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These excerpts taken from the ENER 10-K filed Aug 28, 2008.
Notice of Conversion”) at the office of the Conversion

 

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Agent and shall state in writing therein the principal amount of Notes to be converted and the name or names (with addresses) in which such holder wishes the certificate or certificates for the shares of Common Stock to be delivered upon settlement of the Conversion Obligation to be registered, (2) surrender such Notes, duly endorsed to the Company or in blank, at the office of the Conversion Agent, (3) if required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 8.02(i), (4) if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents, and (5) if required, pay all transfer or similar taxes, if any, as set forth in Section 8.02(f). The Trustee (and if different, the relevant Conversion Agent) shall notify the Company of any conversion pursuant to this Article 8 on the date of such conversion. No Notice of Conversion with respect to any Notes may be surrendered by a holder thereof if such holder has also delivered a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice to the Company in respect of such Notes and not validly withdrawn such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, as the case may be, in accordance with Section 9.02.

If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same holder, the Conversion Obligation with respect to such Notes, if any, that shall be payable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted thereby) so surrendered.

(c)       Upon effectiveness of corporate transactions specified in Section 8.06, the Company will settle conversion with respect to such transactions as described above (based on the Conversion Rate as increased by the Additional Shares (if any) as set forth in Section 8.03, as applicable) on the later to occur of (i) the third Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of the transaction and (ii) the third Trading Day following the last day of the applicable Cash Settlement Averaging Period.

(d)       A Note shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to the close of business on the date that the holder has complied with the requirements set forth in Section 8.02(b) above (the “Conversion Date”). The payment of cash and delivery of shares of Common Stock, if any, and the payment of cash, if any, in lieu of fractional shares, pursuant to Section 8.02(a) in satisfaction of the Conversion Obligation shall be made by the Company in no event later than the date specified in Section 8.02(a) or 8.02(c) or elsewhere in this Supplemental Indenture by (i) payment of the cash comprising a portion of the Settlement Amount (including amounts of cash in lieu of the issuance of any fractional shares, if any), and (ii) by issuing or causing to be issued, and delivering to the Conversion Agent or to such holder, or such holder’s nominee or nominees, certificates or a book-entry transfer through the Depositary for the number of full shares of Common Stock, if any, to which such holder shall be entitled as part of such Conversion Obligation.

(e)       In case any Note shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or upon the written order of the holder of the Note so surrendered, without charge to such holder, a new Note or Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Note, provided, that the Company and the Trustee may refuse to deliver such new Note or Notes in a name other than the surrendering Noteholder’s name until the Trustee receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax, assessments or other governmental charges that may be

 

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imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Noteholder of the new Notes issued being different from the name of the Noteholder of the old Notes surrendered.

(f)        If a holder submits a Note for conversion, the Company shall pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax, if any, that may be imposed by the United States or any political subdivision thereof or taxing authority thereof or therein with respect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock, upon the conversion. However, the holder shall pay any such tax that is due because the holder requests any such shares of Common Stock to be issued in a name other than the holder’s name. The Conversion Agent may refuse to deliver the certificates representing the shares of Common Stock being issued in a name other than the holder’s name until the Trustee receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax that will be due because the shares are to be issued in a name other than the holder’s name. Nothing herein shall preclude any tax withholding required by law or regulations.

(g)       Except as provided in Section 8.04, no adjustment shall be made for dividends on any shares issued upon the conversion of any Note as provided in this Article.

(h)       Upon the conversion of an interest in a Global Note, the Trustee, or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee, shall make a notation on such Global Note as to the reduction in the principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversion of Notes effected through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.

(i)        If Notes are converted after the close of business on an Interest Record Date but prior to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date, holders of such Notes as of the close of business on the Interest Record Date will receive the interest payable on such Notes on the corresponding Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion. Notes, upon surrender for conversion during the period from the close of business on any Interest Record Date but prior to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date must be accompanied by funds equal to the amount of the interest payable on the Notes so converted; provided, however ,that no such payment shall be required (1)to the extent of any overdue interest, if any, existing at the time of conversion with respect to such Note or (2) if the Notes are surrendered for conversion after the close of business on the Interest Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date and before the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date. Except as described above, no payment or adjustment will be made for accrued and unpaid interest on converted Notes.

