,
both domestically and overseas.
The
intended use of proceeds will add an element of currency risk to Reading.
As of
February 5, 2007, the value in U.S. Dollars of the Australian and New Zealand
Dollars is $0.7769 and $0.6836, respectively, which are high, when viewed
from a
historical perspective. A decline in the value of these foreign currencies
compared to the U.S. Dollar would decrease the cash flow available to pay
interest on the Subordinated Notes and Reading’s ability to satisfy the net
worth, net asset value of real estate and/or fixed charge coverage ratio
covenants set forth in the Indenture. However, we believe that we have
sufficient domestic assets to repay the Subordinated Notes in the event such
declines were to trigger a default under the Indenture.
Item
2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant
See
the
discussion in Item 1.01, above, which is incorporated herein by
reference.
Item
3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
See
the
discussion in Item 1.01, above, which is incorporated herein by reference.
The
Trust’s preferred securities were sold and issued to a single qualified
purchaser in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities
Act of
1933. In connection with the sale of the Trust’s preferred securities, Reading
paid TPC Securities, LLC a placement fee of $1,500,000 and a due diligence
fee
of $12,500, and paid or reimbursed the purchaser and trustees for legal fees
and
other costs and expenses of approximately $41,000.
Item
9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
(c) Exhibits.
The
following exhibits are contained in this report:
Exhibit
No.
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Description
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4.1
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Form
of Preferred Security Certificate evidencing the preferred securities
of
Reading International Trust I.
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4.2
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Form
of Common Security Certificate evidencing common securities of
Reading
International Trust I.
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4.3
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Form
of Reading International, Inc. Floating Rate Junior Subordinated
Debt
Security due 2027.
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10.1
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Purchase
Agreement, dated February 5, 2007, among Reading International,
Inc.,
Reading International Trust I, and Kodiak Warehouse JPM
LLC.
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10.2
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Amended
and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated February 5, 2007, among
Reading
International Inc., as sponsor, the Administrators named therein,
and
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as property trustee, and Wells Fargo Delaware
Trust Company as Delaware trustee.
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10.4
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Indenture
among Reading International, Inc., Reading New Zealand Limited,
and Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A., as indenture trustee.
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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, thereunto
duly authorized.
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READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
By:
/s/
Andrzej Matyczynski
Andrzej
Matyczynski
Chief
Financial Officer
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Dated: February
8, 2007
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EXHIBIT
INDEX
Exhibit
No.
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Description
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4.1
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Form
of Preferred Security Certificate evidencing the preferred securities
of
Reading International Trust I.
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4.2
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Form
of Common Security Certificate evidencing common securities of
Reading
International Trust I.
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4.3
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Form
of Reading International, Inc. Floating Rate Junior Subordinated
Debt
Security due 2027.
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10.1
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Purchase
Agreement, dated February 5, 2007, among Reading International,
Inc.,
Reading International Trust I, and Kodiak Warehouse JPM
LLC.
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10.2
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Amended
and Restated Declaration of Trust, dated February 5, 2007, among
Reading
International Inc., as sponsor, the Administrators named therein,
and
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as property trustee, and Wells Fargo Delaware
Trust Company as Delaware trustee.
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10.4
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Indenture
among Reading International, Inc., Reading New Zealand Limited,
and Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A., as indenture trustee.
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Sub Filer Id
EXHIBIT
4.1
PREFERRED
SECURITIES CERTIFICATE
THIS
PREFERRED SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY ("DTC") OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS PREFERRED SECURITY
IS
EXCHANGEABLE FOR PREFERRED SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER
THAN DTC OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE
TRUST
AGREEMENT, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS PREFERRED SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER
OF
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE
OF
DTC TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC
TO
READING INTERNATIONAL TRUST I OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY PREFERRED SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME
OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED
IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH
REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF ANY
PREFERRED SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE PREFERRED
SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5
OF
THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
THE
HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES
MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE TRUST OR THE
DEPOSITOR OR (II) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS (a) A
"QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT AND (b) A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED), OR (III) TO A PERSON WHOM THE
SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION
2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED), AND (B) THE HOLDER
WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES FROM IT OF THE RESALE
RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING
AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY
INTEREST THEREIN, IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF LESS
THAN
$100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID
AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW,
ANY
SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH PREFERRED
SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF
PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST ON SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN,
AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER
IN
SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES.
THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF
OR
THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE
I OF
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"),
OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE")
(EACH
A "PLAN”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE "PLAN ASSETS" BY REASON
OF ANY PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING "PLAN ASSETS"
OF
ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS PREFERRED SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN.
ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN
WILL
BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT IT IS
NOT
AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A
PLAN
TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON
ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR
ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH
PURCHASE.
THIS
OBLIGATION IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY
AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION (THE "FDIC").
Certificate
Number P-1
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$50,000,000
Aggregate Liquidation Amount
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50,000
Preferred Securities
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CUSIP
NO.
755411AA3
Certificate
Evidencing Preferred Securities
READING
INTERNATIONAL TRUST I
Preferred
Securities
(liquidation
amount $1,000 per Preferred Security)
Reading
International Trust I, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State
of
Delaware (the "Trust"),
hereby certifies that Cede & Co.(the "Holder")
is the
registered owner of Fifty Thousand (50,000) Preferred Securities or such other
number of Preferred Securities represented hereby as may be set forth in the
records of the Securities Registrar hereinafter referred to in accordance with
the Trust Agreement (as defined below) of the Trust representing an undivided
preferred beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust and designated the
Reading International Trust I Preferred Securities, (liquidation amount $1,000
per Preferred Security) (the "Preferred
Securities").
Subject to the terms of the Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Preferred
Securities are transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person
or
by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed
and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section
5.7
of the
Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges,
restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Preferred
Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Preferred Securities
represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms
and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated
as of February __, 2007, as the same may be amended from time to time (the
"Trust
Agreement"),
among
Reading International, Inc., as Depositor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Property
Trustee, Wells Fargo Delaware Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the
Administrative Trustees named therein and the Holders, from time to time, of
Trust Securities. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the
Holder without charge upon written request to the Property Trustee at its
Corporate Trust Office.
Upon
receipt of this certificate, the Holders bound by the Trust Agreement and is
entitled to the benefits thereunder.
This
Preferred Securities Certificate shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware.
All
capitalized terms used but not defined in this Preferred Securities Certificate
are used with the meanings specified in the Trust Agreement including the
Schedules and Exhibits thereto.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has executed
on
behalf of the Trust this certificate this __ day of February, 2007.
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READING
INTERNATIONAL TRUST
I
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By:
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Name:
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Administrative
Trustee
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This
is
one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.
Dated:
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WELLS
FARGO BANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely
as Property
Trustee
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By:
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Authorized
signatory
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[REVERSE
OF SECURITY]
The
Trust
promises to pay Distributions from February __, 2007, or from the most recent
Distribution Date to which Distributions have been paid or duly provided for,
quarterly in arrears on January 30, April 30, July 30 and October 30 of each
year, commencing on April 30, 2007, at a fixed rate equal to 9.22% per annum
through the Interest Payment Date on April 30, 2012, and thereafter at a
variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 4.00% per annum of
the
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities represented by this Preferred
Securities Certificate, together with any Additional Interest Amounts, in
respect to such period.
Distributions
on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Paying Agent from the Payment
Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that
the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such Distributions.
Distributions
on the Securities must be paid on the dates payable to the extent that the
Trust
has funds available for the payment of such Distributions in the Payment Account
of the Trust. The Trust's funds available for Distribution to the Holders of
the
Preferred Securities will be limited to payments received from the
Depositor.
During
any Event of Default, Depositor shall not (i) declare or pay any dividends
or
distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment
with respect to, any of the Depositor's capital stock or (ii) make any payment
of principal of or any interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase
or
redeem any debt securities of the Depositor that rank pari
passu
in all
respects with or junior in interest to the Notes (other than (a) repurchases,
redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Depositor
in
connection with (1) any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar
arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers,
directors or consultants, (2) a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock
purchase plan or (3) the issuance of capital stock of the Depositor (or
securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as
consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable
Event of Default, (b) as a result of an exchange or conversion of any class
or
series of the Depositor's capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary
(as defined in the Indenture) of the Depositor) for any class or series of
the
Depositor's capital stock or of any class or series of the Depositor's
indebtedness for any class or series of the Depositor's capital stock, (c)
the
purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Depositor's capital stock
pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or
the
security being converted or exchanged, (d) any declaration of a dividend in
connection with any Rights Plan (as defined in the Indenture), the issuance
of
rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan, or the redemption or
repurchase of rights pursuant thereto or (e) any dividend in the form of stock,
warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable
upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as
that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari
passu
with or
junior to such stock).
On
each
Note Redemption Date, on the stated maturity (or any date of principal repayment
upon early maturity) of the Notes and on each other date on (or in respect
of)
which any principal on the Notes is repaid, the Trust will be required to
redeem
a Like Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price. Under the Indenture,
the Notes may be redeemed by the Depositor on any Interest Payment Date,
at the
Depositor's option, on or after the expiration of the No Call Period, in
whole
or in part from time to time at the Optional Note Redemption Price of the
principal amount thereof or the redeemed portion thereof, as applicable,
together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest,
including additional Interest, to but excluding the date fixed for
redemption. The Notes may also be redeemed by the Depositor, at its option,
at
any time, in whole but not in part, upon the occurrence of an Investment
Company
Event or a Tax Event at the Special Note Redemption Price; and provided,
further,
that
such Investment Company Event or a Tax Event is continuing on the Redemption
Date. In addition, upon the election of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Holders of Preferred Securities to cause the redemption or
defeasance of the Notes in accordance with the Indenture upon a Change of
Control, the Notes relating to the Electing Securities (as defined in the
Indenture) must be redeemed at the Optional Note Redemption Price or defeased
pursuant to the terms of the Indenture.
The
Trust
Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption
Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption or payment at
maturity of Notes. Redemptions of the Trust Securities (or portion thereof)
shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption
Date
only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the
Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
Payments
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts), the Redemption
Price, Liquidation Amount or any other amounts in respect of the Preferred
Securities shall be made by wire transfer at such place and to such account
at a
banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing at
least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment by the Person
entitled thereto unless proper written transfer instructions have not been
received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments shall be
made
by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall appear
in
the Security Register. If any Preferred Securities are held by a Depositary,
such Distributions shall be made to the Depositary in immediately available
funds.
The
indebtedness evidenced by the Notes is, to the extent provided in the Indenture,
subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of
all
Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture), and this Security is issued subject
to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR
VALUE
RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred Securities
Certificate to:
(Insert
assignee's social security or tax identification number)
(Insert
address and zip code of assignee)
and
irrevocably appoints
agent
to
transfer this Preferred Securities Certificate on the books of the Trust. The
agent may substitute another to act for him or her.
Signature:
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(Sign
exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred
Securities Certificate)
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The
signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks,
stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership
in
an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to S.E.C. Rule
17Ad-15.
Exhibit 4.2 Form of Common Security Certificate evidencing common securities
of Reading International Trust I
EXHIBIT
4.2
COMMON
SECURITIES CERTIFICATE
THIS
COMMON SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS
AND
MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT
TO AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION. THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN
COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT
Certificate
Number
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Number
of Common Securities
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C-1
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1,547
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Certificate
Evidencing Common Securities
READING
INTERNATIONAL TRUST I
Common
Securities
(liquidation
amount $1,000 per Common Security)
Reading
International Trust I, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State
of
Delaware (the "Trust"),
hereby certifies that Reading International, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the
"Holder")
is the
registered owner of One Thousand Five Hundred Forty Seven (1,547) common
securities of the Trust representing undivided common beneficial interests
in
the assets of the Trust and designated the Reading International Trust I Common
Securities (liquidation amount $1,000 per Common Security) (the "Common
Securities").
Except in accordance with Section
5.11
of the
Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Common Securities are not transferable
and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer hereof
other
than in accordance therewith shall be void. The designations, rights,
privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the
Common Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common
Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject
to
the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the
Trust, dated as of February __, 2007 as the same may be amended from time to
time (the "Trust
Agreement"),
among
Reading International, Inc., as Depositor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Property
Trustee, Wells Fargo Delaware Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the
Administrative Trustees named therein and the Holders, from time to time, of
Trust Securities. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the
Holder without charge upon written request to the Trust at the Corporate Trust
Office.
Upon
receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and
is
entitled to the benefits thereunder.
This
Common Securities Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware without reference to its conflict of
law
provisions.
Terms
used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Trust
Agreement.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has executed
on
behalf of the Trust this certificate this __ day of February, 2007.
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READING
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Name:
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Administrative
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Exhibit 4.3 Form of Reading International, Inc. Floating Rate Junior Subordinated
Debt Security due 2037
EXHIBIT
4.3
THE
SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH SECURITIES, AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN,
MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH
REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF ANY
SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING
ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED
BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
THE
HOLDER OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD
OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE DEPOSITOR OR THE TRUST OR (II) TO
A
PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS (a) A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (b) A “QUALIFIED
PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF
1940, AS AMENDED), OR (III) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES
IS A
“QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY
ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED), AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY
SECURITIES FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A)
ABOVE.
THE
SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING AN
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN,
IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000 AND
MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO
LEGAL
EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED
TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH SECURITIES FOR ANY
PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST
ON SUCH SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE
SHALL
BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH SECURITIES.
THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF
OR
THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE
I OF
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”),
OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”)
(EACH A
“PLAN”),
OR AN
ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S
INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN MAY
ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER
OF THE SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED
BY
ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN
THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE
CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE
OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY
OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN
TO
FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE.
READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
And
READING
NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED
Junior
Subordinated Note due 2027
Each
of
Reading International, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws
of Nevada (hereinafter called the “Company,”
which
term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred
to)
and Reading New Zealand, Limited, a New Zealand corporation (“Reading
NZ”
and
collectively with the Company, the “Obligors”),
for
value received, jointly and severally hereby promises to pay to Wells Fargo
Bank, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely as Property Trustee
of
Reading International Trust I, a Delaware statutory trust, or registered
assigns, the principal sum of Fifty One Million Five Hundred and Forty Seven
Thousand Dollars ($51,547,000) on April 30, 2027. The Obligors further promise
to pay interest on said principal sum from February __, 2007, or from the most
recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided
for, quarterly in arrears on January 30, April 30, July 30, and October 30,
of
each year, commencing April 30, 2007, or if any such day is not a Business
Day,
on the next succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect
of
the amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and after such
Interest Payment Date until such next succeeding Business Day), except that,
if
such Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment
shall
be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same
force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, at a fixed rate equal
to 9.22% per annum through the Interest Payment Date on April 30, 2012, and
thereafter at a variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 4.00% per
annum, together with Additional Tax Sums, if any, as provided in Section
10.5
of the
Indenture, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for or made
available for payment; provided,
further,
that
any overdue principal, premium, if any, or Additional Tax Sums and any overdue
installment of interest shall bear Additional Interest at a fixed rate equal
to
9.22% per
annum
through the Interest Payment Date on April 30, 2012, and thereafter at a
variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 4.00% per annum (to the
extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable),
compounded quarterly, from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid
or
made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on
demand.
During
the No Call Period, the amount of interest payable for any full interest period
shall be computed on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360)-day year of twelve
(12) thirty (30)-day months and the amount payable for any partial interest
period shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed
in a
three hundred sixty (360)-day year of twelve (12) thirty (30)-day months. Upon
expiration of the No Call Period, the amount of interest payable for any
interest period will be computed on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360)-day
year and the actual number of days elapsed in the relevant interest period.
The
interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date shall, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in
whose
name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the
close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest installment.
Any
such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease
to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid
to the Person in
whose
name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the
close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders
of
Securities not less than ten (10) days prior to such Special Record Date, or
be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed,
and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully
provided in the Indenture.
Payment
of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Security shall be made
in
such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment
is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments of principal,
premium, if any, and interest due at the Maturity of this Security shall be
made
at the Place of Payment upon surrender of such Securities to the Paying Agent,
and payments of interest shall be made, subject to such surrender where
applicable, by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a banking
institution in the United States as may be designated in writing to the Paying
Agent at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment by the
Person entitled thereto unless proper written wire transfer instructions have
not been received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments
shall
be made by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall
appear in the Security Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as
the
Holder of this Security is the Property Trustee, the payment of the principal
of
(and premium, if any) and interest (including any overdue installment of
interest and Additional Tax Sums, if any) on this Security will be made at
such
place and to such account as may be designated by the Property
Trustee.
The
indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided in the
Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment
in
full of all Senior Debt, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions
of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by
accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b)
authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such actions
as
may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided
and
(c) appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof, waives all notice
of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the
Indenture by each holder of Senior Debt, whether now outstanding or hereafter
incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said
provisions.
Unless
the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by
manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Company and Reading NZ has caused this instrument
to be duly executed on this _______ day of February, 2007.
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READING
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READING
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This
is
one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
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WELLS
FARGO BANK, N.A., not
in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee
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Authorized
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[REVERSE
OF SECURITY]
This
Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company and
Reading NZ (the “Securities”)
issued
under the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of February __, 2007 (the
“Indenture”),
among
the Company, Reading NZ and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee (in such
capacity, the “Trustee,”
which
term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture
and
all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement
of
the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder
of the Company, Reading NZ, the Trustee, the holders of Senior Debt, the Holders
of the Securities and the holders of the Preferred Securities, and of the terms
upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered.
All
terms
used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture or in the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of February __, 2007 (as modified, amended
or
supplemented from time to time, the “Trust
Agreement”),
relating to the Reading International Trust I (the “Trust”)
among
the Company, as Depositor, the Trustees named therein and the Holders from
time
to time of the Trust Securities issued pursuant thereto, shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Indenture or the Trust Agreement, as the case may
be.
The
Obligors may, on any Interest Payment Date, at their option, upon not less
than
thirty (30) days’ nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice to the Holders
of the Securities (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to
the
Trustee) on or after the No Call Period, and subject to the terms and conditions
of Article
XI
of this
Indenture, redeem this Security in whole at any time or in part from time to
time at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal
amount hereof, together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued
interest, including any Additional Interest, through but excluding the date
fixed as the Redemption Date.
If
a
Change of Control occurs and holders of Preferred Securities holding at least
25% in aggregate principal amount of the Preferred Securities give written
notice to the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) within thirty (30)
days following the date the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ)
notifies such holders of Preferred Securities of the Change of Control (such
30-day period, the “Notice
Period”),
of
their election to cause the redemption or defeasance, as applicable of the
Securities (a “Change
of Control Election”),
the
Company shall be required (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ), within thirty
(30) days following the end of the Notice Period to:
(a)
defease this Security, if the holder thereof is a holder of Electing Securities,
in accordance with the first sentence of Article XIII of this Indenture if,
after applying the requirements of Section 11.2 of this Indenture to redeem
the
Securities no later than thirty (30) days following the end of the Notice
Period, the Securities would be redeemed prior to the expiration of the No
Call
Period; or
(b)
redeem this Security, if the holder thereof is a holder of Electing Securities,
and subject to the terms and conditions of Article XI of this Indenture, at
a
Redemption Price equal to one hundred (100%) of the principal amount hereof,
together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including
any Additional Interest, to but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption
Date
if, after applying the requirement of Section 11.2 of the Indenture to redeem
the Securities no later than thirty (30) days following the end of the Notice
Period, the Securities would be redeemed on or after the expiration of the
No
Call Period.
In
addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Special Event
during the No Call Period, the Obligors may, at their option, upon not less
than
thirty (30) days’ nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice to the Holders
of the Securities (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to
the
Trustee), redeem this Security, in whole but not in part, subject to the terms
and conditions of Article
XI
of this
Indenture at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred seven and one half percent
(107.5%) of the principal amount hereof, together, in the case of any such
redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, through
but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date.
In
the
event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities
for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder
hereof upon the cancellation hereof. If less than all the Securities are to
be
redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more
than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee from the
Outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption, by such method
as
the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the
selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any
Security.
This
Indenture permits the Company at any time, upon thirty (30) days’ prior written
notice to the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of the Preferred Securities,
to assume in full the obligations of Reading NZ under the Securities, this
Indenture and the other Operative Documents, and to release Reading NZ
therefrom, whereupon Reading NZ shall be released from and have no further
liability or obligation thereunder.
This
Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the Company,
Reading NZ and the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental indenture
or
indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations
of the Company, Reading NZ and of the Holders of the Securities, with the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities. This Indenture also contains provisions permitting
Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities, on
behalf of the Holders of all Securities, to waive compliance by the Company
and
Reading NZ with certain provisions of this Indenture and certain past defaults
under this Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by
the
Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and
upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security 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
Security.
No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the
Indenture shall alter or impair the obligations of the Company and Reading
NZ,
which, subject to the Company’s right to release Reading NZ from its liability
and obligations under this Security as referred to above, are absolute and
unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium, if any, and interest,
including any Additional Interest (to the extent legally enforceable), on this
Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein
prescribed.
As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
the transfer of this Security is restricted to transfers to “Qualified
Purchasers” (as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended,) and is registrable in the Securities Register, upon surrender of
this
Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company
(on
behalf of itself and Reading NZ) maintained for such purpose, duly endorsed
by,
or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the
Company and the Securities Registrar and duly executed by, the Holder
hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one
or more new Securities, of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for
the
same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee
or
transferees.
The
Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum
denominations of $100,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of
Securities and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No
service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange,
but the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) may require payment of
a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in
connection therewith.
The
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ), the Trustee and any agent of
the
Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security
be
overdue, and neither the Company, Reading NZ the Trustee nor any such agent
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The
Company, Reading NZ and, by its acceptance of this Security or a beneficial
interest herein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial
interest in, this Security agree that, for United States federal, state and
local tax purposes, it is intended that this Security constitute
indebtedness.
This
Security shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed by
the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of laws
provisions (other than Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations
Law).
Exhibit 10.1 Purchase Agreement, dated February 5, 2007, among Reading International,
Inc., Reading International Trust I, and Kodiak Warehouse JPM LLC
EXHIBIT
10.1
PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
among
READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
READING
NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED,
READING
INTERNATIONAL TRUST I,
and
KODIAK
WAREHOUSE JPM LLC
Dated
as
of February 5, 2007
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
1.
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Definitions
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2.
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Purchase
and Sale of the Preferred Securities
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3.
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Conditions
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4.
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Representations
and Warranties of the Company and the Trust
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Representations
and Warranties of the Purchaser
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Covenants
and Agreements of the Company and the Trust
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Payment
of Expenses
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8.
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Indemnification
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Termination:
Representations and Indemnities to Survive
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Amendments
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11.
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Notices
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12.
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Successors
and Assigns
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13.
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Applicable
Law
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Submission
to Jurisdiction
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Counterparts
and Facsimile
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SCHEDULES
AND ANNEXES
Schedule
1 - Significant
Subsidiaries
Annex
A-1 - Form
of
Company Counsel Opinion Pursuant to Section
3(b)
Annex
A-2
- Form
of
Officer’s Certificate Pursuant to Section
3(b)
Annex
B - Form
of
Tax Counsel Opinion Pursuant to Section
3(c)
Annex
C - Form
of
Delaware Counsel Trust Opinion Pursuant to Section
3(d)
Annex
D - Form
of
Property/Indenture Trustee Counsel Opinion Pursuant to Section
3(e)
Annex
E - Form
of
Delaware Trustee Counsel Opinion Pursuant to Section
3(d)
Annex
F - Form
of
Indenture
Annex
G - Form
of
Trust Agreement
Annex
H - Form
of
Officer’s Financial Certificate Pursuant to Section
6(h)
PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
($50,000,000
Trust Preferred Securities)
THIS
PURCHASE AGREEMENT, dated as of February 5, 2007 (this “Purchase
Agreement”),
is
entered into among Reading International, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the
“Company”),
Reading New Zealand, Limited, a New Zealand corporation (“Reading
NZ”),
and
Reading International Trust I, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”,
and
together with the Company and Reading NZ, the “Sellers”),
on
the one hand, and Kodiak Warehouse JPM LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
(the “Purchaser”),
on
the other hand.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
the Trust proposes to issue and sell Fifty Thousand (50,000) Preferred
Securities of the Trust, having a stated liquidation amount of $1,000 per
security, bearing distributions at a fixed rate
equal to 9.22% per annum of the liquidation amount through the distribution
payment date in April 2012 and
thereafter at a variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR (as defined
in
the Trust Agreement (as defined below)) plus 4.00% per annum of the liquidation
amount (the “Preferred
Securities”);
WHEREAS,
the entire proceeds from the sale of the Preferred Securities will be combined
with the entire proceeds from the sale by the Trust to the Company of its common
securities (the “Common
Securities”),
and
will be used by the Trust to purchase Fifty One Million Five Hundred Forty
Seven
Thousand Dollars ($51,547,000) in principal amount of the unsecured junior
subordinated notes of the Company and Reading NZ (the “Junior
Subordinated Notes”);
WHEREAS,
the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities for the Trust will be issued
pursuant to the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (the “Trust
Agreement”),
dated
as of the Closing Date, among the Company, as depositor, Wells Fargo Bank,
N.A.,
as property trustee (in such capacity, the “Property
Trustee”),
Wells
Fargo Delaware Trust Company, as Delaware trustee (in such capacity, the
“Delaware
Trustee”),
the
Administrative Trustees named therein (in such capacities, the “Administrative
Trustees”)
and
the holders from time to time of undivided beneficial interests in the assets
of
the Trust; and
WHEREAS,
the Junior Subordinated Notes will be issued pursuant to a Junior Subordinated
Indenture, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Indenture”),
among
the Company, Reading NZ and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as indenture trustee (in
such capacity, the “Indenture
Trustee”).
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements and subject to the terms
and conditions herein set forth, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
1. Definitions.
The Preferred Securities, the Common Securities and the Junior
Subordinated Notes are collectively referred to herein as the “Securities.”
This
Purchase Agreement, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement, and the Securities
are
collectively referred to herein as the “Operative
Documents.”
All
other capitalized terms used but not defined in this Purchase Agreement shall
have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
2. Purchase
and Sale of the Preferred Securities;
Purchaser’s Obligations.
.
(a) The
Trust
agrees to sell to the Purchaser, and the Purchaser agrees to purchase from
the
Trust, Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000) in aggregate stated liquidation
amount
of
Preferred Securities. The Trust shall use the Purchase Price, together with
the
proceeds from the sale of the Common Securities, to purchase the Junior
Subordinated Notes.
(b) Delivery
or transfer of, and payment for, the Preferred Securities shall be made at
11:00
A.M. New York time, on February 5, 2007 or such later date (not later than
February 5, 2007) as the parties may designate (such date and time of delivery
and payment for the Preferred Securities being herein called the “Closing
Date”).
The
Preferred Securities shall be transferred and delivered to the Purchaser in
the
amounts described in Section 2(a) hereof against the payment of the Purchase
Price to the Trust made by wire transfer in immediately available funds on
the
Closing Date to a U.S. account designated in writing by the Company at least
two
business days prior to the Closing Date.
(c) Subject
to the terms and provisions of this Purchase Agreement, Purchaser shall be
obligated to purchase the Preferred Securities in the amounts set forth in
Section 2(a) hereof.
(d) Delivery
of the Preferred Securities shall be made at such location, and in such names
and denominations, as the Purchaser shall designate at least two business days
in advance of the Closing Date. The Company and the Trust agree to have the
Preferred Securities available for inspection and checking by the Purchaser
in
New York, New York, not later than 11:00 A.M. New York time, on the business
day
prior to the Closing Date. The closing for the purchase and sale of the
Preferred Securities shall occur at the offices of Reed Smith LLP, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, or such other place as the parties hereto shall
agree.
(e) Each
Preferred Security Certificate shall bear a legend in substantially the
following form:
“[IF
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY INSERT:
THIS
PREFERRED SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”) OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS PREFERRED SECURITY IS
EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN DTC
OR
ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT,
AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS PREFERRED SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS
PREFERRED SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE OF
DTC
TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC
TO
READING INTERNATIONAL TRUST I OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY PREFERRED SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME
OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.]
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED
IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION
UNDER
THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH PREFERRED
SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION
THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT
THE SELLER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM
THE
PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT.
THE
HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES
MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE DEPOSITOR OR
THE
TRUST OR (II) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS (a) A
"QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT) AND (b) A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED), OR (III) TO A PERSON WHOM THE
SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION
2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED), AND (B) THE HOLDER
WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES FROM IT OF THE RESALE
RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING
AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY
INTEREST THEREIN, IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF LESS
THAN
$100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID
AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW,
ANY
SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH PREFERRED
SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF
PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST ON SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN,
AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER
IN
SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES.
THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF
OR
THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE
I OF
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”),
OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”)
(EACH A
“PLAN”),
OR AN
ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S
INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN MAY
ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS PREFERRED SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN. ANY PURCHASER
OR HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED
TO
HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE
MEANING
OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS
APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE.”
3. Conditions.
The
obligations of the parties under this Purchase Agreement are subject to the
following conditions:
(a) The
representations and warranties contained herein shall be accurate as of the
date
of delivery of the Preferred Securities.
(b) Troy
& Gould Professional Corporation, counsel for the Sellers (the “Company
Counsel”),
shall
have delivered (i) an opinion, dated the Closing Date, addressed to the
Purchaser and the Indenture Trustee, substantially in the form of Annex
A-1
hereto
with such changes as are acceptable to Purchaser in its sole discretion; and
(ii) the Company shall have furnished to the Purchaser the opinion of the
Company’s General Counsel or a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer
and Chief Financial Officer substantially in the form of Annex
A-2
hereto
with such changes as are acceptable to the Purchaser in its sole discretion.
In
rendering their opinion, the Company Counsel may rely as to factual matters
upon
certificates or other documents furnished by officers, directors and trustees
of
the Company, Reading NZ, the Trust and by government officials (provided,
however, that copies of any such certificates or documents are delivered to
the
Purchaser) and by and upon such other documents as such counsel may, in their
reasonable opinion, deem appropriate as a basis for the Company Counsel’s
opinion. The Company Counsel may specify the jurisdictions in which they are
admitted to practice and that they are not admitted to practice in any other
jurisdiction and are not experts in the law of any other jurisdiction. Such
Company Counsel Opinion shall not state that they are to be governed or
qualified by, or that they are otherwise subject to, any treatise, written
policy or other document relating to legal opinions, including, without
limitation, the Legal Opinion Accord of the ABA Section of Business Law
(1991).
(c) The
Purchaser, the Company and the Trust shall have been furnished the opinion
of
Reed Smith LLP, special tax counsel for the Purchaser, dated the Closing Date,
addressed to the Purchaser and the Indenture Trustee, in substantially the
form
set out in Annex
B
hereto.
(d) The
Purchaser shall have received the opinion of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP,
special Delaware counsel for the Delaware Trustee, dated the Closing Date,
addressed to the Purchaser, the Indenture Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and
the
Company, in substantially the form set out in Annex
C
hereto.
(e) The
Purchaser shall have received the opinion of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP,
special counsel for the Property Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, dated the
Closing Date, addressed to the Purchaser, in substantially the form set out
in
Annex
D
hereto.
(f) The
Purchaser shall have received the opinion of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP,
special Delaware counsel for the Delaware Trustee, dated the Closing Date,
addressed to the Purchaser and the Indenture Trustee, in substantially the
form
set out in Annex
E
hereto.
(g) The
Company shall have furnished to the Purchaser a certificate of the Company,
signed by the Chief Executive Officer, President or a Vice President, and by
the
Chief Financial
Officer, Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of the Company, and the Trust
shall
have furnished to the Purchaser a certificate of the Trust, signed by an
Administrative Trustee of the
Trust,
in
each case dated the Closing Date, and, in the case of the Company, as to (i)
and
(ii) below and, in the case of the Trust, as to (i) below.
(i) the
representations and warranties of the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust, as
the
case may be, in this Purchase Agreement are true and correct on and as of the
Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date, and the
Company and the Trust, as applicable, have complied with all the agreements
and
satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or
prior to the Closing Date; and
(ii) since
September 30, 2006 (the date of the last Interim Financial Statements (as
defined below), there has been no material adverse change in the condition
(financial or other), earnings, business or assets of the Company and its
subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions
occurring in the ordinary course of business (a “Material
Adverse Change”).
(h) Subsequent
to the execution of this Purchase Agreement, there shall not have been any
change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting
the
condition (financial or other), earnings, business or assets of the Company
and
its subsidiaries, taken as a whole whether or not occurring in the ordinary
course of business, the effect of which is, in the Purchaser’s judgment, so
material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with
the purchase of the Preferred Securities.
(i) Prior
to
the Closing Date, the Company and the Indenture Trustee shall have duly executed
and delivered the Indenture in substantially the form attached as Annex
F
hereto
with such changes as are acceptable to Purchaser in its sole
discretion.
(j) Prior
to
the Closing Date, the Company, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and
the Administrative Trustees shall have duly executed and delivered the Trust
Agreement in substantially the form attached as Annex
G
hereto
with such changes as are acceptable to Purchaser in its sole
discretion.
(k) At
least
2 (two) Business Days prior to the proposed Closing Date, the Company shall
have
provided written notice to the Purchaser of the proposed Closing
Date.
(l) Prior
to
the Closing Date, the Company and the Trust shall have furnished to the
Purchaser and its counsel such further information, certificates and documents
as the Purchaser or such counsel may reasonably request.
(m) The
Purchaser shall have received rating agency analysis and approval of the
Securities, which shall be satisfactory to it in its sole
discretion.
(n) The
Purchaser shall have received evidence satisfactory to it that the Company’s
consolidated “Net Asset Value of Real Estate” (as defined in the Indenture) is
greater than or equal to $240,000,000.
If
any of
the conditions specified in this Section
3
shall
not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this Purchase Agreement, or
if
any of the opinions, certificates and documents mentioned above or elsewhere
in
this Purchase Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and
substance to the Purchaser or their counsel, this Purchase Agreement and all
the
Purchaser’s obligations hereunder may be canceled at the Closing Date by the
Purchaser. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company and the
Trust in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing.
Each
certificate signed by any trustee of the Trust or any officer of the Company
and
delivered to the Purchaser or the Purchaser’s counsel in connection with the
Operative Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby shall
be deemed to be a representation and warranty of the Trust and/or the Company,
as the case may be, and not by such trustee or officer in any individual
capacity.
4. Representations
and Warranties of the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust.
The Company, Reading NZ and the Trust jointly and severally represent and
warrant to, and agree with the Purchaser, as follows (provided
that
none of the following representations or warranties apply or relate to any
acts
or omissions by the Purchaser or its Affiliates):
(a) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust, nor any of their “Affiliates” (as defined
in Rule 501(b) of Regulation D (“Regulation
D”)
under
the Securities Act (as defined below)), nor any person acting on its or their
behalf, has, directly or indirectly, made offers or sales of any security,
or
solicited offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would require
the
registration of any of the Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Securities
Act”).
(b) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust, nor any of their Affiliates, nor any
person acting on its or their behalf, has engaged in any form of “general
solicitation or general advertising” (within the meaning of Regulation D) in
connection with any offer or sale of any of the Securities.
(c) The
Securities (i) are not and have not been listed on a national securities
exchange registered under section 6 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as
amended (the “Exchange
Act”),
or
quoted on a U.S. automated inter-dealer quotation system and (ii) are not of
an
open-end investment company, unit investment trust or face-amount certificate
company that are, or are required to be, registered under section 8 of the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment
Company Act”),
and
the Securities otherwise satisfy the eligibility requirements of Rule 144A(d)(3)
promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act (“Rule
144A(d)(3)”).
(d) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust, nor any of their Affiliates, nor any
person acting on its or their behalf, has engaged, or will engage, in any
“directed selling efforts” within the meaning of Regulation S under the
Securities Act with respect to the Securities.
(e) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust is, and, immediately following consummation
of the transactions contemplated hereby and the application of the net proceeds
therefrom, will not be, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an
“investment company,” in each case within the meaning of section 3(a) of the
Investment Company Act.
(f) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust has paid or agreed to pay to any person
any
compensation for soliciting another to purchase any of the Securities, except
for the fee that the Company has agreed to pay to TBC Securities, LLC, pursuant
to that certain letter agreement dated November 3, 2006, between the Company
and
TBC Securities, LLC.
(g) The
Trust
has been duly created and is validly existing in good standing as a statutory
trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, 12 Del. C. §3801, et
seq.
(the
“Statutory
Trust Act”)
with
all requisite power and authority to own property and to conduct the business
it transacts
and proposes to transact and to enter into and perform its obligations under
the
Operative Documents to which it is a party. The Trust is duly qualified to
transact business as a foreign entity and is in good standing in each
jurisdiction in which such qualification is
necessary,
except where the failure to so qualify or be in good standing would not have
a
material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings,
business or assets of the Trust, whether or not occurring in the ordinary course
of business. The Trust is not a party to or otherwise bound by any agreement
other than the Operative Documents and other agreements contemplated by the
Operative Documents. The Trust is and will be, under current law, classified
for
federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust and not as an association or
publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation.
(h) The
Trust
Agreement has been duly authorized by the Company and, on the Closing Date
specified in Section
2(b),
will
have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Administrative
Trustees of the Trust, and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery
by the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, will be a legal, valid and
binding obligation of the Company and the Administrative Trustees, enforceable
against them in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general
principles of equity. Each of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust is an
employee of the Company and has been duly authorized by the Company to execute
and deliver the Trust Agreement.
(i) The
Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and Reading NZ and, on the
Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered by the Company, and,
assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Indenture Trustee,
will be a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company and Reading NZ
enforceable against each thereof in accordance with its terms, subject to
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally and to general principles of equity.
(j) The
Preferred Securities and the Common Securities have been duly authorized by
the
Trust and, when issued and delivered against payment therefor on the Closing
Date in accordance with this Purchase Agreement, in the case of the Preferred
Securities, and in accordance with the Common Securities Subscription Agreement,
in the case of the Common Securities, will be validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable and will represent undivided beneficial interests in the assets
of the Trust entitled to the benefits of the Trust Agreement, enforceable
against the Trust in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally
and to general principles of equity. The issuance of the Securities is not
subject to any preemptive or other similar rights. On the Closing Date, all
of
the issued and outstanding Common Securities will be directly owned by the
Company free and clear of any pledge, security interest, claim, lien or other
encumbrance of any kind (each, a “Lien”).
(k) The
Junior Subordinated Notes have been duly authorized by the Company and Reading
NZ and, on the Closing Date, will have been duly executed and delivered to
the
Indenture Trustee for authentication in accordance with the Indenture and,
when
authenticated in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered to
the
Trust against payment therefor in accordance with the Junior Subordinated Note
Purchase Agreement, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of
the
Company and Reading NZ entitled to the benefits of the Indenture, enforceable
against each thereof in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally
and to general principles of equity.
(l) This
Purchase Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Company, Reading NZ and the Trust.
(m) Neither
the issue and sale of the Common Securities, the Preferred Securities or the
Junior Subordinated Notes, nor the purchase of the Junior Subordinated Notes
by
the Trust, nor the execution and delivery of and compliance with the Operative
Documents by
the
Company, Reading NZ or the Trust, nor the consummation of the transactions
contemplated herein or therein, (i) will conflict with or constitute a violation
or breach of the Trust Agreement or the certificate of formation, limited
liability company agreement, articles of incorporation, bylaws or other
organizational document of the Company, Reading NZ or any subsidiary of the
Company or Reading NZ or, to the Company’s or Reading NZ’s knowledge, any
applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree
of
any government, governmental authority, agency or instrumentality or court,
domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Trust or the Company, Reading
NZ or any of their subsidiaries or their respective properties or assets
(collectively, the “Governmental
Entities”),
(ii)
will conflict with or constitute a violation or breach of, or a default or
Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or
imposition of any Lien upon any property or assets of the Trust, the Company,
Reading NZ or any of their subsidiaries pursuant to, any contract, indenture,
mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which
(A) the Trust, the Company, Reading NZ or any of their subsidiaries is a party
or by which it or any of them may be bound, or (B) to which any of the property
or assets of any of them is subject, or any judgment, order or decree of any
court, Governmental Entity or arbitrator, except, in the case of this clause
(ii), for such conflicts, breaches, violations, defaults, Repayment Events
(as
defined below) or Liens which (X) would not, singly or in the aggregate,
adversely affect the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the
Operative Documents and (Y) would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a
material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings,
business, liabilities and assets (taken as a whole) or business prospects of
the
Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not occurring in
the
ordinary course of business (a “Material
Adverse Effect”)
or
(iii) require the consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or
Governmental Entity. As used herein, a “Repayment
Event”
means
any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other
evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the
right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion
of
such indebtedness by the Trust, the Company, Reading NZ or any of their
subsidiaries prior to its scheduled maturity.
(n) The
Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation
in
good standing under the laws of Nevada, with all requisite corporate power
and
authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct the business
it
transacts and proposes to transact, and is duly qualified to transact business
and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction where
the
nature of its activities requires such qualification, except where the failure
of the Company to be so qualified would not, singly or in the aggregate, have
a
Material Adverse Effect.
(o) The
Company has no subsidiaries that are material to its business, financial
condition or earnings other than those subsidiaries listed in Schedule
1
attached
hereto (collectively, the “Significant
Subsidiaries”).
Each
Significant Subsidiary (including Reading NZ) has been duly incorporated and
is
validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction in which it is chartered or organized, with all requisite corporate
power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and conduct the
business it transacts and proposes to transact. Each Significant Subsidiary
(including Reading NZ) is duly qualified to transact business and is in good
standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction where the nature of
its
activities requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so
qualified would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(p) Each
of
the Trust, the Company, Reading NZ and each of their subsidiaries hold all
necessary approvals, authorizations, orders, licenses, consents, registrations,
qualifications, certificates and permits (collectively, the “Governmental
Licenses”)
of and
from Governmental
Entities necessary to conduct their respective businesses as now being
conducted, and neither the Trust, the Company, Reading NZ nor any of their
subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation
or modification of any such Government
License,
except where the failure to be so licensed or approved or the receipt of an
unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would not, singly or in the aggregate,
have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the Governmental Licenses are valid
and
in full force and effect, except where the invalidity or the failure of such
Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect, would not, singly or
in
the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and the Trust, the Company,
Reading NZ and their subsidiaries are in compliance with all applicable laws,
rules, regulations, judgments, orders, decrees and consents, except where the
failure to be in compliance would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(q) All
of
the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company and each
of
its subsidiaries (including Reading NZ) are validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable; except as disclosed in the 1934 Act Reports (as defined below),
all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each subsidiary (including
Reading NZ) of the Company is owned by the Company, directly or through
subsidiaries, free and clear of any Lien, claim or equitable right; and none
of
the issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company or any subsidiary
(including Reading NZ) was issued in violation of any preemptive or similar
rights arising by operation of law, under the charter or by-laws of such entity
or under any agreement to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries
(including Reading NZ) is a party.
(r) Neither
the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (including Reading NZ) is (i) in
violation of its respective charter or by-laws or similar organizational
documents or (ii) in default in the performance or observance of any obligation,
agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage,
loan agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the
Company or any such subsidiary is a party or by which it or any of them may
be
bound or to which any of the property or assets of any of them is subject,
except, in the case of clause (ii), where such violation or default would not,
singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(s) There
is
no action, suit or proceeding before or by any Governmental Entity, arbitrator
or court, domestic or foreign, now pending or, to the knowledge of the Company,
Reading NZ or the Trust after due inquiry, threatened against or affecting
the
Trust, Reading NZ or the Company or any of their subsidiaries, except for such
actions, suits or proceedings that, if adversely determined, would not, singly
or in the aggregate, adversely affect the consummation of the transactions
contemplated by the Operative Documents or, except as disclosed in the 1934
Act
Reports, have a Material Adverse Effect; and the aggregate of all pending legal
or governmental proceedings to which the Trust, the Company, Reading NZ or
any
of their subsidiaries is a party or of which any of their respective properties
or assets is subject, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the
business, are not expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(t) The
accountants of the Company who certified the Financial Statements (as defined
below) are independent public accountants of the Company and its subsidiaries
within the meaning of the Securities Act, and the rules and regulations of
the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
thereunder.
