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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):
August 8, 2024
WisdomTree, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its
charter)
Delaware |
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001-10932 |
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13-3487784 |
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation) |
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Commission
File Number: |
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(IRS Employer
Identification No.) |
250 West 34th Street |
3rd Floor |
New York, NY 10119 |
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code) |
(212) 801-2080
(Registrant’s telephone number, including
area code)
(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:
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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) |
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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the
Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:
Title of each class |
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Trading
Symbol(s) |
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Name of each exchange
on which registered |
Common Stock, $0.01 par value |
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The New York Stock Exchange |
Preferred Stock Purchase Rights |
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The New York Stock Exchange |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth
company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company ¨
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant
has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant
to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o
Item 1.01. |
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement |
Indenture and Notes
On August 13, 2024, WisdomTree, Inc. (the “Company”) issued
$345.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”) pursuant to an
Indenture (the “Indenture”), dated August 13, 2024, between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association,
as trustee (the “Trustee”), in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers (the “Notes Offering”) pursuant
to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The sale of the Notes to an investment bank
(the “Initial Purchaser”) pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated August 8, 2024,
by and between the Company and the Initial Purchaser, resulted in approximately $337 million in net proceeds to the Company. The
Notes issued on August 13, 2024 include $45.0 million principal amount of Notes issued pursuant to the full exercise by the Initial Purchaser
of its option to purchase additional Notes.
The Notes are the Company’s senior unsecured obligations and
rank equal in right of payment to the Company’s 3.25% convertible senior notes due 2026 and the Company’s 5.75% convertible
senior notes due 2028. The Notes bear interest at a rate of 3.25% per year, payable semiannually in arrears on February 15 and August 15
of each year, beginning on February 15, 2025. The Notes will mature on August 15, 2029, unless earlier converted, repurchased
or redeemed. Upon conversion, the Company will pay cash up to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be converted. At its election,
the Company will also settle its conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being converted in either
cash, shares of its common stock or a combination of cash and shares of its common stock.
Holders may convert their Notes at their option at any time prior to
the close of business on the business day immediately preceding May 15, 2029 only under the following circumstances: (1) during
any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on December 31, 2024 (and only during such calendar quarter), if the
last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive) during a period
of 30 consecutive trading days ending on the last trading day of the immediately preceding calendar quarter is greater than or equal to
130% of the conversion price on each applicable trading day; (2) during the five business day period after any ten consecutive trading
day period (the “measurement period”) in which the trading price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes for each trading day
of the measurement period was less than 98% of the product of the last reported sale price of the Company’s common stock and the
conversion rate on each such trading day; (3) upon the occurrence of a notice of redemption delivered by the Company in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture but only with respect to the Notes called (or deemed called) for redemption; or (4) upon the occurrence
of specified corporate events. On or after May 15, 2029 until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately
preceding the maturity date, holders may convert their Notes at any time, regardless of the foregoing circumstances.
The Notes will be convertible at an initial conversion rate of 84.5934
shares of the Company’s common stock, per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately
$11.82 per share), subject to adjustment. In certain circumstances, conversions in connection with a “make-whole fundamental change”
(as defined in the Indenture) or conversions of Notes called (or deemed called) for redemption may result in an increase to the conversion
rate, provided that the conversion rate will not exceed 103.6269 shares of the Company’s common stock per $1,000 principal amount
of Notes, subject to adjustment.
The Company may not redeem the Notes prior to August 20, 2026.
The Company may redeem for cash all or any portion of the Notes, at its option, on or after August 20, 2026 and on or prior to the
55th scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date, if the last reported sale price of the Company’s
common stock has been at least 130% of the conversion price then in effect for at least 20 trading days (whether or not consecutive),
including the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption, during any 30 consecutive
trading day period ending on, and including, the trading day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides notice of redemption,
at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding
the redemption date. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.
If the Company undergoes a “fundamental change” (as defined
in the Indenture), subject to certain conditions, holders may require the Company to repurchase for cash all or any portion of their Notes
at a fundamental change repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be repurchased, plus any accrued and unpaid
interest to, but excluding, the fundamental change repurchase date. The Indenture contains customary terms and covenants, including that
upon certain events of default occurring and continuing, either the Trustee or the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Notes then outstanding may declare the entire principal amount of all the Notes plus accrued special interest, if any, to
be immediately due and payable.