(j)        The Person in whose name the certificate for any shares of Common Stock delivered upon conversion is registered shall be treated as a stockholder of record as of the close of business on the last Trading Day of the Cash Settlement Averaging Period; provided, however, if the last Trading Day of the Cash Settlement Averaging Period occurs on any date when the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed, such occurrence shall not be effective to constitute the Person or Persons entitled to receive any such shares of Common Stock due upon conversion as the record holder or holders of such shares of Common Stock on such date, but such occurrence shall be effective to constitute the Person or Persons entitled to receive such shares of Common Stock as the record holder or holders thereof for all purposes at

 

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the close of business on the next succeeding day on which such stock transfer books are open. Upon conversion of Notes, such Person shall no longer be a Noteholder.

(k)       No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon conversion of any Note or Notes. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock that would otherwise be issued upon conversion of any Note or Notes (or specified portions thereof), the Company shall pay a cash adjustment in respect of such fraction (calculated to the nearest one-100th of a share), as determined by the Company, in an amount equal to the same fraction of the average of the Applicable Stock Prices on each Trading Day of the applicable Cash Settlement Averaging Period. If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same holder, the number of full shares that shall be issued upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof) so surrendered. For purposes of the foregoing, fractional shares arising from the calculation of the Daily Settlement Amount for any day in the Cash Settlement Averaging Period shall be aggregated with fractional shares of all other days in such period in determining the Settlement Amount, and any whole shares resulting therefrom shall be issued and any remaining fractional shares shall be paid in cash.

(l)        When a Noteholder surrenders Notes for conversion, the Company may direct, in writing, the Conversion Agent to surrender such Notes to a financial institution designated by the Company (the “Designated Institution”) for exchange in lieu of conversion. In order to accept any Notes surrendered for conversion, the Designated Institution must agree to deliver, in exchange for such Notes, cash and the number of shares of Common Stock, if any, due upon conversion based upon the Conversion Rate in full satisfaction of the Conversion Obligation, as determined pursuant to Section 8.02(a). By the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the start of the Cash Settlement Averaging Period (or, if provision of notice on such date is impracticable, promptly following conversion), the Company will provide written notification to the Noteholder surrendering the Notes for conversion that it has directed the Designated Institution to make an exchange in lieu of conversion. If the Designated Institution accepts any such Notes, it will deliver the cash, and if any, the number of shares of Common Stock due upon conversion to the Conversion Agent, and the Conversion Agent will deliver such cash and shares of Common Stock to the converting Noteholder. Any Notes exchanged by the Designated Institution will remain Outstanding. If the Designated Institution does not accept the Notes for exchange or agrees to accept any Notes for exchange but does not timely deliver the related cash and shares of Common Stock, the Company will, as promptly as practical thereafter (but in any event, no later than the third Trading Day immediately following the last Trading Day of the relevant Cash Settlement Averaging Period) convert the Notes as set forth under Section 8.02(a). The Company’s designation of a Designated Institution to which the Notes may be submitted for exchange does not require the Designated Institution to accept any Notes. The Company will not pay any consideration to, or otherwise enter into any agreement with, the Designated Institution for or with respect to such designation.

Section 8.03    Increase of Conversion Rate Upon Conversion Upon Make-Whole Fundamental Changes. (a) If a Noteholder elects to convert Notes in connection with a Make- Whole Fundamental Change, then the Conversion Rate of the Notes being converted by such Noteholder shall be increased by an additional number of shares of Common Stock (the

 

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Additional Shares”) if any, as described herein. For purposes of this Section 8.03, any conversion of the Notes by a Noteholder will be deemed to be “in connection with” such Make- Whole Fundamental Change if it occurs during the period that begins on the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change (or 15 Trading Days prior to the date the Company has announced as the anticipated Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to clause (d) below if such event constitutes a Fundamental Change as described under clause (d) of the definition of Fundamental Change) and ends on (and includes) the Business Day prior to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date relating to such Make-Whole Fundamental Change. In the case of a transaction described in clause (d) of the definition of Fundamental Change, if the Company determines that such transaction will not occur on substantially the terms anticipated, the Company will not be obligated to increase the Conversion Rate, regardless of the fact that holders may have elected to convert Notes in anticipation of the effective date of such event, and the Company will issue a press release and notify the holders who have so elected to convert their Notes promptly after the Company determines that the transaction in question will not occur. Each such holder may then elect to withdraw any election to convert by a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the Conversion Agent within 10 Business Days after the Company announces that the transaction will not occur as anticipated (or longer period if required by applicable law).

The increase in the Conversion Rate in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, expressed as a number of Additional Shares, will be determined by the Company by reference to the table and adjustments thereto in Section 8.03(b), based on the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change and the applicable Stock Price.