(u) The
audited consolidated financial statements (including the notes thereto) and
schedules of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries (including Reading
NZ) for the three fiscal years ended December 31, 2005 (the “Financial
Statements”)
and
the interim unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company and
its
consolidated subsidiaries (including Reading NZ) for the three months ended
September 30, 2006 (the “Interim
Financial Statements”)
provided to the Purchaser are the most recent available audited and
unaudited consolidated
financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries (including
Reading NZ), respectively, and fairly present in all material respects, in
accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, the financial
position of the Company and its
consolidated
subsidiaries (including Reading NZ), and the results of operations and changes
in financial condition as of the dates and for the periods therein specified,
subject, in the case of Interim Financial Statements, to year-end adjustments
(which are expected to consist solely of normal recurring adjustments). Such
consolidated financial statements and schedules have been prepared in accordance
with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”)
consistently applied throughout the periods involved (except as otherwise noted
therein).
(v) Except
as
disclosed in the 1934 Act Reports, none of the Trust, the Company, Reading
NZ
nor any of their subsidiaries has any material liability, whether asserted
or
unasserted, whether absolute or contingent, whether accrued or unaccrued,
whether liquidated or unliquidated, and whether due or to become due, including
any liability for taxes (and there is no past or present fact, situation,
circumstance, condition or other basis for any present or future action, suit,
proceeding, hearing, charge, complaint, claim or demand against the Company
or
its subsidiaries that could give rise to any such liability), except for (i)
liabilities set forth in the Financial Statements or the Interim Financial
Statements and (ii) normal fluctuations in the amount of the liabilities
referred to in clause (i) above occurring in the ordinary course of business
of
the Trust, the Company and all of its subsidiaries since the date of the most
recent balance sheet included in such Financial Statements.
(w) Since
the
respective dates of the Financial Statements and the Interim Financial
Statements, there has not been (A) any Material Adverse Change or (B) any
dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company
on
any class of its capital stock other than regular quarterly dividends on the
Company’s common stock.
(x) The
documents of the Company filed with the Commission in accordance with the
Exchange Act, from and including the commencement of the fiscal year covered
by
the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, at the time they were or
hereafter are filed by the Company with the Commission (collectively, the
“1934
Act Reports”),
complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of
the
Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the
“1934
Act Regulations”),
and,
at the date of this Purchase Agreement and on the Closing Date, do not and
will
not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein,
in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
and other than such instruments, agreements, contracts and other documents
as
are filed as exhibits to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K, there are no instruments,
agreements, contracts or documents of a character described in Item 601 of
Regulation S-K promulgated by the Commission to which the Company or any of
its
subsidiaries is a party other than those which are not yet required to be filed.
The Company is in compliance with all currently applicable requirements of
the
Exchange Act that were added by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
(y) No
labor
dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists
or,
to the knowledge of the executive officers of the Company, is imminent, except
those which would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(z) No
filing
with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration,
qualification or decree of, any Governmental Entity, other than those that
have
been made or obtained, is necessary or required for the performance by the
Trust, Reading NZ or the Company of their respective obligations under the
Operative Documents, as applicable, or the consummation by the Trust, Reading
NZ
and the Company of the transactions contemplated by the Operative
Documents.
(aa) Each
of
the Trust, the Company and each Significant Subsidiary (including Reading NZ)
has good and marketable title to all of its respective material real and
personal
properties, in each case free and clear of all Liens and defects, except for
those that would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect; and all of the leases and subleases under which the Trust, the Company,
or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company holds properties are in full force
and effect, except where the failure of such leases and subleases to be in
full
force and effect would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect, and none of the Trust, the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of
the
Company has any notice of any claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone
adverse to the rights of the Trust, the Company or any significant subsidiary
of
the Company under any such leases or subleases, or affecting or questioning
the
rights of such entity to the continued possession of the leased or subleased
premises under any such lease or sublease, except for such claims that would
not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(bb) [Intentionally
omitted.]
(cc) The
Company and each of the Significant Subsidiaries have timely and duly filed
all
Tax Returns required to be filed by them or has requested an extension thereof,
and all such Tax Returns are true, correct and complete in all material
respects. The Company and each of the Significant Subsidiaries have timely
and
duly paid in full all material Taxes required to be paid by them, except for
any
such Taxes that are currently being contested in good faith or would not have
a
Material Adverse Effect (whether or not such amounts are shown as due on any
Tax
Return). Except as disclosed in the 1934 Act Reports, there are no federal,
state, or other Tax audits or deficiency assessments proposed or pending with
respect to the Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries, and no such
audits or assessments are threatened. As used herein, the terms “Tax”
or
“Taxes”
mean
(i) all federal, state, local, and foreign taxes, and other assessments of
a
similar nature (whether imposed directly or through withholding), including
any
interest, additions to tax, or penalties applicable thereto, imposed by any
Governmental Entity, and (ii) all liabilities in respect of such amounts arising
as a result of being a member of any affiliated, consolidated, combined, unitary
or similar group, as a successor to another person or by contract. As used
herein, the term “Tax
Returns”
means
all federal, state, local, and foreign Tax returns, declarations, statements,
reports, schedules, forms, and information returns and any amendments thereto
filed or required to be filed with any Governmental Entity.
(dd) The
Trust
is not subject to United States federal income tax with respect to income
received or accrued on the Junior Subordinated Notes, interest payable by the
Company and Reading NZ on the Junior Subordinated Notes is deductible by the
Company and Reading NZ, respectively, in whole or in part, for United States
federal income tax purposes, and the Trust is not subject to more than a
de
minimis
amount
of other taxes, duties or other governmental charges.
(ee) The
books, records and accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries accurately
and
fairly reflect, in reasonable detail, the transactions in, and dispositions
of,
the assets of, and the results of operations of, the Company and its
subsidiaries. Each of the Company and each of its subsidiaries maintains a
system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable
assurances 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 accordance with GAAP and to
maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in
accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (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.
(ff) The
Company and the Significant Subsidiaries (including Reading NZ) are insured
by
insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks
and in such amounts in all material respects as are customary in the businesses
in which they are
engaged
or propose to engage after giving effect to the transactions contemplated
hereby. All policies of insurance and fidelity or surety bonds insuring the
Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries or the Company’s or Significant
Subsidiaries’ respective businesses, assets, employees, officers and directors
are in full force and effect.
(gg) The
Company and its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the senior executive
officers of the Company, any person acting on behalf of the Company and its
subsidiaries including, without limitation, any director, officer, agent or
employee of the Company or its subsidiaries has not, directly or indirectly,
while acting on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries (i) used any
corporate funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other
unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (ii) made any unlawful payment
to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to foreign or
domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds; (iii) violated
any
provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended; or (iv)
made
any other unlawful payment.
(hh) The
information provided by the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust pursuant to this
Purchase Agreement and the Operative Documents, insofar as they relate to the
Company, Reading NZ and the Trust, do not, as of the date hereof, and will
not
as of the Closing Date, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit
to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
(ii) Except
as
disclosed in the 1934 Act Reports, and except as would not, individually or
in
the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Change, (i) the Company and its
subsidiaries have been and are in compliance with applicable Environmental
Laws
(as defined below), (ii) none of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or
otherwise disposed of Hazardous Materials (as defined below) on, to, in, under
or from the properties owned by it (“Properties”)
or any
other real properties previously owned, leased or operated by the Company or
any
of its subsidiaries, (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries
intends to use the Properties or any subsequently acquired properties, other
than in compliance with applicable Environmental Laws, (iv) neither the Company
nor any of its subsidiaries has received to the knowledge of the senior
executives of the Company any notice of, or has any knowledge of any occurrence
or circumstance which, with notice or passage of time or both, would give rise
to a claim under or pursuant to any Environmental Law with respect to the
Properties, any other real properties previously owned, leased or operated
by
the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or their respective assets or arising
out of the conduct of the Company or its subsidiaries, and (v) no lien has
been
imposed on the Properties by any Governmental Entity in connection with the
presence on or off such Property of any Hazardous Material.
As
used
herein, “Hazardous
Material”
shall
include, without limitation, any flammable materials, explosives, radioactive
materials, hazardous materials, hazardous substances, hazardous wastes, toxic
substances or related materials, asbestos, petroleum, petroleum products and
any
hazardous material as defined by any federal, state or local environmental
law,
statute, ordinance, rule or regulation, including, without limitation, the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980,
as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-9675 (“CERCLA”),
the
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, as amended, 49 U.S.C. §§ 5101-5127, the
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901-6992k, the
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C. §§
11001-11050, the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 2601-2692, the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 136-136y, the
Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 7401-7642, the Clean Water Act (Federal Water
Pollution Control Act), 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251-1387, the Safe Drinking
Water Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300f-300j-26, and the Occupational Safety and Health
Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651-678, and any analogous state laws, as any of the above may
be amended from time to time and in the regulations promulgated pursuant to
each
of the foregoing (including
environmental
statutes and laws not specifically defined herein) (individually, an
“Environmental
Law”
and
collectively, the “Environmental
Laws”)
or by
any Governmental Entity.
5. Representations
and Warranties of the Purchaser.
Purchaser represents and warrants to, and agrees with, the Company and the
Trust
as follows:
(a) Purchaser
is aware that the Securities have not been and will not be registered under
the
Securities Act and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to
“U.S. persons” (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) except in
accordance with Rule 903 of Regulation S under the Securities Act or pursuant
to
an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities
Act.
(b) Purchaser
is an “accredited investor,” as such term is defined in Rule 501(a) of
Regulation D under the Securities Act.
(c) Neither
Purchaser, nor any of Purchaser’s affiliates, nor any person acting on
Purchaser’s or Purchaser’s Affiliate’s behalf has engaged, or will engage, in
any form of “general solicitation or general advertising” (within the meaning of
Regulation D) in connection with any offer or sale of the Preferred
Securities.
(d) Purchaser
understands and acknowledges that (i) no public market exists for any of the
Securities and that it is unlikely that a public market will ever exist for
the
Securities, (ii) Purchaser is purchasing the Securities for its own account,
for
investment and not with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection with,
any
distribution thereof in violation of the Securities Act or other applicable
securities laws, subject to any requirement of law that the disposition of
its
property be at all times within its control and subject to its ability to resell
such Securities pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act or pursuant to an exemption therefrom or in a transaction not
subject thereto, and Purchaser agrees to the legends and transfer restrictions
applicable to the Securities, and (iii) Purchaser has had the opportunity to
ask
questions of, and receive answers and request additional information from,
the
Company and is aware that it may be required to bear the economic risk of an
investment in the Securities until the maturity thereof.
(e) Purchaser
is a company with limited liability duly incorporated, validly existing and
in
good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of organization in which it
is
organized with all requisite (i) power and authority to execute, deliver and
perform the Operative Documents to which it is a party, to make the
representations and warranties specified herein and therein and to consummate
the transactions contemplated herein and (ii) right and power to purchase the
Securities.
(f) This
Purchase Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Purchaser
and constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable in
accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and
similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of
equity. No filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order
registration, qualification or decree of, any governmental body, agency or
court
having jurisdiction over Purchaser, other than those that have been made or
obtained, is necessary or required for the performance by Purchaser of its
obligations under this Purchase Agreement or to consummate the transactions
contemplated herein.
(g) Purchaser
is a “Qualified Purchaser” as such term is defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the
Investment Company Act.
6. Covenants
and Agreements of the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust.
The Company, Reading NZ and the Trust jointly and severally agree with the
Purchaser as follows (provided
that
none of the following covenants apply or relate to any acts of the Purchaser
or
their Affiliates):
(a) During
the period from the date of this Agreement to the Closing Date, the Company,
Reading NZ and the Trust shall use commercially reasonable efforts and take
all
action necessary or appropriate to cause their representations and warranties
contained in Section
4
hereof
to be true as of the Closing Date, after giving effect to the transactions
contemplated by this Purchase Agreement, as if made on and as of the Closing
Date.
(b) The
Company, Reading NZ and the Trust will arrange for the qualification of the
Preferred Securities for sale under the state blue sky laws of such
jurisdictions as the Purchaser may designate and will maintain such
qualifications in effect so long as required for the sale of the Preferred
Securities. The Company, Reading NZ or the Trust, as the case may be, will
promptly advise the Purchaser of the receipt by the Company, Reading NZ or
the
Trust, as the case may be, of any notification with respect to the suspension
of
the qualification of the Preferred Securities for sale in any such jurisdiction
or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.
(c) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust will, nor will any of them permit any
of
its Affiliates to, nor will any of them permit any person acting on its or
their
behalf (other than the Purchaser) to, resell any Preferred Securities that
have
been acquired by any of them.
(d) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust will, nor will any of them permit any
of
their Affiliates or any person acting on their behalf to, engage in any
“directed selling efforts” within the meaning of Regulation S under the
Securities Act with respect to the Securities.
(e) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust will, nor will any of them permit any
of
their Affiliates or any person acting on their behalf to, directly or
indirectly, make offers or sales of any security, or solicit offers to buy
any
security, under circumstances that would require the registration of any of
the
Securities under the Securities Act.
(f) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust will, nor will any of them permit any
of
its Affiliates or any person acting on their behalf to, engage in any form
of
“general solicitation or general advertising” (within the meaning of Regulation
D) in connection with any offer or sale of the any of the
Securities.
(g) So
long
as any of the Securities are outstanding, (i) the Securities shall not be listed
on a national securities exchange registered under section 6 of the Exchange
Act
or quoted in a U.S. automated inter-dealer quotation system and (ii) none the
Company, Reading NZ or the Trust shall be an open-end investment company, unit
investment trust or face-amount certificate company that is, or is required
to
be, registered under section 8 of the Investment Company Act, and, the
Securities shall otherwise satisfy the eligibility requirements of Rule
144A(d)(3).
(h) Each
of
the Company and the Trust shall furnish to (i) the holders, and subsequent
holders of the Preferred Securities, (ii) Purchaser at 2107 Wilson Blvd., Suite
400, Arlington, VA 22201, Attention: Robert Hurley, Chief Financial Officer,
or
such other address as
designated by Purchaser) and (iii) any beneficial owner of the Securities
reasonably identified to the Company and the Trust (which identification may
be
made by either such beneficial owner or by Purchaser), a duly completed and
executed certificate in the form attached hereto as Annex
F,
including the financial statements referenced in such Annex, which certificate
and financial statements shall be so furnished by the Company and the Trust
not
later than forty five (45) days after the end of each of the first three fiscal
quarters of each fiscal year of the Company and not later than ninety (90)
days
after the end of each fiscal year of the Company.
(i) Each
of
the Company and the Trust will, during any period in which it is not subject
to
and in compliance with section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or it is not
exempt from such reporting requirements pursuant to and in compliance with
Rule
12g3-2(b) under the Exchange Act, provide to each holder of the Securities
and
to each prospective purchaser (as designated by such holder) of the Securities,
upon the request of such holder or prospective purchaser, any information
required to be provided by Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act. If the
Company and the Trust are required to register under the Exchange Act, such
reports filed in compliance with Section 13(a) shall be sufficient information
as required above. This covenant is intended to be for the benefit of the
Purchaser, the holders of the Securities, and the prospective purchasers
designated by the Purchaser and such holders, from time to time, of the
Securities.
(j) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust will, until one hundred eighty (180) days
following the Closing Date, without the Purchaser’s prior written consent,
offer, sell, contract to sell, grant any option to purchase or otherwise dispose
of, directly or indirectly, (i) any Preferred Securities or other securities
substantially similar to the Preferred Securities other than as contemplated
by
this Purchase Agreement or (ii) any other securities convertible into, or
exercisable or exchangeable for, any Preferred Securities or other securities
substantially similar to the Preferred Securities; provided,
for the
avoidance of doubt, that no such consent shall be required (a) if such other
securities have a different maturity date, interest rate and other terms than
those of the Preferred Securities or (b) if, after giving effect to any such
offer, sale or option, the offer, sale or option of such other securities shall
not result in the required registration of the sale of the Preferred Securities
as contemplated herein.
(k) [Intentionally
omitted].
(l) None
of
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust will identify any of the Indemnified
Parties (as defined below) in a press release or any other public statement
without the consent of such Indemnified Party, except as otherwise required
by
applicable laws.
(m) The
Purchaser shall have the right under this Purchase Agreement, the Indenture
and
the Trust Agreement to request the substitution of new notes for all or a
portion of the Junior Subordinated Notes held by the Trust. The Trust shall
be
required under the terms of this Purchase Agreement, the Indenture and the
Trust
Agreement to accept such newly issued notes (the “Replacement
Notes”)
from
the Company and Reading NZ and surrender a like amount of Junior Subordinated
Notes to the Company and Reading NZ. The Replacement Notes shall bear terms
identical to the Junior Subordinated Notes with the sole exception of interest
payment dates (and corresponding redemption date and maturity date), which
will
be specified by the Purchaser. In no event will the interest payment dates
(and
corresponding redemption date and maturity date) on the Replacement Notes vary
by more than sixty (60) calendar days from the original interest payment dates
(and corresponding redemption date and maturity date) under the Junior
Subordinated Notes. Each of the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust acknowledges
and agrees that, to the extent of the principal amount of the Replacement Notes
issued to the Trust under the Indenture, the Purchaser (and each successor
to
the Purchaser’s interest in the Preferred Securities) will require the Trust to
issue a new series of Preferred Securities
having a principal amount related to the principal amount of the Replacement
Notes (the “Replacement
Securities”)
to
designated holders of Preferred Securities, provided that any such Replacement
Securities, and any distributions from the Trust to the holders of Replacement
Securities, must relate solely to the Trust’s interest in the Replacement Notes
and in no event
will
the
Preferred Securities other than the Replacement Securities share in the returns
from any Replacement Notes. The Replacement Securities shall have payment dates
(and corresponding redemption date and maturity date) that relate to the
Replacement Notes. Each of the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust agrees to
cooperate with all reasonable requests of the Purchaser in connection with
any
of the foregoing; provided,
that no
action requested of the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust in connection with
such
cooperation shall materially increase the obligations or materially decrease
the
rights of the Company or Reading NZ pursuant to such documents. The Purchaser
shall pay all reasonable expenses in connection with the issuance of the
Replacement Notes and the Replacement Securities.
(n) The
Company grants to Purchaser a right of first offer on any additional Preferred
Securities, or securities similar to the Preferred Securities proposed to be
issued by the Company within 12 months following the Closing Date.
7. Payment
of Expenses.
The Company, as depositor of the Trust, agrees to pay all costs and
expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company and
the
Trust under this Purchase Agreement, whether or not the transactions
contemplated herein are consummated or this Purchase Agreement is terminated,
including all costs and expenses incident to (i) the authorization, issuance,
sale and delivery of the Preferred Securities and any taxes payable in
connection therewith; (ii) the fees and expenses of qualifying the Preferred
Securities under the securities laws of the several jurisdictions as provided
in
Section
6(b);
(iii)
the fees and expenses of the counsel, the accountants and any other experts
or
advisors retained by the Company or the Trust; (iv) the fees and all reasonable
expenses of the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Indenture Trustee
and any other trustee or paying agent appointed under the Operative Documents,
including the fees and disbursements of counsel for such trustees, which fees
shall not exceed $3,500 for the fees and expenses of Potter Anderson &
Corroon LLP, special Delaware counsel retained by the Delaware Trustee in
connection with the Closing (v) the reasonable fees and expenses of Reed Smith
LLP, special counsel retained by the Purchaser not to exceed $30,000; and (vi)
a
due diligence fee in an amount equal to $12,500 ($5,000 of which was paid upon
execution of the Letter of Intent) payable to the Purchaser or their
designee.
If
the
sale of the Preferred Securities provided for in this Purchase Agreement is
not
consummated because any condition set forth in Section
3
hereof
to be satisfied by any of the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust is not satisfied,
because this Purchase Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section
9
or
because of any failure, refusal or inability on the part of the Company, Reading
NZ or the Trust to perform all obligations and satisfy all conditions on its
part to be performed or satisfied hereunder other than by reason of a default
by
the Purchaser, the Company will reimburse the Purchaser upon demand for all
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses
of
Purchaser’s counsel specified in subparagraphs (v) of the immediately preceding
paragraph) that shall have been incurred by the Purchaser in connection with
the
proposed purchase and sale of the Preferred Securities. The Company shall not
in
any event be liable to the Purchaser for the loss of anticipated profits or
other special, incidental or consequential damages from the transactions
contemplated by this Purchase Agreement.
8. Indemnification.
(a) Each
of
the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust agree jointly and severally to indemnify
and hold harmless the Purchaser and the Purchaser’s affiliates (collectively,
the “Indemnified
Parties”),
each
person, if any, who controls any of the Indemnified Parties within the meaning
of the Securities Act, or the Exchange Act, and the Indemnified Parties’
respective directors, officers, employees and agents and each person who
“controls” the Indemnified Parties within the meaning of either the Securities
Act or the
Exchange
Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or
several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities
Act, the Exchange Act or other federal or state statutory law or regulation,
at
common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities
(or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) any untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any
information or documents furnished or made available to the Purchaser by or
on
behalf of the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust, (ii) the omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (iii) the breach or
alleged breach of any representation, warranty or agreement of any of the
Sellers contained herein or (iv) the execution and delivery by the Company,
Reading NZ and/or the Trust of this Purchase Agreement or any of the other
Operative Documents and/or the consummation of the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby; provided,
however,
that
none of the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust shall be liable to the extent
that
any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based on any
statement, act or omission of the Indemnified Parties, and agrees to reimburse
the Indemnified Parties, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably
incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss,
claim, damage, liability or action. This indemnity agreement will be in addition
to any liability which the Company or the Trust may otherwise have.
(b) The
Company agrees to indemnify the Trust against all loss, liability, claim, damage
and expense whatsoever due from the Trust under paragraph (a)
above.
(c) Promptly
after receipt by an Indemnified Party under this Section
8
of
notice of the commencement of any action, such Indemnified Party will, if a
claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under
this
Section
8,
promptly notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof;
but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve the
indemnifying party from liability under paragraph (a) above unless and to the
extent that such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party
of
material rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the
indemnifying party from any obligations to any Indemnified Party other than
the
indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) above. The indemnifying
party shall be entitled to appoint counsel of the indemnifying party’s choice at
the indemnifying party’s expense to represent the Indemnified Party in any
action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying
party
shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate
counsel retained by the Indemnified Party except as set forth below);
provided,
however,
that
such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party.
Notwithstanding the indemnifying party’s election to appoint counsel to
represent the Indemnified Party in an action, the Indemnified Party shall have
the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and the
indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such
separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party
to
represent the Indemnified Party would present such counsel with a conflict
of
interest, (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such
action include both the Indemnified Party and the indemnifying party and the
Indemnified Party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal
defenses available to it and/or other Indemnified Parties which are different
from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the
indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel reasonably satisfactory
to
the Indemnified Party to represent the Indemnified Party within a reasonable
time after notice of the institution of such action or (iv) the indemnifying
party shall authorize the Indemnified Party to employ separate counsel at the
expense of the indemnifying party (it being understood and agreed that the
indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one
separate counsel (in addition to any local counsel) representing the Indemnified
Parties to such action). An
indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the
Indemnified Parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any
judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or
proceeding in respect of which indemnification may be sought hereunder (whether
or not the Indemnified Parties are actual or potential parties to such claim,
action,
suit or proceeding) unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes
an
unconditional release of each Indemnified Party from all liability arising
out
of such claim, action, suit or proceeding.
9. Termination:
Representations and Indemnities to Survive.
This Purchase Agreement shall be subject to termination in the absolute
discretion of the Purchaser, by notice given to the Company, Reading NZ and
the
Trust prior to delivery of and payment for the Preferred Securities, if prior
to
such time (i) a downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the
Company’s debt securities or preferred stock by any “nationally recognized
statistical rating organization,” as that term is used by the Commission in Rule
15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act, or such organization shall have
publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible
negative implications, its rating of the Company’s debt securities or preferred
stock, (ii) the Trust shall be unable to sell and deliver to the Purchaser
at
least $50,000,000 stated liquidation value of Preferred Securities, (iii) a
suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally shall
have
occurred on the New York Stock Exchange, (iv) a suspension or material
limitation in trading in any of the Company’s securities shall have occurred on
the exchange or quotation system upon which the Company’s securities are traded,
if any, (v) a general moratorium on commercial business activities shall have
been declared either by federal or applicable state authorities or (vi) there
shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, or declaration
by
the United States of a national emergency or war or other calamity or crisis
the
effect of which on financial markets is such as to make it, in the Purchaser’s
judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery
of the Preferred Securities. The respective agreements, representations,
warranties, indemnities and other statements of the Company, Reading NZ and
the
Trust or their respective officers or trustees and of the Purchaser set forth
in
or made pursuant to this Purchase Agreement will remain in full force and
effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Purchaser,
the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust or any of the their respective officers,
directors, trustees or controlling persons, and will survive delivery of and
payment for the Preferred Securities. The provisions of Sections
7
and
8
shall
survive the termination or cancellation of this Purchase Agreement.
10. Amendments.
This Purchase Agreement may not be modified, amended, altered or
supplemented, except upon the execution and delivery of a written agreement
by
each of the parties hereto.
11. Notices.
All communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on
receipt, and, if sent to the Purchaser, will be mailed, delivered by hand or
courier or sent by facsimile and confirmed to the Purchaser at 2107 Wilson
Blvd., Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22201, Attention: Robert Hurley, Chief Financial
Officer, Facsimile: (703) 351-7901; with a copy to Reed Smith LLP, 435 Sixth
Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219, Attention: Ronald L. Francis, Jr.,
Facsimile: (412) 288-3063 or other address as the Purchaser shall designate
for
such purpose in a notice to the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust; and if sent
to the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust, will be mailed, delivered by hand
or
courier or sent by facsimile and confirmed to it c/o Reading International,
Inc., 500 Citadel Drive, Suite 300, Commerce, California 90040, Attention:
Andrzej Matyczynski, Facsimile: (213) 235-2229.
12. Successors
and Assigns.
This Purchase Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon
the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.
Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Purchase Agreement is intended or shall
be construed to give any person other than the parties hereto and the
affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents and controlling persons
referred to in Section
8
hereof
and their successors, assigns, heirs and legal representatives, any right or
obligation hereunder. None of the rights or obligations of the Company, Reading
NZ or the Trust under this Purchase Agreement may be assigned, whether by
operation of law or otherwise, without the Purchaser’s prior written consent.
The
rights
and obligations of Purchaser under this Purchase Agreement may be assigned
by
Purchaser without the Company’s, Reading NZ’s or the Trust’s consent; provided
that the assignee assumes the obligations of Purchaser under this Purchase
Agreement.
13. Applicable
Law.
THIS PURCHASE AGREEMENT WILL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REFERENCE TO PRINCIPLES
OF CONFLICTS OF LAW (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS
LAW).
14. Submission
to Jurisdiction.
ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY OR AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO OR WITH RESPECT
TO
OR ARISING OUT OF THIS PURCHASE AGREEMENT MAY BE BROUGHT IN OR REMOVED TO THE
COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, OR OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK (IN EACH CASE
SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN). BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS PURCHASE
AGREEMENT, EACH PARTY ACCEPTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY,
GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS (AND
COURTS OF APPEALS THEREFROM) FOR LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN
CONNECTION WITH THIS PURCHASE AGREEMENT.
15. Counterparts
and Facsimile.
This Purchase Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto
in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original,
but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
This Purchase Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto
by facsimile.
[Signature
page follows]
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, this Purchase Agreement has been entered into as of the date
first written above.
READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
By:
_______________
Name:
Title:
READING
NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED
By:
_______________
Name:
Title:
READING
INTERNATIONAL TRUST I
By:
READING INTERNATIONAL, INC., as Depositor
By:
_____________________
Name:
Title:
KODIAK
WAREHOUSE JPM LLC
By:
Kodiak Funding, LP
Its
sole
member
By:
Kodiak Funding Company, Inc.
Its
general partner
By:
____________________
Name:
Robert M. Hurley
Title:
Chief Financial Officer
SCHEDULE
1
List
of Significant Subsidiaries
Reading
Pacific, LLC
Reading
International Cinemas, LLC
Reading
New Zealand, Limited
Reading
Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd
Newmarket
Properties Pty Ltd
Reading
Properties Pty Ltd
Reading
Cinemas Pty Ltd
Reading
Cinemas USA, LLC
Sutton
Hill Properties, LLC
ANNEX
A-1
[FORM
OF COMPANY COUNSEL OPINION PURSUANT TO SECTION 3(b)]
ANNEX
A-2
FORM
OF
GENERAL COUNSEL OPINION OR OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATE
Pursuant
to Section 3(b)(ii) of the Purchase Agreement, General Counsel for the
Company shall deliver an opinion, or the Chief Executive Officer and Chief
Financial Officer of
the
Company shall provide an Officers’ Certificate, to the effect that:
1.
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all
of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock, equity or
membership interests of each Significant Subsidiary (including Reading
NZ)
are owned of record by the Company and the issuance of the Preferred
Securities and the Common Securities is not subject to any contractual
preemptive rights known to such
[Counsel/Officers];
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2.
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no
consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or Governmental
Entity is required for the issue and sale of the Common Securities,
the
Preferred Securities or the Junior Subordinated Notes, the purchase
by the
Company of the Common Securities, the purchase by the Trust of the
Junior
Subordinated Notes, the execution and delivery of and compliance
with the
Operative Documents by the Company, Reading NZ or the Trust or the
consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Operative Documents,
except such approvals (specified in such [Opinion/Certificate]) as
have
been obtained;
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3.
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to
the knowledge of such [Counsel/Officers], there is no action, suit
or
proceeding before or by any government, governmental instrumentality,
arbitrator or court, domestic or foreign, now pending or threatened
against or affecting the Trust or the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary (including Reading NZ) that could adversely affect the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents
or could have a Material Adverse Effect on the Company and its
subsidiaries;
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4.
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Each
of the Company and Reading NZ is not, and, immediately following
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents
and the application of the net proceeds therefrom, will not be, an
“investment company” or, to such [Counsel’s/Officers] knowledge, is not,
or, immediately following consummation of the transactions contemplated
by
the Operative Documents and the application of the net proceeds therefrom,
will not be, an entity “controlled” by an “investment company,” in each
case by virtue of Section 3(a) of the Investment Company Act; and
the
Trust is not, and immediately following the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by the Operative Documents and the application
of the net proceeds therefrom, the Trust will not be, an “investment
company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company,” within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act;
and
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5.
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the
execution, delivery and performance of the Operative Documents, as
applicable, by the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust and the consummation
by the Company, Reading NZ and the Trust of the transactions contemplated
by the Operative Documents, as applicable, (a) will not result in
any
violation of the charter or bylaws of the Company, the charter or
bylaws
or similar organizational documents of any Significant Subsidiary,
the
Trust Agreement or the Certificate of Trust of the Trust, and (b)
will not
conflict with, or result in a breach of any of the terms or provisions
of,
or constitute a default (or an event which, with notice or lapse
of time
or both, would constitute a default) under, or result in the creation
or
imposition of any lien, charge and encumbrance upon any assets or
properties of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary under, (A)
any
agreement, indenture, mortgage or instrument that the Company or
any
Significant Subsidiary is a party to or by which it may be bound
or to
which any of its assets or properties may be subject, or (B) any
existing
applicable law, Rule or administrative Regulation [FOR GENERAL COUNSEL
ONLY: except that I express no opinion with respect to the securities
laws
of the State of Delaware] of any court or governmental agency or
authority
having jurisdiction over the Company or any Significant Subsidiary
or any
of their respective assets or properties, except in case of (b),
where any
such violation, conflict, breach, default, lien, charge or encumbrance,
would not have a material adverse effect on the assets, liabilities,
properties, business, results of operations or condition (financial
or
otherwise) of the Company and their subsidiaries, taken as
whole.
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[APPLIES
ONLY TO GENERAL COUNSEL OPINION: In rendering such opinions, General
Counsel may (A) state that the above is limited to the laws of the
State
of [jurisdiction of bar admission], and (B) rely as to matters of
fact to
the extent deemed proper, on certificates of responsible officers
of the
Company and public officials.]
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ANNEX
B
Pursuant
to Section 3(c) of the Purchase Agreement, Reed Smith LLP, special tax counsel
for the Purchaser, shall deliver an opinion to the effect that:
(i) the
Trust
will be classified for United States federal income tax purposes as a grantor
trust and not as an association or a publicly traded partnership taxable as
a
corporation; and
(ii) for
United States federal income tax purposes, the Junior Subordinated Notes will
constitute indebtedness of the Company.
In
rendering such opinions, such counsel may (A) state that its opinion is limited
to the federal laws of the United States and (B) rely as to matters of fact,
to
the extent deemed proper, on certificates of responsible officers of the Company
and public officials.
ANNEX
C
[FORM
OF DELAWARE COUNSEL TRUST OPINION PURSUANT TO SECTION
3(d)]
ANNEX
D
[FORM
OF PROPERTY/INDENTURE TRUSTEE COUNSEL OPINION PURSUANT TO SECTION3(e)]
ANNEX
E
[FORM
OF DELAWARE TRUSTEE COUNSEL OPINION PURSUANT TO SECTION
3(d)]
ANNEX
F
[FORM
OF
INDENTURE]
ANNEX
G
[FORM
OF TRUST AGREEMENT]
ANNEX
H
OFFICER'S
FINANCIAL CERTIFICATE
The
undersigned, the [Chairman/Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer/President/
Vice
President/Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer/Assistant Treasurer], hereby
certifies, pursuant to Section 6(h) of the Purchase Agreement, dated as of
February 5, 2007, among Reading International, Inc. (the “Company”), Reading New
Zealand, Limited, Reading International Trust I (the “Trust”), on the one hand,
and Kodiak Warehouse JPM LLC on the other hand, that, as of [date], [20___],
the
Company, if applicable, and its subsidiaries had the following ratios and
balances:
As
of
[Quarterly/Annual Financial Date], 20___
[insert
covenant compliance calculations here]
*
A table
describing the quarterly report calculation procedures is provided on
page
[FOR
FISCAL YEAR END: Attached
hereto are the audited consolidated financial statements (including the balance
sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows, and notes thereto, together
with the report of the independent accountants thereon) of the Company and
its
consolidated subsidiaries for the three years ended [date],
20_____]
[FOR
FISCAL QUARTER END: Attached
hereto are the unaudited consolidated and consolidating financial statements
(including the balance sheet and income statement) of the Company and its
consolidated subsidiaries.]
The
financial statements fairly present in all material respects, in accordance
with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), the financial position
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, and the results of operations
and changes in financial condition as of the date, and for the [______quarter
interim] [annual] period ended [date], 20_, and such financial statements
have
been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the
period
involved (expect as otherwise noted therein).
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Officer's Financial
Certificate as of this ________ day of [______________], 20[___].
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READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
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By:
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Name:
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Address:
500 Citadel Drive, Suite 300
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Commerce,
California
90040
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Exhibit 10.2 Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust
AMENDED
AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
Among
READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
as
Depositor
WELLS
FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as
Property Trustee
WELLS
FARGO DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY,
as
Delaware Trustee
and
THE
ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN
as
Administrative Trustees
__________________________________
Dated
as
of February 5, 2007
__________________________________
READING
INTERNATIONAL TRUST I
CONTENTS
Clause Page
Clause
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Page
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ARTICLE
I
DEFINED TERMS
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1
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SECTION
1.1
Definitions
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1
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ARTICLE
II
THE TRUST
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11
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SECTION
2.1
Name
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11
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SECTION
2.2
Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of
Business
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11
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SECTION
2.3
Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Fees, Costs and
Expenses
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11
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SECTION
2.4
Purposes of Trust
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12
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SECTION
2.5
Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions
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12
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SECTION
2.6
Assets of Trust
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15
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SECTION
2.7
Title to Trust Property
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15
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ARTICLE
III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT; PAYING AGENTS
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15
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SECTION
3.1
Payment Account
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15
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SECTION
3.2
Appointment of Paying Agents
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16
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ARTICLE
IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
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16
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SECTION
4.1
Distributions
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16
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SECTION
4.2
Redemption
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18
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SECTION
4.3
Subordination of Common Securities
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SECTION
4.4
Payment Procedures
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21
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SECTION
4.5
Withholding Tax
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21
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SECTION
4.6
Tax Returns and Other Reports
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22
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SECTION
4.7
Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Trust
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22
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SECTION
4.8
Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions
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22
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SECTION
4.9
Exchanges
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22
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SECTION
4.10
Calculation Agent
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23
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SECTION
4.11
Certain Accounting Matters
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23
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ARTICLE
V
SECURITIES
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24
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SECTION
5.1
Initial Ownership
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SECTION
5.2
Authorized Trust Securities
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25
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SECTION
5.3
Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of
Notes
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25
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SECTION
5.4
The Securities Certificates
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25
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SECTION
5.5
Rights of Holders
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26
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SECTION
5.6
Book-Entry Preferred Securities
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26
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SECTION
5.7
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities
Certificates
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28
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SECTION
5.8
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities
Certificates
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29
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SECTION
5.9
Persons Deemed Holders
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30
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SECTION
5.10
Cancellation
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30
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SECTION
5.11
Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor
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31
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SECTION
5.12
Restricted Legends
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31
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SECTION
5.13
Form of Certificate of Authentication
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33
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ARTICLE
VI
MEETINGS; VOTING; ACTS OF HOLDERS
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34
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SECTION
6.1
Notice of Meetings
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34
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SECTION
6.2
Meetings of Holders of the Preferred Securities
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34
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SECTION
6.3
Voting Rights
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34
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SECTION
6.4
Proxies, Etc.
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34
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SECTION
6.5
Holder Action by Written Consent
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SECTION
6.6
Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes
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35
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SECTION
6.7
Acts of Holders
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35
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SECTION
6.8
Inspection of Records
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36
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SECTION
6.9
Limitations on Voting Rights
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36
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SECTION
6.10
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission of Annulment; Waivers of Past
Defaults
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ARTICLE
VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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39
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SECTION
7.1
Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the
Delaware
Trustee
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SECTION
7.2
Representations and Warranties of Depositor
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ARTICLE
VIII
THE TRUSTEES
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SECTION
8.1
Number of Trustees
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SECTION
8.2
Property Trustee Required
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SECTION
8.3
Delaware Trustee Required
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SECTION
8.4
Appointment of Administrative Trustees
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SECTION
8.5
Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustees
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SECTION
8.6
Notices of Defaults and Extensions
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SECTION
8.7
Certain Rights of Property Trustee
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45
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SECTION
8.8
Delegation of Power
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SECTION
8.9
May Hold Securities
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SECTION
8.10
Compensation; Reimbursement; Indemnity
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SECTION
8.11
Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
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49
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SECTION
8.12
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
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SECTION
8.13
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business
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50
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SECTION
8.14
Not Responsible for Recitals Issuance of Securities &
Representations
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SECTION
8.15
Property Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
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51
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SECTION
8.16
Reports to the Property Trustee
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52
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ARTICLE
IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
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SECTION
9.1
Dissolution Upon Expiration Date
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53
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SECTION
9.2
Early Termination
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53
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SECTION
9.3
Termination
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53
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SECTION
9.4
Liquidation
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53
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SECTION
9.5
Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of
Trust
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55
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ARTICLE
X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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56
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SECTION
10.1
Limitation of Rights of Holders
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56
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SECTION
10.2
Agreed Tax Treatment of Trust and Trust Securities
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56
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SECTION
10.3
Amendment
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57
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SECTION
10.4
Separability
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58
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SECTION
10.5
Governing Law
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58
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SECTION
10.6
Successors
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59
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SECTION
10.7
Headings
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59
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SECTION
10.8
Reports, Notices and Demands
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SECTION
10.9
Agreement Not to Petition
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SECTION
10.10
Counterparts
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60
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Exhibit
A Certificate
of Trust
Exhibit
B Form
of
Common Securities Certificate
Exhibit
C Form
of
Preferred Securities Certificate
Exhibit
D Junior
Subordinated Indenture
Exhibit
E Form
of
Transferor Certificate to be Executed by Transferees
Exhibit
F Form
of
Officer’s Financial Certificate of the Depositor
Schedule
A Calculation
of LIBOR
This
Amended and Restated Trust Agreement,
dated
as of February 5, 2007, among (i) Reading International, Inc., a Nevada
corporation (including any successors or permitted assigns, the “Depositor”),
(ii)
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as property trustee (in such capacity, the “Property
Trustee”),
(iii)
Wells Fargo Delaware Trust Company, as Delaware trustee (in such capacity,
the
“Delaware
Trustee”),
(iv)
James J. Cotter, an individual, Andrzej Matyczynski, an individual and S. Craig
Tompkins, an individual, each of whose address is c/o Reading International,
Inc., 500 Citadel Drive, Suite 300, Commerce, California 90040, as
administrative trustees (in such capacities, each an “Administrative
Trustee”
and,
collectively, the “Administrative
Trustees”
and,
together with the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, the “Trustees”)
and
(v) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS,
the Depositor, and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore created a Delaware
statutory trust pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act by entering into
a
Trust Agreement, dated as of February 2, 2007 (the “Original
Trust Agreement”),
and
by executing and filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware
the
Certificate of Trust, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
A;
and
WHEREAS,
the Depositor and the Trustees desire to amend and restate the Original Trust
Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other
things, (i) the issuance of the Common Securities by the Trust to the Depositor,
(ii) the issuance and sale of the Preferred Securities by the Trust pursuant
to
the Purchase Agreement and (iii) the acquisition by the Trust from the Depositor
of all of the right, title and interest in and to the Notes (as hereinafter
defined);
Now,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein
and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency
of
which are hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties
and for the benefit of the Holders, hereby amends and restates the Original
Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINED
TERMS
SECTION
1.1 Definitions.
For
all
purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or
unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the
terms
defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to them in this Article
I;
(b) the
words
“include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation”;
(c) all
accounting terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to
them
in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting
principles;
(d) unless
the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article”, a “Section”, a
“Schedule” or an “Exhibit” refers to an Article, a Section, a Schedule or an
Exhibit, as the case may be, of or to this Trust Agreement;
(e) the
words
“hereby”, “herein”, “hereof’ and “hereunder” and other words of similar import
refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article,
Section or other subdivision;
(f) a
reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and
(g) the
masculine, feminine or neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.
“Act”
has
the
meaning specified in Section
6.7.
“Additional
Interest”
has
the
meaning specified in Section
1.1
of the
Indenture.
“Additional
Interest Amount”
means,
with respect to Trust Securities of a given Liquidation Amount and/or a given
period, the amount of Additional Interest paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount
of Notes for such period.
“Additional
Taxes”
has
the
meaning specified in Section
1.1
of the
Indenture.
“Additional
Tax Sums”
has
the
meaning specified in Section
10.5
of the
Indenture.
“Administrative
Trustee”
means
each of the Persons identified as an “Administrative Trustee” in the preamble to
this Trust Agreement, solely in each such Person’s capacity as Administrative
Trustee of the Trust and not in such Person’s individual capacity, or any
successor Administrative Trustee appointed as herein provided.
“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.
“Applicable
Depositary Procedures”
means,
with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Book-Entry Preferred
Security, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Book-Entry
Preferred Security, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction
and as in effect from time to time.
“Bankruptcy
Event”
means,
with respect to any Person:
(a) the
entry
of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises (i) judging
such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, (ii) approving as properly filed a petition
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or composition of or in
respect of such Person under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy,
insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law, (iii) appointing a custodian, receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of such
Person or of any substantial part of its property or (iv) ordering the winding
up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or
order unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days;
or
(b) the
institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency
proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent
seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent
by
it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of
such Person or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it
of
an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing
of
its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its willingness
to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the taking of corporate action
by
such Person in furtherance of any such action.
“Bankruptcy
Laws”
means
all federal and state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other similar
laws, including the United States Bankruptcy Code.
“Book-Entry
Preferred Security”
means a
Preferred Security, the ownership and transfers of which shall be made through
book entries by a Depositary.
“Business
Day”
means a
day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a day on which banking institutions
in the City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order
to
remain closed or (c) a day on which the Corporate Trust Office is closed for
business.
“Calculation
Agent”
has the
meaning specified in Section
4.10.