A copy of the Indenture and form of Note are filed as Exhibit 4.1 and
Exhibit 4.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated by reference herein. The foregoing description of the
Indenture and Notes does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such exhibits.
Item 2.03 |
Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant |
The information provided in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form
8-K is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.
Item 3.02 |
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities |
The information set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on
Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02.
The Company offered and sold the Notes to the Initial Purchaser in
reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, and for resale by the Initial Purchaser
to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The Company
relied on these exemptions from registration based in part on representations made by the Initial Purchaser in the Purchase Agreement,
pursuant to which the Company sold the Notes to the Initial Purchaser. The shares of the common stock issuable upon conversion of the
Notes, if any, have not been registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration
or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. Initially, a maximum of 35,751,281 shares of the Company’s common stock
may be issued upon conversion of the Notes, in each case based on the initial maximum conversion rate of 103.6269 shares of common stock
per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, which is subject to customary anti-dilution adjustment provisions.
To the extent that any shares of common stock are issued upon conversion
of the Notes, they will be issued in transactions anticipated to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 3(a)(9)
thereof, because no commission or other remuneration is expected to be paid in connection with conversion of the Notes, and any resulting
issuance of shares of the common stock.
| Item 5.03. | Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year. |
Following the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the
Repurchase Agreement (as defined below in Item 8.01), on August 13, 2024, the Company filed a Certificate of Elimination to its Amended
and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Charter”), with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware,
eliminating from the Charter all references to the Series A Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the
Company (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) set forth in the Company’s Certificate of Designations with respect to its
Series A Preferred Stock. No shares of Series A Preferred Stock were outstanding at the time the Certification of Elimination was filed.
The Certificate of Elimination became effective on August 13, 2024.
The foregoing summary of the Certificate of Elimination is qualified
in its entirety by the full text of the Certificate of Elimination, a copy of which is filed herewith as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated
herein by reference.
As previously disclosed, on August 5,
2024, the Company entered into a Stock Repurchase Agreement (the “Repurchase Agreement”) with ETFS Capital Limited (formerly
ETF Securities Limited) (the “Seller”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to repurchase from the Seller all 14,750 issued
and outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, which were convertible into 14,750,000 shares of the Company’s common stock.
In connection with entry into the Repurchase Agreement, the Company and the Seller also entered into a Termination Agreement on August
5, 2024 (the “Termination Agreement”), which provided for the termination of the Investor Rights Agreement by and between
the Company and the Seller dated as of April 11, 2018. On August 13, 2024, the transactions contemplated by the Repurchase Agreement
and Termination Agreement closed, including the cancellation and retirement of the Series A Preferred Stock.
Item 9.01 |
Financial Statements and Exhibits |
(d) Exhibits
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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WisdomTree, Inc. |
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Date: August 13, 2024 |
By: |
/s/ Bryan Edmiston |
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Bryan Edmiston |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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Exhibit 3.1
CERTIFICATE OF ELIMINATION
OF
SERIES A NON-VOTING CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK
OF
WISDOMTREE, INC.
(Pursuant to Section 151(g)
of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware (the “DGCL”))
WisdomTree, Inc., a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), hereby certifies as follows:
FIRST: that the Certificate
of Designations of Series A Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock of the Corporation establishing 14,750 shares of the Series A Non-Voting
Convertible Preferred Stock of the Corporation was originally filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on
April 10, 2018 (the “Certificate of Designations”).
SECOND: that no shares of
said Series A Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock of the Corporation are outstanding and no shares thereof will be issued subject to
said Certificate of Designations.