(b)       he following table sets forth the Effective Date and number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate will be increased upon a conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change that occurs in the corresponding period to be determined by reference to the Stock Price and Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change:

 

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Notice of Conversion”) at the office of the Conversion



 



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Agent and shall state in writing therein the principal amount of Notes to be converted and the name or names (with addresses) in which such holder wishes the certificate or certificates for the shares of Common Stock to be delivered upon settlement of the Conversion Obligation to be registered, (2) surrender such Notes, duly endorsed to the Company or in blank, at the office of the Conversion Agent, (3) if required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 8.02(i), (4) if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents, and (5) if required, pay all transfer or similar taxes, if any, as set forth in Section 8.02(f). The Trustee (and if different, the relevant Conversion Agent) shall notify the Company of any conversion pursuant to this Article 8 on the date of such conversion. No Notice of Conversion
with respect to any Notes may be surrendered by a holder thereof if such holder has also delivered a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice to the Company in respect of such Notes and not validly withdrawn such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, as the case may be, in accordance with Section 9.02.



If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same holder, the Conversion Obligation with respect to such Notes, if any, that shall be payable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted thereby) so surrendered.



(c)       Upon effectiveness of corporate transactions specified in Section 8.06, the Company will settle conversion with respect to such transactions as described above (based on the Conversion Rate as increased by the Additional Shares (if any) as set forth in Section 8.03, as applicable) on the later to occur of (i) the third Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of the transaction and (ii) the third Trading Day following the last day of the applicable Cash Settlement Averaging Period.



(d)       A Note shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to the close of business on the date that the holder has complied with the requirements set forth in Section 8.02(b) above (the “Conversion Date”). The payment of cash and delivery of shares of Common Stock, if any, and the payment of cash, if any, in lieu of fractional shares, pursuant to Section 8.02(a) in satisfaction of the Conversion Obligation shall be made by the Company in no event later than the date specified in Section 8.02(a) or 8.02(c) or elsewhere in this Supplemental Indenture by (i) payment of the cash comprising a portion of the Settlement Amount (including amounts of cash in lieu of the issuance of any fractional shares, if any), and (ii) by issuing or causing to be issued, and delivering to the Conversion
Agent or to such holder, or such holder’s nominee or nominees, certificates or a book-entry transfer through the Depositary for the number of full shares of Common Stock, if any, to which such holder shall be entitled as part of such Conversion Obligation.



(e)       In case any Note shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or upon the written order of the holder of the Note so surrendered, without charge to such holder, a new Note or Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Note, provided, that the Company and the Trustee may refuse to deliver such new Note or Notes in a name other than the surrendering Noteholder’s name until the Trustee receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax, assessments or other governmental charges that may be



 



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imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Noteholder of the new Notes issued being different from the name of the Noteholder of the old Notes surrendered.



(f)        If a holder submits a Note for conversion, the Company shall pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax, if any, that may be imposed by the United States or any political subdivision thereof or taxing authority thereof or therein with respect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock, upon the conversion. However, the holder shall pay any such tax that is due because the holder requests any such shares of Common Stock to be issued in a name other than the holder’s name. The Conversion Agent may refuse to deliver the certificates representing the shares of Common Stock being issued in a name other than the holder’s name until the Trustee receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax that will be due because the shares are to be issued in a name other than the holder’s name. Nothing herein shall preclude any tax
withholding required by law or regulations.



(g)       Except as provided in Section 8.04, no adjustment shall be made for dividends on any shares issued upon the conversion of any Note as provided in this Article.



(h)       Upon the conversion of an interest in a Global Note, the Trustee, or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee, shall make a notation on such Global Note as to the reduction in the principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversion of Notes effected through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.



(i)        If Notes are converted after the close of business on an Interest Record Date but prior to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date, holders of such Notes as of the close of business on the Interest Record Date will receive the interest payable on such Notes on the corresponding Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion. Notes, upon surrender for conversion during the period from the close of business on any Interest Record Date but prior to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date must be accompanied by funds equal to the amount of the interest payable on the Notes so converted; provided, however ,that no such payment shall be required (1)to the extent of any overdue interest, if any, existing at the time of conversion
with respect to such Note or (2) if the Notes are surrendered for conversion after the close of business on the Interest Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date and before the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date. Except as described above, no payment or adjustment will be made for accrued and unpaid interest on converted Notes.



(j)        The Person in whose name the certificate for any shares of Common Stock delivered upon conversion is registered shall be treated as a stockholder of record as of the close of business on the last Trading Day of the Cash Settlement Averaging Period; provided, however, if the last Trading Day of the Cash Settlement Averaging Period occurs on any date when the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed, such occurrence shall not be effective to constitute the Person or Persons entitled to receive any such shares of Common Stock due upon conversion as the record holder or holders of such shares of Common Stock on such date, but such occurrence shall be effective to constitute the Person or Persons entitled to receive such shares of Common Stock
as the record holder or holders thereof for all purposes at



 



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the close of business on the next succeeding day on which such stock transfer books are open. Upon conversion of Notes, such Person shall no longer be a Noteholder.