“Closing
Date”
has the
meaning specified in the Purchase Agreement.
“Code”
means
the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Commission”
means
the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted,
created under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the execution of this
Trust Agreement such Commission is not existing and performing the duties
assigned to it, then the body performing such duties at such time.
“Common
Securities Certificate”
means a
certificate evidencing ownership of Common Securities, substantially in the
form
attached as Exhibit
B.
“Common
Securities Subscription Agreement” means
that certain Common Securities Subscription Agreement dated of even date
herewith by and between the Depositor and the Trust.
“Common
Security”
means an
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation
Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in this Trust
Agreement.
“Corporate
Trust Office”
means
the principal office of the Property Trustee at which any particular time its
corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of
this
Trust Agreement is located at 919 North Market Street, Suite 700, Wilmington,
Delaware 19801 Attn: Corporate Trust Services - Reading International Trust
I.
“Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates”
means
Preferred Securities issued in certificated, fully registered form that are
not
Global Preferred Securities.
“Delaware
Statutory Trust Act”
means
Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code § 3801 et seq., or any
successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to
time.
“Delaware
Trustee”
means
the Person identified as the “Delaware Trustee” in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement, solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Trust and not
in
its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or
any
successor Delaware Trustee appointed as herein provided.
“Depositary”
means an
organization registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act that is
designated as Depositary by the Depositor or any successor thereto. DTC will
be
the initial Depositary.
“Depositary
Participant”
means a
broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other Person for whom
from
time to time the Depositary effects book-entry transfers and pledges of
securities deposited with the Depositary.
“Depositor”
has the
meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement and any successors
and
permitted assigns.
“Depositor
Affiliate”
has the
meaning specified in Section
4.9.
“Distribution
Date”
has the
meaning specified in Section
4.1(a)(i).
“Distributions”
means
amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in Section
4.1.
“DTC”
means
The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation, or any successor
thereto.
“Early
Termination Event”
has the
meaning specified in Section
9.2.
“Event
of Default”
means
any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such event and whether
it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or
pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a)
the
occurrence of a Note Event of Default; or
(b)
default by the Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it becomes due
and
payable, and continuation of such default for a period of thirty (30) days;
or
(c)
default by the Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of any Trust
Security when it becomes due and payable; or
(d)
default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect of any covenant
or warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than those specified
in clause (b) or (c) above) and continuation of such default or breach for
a
period of thirty (30) days after there has been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Trustees and to the Depositor by the Holders of at least
twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities a written notice specifying such default or breach and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice
of Default”
hereunder; or
(e)
the
occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property Trustee if a
successor Property Trustee has not been appointed within ninety (90) days
thereof.
“Exchange
Act”
means
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any successor statute thereto, in
each
case as amended from time to time.
“Expiration
Date”
has the
meaning specified in Section
9.1.
“Fiscal
Year”
shall be
the fiscal year of the Trust, which shall be the calendar year, or such other
period as is required by the Code.
“Fixed
Rate Period”
shall
mean the period through the Interest Payment Date in April, 2012.
“Global
Preferred Security”
means a
Preferred Securities Certificate evidencing ownership of Book-Entry Preferred
Securities.
“Holder”
means a
Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust Securities are registered in
the
Securities Register; any such Person shall be deemed to be a beneficial owner
within the meaning of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.
“Indemnified
Person”
has the
meaning specified in Section
8.10(c).
“Indenture”
means
the Junior Subordinated Indenture executed and delivered by the Depositor,
Reading NZ and the Note Trustee contemporaneously with the execution and
delivery of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the holders of the Notes,
a
copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit
D,
as
amended or supplemented from time to time.
“Indenture
Redemption Price”
means
the Optional Note Redemption Price or the Special Note Redemption Price, as
applicable.
“Interest
Payment Date”
has the
meaning specified in Section
1.1
of the
Indenture.
“Investment
Company Act”
means
the Investment Company Act of 1940, or any successor statute thereto, in each
case as amended from time to time.
“Investment
Company Event”
has the
meaning specified in Section
1.1
of the
Indenture. “LIBOR” has the meaning specified in Schedule
A.
“Junior
Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement” means
that certain Junior Subordinated Note Purchase Agreement dated of even date
herewith by and among the Depositor, Reading NZ and the Trust.
“LIBOR
Business Day”
has the
meaning specified in Schedule
A.
“LIBOR
Determination Date”
has the
meaning specified in Schedule
A.
“Lien”
means
any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, adverse
ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest or preference,
priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind
or
nature whatsoever.
“Like
Amount”
means
(a) with respect to a redemption of any Trust Securities, Trust Securities
having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal amount of Notes to be
contemporaneously redeemed or paid at maturity in accordance with the Indenture,
the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of such Trust
Securities, (b) with respect to a distribution of Notes to Holders of Trust
Securities in connection with a dissolution of the Trust, Notes having a
principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of
the
Holder to whom such Notes are distributed, (c) with respect to any distribution
of Additional Interest Amounts to Holders of Trust Securities, Notes having
a
principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities in
respect of which such distribution is made and (d) with respect to any exchange
of Preferred Securities owned or held by a Depositor Affiliate, Notes having
a
principal amount equal to the liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities
in
respect of which such distribution is made.
“Liquidation
Amount”
means
the stated amount of $1,000 per Trust Security.
“Liquidation
Date”
means
the date on which assets are to be distributed to Holders in accordance with
Section
9.4(a)
hereunder following dissolution of the Trust.
“Liquidation
Distribution”
has the
meaning specified in Section
9.4(d).
“Majority
in Liquidation Amount”
means
Common or Preferred Securities, as the case may be, representing more than
fifty
percent (50%) of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all (or a specified group
of) then Outstanding Common or Preferred Securities, as the case may
be.
“Note
Event of Default”
means
any “Event
of Default”
specified in Section
5.1
of the
Indenture.
“Note
Redemption Date”
means,
with respect to any Notes to be redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed
for
redemption of such Notes under the Indenture.
“Note
Trustee”
means
the Person identified as the “Trustee”
in the
Indenture, solely in its capacity as Trustee pursuant to the Indenture and
not
in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or
any successor Trustee appointed as provided in the Indenture.
“Notes”
means
the Junior Subordinated Notes of the Depositor and Reading NZ, as co-obligors,
issued pursuant to the Indenture.
“Officers’
Certificate”
means a
certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice
President, and by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or an Assistant
Treasurer, the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Depositor, and delivered
to the Trustees. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with respect to compliance
with a condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement (other than
the certificate provided pursuant to Section
8.16
which is
not an Officers’ Certificate) shall include:
(a)
a
statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer
has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating
thereto;
(b)
a
brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation
undertaken by such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;
(c)
a
statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as,
in
such officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with; and
(d)
a
statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.
“Operative
Documents”
means
the Purchase Agreement, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement, the Notes, the
Common Securities Subscription Agreement, the Junior Subordinated Note Purchase
Agreement and the Trust Securities.
“Opinion
of Counsel”
means a
written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for, or an employee of, the
Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
“Optional
Note Redemption Price”
means,
with respect to any Note to be redeemed on any Redemption Date under the
Indenture, an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the outstanding
principal amount of such Note, together with accrued interest, including
any
Additional
Interest (to the extent legally enforceable), thereon through but not including
the date fixed as such Redemption Date.
“Optional
Redemption Price”
means,
with respect to any Trust Security, an amount equal to one hundred percent
(100%) of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security on the Redemption Date,
plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the Redemption Date, plus the
related amount of the premium, if any, and/or accrued interest, including
Additional Interest, if any, thereon paid by the Depositor upon the concurrent
redemption or payment at maturity of a Like Amount of Notes.
“Original
Issue Date”
means
the date of original issuance of the Trust Securities.
“Original
Trust Agreement”
has the
meaning specified in the recitals to this Trust Agreement.
“Outstanding”,
when
used with respect to any Trust Securities, means, as of the date of
determination, all Trust Securities theretofore executed and delivered under
this Trust Agreement, except:
(a)
Trust
Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee or delivered to the
Property Trustee for cancellation;
(b)
Trust
Securities for which payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has
been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or any Paying Agent in
trust for the Holders of such Trust Securities; provided, that if such Trust
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(c)
Trust
Securities that have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Trust Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to the provisions
of
this Trust Agreement, unless proof satisfactory to the Property Trustee is
presented that any such Trust Securities are held by Holders in whose hands
such
Trust Securities are valid, legal and binding obligations of the
Trust;
provided,
that in
determining whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the
Outstanding Preferred Securities have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Preferred Securities owned
by
the Depositor, Reading NZ, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor,
Reading NZ or of any Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that (i) in determining whether any Trustee shall be
protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver, only Preferred Securities that such Trustee knows
to
be so owned shall be so disregarded and (ii) the foregoing shall not apply
at
any time when all of the Outstanding Preferred Securities are owned by the
Depositor, Reading NZ, one or more of the Trustees and/or any such Affiliate.
Preferred Securities so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Administrative Trustees the
pledgee’s
right so to act with respect to such Preferred Securities and that the pledgee
is not the Depositor, Reading NZ, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor,
Reading NZ or of any Trustee.
“Owner”
means
each Person who is the beneficial owner of Book-Entry Preferred Securities
as
reflected in the records of the Depositary or, if a Depositary Participant
is
not the beneficial owner, then the beneficial owner as reflected in the records
of the Depositary Participant.
“Paying
Agent” means
any
Person authorized by the Administrative Trustees to pay Distributions or other
amounts in respect of any Trust Securities on behalf of the Trust.
“Payment
Account”
means a
segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account maintained by the
Property Trustee for the benefit of the Holders in which all amounts paid in
respect of the Notes will be held and from which the Property Trustee, through
the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Holders in accordance
with
Sections 3.1,
4.1
and
4.2.
“Person”
means a
legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint stock company, company, limited liability company,
trust, unincorporated association or government, or any agency or political
subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature.
“Preferred
Security”
means an
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation
Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in this Trust
Agreement.
“Preferred
Securities Certificate”
means a
certificate evidencing ownership of Preferred Securities, substantially in
the
form attached as Exhibit
C.
“Property
Trustee”
means
the Person identified as the “Property
Trustee”
in the
preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property Trustee
of
the Trust and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest
in
such capacity, or any successor Property Trustee appointed as herein
provided.
“Purchase
Agreement”
means
the Purchase Agreement executed and delivered by the Trust, the Depositor,
Reading NZ and Kodiak Warehouse JPM LLC, as purchaser, contemporaneously with
the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, as amended from time to
time.
“QIB”
means a
“qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended.
“QP”
means a
“qualified purchaser” as defined in Section 2(a)(51) under the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended.
“QIB/QP”
means a
QIB that is also a QP.
“Reading
NZ”
means
Reading New Zealand, Limited, a New Zealand corporation, and any successors
and
permitted assigns.
“Redemption
Date”
means,
with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed, the date fixed for such
redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided,
that
each Note Redemption Date and the stated maturity (or any date of principal
repayment upon early maturity) of the Notes shall be a Redemption Date for
a
Like Amount of Trust Securities.
“Redemption
Price”
means
the Special Redemption Price or Optional Redemption Price, as applicable. If
the
Depositor has redeemed the Notes at the Special Note Redemption Price, the
Trust
shall redeem the Trust Securities at the Special Redemption Price. If the
Depositor has redeemed the Notes at the Optional Note Redemption Price, the
Trust shall redeem the Trust Securities at the Optional Redemption
Price.
“Reference
Banks”
has the
meaning specified in Schedule
A.
“Responsible
Officer”
means,
with respect to the Property Trustee, the officer in Corporate Trust Services
department of the Property Trustee having direct responsibility for the
administration of this Trust Agreement.
“Securities
Act”
means
the Securities Act of 1933, and any successor statute thereto, in each case
as
amended from time to time.
“Securities
Certificate”
means
any one of the Common Securities Certificates or the Preferred Securities
Certificates.
“Securities
Register”
and
“Securities
Registrar”
have the
respective meanings specified in Section
5.7.
“Special
Redemption Price”
means,
with respect to any Trust Security, an amount equal to one hundred seven and
one
half percent (107.5%) of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security on the
Redemption Date, plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the Redemption
Date, plus the related amount of the premium, if any, and/or accrued interest,
including Additional Interest, if any, thereon paid by the Depositor upon the
concurrent redemption or payment at maturity of a Like Amount of
Notes.
“Special
Note Redemption Price”
means,
with respect to any Note to be redeemed on any Redemption Date under the
Indenture, an amount equal to one hundred seven and one half percent (107.5%)
of
the outstanding principal amount of such Note, together with accrued interest,
including Additional Interest, thereon through but not including the date fixed
as such Redemption Date.
“Successor
Securities”
has the
meaning specified in Section
9.5(a).
“Tax
Event”
has the
meaning specified in Section
1.1
of the
Indenture.
“Trust”
means
the Delaware statutory trust known as “Reading International Trust I,” which was
created on February 2, 2007 under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act pursuant
to
the
Original
Trust Agreement and the filing of the Certificate of Trust, and continued
pursuant to this Trust Agreement.
“Trust
Agreement”
means
this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same may be modified, amended
or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the applicable provisions
hereof, including all Schedules and Exhibits.
“Trustees”
means
the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee,
each
as defined in this Article
I.
“Trust
Property”
means
(a) the Notes, (b) any cash on deposit in, or owing to, the Payment Account
and
(c) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any other property
and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held by the Property Trustee
pursuant to the trusts of this Trust Agreement.
“Trust
Security”
means
any one of the Common Securities or the Preferred Securities.
ARTICLE
II
THE
TRUST
SECTION
2.1 Name.
The
trust
continued hereby shall be known as “Reading International Trust I”, as such name
may be modified from time to time by the Administrative Trustees following
written notice to the Holders of Trust Securities and the other Trustees, in
which name the Trustees may conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute
contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Trust and sue and be
sued.
SECTION
2.2 Office
of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.
The
address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is 919 North Market
Street, Suite 700, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, Attn: Corporate Trust Services
-
Reading International Trust I, or such other address in the State of Delaware
as
the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Holders, the
Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. The principal
executive office of the Trust is 500 Citadel Drive, Suite 300, Commerce,
California 90040, as such address may be changed from time to time by the
Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders and the other
Trustees.
SECTION
2.3 Initial
Contribution of Trust Property; Fees, Costs and Expenses.
The
Property Trustee acknowledges receipt from the Depositor in connection with
the
Original Trust Agreement of the sum of ten dollars ($10), which constituted
the
initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay all fees, costs and expenses
of
the Trust (except with respect to the Trust Securities) as they arise or shall,
upon request of any Trustee, promptly reimburse such Trustee for any such fees,
costs and expenses paid by such Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim
upon
the Trust Property for the payment of such fees, costs or expenses.
SECTION
2.4 Purposes
of Trust.
(a) The
exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust are to (i) issue and sell Trust
Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the Notes, (ii) make
distributions as provided herein, (iii) enter into and perform its obligations
under agreements, documents and instructions (including, without limitation,
the
Operative Documents to which it is a party) necessary to accomplish (i) and
(ii)
and (iv) engage in only those activities necessary or incidental thereto. The
Delaware Trustee, the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees are
trustees of the Trust, and have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent
set forth herein. The Trustees hereby acknowledge that they are trustees of
the
Trust.
(b) So
long
as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust (or the Trustees acting
on
behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any business, activities or
transactions except as expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In
particular, the Trust (or the Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall
not
(i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized by this
Trust Agreement, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge,
set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein,
including to Holders, except as expressly provided herein, (iii) incur any
indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt, (iv) take or consent
to
any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of the Trust
Property, (v) take or consent to any action that would reasonably be expected
to
cause the Trust to become taxable as a corporation or classified as other than
a
grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes, (vi) take or
consent to any action that would cause the Notes to be treated as other than
indebtedness of the Depositor and Reading NZ for United States federal income
tax purposes or (vii) take or consent to any action that would cause the Trust
to be deemed to be an “investment company” required to be registered under the
Investment Company Act.
SECTION
2.5 Authorization
to Enter into Certain Transactions.
(a) The
Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in accordance with and subject
to the terms of this Trust Agreement. In accordance with the following
provisions (i) and (ii), the Trustees shall have the authority to enter into
all
transactions and agreements determined by the Trustees to be appropriate in
exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Trustees,
under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof,
including the following:
(i) As
among
the Trustees, each Administrative Trustee shall severally have the power and
authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the following
matters:
(A) the
issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;
(B) to
cause
the Trust to enter into, and to execute, deliver and perform on behalf of the
Trust, such agreements as may be necessary or desirable in connection with
the
purposes and function of the Trust, including, without limitation, the Operative
Documents to which it is a party;
(C) assisting
in the sale of the Preferred Securities in one or more transactions exempt
from
registration under the Securities Act, and in compliance with applicable state
securities or blue sky laws;
(D) assisting
in the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Notes to the Holders in accordance with
this Trust Agreement;
(E) the
appointment of a Paying Agent and Securities Registrar in accordance with this
Trust Agreement;
(F) execution
of the Trust Securities on behalf of the Trust in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;
(G) execution
and delivery of closing certificates, if any, pursuant to the Purchase Agreement
and application for a taxpayer identification number for the Trust;
(H) preparation
and filing of all applicable tax returns and tax information reports that are
required to be filed on behalf of the Trust;
(I) establishing
a record date with respect to all actions to be taken hereunder that require
a
record date to be established, except as provided in Section
6.10(a);
(J) unless
otherwise required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act to execute on behalf
of
the Trust (either acting alone or together with the other Administrative
Trustees) any documents that such Administrative Trustee has the power to
execute pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(K) the
taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as such Administrative Trustee
may from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to
the
terms of this Trust Agreement.
(L) to
cause
the Trust, during any period in which it is not subject to and in compliance
with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or it is not exempt from such
reporting requirements pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 12g3-2(b) under
the Exchange Act, to provide each holder of the Securities and to each
prospective purchaser (as designated by such holder) of the Securities upon
the
request of such holder or prospective purchaser, any information required to
be
provided by Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act, if applicable.
(ii) As
among
the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the power, duty and authority
to
act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the following matters:
(A) the
receipt and holding of legal title of the Notes;
(B) the
establishment of the Payment Account;
(C) the
collection of interest, principal and any other payments made in respect of
the
Notes and the holding of such amounts in the Payment Account;
(D) the
distribution through the Paying Agent of amounts distributable to the Holders
in
respect of the Trust Securities;
(E) the
exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a holder of the Notes
in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(F) the
sending of notices of default and other information regarding the Trust
Securities and the Notes to the Holders in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;
(G) the
distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with the terms of this Trust
Agreement;
(H) to
the
extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of the affairs of and
liquidation of the Trust, provided that the Administrative Trustees shall have
the power, duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to
the
preparation, execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation of the
Trust with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware; and
(I) the
taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Property Trustee may
from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the
terms of this Trust Agreement and protect and conserve the Trust Property for
the benefit of the Holders (without consideration of the effect of any such
action on any particular Holder).
(b) In
connection with the issue and sale of the Preferred Securities, the Depositor
shall have the right and responsibility to assist the Trust with respect to,
or
effect on behalf of the Trust, the following (and any actions taken by the
Depositor in furtherance of the following prior to the date of this Trust
Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects):
(i) the
negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the Purchase
Agreement providing for the sale of the Preferred Securities in one or more
transactions exempt from registration under the Securities Act, and in
compliance with applicable state securities or blue sky laws; and
(ii) the
taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any of the
foregoing activities.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Trustees are authorized
and
directed to conduct the affairs of the Trust and authorized to operate the
Trust
so that the Trust will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as other
than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes, so that
the
Notes will be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor and Reading NZ for United
States federal income tax purposes and so that the
Trust
will not be deemed to be an “investment company” required to be registered under
the Investment Company Act. In respect thereof, each Administrative Trustee
is
authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the
Certificate of Trust or this Trust Agreement, that such Administrative Trustee
determines in his or her discretion to be necessary or desirable for such
purposes, as long as such action does not adversely affect in any material
respect the interests of the Holders of the Outstanding Preferred Securities.
In
no event shall the Administrative Trustees be liable to the Trust or the Holders
for any failure to comply with this Section 2.5 to the extent that such failure
results solely from a change in law or regulation or in the interpretation
thereof.
(d) Any
action taken by a Trustee in accordance with its powers shall constitute the
act
of and serve to bind the Trust. In dealing with any Trustee acting on behalf
of
the Trust, no Person shall be required to inquire into the authority of such
Trustee to bind the Trust. Persons dealing with the Trust are entitled to rely
conclusively on the power and authority of any Trustee as set forth in this
Trust Agreement.
SECTION
2.6 Assets
of Trust.
The
assets of the Trust shall consist of the Trust Property.
SECTION
2.7 Title
to Trust Property.
(a) Legal
title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee
and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee in trust for the
benefit of the Trust and the Holders in accordance with this Trust
Agreement.
(b) The
Holders shall not have any right or title to the Trust Property other than
the
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust conferred by their
Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any partition or
division of property, profits or rights of the Trust except as described below.
The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights
specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE
III
PAYMENT
ACCOUNT; PAYING AGENTS
SECTION
3.1 Payment
Account.
(a) On
or
prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish the Payment
Account. The Property Trustee and the Paying Agent shall have exclusive control
and sole right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose
of making deposits in and withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance
with this Trust Agreement. All monies and other property deposited or held
from
time to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in
the
Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Holders and for Distribution
as
herein provided.
(b) The
Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt,
all payments of principal of or interest on, and any other payments with respect
to, the
Notes.
Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property
Trustee pending distribution thereof.
SECTION
3.2 Appointment
of Paying Agents.
The
Paying Agent shall initially be the Property Trustee. The Paying Agent shall
make Distributions to Holders from the Payment Account and shall report the
amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrative
Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds
from
the Payment Account solely for the purpose of making the Distributions referred
to above. The Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the
Paying Agent in their sole discretion. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall
be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to
the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee. If the Property Trustee
shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign
or
its authority to act be revoked, the Administrative Trustees shall appoint
a
successor (which shall be a bank or trust company) to act as Paying Agent.
Such
successor Paying Agent appointed by the Administrative Trustees shall execute
and deliver to the Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent
will hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Holders in trust
for
the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to
such Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property
Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return
all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of
Article
VIII
shall
apply to the Property Trustee also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long
as
the Property Trustee shall act as Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable,
to
any other Paying Agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Trust
Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the
context requires otherwise.
ARTICLE
IV
DISTRIBUTIONS;
REDEMPTION
SECTION
4.1 Distributions.
(a) The
Trust
Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in the Trust Property,
and
Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts) will be made on the
Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates that payments of interest
(including any Additional Interest) are made on the Notes.
Accordingly:
(i) Distributions
on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and shall accumulate whether or
not
there are funds of the Trust available for the payment of Distributions.
Distributions shall accumulate from February 5, 2007, and, except as provided
in
clause (ii) below, shall be payable quarterly in arrears on January 30, April
30, July 30 and October 30 of each year, commencing on April 30, 2007. If any
date on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on the Trust Securities is
not
a Business Day, then the payment of such Distribution shall be made on the
next
succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect of the amounts
whose payment is so delayed for the period from and after each such date until
the next succeeding Business Day), except that, if such Business Day falls
in
the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall
be
made
on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same force
and
effect as if made on such date (each date on which Distributions are payable
in
accordance with this Section
4.1(a)(i),
a
“Distribution
Date”);
(ii) Reserved.
(iii) Distributions
shall accumulate in respect of the Trust Securities at a fixed rate, equal
to
9.22% per annum of
the
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities, to but excluding the Interest
Payment Date on April 30, 2012, and thereafter at a variable rate, reset
quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 4.00% per annum of the Liquidation Amount of
the
Trust Securities, such rate being the rate of interest payable on the Notes.
LIBOR shall be determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with
Schedule
A.
During
the Fixed Rate Period, the amount of Distributions payable for any full
Distribution period shall be computed on the basis of a three hundred sixty
(360)-day year of twelve (12) thirty (30)-day months and the amount payable
for
any partial period shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days
elapsed in a three hundred sixty (360)-day year of twelve (12) thirty (30)-day
months. Upon expiration of the Fixed Rate Period, the amount of Distributions
payable for any Distribution period shall be computed on the basis of a three
hundred sixty (360)-day year and the actual number of days elapsed in the
relevant Distribution period. The amount of Distributions payable for any period
shall include any Additional Interest Amounts in respect of such period;
and
(iv) Distributions
on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Paying Agent from the Payment
Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that
the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such Distributions.
(b) Distributions
on the Trust Securities with respect to a Distribution Date shall be payable
to
the Holders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust
Securities at the close of business on the relevant record date, which shall
be
at the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day)
preceding the relevant Distribution Date. Distributions payable on any Trust
Securities that are not punctually paid on any Distribution Date as a result
of
the Depositor having failed to make an interest payment under the Notes will
cease to be payable to the Person in whose name such Trust Securities are
registered on the relevant record date, and such defaulted Distributions and
any
Additional Interest Amounts will instead be payable to the Person in whose
name
such Trust Securities are registered on the special record date, or other
specified date for determining Holders entitled to such defaulted Distribution
and Additional Interest Amount, established in the same manner, and on the
same
date, as such is established with respect to the Notes under the
Indenture.
(c) As
a
condition to the payment of any principal of or interest on the Trust Securities
without the imposition of withholding tax, the Administrative Trustees shall
require the previous delivery of properly completed and signed applicable U.S.
federal income tax certifications (generally, an Internal Revenue Service Form
W-9 (or applicable successor form) in the case of a person that is a “United
States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code or an
Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 BEN (or applicable successor form) in the
case
of a person that is not a “United States person” within the meaning of
Section
7701(a)(30)
of the Code) and any other certification acceptable to it to enable the Property
Trustee or any Paying Agent to determine their respective duties and liabilities
with respect to any taxes or other charges that they may be required to pay,
deduct or withhold in respect of such Trust Securities.
SECTION
4.2 Redemption.
(a) On
each
Note Redemption Date and on the stated maturity (or any date of principal
repayment upon early maturity) of the Notes and on each other date on (or in
respect of) which any principal on the Notes is repaid, the Trust will be
required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption
Price.
(b) Notice
of
redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior
to
the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed, at such
Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of redemption
shall state:
(i) the
Redemption Date;
(ii) the
Redemption Price or, if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to
the
time the notice is required to be sent, the estimate of the Redemption Price
provided pursuant to the Indenture, as calculated by the Depositor, together
with a statement that it is an estimate and that the actual Redemption Price
will be calculated by the Calculation Agent on the fifth Business Day prior
to
the Redemption Date (and if an estimate is provided, a further notice shall
be
sent of the actual Redemption Price on the date that such Redemption Price
is
calculated);
(iii) if
less
than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed, the identification
(and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective amounts) and Liquidation
Amounts of the amount of and particular Trust Securities to be
redeemed;
(iv)
that
on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon
each such Trust Security, or portion thereof, to be redeemed and that
Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on such Trust Security or such
portion, as the case may be, on and after said date, except as provided in
Section
4.2(d);
(v) the
place
or places where the Trust Securities are to be surrendered for the payment
of
the Redemption Price; and
(vi) such
other provisions as the Property Trustee deems relevant.
(c) The
Trust
Securities (or portion thereof) redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous
redemption or payment at maturity of Notes. Redemptions of the Trust Securities
(or portion thereof) shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable
on
each Redemption Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand
and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
Under the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed by the Depositor on any Interest
Payment Date, at the Depositor’s option, on or after the expiration of the No
Call
Period
(as defined in the Indenture), in whole or in part, from time to time at the
Optional Note Redemption Price. The Notes may also be redeemed by the Depositor,
at its option pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, at any time during the
No
Call Period, in whole but not in part, upon the occurrence and during the
continuation of an Investment Company Event or a Tax Event, at the Special
Note
Redemption Price. In addition, a Like Amount of Notes associated with Electing
Securities (as defined in the Indenture) must be redeemed or defeased in
accordance with the Indenture, in either case upon the election of at least
twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Holders of
Preferred Securities, to cause the redemption or defeasance of such Notes in
accordance with the Indenture upon a Change of Control.
(d) If
the
Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Preferred
Securities, then by 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Redemption Date,
the
Depositor shall deposit sufficient funds with the Property Trustee to pay the
Redemption Price. If such deposit has been made by such time, then by 12:00
noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, the Property Trustee will,
with respect to Book-Entry Preferred Securities, irrevocably deposit with the
Depositary for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities, to the extent available
therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will
give
such Depositary irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption
Price to the Holders of the Preferred Securities. With respect to Preferred
Securities that are not Book-Entry Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee
will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent, to the extent available
therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will
give
the Paying Agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption
Price to the Holders of the Preferred Securities upon surrender of their
Preferred Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions
payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities (or portion
thereof) called for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust
Securities as they appear on the Securities Register on the relevant record
dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have
been given and funds deposited as required, then upon the date of such deposit,
all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities (or portion thereof) so called
for redemption will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive the
Redemption Price and any Distribution payable in respect of the Trust Securities
on or prior to the Redemption Date, but without interest, and, in the case
of a
partial redemption, the right of such Holders to receive a new Trust Security
or
Securities of authorized denominations, in aggregate Liquidation Amount equal
to
the unredeemed portion of such Trust Security or Securities, and such Securities
(or portion thereof) called for redemption will cease to be Outstanding. In
the
event that any date on which any Redemption Price is payable is not a Business
Day, then payment of the Redemption Price payable on such date will be made
on
the next succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect of
the
amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and after each such
date
until the next succeeding Business Day), except that, if such Business Day
falls
in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the
immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect
as if made on such date. In the event that payment of the Redemption Price
in
respect of any Trust Securities (or portion thereof) called for redemption
is
improperly withheld or refused and not paid by the Trust, or if the Special
Note
Redemption Price or Optional Note Redemption Price, as applicable, is improperly
withheld or refused to be paid by the Depositor pursuant to the Indenture,
Distributions on such Trust Securities (or portion thereof) will continue to
accumulate, as set forth in Section
4.1,
from
the Redemption Date originally established by the Trust for such Trust
Securities (or portion thereof) to the date such
Redemption
Price is actually paid, in which case the actual payment date will be the date
fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption
Price.
(e) Subject
to Section
4.3(a),
if less
than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption
Date, then the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed
shall be allocated pro rata to the Common Securities and the Preferred
Securities based upon the relative aggregate Liquidation Amounts of the Common
Securities and the Preferred Securities. The Preferred Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected on a pro rata basis based upon their respective Liquidation
Amounts not more than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Property Trustee from the Outstanding Preferred Securities not previously called
for redemption; provided,
that
with respect to Holders that would be required to hold less than one hundred
(100) but more than zero (0) Trust Securities as a result of such redemption,
the Trust shall redeem Trust Securities of each such Holder so that after such
redemption such Holder shall hold either one hundred (100) Trust Securities
or
such Holder no longer holds any Trust Securities, and shall use such method
(including, without limitation, by lot) as the Trust shall deem fair and
appropriate; and provided,
further,
that so
long as the Preferred Securities are Book-Entry Preferred Securities, such
selection shall be made in accordance with the Applicable Depositary Procedures
for the Preferred Securities by such Depositary. The Property Trustee shall
promptly notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities
(or portion thereof) selected for redemption and, in the case of any Preferred
Securities selected for partial redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof
to be
redeemed. For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Preferred Securities
shall relate, in the case of any Preferred Securities redeemed or to be redeemed
only in part, to the portion of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred
Securities that has been or is to be redeemed.
(f) The
Trust
in issuing the Trust Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in
use), and, if so, the Property Trustee shall indicate the “CUSIP” numbers of the
Trust Securities in notices of redemption and related materials as a convenience
to Holders; provided, that any such notice may state that no representation
is
made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Trust
Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and related
materials.
SECTION
4.3 Subordination
of Common Securities.
(a) Payment
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts) on, the Redemption
Price of and the Liquidation Distribution in respect of, the Trust Securities,
as applicable, shall be made, pro
rata
among
the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation
Amount of the respective Trust Securities; provided,
that if
on any Distribution Date, Redemption Date or Liquidation Date an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution
(including any Additional Interest Amounts) on, Redemption Price of or
Liquidation Distribution in respect of, any Common Security, and no other
payment on account of the redemption, liquidation or other acquisition of Common
Securities, shall be made unless payment in full in cash of all accumulated
and
unpaid Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts) on all
Outstanding Preferred Securities for all Distribution periods terminating on
or
prior thereto, or in the case of payment of the Redemption Price the full amount
of such Redemption Price on all Outstanding Preferred
Securities
then called for redemption, or in the case of payment of the Liquidation
Distribution the full amount of such Liquidation Distribution on all Outstanding
Preferred Securities, shall have been made or provided for, and all funds
immediately available to the Property Trustee shall first be applied to the
payment in full in cash of all Distributions (including any Additional Interest
Amounts) on, or the Redemption Price of or the Liquidation Distribution in
respect of, the Preferred Securities then due and payable.
(b) In
the
case of the occurrence of any Event of Default, the Holders of the Common
Securities shall have no right to act with respect to any such Event of Default
under this Trust Agreement until all such Events of Default with respect to
the
Preferred Securities have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until
all
such Events of Default under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Preferred
Securities have been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property
Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the Holders of the Preferred Securities
and not on behalf of the Holders of the Common Securities, and only the Holders
of all the Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the Property
Trustee to act on their behalf.
SECTION
4.4 Payment
Procedures.
Payments
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts), the Redemption
Price, Liquidation Amount or any other amounts in respect of the Preferred
Securities shall be made by wire transfer at such place and to such account
at a
banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing at
least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment by the Person
entitled thereto unless proper written transfer instructions have not been
received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments shall be
made
by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall appear
in
the Securities Register. If any Preferred Securities are held by a Depositary,
such Distributions thereon shall be made to the Depositary in immediately
available funds. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made
in
such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the
Holder of all the Common Securities.
SECTION
4.5 Withholding
Tax.
(a) The
Trust
and the Administrative Trustees shall comply with all withholding and backup
withholding tax requirements under United States federal, state and local law.
The Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall request, and the
Holders shall provide to the Trust, such forms or certificates as are necessary
to establish an exemption from withholding and backup withholding tax with
respect to each Holder and any representations and forms as shall reasonably
be
requested by the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust to assist it
in
determining the extent of, and in fulfilling, its withholding and backup
withholding tax obligations. The Administrative Trustees shall file required
forms with applicable jurisdictions and, unless an exemption from withholding
and backup withholding tax is properly established by a Holder, shall remit
amounts withheld with respect to the Holder to applicable jurisdictions. To
the
extent that the Trust is required to withhold and pay over any amounts to any
jurisdiction with respect to Distributions or allocations to any Holder, the
amount withheld shall be deemed to be a Distribution in the amount of the
withholding to the Holder. In the event of any claimed overwithholding, Holders
shall be limited to an action against the applicable jurisdiction. If the amount
required to be withheld was not withheld from actual Distributions made, the
Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust may reduce subsequent
Distributions by the amount of such required withholding.
SECTION
4.6 Tax
Returns and Other Reports.
The
Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared) at the principal
office of the Trust in the United States, as defined for purposes of Treasury
regulations section 301.7701-7, at the Depositor’s expense, and file, all United
States federal, state and local tax and information returns and reports required
to be filed by or in respect of the Trust. The Administrative Trustees shall
prepare at the principal office of the Trust in the United States, as defined
for purposes of Treasury regulations section 301.7701-7, and furnish (or cause
to be prepared and furnished), by January 31 in each taxable year of the Trust
to each Holder all Internal Revenue Service forms and returns required to be
provided by the Trust. The Administrative Trustees shall provide the Depositor,
the Purchaser and the Property Trustee with a copy of all such returns and
reports promptly after such filing or furnishing.
SECTION
4.7 Payment
of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Trust.
Upon
receipt under the Notes of Additional Tax Sums and upon the written direction
of
the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee shall promptly pay, solely
out
of monies on deposit pursuant to this Trust Agreement, any Additional Taxes
imposed on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing
authority.
SECTION
4.8 Payments
under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.
Any
amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities shall be reduced
by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or any Owner with
respect thereto) has directly received pursuant to Section
5.8
of the
Indenture or Section
6.10(b)
of this
Trust Agreement.
SECTION
4.9 Exchanges.
(a) If
at any
time the Depositor or any of its Affiliates (in either case, a “Depositor
Affiliate”)
is the
Owner or Holder of any Preferred Securities, such Depositor Affiliate shall
have
the right to deliver to the Property Trustee all or such portion of its
Preferred Securities as it elects and, subject to compliance with Sections
2.2
and
3.5
of the
Indenture, receive, in exchange therefor, a Like Amount of Notes. Such election
shall be exercisable effective on any Distribution Date by such Depositor
Affiliate delivering to the Property Trustee (i) at least ten (10) Business
Days
prior to the Distribution Date on which such exchange is to occur, the
registration instructions and the documentation, if any, required pursuant
to
Sections
2.2
and
3.5
of the
Indenture to enable the Indenture Trustee to issue the requested Like Amount
of
Notes, (ii) a written notice of such election specifying the Liquidation Amount
of Preferred Securities with respect to which such election is being made and
the Distribution Date on which such exchange shall occur, which Distribution
Date shall be not less than ten (10) Business Days after the date of receipt
by
the Property Trustee of such election notice and (iii) shall be conditioned
upon
such Depositor Affiliate having delivered or caused to be delivered to the
Property Trustee or its designee the Preferred Securities that are the subject
of such election by 10:00 A.M. New York time, on the Distribution Date on which
such exchange is to occur. After the exchange, such
Preferred
Securities will be canceled and will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding
and
all rights of the Depositor Affiliate with respect to such Preferred Securities
will cease.
(b) In
the
case of an exchange described in Section
4.9(a),
the
Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust will, on the date of such exchange,
exchange Notes having a principal amount equal to a proportional amount of
the
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Common Securities, based on
the
ratio of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities exchanged
pursuant to Section
4.9(a)
divided
by the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities Outstanding
immediately prior to such exchange, for such proportional amount of Common
Securities held by the Depositor (which contemporaneously shall be canceled
and
no longer be deemed to be Outstanding); provided, that the Depositor delivers
or
causes to be delivered to the Property Trustee or its designee the required
amount of Common Securities to be exchanged by 10:00 A.M. New York time, on
the
Distribution Date on which such exchange is to occur.
SECTION
4.10 Calculation
Agent.
(a) The
Property Trustee shall initially, and, subject to the immediately following
sentence, for so long as it holds any of the Notes, be the Calculation Agent
for
purposes of determining LIBOR for each Distribution Date. The Calculation Agent
may be removed by the Administrative Trustees at any time. If the Calculation
Agent is unable or unwilling to act as such or is removed by the Administrative
Trustees, the Administrative Trustees will promptly appoint as a replacement
Calculation Agent the London office of a leading bank which is engaged in
transactions in six-month Eurodollar deposits in the international Eurodollar
market and which does not control or is not controlled by or under common
control with the Administrative Trustee or its Affiliates. The Calculation
Agent
may not resign its duties without a successor having been duly
appointed.
(b) The
Calculation Agent shall be required to agree that, as soon as possible after
11:00 a.m. (London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date, but in no event
later
than 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Business Day immediately following each
LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will calculate the interest
rate
(rounded to the nearest cent, with half a cent being rounded upwards) for the
related Distribution Date, and will communicate such rate and amount to the
Depositor, the Administrative Trustees, the Note Trustee, each Paying Agent
and
the Depositary. The Calculation Agent will also specify to the Administrative
Trustee the quotations upon which the foregoing rates and amounts are based
and,
in any event, the Calculation Agent shall notify the Administrative Trustees
before 5:00 p.m. (London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date that either:
(i)
it has determined or is in the process of determining the foregoing rates and
amounts or (ii) it has not determined and is not in the process of determining
the foregoing rates and amounts, together with its reasons therefor. The
Calculation Agent’s determination of the foregoing rates and amounts for any
Distribution Date will (in the absence of manifest error) be final and binding
upon all parties. For the sole purpose of calculating the interest rate for
the
Trust Securities, “Business Day” shall be defined as any day on which dealings
in deposits in Dollars are transacted in the London interbank
market.
SECTION
4.11 Certain
Accounting Matters.
(a) At
all
times during the existence of the Trust, the Administrative Trustees shall
keep,
or cause to be kept at the principal office of the Trust in the United States,
as defined for purposes of Treasury Regulations section 301.7701-7, full books
of account, records and supporting documents, which shall reflect in reasonable
detail each transaction of the Trust. The books of account shall be maintained
on the accrual method of accounting, in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, consistently applied.
(b) The
Administrative Trustees shall either (i) if the Depositor is then subject to
such reporting requirements, cause each Form 10-K and Form 10-Q prepared by
the
Depositor and filed with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act
to
be delivered to each Holder, with a copy to the Property Trustee, within thirty
(30) days after the filing thereof or (ii) cause to be prepared at the principal
office of the Trust in the United States, as defined for purposes of Treasury
Regulations section 301.7701-7, and delivered to each of the Holders, with
a
copy to the Property Trustee, within ninety (90) days after the end of each
Fiscal Year, annual financial statements of the Trust, including a balance
sheet
of the Trust as of the end of such Fiscal Year, and the related statements
of
income or loss.
(c) If
the
Depositor intends to file its annual and quarterly information with the
Commission in electronic form pursuant to Regulation S-T of the Commission
using
the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (“EDGAR”)
system,
the Administrative Trustees shall notify the Property Trustee in the manner
prescribed herein of each such annual and quarterly filing. The Property Trustee
is hereby authorized and directed to access the EDGAR system for purposes of
retrieving the financial information so filed. Compliance with the foregoing
shall constitute delivery by the Administrative Trustees of its financial
statements to the Property Trustee in compliance with the provisions of Section
314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, if applicable. The Property Trustee shall
have no duty to search for or obtain any electronic or other filings that the
Depositor makes with the Commission, regardless of whether such filings are
periodic, supplemental or otherwise. Delivery of reports, information and
documents to the Property Trustee pursuant to this Section
4.11(c)
shall be
solely for purposes of compliance with this Section
4.11
and, if
applicable, with Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. The Property
Trustee’s receipt of such reports, information and documents shall not
constitute notice to it of the content thereof or any matter determinable from
the content thereof, including the Depositor’s compliance with any of its
covenants hereunder, as to which the Property Trustee is entitled to rely upon
Officers’ Certificates.
(d) The
Trust
shall maintain one or more bank accounts in the United States, as defined for
purposes of Treasury Regulations section 301.7701-7, in the name and for the
sole benefit of the Trust; provided, however, that all payments of funds in
respect of the Notes held by the Property Trustee shall be made directly to
the
Payment Account and no other funds of the Trust shall be deposited in the
Payment Account. The sole signatories for such accounts (including the Payment
Account) shall be designated by the Property Trustee.
ARTICLE
V
SECURITIES
SECTION
5.1 Initial
Ownership.
Upon
the
creation of the Trust and the contribution by the Depositor referred to in
Section
2.3 and
until
the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no Trust
Securities are Outstanding, the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial owner
of
the Trust.
SECTION
5.2 Authorized
Trust Securities.
The
Trust
shall be authorized to issue one series of Preferred Securities having an
aggregate Liquidation Amount of $50,000,000 and one series of Common Securities
having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $1,547,000.
SECTION
5.3 Issuance
of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Notes.
On
the
Closing Date, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute
and deliver to the Depositor Common Securities Certificates, registered in
the
name of the Depositor, evidencing an aggregate of One Thousand Five Hundred
Forty Seven (1,547) Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount
of
One Million Five Hundred Forty Seven Thousand Dollars ($1,547,000), against
receipt by the Trust of the aggregate purchase price of such Common Securities
of One Million Five Hundred Forty Seven Thousand Dollars ($1,547,000).
Contemporaneously therewith and with the sale by the Trust to the Holders of
an
aggregate of Fifty Thousand (50,000) Preferred Securities having an aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000), an Administrative
Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall purchase from the Depositor Notes, to
be
registered in the name of the Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust and having
an aggregate principal amount equal to Fifty One Million Five Hundred Forty
Seven Thousand Dollars ($51,547,000), and, in satisfaction of the purchase
price
for such Notes, the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall deliver
to
the Depositor the sum of Fifty One Million Five Hundred Forty Seven Thousand
Dollars ($51,547,000) (being the aggregate amount paid by the Holders for the
Preferred Securities, and the amount paid by the Depositor for the Common
Securities).
