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This excerpt taken from the GIS 8-K filed Apr 11, 2007. COVENANTSSECTION 4.01. Delivery of Certain Information. At any time when the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, until such time as the neither the Securities nor any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Securities are restricted securities within the meaning of Rule 144 of the Securities Act, upon the request of a30 Holder or any Beneficial Owner of Securities or holder or Beneficial Owner of Common Stock delivered upon conversion therefor, the Company will promptly furnish or cause to be furnished Rule 144A Information (as defined below) to such Holder or any Beneficial Owner of Securities or holder or Beneficial Owner of Common Stock delivered upon conversion thereof or to a prospective purchaser of any such security designated by any such Holder, holder or Beneficial Owner, as the case may be, to the extent required to permit compliance by such Holder, holder or Beneficial Owner with Rule 144A under the Securities Act in connection with the resale of any such security. Rule 144A Information shall be such information as is specified pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act or any successor provisions.SECTION 4.02. Payment of Principal and Interest; Compliance with Terms. The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest on the Securities in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture, net of any taxes required to be withheld, and will duly comply with all the other terms, agreements and conditions contained in, or made in this Indenture for the benefit of, the Securities.SECTION 4.03. Maintenance of Agency. The Company will maintain an office or agency in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company hereby appoints the New York office of the Trustee, located 101 Barclay Street, New York, NY 10286, Attention: Trust Services Window, as its initial office or agency for the purpose of this Section 4.03.The Company, by written notice to the Trustee, may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where Securities may be presented for any or all such purposes, and, by like notice, may from time to time rescind such designations. SECTION 4.04. Money for Security Payments To Be Held in Trust. If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent for any Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or interest on any of the Securities, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto, a sum sufficient to pay the principal or 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 of its action or failure so to act.Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of or interest on any Securities, deposit, subject to the last paragraph of this Section 4.04, with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal or interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal and interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act. The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee and the Company, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will: 31 (1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of or any interest on Securities in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to said Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided; (2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment of principal of or interest on the Securities; and (3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent. 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 sums. 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 or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for one year after such principal or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall 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, however, 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 an Authorized Newspaper, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company. The Trustee may also adopt and employ, at the expense of the Company, any other reasonable means of notification of such proposed repayment. SECTION 4.05. Certification of Compliance of the Company. The Company will promptly (and in any event within 30 days) notify the Trustee upon obtaining knowledge of any default under this Indenture, and shall comply with the provisions of Section 314(a)(4) of the TIA, if applicable.SECTION 4.06. Corporate Existence. Subject to Article IX, the Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises and the corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises of all of its Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to, or to cause any such Subsidiary to, preserve any right or franchise or to keep in full force and effect the corporate existence of any such Subsidiary if the Company shall determine that the keeping in existence or preservation thereof is no longer32 |
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