(k)       No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon conversion of any Note or Notes. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock that would otherwise be issued upon conversion of any Note or Notes (or specified portions thereof), the Company shall pay a cash adjustment in respect of such fraction (calculated to the nearest one-100th of a share), as determined by the Company, in an amount equal to the same fraction of the average of the Applicable Stock Prices on each Trading Day of the applicable Cash Settlement Averaging Period. If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same holder, the number of full shares that shall be issued upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof) so surrendered. For purposes of the
foregoing, fractional shares arising from the calculation of the Daily Settlement Amount for any day in the Cash Settlement Averaging Period shall be aggregated with fractional shares of all other days in such period in determining the Settlement Amount, and any whole shares resulting therefrom shall be issued and any remaining fractional shares shall be paid in cash.



(l)        When a Noteholder surrenders Notes for conversion, the Company may direct, in writing, the Conversion Agent to surrender such Notes to a financial institution designated by the Company (the “Designated Institution”) for exchange in lieu of conversion. In order to accept any Notes surrendered for conversion, the Designated Institution must agree to deliver, in exchange for such Notes, cash and the number of shares of Common Stock, if any, due upon conversion based upon the Conversion Rate in full satisfaction of the Conversion Obligation, as determined pursuant to Section 8.02(a). By the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the start of the Cash Settlement Averaging Period (or, if provision of notice on such date is impracticable, promptly following
conversion), the Company will provide written notification to the Noteholder surrendering the Notes for conversion that it has directed the Designated Institution to make an exchange in lieu of conversion. If the Designated Institution accepts any such Notes, it will deliver the cash, and if any, the number of shares of Common Stock due upon conversion to the Conversion Agent, and the Conversion Agent will deliver such cash and shares of Common Stock to the converting Noteholder. Any Notes exchanged by the Designated Institution will remain Outstanding. If the Designated Institution does not accept the Notes for exchange or agrees to accept any Notes for exchange but does not timely deliver the related cash and shares of Common Stock, the Company will, as promptly as practical thereafter (but in any event, no later than the third Trading Day immediately following the last Trading Day of the relevant Cash Settlement Averaging Period) convert the Notes as set forth under Section
8.02(a). The Company’s designation of a Designated Institution to which the Notes may be submitted for exchange does not require the Designated Institution to accept any Notes. The Company will not pay any consideration to, or otherwise enter into any agreement with, the Designated Institution for or with respect to such designation.



Section 8.03    Increase of Conversion Rate Upon Conversion Upon Make-Whole Fundamental Changes. (a) If a Noteholder elects to convert Notes in connection with a Make- Whole Fundamental Change, then the Conversion Rate of the Notes being converted by such Noteholder shall be increased by an additional number of shares of Common Stock (the



 



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Additional Shares”) if any, as described herein. For purposes of this Section 8.03, any conversion of the Notes by a Noteholder will be deemed to be “in connection with” such Make- Whole Fundamental Change if it occurs during the period that begins on the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change (or 15 Trading Days prior to the date the Company has announced as the anticipated Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change pursuant to clause (d) below if such event constitutes a Fundamental Change as described under clause (d) of the definition of Fundamental Change) and ends on (and includes) the Business Day prior to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date relating to such Make-Whole Fundamental Change. In the case of a transaction described in clause (d) of the definition of
Fundamental Change, if the Company determines that such transaction will not occur on substantially the terms anticipated, the Company will not be obligated to increase the Conversion Rate, regardless of the fact that holders may have elected to convert Notes in anticipation of the effective date of such event, and the Company will issue a press release and notify the holders who have so elected to convert their Notes promptly after the Company determines that the transaction in question will not occur. Each such holder may then elect to withdraw any election to convert by a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the Conversion Agent within 10 Business Days after the Company announces that the transaction will not occur as anticipated (or longer period if required by applicable law).



The increase in the Conversion Rate in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, expressed as a number of Additional Shares, will be determined by the Company by reference to the table and adjustments thereto in Section 8.03(b), based on the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change and the applicable Stock Price.



(b)       he following table sets forth the Effective Date and number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate will be increased upon a conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change that occurs in the corresponding period to be determined by reference to the Stock Price and Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change:



 



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10-K (2 sections)
Aug 28, 2008
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