SECTION
5.4 The
Securities Certificates.
(a) The
Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations
of
$100,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof,
and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations
of $10,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof. The Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust
by
manual or facsimile signature of at least one Administrative Trustee. Securities
Certificates bearing the signatures of individuals who were, at the time when
such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign such Securities
Certificates on behalf of the Trust shall be validly issued and entitled to
the
benefits of this Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or
any
of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the delivery of such
Securities Certificates or did not have such authority at the date of delivery
of such Securities Certificates.
(b) On
the
Closing Date, upon the written order of an authorized officer of the Depositor,
the Administrative Trustees shall cause Securities Certificates to be executed
on behalf of the Trust and delivered, without further corporate action by the
Depositor, in authorized denominations.
(c) The
Preferred Securities issued to QIBs/QPs may be, except as provided in
Section
5.6,
Book-Entry Preferred Securities issued in the form of one or more Global
Preferred Securities registered in the name of the Depositary, or its nominee
and deposited with the Depositary or a custodian for the Depositary for credit
by the Depositary to the respective accounts of the Depositary Participants
thereof (or such other accounts as they may direct). The Preferred Securities
issued to a Person other than a QIB/QP shall be issued in the form of Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates.
(d) A
Preferred Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual
signature of an authorized signatory of the Property Trustee. Such signature
shall be conclusive evidence that the Preferred Security has been authenticated
under this Trust Agreement. Upon written order of the Trust signed by one
Administrative Trustee, the Property Trustee shall authenticate the Preferred
Securities for original issue. The Property Trustee may appoint an
authenticating agent that is a U.S. Person acceptable to the Trust to
authenticate the Preferred Securities. A Common Security need not be so
authenticated and shall be valid upon execution by one or more Administrative
Trustees. The form of this certificate of authentication can be found in
Section 5.13.
SECTION
5.5 Rights
of Holders.
The
Trust
Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights and when issued and
delivered to Holders against payment of the purchase price therefor will be
fully paid and non assessable by the Trust. Except as provided in Section
5.11(b),
the
Holders of the Trust Securities, in their capacities as such, shall be entitled
to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of private
corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the
State
of Delaware.
SECTION
5.6 Book-Entry
Preferred Securities.
(a) A
Global
Preferred Security may be exchanged, in whole or in part, for Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the names of the Owners only
if
such exchange complies with Section
5.7,
and (i)
the Depositary advises the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee
in
writing that the Depositary is no longer willing or able properly to discharge
its responsibilities with respect to the Global Preferred Security, and no
qualified successor is appointed by the Administrative Trustees within ninety
(90) days of receipt of such notice, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be a clearing
agency registered under the Exchange Act and the Administrative Trustees fail
to
appoint a qualified successor within ninety (90) days of obtaining knowledge
of
such event, (iii) the Administrative Trustees at their option advise the
Property Trustee in writing that the Trust elects to terminate the book-entry
system through the Depositary or (iv) a Note Event of Default has occurred
and
is continuing. Upon the occurrence of any event specified in clause (i), (ii),
(iii) or (iv) above, the Administrative Trustees shall notify the Depositary
and
instruct the Depositary to notify all Owners of Book-Entry Preferred Securities,
the Delaware Trustee and the Property Trustee of the occurrence of such event
and of the availability of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates
to
Owners of the Preferred Securities requesting the same. Upon the issuance of
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates, the Trustees shall recognize
the
Holders of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates as Holders.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Owner of a beneficial interest in a
Global
Preferred
Security wishes at any time to transfer an interest in such Global Preferred
Security to a Person other than a QIB/QP, such transfer shall be effected,
subject to the Applicable Depositary Procedures, in accordance with the
provisions of this Section
5.6
and
Section
5.7,
and the
transferee shall receive a Definitive Preferred Securities Certificate in
connection with such transfer. A holder of a Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificate that is a QIB/QP may, upon request and in accordance with the
provisions of this Section
5.6
and
Section
5.7,
exchange such Definitive Preferred Securities Certificate for a beneficial
interest in a Global Preferred Security.
(b) If
any
Global Preferred Security is to be exchanged for Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates or canceled in part, or if any Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificate is to be exchanged in whole or in part for any Global Preferred
Security, then either (i) such Global Preferred Security shall be so surrendered
for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article V
or (ii)
the aggregate Liquidation Amount represented by such Global Preferred Security
shall be reduced, subject to Section
5.4,
or
increased by an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount represented by that
portion of the Global Preferred Security to be so exchanged or canceled, or
equal to the Liquidation Amount represented by such Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates to be so exchanged for any Global Preferred Security,
as
the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records
of
the Securities Registrar, whereupon the Property Trustee, in accordance with
the
Applicable Depositary Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary or its
authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records.
Upon any such surrender to the Administrative Trustees or the Securities
Registrar of any Global Preferred Security or Securities by the Depositary,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any
one of them, shall execute the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates
in
accordance with the instructions of the Depositary. None of the Securities
Registrar or the Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such
instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in
relying on, such instructions.
(c) Every
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificate executed and delivered upon
registration or transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global
Preferred Security or any portion thereof shall be executed and delivered in
the
form of, and shall be, a Global Preferred Security, unless such Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificate is registered in the name of a Person other
than the Depositary for such Global Preferred Security or a nominee
thereof.
(d) The
Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a Global Preferred Security,
shall be the Holder of such Global Preferred Security for all purposes under
this Trust Agreement and the Global Preferred Security, and Owners with respect
to a Global Preferred Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the
Applicable Depositary Procedures. The Securities Registrar and the Trustees
shall be entitled to deal with the Depositary for all purposes of this Trust
Agreement relating to the Global Preferred Securities (including the payment
of
the Liquidation Amount of and Distributions on the Book-Entry Preferred
Securities represented thereby and the giving of instructions or directions
by
Owners of Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented thereby and the giving
of
notices) as the sole Holder of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities represented
thereby and shall have no obligations to the Owners thereof. None of the
Trustees nor the Securities Registrar shall have any liability in respect of
any
transfers effected by the Depositary.
(e) The
rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities shall be exercised
only through the Depositary and shall be limited to those established by law,
the Applicable Depositary Procedures and agreements between such Owners and
the
Depositary and/or the Depositary Participants; provided, that solely for the
purpose of determining whether the Holders of the requisite amount of Preferred
Securities have voted on any matter provided for in this Trust Agreement, to
the
extent that Preferred Securities are represented by a Global Preferred Security,
the Trustees may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying
on, any written instrument (including a proxy) delivered to the Property Trustee
by the Depositary setting forth the Owners’ votes or assigning the right to vote
on any matter to any other Persons either in whole or in part. To the extent
that Preferred Securities are represented by a Global Preferred Security, the
initial Depositary will make book-entry transfers among the Depositary
Participants and receive and transmit payments on the Preferred Securities
that
are represented by a Global Preferred Security to such Depositary Participants,
and none of the Depositor or the Trustees shall have any responsibility or
obligation with respect thereto.
(f) To
the
extent that a notice or other communication to the Holders is required under
this Trust Agreement, for so long as Preferred Securities are represented by
a
Global Preferred Security, the Trustees shall give all such notices and
communications to the Depositary, and shall have no obligations to the
Owners.
SECTION
5.7 Registration
of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates.
(a) The
Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, at the Corporate Trust Office,
a register or registers (the “Securities
Register”)
in
which the registrar and transfer agent with respect to the Trust Securities
(the
“Securities
Registrar”),
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for
the registration of Preferred Securities Certificates and Common Securities
Certificates and registration of transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities
Certificates as herein provided. The Person acting as the Property Trustee
shall
at all times also be the Securities Registrar. The provisions of Article VIII
shall apply to the Property Trustee in its role as Securities
Registrar.
(b) Subject
to Section
5.7(d),
upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Securities Certificate
at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section
5.7(f),
the
Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute by manual or facsimile
signature and deliver to the Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee upon
the
written order of the Trust executed by one Administrative Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized
denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount as may be required by
this
Trust Agreement dated the date of execution by such Administrative Trustee
or
Trustees. At the option of a Holder, Preferred Securities Certificates may
be
exchanged for other Preferred Securities Certificates in authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount upon surrender of
the
Preferred Securities Certificate to be exchanged at the office or agency
maintained pursuant to Section
5.7(f).
Whenever any Preferred Securities Certificates are so surrendered for exchange,
the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute by manual or
facsimile signature and deliver to the Property Trustee, and the Property
Trustee upon
written
order of the Trust executed by one Administrative Trustee shall authenticate
and
deliver, the Preferred Securities Certificates that the Holder making the
exchange is entitled to receive.
(c) The
Securities Registrar shall not be required, (i) to issue, register the transfer
of or exchange any Preferred Security during a period beginning at the opening
of business fifteen (15) days before the day of selection for redemption of
such
Preferred Securities pursuant to Article
IV
and
ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the notice of
redemption or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Preferred
Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case
of
any such Preferred Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not
to
be redeemed.
(d) Every
Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for registration
of
transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Securities Registrar duly
executed by the Holder or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and
accompanied by a certificate of the transferee substantially in the form set
forth as Exhibit
E
hereto.
(e) No
service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of
Preferred Securities Certificates, but the Property Trustee on behalf of the
Trust may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of
Preferred Securities Certificates.
(f) The
Administrative Trustees shall designate an office or offices or agency or
agencies where Preferred Securities Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and initially designate the Corporate
Trust
Office as its office and agency for such purposes. The Administrative Trustees
shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the Property Trustee and
to
the Holders of any change in the location of any such office or
agency.
(g) The
Preferred Securities may only be transferred to a QP.
Neither
the Property Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall be responsible for
ascertaining whether any transfer hereunder complies with the registration
provisions of or any exemptions from the Securities Act, applicable state
securities laws or the applicable laws of any other jurisdiction, ERISA, the
Code or the Investment Company Act;
provided,
that if
a certificate is specifically required by the express terms of this Section
5.7
to be delivered to the Property Trustee or the Securities Registrar by a Holder
or transferee of a Security, the Property Trustee and the Securities Registrar
shall be under a duty to receive and examine the same to determine whether
or
not the certificate substantially conforms on its face to the requirements
of
this Trust Agreement and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same
if
such certificate does not comply with such terms.
SECTION
5.8 Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities Certificates.
(a) If
any
mutilated Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities
Registrar together with such security or indemnity as may be required by the
Securities Registrar to save each of the Trustees harmless, the Administrative
Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of
the
Trust, shall execute and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a
new
Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and
denomination.
(b) If
the
Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Securities Certificate and there shall be
delivered to the Securities Registrar such security or indemnity as may be
required by it to save each of the Trustees harmless, then in the absence of
notice that such Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a bona
fide
purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the
Trust, shall execute and make available for delivery, and, with respect to
Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee upon written order of the Trust
executed by one Administrative Trustee shall authenticate, in exchange for
or in
lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Securities Certificate, a new
Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination.
(c) In
connection with the issuance of any new Securities Certificate under this
Section
5.8,
the
Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment
of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection therewith.
(d) Any
duplicate Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section
5.8
shall
constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the assets
of the Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the mutilated, lost, stolen
or
destroyed Securities Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or not the
lost, stolen or destroyed Securities Certificate shall be found at any
time.
(e) If
any
such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities Certificate has become
or
is about to become due and payable, the Depositor in its discretion may provide
the Administrative Trustee with the funds to pay such Trust Security and upon
receipt of such funds, the Administrative Trustee shall pay such Trust Security
instead of issuing a new Securities Certificate.
(f) The
provisions of this Section
5.8
are
exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and
remedies with respect to the replacement of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Securities Certificates.
SECTION
5.9 Persons
Deemed Holders.
The
Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall each treat the Person in whose
name
any Securities Certificate shall be registered in the Securities Register as
the
Holder of such Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions
and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Trustees and the
Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION
5.10 Cancellation.
All
Preferred Securities Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer
or
exchange or for payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the
Property Trustee, be delivered to the Property Trustee, and any such Preferred
Securities Certificates and Preferred Securities Certificates surrendered
directly to the Property Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly canceled
by it. The Administrative Trustees may at any time deliver to the Property
Trustee for cancellation any Preferred Securities Certificates previously
delivered hereunder that the Administrative Trustees may have acquired in any
manner whatsoever, and all Preferred
Securities
Certificates so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Property Trustee.
No
Preferred Securities Certificates shall be executed and delivered in lieu of
or
in exchange for any Preferred Securities Certificates canceled as provided
in
this Section
5.10,
except
as expressly permitted by this Trust Agreement. All canceled Preferred
Securities Certificates shall be retained by the Property Trustee in accordance
with its customary practices.
SECTION
5.11 Ownership
of Common Securities by Depositor.
(a) On
the
Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire, and thereafter shall retain,
beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. Neither the Depositor
nor any successor Holder of the Common Securities may transfer less than all
the
Common Securities, and the Depositor or any such successor Holder may transfer
the Common Securities only (i) in connection with a consolidation or merger
of
the Depositor into another Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by
the
Depositor of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any
Person (in which event such Common Securities will be transferred to such
surviving entity, transferee or lessee, as the case may be), pursuant to Section
8.1 of the Indenture or (ii) to the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor,
in each such case in compliance with applicable law (including the Securities
Act, and applicable state securities and blue sky laws). To the fullest extent
permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities other than
as
set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall be void. The
Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued
to
the Depositor to contain a legend stating substantially “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT
TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE
TRUST AGREEMENT.”
(b) Any
Holder of the Common Securities shall be liable for the debts and obligations
of
the Trust in the manner and to the extent set forth with respect to the
Depositor and agrees that it shall be subject to all liabilities to which the
Depositor may be subject and, prior to becoming such a Holder, shall deliver
to
the Administrative Trustees an instrument of assumption satisfactory to such
Administrative Trustees.
SECTION
5.12 Restricted
Legends.
(a) Each
Preferred Security Certificate shall bear a legend in substantially the
following form:
“[IF
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY INSERT:
THIS
PREFERRED SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”) OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS PREFERRED SECURITY IS
EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN DTC
OR
ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT,
AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS PREFERRED SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS
PREFERRED SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE OF
DTC
TO DTC OR
ANOTHER
NOMINEE OF DTC) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC
TO
READING INTERNATIONAL TRUST I OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY PREFERRED SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME
OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.]
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED
IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF ANY
PREFERRED SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE PREFERRED
SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5
OF
THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
THE
HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES
MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE TRUST OR (II)
TO
A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS (a) A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (b) A “QUALIFIED
PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF
1940, AS AMENDED), OR (III) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES
IS A
“QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY
ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED), AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY
PREFERRED SECURITIES FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A)
ABOVE.
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING
AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY
INTEREST THEREIN, IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF LESS
THAN
$100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL
BE
DEEMED
TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY
LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF
SUCH
PREFERRED SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT
OF PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST ON SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN, AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST
WHATSOEVER IN SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES.
THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF
OR
THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE
I OF
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”),
OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”)
(EACH A
“PLAN”),
OR AN
ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S
INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN MAY
ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS PREFERRED SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN. ANY PURCHASER
OR HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED
TO
HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON
BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING
THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH
PURCHASE.”
(b) The
above
legend shall not be removed from any of the Preferred Securities Certificates
unless there is delivered to the Property Trustee and the Depositor satisfactory
evidence, which may include an opinion of counsel, as may be reasonably required
to ensure that any future transfers thereof may be made without restriction
under the provisions of the Securities Act and other applicable law and without
causing the Trust to be an investment company as defined in the Investment
Company Act. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, one or more of the
Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall execute and deliver to
the
Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee shall deliver, at the written
direction of the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor, Preferred Securities
Certificates that do not bear the legend.
SECTION
5.13 Form
of Certificate of Authentication.
The
Property Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the
following form:
This
is
one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.
Dated:
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Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely as
Property
Trustee
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By:
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ARTICLE
VI
MEETINGS;
VOTING; ACTS OF HOLDERS
SECTION
6.1 Notice
of Meetings.
Notice
of
all meetings of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, stating the time,
place
and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Administrative Trustees
pursuant to Section
10.8
to each
Holder of Preferred Securities, at such Holder’s registered address, at least
fifteen (15) days and not more than ninety (90) days before the meeting. At
any
such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so considered
whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may
be
held as adjourned without further notice.
SECTION
6.2 Meetings
of Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(a) No
annual
meeting of Holders is required to be held. The Administrative Trustees, however,
shall call a meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities to vote on
any
matter upon the written request of the Holders of at least twenty five percent
(25%) in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities
and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time in
their discretion, call a meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities
to
vote on any matters as to which such Holders are entitled to vote.
(b) The
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any
meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(c) If
a
quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Holders present,
in
person or by proxy, holding Preferred Securities representing at least a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities held by the Holders
present, either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the
action of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, unless this Trust Agreement
requires a lesser or greater number of affirmative votes.
SECTION
6.3 Voting
Rights.
Holders
shall be entitled to one vote for each $10,000 of Liquidation Amount represented
by their Outstanding Trust Securities in respect of any matter as to which
such
Holders are entitled to vote.
SECTION
6.4 Proxies,
Etc.
At
any
meeting of Holders, any Holder entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy,
provided,
that no
proxy shall be voted at any meeting unless it shall have been placed on file
with the Administrative Trustees, or with such other officer or agent of the
Trust as the Administrative Trustees may direct, for verification prior to
the
time at which such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a resolution of the Property
Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or one
or
more officers of the Property Trustee. Only Holders of record shall be entitled
to vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several Persons, any one
of
them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust
Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting in
person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so present disagree
as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in respect of such
Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Holder
shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the
burden of proving invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be
valid more than three years after its date of execution.
SECTION
6.5 Holder
Action by Written Consent.
Any
action that may be taken by Holders of Preferred Securities at a meeting may
be
taken without a meeting and without prior notice if Holders holding at least
a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of all Preferred Securities entitled to vote
in
respect of such action (or such lesser or greater proportion thereof as shall
be
required by any other provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the
action in writing; provided,
that
notice of such action is promptly provided to the Holders of Preferred
Securities that did not consent to such action. Any action that may be taken
by
the Holders of all the Common Securities may be taken without a meeting and
without prior notice if such Holders shall consent to the action in
writing.
SECTION
6.6 Record
Date for Voting and Other Purposes.
Except
as
provided in Section
6.10(a),
for the
purposes of determining the Holders who are entitled to notice of and to vote
at
any meeting or to act by written consent, or to participate in any distribution
on the Trust Securities in respect of which a record date is not otherwise
provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of any other action,
the Administrative Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not more than
ninety (90) days prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment
of a
Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the
determination of the identity of the Holders of record for such
purposes.
SECTION
6.7 Acts
of Holders.
(a) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be given, made 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
thereof duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments
are delivered to an Administrative Trustee. A depositary that is a Holder of
a
Global Preferred Security may provide its proxy or proxies to the beneficial
owners of interests in any such Global Preferred Security though such
Depositary’s standing instructions and customary practices. 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 shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Trust Agreement and conclusive in favor of the Trustees, if made in the manner
provided in this Section
6.7.
(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 such signer’s individual capacity, such
certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of such signer’s
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 that any Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient.
(c) The
ownership of Trust Securities shall be proved by the Securities
Register.
(d) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
Act
of the Holder of any Trust Security shall bind every future Holder of the same
Trust Security and the Holder of every Trust Security 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 Trustees, the
Administrative Trustees or the Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
(e) Without
limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder
with regard to any particular Trust Security may do so with regard to all or
any
part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security or by one or more duly
appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with
regard to all or any part of such Liquidation Amount.
(f) If
any
dispute shall arise among the Holders or the Trustees with respect to the
authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of such Holder or Trustee under
this Article
VI,
then
the determination of such matter by the Property Trustee shall be conclusive
with respect to such matter.
SECTION
6.8 Inspection
of Records.
Upon
reasonable written notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property
Trustee, the records of the Trust shall be open to inspection by any Holder
during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably related to such Holder’s
interest as a Holder.
SECTION
6.9 Limitations
on Voting Rights.
(a) Except
as
expressly provided in this Trust Agreement and in the Indenture and as otherwise
required by law, no Holder of Preferred Securities shall have any right to
vote
or in any manner otherwise control the administration, operation and management
of the Trust or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein
set forth, or contained in the terms of
the
Securities Certificates, be construed so as to constitute the Holders from
time
to time as partners or members of an association.
(b) So
long
as any Notes are held by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust, the
Property Trustee shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Note Trustee, or exercise any
trust or power conferred on the Property Trustee with respect to the Notes,
(ii)
waive any past default that may be waived under Section 5.13 of the Indenture
or
waive compliance with any covenant or condition under Section 10.7 of the
Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration that the
principal of all the Notes shall be due and payable or (iv) consent to any
amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Notes, where
such
consent shall be required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval
of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities; provided,
that
where a consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each holder
of
Notes (or each Holder of Preferred Securities) affected thereby, no such consent
shall be given by the Property Trustee without the prior written consent of
each
Holder of Preferred Securities. The Property Trustee shall not revoke any action
previously authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities, except by a subsequent vote of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders
of
the Preferred Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the
Property Trustee shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion
of
Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that such action shall not
cause the Trust to be taxable as a corporation or classified as other than
a
grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes.
(c) If
any
proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or the Trustees
otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would adversely affect in
any
material respect the powers, preferences or special rights of the Preferred
Securities, whether by way of amendment to the Trust Agreement or otherwise
or
(ii) the dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Trust, other than
pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the Holders of Outstanding
Preferred Securities as a class will be entitled to vote on such amendment
or
proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective except with
the
approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, no amendment to this Trust Agreement may be made if, as a result
of
such amendment, it would cause the Trust to be taxable as a corporation or
classified as other than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax
purposes.
SECTION
6.10 Acceleration
of Maturity; Rescission of Annulment; Waivers of Past
Defaults.
(a) For
so
long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, if, upon a Note Event
of
Default, the Note Trustee fails or the holders of not less than twenty five
percent (25%) in principal amount of the outstanding Notes fail to declare
the
principal of all of the Notes to be immediately due and payable, the Holders
of
at least twenty five percent (25%) in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities then Outstanding shall have the right to make such declaration by
a
notice in writing to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Note Trustee.
At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Notes has
been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has
been
obtained by the Note Trustee as
provided
in the Indenture, the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount
of
the Preferred Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the
Depositor and the Note Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and
its
consequences if:
(i) the
Depositor has paid or deposited with the Note Trustee a sum sufficient to
pay:
(A) all
overdue installments of interest on all of the Notes;
(B) any
accrued Additional Interest on all of the Notes;
(C) the
principal of and any premium, if any, on any Notes that have become due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest and Additional
Interest thereon at the rate borne by the Notes; and
(D) all
sums
paid or advanced by the Note Trustee under the Indenture and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Note Trustee, the
Property Trustee and their agents and counsel; and
(ii) all
Note
Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the principal of the Notes
that
has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as
provided in Section 5.13 of the Indenture.
Upon
receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice requesting such an
acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of any part of
the
Preferred Securities, a record date shall be established for determining Holders
of Outstanding Preferred Securities entitled to join in such notice, which
record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Property Trustee
receives such notice. The Holders of Preferred Securities on such record date,
or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled
to
join in such notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such
record date; provided, that, unless such declaration of acceleration, or
rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have become effective by
virtue of the requisite percentage having joined in such notice prior to the
day
that is ninety (90) days after such record date, such notice of declaration
of
acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall
automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no
further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy
of
a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such ninety (90)-day period, a new
written notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment
thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a written notice that has
been
canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event
a new
record date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section
6.10(a).
(b) For
so
long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent
permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the
Indenture, upon a Note Event of Default specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of
Section 5.1 of the Indenture, any Holder of Preferred Securities shall have
the
right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor, pursuant to
Section 5.8 of the Indenture, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of
any
amounts payable in respect of Notes having an aggregate principal amount equal
to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities of such Holder.
Except as set forth in
Section 6.10(a)
and this
Section
6.10(b),
the
Holders of Preferred Securities shall have no right to exercise directly any
right or remedy available to the holders of, or in respect of, the
Notes.
(c) Notwithstanding
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section
6.10,
the
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any Note
Event of Default, except any Note Event of Default arising from the failure
to
pay any principal of or any premium, if any, or interest on (including any
Additional Interest) the Notes (unless such Note Event of Default has been
cured
and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and all
principal and premium, if any, on all Notes due otherwise than by acceleration
has been deposited with the Note Trustee) or a Note Event of Default in respect
of a covenant or provision that under the Indenture cannot be modified or
amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding Note. Upon any
such waiver, such Note Event of Default shall cease to exist and any Note Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every
purpose of the Indenture; but no such waiver shall affect any subsequent Note
Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
(d) Notwithstanding
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section
6.10,
the
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any past
or
continuing Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such
Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Trust
Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event
of
Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
(e) The
Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities shall
have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Property Trustee in respect of this Trust
Agreement or the Notes or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the
Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement; provided,
that,
subject to Sections
8.5
and
8.7,
the
Property Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction
if
the Property Trustee being advised by counsel determines that the action so
directed may not lawfully be taken, or if the Property Trustee in good faith
shall, by an officer or officers of the Property Trustee, determine that the
proceedings so directed would be illegal or involve it in personal liability
or
be unduly prejudicial to the rights of Holders not party to such direction,
and
provided,
further,
that
nothing in this Trust Agreement shall impair the right of the Property Trustee
to take any action deemed proper by the Property Trustee and which is not
inconsistent with such direction.
ARTICLE
VII
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
SECTION
7.1 Representations
and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware
Trustee.
The
Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf of and
as to
itself, hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Depositor and
the
Holders that:
(a) the
Property Trustee is a national banking association, duly organized and validly
existing under the laws of the United States;
(b) the
Property Trustee has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver
and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all
necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it
of
this Trust Agreement;
(c) the
Delaware Trustee is a corporation, duly formed and validly existing under the
laws of the State of Delaware;
(d) the
Delaware Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken
all
necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it
of
this Trust Agreement;
(e) this
Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Property
Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding
agreement of each of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee enforceable
against each of them in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of
equity;
(f) the
execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate or other action on the part of the
Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and do not require any approval of
stockholders of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and such
execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the Restated
Organization Certificate or Articles of Association, as applicable, or By-laws
of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, (ii) violate any provision
of,
or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or
result in the imposition of any lien on any properties included in the Trust
Property pursuant to the provisions of any indenture, mortgage, credit
agreement, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee is a party or by which it is bound, or (iii)
violate any applicable law, governmental rule or regulation of the United States
or the State of Delaware, as the case may be, governing the banking, trust
or
general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee or any order,
judgment or decree applicable to the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee;
(g) neither
the authorization, execution or delivery by the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions
by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee contemplated herein requires
the
consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the
taking of any other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency
under any existing law of the United States or the State of Delaware governing
the banking, trust or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee, as the case may be; and
(h) to
the
best of each of the Property Trustee’s and the Delaware Trustee’s knowledge,
there are no proceedings pending or threatened against or affecting the Property
Trustee
or the Delaware Trustee in any court or before any governmental authority,
agency or arbitration board or tribunal that, individually or in the aggregate,
would materially and adversely affect the Trust or would question the right,
power and authority of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the
case
may be, to enter into or perform its obligations as one of the Trustees under
this Trust Agreement.
SECTION
7.2 Representations
and Warranties of Depositor.
The
Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Holders and
the
Trustees that:
(a) the
Depositor is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of its state of incorporation;
(b) the
Depositor has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute,
deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken
all
necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it
of
this Trust Agreement;
(c) this
Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Depositor and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the
Depositor enforceable against the Depositor in accordance with its terms,
subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting
creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity;
(d) the
Securities Certificates issued at the Closing Date on behalf of the Trust have
been duly authorized and will have been duly and validly executed, issued and
delivered by the applicable Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of,
and in accordance with the requirements of, this Trust Agreement and the Holders
will be, as of such date, entitled to the benefits of this Trust
Agreement;
(e) the
execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate or other action on the part of the
Depositor and do not require any approval of stockholders of the Depositor
and
such execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the articles
of
incorporation or by-laws (or other organizational documents) of the Depositor
or
(ii) violate any applicable law, governmental rule or regulation governing
the
Depositor or any material portion of its property or any order, judgment or
decree applicable to the Depositor or any material portion of its
property;
(f) neither
the authorization, execution or delivery by the Depositor of this Trust
Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions by the Depositor
contemplated herein requires the consent or approval of, the giving of notice
to, the registration with or the taking of any other action with respect to
any
governmental authority or agency under any existing law governing the Depositor
or any material portion of its property; and
(g) there
are
no proceedings pending or, to the best of the Depositor’s knowledge, threatened
against or affecting the Depositor or any material portion of its property
in
any court or before any governmental authority, agency or arbitration board
or
tribunal that, individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely
affect the Trust or would question the right,
power
and
authority of the Depositor, as the case may be, to enter into or perform its
obligations under this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE
VIII
THE
TRUSTEES
SECTION
8.1 Number
of Trustees.
The
number of Trustees shall be five (5); provided, that the Property Trustee and
the Delaware Trustee may be the same Person, in which case the number of
Trustees shall be four (4). The number of Trustees may be increased or decreased
by Act of the Holder of the Common Securities subject to Sections
8.2,
8.3,
and
8.4.
The
death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity
to perform the duties of a Trustee shall not operate to annul, dissolve or
terminate the Trust.
SECTION
8.2 Property
Trustee Required.
There
shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust
Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a corporation or national banking
association organized and doing business under the laws of the United States
or
of any state thereof, authorized to exercise corporate trust powers, having,
or
having a parent that has, a combined capital and surplus of at least fifty
million dollars ($50,000,000), subject to supervision or examination by federal
or state authority and having an office within the United States. If any such
Person publishes reports of condition at least annually pursuant to law or
to
the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section
8.2,
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 Property Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section
8.2,
it
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified
in this Article
VIII.
SECTION
8.3 Delaware
Trustee Required.
(a) If
required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, there shall at all times be a
Delaware Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities. The Delaware Trustee
shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a
resident of the State of Delaware or (ii) a legal entity that has its principal
place of business in the State of Delaware, otherwise meets the requirements
of
applicable Delaware law and shall act through one or more persons authorized
to
bind such entity. If at any time the Delaware Trustee shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section
8.3,
it
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified
in this Article
VIII.
The
Delaware Trustee shall have the same rights, privileges and immunities as the
Property Trustee.
(b) The
Delaware Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the
Delaware Trustee have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Property
Trustee or the Administrative Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee
shall be one of the trustees of the Trust for the sole and limited purpose
of
fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust
Act
and for taking such actions as are required to be taken by a
Delaware trustee under the Delaware Statutory
Trust Act. The duties
(including fiduciary duties),
liabilities
and obligations of the Delaware Trustee shall be limited to (a) accepting legal
process served on the Trust in the State of Delaware and (b) the execution
of
any certificates required to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State
of Delaware that the Delaware Trustee is required to execute under Section
3811
of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and there shall be no other duties
(including fiduciary duties) or obligations, express or implied, at law or
in
equity, of the Delaware Trustee.
SECTION
8.4 Appointment
of Administrative Trustees.
(a) There
shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees hereunder with respect
to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee shall be either a natural
person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal entity that shall act through
one or more persons authorized to bind that entity. Each of the individuals
identified as an “Administrative
Trustee”
in
the
preamble of this Trust Agreement hereby accepts his or her appointment as
such.
(b) Except
where a requirement for action by a specific number of Administrative Trustees
is expressly set forth in this Trust Agreement, any act required or permitted
to
be taken by, and any power of the Administrative Trustees may be exercised
by,
or with the consent of, any one such Administrative Trustee. Whenever a vacancy
in the number of Administrative Trustees shall occur, until such vacancy is
filled by the appointment of an Administrative Trustee in accordance with
Section
8.11,
the
Administrative Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and
notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement), shall have all
the
powers granted to the Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all the duties
imposed upon the Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
SECTION
8.5 Duties
and Responsibilities of the Trustees.
(a) The
rights, immunities, duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and there shall be no other duties (including
fiduciary duties) or obligations, express or implied, at law or in equity,
of
the Trustees; provided,
however,
that if
an Event of Default known to the Property Trustee has occurred and is
continuing, the Property Trustee shall, prior to the receipt of directions,
if
any, from the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities, exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by
this Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise,
as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct
of such person’s own affairs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of
this Trust Agreement shall require any of the Trustees to expend or risk its
own
funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any
of
its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its or their rights or
powers, if it or they shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment
of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not
reasonably assured to it. Whether or not herein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the
liability of or affording protection to the Trustees shall be subject to the
provisions of this Section
8.5.
Nothing
in this Trust Agreement shall be construed to release any Administrative Trustee
from liability for his or her own negligent action, negligent failure to act;
or
his or her own willful misconduct. To the extent that, at law or in equity,
a
Trustee has duties and liabilities relating to the Trust or to the Holders,
such
Trustee shall not be liable to the Trust or to any Holder for such Trustee’s
good faith reliance on the provisions of this Trust
Agreement.
The provisions of this Trust Agreement, to the extent that they restrict the
duties and liabilities of the Trustees otherwise existing at law or in equity,
are agreed by the Depositor and the Holders to replace such other duties and
liabilities of the Trustees.
(b) All
payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect of the Trust
Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds from the Trust
Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient revenue or
proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a Paying
Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each Holder, by
its
acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look solely to the revenue
and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available for
distribution to it as herein provided and that the Trustees are not personally
liable to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security
or
for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This Section
8.5(b)
does not
limit the liability of the Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust
Agreement.
(c) No
provisions of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Property
Trustee from liability with respect to matters that are within the authority
of
the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement for its own negligent action,
negligent failure to act or willful misconduct, except that:
(i) the
Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error or judgment made in good
faith by an authorized officer of the Property Trustee, unless it shall be
proved that the Property Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts;
(ii) the
Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted
to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders
of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Property Trustee hereunder or under the Indenture,
or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this
Trust Agreement;
(iii) the
Property Trustee’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safe keeping and
physical preservation of the Notes and the Payment Account shall be to deal
with
such Property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar
property for its own account, subject to the protections and limitations on
liability afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust
Agreement;
(iv) the
Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received
by
it except as it may otherwise agree in writing with the Depositor; and money
held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held by
it
except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the Property Trustee
pursuant to Section 3.1
and
except to the extent otherwise required by law; and
(v) the
Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by
the
Administrative Trustees or the Depositor with their respective duties under
this Trust Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default
or misconduct of any other Trustee or the Depositor.
SECTION
8.6 Notices
of Defaults and Extensions.
(a) Within
ninety (90) days after the occurrence of a default actually known to the
Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall transmit notice of such default
to
the Holders, the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor, unless such default
shall have been cured or waived. For the purpose of this Section
8.6,
the
term “default” means any event that is, or after notice or lapse of time or both
would become, an Event of Default.
(b) Reserved.
(c) The
Property Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Event of Default
unless either (i) a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee shall have
actual knowledge or (ii) the Property Trustee shall have received written notice
thereof from the Depositor, an Administrative Trustee or a Holder.
(d) The
Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Preferred Securities of any
notice of default received with respect to the Notes.
SECTION
8.7 Certain
Rights of Property Trustee.
Subject
to the provisions of Section 8.5:
(a) the
Property Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith and in accordance with the terms hereof
upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation
of
an Administrative Trustee, a Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors
or
any other resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture, note,
other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to
be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties;
(b) if
(i) in
performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee is
required to decide between alternative courses of action, (ii) in construing
any
of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee finds a provision
ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions contained herein or (iii)
the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of any provision of this
Trust
Agreement, then, except as to any matter as to which the Holders of the
Preferred Securities are entitled to vote under the terms of this Trust
Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Depositor
requesting the Depositor’s written instruction as to the course of action to be
taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking
such action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take,
or
to refrain from taking, by the Depositor; provided,
that if
the Property Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Depositor within
ten (10) Business Days after it has delivered such notice or such reasonably
shorter period of time set forth in such notice, the Property Trustee may,
but
shall be under no duty to, take such action, or refrain from taking such action,
as the Property Trustee shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the
Holders, in which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability except
for
its own negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct;
(c) any
direction or act of the Depositor contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall
be
sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate unless otherwise expressly
provided herein;
(d) any
direction or act of an Administrative Trustee contemplated by this Trust
Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by a certificate executed by such
Administrative Trustee and setting forth such direction or act;
(e) the
Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing or
registration of any instrument (including any financing or continuation
statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any re-recording,
re-filing or re-registration thereof;
(f) the
Property Trustee may consult with counsel (which counsel may be counsel to
the
Property Trustee, the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any
of
its employees) and the advice of such counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and in accordance with
such advice; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek
instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Agreement from any
court of competent jurisdiction;
(g) the
Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights
or
powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or direction of
any
of the Holders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless such Holders shall
have
offered to the Property Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the
costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and
liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction, including reasonable advances as may be requested by the Property
Trustee; provided,
however,
that
nothing contained in this Section
8.7(g)
shall be
construed to relieve the Property Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event
of
Default (of which the Property Trustee has knowledge (as defined in Section
8.6(c) hereof)), of its obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested
in
it by this Trust Agreement; provided, further, that nothing contained in this
Section
8.7(g)
shall
prevent the Property Trustee from exercising its rights under Section
8.11
hereof;
(h) the
Property 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, approval, bond, debenture,
note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, unless
requested in writing to do so by one or more Holders, but the Property Trustee
may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as
it
may see fit, and, if the Property Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry
or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Depositor, personally or by agent or attorney;
(i) the
Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform
any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents, attorneys,
custodians or nominees and the Property Trustee shall not be responsible
for any
negligence or misconduct on the part of any such agent, attorney, custodian
or
nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(j) whenever
in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem
it
desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right
hereunder, the Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders
(which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion
in
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the
Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement in respect of such remedy, right
or
action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such
other action until such instructions are received and (iii) shall be protected
in acting in accordance with such instructions;
(k) except
as
otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee
shall
not be under any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under
the
provisions of this Trust Agreement;
(l) without
prejudice to any other rights available to the Property Trustee under applicable
law, when the Property Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection
with a Bankruptcy Event, such expenses (including legal fees and expenses of
its
agents and counsel) and the compensation for such services are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy law or law relating
to creditors rights generally;
(m) whenever
in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem
it
desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering
or
omitting any action hereunder, the Property Trustee (unless other evidence
be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
request and rely on an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such
request, shall be promptly delivered by the Depositor; and
(n) in
the
event the Property Trustee is also acting as Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent
(as defined in the Indenture), Securities Registrar or Calculation Agent
hereunder, the rights and protections afforded the Property Trustee pursuant
to
this Article VIII shall also be afforded to such Paying Agent, Authenticating
Agent, Securities Registrar or Calculation Agent.
No
provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or
obligation on any Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right,
power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in
which it shall be illegal, or in which such Person shall be unqualified or
incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts,
or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation.
SECTION
8.8 Delegation
of Power.
Any
Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent with
applicable law, delegate to any other natural person over the age of 21 its,
his
or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section
2.5.
The
Trustees shall have power to delegate from time to time to such of their number
or to the Depositor the doing of such things and the execution of such
instruments either in the name of the Trust or the names of the Trustees or
otherwise as the
Trustees
may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by
applicable law or contrary to the provisions of this Trust
Agreement.
SECTION
8.9 May
Hold Securities.
Any
Trustee or any other agent of any Trustee or the Trust, in its individual or
any
other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and except
as provided in the definition of the term “Outstanding” in Article
I,
may
otherwise deal with the Trust with the same rights it would have if it were
not
a Trustee or such other agent.
SECTION
8.10 Compensation;
Reimbursement; Indemnity.
The
Depositor agrees:
(a) to
pay to
the Trustees from time to time such reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by them hereunder as may be agreed by the Depositor and the Trustees
from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision
of
law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);
(b) to
reimburse the Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any provision
of this Trust Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses
and disbursements of their agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to their gross negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct; and
(c) to
the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and hold harmless
(i)
each Trustee, (ii) any Affiliate of any Trustee, (iii) any officer, director,
shareholder, employee, representative or agent of any Trustee or any Affiliate
of any Trustee and (iv) any employee or agent of the Trust (referred to herein
as an “Indemnified Person”) from and against any loss, damage, liability, tax
(other than income, franchise or other taxes imposed on amounts paid pursuant
to
Section
8.10(a)
or
(b)
hereof),
penalty, expense or claim of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred without
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or
in
connection with the acceptance or administration of the Trust hereunder,
including the advancement of funds to cover the costs and expenses of defending
itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
The
Trust
shall have no payment, reimbursement or indemnity obligations to the Trustees
under this Section
8.10.
The
provisions of this Section
8.10
shall
survive the termination of this Trust Agreement and the earlier removal or
resignation of any Trustee.
No
Trustee may claim any Lien on any Trust Property whether before or after
termination of the Trust as a result of any amount due pursuant to this
Section
8.10.
To
the
fullest extent permitted by law, in no event shall the Trustees be liable
for
any indirect, special, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind
whatsoever, including, but
not
limited to, lost profits, even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood
of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.
In
no
event shall the Trustees be liable for any failure or delay in the performance
of its obligations hereunder because of circumstances beyond its control,
including, but not limited to, acts of God, flood, war (whether declared or
undeclared), terrorism, fire, riot, embargo, government action, including any
laws, ordinances, regulations, governmental action or the like which delay,
restrict or prohibit the providing of the services contemplated by this Trust
Agreement.
SECTION
8.11 Resignation
and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No
resignation or removal of any Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article
VIII
shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee
in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section
8.12.
(b) A
Trustee
may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Depositor and,
in
the case of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, to the
Holders.
(c) Unless
an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee
or
the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed (with or without cause)
at
any time by Act of the Holder of Common Securities. If an Event of Default
shall
have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee,
or both of them, may be removed (with or without cause) at such time by Act
of
the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities, delivered to the removed Trustee (in its individual capacity and
on
behalf of the Trust). An Administrative Trustee may be removed (with or without
cause) only by Act of the Holder of the Common Securities at any
time.
(d) If
any
Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Trustee,
or if
a vacancy shall occur in the office of any Trustee for any reason, at a time
when no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holder
of
the Common Securities, by Act of the Holder of the Common Securities, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees, and such successor Trustee
and
the retiring Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of
Section
8.12.
If the
Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of continuing to act as the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee,
as the case may be, at a time when an Event of Default shall have occurred
and
be continuing, the Holders of the Preferred Securities, by Act of the Holders
of
a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, shall promptly
appoint a successor Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee, and such successor
Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee and the retiring Property Trustee or
Delaware Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section
8.12.
If an
Administrative Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting
as
Administrative Trustee, at a time when an Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Holder of the Common Securities by Act of the Holder
of
Common Securities shall promptly appoint a successor Administrative Trustee
and
such successor Administrative Trustee and the retiring Administrative Trustee
shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section
8.12.
If no
successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Holder of the Common
Securities or Holders of the Preferred Securities, as the case may be, and
accepted appointment
in
the
manner required by Section
8.12
within
thirty (30) days after the giving of a notice of resignation by a Trustee,
the
removal of a Trustee, or a Trustee becoming incapable of acting as such Trustee,
any Holder who has been a Holder of Preferred Securities for at least six (6)
months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, and any
resigning Trustee may, in each case, at the expense of the Depositor, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
(e) The
Depositor shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee and each appointment of a successor Property
Trustee or Delaware Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in
Section
10.8.
Each
notice shall include the name of the successor Property Trustee or Delaware
Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the Property
Trustee.
(f) Notwithstanding
the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust Agreement, in the event
any
Administrative Trustee or a Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or
becomes, in the opinion of the Holder of Common Securities, incompetent or
incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity
may
be filled by (i) the unanimous act of the remaining Administrative Trustees
if
there are at least two of them or (ii) otherwise by the Holder of the Common
Securities (with the successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the
eligibility requirement for Administrative Trustees or Delaware Trustee, as
the
case may be, set forth in Sections
8.3
and
8.4).
(g) Upon
the
appointment of a successor Delaware Trustee, such successor Delaware Trustee
shall file a Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Trust in accordance
with Section 3810 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.
SECTION
8.12 Acceptance
of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In
case
of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee, each successor Trustee
shall execute and deliver to the Depositor and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request
of
the Trust or any successor Trustee such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment
of
its charges, duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all
Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust.
(b) Upon
request of any such successor Trustee, the Trust (or the retiring Trustee if
requested by the Depositor) shall execute any and all instruments for more
fully
and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such
rights, powers and trusts referred to in the preceding paragraph.
(c) No
successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this
Article
VIII.
SECTION
8.13 Merger,
Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any
Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be merged
or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from
any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Trustee shall be a party,
or
any Person succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of such Trustee, shall be the successor of such 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 such Person shall be otherwise qualified and
eligible under this Article
VIII.
SECTION
8.14 Trustees
Not Individually Responsible for Recitals and Issuance of Securities &
Representations.
The
recitals contained herein and in the Securities Certificates shall be taken
as
the statements of the Trust and the Depositor, and the Trustees do not assume
any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustees make no representations
as to the title to, or value or condition of, the property of the Trust or
any
part thereof, nor as to the validity or sufficiency of this Trust Agreement,
the
Notes or the Trust Securities. The Trustees shall not be accountable for the
use
or application by the Depositor of the proceeds of the Notes.
It
is
expressly understood and agreed by the parties hereto that insofar as any
document, agreement or certificate is executed on behalf of the Trust by any
Trustee (i) such document, agreement or certificate is executed and delivered
by
such Trustee, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee under this
Trust Agreement in the exercise of the powers and authority conferred and vested
in it, (ii) each of the representations, undertakings and agreements made on
the
part of the Trust is made and intended not as representations, warranties,
covenants, undertakings and agreements by any Trustee in its individual capacity
but is made and intended for the purpose of binding only the Trust and (iii)
under no circumstances shall any Trustee in its individual capacity be
personally liable for the payment of any indebtedness or expenses of the Trust
or be liable for the breach or failure of any obligation, representation,
warranty or covenant made or undertaken by the Trust under this Trust Agreement
or any other document, agreement or certificate.
SECTION
8.15 Property
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
(a) In
case
of any Bankruptcy Event (or event that with the passage of time would become
a
Bankruptcy Event) relative to the Trust or any other obligor upon the Trust
Securities or the property of the Trust or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions
on
the Trust Securities shall then be due and payable and irrespective of whether
the Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Trust for the payment
of
any past due Distributions) shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise:
(i) to
file
and prove a claim for the whole amount of any Distributions owing and unpaid
in
respect of the Trust Securities and to file such other papers or documents
as
may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Property Trustee
(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders
allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
(ii) to
collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on
any
such claims and to distribute the same;
and
any
custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other
similar official in any such proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder
to
make such payments to the Property Trustee and, in the event the Property
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders,
to
pay to the Property Trustee first any amount due it for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee,
its
agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property Trustee.
(b) Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Property Trustee to authorize
or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or compensation affecting the Trust
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Property
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.
SECTION
8.16 Reports
to the Property Trustee.
(a) The
Depositor and the Administrative Trustees shall deliver to the Property Trustee,
not later than forty five (45) days after the end of each of the first three
fiscal quarters of the Depositor and not later than ninety (90) days after
the
end of each fiscal year of the Trust ending after the date of this Trust
Agreement, an Officers’ Certificate covering the preceding fiscal quarter or
fiscal year, as the case may be, stating whether or not to the knowledge of
the
signers thereof the Depositor and the Trust are in default in the performance
or
observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Trust
Agreement (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice
provided hereunder) and, if the Depositor or the Trust shall be in default,
specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they
have knowledge.
(b) The
Depositor shall furnish (i) to the Property Trustee; (ii) to the Purchaser
at
2107 Wilson Blvd., Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22201, Attention: Robert Hurley,
Chief Financial Officer, or at such other address as designated by Purchaser)
and (iii) any Owner of the Preferred Securities reasonably identified to the
Depositor and the Trust (which identification may be made either by such Owner
or by Purchaser) a duly completed and executed certificate substantively and
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
F,
including the financial statements referenced in such Exhibit, which certificate
and financial statements shall be so furnished not later than forty five (45)
days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal
year of the Depositor and not later than ninety (90) days after the end of
each
fiscal year of the Depositor.
(c) The
Depositor shall furnish to the Owners of the Preferred Securities and to
prospective purchasers thereof, upon their request, the information required
to
be furnished pursuant
to Rule 144(A)(d)(4) under the Securities Act. The delivery requirement set
forth in the preceding sentence may be satisfied by compliance with Section
8.16(b) hereof
(d) The
Property Trustee may obtain all reports, certificates and information, which
it
is entitled to obtain under each of the Operative
Documents.
ARTICLE
IX
TERMINATION,
LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION
9.1 Dissolution
Upon Expiration Date.
Unless
earlier dissolved, the Trust shall automatically dissolve on February 5, 2027
(the “Expiration
Date”),
and
the Trust Property shall be liquidated in accordance with Section
9.4.
SECTION
9.2 Early
Termination.
The
first
to occur of any of the following events is an “Early
Termination Event”,
upon
the occurrence of which the Trust shall be dissolved:
(a) the
occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the dissolution or
liquidation of, the Depositor, in its capacity as the Holder of the Common
Securities, unless the Depositor shall have transferred the Common Securities
as
provided by Section
5.11,
in
which case this provision shall refer instead to any such successor Holder
of
the Common Securities;
(b) the
written direction to the Property Trustee from the Holder of the Common
Securities at any time to dissolve the Trust and, after satisfaction of any
liabilities of the Trust as required by applicable law and in accordance with
written instructions of the Administrative Trustees, to distribute the Notes
to
Holders in exchange for the Preferred Securities (which direction is optional
and wholly within the discretion of the Holder of the Common
Securities);
(c) the
redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in connection with the payment
at
maturity or redemption of all the Notes; and
(d) the
entry
of an order for dissolution of the Trust by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
SECTION
9.3 Termination.
(a) The
respective obligations and responsibilities of the Trustees and the Trust shall
terminate upon the latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by
the
Property Trustee to Holders of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder
upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section
9.4,
or upon
the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2;
(b)
the
satisfaction of any expenses owed by the Trust; and (c) the discharge of all
administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees, including the performance
of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Trust or the
Holders.
(b) As
soon
as practicable thereafter, and after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors
of
the Trust as required by applicable law, including section 3808 of the Delaware
Statutory Trust Act,
the
Delaware Trustee, when notified by the Administrative Trustees in writing of
the
completion of the winding up of the Trust in accordance with the Delaware
Statutory Trust Act, shall terminate the Trust by filing, at the expense of
the
Depositor, a certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware.
SECTION
9.4 Liquidation.
(a) If
an
Early Termination Event specified in Section
9.2(a),
(b)
or
(d)
occurs
or upon the Expiration Date, the Trust shall be liquidated by the Property
Trustee as expeditiously as the Property Trustee shall determine to be possible
by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust
as
provided by applicable law, to each Holder a Like Amount of Notes, subject
to
Section
9.4(d).
Notice
of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee not less than thirty
(30)
nor more than sixty (60) days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder
of
Trust Securities at such Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register.
All such notices of liquidation shall:
(i) state
the
Liquidation Date;
(ii) state
that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities will no longer
be
deemed to be Outstanding and (subject to Section
9.4(d))
any
Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent
a Like Amount of Notes; and
(iii)
provide such information with respect to the mechanics by which Holders may
exchange Securities Certificates for Notes, or if Section
9.4(d)
applies,
receive a Liquidation Distribution, as the Administrative Trustees shall deem
appropriate.
(b) Except
where Section
9.2(c)
or
9.4(d)
applies,
in order to effect the liquidation of the Trust and distribution of the Notes
to
Holders, the Property Trustee, either itself acting as exchange agent or through
the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish a record date
for
such distribution (which shall not be more than forty five (45) days prior
to
the Liquidation Date nor prior to the date on which notice of such liquidation
is given to the Holders) and establish such procedures as it shall deem
appropriate to effect the distribution of Notes in exchange for the Outstanding
Securities Certificates.
(c) Except
where Section
9.2(c)
or
9.4(d)
applies,
after the Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed
to
be Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Notes will
be
issued to Holders of Securities Certificates, upon surrender of such
Certificates to the exchange agent for exchange, (iii) the Depositor shall
use
its best efforts to have the Notes listed on the New York Stock Exchange or
on
such other exchange, interdealer quotation system or self-regulatory
organization on which the Preferred Securities are then listed, if any, (iv)
Securities Certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to
represent a Like Amount of Notes bearing accrued and unpaid interest in an
amount equal to the accumulated and unpaid Distributions on such Securities
Certificates until such certificates are so surrendered (and until such
certificates are so surrendered, no payments of interest or principal will
be
made to Holders of Securities Certificates with respect to such Notes) and
(v)
all rights of Holders
holding Trust Securities will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive
Notes upon surrender of Securities Certificates.
(d) Notwithstanding
the other provisions of this Section
9.4,
if
distribution of the Notes in the manner provided herein is determined by
the
Property Trustee not to be permitted or practical, the Trust Property shall
be
liquidated, and the Trust shall be wound up by the Administrative Trustees
in
such manner as the Administrative Trustees determine. In such event, Holders
will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Trust available for
distribution to
Holders,
after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by
applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security
plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such
amount being the “Liquidation
Distribution”).
If,
upon any such winding up the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part
because the Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate
Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the
amounts payable by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a
pro
rata
basis
(based upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holder of the Common Securities will
be
entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such winding up
pro
rata (based
upon Liquidation Amounts) with Holders of all Trust Securities, except that,
if
an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Preferred Securities
shall have a priority over the Common Securities as provided in Section
4.3.
SECTION
9.5 Mergers,
Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Trust.
The
Trust
may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to, any Person except pursuant to this Article
IX.
At the
request of the Holders of the Common Securities, without the consent of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities, the Trust may merge with or into,
consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as
such
under the laws of any State; provided, that:
(a) such
successor entity either (i) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the
Trust under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Preferred Securities or
(ii) substitutes for the Preferred Securities other securities having
substantially the same terms as the Preferred Securities (such other Securities,
the “Successor
Securities”)
so long
as the Successor Securities have the same priority as the Preferred Securities
with respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and
otherwise;
(b) a
trustee
of such successor entity possessing substantially the same powers and duties
as
the Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Notes;
(c) if
the
Preferred Securities or the Notes are rated, such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not cause the
Preferred Securities or the Notes (including any Successor Securities) to be
downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization that
then assigns a rating to the Preferred Securities or the Notes;
(d) the
Preferred Securities are listed, or any Successor Securities will be listed
upon
notice of issuance, on any national securities exchange or interdealer quotation
system on which the Preferred Securities are then listed, if any;
(e) such
merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease
does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders
of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material
respect;
(f) such
successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the
Trust;
(g) prior
to
such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer
or
lease, the Depositor has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
(i)
such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer
or
lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in
any
material respect; (ii) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor such successor
entity will be required to register as an “investment company” under the
Investment Company Act and (iii) following such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Trust (or the
successor entity) will continue to be classified as a grantor trust for U.S.
federal income tax purposes; and
(h) the
Depositor or its permitted transferee owns all of the common securities of
such
successor entity.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Trust shall not, except with the consent of Holders of all
of
the Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be
replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially
as an entirety to any other Person or permit any other entity to consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace, the Trust if such consolidation,
amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause
the
Trust or the successor entity to be taxable as a corporation or classified
as
other than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes or
cause the Notes to be treated as other than indebtedness of the Depositor for
United States federal income tax purposes.
ARTICLE
X
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
SECTION
10.1 Limitation
of Rights of Holders.
Except
as
set forth in Section
9.2,
the
death, bankruptcy, termination, dissolution or incapacity of any Person having
an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not operate
to
terminate this Trust Agreement, nor annul, dissolve or terminate the Trust
nor
entitle the legal representatives or heirs of such Person or any Holder for
such
Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in
any
court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated hereby,
nor
otherwise affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto
or any of them.
SECTION
10.2 Agreed
Tax Treatment of Trust and Trust Securities.
The
parties hereto and, by its acceptance or acquisition of a Trust Security
or a
beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires
a
beneficial interest in, such Trust Security intend and agree to treat the
Trust
as a grantor trust for United States federal, state and local tax purposes,
and
to treat the Trust Securities (including all payments and proceeds with respect
to such Trust Securities) as undivided beneficial ownership interests in
the
Trust Property (and payments and proceeds therefrom, respectively) for United
States federal, state and local tax
purposes
and to treat the Notes as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States
federal, state and local tax purposes. The provisions of this Trust Agreement
shall be interpreted to further this intention and agreement of the
parties.
SECTION
10.3 Amendment.
(a)
This
Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Property Trustee, the
Administrative Trustees and the Holder of all the Common Securities, without
the
consent of any Holder of the Preferred Securities, (i) to cure any ambiguity,
correct or supplement any provision herein that may be defective or inconsistent
with any other provision herein, or to make or amend any other provisions with
respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which shall
not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement, (ii)
to
modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such
extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Trust will neither be taxable
as
a corporation nor be classified as other than a grantor trust for United States
federal income tax purposes at all times that any Trust Securities are
Outstanding or to ensure that the Notes are treated as indebtedness of the
Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes, or to ensure that
the
Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the
Investment Company Act or (iii) to add to the covenants, restrictions or
obligations of the Depositor; provided, that in the case of clauses (i), (ii)
or
(iii), such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of any Holder.
(b) Except
as
provided in Section
10.3(c),
any
provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Property Trustee, the
Administrative Trustees and the Holder of all of the Common Securities and
with
(i) the consent of Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of
the
Preferred Securities and (ii) receipt by the Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the
Trustees in accordance with such amendment will not cause the Trust to be
taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for United
States federal income tax purposes or affect the treatment of the Notes as
indebtedness of the Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes
or
affect the Trust’s exemption from status (or from any requirement to register)
as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act. In addition to and
subject to the foregoing, the Distribution Dates, Redemption Date and Stated
Maturity (as defined in the Indenture) with respect to the Preferred Securities
or a portion of the Preferred Securities shall be conformed in connection with
any modification of the Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of the Junior Subordinated Notes made by the Company and the Trust
at
the direction of any holder of the Preferred Securities or a portion of the
Preferred Securities as set forth in Section 6(m) of the Purchase Agreement;
provided,
that
all reasonable expenses in connection with such modification shall be paid
by
the Holders of the Preferred Securities directing
such modification. If, at the time the Purchaser or their successors elect
to
exercise such right, the Trust Agreement has not been so amended, the Property
Trustee, the Administrative Trustees, the Holder of all of the Common Securities
and each Holder of Preferred Securities each agrees, without prejudice to
Section 10.3(f), to use commercially reasonable efforts to so amend the Trust
Agreement upon such election.
(c) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Trust Agreement, without the consent of each
Holder,
this Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the accrual rate, amount,
currency
or timing of any Distribution on or the redemption price of the Trust Securities
or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution or other payment
required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a specified date,
(ii) restrict or impair the right of a Holder to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after such date, (iii) reduce the
percentage of aggregate Liquidation Amount of Outstanding Preferred Securities,
the consent of whose Holders is required for any such amendment, or the consent
of whose Holders is required for any waiver of compliance with any provision
of
this Trust Agreement or of defaults hereunder and their consequences provided
for in this Trust Agreement; (iv) impair or adversely affect the rights and
interests of the Holders in the Trust Property, or permit the creation of any
Lien on any portion of the Trust Property; or (v) modify the definition of
“Outstanding,” this Section
10.3(c), Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.10(e)
or
Article
IX.
(d) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Trust Agreement, no Trustee shall enter into or
consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement that would cause the Trust
to
be taxable as a corporation or to be classified as other than a grantor trust
for United States federal income tax purposes or that would cause the Notes
to
fail or cease to be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States
federal income tax purposes or that would cause the Trust to fail or cease
to
qualify for the exemption from status (or from any requirement to register)
as
an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act.
(e) If
any
amendment to this Trust Agreement is made, the Administrative Trustees or the
Property Trustee shall promptly provide to the Depositor and the Note Trustee
a
copy of such amendment.
(f) No
Trustee shall be required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement
that affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement.
The Trustees shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers’
Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance
with this Trust Agreement and all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such action have been met.
(g) No
amendment or modification to this Trust Agreement that adversely affects in
any
material respect the rights, duties, liabilities, indemnities or immunities
of
the Delaware Trustee hereunder shall be permitted without the prior written
consent of the Delaware Trustee.
SECTION
10.4 Separability.
If
any
provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Securities Certificates shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability
of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby,
and there shall be deemed substituted for the provision
at issue a valid, legal and enforceable provision as similar as possible to
the
provision at issue.
SECTION
10.5 Governing
Law.
THIS
TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE HOLDERS, THE
TRUST, THE DEPOSITOR AND THE TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT
AND
THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND
GOVERNED
BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICTS OF
LAWS
PROVISIONS; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THERE SHALL NOT BE APPLICABLE TO THE PARTIES
HEREUNDER OR THIS TRUST AGREEMENT ANY PROVISION OF THE LAWS (COMMON OR
STATUTORY) OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE PERTAINING TO TRUSTS THAT RELATE TO OR
REGULATE, IN A MANNER INCONSISTENT WITH THE TERMS HEREOF, (A) THE FILING WITH
ANY COURT OR GOVERNMENTAL BODY OR AGENCY OF TRUSTEE ACCOUNTS OR SCHEDULES OF
TRUSTEE FEES AND CHARGES, (B) AFFIRMATIVE REQUIREMENTS TO POST BONDS FOR
TRUSTEES, OFFICERS, AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES OF A TRUST, (C) THE NECESSITY FOR
OBTAINING COURT OR OTHER GOVERNMENTAL APPROVAL CONCERNING THE ACQUISITION,
HOLDING OR DISPOSITION OF REAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY, (D) FEES OR OTHER SUMS
PAYABLE TO TRUSTEES, OFFICERS, AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES OF A TRUST, (E) THE
ALLOCATION OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES TO INCOME OR PRINCIPAL, (F) RESTRICTIONS
OR LIMITATIONS ON THE PERMISSIBLE NATURE, AMOUNT OR CONCENTRATION OF TRUST
INVESTMENTS OR REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO THE TITLING, STORAGE OR OTHER MANNER
OF
HOLDING OR INVESTING TRUST ASSETS OR (G) THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FIDUCIARY OR
OTHER
STANDARDS OF RESPONSIBILITY OR LIMITATIONS ON THE ACTS OR POWERS OF TRUSTEES
THAT ARE INCONSISTENT WITH THE LIMITATIONS OR AUTHORITIES AND POWERS OF THE
TRUSTEES HEREUNDER AS SET FORTH OR REFERENCED IN THIS AGREEMENT. SECTION 3540
OF
TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE TRUST. The parties hereto
hereby consent to (i) the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State
of Delaware and any Federal court sitting in Wilmington, Delaware, and (ii)
service of process by certified mail. The foregoing shall not preclude any
party
from bringing an action in any other jurisdiction or from serving process in
any
other legal means.
SECTION
10.6 Successors.
This
Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any
successor to the Depositor, the Trust and any Trustee, including any successor
by operation of law. Except in connection with a transaction involving the
Depositor that is permitted under Article
VIII
of the
Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the
Depositor’s obligations hereunder, the Depositor shall not assign its
obligations hereunder.
SECTION
10.7 Headings.
The
Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not affect
the
construction of this Trust Agreement
SECTION
10.8 Reports,
Notices and Demands.
(a) Any
report, notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this
Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon
any
Holder or the Depositor may be given or served in writing delivered in person,
or by reputable, overnight
courier,
by telecopy or by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United
States mail, addressed, (a) in the case of a Holder of Preferred Securities,
to
such Holder as such Holder’s name and address may appear on the Securities
Register; and (b) in the case of the Holder of all the Common Securities or
the
Depositor, to Reading International, Inc., 500 Citadel Drive, Suite 300,
Commerce, California 90040, or to such other address as may be specified in
a
written notice by the Holder of all the Common Securities or the Depositor,
as
the case may be, to the Property Trustee. Such report, notice, demand or other
communication to or upon a Holder or the Depositor shall be deemed to have
been
given when received in person, within one (1) Business Day following delivery
by
overnight courier, when telecopied with receipt confirmed, or within three
(3)
Business Days following delivery by mail, except that if a notice or other
document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed address
of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be deemed
to
have been delivered on the date of such refusal or inability to
deliver.
(b) Any
notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of this Trust
Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon the Property
Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees or the Trust shall
be
given in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the U.S.
mail, personal delivery or facsimile transmission, addressed to such Person
as
follows: (i) with respect to the Property Trustee to 919 North Market Street,
Suite 700, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, facsimile no. (302) 575-2006, (ii) with
respect to the Delaware Trustee, to 919 North Market Street, Suite 700,
Wilmington, Delaware 19801, facsimile no. (302) 575-2006; (iii) with respect
to
the Administrative Trustees, to them at the address above for notices to the
Depositor, marked “Attention: Administrative Trustees of Reading International
Trust I”, and (iv) with respect to the Trust, to its principal executive office
specified in Section
2.2,
with a
copy to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or other communication to
or
upon the Trust, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of
the
writing by the Trust, the Property Trustee or the Administrative
Trustees.
SECTION
10.9 Agreement
Not to Petition.
Each
of
the Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the Holders that, until
at least one year and one day after the Trust has been terminated in accordance
with Article
IX,
they
shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Trust under
any
Bankruptcy Law or otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against
the Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. If the Depositor takes action in violation
of this Section
10.9,
the
Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Holders, that at the expense of
the
Depositor, it shall file an answer with the applicable bankruptcy court or
otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by the Depositor against
the Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense
that the Depositor has agreed in writing not to take such action and should
be
estopped and precluded therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as counsel
for
the Property Trustee or the Trust may assert.
SECTION
10.10 Counterparts.
This
instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so
executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
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Fargo Bank, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely as
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Fargo Delaware Trust Company, not in its individual capacity, but
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Administrative
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Exhibit
A
CERTIFICATE
OF TRUST
OF
READING
INTERNATIONAL TRUST I
This
Certificate of Trust of Reading International Trust I (the "Trust")
is
being duly executed and filed on behalf of the Trust by the undersigned, as
trustee, to form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12
Del.
C.§3801
et seq.)
(the
"Act").
1. Name.
The name
of the statutory trust formed by this Certificate of Trust is: Reading
International Trust I.
2. Delaware
Trustee.
The name
and business address of the trustee of the Trust with its principal place of
business in the State of Delaware are Wells Fargo Delaware Trust Company, 919
North Market Street, Suite 700, Wilmington, Delaware 19801.
3. Effective
Date.
This
Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon its filing with the Secretary
of
State of the State of Delaware.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this Certificate of Trust
in
accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.
Wells
Fargo Delaware Trust Company,
not in its individual capacity, but solely as Delaware
Trustee
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Exhibit
B
[FORM
OF
COMMON SECURITIES CERTIFICATE]
THIS
COMMON SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS
AND
MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT
TO AN
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION. THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN
COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT
Certificate
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Certificate
Evidencing Common Securities
READING
INTERNATIONAL TRUST I
Common
Securities
(liquidation
amount $1,000 per Common Security)
Reading
International Trust I, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State
of
Delaware (the "Trust"),
hereby certifies that Reading International, Inc., a Nevada corporation (the
"Holder")
is the
registered owner of One Thousand Five Hundred Forty Seven (1,547) common
securities of the Trust representing undivided common beneficial interests
in
the assets of the Trust and designated the Reading International Trust I Common
Securities (liquidation amount $1,000 per Common Security) (the "Common
Securities").
Except in accordance with Section
5.11
of the
Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Common Securities are not transferable
and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer hereof
other
than in accordance therewith shall be void. The designations, rights,
privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the
Common Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Common
Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject
to
the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the
Trust, dated as of February 5, 2007 as the same may be amended from time to
time
(the "Trust
Agreement"),
among
Reading International, Inc., as Depositor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Property
Trustee, Wells Fargo Delaware Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the
Administrative Trustees named therein and the Holders, from time to time, of
Trust Securities. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the
Holder without charge upon written request to the Trust at the Corporate Trust
Office.
Upon
receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and
is
entitled to the benefits thereunder.
This
Common Securities Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware without reference to its conflict of
law
provisions.
Terms
used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Trust
Agreement.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has executed
on
behalf of the Trust this certificate this 5th day of February,
2007.
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Exhibit
C
[FORM
OF PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE]
"[IF
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY INSERT:
THIS
PREFERRED SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY ("DTC") OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS PREFERRED SECURITY
IS
EXCHANGEABLE FOR PREFERRED SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER
THAN DTC OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE
TRUST
AGREEMENT, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS PREFERRED SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER
OF
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE
OF
DTC TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC
TO
READING INTERNATIONAL TRUST I OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY PREFERRED SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME
OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.]
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED
IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH
REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF ANY
PREFERRED SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE PREFERRED
SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5
OF
THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
THE
HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES
MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE TRUST OR THE
DEPOSITOR OR (II) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS (a) A
"QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT AND (b) A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED), OR (III) TO A PERSON WHOM THE
SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION
2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED), AND (B) THE HOLDER
WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES FROM IT OF THE RESALE
RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING
AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED
TRANSFER
OF PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE
LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS
THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED
NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST ON SUCH PREFERRED
SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE
DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES.
THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF
OR
THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE
I OF
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"),
OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE")
(EACH
A "PLAN”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE "PLAN ASSETS" BY REASON
OF ANY PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING "PLAN ASSETS"
OF
ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS PREFERRED SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN.
ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN
WILL
BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT IT IS
NOT
AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A
PLAN
TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON
ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR
ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH
PURCHASE.
THIS
OBLIGATION IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY
AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION (THE "FDIC").
Certificate
Number P-1 $50,000,000 Aggregate Liquidation Amount 50,000
Preferred Securities
CUSIP
NO.
755411AA3
Certificate
Evidencing Preferred Securities
READING
INTERNATIONAL TRUST I
Preferred
Securities
(liquidation
amount $1,000 per Preferred Security)
Reading
International Trust I, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State
of
Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that Cede & Co.(the "Holder")
is the
registered owner of _____________ Preferred Securities [if
the Preferred Security is a Global Security, then insert—
or
such other number of Preferred Securities represented hereby as may be set
forth
in the records of the Securities Registrar hereinafter referred to in accordance
with the Trust Agreement (as defined below)] of the Trust representing an
undivided preferred beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust and
designated the Reading International Trust I Preferred Securities, (liquidation
amount $1,000 per Preferred Security) (the "Preferred
Securities").
Subject to the terms of the Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Preferred
Securities are transferable on the books and records of the Trust, in person
or
by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed
and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section
5.7
of the
Trust Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges,
restrictions, preferences and other terms and provisions of the Preferred
Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Preferred Securities
represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to the terms
and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated
as of February 5, 2007, as the same may be amended from time to time (the
"Trust
Agreement"),
among
Reading International, Inc., as Depositor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Property
Trustee, Wells Fargo Delaware Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the
Administrative Trustees named therein and the Holders, from time to time, of
Trust Securities. The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the
Holder without charge upon written request to the Property Trustee at its
Corporate Trust Office.
Upon
receipt of this certificate, the Holders bound by the Trust Agreement and is
entitled to the benefits thereunder.
This
Preferred Securities Certificate shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware.
All
capitalized terms used but not defined in this Preferred Securities Certificate
are used with the meanings specified in the Trust Agreement including the
Schedules and Exhibits thereto.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has executed
on
behalf of the Trust this certificate this 5th day of February,
2007.
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Administrative
Trustee
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This
is
one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.
Dated:
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WELLS
FARGO BANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely as
Property
Trustee
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Authorized
signatory
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[FORM
OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]
The
Trust
promises to pay Distributions from February 5, 2007, or from the most recent
Distribution Date to which Distributions have been paid or duly provided for,
quarterly in arrears on January 30, April 30, July 30 and October 30 of each
year, commencing on April 30, 2007, at a fixed rate equal to 9.22% per annum
through the Interest Payment Date on April 30, 2012, and thereafter at a
variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 4.00% per annum of
the
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities represented by this Preferred
Securities Certificate, together with any Additional Interest Amounts, in
respect to such period.
Distributions
on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Paying Agent from the Payment
Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent that
the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such Distributions.
Distributions
on the Securities must be paid on the dates payable to the extent that the
Trust
has funds available for the payment of such Distributions in the Payment Account
of the Trust. The Trust's funds available for Distribution to the Holders of
the
Preferred Securities will be limited to payments received from the
Depositor.
During
any Event of Default, Depositor shall not (i) declare or pay any dividends
or
distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment
with respect to, any of the Depositor's capital stock or (ii) make any payment
of principal of or any interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase
or
redeem any debt securities of the Depositor that rank pari
passu
in all
respects with or junior in interest to the Notes (other than (a) repurchases,
redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Depositor
in
connection with (1) any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar
arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers,
directors or consultants, (2) a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock
purchase plan or (3) the issuance of capital stock of the Depositor (or
securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as
consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable
Event of Default, (b) as a result of an exchange or conversion of any class
or
series of the Depositor's capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary
(as defined in the Indenture) of the Depositor) for any class or series of
the
Depositor's capital stock or of any class or series of the Depositor's
indebtedness for any class or series of the Depositor's capital stock, (c)
the
purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Depositor's capital stock
pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or
the
security being converted or exchanged, (d) any declaration of a dividend in
connection with any Rights Plan (as defined in the Indenture), the issuance
of
rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan, or the redemption or
repurchase of rights pursuant thereto or (e) any dividend in the form of stock,
warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable
upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as
that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari
passu
with or
junior to such stock).
On
each
Note Redemption Date, on the stated maturity (or any date of principal repayment
upon early maturity) of the Notes and on each other date on (or in respect
of)
which any principal on the Notes is repaid, the Trust will be required to redeem
a Like Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price. Under the Indenture,
the Notes may be redeemed by the Depositor on any Interest Payment Date, at
the
Depositor's option, on or after the expiration of the No Call Period, in whole
or in part from time to time at the Optional Note Redemption Price of the
principal amount thereof or the redeemed portion thereof, as applicable,
together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including
additional Interest, to but excluding the date fixed for redemption. The Notes
may also be redeemed by the Depositor, at its option, at any time, in whole
but
not in part, upon the occurrence of an Investment Company Event or a Tax Event
at the Special Note Redemption Price; and provided,
further,
that
such Investment
Company
Event or a Tax Event is continuing on the Redemption Date. In addition, upon
the
election of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Holders of
Preferred Securities to cause the redemption or defeasance of the Notes in
accordance with the Indenture upon a Change of Control, the Notes relating
to
the Electing Securities (as defined in the Indenture) must be redeemed at the
Optional Note Redemption Price or defeased pursuant to the terms of the
Indenture.
The
Trust
Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption
Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption or payment at
maturity of Notes. Redemptions of the Trust Securities (or portion thereof)
shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption
Date
only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the
Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
Payments
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts), the Redemption
Price, Liquidation Amount or any other amounts in respect of the Preferred
Securities shall be made by wire transfer at such place and to such account
at a
banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing at
least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment by the Person
entitled thereto unless proper written transfer instructions have not been
received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments shall be
made
by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall appear
in
the Security Register. If any Preferred Securities are held by a Depositary,
such Distributions shall be made to the Depositary in immediately available
funds.
The
indebtedness evidenced by the Notes is, to the extent provided in the Indenture,
subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of
all
Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture), and this Security is issued subject
to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR
VALUE
RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred Securities
Certificate to:
(Insert
assignee's social security or tax identification number)
(Insert
address and zip code of assignee)
and
irrevocably appoints
agent
to
transfer this Preferred Securities Certificate on the books of the Trust. The
agent may substitute another to act for him or her.
Date:
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(Sign
exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred
Securities Certificate)
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The
signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks,
stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership
in
an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to S.E.C. Rule
17Ad-15.
Exhibit
D
Junior
Subordinated Indenture
Exhibit
E
Form
of Transferee Certificate
to
be Executed by Transferees
Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A.
919
North
Market Street
Suite
700
Wilmington,
Delaware 19801
Attention:
Tracy M. McLamb
Reading
International Trust I
500
Citadel Drive, Suite 300
Commerce,
California 90040
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Purchase
of $50,000,000 stated liquidation amount of
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Preferred
Securities (the "Preferred Securities") of Reading International Trust
I
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
In
connection with our purchase of the Preferred Securities we confirm
that:
1. We
understand that the Preferred Securities (the "Preferred Securities") of Reading
International Trust I (the "Trust") of Reading International, Inc. (the
"Company") executed in connection therewith) and the Junior Subordinated Notes
due 2027 of the Company (the "Subordinated Notes") (the entire amount of the
Trust's outstanding Preferred Securities and the Subordinated Notes together
being referred to herein as the "Offered Securities"), have not been registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and may
not
be offered or sold except as permitted in the following sentence. We agree
on
our own behalf and on behalf of any investor account for which we are purchasing
the Offered Securities that, if we decide to offer, sell or otherwise transfer
any such Offered Securities, (i) such offer, sale or transfer will be made
only
(a) to the Trust, (b) to a person we reasonably believe is a "qualified
purchaser" (a "QP") (as defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended and in compliance with the Securities Act of 1933).
We
understand that the certificates for any Offered Security that we receive will
bear a legend substantially to the effect of the foregoing.
2. We
are a
"qualified purchaser" within the meaning of Section 2(a)(51) of the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended, and are purchasing for our own account or
for
the account of such a "qualified purchaser," and we have such knowledge and
experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of evaluating
the
merits and risks of our investment in the Offered Securities, and we and any
account for which we are acting are each able to bear the economic risks of
our
or its investment.
3. We
are
acquiring the Offered Securities purchased by us for our own account (or for
one
or more accounts as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion
and
have authority to make, and do make, the statements contained in this letter)
and not with a view to any distribution of the Offered Securities, subject,
nevertheless, to the understanding that the disposition of our property will
at
all times be and remain within our control.
4. In
the
event that we purchase any Preferred Securities or any Subordinated Notes,
we
will acquire such Preferred Securities having an aggregate stated liquidation
amount
of
not
less than $100,000 or such Subordinated Notes having an aggregate principal
amount not less than $100,000, for our own account and for each separate account
for which we are acting.
5. We
acknowledge that we are not a fiduciary of (i) an employee benefit, individual
retirement account or other plan or arrangement subject to Title I of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), or
Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code")
(each
a "Plan"); or (ii) an entity whose underlying assets include "plan assets"
by
reason of any Plan's investment in the entity, and are not purchasing any of
the
Offered Securities on behalf of or with "plan assets" by reason of any Plan's
investment in the entity.
6. We
acknowledge that the Trust and the Company and others will rely upon the truth
and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments, representations, warranties
and
agreements and agree that if any of the acknowledgments, representations,
warranties and agreements deemed to have been made by our purchase of any of
the
Offered Securities are no longer accurate, we shall promptly notify the Company.
If we are acquiring any Offered Securities as a fiduciary or agent for one
or
more investor accounts, we represent that we have sole discretion with respect
to each such investor account and that we have full power to make the foregoing
acknowledgments, representations and agreement on behalf of each such investor
account.
(Name
of
Purchaser)
By:
Date:
Upon
transfer, the Preferred Securities (having a stated liquidation amount of
$ )
would
be registered in the name of the new beneficial owner as follows.
Name:
Address:
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Taxpayer
ID Number:
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Exhibit
F
Officer's
Financial Certificate
The
undersigned, the [Chairman/Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer/President/Vice
President/Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer/Assistant Treasurer], hereby
certifies pursuant to Section 8.16(b) of the Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2007 (the "Trust Agreement"), among Reading
International, Inc. (the "Company"), Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as property
trustee, Wells Fargo Delaware Trust Company, as Delaware trustee, and the
administrative trustees named therein, that, as of [date], [20__], the Company
had the following ratio and balances:
As
of
[Quarterly/Annual Financial Date], 20__
[insert
calculation of covenants]
*
A table
describing the officer's financial certificate calculation procedures is
provided on page 3
[FOR
FISCAL YEAR END: Attached hereto are the audited consolidated financial
statements (including the balance sheet, income statement and statement of
cash
flows, and notes thereto, together with the report of the independent
accountants thereon) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the
three years ended ________, 20___].]
[FOR
FISCAL QUARTER END: Attached hereto are the unaudited consolidated and
consolidating financial statements (including the balance sheet and income
statement) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the fiscal
quarter ended [date], 20_.]
The
financial statements fairly present in all material respects, in accordance
with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), the financial position
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, and the results of operations
and changes in financial condition as of the date, and for the [quarter]
[annual]
period
ended [date],
20__,
and such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied throughout the period involved (expect as otherwise noted
therein).
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Officer's Financial
Certificate as of this ____ day of _________, ____.
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Name:
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Address:
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Citadel Drive, Suite 300
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Commerce,
California 90040
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Schedule
A
DETERMINATION
OF LIBOR
With
respect to the Trust Securities, the London interbank offered rate (“LIBOR”)
shall be determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the following
provisions (in each case rounded to the nearest .000001%):
(1) On
the
second LIBOR Business Day (as defined below) prior to a Distribution Date
occurring after the expiration of the Fixed Rate Period (each such day, a
“LIBOR
Determination Date”),
LIBOR
for any given security shall for the following interest payment period equal
the
rate, as obtained by the Calculation Agent from Bloomberg Financial Markets
Commodities News, for three-month Eurodollar deposits that appears on Dow Jones
Telerate Page 3750 (as defined in the International Swaps and Derivatives
Association, Inc. 2000 Interest Rate and Currency Exchange Definitions), or
such
other page as may replace such Page 3750, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on
such
LIBOR Determination Date.
(2) If,
on
any LIBOR Determination Date, such rate does not appear on Dow Jones Telerate
Page 3750 or such other page as may replace such Page 3750, the Calculation
Agent shall determine the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations of the
Reference Banks (as defined below) to leading banks in the London interbank
market for three-month Eurodollar deposits in an amount determined by the
Calculation Agent by reference to requests for quotations as of approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) on the LIBOR Determination Date made by the Calculation
Agent to the Reference Banks. If, on any LIBOR Determination Date, at least
two
of the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR shall equal such
arithmetic mean of such quotations. If, on any LIBOR Determination Date, only
one or none of the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR shall be
deemed to be the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations that leading banks
in
the City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent are quoting on the
relevant LIBOR Determination Date for three-month Eurodollar deposits in an
amount determined by the Calculation Agent by reference to the principal London
offices of leading banks in the London interbank market; provided,
that if
the Calculation Agent is required but is unable to determine a rate in
accordance with at least one of the procedures provided above, LIBOR shall
be
LIBOR as determined on the previous LIBOR Determination Date.
(3) As
used
herein: “Reference
Banks”
means
four major banks in the London interbank market selected by the Calculation
Agent; and “LIBOR
Business Day”
means
a
day on which commercial banks are open for business (including dealings in
foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London.
EXHIBIT
10.4
JUNIOR
SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
among
READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
READING
NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED
and
WELLS
FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as
Trustee
_______________________
Dated
as
of February 5, 2007
________________________
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ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
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SECTION
1.1.
Definitions
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SECTION
1.2.
Compliance Certificate and Opinions
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SECTION
1.3.
Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee
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SECTION
1.4.
Acts of Holders
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SECTION
1.5.
Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company
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SECTION
1.6.
Notice to Holders; Waiver
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SECTION
1.7.
Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
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SECTION
1.8.
Successors and Assigns; Option of Company
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SECTION
1.9.
Separability Clause
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SECTION
1.10.
Benefits of Indenture
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SECTION
1.11.
Governing Law
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SECTION
1.12.
Submission to Jurisdiction
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SECTION
1.13.
Non-Business Days
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SECTION
1.14.
Company as Agent
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SECTION
1.15.
Acknowledgement of Joint and Several Liability
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ARTICLE
II
SECURITY FORMS
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SECTION
2.1.
Form of Security
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SECTION
2.2.
Restricted Legend
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SECTION
2.3.
Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
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SECTION
2.4.
Temporary Securities
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SECTION
2.5.
Definitive Securities
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ARTICLE
III
THE SECURITIES
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24
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SECTION
3.1.
Payment of Principal and Interest
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24
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SECTION
3.2.
Denominations
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26
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SECTION
3.3.
Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating
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26
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SECTION
3.4.
Global Securities
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27
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SECTION
3.5.
Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally
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29
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SECTION
3.6.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
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30
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SECTION
3.7.
Persons Deemed Owners
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31
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SECTION
3.8.
Cancellation
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31
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SECTION
3.9.
Reserved
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31
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SECTION
3.10.
Reserved
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31
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SECTION
3.11.
Agreed Tax Treatment
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31
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SECTION
3.12.
CUSIP Numbers
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31
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ARTICLE
IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
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32
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SECTION
4.1.
Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
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32
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SECTION
4.2.
Application of Trust Money
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33
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ARTICLE
V
REMEDIES
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33
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SECTION
5.1.
Events of Default
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33
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SECTION
5.2.
Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
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34
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SECTION
5.3.
Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee
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35
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SECTION
5.4.
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
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36
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SECTION
5.5.
Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of
Securities
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36
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SECTION
5.6.
Application of Money Collected
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36
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SECTION
5.7.
Limitation on Suits
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37
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SECTION
5.8.
Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium, if
any, and
Interest; Direct Action by Holders of Preferred
Securities
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37
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SECTION
5.9.
Restoration of Rights and Remedies
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37
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SECTION
5.10.
Rights and Remedies Cumulative
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38
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SECTION
5.11.
Delay or Omission Not Waiver
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38
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SECTION
5.12.
Control by Holders
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38
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SECTION
5.13.
Waiver of Past Defaults
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38
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SECTION
5.14.
Undertaking for Costs
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39
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SECTION
5.15.
Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws
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39
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ARTICLE
VI
THE TRUSTEE
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39
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SECTION
6.1.
Corporate Trustee Required
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39
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SECTION
6.2.
Certain Duties and Responsibilitie
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40
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SECTION
6.3.
Notice of Defaults
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41
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SECTION
6.4.
Certain Rights of Trustee
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42
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SECTION
6.5.
May Hold Securities
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43
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SECTION
6.6.
Compensation; Reimbursement; Indemnity
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43
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SECTION
6.7.
Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
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44
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SECTION
6.8.
Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
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45
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SECTION
6.9.
Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business
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45
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SECTION
6.10.
Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities
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46
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SECTION
6.11.
Appointment of Authenticating Agent
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46
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ARTICLE
VII
HOLDER’S LISTS AND REPORTS BY COMPANY AND READING NZ
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47
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SECTION
7.1.
Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders
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47
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SECTION
7.2.
Preservation of Information, Communications to
Holders
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48
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SECTION
7.3.
Reports by Company
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48
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ARTICLE
VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
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49
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SECTION
8.1.
Company and Reading NZ May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain
Terms
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49
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SECTION
8.2.
Successor Substituted
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49
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ARTICLE
IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
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50
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SECTION
9.1. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders
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50
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SECTION
9.2.
Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders
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51
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SECTION
9.3.
Execution of Supplemental Indentures
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51
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SECTION
9.4.
Effect of Supplemental Indentures
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52
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SECTION
9.5.
Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
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52
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ARTICLE
X
COVENANTS
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52
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SECTION
10.1.
Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest
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52
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SECTION
10.2.
Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust
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52
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SECTION
10.3.
Statement as to Compliance
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53
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SECTION
10.4.
Calculation Agent
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53
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SECTION
10.5.
Additional Tax Sums
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54
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SECTION
10.6.
Additional Covenants
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54
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SECTION
10.7.
Financial Covenants
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56
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SECTION
10.8.
Waiver of Covenants
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57
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SECTION
10.9.
Treatment of Securities
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57
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SECTION
10.10.
Financial Covenant Deposit
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57
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ARTICLE
XI
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
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58
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SECTION
11.1.
Redemption at Option of Company
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58
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SECTION
11.2.
Redemption at Option of Holders
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59
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SECTION
11.3.
Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
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59
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SECTION
11.4.
Selection of Securities to be Redeemed
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60
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SECTION
11.5.
Notice of Redemption
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60
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SECTION
11.6.
Deposit of Redemption Price
|
61
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SECTION
11.7.
Payment of Securities Called for Redemption
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61
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ARTICLE
XII
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SUBORDINATION
OF SECURITIES
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62
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SECTION
12.1.
Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt
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62
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SECTION
12.2.
No Payment When Senior Debt in Default; Payment Over of Proceeds
Upon
Dissolution, Etc.
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62
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SECTION
12.3.
Payment Permitted If No Default
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63
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SECTION
12.4.
Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt
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63
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SECTION
12.5.
Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights
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64
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SECTION
12.6.
Trustee to Effectuate Subordination
|
64
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SECTION
12.7.
No Waiver of Subordination Provisions
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64
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SECTION
12.8.
Notice to Trustee
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65
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SECTION
12.9.
Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating
Agent
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65
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SECTION
12.10.
Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt
|
65
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SECTION
12.11.
Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee’s
Rights
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66
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SECTION
12.12.
Article Applicable to Paying Agents
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66
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ARTICLE
XIII
DEFEASANCE
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66
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SECTION
13.1.
Defeasance and Discharge
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66
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SECTION
13.2.
Conditions to Defeasance
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67
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SECTION
13.3.
Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust;
Other
Miscellaneous Provisions
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67
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SECTION
13.4.
Reinstatement
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68
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SCHEDULES
Schedule
A - Determination
of LIBOR
Exhibit
A
- Form
of
Officer’s Financial Certificate
JUNIOR
SUBORDINATED INDENTURE,
dated
as of February 5, 2007, among Reading International, Inc., a Nevada corporation
(the “Company”),
Reading New Zealand, Limited, a New Zealand corporation (“Reading
NZ”),
and
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”).
RECITALS
OF THE COMPANY
WHEREAS,
the Company and Reading NZ have duly authorized the execution and delivery
of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance of their unsecured junior
subordinated interest notes (the “Securities”)
issued
to evidence loans made to the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ)
of
the proceeds from the issuance by Reading International Trust I, a Delaware
statutory trust (the “Trust”),
of
undivided preferred beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust (the
“Preferred
Securities”)
and
undivided common beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust (the
“Common
Securities”
and,
collectively with the Preferred Securities, the “Trust
Securities”),
and to
provide the terms and conditions upon which the Securities are to be
authenticated, issued and delivered; and
WHEREAS,
all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company
and
Reading NZ, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
NOW,
THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For
and
in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the
Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION
1.1. Definitions.
For
all
purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless
the
context otherwise requires:
(a) the
terms
defined in this Article
I
have the
meanings assigned to them in this Article
I;
(b) the
words
“include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation”;
(c) all
accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to
them
in accordance with GAAP;
(d) unless
the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section”
refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this
Indenture;
(e) the
words
“hereby”, “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import
refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section
or
other subdivision;
(f) a
reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and
(g) the
masculine, feminine or neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.
“Act”
when
used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section
1.4.
“Administrative
Trustee”
means,
with respect to the Trust, each Person identified as an “Administrative Trustee”
in the Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Administrative Trustee of
the
Trust under the Trust Agreement and not in its individual capacity, or its
successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor Administrative Trustee
appointed as therein provided.
“Additional
Interest”
means
the interest, if any, that shall accrue on any amounts payable on the
Securities, the payment of which has not been made on the applicable Interest
Payment Date and which shall accrue at the rate per annum specified or
determined as specified in such Security, in each case to the extent legally
enforceable.
“Additional
Tax Sums”
has the
meaning specified in Section
10.5.
“Additional
Taxes”
means
taxes, duties or other governmental charges imposed on the Trust as a result
of
a Tax Event (which, for the sake of clarity, does not include amounts required
to be deducted or withheld by the Trust from payments made by the Trust to
or
for the benefit of the Holder of, or any Person that acquires a beneficial
interest in, the Securities).
“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.
“Applicable
Depositary Procedures”
means,
with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Global Security or
beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for
such
Security, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as
in
effect from time to time.
“Authenticating
Agent”
means
any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section
6.11
to act
on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate the Securities.
“Bankruptcy
Code”
means
Title 11 of the United States Code or any successor statute(s) thereto, or
any
similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors, in each case as amended
from time to time.
“Board
of Directors”
means
the board of directors of the Company or Reading NZ, as applicable, or any
duly
authorized committee of that board.
“Board
Resolution”
means a
copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
the
Company or Reading NZ, as applicable, to have been duly adopted by the Board
of
Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification.
“Business
Day”
means
any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a day on which banking
institutions in the City of New York are authorized or required by law or
executive order to remain closed or (iii) a day on which the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee is closed for business.
“Calculation
Agent”
has the
meaning specified in Section
10.4.
“Change
of Control”
means
(i) the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition
of
all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, stock or properties to any
Person other than a sale, transfer, conveyance or disposition to (a) James
J.
Cotter, James J. Cotter, Jr. or Ellen Margaret Cotter (the “Cotters”),
or
(b) an entity controlled by the Cotters and formed solely for the purposes
of
acquiring the Company, (ii) the consummation of any transaction (including
a
merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or any other
corporate reorganization) if the Company is not the surviving entity of such
transaction or the shareholders of the Company, immediately prior to such
transaction own or control less than a majority of the voting power of the
surviving corporation following the transaction, (iii) the adoption of a plan
relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company, other than in a
transaction where the Company is liquidated or dissolved into a new holding
entity for the Company which immediately after the liquidation is controlled
by
the shareholders of the Company immediately prior to such transaction, or (iv)
so long as Reading NZ is an Obligor under this Indenture which has not been
released in accordance with Section
1.8(b)
hereof,
the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all
or
substantially all of Reading NZ’s assets, stock or properties to any Person, or
the consummation of any transaction (including a merger, consolidation,
liquidation or dissolution of Reading NZ with or into another entity or any
other corporate reorganization) if Reading NZ is not the surviving entity of
such transaction or the shareholders of Reading NZ, immediately prior to such
transaction own or control less than a majority of the voting power of the
surviving corporation following the transaction.
“Common
Securities”
has the
meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
“Common
Stock”
means
the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company.
“Company”
means
the Person named as the “Company”
in the
first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor corporation shall have
become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter “Company”
shall
mean such successor corporation.
“Company
Request”
and
“Company
Order”
mean,
respectively, the written request or order signed in the name of the Company
(on
behalf of itself and Reading NZ) by its Chairman of the Board of Directors,
its
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Chief Executive Officer, President
or a Vice President, and by its Chief Financial Officer, its Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered
to
the Trustee.
“Corporate
Trust Office”
means
the principal office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its
corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of
this
Indenture is located at 919 North Market Street, Suite 700, Wilmington, Delaware
19801.
“Debt”
means,
with respect to any Person, whether recourse is to all or a portion of the
assets of such Person, whether currently existing or hereafter incurred and
whether or not contingent and without duplication, (i) every obligation of
such
Person for money borrowed; (ii) every obligation of such Person evidenced by
bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, including obligations
incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses;
(iii) every reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to letters
of
credit, bankers’ acceptances or similar facilities issued for the account of
such Person; (iv) every obligation of such Person issued or assumed as the
deferred purchase price of property or services (but excluding trade accounts
payable or other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of
business); (v) every capital lease obligation of such Person; (vi) all
indebtedness of such Person, whether incurred on or prior to the date of this
Indenture or thereafter incurred, for claims in respect of derivative products,
including interest rate, foreign exchange rate and commodity forward contracts,
options and swaps and similar arrangements; (vii) every obligation of the type
referred to in clauses (i) through (vi) of another Person and all dividends
of
another
Person the payment of which, in either case, such Person has guaranteed or
is
responsible or liable for, directly or indirectly, as obligor or otherwise;
and
(viii) any renewals, extensions, refundings, amendments or modifications of
any
obligation of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (vii).
“Defaulted
Interest”
has the
meaning specified in Section
3.1.
“Defeasance”
has
the
meaning specified in Section
13.1.
“Defeasance
Maturity Date”
has the
meaning specified in Section
13.2.
“Delaware
Trustee”
means,
with respect to the Trust, the Person identified as the “Delaware
Trustee”
in the
Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Trust under
the Trust Agreement and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in
interest in such capacity, or any successor Delaware Trustee appointed as
therein provided.
“Depositary”
means an
organization registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act that is
designated as Depositary by the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ)
or
any successor thereto. DTC will be the initial Depositary.
“Depositary
Participant”
means a
broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other Person for whom
from
time to time a Depositary effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities
deposited with the Depositary.
“Distributions”
means
amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in the Trust
Agreement and referred to therein as“Distributions.”
“Dollar”
or
“$”
means
the currency of the United States of America that, as at the time of payment,
is
legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
“DTC”
means
The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation, or any successor
thereto.
“EBITDA”
means
the consolidated net income of the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance
with GAAP, plus,
to the
extent deducted in determining such net income, (i) interest expense, (ii)
income tax expense, (iii) depreciation, and (iv) amortization.
“Electing
Securities”
means
the Outstanding Securities corresponding to the Preferred Securities held by
the
holders of Preferred Securities making a Change of Control Election with respect
to a Change of Control, provided that
the
holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) of the Preferred Securities make
a
Change of Control Election with respect to such Change of Control.
“Event
of Default”
has the
meaning specified in Section
5.1.
“Exchange
Act”
means
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any statute successor thereto, in each
case as amended from time to time.
“Expiration
Date”
has the
meaning specified in Section
1.4.
“Extraordinary
Nonrecurring Expense” means
a
one-time only actual expense (up to a maximum amount of $7 million) which is
(i)
in excess of reserves established as of December 31, 2006, and (ii)
extraordinary and nonrecurring in nature (including, by way of example,
uninsured casualty losses, taxes relating to periods prior to January 1, 2007,
uninsured liability
claims,
to the extent not related to the day-to-day operations of the Company’s
businesses, and asset write-downs), which expense may be paid in a lump sum
or
over time via installments.
“Financial
Covenant Deposit” has
the
meaning set forth in Section
10.7(c)
hereof.
“Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio”
means,
for each period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the last day
of a
fiscal quarter, the ratio of (a) the total for such period of EBITDA of the
Company and its Subsidiaries as determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect
as of September 30, 2006, minus
the sum
of (i) income taxes paid in cash by the Company and (ii) Unfinanced Capital
Expenditures, to
(b) the
sum for such period of (i) consolidated cash interest expense of the Company
and
its Subsidiaries (calculated without reference to interest which (a) under
GAAP
as determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect as of September 30, 2006,
would be capitalized and (b) which is financed as part of a construction loan)
and (ii) required payments of principal of all Debt of the Company (including
the Securities but excluding pay-offs of Debt in the event of a refinancing
or
sale);
provided that
following notice from the Company to the Trustee, the Holders and the holders
of
the Preferred Securities, of the incurrence of an Extraordinary Nonrecurring
Expense, the reason therefor and the actual amount thereof during any period(s)
(including the amount above any reserves relating thereto), the Company exclude
from part (a) of this Ratio, on a one-time only basis (and for the four fiscal
quarters associated therewith) or, if applicable, for multiple periods
associated therewith (if paid via installments), the amount of such
Extraordinary Nonrecurring Expense during such period(s) in an aggregate amount
not to exceed $7 million; and provided further
that
following notice from the Company to the Trustee, the Holders and the holders
of
the Preferred Securities detailing the type and amounts thereof, the Company
may
also exclude from part (a) of this Ratio all types of non-cash compensation
including stock options, restricted stock, accrued retirement benefits and
carried interests.
“GAAP”
means
United States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied,
from time to time in effect unless otherwise specifically provided
herein.
“Global
Security”
means a
Security that evidences all or part of the Securities, the ownership and
transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a
Depositary.
“Government
Obligation”
means
(a) any security that is (i) a direct obligation of the United States of America
of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged
or
(ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an
agency or instrumentality of the United States of America or the payment of
which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by
the
United States of America, which, in either case (i) or (ii), is not callable
or
redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (b) any depositary receipt
issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as
custodian with respect to any Government Obligation that is specified in clause
(a) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary
receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest
on
any Government Obligation that is so specified and held, provided, that (except
as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction
from
the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount
received by the custodian in respect of the Government Obligation or the
specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such depositary
receipt.
“Holder”
means a
Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Securities
Register.
“Indenture”
means
this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be amended
or supplemented by one or more amendments or indentures supplemental hereto
entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
“Interest
Payment Date”
means January
30, April 30, July 30 and October 30 of each year, commencing on April 30,
2007,
during the term of this Indenture.
“Investment
Company Act”
means
the Investment Company Act of 1940 or any successor statute thereto, in each
case as amended from time to time.
“Investment
Company Event”
means
the receipt by the Company of an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters
to the effect that, as a result of the occurrence of a change in law or
regulation (including any announced prospective change) or a written change
in
interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative body,
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that the Trust is or, within ninety (90) days of the date
of
such opinion will be, considered an “investment company” that is required to be
registered under the Investment Company Act, which change or prospective change
becomes effective or would become effective, as the case may be, on or after
the
date of the issuance of the Securities.
“LIBOR”
has the
meaning specified in Schedule
A.
“LIBOR
Business Day”
has the
meaning specified in Schedule
A.
“LIBOR
Determination Date”
has the
meaning specified in Schedule
A.
“Liquidation
Amount”
has the
meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.
“Maturity,”
when
used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal of
such
Security or any installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein
or
herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
“Net
Asset Value of Real Estate”
means
the fair market value, as established by independent appraisals no more than
two
(2) years old, of fee interests and leasehold interests in real estate of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, less all Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries
(excluding the Securities); provided
that
the
value of any such interests /Debt in which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries has a minority interest shall be included to the extent of the
Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ interests/ Debt (e.g., if the Company owns a 10%
interest in an entity that owns a $100 million property, $10 million of value
will be included for the purposes of this definition).
“Net
Worth”
means
(a) the aggregate amount of all assets of the Company, less (b) the aggregate
amount of all liabilities of the Company, in each case as may be properly
classified as such in accordance with GAAP consistently applied.
“No
Call Period” means
the
period of time beginning on the Original Issue Date and ending on April 30,
2012.
“Notice
of Default”
means a
written notice of the kind specified in Section
5.1(c).
“Obligor”
has the
meaning set forth in Section
1.14.
“Officers’
Certificate”
means a
certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board,
the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President, and by the
Chief
Financial Officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or
an
Assistant Secretary, of the Company or Reading NZ, as applicable, and delivered
to the Trustee.
“Operative
Documents”
means
the Trust Agreement, the Indenture, the Purchase Agreement and the
Securities.
“Opinion
of Counsel”
means a
written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or an employee of the Company
or Reading NZ or any Affiliate of the Company.
“Optional
Redemption Price”
has the
meaning set forth in Section
11.1.
“Original
Issue Date”
means
the date of original issuance of each Security.
“Outstanding”
means,
when used in reference to any Securities, as of the date of determination,
all
Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture,
except:
(i) Securities
theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(ii) Securities
for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the
Company or Reading NZ) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the
Company (if the Company and/or its affiliates shall act as its own Paying Agent)
for the Holders of such Securities; provided, that, if such Securities are
to be
redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
and
(iii) Securities
that have been paid or in substitution for or in lieu of which other Securities
have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such
Securities are held by Holders in whose hands such Securities are valid, binding
and legal obligations of the Company;
provided,
that in
determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned by the Company, Reading NZ or
any
other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company, Reading
NZ or
such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding unless
the Company or Reading NZ shall hold all outstanding Securities, except that,
in
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be so
owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned that have been pledged in
good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such
Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company, Reading NZ or any other
obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company, Reading NZ or
such
other obligor. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Securities
initially issued to the Trust that are owned by the Trust shall be deemed to
be
Outstanding notwithstanding the ownership by the Company, Reading NZ or an
Affiliate of any beneficial interest in the Trust.
“Paying
Agent”
means
the Trustee or any Person authorized by the Company (on behalf of itself and
Reading NZ) to pay the principal of or any premium or interest on, or other
amounts in respect of, any Securities on behalf of the Company (on behalf of
itself and Reading NZ).
“Person”
means a
legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint stock company, company, limited liability company,
trust, unincorporated association or government, or any agency or political
subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature.
“Place
of Payment”
means,
with respect to the Securities, the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee.
“Preferred
Securities”
has the
meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
“Predecessor
Security”
of any
particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all or a portion
of
the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security. For the purposes
of
this definition, any security authenticated and delivered under Section
3.6
in lieu
of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence
the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
“Proceeding”
has the
meaning specified in Section
12.2.
“Property
Trustee”
means
the Person identified as the “Property Trustee” in the Trust Agreement, solely
in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Trust under the Trust Agreement
and
not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or any successor Property Trustee appointed as therein provided.
“Purchase
Agreement”
means
the agreement, dated as of the date hereof, among the Company, Reading NZ,
the
Trust and the Purchaser.
“Purchaser”
means
Kodiak Warehouse JPM LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
“Reading
NZ”
means
the Person named as “Reading
NZ”
in
the
first paragraph of this Indenture.
“Redemption
Date”
means,
when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the date fixed for such
redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
“Redemption
Price”
means,
when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, in whole or in part,
the
Special Redemption Price or the Optional Redemption Price, as applicable, at
which such Security or portion thereof is to be redeemed as fixed by or pursuant
to this Indenture.
“Reference
Banks”
has the
meaning specified in Schedule
A.
“Regular
Record Date”
for the
interest payable on any Interest Payment Date with respect to the Securities
means the date that is fifteen (15) days preceding such Interest Payment Date
(whether or not a Business Day).
“Release
Notice”
has the
meaning specified in Section
1.8(b).
“Responsible
Officer”
means,
when used with respect to the Trustee, the officer in the Corporate Trust
Services department of the Trustee having direct responsibility for the
administration of this Indenture.
“Rights
Plan”
means a
plan of the Company providing for the issuance by the Company to all holders
of
its Common Stock of rights entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or
purchase shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company which
rights (i) are deemed
to
be transferred with such shares of such Common Stock and (ii) are also issued
in
respect of future issuances of such Common Stock, in each case until the
occurrence of a specified event or events.
“Securities”
or
“Security”
has the
meaning set forth in the first recital to this Indenture and more particularly
means the Securities authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.
“Securities
Act”
means
the Securities Act of 1933 or any successor statute thereto, in each case as
amended from time to time.
“Securities
Register”
and
“Securities
Registrar”
have the
respective meanings specified in Section
3.5.
“Senior
Debt”
means
the principal of and any premium and interest on (including interest accruing
on
or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating
to the Company, whether or not such claim for post-petition interest is allowed
in such proceeding) all Debt of the Company or Reading NZ, as applicable,
whether incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter
incurred, unless it is provided in the instrument creating or evidencing the
same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, that such obligations are
not
superior in right of payment to the Securities issued under this
Indenture.
“Special
Event”
means
the occurrence of an Investment Company Event or a Tax Event.
“Special
Record Date”
for the
payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant
to
Section
3.1.
“Special
Redemption Price”
has the
meaning set forth in Section
11.1(b).
“Stated
Maturity”
means
April 30, 2027.
“Subsidiary”
means a
Person more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting stock or other
voting interests of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by another Person
or
by one or more other Subsidiaries thereof, or by such other Person and one
or
more other Subsidiaries, in each case as may be classified as such in accordance
with GAAP. For purposes of this definition, “voting
stock”
means
stock that ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether
at
all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power
by
reason of any contingency.
“Tax
Event”
means
the receipt by the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) of an Opinion
of
Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of (a)
any
amendment to or change (including any announced prospective change) in the
laws
or any regulations thereunder of the United States or any political subdivision
or taxing authority thereof or therein or (b) any judicial decision or any
official administrative pronouncement (including any private letter ruling,
technical advice memorandum or field service advice) or regulatory procedure,
including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt any such pronouncement
or procedure (an “Administrative
Action”),
regardless of whether such judicial decision or Administrative Action is issued
to or in connection with a proceeding involving the Company, Reading NZ or
the
Trust and whether or not subject to review or appeal, which amendment, change,
judicial decision or Administrative Action is enacted, promulgated or announced,
in each case, on or after the date of issuance of the Securities, there is
more
than an insubstantial risk that (i) the Trust is, or will be within ninety
(90)
days of the date of such opinion, subject to United States federal income tax
with respect to income received or accrued on the Securities, (ii) interest
payable by the Company and Reading NZ on the Securities is not, or within ninety
(90) days of the date of such opinion, will not be, deductible by the Company
or
Reading
NZ, in whole or in part, for United States federal income tax purposes, or
(iii)
the Trust is, or will be within ninety (90) days of the date of such opinion,
subject to more than a de
minimis
amount
of other taxes, duties or other governmental charges.
“Trust”
has the
meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
“Trust
Agreement”
means
the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement executed and delivered by the Company,
the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees
named
therein, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Indenture,
for the benefit of the holders of the Trust Securities, as amended or
supplemented from time to time.
“Trustee”
means
the Person named as the “Trustee”
in the
first paragraph of this instrument, solely in its capacity as such and not
in
its individual capacity, until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and, thereafter,
“Trustee”
shall
mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.
“Trust
Indenture Act”
means
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended and as in effect on the date of
this
Indenture.
“Trust
Securities”
has the
meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
“Unfinanced
Capital Expenditures”
means,
without duplication for any period, all cash expenditures of the Company and
its
Subsidiaries during such period that, in conformity with GAAP in effect as
of
September 30, 2006, are or would be required to be capitalized and included
in
the property, plant and equipment reflected in the consolidated balance sheet
of
the Company, except to the extent that such expenditures are financed (whether
through borrowings, installment sale, capitalized lease arrangement, issuance
of
the Company’s equity securities or otherwise), and excluding, however (i)
purchase price of acquisitions of assets or businesses, (ii) reinvestments
of
sales or insurance proceeds from one property into a new property, and (iii)
cash expenditures for replacement equipment to the extent of the fair market
value of such replaced equipment at such time.
SECTION
1.2. Compliance
Certificate and Opinions.
(a) Upon
any
application or request by the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ)
to
the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the
Company shall, if requested by the Trustee, furnish to the Trustee an Officers’
Certificate stating that all conditions precedent (including covenants
compliance with which constitutes a condition 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 (including covenants compliance with which constitutes
a
condition precedent), if any, have been complied with.
(b) Every
certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture (other than the certificate provided pursuant
to
Section
10.3)
shall
include:
(i) a
statement by each individual signing such certificate or opinion that such
individual 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 of such individual contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(iii) a
statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he or she has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her 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 such individual, such condition
or
covenant has been complied with.
SECTION
1.3. Forms
of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
(a) In
any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters
be
certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they
be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify
or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such
Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion
as to such matters in one or several documents.
(b) Any
certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or Reading NZ, as
applicable, may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer
knows, or after reasonable inquiry should know, that the certificate or opinion
or representations with respect to matters upon which his or her certificate
or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel
may
be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of such Person stating
that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession
of such Person, unless such counsel knows, or after reasonable inquiry should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
(c) Where
any
Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests,
consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this
Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one
instrument.
(d) Whenever,
subsequent to the receipt by the Trustee of any Board Resolution, Officers’
Certificate, Opinion of Counsel or other document or instrument, a clerical,
typographical or other inadvertent or unintentional error or omission shall
be
discovered therein, a new document or instrument may be substituted therefor
in
corrected form with the same force and effect as if originally received in
the
corrected form and, irrespective of the date or dates of the actual execution
and/or delivery thereof, such substitute document or instrument shall be deemed
to have been executed and/or delivered as of the date or dates required with
respect to the document or instrument for which it is substituted. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, any Securities issued under the
authority of such defective document or instrument shall nevertheless be the
valid obligations of the Company and Reading NZ entitled to the benefits of
this
Indenture equally and ratably with all other Outstanding
Securities.
SECTION
1.4. Acts
of Holders.
(a) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided by this Indenture to be given to 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 thereof duly appointed
in
writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments (including any appointment
of an agent) is or are delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby
expressly required, to the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ). 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
shall
be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive in favor of
the
Trustee, Reading NZ and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this
Section
1.4.
(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 the certificate
of
any 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 or her the execution thereof. Where such execution is by
a
Person acting in other than his or her individual capacity, such certificate
or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his or her authority. The
fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing,
or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any
other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient and in accordance with such
reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine.
(c) The
ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.
(d) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the
same
Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
(e) Without
limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled to take any action hereunder with
regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part
of
the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents
each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or
any
part of such principal amount.
(f) Except
as
set forth in paragraph (g) of this Section
1.4,
the
Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the
Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to give, make or take any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders
of
Securities. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders
of
Outstanding Securities on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be
entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders
after such record date; provided,
that no
such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the
applicable Expiration Date (as defined in Section
1.4(h))
by
Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such
record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company
from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has
previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date
previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled
and of no effect). Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this
paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record
date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to
be
given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner
set forth in Section
1.6.
(g) The
Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the
Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to join in the giving or making
of
(i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration or rescission
or
annulment thereof referred to in Section
5.2,
(iii)
any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section
5.7(b)
or (iv)
any direction referred to in Section
5.12.
If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to
join
in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date; provided,
that no
such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the
applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding
Securities on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
to
prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which
a
record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the
record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person
be canceled and of no effect). Promptly after any record date is set pursuant
to
this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s and Reading NZ’s expense, shall
cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the
applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each
Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section
1.6.
(h) With
respect to any record date set pursuant to paragraph (f) or (g) of this
Section
1.4,
the
party hereto that sets such record date may designate any day as the “Expiration
Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or
later day; provided, that no such change shall be effective unless notice of
the
proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing,
and
to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section
1.6,
on or
prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated
with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section
1.4,
the
party hereto that set such record date shall be deemed to have initially
designated the ninetieth (90th) day after such record date as the Expiration
Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date
as
provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date
shall be later than the one hundred eightieth (180th) day after the applicable
record date.
SECTION
1.5. Notices,
Etc. to Trustee and Company.
Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, Act of
Holders, or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made
upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
(a) the
Trustee by any Holder, any holder of Preferred Securities or the Company (on
behalf of itself and Reading NZ) shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder
if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with and received by the
Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
(b) the
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) by the Trustee, any Holder or
any
holder of Preferred Securities shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder
if in writing and mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to the Company addressed
to it at 500 Citadel Drive, Suite 300, Commerce, California 90040, Attention:
Andrzej Matyczynski, or at any other address previously furnished in writing
to
the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION
1.6. Notice
to Holders; Waiver.
Where
this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall
be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing
and mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event
to the address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register, not
later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date
(if
any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. If, by reason of the suspension
of or irregularities in regular mail service or for any other reason, it shall
be impossible or impracticable to mail notice of any event to Holders when
said
notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture,
then
any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall
be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. In any case where notice
to
Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any
defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the
sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture
provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by
the
Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the
event,
and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by
Holders 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.
SECTION
1.7. Effect
of Headings and Table of Contents.
The
Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction of this
Indenture.
SECTION
1.8. Successors
and Assigns; Option of Company.
(a) This
Indenture shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any successor
to the Company, Reading NZ and the Trustee, including any successor by operation
of law. Except in connection with (i) clause (b) of this Section 1.8, or (ii)
a
transaction involving the Company that is permitted under Article
VIII
and
pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Company’s
obligations hereunder, neither the Company nor Reading NZ shall assign its
obligations hereunder.
(b) The
Company shall have the right, upon thirty (30) days prior written notice to
the
Trustee, the Holders and the holders of the Preferred Securities (the
“Release
Notice”),
to
assume in full the obligations of Reading NZ under the Securities, this
Indenture and the other Operative Documents, and to release Reading NZ from
any
further, future or on-going liability or obligation under the Securities, this
Indenture and any other Operative Documents, whereupon Reading NZ shall be
released from and shall have no further liability or obligation under the
Securities, this Indenture or any other Operative Documents. The Release Notice
shall be effective whether or not an Event of Default has occurred, exists
or is
continuing, or would upon the giving of any applicable notices and the
expiration of any applicable cure period, have occurred, be existing or be
continuing. Upon the effectiveness of the Release Notice, the Securities, this
Indenture and the other Operative Documents shall be automatically, and without
the need for any action by any Person, be amended to delete Reading NZ as a
party to any such agreement, and to remove all rights and obligations of Reading
NZ under any such agreement, with the same effect as if the Company and the
Trustee had been the only parties to this Indenture and the Company had been
the
only Obligor under the Securities.
SECTION
1.9. Separability
Clause.
If
any
provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal
or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby, and there
shall
be deemed substituted for the provision at issue a valid, legal and enforceable
provision as similar as possible to the provision at issue.
SECTION
1.10. Benefits
of Indenture.
Nothing
in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any
Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors and assigns, the
holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities and, to the extent
expressly provided in Sections
5.2,
5.8,
5.9,
5.11,
5.13,
9.2
and
10.7,
the
holders of Preferred Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION
1.11. Governing Law.
This
Indenture and the rights and obligations of each of the Holders, the Company,
Reading NZ and the Trustee shall be construed and enforced in accordance with
and
governed
by the laws of the State of New York without reference to its conflict of laws
provisions (other than Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations
Law).
SECTION
1.12. Submission
to Jurisdiction.
ANY
LEGAL
ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY OR AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO OR WITH RESPECT TO OR
ARISING OUT OF THIS INDENTURE MAY BE BROUGHT IN OR REMOVED TO THE COURTS OF
THE
STATE OF NEW YORK, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, OR OF THE UNITED STATES
OF
AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK (IN EACH CASE SITTING IN THE
BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN). BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS INDENTURE, EACH PARTY
ACCEPTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS (AND COURTS OF APPEALS
THEREFROM) FOR LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
INDENTURE.
SECTION
1.13. Non-Business
Days.
If
any
Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall
not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture or the Securities) payment of interest, premium, if any, or principal
or other amounts in respect of such Security shall not be made on such date,
but
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue
in respect of the amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and
after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the
case may be, until such next succeeding Business Day) except that, if such
Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall
be
made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same
force
and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or at
the
Stated Maturity.
SECTION
1.14. Company
as Agent.
Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ (each an “Obligor”
and
collectively, the “Obligors”)
hereby
designates, appoints, authorizes and empowers the Company as its agent to act
as
specified in this Indenture and each of the other Operative Documents and the
Company hereby acknowledges such designation, authorization and empowerment,
and
accepts such appointment. Each Obligor hereby irrevocably authorizes and directs
the Company to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this
Indenture and the other Operative Documents, and any other instruments,
documents and agreements referred to herein or therein, and to exercise such
powers and to perform such duties hereunder and thereunder as are specifically
delegated to or required of the Obligors by the respective terms and provisions
hereof and thereof, and such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto,
including, without limitation, to take the following actions for and on such
Obligor’s behalf:
(i)
to
submit
and receive notices, certificates, reports and other communications in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the other Operative
Documents;
(ii)
to
receive proceeds of the Securities in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture, such proceeds to be disbursed to or for the account of the applicable
Obligor as soon as practicable after its receipt thereof;
(iii)
to
make
interest payments and other payments required under this Indenture and the
other
Operative Documents;
(iv) if
appointed as such pursuant to this Indenture, to act as Paying Agent and
Calculation Agent in accordance with the terms of this Indenture;
and
(v)
to
redeem
and defease the Securities pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
The
Company is further authorized and directed by each Obligor to take all such
actions on behalf of such Obligor necessary to exercise the specific power
granted in clauses (i) through (iii) above and to perform such other duties
hereunder and under the other Operative Documents, and deliver such documents
as
delegated to or required of the Company by the terms hereof or thereof. The
agency relationship established pursuant to this Section 1.14 is for
administrative convenience only and such agency relationship shall not extend
to
any matter outside the scope of the Operative Documents.
SECTION
1.15. Acknowledgement
of Joint and Several Liability.
(a) Each
Obligor acknowledges that it is jointly and severally liable for all of the
obligations with respect to the Securities and this Indenture.
(b) Each
Obligor’s obligations under this Indenture shall, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, be unconditional irrespective of (i) the validity or
enforceability, avoidance, or subordination of the obligations of any other
Obligor or of any document evidencing all or any part of the obligations of
any
other Obligor, (ii) the absence of any attempt to collect the obligations
from any other Obligor or the absence of any other action to enforce the same,
(iii) the waiver, consent, extension, forbearance, or granting of any
indulgence by the Holders with respect to any provision of any instrument
evidencing the obligations of any other Obligor or any part thereof, or any
other agreement now or hereafter executed by any other Obligor and delivered
in
favor of the Holders, or (iv) any other circumstances which might
constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor or of any
other Obligor (other than actual indefeasible payment in full in cash). With
respect to any Obligor’s obligations arising as a result of the joint and
several liability of Obligors hereunder with respect to proceeds of the
Securities disbursed to or for any of the other Obligors hereunder, such Obligor
waives, until the obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full and
this
Indenture shall have been terminated, any right to enforce any right of
subrogation or any remedy which such Obligor now have or may hereafter have
against any other Obligor, or any endorser of all or any part of the
obligations. During the existence of any Event of Default, the Trustee and
the
Holders may proceed directly and at once, except as required in this Indenture
without notice, against any Obligor to collect and recover the full amount,
or
any portion of the obligations, without first proceeding against any other
Obligor or any other Person. Each Obligor consents and agrees that neither
the
Trustee nor the Holders shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets
in
favor of any Obligor or against or in payment of any or all of the
obligations.
(c) This
Indenture shall in all respects be continuing, absolute and unconditional,
and
shall remain in full force and effect with respect to each Obligor until all
obligations shall
have been indefeasibly fully paid. No compromise, settlement, release or
discharge of, or indulgence with
respect to, or failure, neglect or omission to enforce or exercise any right
against, any one or more of the Obligors shall release or discharge any other
Obligors.
ARTICLE
II
SECURITY
FORMS
SECTION
2.1. Form
of Security.
Any
Security issued hereunder shall be in substantially the following form:
READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
And
READING
NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED
Junior
Subordinated Note due 2027
Each
of
Reading International, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws
of Nevada (hereinafter called the “Company,”
which
term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred
to)
and Reading New Zealand, Limited, a New Zealand corporation (“Reading
NZ”
and
collectively with the Company, the “Obligors”),
for
value received, jointly and severally hereby promises to pay to Wells Fargo
Bank, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely as Property Trustee
of
Reading International Trust I, a Delaware statutory trust, or registered
assigns, the principal sum of Fifty One Million Five Hundred and Forty Seven
Thousand Dollars ($51,547,000) on April 30, 2027. The Obligors further promise
to pay interest on said principal sum from February 5, 2007, or from the most
recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided
for, quarterly in arrears on January 30, April 30, July 30, and October 30,
of
each year, commencing April 30, 2007, or if any such day is not a Business
Day,
on the next succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect
of
the amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and after such
Interest Payment Date until such next succeeding Business Day), except that,
if
such Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment
shall
be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same
force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date, at a fixed rate equal
to 9.22% per annum through the Interest Payment Date on April 30, 2012, and
thereafter at a variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 4.00% per
annum, together with Additional Tax Sums, if any, as provided in Section
10.5
of the
Indenture, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for or made
available for payment; provided,
further,
that
any overdue principal, premium, if any, or Additional Tax Sums and any overdue
installment of interest shall bear Additional Interest at a fixed rate equal
to
9.22% per
annum
through the Interest Payment Date on April 30, 2012, and thereafter at a
variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 4.00% per annum (to the
extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable),
compounded quarterly, from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid
or
made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on
demand.
During
the No Call Period, the amount of interest payable for any full interest period
shall be computed on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360)-day year of twelve
(12) thirty (30)-day months and the amount payable for any partial interest
period shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed
in a
three hundred sixty (360)-day year of twelve (12) thirty (30)-day months. Upon
expiration of the No Call Period, the amount of interest payable for any
interest period will be computed on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360)-day
year and the actual number of days elapsed in the relevant interest period.
The
interest so payable, and
punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided
in
the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or
more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest installment. Any such interest not so punctually
paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
on
such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name
this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close
of
business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest
to
be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities
not less than ten (10) days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at
any
time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice
as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the
Indenture.
Payment
of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Security shall be made
in
such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment
is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments of principal,
premium, if any, and interest due at the Maturity of this Security shall be
made
at the Place of Payment upon surrender of such Securities to the Paying Agent,
and payments of interest shall be made, subject to such surrender where
applicable, by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a banking
institution in the United States as may be designated in writing to the Paying
Agent at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment by the
Person entitled thereto unless proper written wire transfer instructions have
not been received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments
shall
be made by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall
appear in the Security Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as
the
Holder of this Security is the Property Trustee, the payment of the principal
of
(and premium, if any) and interest (including any overdue installment of
interest and Additional Tax Sums, if any) on this Security will be made at
such
place and to such account as may be designated by the Property
Trustee.
The
indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided in the
Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment
in
full of all Senior Debt, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions
of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by
accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b)
authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such actions
as
may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided
and
(c) appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof, waives all notice
of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the
Indenture by each holder of Senior Debt, whether now outstanding or hereafter
incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said
provisions.
Unless
the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by
manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
[FORM
OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]
This
Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company and
Reading NZ (the “Securities”)
issued
under the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of February 5, 2007 (the
“Indenture”),
among
the Company, Reading NZ and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee (in such
capacity, the “Trustee,”
which
term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture
and
all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement
of
the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder
of the
Company, Reading NZ, the Trustee, the holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of
the
Securities and the holders of the Preferred Securities, and of the terms upon
which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered.
All
terms
used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture or in the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of February 5, 2007 (as modified, amended
or
supplemented from time to time, the “Trust
Agreement”),
relating to the Reading International Trust I (the “Trust”)
among
the Company, as Depositor, the Trustees named therein and the Holders from
time
to time of the Trust Securities issued pursuant thereto, shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Indenture or the Trust Agreement, as the case may
be.
The
Obligors may, on any Interest Payment Date, at their option, upon not less
than
thirty (30) days’ nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice to the Holders
of the Securities (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to
the
Trustee) on or after the No Call Period, and subject to the terms and conditions
of Article
XI
of this
Indenture, redeem this Security in whole at any time or in part from time to
time at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal
amount hereof, together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued
interest, including any Additional Interest, through but excluding the date
fixed as the Redemption Date.
If
a
Change of Control occurs and holders of Preferred Securities holding at least
25% in aggregate principal amount of the Preferred Securities give written
notice to the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) within thirty (30)
days following the date the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ)
notifies such holders of Preferred Securities of the Change of Control (such
30-day period, the “Notice
Period”),
of
their election to cause the redemption or defeasance, as applicable of the
Securities (a “Change
of Control Election”),
the
Company shall be required (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ), within thirty
(30) days following the end of the Notice Period to:
(a)
defease this Security, if the holder thereof is a holder of Electing Securities,
in accordance with the first sentence of Article XIII of this Indenture if,
after applying the requirements of Section 11.2 of this Indenture to redeem
the
Securities no later than thirty (30) days following the end of the Notice
Period, the Securities would be redeemed prior to the expiration of the No
Call
Period; or
(b)
redeem this Security, if the holder thereof is a holder of Electing Securities,
and subject to the terms and conditions of Article XI of this Indenture, at
a
Redemption Price equal to one hundred (100%) of the principal amount hereof,
together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including
any Additional Interest, to but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption
Date
if, after applying the requirement of Section 11.2 of the Indenture to redeem
the Securities no later than thirty (30) days following the end of the Notice
Period, the Securities would be redeemed on or after the expiration of the
No
Call Period.
In
addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Special Event
during the No Call Period, the Obligors may, at their option, upon not less
than
thirty (30) days’ nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice to the Holders
of the Securities (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to
the
Trustee), redeem this Security, in whole but not in part, subject to the terms
and conditions of Article
XI
of this
Indenture at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred seven and one half percent
(107.5%) of the principal amount hereof, together, in the case of any such
redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, through
but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date.
In
the
event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities
for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder
hereof upon the cancellation hereof. If less than all the Securities are to
be
redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more
than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee from the
Outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption, by such method
as
the
Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection
for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any
Security.
This
Indenture permits the Company at any time, upon thirty (30) days’ prior written
notice to the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of the Preferred Securities,
to assume in full the obligations of Reading NZ under the Securities, this
Indenture and the other Operative Documents, and to release Reading NZ
therefrom, whereupon Reading NZ shall be released from and have no further
liability or obligation thereunder.
This
Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the Company,
Reading NZ and the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental indenture
or
indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations
of the Company, Reading NZ and of the Holders of the Securities, with the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities. This Indenture also contains provisions permitting
Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities, on
behalf of the Holders of all Securities, to waive compliance by the Company
and
Reading NZ with certain provisions of this Indenture and certain past defaults
under this Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by
the
Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and
upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security 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
Security.
No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the
Indenture shall alter or impair the obligations of the Company and Reading
NZ,
which, subject to the Company’s right to release Reading NZ from its liability
and obligations under this Security as referred to above, are absolute and
unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium, if any, and interest,
including any Additional Interest (to the extent legally enforceable), on this
Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein
prescribed.
As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
the transfer of this Security is restricted to transfers to “Qualified
Purchasers” (as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended,) and is registrable in the Securities Register, upon surrender of
this
Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company
(on
behalf of itself and Reading NZ) maintained for such purpose, duly endorsed
by,
or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the
Company and the Securities Registrar and duly executed by, the Holder hereof
or
such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new
Securities, of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
The
Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum
denominations of $100,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of
Securities and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No
service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange,
but the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) may require payment of
a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in
connection therewith.
The
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ), the Trustee and any agent of
the
Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is
registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security
be
overdue, and neither the Company, Reading NZ the Trustee nor any such agent
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The
Company, Reading NZ and, by its acceptance of this Security or a beneficial
interest herein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial
interest in, this Security agree that, for United States federal, state and
local tax purposes, it is intended that this Security constitute
indebtedness.
This
Security shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed by
the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of laws
provisions (other than Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations
Law).
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Company and Reading NZ has caused this instrument
to be duly executed on this 5th day of February, 2007.
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READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
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READING
NEW ZEALAND, LIMITED
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SECTION
2.2. Restricted
Legend.
(a) Any
Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following
form:
“[IF
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY INSERT:
THIS
SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER
REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY
(“DTC”) OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN DTC OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE
LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS
SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE
OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE OF DTC TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC) MAY BE
REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS
THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC TO THE ISSUER
OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY
ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN
SUCH
OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT
HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS 1S REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF
FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED
OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
THE
SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH SECURITIES, AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN,
MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH
REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF ANY
SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING
ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED
BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
THE
HOLDER OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD
OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE DEPOSITOR OR THE TRUST OR (II) TO
A
PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS (a) A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (b) A “QUALIFIED
PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF
1940, AS AMENDED), OR (III) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES
IS A
“QUALIFIED PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(51) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY
ACT OF 1940, AS AMENDED), AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY
SECURITIES FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A)
ABOVE.
THE
SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING AN
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN,
IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000 AND
MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO
LEGAL
EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED
TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH SECURITIES FOR ANY
PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST
ON SUCH SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE
SHALL
BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH SECURITIES.
THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF
OR
THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE
I OF
THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”),
OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”)
(EACH A
“PLAN”),
OR AN
ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY
REASON
OF
ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF
ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN. ANY
PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THE SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED
TO
HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON
BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING
THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH
PURCHASE.”
(b) The
above
legends shall not be removed from any Security unless there is delivered to
the
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) satisfactory evidence, which may
include an Opinion of Counsel, as may be reasonably required to ensure that
any
future transfers thereof may be made without restriction under or violation
of
the provisions of the Securities Act and other applicable law. Upon provision
of
such satisfactory evidence, the Company and Reading NZ shall execute and deliver
to the Trustee, and the Trustee shall deliver, upon receipt of a Company Order
directing it to do so, a Security that does not bear the legend.
SECTION
2.3. Form
of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
The
Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following
form:
This
is
one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
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WELLS
FARGO BANK, N.A., not
in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee
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SECTION
2.4. Temporary
Securities.
(a) Pending
the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company (on behalf of itself
and
Reading NZ) may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver, temporary Securities that are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations
as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
(b) If
temporary Securities are issued, the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading
NZ) will cause definitive Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall
be exchangeable for definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary
Securities at the office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose
without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or
more
temporary Securities, the Company and Reading NZ shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive
Securities of any
authorized
denominations having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having
the same terms as such temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities.
SECTION
2.5. Definitive
Securities.
The
Securities issued on the Original Issue Date shall be in definitive form. The
definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved, or produced
by
any combination of these methods, if required by any securities exchange on
which the Securities may be listed, on a steel engraved border or steel engraved
borders or may be produced in any other manner permitted by the rules of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, all as determined
by
the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of
such
Securities.
ARTICLE
III
THE
SECURITIES
SECTION
3.1. Payment
of Principal and Interest.
(a) The
unpaid principal amount of the Securities shall bear interest at a fixed rate
equal to 9.22% per annum through the Interest Payment Date on April 30, 2012,
and thereafter at a variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 4.00%
per annum, such interest to accrue from the Original Issue Date or from the
most
recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided
for, and any overdue principal, premium, if any, or Additional Tax Sums and
any
overdue installment of interest shall bear Additional Interest at the rate
equal
to a fixed rate equal to 9.22% per annum through the Interest Payment Date
on
April 30, 2012, and thereafter at a variable rate, reset quarterly, equal to
LIBOR plus 4.00% per annum compounded quarterly from the dates such amounts
are
due until they are paid or funds for the payment thereof are made available
for
payment.
(b) Interest
and Additional Interest on any Security that is payable, and is punctually
paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person
in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest, except that interest and any Additional Interest payable on the Stated
Maturity (or any date of principal repayment upon early maturity) of the
principal of a Security or on a Redemption Date shall be paid to the Person
to
whom principal is paid. The initial payment of interest on any Security that
is
issued between a Regular Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date
shall
be payable as provided in such Security.
(c) Any
interest on any Security that is due and payable, but is not timely paid or
duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Securities (herein called
“Defaulted
Interest”)
shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on the relevant Regular
Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest
may be paid by the Company and Reading NZ, at its election in each case, as
provided in paragraph (i) or (ii) below:
(i) The
Company and Reading NZ may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest
to
the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date
for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest (a “Special
Record Date”),
which
shall be fixed in the following manner. At least thirty (30) days prior to
the
date of the proposed payment, the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading
NZ)
shall notify the Trustee in
writing
of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security
and the
date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company (on behalf
of
itself and Reading NZ) shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money
equal
to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted
Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such
deposit
prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to
be held
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest.
Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of
such
Defaulted Interest, which shall be not more than fifteen (15) days and
not less
than ten (10) days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less
than
ten (10) days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed
payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company (on behalf of itself
and
Reading NZ) of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense
of
the Company and Reading NZ, shall cause notice of the proposed payment
of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first
class, postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Security at the address of
such
Holder as it appears in the Securities Register not less than ten (10)
days
prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been so
mailed,
such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the
Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered
on such
Special Record Date; or
(ii) The
Company and Reading NZ may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange
or automated quotation system on which the Securities may be listed, traded,
or
quoted and, upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated
quotation system (or by the Trustee if the Securities are not listed), if,
after
notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant
to
this clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
(d) Payments
of interest on the Securities shall include interest accrued to but excluding
the respective Interest Payment Dates. During
the No Call Period, the amount of interest payable for any full interest period
shall be computed on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360)-day year of twelve
(12) thirty (30)-day months and the amount payable for any partial interest
period shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed
in a
three hundred sixty (360)-day year of twelve (12) thirty (30)-day months. Upon
expiration of the No Call Period, the amount of interest payable for any
interest period will be computed on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360)-day
year and the actual number of days elapsed in the relevant interest
period.
(e) Payment
of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities shall be made
in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of
payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments of
principal, premium, if any, and interest due at the Maturity of such Securities
shall be made at the Place of Payment upon surrender of such Securities to
the
Paying Agent and payments of interest shall be made subject to such surrender
where applicable, by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a
banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing to
the
Paying Agent at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment
by
the Person entitled thereto unless proper written wire transfer instructions
have not been received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments
shall be made by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address
shall appear in the Security Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long
as
the holder of this Security is the Property Trustee, the payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any)
and
interest (including any overdue installment of interest and Additional Tax
Sums,
if any) on this Security will be made at such place and to such account as
may
be designated by the Property Trustee.
(f) The
parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the holders of the Preferred
Securities have certain rights to direct the Company and Reading NZ to modify
the Interest Payment Dates and corresponding Redemption Date and Stated Maturity
of the Securities or a portion of the Securities pursuant to the Purchase
Agreement. In the event any such modifications are made to the Securities or
a
portion of the Securities, appropriate changes to the form of Security set
forth
in Article II
hereof
shall be made prior to the issuance and authentication of new or replacement
Securities. Any such modification of the Interest Payment Date and corresponding
Redemption Date and Stated Maturity with respect to any Securities or tranche
of
Securities shall not require or be subject to the consent of the Trustee. All
reasonable expenses in connection with such modification shall be paid by the
holders of the Preferred Securities.
(g) Subject
to the foregoing provisions of this Section
3.1,
each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for
or
in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and
unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other Security.
SECTION
3.2. Denominations.
The
Securities shall be in registered form without coupons and shall be issuable
in
minimum denominations of $100,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess
thereof.
SECTION
3.3. Execution,
Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
(a) At
any
time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture,
the Company and Reading NZ may deliver Securities in an aggregate principal
amount (including all then Outstanding Securities) not in excess of Fifty One
Million Five Hundred Forty Seven Thousand Dollars ($51,547,000) executed by
the
Company and Reading NZ to the Trustee for authentication, together with a
Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the
Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver
such
Securities. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying
upon:
(i) a
copy of
any Board Resolution relating thereto; and
(ii) an
Opinion of Counsel stating that: (1) such Securities, when authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company and Reading NZ in the manner
and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will
constitute, and the Indenture constitutes, valid and legally binding obligations
of the Company and Reading NZ, each enforceable in accordance with its terms,
subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; (2) the Securities have been
duly authorized and executed by the Company and Reading NZ and have been
delivered to the Trustee for authentication in accordance with this Indenture;
(3) the Securities are not required to be registered under the Securities Act;
and (4) the Indenture is not required to be qualified under the Trust Indenture
Act.
(b) The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of each of the Company and Reading NZ
by
its Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive
Officer, its President or one of its Vice Presidents. The signature of any
of
these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile. Securities bearing
the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the
proper officers of the Company or Reading NZ shall bind the Company
and Reading NZ, respectively, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the
authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices
at
the date of such Securities.
(c) No
Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid
or
obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Security a certificate
of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by
the
Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, and such
certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company
(on behalf of itself and Reading NZ), and the Company (on behalf of itself
and
Reading NZ) shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as
provided in Section
3.8,
for all
purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.
(d) Each
Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
SECTION
3.4. Global
Securities.
(a) Upon
the
election of the Holder after the Original Issue Date, which election need not
be
in writing, the Securities owned by such Holder shall be issued in the form
of
one or more Global Securities registered in the name of the Depositary or its
nominee. Each Global Security issued under this Indenture shall be registered
in
the name of the Depositary designated by the Company (on behalf of itself and
Reading NZ) for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to
such
Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global
Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this
Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding
any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged
in
whole or in part for registered Securities, and no transfer of a Global Security
in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than
the
Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (i) such
Depositary advises the Trustee and the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading
NZ) in writing that such Depositary is no longer willing or able to properly
discharge its responsibilities as Depositary with respect to such Global
Security, and no qualified successor is appointed by the Company within ninety
(90) days of receipt by the Company of such notice, (ii) such Depositary ceases
to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and no successor
is
appointed by the Company within ninety (90) days after obtaining knowledge
of
such event, (iii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company
Order stating that the Company elects to terminate the book-entry system through
the Depositary or (iv) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing. Upon the occurrence of any event specified in clause (i), (ii),
(iii) or (iv) above, the Trustee shall notify the Depositary and instruct the
Depositary to notify all owners of beneficial interests in such Global Security
of the occurrence of such event and of the availability of Securities to such
owners of beneficial interests requesting the same. The Trustee may conclusively
rely, and be protected in relying, upon the written identification of the owners
of beneficial interests furnished by the Depositary, and shall not be liable
for
any delay resulting from a delay by the Depositary. Upon the issuance of such
Securities and the registration in the Securities Register of
such
Securities in the names of the Holders of the beneficial interests therein,
the
Trustees shall recognize such holders of beneficial interests as Holders.
(c) If
any
Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities or canceled in part,
or
if another Security is to be exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial
interest in any Global Security, then either (i) such Global Security shall
be
so surrendered for exchange or
cancellation
as provided in this Article
III
or (ii)
the principal amount thereof shall be reduced or increased by an amount equal
to
(x) the portion thereof to be so exchanged or canceled, or (y) the principal
amount of such other Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial interest
therein, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on
the
records of the Securities Registrar, whereupon the Trustee, in accordance with
the Applicable Depositary Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary or its
authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records.
Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global Security by the Depositary,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver any Securities issuable in exchange
for
such Global Security (or any portion thereof) in accordance with the
instructions of the Depositary. The Trustee shall not be liable for any delay
in
delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully
protected in relying on, such instructions.
(d) Every
Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in
exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof shall
be
authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security,
unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the
Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
(e) Securities
distributed to holders of Book-Entry Preferred Securities (as defined in the
applicable Trust Agreement) upon the dissolution of the Trust shall be
distributed in the form of one or more Global Securities registered in the
name
of a Depositary or its nominee, and deposited with the Securities Registrar,
as
custodian for such Depositary, or with such Depositary, for credit by the
Depositary to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of the Securities
represented thereby (or such other accounts as they may direct). Securities
distributed to holders of Preferred Securities other than Book-Entry Preferred
Securities upon the dissolution of the Trust shall not be issued in the form
of
a Global Security or any other form intended to facilitate book-entry trading
in
beneficial interests in such Securities.
(f) The
Depositary or its nominee, as the registered owner of a Global Security, shall
be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes under this Indenture
and
the Securities, and owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall
hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable Depositary Procedures.
Accordingly, any such owner’s beneficial interest in a Global Security shall be
shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be effected only through,
records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or its Depositary
Participants. The Securities Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to
deal
with the Depositary for all purposes of this Indenture relating to a Global
Security (including the payment of principal and interest thereon and the giving
of instructions or directions by owners of beneficial interests therein and
the
giving of notices) as the sole Holder of the Security and shall have no
obligations to the owners of beneficial interests therein. Neither the Trustee
nor the Securities Registrar shall have any liability in respect of any
transfers effected by the Depositary.
(g) The
rights of owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall be exercised
only through the Depositary and shall be limited to those established by law
and
agreements between such owners and the Depositary and/or its Depositary
Participants.
(h) No
holder
of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its behalf by a
Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such
Global Security, and such Depositary may be treated by the Company, Reading
NZ,
the Trustee and any agent of the Company Reading NZ, or the Trustee as the
owner
of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. None of the Company,
Reading NZ, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, Reading NZ, or the Trustee
will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating
to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global
Security or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such
beneficial ownership interests. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein
shall prevent the Company, Reading NZ, the
Trustee
or any agent of the Company, Reading NZ, or the Trustee from giving effect
to
any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a
Depositary or impair, as between a Depositary and such holders of beneficial
interests, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the
rights of the Depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of any
Security.
SECTION
3.5. Registration,
Transfer and Exchange Generally.
(a) The
Trustee shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the
“Securities
Register”)
in
which the registrar and transfer agent with respect to the Securities (the
“Securities
Registrar”),
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for
the registration of Securities and of transfers and exchanges of Securities.
The
Trustee shall at all times also be the Securities Registrar. The provisions
of
Article
VI
shall
apply to the Trustee in its role as Securities Registrar.
(b) Subject
to compliance with Section
2.2(b),
upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at the offices or
agencies of the Company designated for that purpose the Company and Reading
NZ
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name
of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of any
authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal
amount.
(c) At
the
option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of any
authorized denominations, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever
any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company and Reading NZ
shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities that
the
Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
(d) All
Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the
valid
obligations of the Company and Reading NZ, evidencing the same debt, and
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
(e) Every
Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if so required
by the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by
the
Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in
writing.
(f) No
service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or exchange of
Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any
transfer or exchange of Securities.
(g) Neither
the Company nor the Trustee shall be required pursuant to the provisions of
this
Section
3.5(g):
(i) to
issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security during a period
beginning at the opening of business fifteen (15) days before the day of
selection for redemption of Securities pursuant to Article
XI
and
ending at the close of business on the day of mailing
of the notice of redemption or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange
any
Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case
of
any such Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be
redeemed.
(h) The
Company shall designate an office or offices or agency or agencies where
Securities may be surrendered for registration or transfer or exchange. The
Company initially
designates
the Corporate Trust Office as its office and agency for such purposes. The
Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee and to the Holders
of
any change in the location of any such office or agency.
(i) The
Securities may only be transferred to a “Qualified Purchaser” as such term is
defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the Investment Company Act.
(j) Neither
the Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall be responsible for ascertaining
whether any transfer hereunder complies with the registration provisions of
or
any exemptions from the Securities Act, applicable state securities laws or
the
applicable laws of any other jurisdiction, ERISA, the United States Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Investment Company Act; provided,
that
if a certificate is specifically required by the express terms of this Section
3.5 to be delivered to the Trustee or the Securities Registrar by a Holder
or
transferee of a Security, the Trustee and the Securities Registrar shall be
under a duty to receive and examine the same to determine whether or not the
certificate substantially conforms on its face to the requirements of this
Indenture and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such
certificate does not comply with such terms.
SECTION
3.6. Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
(a) If
any
mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together with such security
or
indemnity as may be required by the Trustee to save the Company and the Trustee
harmless, the Company and Reading NZ shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of like tenor
and
aggregate principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
(b) If
there
shall be delivered to the Trustee (i) evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity
as may be required by it to save each of the Company, Reading NZ and the Trustee
harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that
such
Security has been acquired by a bona
fide
purchaser, the Company and Reading NZ shall execute and upon its written request
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed,
lost
or stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor and aggregate principal amount
as such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
(c) If
any
such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to
become due and payable, the Company and Reading NZ in their discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
(d) Upon
the
issuance of any new Security under this Section
3.6,
the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected
therewith.
(e) Every
new
Security issued pursuant to this Section
3.6
in lieu
of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Company and Reading NZ,
whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security 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 Securities
duly issued hereunder.
(f) The
provisions of this Section
3.6
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 Securities.
SECTION
3.7. Persons
Deemed Owners.
The
Company, Reading NZ, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, Reading NZ,
or
the Trustee shall treat the Person in whose name any Security is registered
as
the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal
of
and any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, and
neither the Company, Reading NZ, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company,
Reading NZ or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
SECTION
3.8. Cancellation.
All
Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer or exchange shall,
if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee,
and any such Securities and Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee
for
any such purpose shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company (on behalf of
itself and Reading NZ) may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation
any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered
shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated
in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this
Section
3.8,
except
as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities shall be
retained or disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary
practices and the Trustee shall deliver to the Company a certificate of such
disposition.
SECTION
3.9. Reserved.
SECTION
3.10. Reserved.
SECTION
3.11. Agreed
Tax Treatment.
Each
Security issued hereunder shall provide that the Company and Reading NZ and,
by
its acceptance or acquisition of a Security or a beneficial interest therein,
the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a direct or indirect beneficial
interest in, such Security, intend and agree to treat such Security as
indebtedness of the Company and Reading NZ for United States federal, state
and
local tax purposes and to treat the Preferred Securities (including but not
limited to all payments and proceeds with respect to the Preferred Securities)
as an undivided beneficial ownership interest in the Securities (and any other
Trust property) (and payments and proceeds therefrom, respectively) for United
States federal, state and local tax purposes. The provisions of this Indenture
shall be interpreted to further this intention and agreement of the
parties.
SECTION
3.12. CUSIP
Numbers.
The
Company and Reading NZ in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if
then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in
notices of redemption and other similar or related materials as a convenience
to
Holders; provided,
that any
such notice or other materials may state that no representation is made as
to
the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as
contained in any notice of redemption or other
materials and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification
numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected
by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
ARTICLE
IV
SATISFACTION
AND DISCHARGE
SECTION
4.1. Satisfaction
and Discharge of Indenture.
This
Indenture shall, upon Company Request, cease to be of further effect (except
as
to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities
herein expressly provided for and as otherwise provided in this Section
4.1)
and the
Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company and Reading NZ, shall
execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, when
(a) either
(i) all
Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (A) Securities
that have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced
or paid as provided in Section
3.6
and (B)
Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust
or
segregated and held in trust by the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading
NZ)
and thereafter repaid to the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) or
discharged from such trust as provided in Section
10.2)
have
been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii) all
such
Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(A) have
become due and payable, or
(B) will
become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year of the date
of
deposit, or
(C) are
to be
called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name,
and
at the expense, of the Company and Reading NZ,
and
the
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ), in the case of subclause (ii)(A),
(B) or (C) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee
as
trust funds in trust for such purpose (x) an amount in the currency or
currencies in which the Securities are payable, (y) Government Obligations
which
through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof
in
accordance with their terms will provide, not later than the due date of any
payment, money in an amount or (z) a combination thereof, in each case
sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any
premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) to the date of such
deposit (in the case of Securities that have become due and payable) or to
the
Stated Maturity (or any date of principal repayment upon early maturity) or
Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(b) the
Company and Reading NZ have paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company and Reading NZ; and
(c) the
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) has delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of
this
Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company
and Reading NZ to the Trustee under Section
6.6,
the
obligations of the Company and Reading NZ to any Authenticating Agent under
Section
6.11
and, if
money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (a)(ii)
of this Section
4.1,
the
obligations of the Trustee under Section
4.2
and
Section
10.2(e)
shall
survive.
SECTION
4.2. Application
of Trust Money.
Subject
to the provisions of Section
10.2(e),
all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section
4.1
or
Article
XIII
shall be
held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions
of
the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment in accordance with
Section
3.1,
either
directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own
Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto,
of
the principal and any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest)
for the payment of which such money or obligations have been deposited with
or
received by the Trustee. Moneys held by the Trustee under this Section
4.2
shall
not be subject to the claims of holders of Senior Debt under Article
XII.
ARTICLE
V
REMEDIES
SECTION
5.1. Events
of Default.
“Event
of Default”
means,
wherever used herein with respect to the Securities, any one of the following
events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall
be
voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to
any
judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of
any
administrative or governmental body):
(a) default
in the payment of any interest upon any Security, including any Additional
Interest in respect thereof, when it becomes due and payable, and continuance
of
such default for a period of thirty (30) days; or
(b) default
in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security at its
Maturity; or
(c) default
in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company or
Reading NZ in this Indenture and continuance of such default or breach for
a
period of thirty (30) days after there has been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) by the
Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least twenty
five
percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities a
written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied
and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;
(d) the
entry
by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of a decree or order adjudging
the Company or Reading NZ a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly
filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
of or in respect of the
Company or Reading NZ under any applicable federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or appointing
a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Company or Reading NZ or of any substantial part of
its
property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree
or
order unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; provided
that it
shall not be an Event of Default hereunder if a bankruptcy event occurs with
respect to Reading NZ and the Company promptly exercises its right under
Section
1.8(b)
hereof;
(e) the
institution by the Company or Reading NZ of proceedings to be adjudicated a
bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Company or Reading NZ to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing
by
the Company or Reading NZ of a petition or answer or consent seeking
reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by it to the
filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Company or Reading NZ or of any substantial part of
its
property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors,
or
the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally
as
they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent,
or the taking of corporate action by the Company or Reading NZ in furtherance
of
any such action; provided
that it
shall not be an Event of Default hereunder if a bankruptcy event occurs with
respect to Reading NZ and the Company promptly exercises its right under
Section
1.8(b)
hereof;
or
(f) the
Trust
shall have voluntarily or involuntarily liquidated, dissolved, wound-up its
business or otherwise terminated its existence, except in connection with (1)
the distribution of the Securities to holders of the Preferred Securities in
liquidation of their interests in the Trust, (2) the redemption of all of the
outstanding Preferred Securities or (3) certain mergers, consolidations or
amalgamations, each as and to the extent permitted by the Trust
Agreement.
SECTION
5.2. Acceleration
of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
(a) If
an
Event of Default occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the
Trustee or the Holders of not less than twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may declare the principal amount
of all the Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing
to the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) (and to the Trustee if
given
by Holders), provided, that if, upon an Event of Default, the Trustee or the
Holders of not less than twenty five percent (25%) in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities fail to declare the principal of all the Outstanding
Securities to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at least twenty
five percent (25%) in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
then outstanding shall have the right to make such declaration by a notice
in
writing to the Property Trustee, the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading
NZ) and the Trustee; and upon any such declaration the principal amount of
and
the accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities
shall become immediately due and payable.
(b) At
any
time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities has
been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has
been
obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article
V,
the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities, by written notice to the Trustee, or the holders of a majority
in
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, by written notice
to
the Property
Trustee, the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) and the Trustee,
may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences
if:
(i) the
Company and Reading NZ have paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient
to pay:
(A) all
overdue installments of interest on all Securities,
(B) any
accrued Additional Interest on all Securities,
(C) the
principal of and any premium on any Securities that have become due otherwise
than by such declaration of acceleration and interest (including any Additional
Interest) thereon at the rate borne by the Securities, and
(D) all
sums
paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, the Property Trustee and
their agents and counsel; and
(ii) all
Events of Default with respect to Securities, other than the non-payment of
the
principal of Securities that has become due solely by such acceleration, have
been cured or waived as provided in Section
5.13;
provided,
that if
the Holders of such Securities fail to annul such declaration and waive such
default, the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount
of the Preferred Securities then outstanding shall also have the right to
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences by written notice to
the
Property Trustee, the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) and the
Trustee, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in paragraph
(b) of this Section
5.2.
No such
rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
SECTION
5.3. Collection
of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
(a) Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ covenants that if:
(i)
default is made in the payment of any installment of interest (including any
Additional Interest) on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable
and such default continues for a period of thirty (30) days, or
(ii) default
is made in the payment of the principal of and any premium on any Security
at
the Maturity thereof,
then
the
Company and Reading NZ will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee,
for
the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and
payable on such Securities for principal and any premium and interest (including
any Additional Interest) and, in addition thereto, all amounts owing the Trustee
under Section
6.6.
(b) If
the
Company and Reading NZ fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the
Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, at the expense
of
the Company and Reading NZ, may institute a judicial proceeding for the
collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding
to
judgment or final decree, and may enforce the same against the Company, Reading
NZ or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the moneys adjudged
or
decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the
property of the Company, Reading NZ or any other obligor upon the Securities,
wherever situated.
(c) If
an
Event of Default with respect to Securities occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and
the
rights of the Holders of Securities by such appropriate judicial proceedings
as
the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights,
whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this
Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce
any other proper remedy.
SECTION
5.4. Trustee
May File Proofs of Claim.
In
case
of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, composition or similar judicial proceeding relative
to
the Company or Reading NZ (or any other obligor upon the Securities), its
property or its creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions
authorized hereunder in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee
allowed in any such proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized
to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable
on
any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver,
assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official 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 shall consent to
the
making of such payments directly to the Holders, to first pay to the Trustee
any
amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts owing
the
Trustee, any predecessor Trustee and other Persons under Section
6.6.
SECTION
5.5. Trustee
May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities.
All
rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be
prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Securities 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, subject to
Article
XII
and
after provision for the payment of all the amounts owing the Trustee, any
predecessor Trustee and other Persons under Section
6.6,
be for
the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.
SECTION
5.6. Application
of Money Collected.
Any
money
or property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with respect to the
Securities pursuant to this Article
V
shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in case of the distribution of such money or property on account of principal
or
any premium or interest (including any Additional Interest), upon presentation
of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially
paid
and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST:
To
the payment of all amounts due the Trustee, any predecessor Trustee and other
Persons under Section
6.6;
SECOND:
To the payment of all Senior Debt of the Company if and to the extent required
by Article
XII;
THIRD:
Subject to Article
XII,
to the
payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the Securities for principal
and
any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) in respect of
which
or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
due and payable on the Securities for principal and any premium and interest
(including any Additional Interest), respectively; and
FOURTH:
The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto.
SECTION
5.7. Limitation
on Suits.
Subject
to Section
5.8,
no
Holder of any Securities shall have any right to institute any proceeding,
judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or for the appointment
of
a custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other
similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(a) such
Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event
of Default with respect to the Securities;
(b) the
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Trustee hereunder;
(c) such
Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against
the
costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such
request;
(d) the
Trustee after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has
failed to institute any such proceeding for sixty (60) days; and
(e) no
direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee
during such sixty (60)-day period by the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities;
it
being
understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any
right
in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision
of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders
of Securities, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over
any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except
in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.
SECTION
5.8. Unconditional
Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest; Direct
Action by Holders of Preferred Securities.
Notwithstanding
any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have
the
right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal
of and any premium on such Security at its Maturity and payment of interest
(including any Additional Interest) on such Security when due and payable and
to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall
not
be impaired without the consent of such Holder. Any registered holder of the
Preferred Securities shall have the right, upon the occurrence of an Event
of
Default described in Section
5.1(a)
or
Section
5.1(b),
to
institute a suit directly against the Company or Reading NZ for enforcement
of
payment to such holder of principal of and any premium and interest (including
any Additional Interest) on the Securities having a principal amount equal
to
the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities held by such
holder.
SECTION
5.9. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If
the
Trustee, any Holder or any holder of Preferred Securities 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, such Holder or such holder of Preferred
Securities, then and in every such case the Company, Reading NZ, the Trustee,
such Holders and such holder of Preferred Securities shall, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of
the
Trustee, such Holder and such holder of Preferred Securities shall continue
as
though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION
5.10. Rights
and Remedies Cumulative.
Except
as
otherwise provided in Section
3.6(f),
no
right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or 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
5.11. Delay
or Omission Not Waiver.
No
delay
or omission of the Trustee, any Holder of any Securities or any holder of any
Preferred Security 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
V
or by
law to the Trustee or to the Holders and the right and remedy given to the
holders of Preferred Securities by Section
5.8
may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee, the Holders or the holders of Preferred Securities, as the case may
be.
SECTION
5.12. Control
by Holders.
The
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities (or, as the case may be, the holders of a majority in
aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities) shall have the right
to
direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the
Trustee; provided,
that:
(a) such
direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this
Indenture,
(b) the
Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not
inconsistent with such direction, and
(c) subject
to the provisions of Section
6.2,
the
Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow such direction if a
Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee shall, in good faith, reasonably
determine that the proceeding so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to
the
Holders not joining in any such direction or would involve the Trustee in
personal liability.
SECTION
5.13. Waiver
of Past Defaults.
(a) The
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities or the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate
Liquidation
Amount
of
the Preferred Securities may waive any past Event of Default hereunder and
its
consequences except an Event of Default:
(i) in
the
payment of the principal of or any premium or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Outstanding Security (unless such Event of Default has been
cured and the Company and Reading NZ have paid to or deposited with the Trustee
a sum sufficient to pay all installments of interest (including any Additional
Interest) due and past due and all principal of and any premium on all
Securities due otherwise than by acceleration), or
(ii)
in
respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under Article
IX
cannot
be modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of any Outstanding
Security.
(b) Any
such
waiver shall be deemed to be on behalf of the Holders of all the Outstanding
Securities or, in the case of a waiver by holders of Preferred Securities issued
by such Trust, by all holders of Preferred Securities.
(c) Upon
any
such waiver, such Event of Default shall cease to exist and any Event of Default
arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this
Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event
of
Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION
5.14. Undertaking
for Costs.
All
parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his or
her
acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy
under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or
omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of
an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and
expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the
merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant;
but
the provisions of this Section
5.14
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 ten percent
(10%) in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any
suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of or any premium on the Security after the Stated Maturity or any
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security after it is due
and
payable.
SECTION
5.15. Waiver
of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do
so)
that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each of the Company and
Reading NZ (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 hinder,
delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but
will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such
law
had been enacted.
ARTICLE
VI
THE
TRUSTEE
SECTION
6.1. Corporate
Trustee Required.
There
shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities. The
Trustee shall be a corporation or national banking organization organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States or of any state thereof,
authorized to exercise corporate trust powers, having, or having a parent that
has, a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject to
supervision or examination by federal or state authority and having an office
within the United States. If such entity publishes reports of condition at
least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of such supervising or
examining authority, then, for the purposes of this Section
6.1,
the
combined capital and surplus of such entity 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
6.1,
it
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified
in this Article
VI.
SECTION
6.2. Certain
Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) Except
during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the
Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee;
and
(ii) in
the
absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to
the
truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein,
upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; provided,
that in
the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision 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 substantially
conform on their face to the requirements of this Indenture.
(b) If
an
Event of Default known to the Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall, prior to the receipt of directions, if any, from the Holders
of
at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
(or, if applicable, from the holders of at least a majority in aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities), exercise such of the rights and
powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and
skill
in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs.
(c) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, no provision of 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 hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability
is
not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so 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
6.2.
To the
extent that, at law or in equity, the Trustee has duties and liabilities
relating to the Holders, the Trustee shall not be liable to any Holder or any
holder of Preferred Securities for the Trustee’s good faith reliance on the
provisions of this Indenture. The provisions of this Indenture, to the extent
that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Trustee otherwise existing
at law or in equity,
are agreed by the Company, Reading NZ and the Holders and the holders of
Preferred Securities to replace such other duties and liabilities of the
Trustee.
(d) No
provisions of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from
liability with respect to matters that are within the authority of the Trustee
under this Indenture for its own negligent action, negligent failure to act
or
willful misconduct, except that:
(i) the
Trustee shall not be liable for any error or judgment made in good faith by
an
authorized officer of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(ii) 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 direction of the Holders of
at
least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
(or, as the case may be, the holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation
Amount of Preferred Securities) relating to the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee under this
Indenture; and
(iii) the
Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it
hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company and Reading
NZ
and money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law.
(e) If
at any
time the Trustee hereunder is not the same Person as the Property Trustee under
the Trust Agreement:
(i) whenever
a reference is made herein to the dissolution, termination or liquidation of
the
Trust, the Trustee shall be entitled to assume that no such dissolution,
termination, or liquidation has occurred so long as the Securities are or
continue to be registered in the name of such Property Trustee, and the Trustee
shall be charged with notice or knowledge of such dissolution, termination
or
liquidation only upon written notice thereof given to the Trustee by the
Depositor under the Trust Agreement; and
(ii) the
Trustee shall not be charged with notice or knowledge that any Person is a
holder of Preferred Securities or Common Securities issued by the Trust or
whether any group of holders of Preferred Securities constitutes any specified
percentage of all outstanding Preferred Securities for any purpose under this
Indenture, unless and until the Trustee is furnished with a list of holders
by
such Property Trustee and the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities then outstanding. The Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be
protected in relying on such list.
(f) Notwithstanding
Section
1.10,
the
Trustee shall not, and shall not be deemed to, owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of any of the Trust Securities issued by the Trust and shall not be
liable to any such holder (other than for the willful misconduct or negligence
of the Trustee) if the Trustee in good faith (i) pays over or distributes to
a
registered Holder of the Securities or to the Company (on behalf of itself
and
Reading NZ) or to any other Person, cash, property or securities to which such
holders of such Trust Securities shall be entitled or (ii) takes any action
or
omits to take any action at the request of the Holder of such Securities.
Nothing in this paragraph shall affect the obligation of any other such Person
to hold such payment for the benefit of, and to pay such amount over to, such
holders of Preferred Securities or Common Securities or their
representatives.
SECTION
6.3. Notice
of Defaults.
Within
ninety (90) days after the occurrence of any default actually known to the
Trustee, the Trustee shall give the Holders notice of such default unless
such
default shall have been cured or waived; provided,
that
except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Securities, the Trustee shall be fully protected
in
withholding the notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive
committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of
the
Trustee in good faith determines that withholding
the notice is in the interest of holders of Securities;
and
provided,
further,
that in
the case of any default of the character specified in Section
5.1(c),
no such
notice to Holders shall be given until at least thirty (30) days after the
occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section
6.3,
the
term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or
both would become, an Event of Default.
SECTION
6.4. Certain
Rights of Trustee.
Subject
to the provisions of Section
6.2:
(a) the
Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith and in accordance with the terms hereof
upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note or other
paper
or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented
by
the proper party or parties;
(b) if
(i) in
performing its duties under this Indenture the Trustee is required to decide
between alternative courses of action, (ii) in construing any of the provisions
of this Indenture the Trustee finds ambiguous or inconsistent with any other
provisions contained herein or (iii) the Trustee is unsure of the application
of
any provision of this Indenture, then, except as to any matter as to which
the
Holders are entitled to decide under the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee
shall deliver a notice to the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ)
requesting the Company’s written instruction as to the course of action to be
taken and the Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking such
action, as the Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take, or to refrain
from taking, by the Company; provided, that if the Trustee does not receive
such
instructions from the Company within ten Business Days after it has delivered
such notice or such reasonably shorter period of time set forth in such notice
the Trustee may, but shall be under no duty to, take such action, or refrain
from taking such action, as the Trustee shall deem advisable and in the best
interests of the Holders, in which event the Trustee shall have no liability
except for its own negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct;
(c) any
request or direction of the Company shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company
Request or Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be
sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(d) the
Trustee may consult with counsel (which counsel may be counsel to the Trustee,
the Company or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees)
and
the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the
Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers
vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders
or any holder of Preferred Securities pursuant to this Indenture, unless such
Holders (or such holders of Preferred Securities)
shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory
to it against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and
expenses) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction, including reasonable advances for such costs, expenses
and
liabilities as may be requested by the Trustee;
(f) 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, indenture, note or other
paper
or document, but the Trustee in its discretion may make such inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and,
if
the Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall
be
entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company and Reading
NZ, personally or by agent or attorney;
(h) the
Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties
hereunder either directly or by or through agents, attorneys, custodians or
nominees and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee
appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(i) whenever
in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable
to
receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking
any
other action with respect to enforcing any remedy or right hereunder, the
Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders (which instructions may
only be given by the Holders of the same aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Securities as would be entitled to direct the Trustee under this
Indenture in respect of such remedy, right or action), (ii) may refrain from
enforcing such remedy or right or taking such action until such instructions
are
received and (iii) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such
instructions;
(j) except
as
otherwise expressly provided by this Indenture, the Trustee shall not he under
any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under the provisions
of
this Indenture;
(k) without
prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law,
when the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with any
bankruptcy, insolvency or other proceeding referred to in clauses (d) or (e)
of
the definition of Event of Default, such expenses (including legal fees and
expenses of its agents and counsel) and the compensation for such services
are
intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy laws
or
law relating to creditors rights generally;
(l) whenever
in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable
that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any
action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely
upon
an Officers’ Certificate addressing such matter, which, upon receipt of such
request, shall be promptly delivered by the Company;
(m) the
Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Event of Default unless
either (i) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge
or
(ii) the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company,
Reading NZ or a Holder; and
(n) in
the
event that the Trustee is also acting as Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent
or
Securities Registrar hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the
Trustee pursuant to this Article
VI
shall
also be afforded such Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent, or Securities
Registrar.
SECTION
6.5. May
Hold Securities.
The
Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar
or
any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may
become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) with the same rights it would
have
if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Securities Registrar
or such other agent.
SECTION
6.6. Compensation;
Reimbursement; Indemnity.
(a) Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ agrees:
(i) to
pay to
the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered
by it hereunder in such amounts as the Company, Reading NZ and the Trustee
shall
agree from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);
(ii) to
reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with
any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and
the
expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence, bad faith
or
willful misconduct; and
(iii) to
the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify the Trustee and its
Affiliates, and their officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives
and employees for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, damage,
liability, tax (other than income, franchise or other taxes imposed on amounts
paid pursuant to (i) or (ii) hereof), penalty, expense or claim of any kind
or
nature whatsoever incurred without negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct
on its part arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this trust or the performance of the Trustee’s duties
hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of
its
powers or duties hereunder.
(b) To
secure
the Company’s payment obligations in this Section
6.6,
each of
the Company and Reading NZ hereby grants and pledges to the Trustee and the
Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities on all money or property
held
or collected by the Trustee, other than money or property held in trust to
pay
principal and interest on particular Securities. Such lien shall survive the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or the resignation or removal
of
the Trustee.
(c) The
obligations of the Company and Reading NZ under this Section
6.6
shall
survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the earlier
resignation or removal of the Trustee.
(d) In
no
event shall the Trustee be liable for any indirect, special, punitive or
consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including, but not limited
to, lost profits, even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of
such
loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.
(e) In
no
event shall the Trustee be liable for any failure or delay in the performance
of
its obligations hereunder because of circumstances beyond its control,
including, but not limited to, acts of God, flood, war (whether declared or
undeclared), terrorism, fire, riot, embargo,
government action, including any laws, ordinances, regulations, governmental
action or the like which delay, restrict or prohibit the providing of the
services contemplated by this Indenture.
SECTION
6.7. Resignation
and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No
resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article
VI
shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee
under Section
6.8.
(b) The
Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Company
(on behalf of itself and Reading NZ).
(c) Unless
an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee may be
removed at any time by the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) by
a
Board Resolution. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
the Trustee may be removed by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, delivered to the Trustee and
to
the Company.
(d) If
the
Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any reason, at a time when no Event
of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company (on behalf of itself
and Reading NZ), by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee, and such successor Trustee and the retiring Trustee shall comply with
the applicable requirements of Section
6.8.
If the
Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any reason, at a time when an Event
of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holders, by Act of the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee, and such successor
Trustee and the retiring Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements
of Section
6.8.
If no
successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders
and
accepted appointment within sixty (60) days after the giving of a notice of
resignation by the Trustee or the removal of the Trustee in the manner required
by Section
6.8,
any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months
may, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated, and any
resigning Trustee may, at the expense of the Company and Reading NZ, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
(e) The
Company shall give notice to all Holders in the manner provided in Section
1.6
of each
resignation and each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor
Trustee. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the
address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION
6.8. Acceptance
of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In
case
of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee, each successor Trustee
so
appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company (on behalf
of
itself and Reading NZ) and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting
such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee
shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act,
deed
or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company (on behalf
of
itself and Reading NZ) or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall,
upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring
to
such successor Trustee all
the
rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held
by
such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) Upon
request of any such successor Trustee, the Company and Reading NZ shall execute
any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming
to such successor Trustee all rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph
(a) of this Section
6.8.
(d) No
successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this
Article
VI.
SECTION
6.9. Merger,
Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business.
Any
Person into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may
be
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding
to
all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall
be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, without the execution or filing
of
any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, provided,
that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article
VI.
In case
any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee
then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation or as
otherwise provided above in this Section
6.9
to such
authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the Securities
so authenticated, and in case any Securities shall not have been authenticated,
any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the
name
of any predecessor Trustee or in the name of such successor Trustee, and in
all
cases the certificate of authentication shall have the full force which it
is
provided anywhere in the Securities or in this Indenture that the certificate
of
the Trustee shall have.
SECTION
6.10. Not
Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The
recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company
and Reading NZ, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes
any
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations
as to
the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither
the
Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of the Securities or the proceeds
thereof.
SECTION
6.11. Appointment
of Authenticating Agent.
(a) The
Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to the
Securities, which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities issued upon original issue and upon exchange,
registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to
Section
3.6,
and
Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture
and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the
Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.
Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all
times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United
States of America, or of any State or Territory thereof or the District of
Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having
a
combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to
supervision or examination by federal or state authority. If such Authenticating
Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually pursuant to law or to
the
requirements
of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section
6.11
the
combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent 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 an Authenticating Agent shall cease
to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section
6.11,
such
Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in this Section
6.11.
(b) Any
Person into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a
party,
or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of an Authenticating Agent shall be the successor Authenticating
Agent
hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise eligible
under
this Section
6.11,
without
the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the
Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
(c) An
Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof
to
the Trustee and to the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ). The Trustee
may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving
written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon
receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case
at
any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with
the provisions of this Section
6.11,
the
Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent eligible under the
provisions of this Section
6.11,
which
shall be acceptable to the Company, and shall give notice of such appointment
to
all Holders. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties
of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an
Authenticating Agent.
(d) Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from
time
to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section
6.11
in such
amounts as the Company, Reading NZ and the Authenticating Agent shall agree
from
time to time.
(e) If
an
appointment of an Authenticating Agent is made pursuant to this Section
6.11,
the
Securities may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate
of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following
form:
This
is
one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
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FARGO BANK, N.A., not in its individual capacity, but solely as
Trustee
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ARTICLE
VII
HOLDER’S
LISTS AND REPORTS BY COMPANY
AND READING NZ
SECTION
7.1. Company
to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) will furnish or cause to be
furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semiannually,
on or before June 30 and December 31 of each year, a list, in such form as
the
Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as
of
a date not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the delivery thereof,
and
(b) at
such
other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within thirty (30) days
after
the receipt by the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) of any such
request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not more than fifteen
(15) days prior to the time such list
is
furnished, in each case to the extent such information is in the possession
or
control of the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) and has not
otherwise been received by the Trustee in its capacity as Securities
Registrar.
SECTION
7.2. Preservation
of Information, Communications to Holders.
(a) The
Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
the
names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished
to
the Trustee as provided in Section
7.1
and the
names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Securities Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as
provided in Section
7.1
upon
receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The
rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights
under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights
and
privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture
Act.
(c) Every
Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the
Company, Reading NZ and the Trustee that none of the Company, Reading NZ or
the
Trustee nor any agent of any of them shall be held accountable by reason of
the
disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the Holders made
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION
7.3. Reports
by Company.
(a) The
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) shall furnish to the Holders and
to
prospective purchasers of Securities, upon their request, the information
required to be furnished pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.
The delivery requirement set forth in the preceding sentence may be satisfied
by
compliance with Section
7.3(b)
hereof.
(b) The
Company shall furnish to each of (i) the Trustee, (ii) the Holders and to
subsequent holders of Securities, (iii) the Purchaser at 2107 Wilson Blvd.,
Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22201, Attention: Robert Hurley, Chief Financial
Officer, or such other address as designated by Purchaser) and (iv) any
beneficial owner of the Securities reasonably identified to the Company (which
identification may be made either by such beneficial owner or by Purchaser),
a
duly completed and executed certificate substantially and substantively in
the
form attached hereto as Exhibit
A,
including the financial statements referenced in such Exhibit, which certificate
and financial statements shall be so furnished by the Company not later than
forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters
of
each fiscal year of the Company and not later than ninety (90) days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Company. The delivery requirements under this
Section
7.3(b)
may be
satisfied by compliance with Section
8.16(b)
of the
Trust Agreement.
(c) If
the
Company intends to file its annual and quarterly information with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
in
electronic form pursuant to Regulation S-T of the Commission using the
Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (“EDGAR”)
system, the Company shall notify the Trustee in the manner prescribed herein
of
each such annual and quarterly filing. The Trustee is hereby authorized and
directed to access the EDGAR system for purposes of retrieving the financial
information so filed. Compliance with the foregoing shall constitute delivery
by
the Company of its financial statements to the
Trustee
in compliance with the provisions of Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act,
if applicable. The Trustee shall have no duty to search for or obtain any
electronic or other filings that the Company makes with the Commission,
regardless of whether such filings are periodic, supplemental or otherwise.
Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee pursuant to this
Section
7.3(c)
shall be
solely for purposes of
compliance
with this Section
7.3
and, if
applicable, with Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. The Trustee’s
receipt of such reports, information and documents shall not constitute notice
to it of the content thereof or any matter determinable from the content
thereof, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder,
as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely upon Officers’
Certificates.
ARTICLE
VIII
CONSOLIDATION,
MERGER, CONVEYANCE,
TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION
8.1. Company
and Reading NZ May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
Neither
the Company nor Reading NZ shall consolidate with or merge into any other Person
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, and no Person shall consolidate with or merge into
the
Company or Reading NZ or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to the Company or Reading NZ, unless:
(a) if
the
Company or Reading NZ shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to any Person, the entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company
or Reading NZ is merged or the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer,
or that leases, the properties and assets of the Company or Reading NZ
substantially as an entirety shall be an entity organized and existing under
the
laws of the United States of America or any State or Territory thereof or the
District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory
to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium
and interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities and
the
performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company
or
Reading NZ to be performed or observed;
(b) immediately
after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event
that,
after notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default,
shall have happened and be continuing; and
(c) the
Company and Reading NZ have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger,
conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required
in
connection with such transaction, any such supplemental indenture comply with
this Article
VIII and
that
all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have
been complied with; and the Trustee may rely upon such Officers’ Certificate and
Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that such transaction complies with
this Section
8.1.
SECTION
8.2. Successor Substituted.
(a) Upon
any
consolidation or merger by the Company or Reading NZ with or into any other
Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company or Reading NZ
of its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance
with Section
8.1
and the
execution and delivery to the Trustee of the supplemental indenture described
in
Section
8.1(a),
the
successor entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company or
Reading NZ is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made
shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and
power
of, the Company or Reading NZ under
this
Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as
the
Company or an Obligor herein; and in the event of any such conveyance or
transfer, following the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture,
and compliance with Section
4.2(a)
or
11.2,
as
applicable, hereof, the Company or Reading NZ shall be discharged from all
obligations and covenants under the Indenture and the Securities.
(b) Such
successor Person may cause to be executed, and may issue either in its own
name
or in the name of the Company or Reading NZ, any or all of the Securities
issuable hereunder that theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company
or
Reading NZ and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor
Person instead of the Company or Reading NZ and subject to all the terms,
conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall
authenticate and shall deliver any Securities that previously shall have been
signed and delivered by the officers of the Company or Reading NZ to the Trustee
for authentication, and any Securities that such successor Person thereafter
shall cause to be executed and delivered to the Trustee on its behalf. All
the
Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit
under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
(c) In
case
of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease, such changes
in
phraseology and form may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued
as
may be appropriate to reflect such occurrence.
ARTICLE
IX
SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURES
SECTION
9.1. Supplemental
Indentures without Consent of Holders.
Without
the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution,
Reading NZ, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any
time
and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following
purposes:
(a) to
evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or Reading NZ, and
the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company or Reading
NZ
herein and in the Securities; or
(b) to
evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor
trustee; or
(c) to
cure
any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein that may be
defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make or amend
any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture, which shall not be inconsistent
with the other provisions of this Indenture, provided,
that
such action pursuant to this clause (b) shall not adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of any Holders or the holders of the Preferred
Securities; or
(d) to
comply
with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation
system on which any of the Securities may be listed, traded or quoted;
or
(e) to
add to
the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Company or Reading NZ or
to
add to the Events of Default, provided, that such action pursuant to this
clause
(e) shall not
adversely
affect in any material respect the interests of any Holders or the holders
of
the Preferred Securities; or
(f) to
modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of the Indenture or the Securities
to
such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Securities are treated
as
indebtedness of the Company and Reading NZ for United States federal income
tax
purposes, provided, that such action pursuant to this clause (d) shall not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holders or the
holders of the Preferred Securities.
SECTION
9.2. Supplemental
Indentures with Consent of Holders.
(a) Subject
to Section
9.1,
with
the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities, by Act of said Holders delivered to the
Company (on
behalf of itself and Reading NZ) and
the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, Reading NZ, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture
or
indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to
or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this
Indenture
or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities under this
Indenture; provided, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security,
(i) change
the Stated Maturity of the principal or any premium of any Security or change
the date of payment of any installment of interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate
of
interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof or change
the place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security
or
interest thereon is payable, or restrict or impair the right to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date, or
(ii) reduce
the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities,
the
consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or
the
consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver of compliance with any
provision of this Indenture or of defaults hereunder and their consequences
provided for in this Indenture, or
(iii) modify
any of the provisions of this Section
9.2,
Section
5.13
or
Section
10.8,
except
to increase any percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for any reason, or to
provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified
or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each Security;
provided,
further,
that,
so long as any Preferred Securities remain outstanding, no amendment under
this
Section
9.2
shall be
effective until the holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities shall have consented to such amendment; provided,
further,
that if
the consent
of the Holder of each Outstanding Security is required for any amendment under
this Indenture, such amendment shall not be effective until the holder of each
Outstanding Preferred Security shall have consented to such amendment.
(b) It
shall
not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section
9.2
to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it
shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION
9.3. Execution
of Supplemental Indentures.
In
executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article
IX
or the
modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee
shall
be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in conclusively relying
upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the
execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture, and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to
such action have been complied with. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated
to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own
rights, duties, indemnities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Copies of the final form of each supplemental indenture shall be delivered
by
the Trustee at the expense of the Company and Reading NZ to each Holder, and,
if
the Trustee is the Property Trustee, to each holder of Preferred Securities,
promptly after the execution thereof.
SECTION
9.4. Effect
of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon
the
execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article
IX,
this
Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities and every holder of Preferred Securities theretofore or thereafter
authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION
9.5. Reference
in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article
IX
may, and
shall if required by the Company, bear a notation in form approved by the
Company as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Company shall so determine, new Securities so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared
and
executed by the Company and Reading NZ and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE
X
COVENANTS
SECTION
10.1. Payment
of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest.
Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders
of the Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and
any
premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities
in
accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION
10.2. Money
for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.
(a) If
the
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) shall at any time act as its
own
Paying Agent with respect to the Securities, it will, on or before each due
date
of the principal of and any premium or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on the Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit
of the
Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium
or interest (including Additional Interest) so becoming due until such sums
shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided,
and
will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its failure so to
act.
(b) Whenever
the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will, prior to 10:00
a.m.,
New York City time, on each due date of the principal of or any premium
or
interest
(including
any Additional Interest) on any
Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount,
such sum to be held as provided in the Trust Indenture Act and (unless
such
Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee
of its
failure so to act.
(c) The
Company will cause each Paying Agent for the Securities other than the Trustee
to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section
10.2,
that
such Paying Agent will (i) comply with the provisions of this Indenture and
the
Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (ii) during the
continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Securities) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities, upon
the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held
in
trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the
Securities.
(d) The
Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order
direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the
Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the
same
trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying
Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
money.
(e) 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 and any premium or interest (including
any Additional Interest) on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal and any premium or interest has become due and payable
shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable escheat
or
abandoned or unclaimed property law) be paid on Company Request to the Company,
or (if then held by the Company) shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory
provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security 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, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required
to
make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company 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, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after
a
date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty (30) days from
the
date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining
will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION
10.3. Statement
as to Compliance.
The
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) shall deliver to the Trustee,
within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year
of
the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers’ Certificate covering the
preceding calendar year, stating whether or not to the knowledge of the signers
thereof the Company or Reading NZ is in default in the performance or observance
of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without
regard
to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder), and
if the
Company or Reading NZ shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and
the
nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge. The delivery
requirements of this Section
10.3
may be
satisfied by compliance with Section
8.16(a)
of the
Trust Agreement.
SECTION
10.4. Calculation
Agent.
(a) Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ hereby agrees that for so long as any of the
Securities remain Outstanding, there will at all times be an agent appointed
to
calculate LIBOR in respect of each Interest Payment Date in accordance with
the
terms of Schedule
A
(the
“Calculation
Agent”).
The
Company has initially appointed the Property Trustee as Calculation Agent for
purposes of determining LIBOR for each Interest Payment Date. The Calculation
Agent may be removed by the Company at any time. So long as the Property Trustee
holds any of the Securities, the Calculation Agent shall be the Property
Trustee, except as described in the immediately preceding sentence. If the
Calculation Agent is unable or unwilling to act as such or is removed by the
Company, the Company will promptly appoint as a replacement Calculation Agent
the London office of a leading bank which is engaged in transactions in
Eurodollar deposits in the international Eurodollar market and which does not
control or is not controlled by or under common control with the Company or
its
Affiliates. The Calculation Agent may not resign its duties without a successor
having been duly appointed.
(b) The
Calculation Agent shall be required to agree that, as soon as possible after
11:00 a.m. (London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date (as defined in
Schedule
A),
but in
no event later than 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Business Day immediately
following each LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will calculate
the interest rate (the interest payment shall be rounded to the nearest cent,
with half a cent being rounded upwards) for the related Interest Payment Date,
and will communicate such rate and amount to the Company, the Trustee, each
Paying Agent and the Depositary. The Calculation Agent will also specify to
the
Company the quotations upon which the foregoing rates and amounts are based
and,
in any event, the Calculation Agent shall notify the Company before 5:00 p.m.
(London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date that either: (i) it has
determined or is in the process of determining the foregoing rates and amounts
or (ii) it has not determined and is not in the process of determining the
foregoing rates and amounts, together with its reasons therefor. The Calculation
Agent’s determination of the foregoing rates and amounts for any Interest
Payment Date will (in the absence of manifest error) be final and binding upon
all parties. For the sole purpose of calculating the interest rate for the
Securities, “Business Day” shall be defined as any day on which dealings in
deposits in Dollars are transacted in the London interbank market.
SECTION
10.5. Additional
Tax Sums.
So
long
as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, if (a) the Trust is
the
Holder of all of the Outstanding Securities and (b) a Tax Event described in
clause (i) or (iii) in the definition of Tax Event in Section
1.1
hereof
has occurred and is continuing, the Company and Reading NZ shall pay to the
Trust (and its permitted successors or assigns under the related Trust
Agreement) for so long as the Trust (or its permitted successor or assignee)
is
the registered holder of the Outstanding Securities, such amounts as may be
necessary in order that the
amount of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amount (as defined
in
the Trust Agreement)) then due and payable by the Trust on the Preferred
Securities and Common Securities that at any time remain outstanding in
accordance with the terms thereof shall not be reduced as a result of any
Additional Taxes arising from such Tax Event (additional such amounts payable
by
the Company and Reading NZ to the Trust, the “Additional
Tax Sums”).
Whenever in this Indenture or the Securities there is a reference in any context
to the payment of principal of or interest on the Securities, such mention
shall
be deemed to include mention of the payments of the Additional Tax Sums provided
for in this Section
10.5
to the
extent that, in such context, Additional Tax Sums are, were or would be payable
in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section
10.5
and
express mention of the payment of Additional Tax Sums (if applicable) in any
provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Tax Sums in
those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.
SECTION
10.6. Additional
Covenants.
(a) Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ covenants and agrees with each Holder of Securities
that if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, it shall
not
(i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase,
acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the
Company’s capital stock (for the avoidance of doubt, the term “capital stock”
includes both common stock and preferred stock of the Company), (ii) except
for
dividends, distributions, redemptions, purchases, acquisitions or liquidation
payments paid solely to the Company, vote in favor of or permit or otherwise
allow any of its subsidiaries to declare or pay any dividends or distributions
on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect
to
or otherwise retire, any shares of such subsidiaries preferred stock (for the
avoidance of doubt, whether such preferred stock is perpetual or otherwise),
or
(iii) make any payment of principal of or any interest or premium, if any,
on or
repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company that rank
pari
passu in
all
respects with or junior in interest to the Securities (other than (A)
repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of
the
Company in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other
similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees,
officers, directors or consultants, in connection with a dividend reinvestment
or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection with the issuance of capital
stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or exercisable for such
capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into
prior
to the Event of Default, (B) as a result of an exchange or conversion of any
class or series of the Company’s capital stock (or any capital stock of a
Subsidiary of the Company) for any class or series of the Company’s capital
stock or of any class or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or
series of the Company’s capital stock, (C) the purchase of fractional interests
in shares of the Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange
provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged,
(D) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any Rights Plan, the
issuance of rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan or the
redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto or (E) any dividend in
the
form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or
the
stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the
same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari
passu
with or
junior to such stock).
(b) The
Company also covenants with each Holder of Securities (i) to hold, directly
or
indirectly, one hundred percent (100%) of the Common Securities of the Trust,
provided,
that any
permitted successor of the Company hereunder may succeed to the Company’s
ownership of such Common Securities, (ii) as holder of such Common Securities,
not to voluntarily dissolve, wind-up or liquidate the Trust other than (A)
in
connection with a distribution of the Securities to the holders of the Preferred
Securities in liquidation of the Trust or (B) in connection with certain
mergers, consolidations or amalgamations permitted by the Trust Agreement and
(iii) to use its reasonable
commercial efforts, consistent with the terms and provisions of the Trust
Agreement, to cause the Trust to continue to be taxable as a grantor trust
and
not as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes.
(c) [Intentionally
omitted].
(d) The
Company shall notify in writing, within five (5) Business Days of the occurrence
thereof, the Trustee and each holder of Preferred Securities of the occurrence
of a Change of Control (the “Change
of Control Notice”),
describing the transaction or transactions that constitute the Change of
Control
and stating that the Electing Securities will either be (i) defeased in
accordance with Article XIII of this Indenture, if, after applying the
requirements of Section 11.2 of this Indenture to redeem the Electing Securities
no later than thirty (30) days following the end of the Notice Period (defined
below), the Electing Securities would be redeemed prior to the expiration
of the
No Call Period, or (ii) redeemed by the Company, pursuant to Section 11.2
of
this Indenture, if the Redemption Date is on or after the expiration of the
No
Call Period, in either case only if the Company and the Trustee receive,
within
thirty (30)
days
after the Company gives a Change of Control Notice (such 30-day period referred
to as the “Notice
Period”),
notice from holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate principal
amount of the Preferred Securities electing to cause either the Defeasance
or
redemption, as applicable, of the Securities (a “Change
of Control Election”).
If
the Company and the Trustee shall have received a Change of Control Election
from the holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate principal
amount of Preferred Securities within the Notice Period, then the Company shall
either (A) defease the Electing Securities in accordance with Article XIII
of
this Indenture, if, after applying the requirements in Section 11.2 of this
Indenture, the Redemption Date would be prior to the expiration of the No Call
Period, or (B) redeem the Electing Securities, pursuant to Section 11.2 of
this
Indenture, if the Redemption Date is on or after the expiration of the No Call
Period.
SECTION
10.7. Financial
Covenants.
Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ hereby covenants and agrees as follows:
(a) for
so
long as any of the Securities remain outstanding, the Company shall maintain
at
all times (i) Net Worth as determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect
as of
September 30, 2006, in an amount greater than or equal to Eighty Five Million
Dollars ($85,000,000), and (ii) the Net Asset Value of Real Estate in an amount
greater than or equal to One Hundred Sixty Five Million Dollars
($165,000,000).
(b) for
so
long as any of the Securities remain outstanding, unless the prior written
consent of holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Preferred
Securities has been obtained, the Company shall not at any time issue any
additional Debt other than Senior Debt unless, at such time, the sum of (i)
the
aggregate principal amount of any such proposed additional Debt, and (ii) the
aggregate principal amount of the Company’s outstanding Debt other than Senior
Debt at such time (including the outstanding principal amount of the Securities)
would not exceed twenty five percent (25%) of the Net Asset Value of Real Estate
at such time.
(c) for
so
long as any of the Securities remain outstanding, the Company shall not permit
its Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, calculated as of the end of each fiscal quarter
for the four fiscal quarters then ended, to be less than the ratios set forth
below for the time periods set forth below:
(i) Original
Issue Date through first anniversary thereof: 1.25
to
1.0;
(ii) first
anniversary through second anniversary thereof: 1.45
to
1.0;
(iii) second
anniversary through third anniversary thereof: 1.55
to
1.0; and
(iv) third
anniversary and all times thereafter: 1.65
to
1.0.
(d) If
the
Company is not in compliance with the required level or ratio for any of
the
covenants calculated as described above in Section
10.7(a), (b) or (c) at
any
time and if there exists no other Event of Default at such time, the Company
shall have the option, exercisable by notice to the Trustee at any time prior
to
the expiration of the thirty (30)-day period following any Notice of Default
with respect to such default, to deposit in escrow with the Trustee cash
in an
amount equal to one (1) year of all scheduled interest payments required
under
this Indenture with respect to the Securities (the “Financial
Covenant Deposit”),
in
which case the Company shall be given a period of one (1) year in which to
use
its good faith efforts to cure such default;
provided that
the
Company shall nonetheless be obligated to make all payments (including quarterly
interest payments) required hereunder, and provided,
further, that
if an
Event of Default under Section
5.1(a), (b), (d), (e) or (f)
exists
or occurs during such period, then the Trustee, the Holders and the holders
of
Preferred Securities shall have the rights and remedies given to them under
Article
V
and
elsewhere in this Indenture and the Company shall have no one (1)-year cure
period for any such Event of Default. In the event that the Company makes such
Financial Covenant Deposit, the Company shall be required to provide a quarterly
Officer’s Certificate to the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of the
Preferred Securities setting forth the steps that the Company is taking to
cure
such default and certifying that the Company is using its good faith efforts
toward such cure. If the Company fails to cure such Event of Default within
the
one (1)-year period described herein, then the holders of the Preferred
Securities, upon thirty (30) days written notice to the Company shall have
the
right to require the Company to redeem their respective Securities in accordance
with the following: (i) if during the period from the first anniversary of
Original Issue Date through the second anniversary thereof, at a Redemption
Price equal to one hundred three percent (103%) of the principal amount thereof,
together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including
any Additional Interest, through but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption
Date, (ii) if during the period from the second anniversary of Original Issue
Date through the third anniversary thereof, at a Redemption Price equal to
one
hundred two percent (102%) of the principal amount thereof, together, in the
case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional
Interest, through but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date, (iii)
if
during the period from the third anniversary of Original Issue Date through
the
fourth anniversary thereof, at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred one
percent (101%) of the principal amount thereof, together, in the case of any
such redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest,
through but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date, and (iv) at any
time thereafter, at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent (100%)
of
the principal amount thereof, together, in the case of any such redemption,
with
accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, through but excluding
the
date fixed as the Redemption Date.
SECTION
10.8. Waiver
of Covenants.
The
Company and Reading NZ may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
covenant or condition contained in Section
10.6 or
Section
10.7
if,
before or after the time for such compliance, the Holders of at least a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall, by Act of
such Holders, and at least a majority of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of
the
Preferred Securities then outstanding, by consent of such holders, either waive
such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such
covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such
covenant or condition except
to
the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective,
the obligations of the Company and Reading NZ in respect of any such covenant
or
condition shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION
10.9. Treatment
of Securities.
Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ will treat the Securities as indebtedness, and
the
amounts, other than payments of principal, payable in respect of the principal
amount of such Securities as interest, for all U.S. federal income tax purposes.
All payments in respect of the Securities will be made free and clear of
U.S.
withholding tax to any beneficial owner thereof that has provided an Internal
Revenue Service Form W-9 or W-8BEN (or any substitute or successor form)
establishing its U.S. or non-U.S. status for U.S. federal income tax purposes,
or any other applicable form establishing a complete exemption from U.S.
withholding tax.
SECTION
10.10. Financial
Covenant Deposit.
(a) The
Company hereby pledges and assigns to the Trustee for the benefit of the
Holders
of the Securities, as security for all payments required under this Indenture
with respect to the Securities and the performance of all other terms,
conditions and covenants of this Indenture on the Company’s part to be paid and
performed, all of Company’s right, title and interest in and to the Financial
Covenant Deposit. The Financial Covenant Deposit shall be under the sole
dominion and control of Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the
Securities.
(b) Upon
the occurrence of an
Event of Default or the failure of the Company to make any payments required
under this Indenture, whether or not such failure shall be deemed an Event
of
Default pursuant to the terms hereof, the Trustee shall have the right to
apply
all or any part of the Financial Covenant Deposit to any payments required
on
the Company’s part under this Indenture with respect to the
Securities.
(c) Upon
receipt of a written
certification and notice from the Company to the Trustee, the Holders and
the
holders of the Preferred Securities that (1) the Company has cured a previously
existing Event of Default (under Section 10.7(a), (b) or (c) hereof) as
described in Section 10.7(d) hereof and (2) no Event of Default exists or
is continuing, the holders of the Preferred Securities, if such holders have
received such notice and certification, shall within 30 days after receipt
thereof review such certification and confirm or object to the matters therein.
If confirming such matters, the holders of majority in aggregate liquidation
amount of the Preferred Securities shall promptly provide written instructions
to the Trustee, instructing the Trustee to promptly return the Financial
Covenant Deposit to the Company (less any amounts as may have been applied
to
payments by the Company required hereunder), and the Trustee shall promptly
return such Deposit within 5 Business Days following receipt of such
instructions. In the event that the holders of the Preferred Securities object
to the matters set forth in the certification, the holders of a majority
in
aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities shall provide written
notice to the Company, the Holders and the Trustee thereof and the reasons
therefor and the Financial Covenant Deposit shall not be returned. If the
holders of the Preferred Securities have received such notice and certification,
but have failed to respond either confirming or objecting to the matters
contained therein during the 30-day period following receipt thereof, the
Trustee shall apply funds comprising the Financial Covenant Deposit to the
interest payments required under this Indenture until such funds have been
depleted.
(d) All
interest, if any, on the Financial Covenant Deposit shall accrue and shall
be
deemed to be a part of the Financial Covenant Deposit.
ARTICLE
XI
REDEMPTION
OF SECURITIES
SECTION
11.1. Redemption
at Option of Company.
(a) Optional
Redemption.
The
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) may, at its option, on any Interest
Payment Date, on or after the expiration of the No Call Period, redeem the
Securities in whole at any time or in part from time to time, at a Redemption
Price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount thereof
(or of
the redeemed portion thereof, as applicable), together, in the case of any
such
redemption, with accrued and unpaid interest, including any Additional Interest,
through but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date (the “Optional
Redemption Price”).
(b) Special
Event Redemption.
During
the No Call Period, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Special
Event, the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) may, at its option,
redeem the Securities, in whole but not in part, at a Redemption Price equal
to
one hundred seven and one half percent (107.5%) of the principal amount thereof,
together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including
any Additional Interest, through but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption
Date (the “Special
Redemption Price”).
SECTION
11.2. Redemption
at Option of Holders.
(a) Change
of
Control Redemption.
The
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) shall, upon receipt during the
Notice Period from holders of at least twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities of a Change of Control Election
with
respect to a Change of Control, redeem the Electing Securities, on a date no
more than thirty (30) days following the end of the Notice Period, at the
Optional Redemption Price; provided
that
the
Company shall redeem the Electing Securities only if the Redemption Date is
on
or after the expiration of the No Call Period.
(b) Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio Failure to Cure Redemption.
The
Company shall, upon receipt of thirty (30) days written notice to the Company
from holders of Preferred Securities following the Company’s failure to cure the
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio in accordance with Section
10.7(c)
hereof,
redeem their respective Securities in accordance with the following: (i) if
during the period from the first anniversary of Original Issue Date through
the
second anniversary thereof, at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred three
percent (103%) of the principal amount thereof, together, in the case of any
such redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest,
through but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date, (ii) if during
the
period from the second anniversary of Original Issue Date through the third
anniversary thereof, at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred two percent
(102%) of the principal amount thereof, together, in the case of any such
redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, through
but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date, (iii) if during the period
from the third anniversary of Original Issue Date
through the fourth anniversary thereof, at a Redemption Price equal to one
hundred one percent (101%) of the principal amount thereof, together, in the
case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional
Interest, through but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date, and
(iv)
at any time thereafter, at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent
(100%) of the principal amount thereof, together, in the case of any such
redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, through
but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date
SECTION
11.3. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The
election of the Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) to redeem any
Securities, in whole or in part, shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution of each of Reading NZ and the Company. In case of any redemption
at
the election of the Company, the Company shall, not less than forty-five (45)
days and not more than seventy-five (75) days prior to the Redemption Date
(unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the
Trustee and the Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement in writing of such
date and of the
principal
amount of the Securities to be redeemed and provide the additional information
required to be included in the notice or notices contemplated by Section
11.5.
In the
case of any redemption of Securities, in whole or in part, (a) prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in this Indenture
or
the Securities or (b) pursuant to an election of the Company which is subject
to
a condition specified in this Indenture or the Securities, the Company shall
furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
evidencing compliance with such restriction or condition.
SECTION
11.4. Selection
of Securities to be Redeemed.
(a) If
less
than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected and redeemed on a pro rata basis not more than sixty
(60) days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee from the Outstanding
Securities not previously called for redemption, provided,
that the
unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall be in an
authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination) for such Security.
(b) The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected
for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial
redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of
this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating
to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security
redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount
of such Security that has been or is to be redeemed.
(c) The
provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section
11.4
shall
not apply with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security,
whether such Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of
any
such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of
the
Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than
the
minimum
authorized denomination) for such Security.
SECTION
11.5. Notice
of Redemption.
(a) Notice
of
redemption shall be given not later than the thirtieth (30th) day, and not
earlier than the sixtieth (60th) day, prior to the Redemption Date to each
Holder of Securities to be redeemed, in whole or in part (unless a shorter
notice shall be satisfactory to the Property Trustee under the related Trust
Agreement).
(b) With
respect to Securities to be redeemed, in whole or in part, each notice of
redemption shall state:
(i) the
Redemption Date;
(ii) the
Redemption Price or, if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to
the
time the notice is required to be sent, the estimate of the Redemption Price,
as
calculated by the Company, together with a statement that it is an estimate
and
that the actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the fifth Business
Day
prior to the Redemption Date (and if an estimate is provided, a further notice
shall be sent of the actual Redemption Price on the date that such Redemption
Price is calculated);
(iii) if
less
than all Outstanding Securities are to be redeemed, the identification (and,
in
the case of partial redemption, the respective principal amounts) of the
amount
of and particular Securities to be redeemed;
(iv) that
on
the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon
each
such Security or portion thereof, and that any interest (including any
Additional Interest) on such Security or such portion, as the case may be,
shall
cease to accrue on and after said date;
(v) the
place
or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the
Redemption Price; and
(vi) Such
other provisions as the Company deems relevant.
(c) Notice
of
redemption of Securities to be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the election
of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.
The notice if mailed in the manner provided above shall be conclusively presumed
to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In
any
case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the notice to
the
Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall
not
affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other
Security.
SECTION
11.6. Deposit
of Redemption Price.
Prior
to
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Redemption Date specified in the notice
of redemption given as provided in Section
11.5,
the
Company and Reading NZ will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more Paying
Agents (or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company will
segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section
10.2)
an
amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and any accrued
interest (including any Additional Interest) on, all the Securities (or portions
thereof) that are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION
11.7. Payment
of Securities Called for Redemption.
(a) If
any
notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section
11.5,
the
Securities or portion of Securities with respect to which such notice has been
given shall become due and payable on the date and at the place or places stated
in such notice at the applicable Redemption Price, together with accrued
interest (including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date. On
presentation and surrender of such Securities at a Place of Payment specified
in
such notice, the Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid
and
redeemed
by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price, together with accrued
interest (including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date.
(b) Upon
presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Company and Reading
NZ
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder
thereof, at the expense of the Company and Reading NZ, a new Security or
Securities, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal
to
the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented and having the same Original
Issue Date, Stated Maturity and terms.
(c) If
any
Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof
for
redemption, the principal of and any premium on such Security shall, until
paid,
bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in
the
Security.
ARTICLE
XII
SUBORDINATION
OF SECURITIES
SECTION
12.1. Securities
Subordinate to Senior Debt.
The
Company and Reading NZ covenant and agree, and each Holder of a Security, by
its
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and
in
the manner hereinafter set forth in this Article
XII,
the
payment of the principal of and any premium and interest (including any
Additional Interest) on each and all of the Securities are hereby expressly
made
subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of
all
Senior Debt, except as otherwise provided in Section 4.2.
SECTION
12.2. No
Payment When Senior Debt in Default; Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution,
Etc.
(a) In
the
event and during the continuation of any default by the Company in the payment
of any principal of or any premium or interest on any Senior Debt (following
any
grace period, if applicable) when the same becomes due and payable, whether
at
maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration of acceleration
or
otherwise, then, upon written notice of such default to the Company by the
holders of such Senior Debt or any trustee therefor, unless and until such
default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist, no direct
or indirect payment (in cash, property, securities, by set-off or otherwise)
shall be made or agreed to be made on account of the principal of or any premium
or interest (including any Additional Interest) on any of the Securities, or
in
respect of any redemption, repayment, retirement, purchase or other acquisition
of any of the Securities.
(b) In
the
event of a bankruptcy, insolvency or other proceeding described in clause (d)
or
(e) of the definition of Event of Default (each such event, if any, herein
sometimes referred to as a “Proceeding”),
all
Senior Debt (including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement
of
any such proceedings) shall first be paid in full before any payment or
distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made
to
any Holder of any of the Securities on account thereof. Any payment or
distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property (other than
securities of the Company or any other entity provided for by a plan of
reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at least
to
the extent provided in these subordination provisions with respect to the
indebtedness evidenced by the Securities, to the payment of all Senior Debt
at
the time outstanding and to any securities issued in respect thereof under
any
such plan of reorganization or readjustment), which would otherwise (but
for
these subordination provisions) be payable or deliverable in respect of the
Securities shall be paid or delivered directly to the holders of Senior Debt
in
accordance with the priorities then existing among such holders until all Senior
Debt (including any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any
Proceeding) shall have been paid in full.
(c) In
the
event of any Proceeding, after payment in full of all sums owing with respect
to
Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities, together with the holders of
any
obligations of the Company ranking on a parity with the Securities, shall
be
entitled to be paid from the remaining assets of the Company the amounts
at the
time due and owing on account of unpaid principal of and any premium and
interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities and such other
obligations before any payment or other distribution, whether in cash, property
or otherwise, shall be made on account of any capital stock or any obligations
of the Company ranking junior to the Securities and such other obligations.
If,
notwithstanding the foregoing,
any
payment or distribution of any character or any security, whether in cash,
securities or other property (other than securities of the Company or any other
entity provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment the payment
of
which is subordinate, at least to the extent provided in these subordination
provisions with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities, to
the
payment of all Senior Debt at the time outstanding and to any securities issued
in respect thereof under any such plan of reorganization or readjustment) shall
be received by the Trustee or any Holder in contravention of any of the terms
hereof and before all Senior Debt shall have been paid in full, such payment
or
distribution or security shall be received in trust for the benefit of, and
shall be paid over or delivered and transferred to, the holders of the Senior
Debt at the time outstanding in accordance with the priorities then existing
among such holders for application to the payment of all Senior Debt remaining
unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all such Senior Debt (including any
interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any Proceeding) in full.
In
the event of the failure of the Trustee or any Holder to endorse or assign
any
such payment, distribution or security, each holder of Senior Debt is hereby
irrevocably authorized to endorse or assign the same.
(d) The
Trustee and the Holders, at the expense of the Company, shall take such
reasonable action (including the delivery of this Indenture to an agent for
any
holders of Senior Debt or consent to the filing of a financing statement with
respect hereto) as may, in the opinion of counsel designated by the holders
of a
majority in principal amount of the Senior Debt at the time outstanding, be
necessary or appropriate to assure the effectiveness of the subordination
effected by these provisions.
(e) The
provisions of this Section
12.2
shall
not impair any rights, interests, remedies or powers of any secured creditor
of
the Company in respect of any security interest the creation of which is not
prohibited by the provisions of this Indenture.
(f) The
securing of any obligations of the Company, otherwise ranking on a parity with
the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities, shall not be deemed to
prevent such obligations from constituting, respectively, obligations ranking
on
a parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities.
SECTION
12.3. Payment
Permitted If No Default.
Nothing
contained in this Article
XII
or
elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall prevent (a) the
Company, at any time, except during the pendency of the conditions described
in
paragraph (a) of Section
12.2
or of
any Proceeding referred to in Section
12.2,
from
making payments at any time of principal of and any premium or interest
(including any Additional Interest) on the Securities or (b) the application
by
the Trustee of any moneys deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or
on
account of the principal of and any premium or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities or the retention
of such payment by the Holders, if, at the time of such application by the
Trustee, it did not have knowledge (in accordance with Section
12.8)
that
such payment would have been prohibited by the provisions of this Article
XII,
except
as provided in Section
12.8.
SECTION
12.4. Subrogation
to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt.
Subject
to the payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on all Senior
Debt,
or the provision for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise
in a
manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities
shall be subrogated to the extent of the payments or distributions made to
the
holders of such Senior Debt pursuant to the provisions of this Article
XII
(equally
and ratably with the holders of all indebtedness of the Company that by its
express terms is subordinated to Senior Debt of the Company to substantially
the
same
extent
as
the Securities are subordinated to the Senior Debt and is entitled to like
rights of subrogation by reason of any payments or distributions made to holders
of such Senior Debt) to the rights of the holders of such Senior Debt to receive
payments and distributions of cash, property and securities applicable to the
Senior Debt until the principal of and any premium and interest (including
any
Additional Interest) on the Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes
of
such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior
Debt
of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the Securities
or
the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article
XII,
and no
payments made pursuant to the provisions of this Article
XII
to the
holders of Senior Debt by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall,
as
among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt, and the
Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the
Company to or on account of the Senior Debt.
SECTION
12.5. Provisions
Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The
provisions of this Article
XII
are and
are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of the
Holders of the Securities on the one hand and the holders of Senior Debt on
the
other hand. Nothing contained in this Article
XII
or
elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall (a)
impair, as between the Company and the Holders of the Securities, the
obligations of the Company, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay to
the
Holders of the Securities the principal of and any premium and interest
(including any Additional Interest) on the Securities as and when the same
shall
become due and payable in accordance with their terms, (b) affect the relative
rights against the Company of the Holders of the Securities and creditors of
the
Company other than their rights in relation to the holders of Senior Debt or
(c)
prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security (or to the extent expressly
provided herein, the holder of any Preferred Security) from exercising all
remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this
Indenture, including filing and voting claims in any Proceeding, subject to
the
rights, if any, under this Article
XII
of the
holders of Senior Debt to receive cash, property and securities otherwise
payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
SECTION
12.6. Trustee
to Effectuate Subordination.
Each
Holder of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes and directs
the
Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article
XII
and
appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
SECTION
12.7. No
Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
(a) No
right
of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt to enforce subordination
as
herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by
any
act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure
to
act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company
with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of
any
knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or be otherwise charged
with.
(b) Without
in any way limiting the generality of paragraph (a) of this Section
12.7,
the
holders of Senior Debt may, at any time and from to time, without the consent
of
or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, without incurring
responsibility to such Holders of the Securities and without impairing
or
releasing the subordination provided in this Article
XII
or the
obligations hereunder of such Holders of the Securities to the holders
of Senior
Debt, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place
or terms
of payment or extend the
time
of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior
Debt, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Debt or any
instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Debt
is
outstanding, (ii) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property
pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Debt, (iii) release any
Person
liable in any manner for the payment of Senior Debt and (iv) exercise or
refrain
from exercising any rights against the Company and any other
Person.
SECTION
12.8. Notice
to Trustee.
(a) The
Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
of any fact known to the Company that would prohibit the making of any payment
to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Article
XII
or any
other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with
knowledge of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any
payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless and until
a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof
from the Company or a holder of Senior Debt or from any trustee, agent or
representative therefor; provided, that if the Trustee shall not have received
the notice provided for in this Section
12.8
at least
two (2) Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any
monies may become payable for any purpose (including, the payment of the
principal of and any premium on or interest (including any Additional Interest)
on any Security), then, anything herein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive
such
monies and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were received and
shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be received by
it
within two Business Days prior to such date.
(b) The
Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice
by a
Person representing himself or herself to be a holder of Senior Debt (or a
trustee, agent, representative or attorney-in-fact therefor) to establish that
such notice has been given by a holder of Senior Debt (or a trustee, agent,
representative or attorney-in-fact therefor). In the event that the Trustee
determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect to
the
right of any Person as a holder of Senior Debt to participate in any payment
or
distribution pursuant to this Article
XII,
the
Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt held by such Person,
the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment
or
distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person under
this Article
XII,
and if
such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person
pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such
payment.
SECTION
12.9. Reliance
on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
Upon
any
payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this
Article
XII,
the
Trustee and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to conclusively
rely
upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in
which
such Proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy,
receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors,
agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the
Trustee or to the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining
the
Persons entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders
of
the Senior Debt and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof
or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all
other
facts pertinent thereto or to this Article
XII.
SECTION
12.10. Trustee
Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt.
The
Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture, shall not be deemed
to
owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt and shall not be liable
to
any such holders if it shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or distribute
to
Holders of Securities or to the Company or to any other Person cash, property
or
securities to which any holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled by virtue
of
this Article
XII
or
otherwise.
SECTION
12.11. Rights
of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee’s
Rights.
The
Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set
forth
in this Article
XII
with
respect to any Senior Debt that may at any time be held by it, to the same
extent as any other holder of Senior Debt, and nothing in this Indenture shall
deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
SECTION
12.12. Article
Applicable to Paying Agents.
If
at any
time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the
Company and be then acting hereunder, the term “Trustee” as used in this
Article
XII
shall in
such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as extending
to
and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents
and
purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article
XII
in
addition to or in place of the Trustee; provided, that Sections
12.8 and
12.11
shall
not apply to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if the Company or
such
Affiliate acts as Paying Agent.
ARTICLE
XIII
DEFEASANCE
SECTION
13.1. Defeasance
and Discharge.
The
Company (on behalf of itself and Reading NZ) shall, upon receipt during the
Notice Period from holders of at least twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities of a Change of Control Election
with
respect to a Change of Control, satisfy the conditions set forth in Section
13.2
with respect to the Electing Securities, on a date no more than thirty (30)
days
following the end of the Notice Period if, after applying the requirements
of
Section 11.2 to redeem the Electing Securities no later than thirty (30) days
following the end of the Notice Period, the Electing Securities would be
redeemed prior to the expiration of the No Call Period. The Company and Reading
NZ shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect
to
the Outstanding Securities as provided in this Section
13.1
on and
after the date the conditions set forth in Section
13.2
are
satisfied (referred to herein as “Defeasance”).
For
this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company and Reading NZ shall be
deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the
Outstanding Securities and to have satisfied all of its other obligations under
the Securities and this Indenture insofar as the Securities are concerned (and
the Trustee, upon Company Request and at the expense of the Company and Reading
NZ, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the
following, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of the Securities to receive, solely from
the trust fund described in Section
13.2
and as
more fully set forth in such Section
13.2,
payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the
Securities when payments are due, (2) the Company’s and Reading NZ’s obligations
with respect to the Securities under Sections 2.4,
3.5,
3.6,
10.2
and any
additional Tax Sums under Section
10.5,
(3) the
rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and
(4)
this Article XIII.
SECTION
13.2. Conditions
to Defeasance.
The
following shall be the conditions to application of Section
13.1
to the
Outstanding Securities:
(1) The
Company and Reading NZ shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee that satisfies the requirements
contemplated by Section
6.1
and
agrees to comply with the provisions of this Article
XIII
applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the
following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely
to, the benefit of the Holders of Outstanding Securities, (A) money in an amount
in Dollars, (B) Government Obligations that through the scheduled payment of
principal and interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will
provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, money in
an
amount in Dollars, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in
the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay
and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other
qualifying Trustee) to pay and discharge, one hundred percent (100%) of the
principal amount of the Securities on December 30, 2011 (the “Defeasance
Maturity Date”)
plus
interest on the Securities due and payable on the Interest Payment Dates
occurring prior to and including the Defeasance Maturity Date.
(2) Such
Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest within
the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act.
(3) Such
Defeasance shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting
an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, unless such trust shall be qualified or exempt from regulation
thereunder.
(4) The
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent with respect
to
such Defeasance have been complied with.
SECTION
13.3. Deposited
Money and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous
Provisions.
Subject
to the provisions of Section
10.2(e),
all
money and Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited
with
the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this
Section
13.3
and
Section
13.4,
the
Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the
“Trustee”)
pursuant to Section
13.2
in
respect of the Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee,
in
accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the
payment, either directly or through any such Paying Agent (including the
Company
acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders
of
the Securities, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of
principal, premium, if any, and interest, but money so held in trust need
not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
Each
of
the Company and Reading NZ shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any
tax,
fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the Government Obligations
deposited
pursuant to Section
13.2
or the
principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax,
fee
or other charge that by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding
Securities.
Anything
in this Article
XIII
to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from
time to time upon Company Request any money or Government Obligations held
by it
as provided in Section
13.2
with
respect to the Securities that, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm
of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof that would then
be
required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Defeasance with respect to
the
Securities.
SECTION
13.4. Reinstatement.
If
the
Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with
this
Article XIII with respect to the Securities by reason of any order or judgment
of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise
prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under this
Indenture and the Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no
deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article
XIII
with
respect to Securities until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section
13.3
with
respect to the Securities in accordance with this Article
XIII;
provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on any Security following the reinstatement of
its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of
Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.
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This
instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so
executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument. This instrument may be
executed by any one or more of the parties hereto by facsimile.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly
executed as of the day and year first above written.
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READING
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WELLS
FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Trustee
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Junior
Subordinated Indenture
Schedule
A
DETERMINATION
OF LIBOR
With
respect to the Securities, the London interbank offered rate ("LIBOR")
shall
be determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the following
provisions (in each case rounded to the nearest .000001%):
(1) On
the
second LIBOR Business Day (as defined below) prior to an Interest Payment Date
occurring after the expiration of the No Call Period (each such day, a
"LIBOR
Determination Date"),
LIBOR
for any given security shall for the following interest payment period equal
the
rate, as obtained by the Calculation Agent from Bloomberg Financial Markets
Commodities News, for three-month Eurodollar deposits that appears on Dow Jones
Telerate Page 3750 (as defined in the International Swaps and Derivatives
Association, Inc. 1991 Interest Rate and Currency Exchange Definitions), or
such
other page as may replace such Page 3750, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on
such
LIBOR Determination Date.
(2) If,
on
any LIBOR Determination Date, such rate does not appear on Dow Jones Telerate
Page 3750 or such other page as may replace such Page 3750, the Calculation
Agent shall determine the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations of the
Reference Banks (as defined below) to leading banks in the London interbank
market for three-month Eurodollar deposits in an amount determined by the
Calculation Agent by reference to requests for quotations as of approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) on the LIBOR Determination Date made by the Calculation
Agent to the Reference Banks. If, on any LIBOR Determination Date, at least
two
of the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR shall equal such
arithmetic mean of such quotations. If, on any LIBOR Determination Date, only
one or none of the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR shall be
deemed to be the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations that leading banks
in
the City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent are quoting on the
relevant LIBOR Determination Date for three-month Eurodollar deposits in an
amount determined by the Calculation Agent by reference to the principal London
offices of leading banks in the London interbank market; provided that, if
the
Calculation Agent is required but is unable to determine a rate in accordance
with at least one of the procedures provided above, LIBOR shall be LIBOR as
determined on the previous LIBOR Determination Date.
(3) As
used
herein: "Reference
Banks"
means
four major banks in the London interbank market selected by the Calculation
Agent; and "LIBOR
Business Day"
means a
day on which commercial banks are open for business (including dealings in
foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London.
Exhibit
A
Form
of Officer’s Financial Certificate
The
undersigned, the [Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer/Assistant Treasurer/
Secretary/ Assistant Secretary, Chairman/Vice Chairman/Chief Executive
Officer/President/Vice President] hereby certifies, pursuant to Section 7.3(b)
of the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of February 5, 2007 (the
“Indenture”), among Reading International, Inc. (the “Company”), Reading New
Zealand, Limited, and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee, that, as of [date],
[20__], the Company, if applicable, and its subsidiaries had the following
ratios and balances:
As
of
[Quarterly/Annual Financial Date], 20__:
[insert
calculation of covenants]
[FOR
FISCAL YEAR END: Attached hereto are the audited consolidated financial
statements (including the balance sheet, income statement and statement of
cash
flows, and notes thereto, together with the report of the independent
accountants thereon) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the
three years ended [date], 20__.]
[FOR
FISCAL QUARTER END: Attached hereto are the unaudited consolidated and
consolidating financial statements (including the balance sheet and income
statement) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the fiscal
quarter ended [date], 20__.]
The
financial statements fairly present in all material respects, in accordance
with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), the financial position
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, and the results of operations
and changes in financial condition as of the date, and for the [quarter]
[annual] period ended [date], 20__, and such financial statements have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period
involved (expect as otherwise noted therein).
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Officer’s Financial
Certificate as of this _____ day of ____, 200__
READING
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
By:
Name:
Address:
500
Citadel Drive, Suite 300
Commerce,
California 90040