THIRD: that the Board of Directors
of the Corporation (the “Board”) on August 2, 2024 duly adopted the following resolutions approving, authorizing and
directing the elimination of the Series A Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock of the Corporation:
| RESOLVED: | That following the Preferred Share Cancellation, the Certificate of Elimination and the transactions contemplated
thereby, be, and each of them hereby is, declared advisable, authorized, approved and adopted. |
| RESOLVED: | That pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Board by the provisions of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of
the Corporation, as amended (the “Charter”) and by Section 151(g) of the DGCL, effective upon the Preferred Share Cancellation,
the Board hereby eliminates the shares of Series A Preferred Stock, none of which will be outstanding and none of which will be issued
in the future, and that all matters set forth in the Certificate of Designations be eliminated from the Charter. |
| RESOLVED: | That the Authorized Officers be, and each of them acting singly hereby is, authorized, empowered and directed
to, following the Preferred Share Cancellation, execute the Certificate of Elimination and to file such certificate with the Secretary
of State of the State of Delaware pursuant to Section 151(g) of the DGCL setting forth these resolutions in order to eliminate from the
Charter all matters set forth in the Certificate of Designations. |
FOURTH: that in accordance with the provisions
of Section 151(g) of the DGCL, the Charter is hereby amended to eliminate all references to the Series A Non-Voting Convertible Preferred
Stock of the Corporation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation
has caused this Certificate of Elimination to be executed by its duly authorized officer on this 13th day of August 2024.
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WISDOMTREE, INC |
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By: |
/s/ Marci Frankenthaler |
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Name: |
Marci
Frankenthaler |
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Title: |
Chief
Legal Officer and Secretary |
Exhibit 4.1
WISDOMTREE, INC.
AND
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated as of August 13, 2024
3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1 |
Definitions |
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Section 1.01. |
Definitions |
1 |
Section 1.02. |
References to Interest |
14 |
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ARTICLE 2 |
Issue, Description, Execution, Registration and Exchange of Notes |
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Section 2.01. |
Designation and Amount |
14 |
Section 2.02. |
Form of Notes |
14 |
Section 2.03. |
Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts |
15 |
Section 2.04. |
Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes |
17 |
Section 2.05. |
Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary |
17 |
Section 2.06. |
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes |
24 |
Section 2.07. |
Temporary Notes |
25 |
Section 2.08. |
Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc |
25 |
Section 2.09. |
CUSIP Numbers |
26 |
Section 2.10. |
Additional Notes; Repurchases |
26 |
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ARTICLE 3 |
Satisfaction and Discharge |
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Section 3.01. |
Satisfaction and Discharge |
26 |
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ARTICLE 4 |
Particular Covenants of the Company |
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Section 4.01. |
Payment of Principal and Interest |
27 |
Section 4.02. |
Maintenance of Office or Agency |
27 |
Section 4.03. |
Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office |
27 |
Section 4.04. |
Provisions as to Paying Agent |
28 |
Section 4.05. |
Existence |
29 |
Section 4.06. |
Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports |
29 |
Section 4.07. |
Stay, Extension and Usury Laws |
31 |
Section 4.08. |
Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults |
31 |
Section 4.09. |
Further Instruments and Acts |
31 |
ARTICLE 5 |
Lists of Holders and Reports by the Company and the Trustee |
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Section 5.01. |
Lists of Holders |
32 |
Section 5.02. |
Preservation and Disclosure of Lists |
32 |
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ARTICLE 6 |
Defaults and Remedies |
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Section 6.01. |
Events of Default |
32 |
Section 6.02. |
Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment |
34 |
Section 6.03. |
Additional Interest |
34 |
Section 6.04. |
Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor |
35 |
Section 6.05. |
Application of Monies Collected by Trustee |
37 |
Section 6.06. |
Proceedings by Holders |
37 |
Section 6.07. |
Proceedings by Trustee |
38 |
Section 6.08. |
Remedies Cumulative and Continuing |
38 |
Section 6.09. |
Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Holders |
39 |
Section 6.10. |
Notice of Defaults |
40 |
Section 6.11. |
Undertaking to Pay Costs |
40 |
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ARTICLE 7 |
Concerning the Trustee |
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Section 7.01. |
Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee |
40 |
Section 7.02. |
Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc |
42 |
Section 7.03. |
No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc |
44 |
Section 7.04. |
Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents, Bid Solicitation Agent or Note Registrar May Own Notes |
44 |
Section 7.05. |
Monies and Shares of Common Stock to Be Held in Trust |
44 |
Section 7.06. |
Compensation and Expenses of Trustee |
44 |
Section 7.07. |
Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as Evidence |
45 |
Section 7.08. |
Eligibility of Trustee |
45 |
Section 7.09. |
Resignation or Removal of Trustee |
46 |
Section 7.10. |
Acceptance by Successor Trustee |
47 |
Section 7.11. |
Succession by Merger, Etc |
47 |
Section 7.12. |
Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company |
48 |
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ARTICLE 8 |
Concerning the Holders |
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Section 8.01. |
Action by Holders |
48 |
Section 8.02. |
Proof of Execution by Holders |
48 |
Section 8.03. |
Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners |
49 |
Section 8.04. |
Company-Owned Notes Disregarded |
49 |
Section 8.05. |
Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound |
49 |
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ARTICLE 9 |
Holders’ Meetings |
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Section 9.01. |
Purpose of Meetings |
50 |
Section 9.02. |
Call of Meetings by Trustee |
50 |
Section 9.03. |
Call of Meetings by Company or Holders |
50 |
Section 9.04. |
Qualifications for Voting |
54 |
Section 9.05. |
Regulations |
51 |
Section 9.06. |
Voting |
51 |
Section 9.07. |
No Delay of Rights by Meeting |
52 |
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ARTICLE 10 |
Supplemental Indentures |
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Section 10.01. |
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders |
52 |
Section 10.02. |
Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders |
53 |
Section 10.03. |
Effect of Supplemental Indentures |
54 |
Section 10.04. |
Notation on Notes |
54 |
Section 10.05. |
Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee |
54 |
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ARTICLE 11 |
Consolidation, Merger, Sale, Conveyance and Lease |
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Section 11.01. |
Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms |
55 |
Section 11.02. |
Successor Corporation to Be Substituted |
55 |
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ARTICLE 12 |
Immunity of Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors |
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Section 12.01. |
Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations |
56 |
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ARTICLE 13 |
Subordination |
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Section 13.01. |
Agreement To Subordinate |
56 |
Section 13.02. |
Liquidation, Dissolution, Bankruptcy |
57 |
Section 13.03. |
Default on Other Redemption Payments |
58 |
Section 13.04. |
When Distributions Must Be Paid Over |
58 |
Section 13.05. |
Notice by the Company |
58 |
Section 13.06. |
Subrogation |
58 |
Section 13.07. |
Relative Rights |
59 |
Section 13.08. |
Article 13 Not To Prevent Events of Default or Limit Right To Accelerate |
59 |
Section 13.09. |
Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent |
59 |
Section 13.10. |
Authorization to Effect Subordination |
59 |
Section 13.11. |
Trust Moneys Not Subordinated |
59 |
Section 13.12. |
Term of Subordination |
60 |
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ARTICLE 14 |
Conversion of Notes |
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Section 14.01. |
Conversion Privilege |
60 |
Section 14.02. |
Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion |
63 |
Section 14.03. |
Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes or during a Redemption Period |
67 |
Section 14.04. |
Adjustment of Conversion Rate |
69 |
Section 14.05. |
Adjustments of Prices |
79 |
Section 14.06. |
Shares to Be Fully Paid |
79 |
Section 14.07. |
Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Common Stock |
79 |
Section 14.08. |
Certain Covenants |
81 |
Section 14.09. |
Responsibility of Trustee |
82 |
Section 14.10. |
Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions |
82 |
Section 14.11. |
Stockholder Rights Plans |
83 |
Section 14.12. |
Exchange in Lieu of Conversion |
83 |
Section 14.13. |
Conversion Limitations |
84 |
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ARTICLE 15 |
Repurchase of Notes at Option of Holders |
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Section 15.01. |
[Intentionally Omitted] |
84 |
Section 15.02. |
Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change |
85 |
Section 15.03. |
Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice |
87 |
Section 15.04. |
Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price |
88 |
Section 15.05. |
Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes |
88 |
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ARTICLE 16 |
Optional Redemption |
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Section 16.01. |
Optional Redemption |
89 |
Section 16.02. |
Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes |
89 |
Section 16.03. |
Payment of Notes Called for Redemption |
91 |
Section 16.04. |
Restrictions on Redemption |
91 |
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ARTICLE 17 |
Miscellaneous Provisions |
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Section 17.01. |
Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors |
91 |
Section 17.02. |
Official Acts by Successor Corporation |
91 |
Section 17.03. |
Addresses for Notices, Etc |
92 |
Section 17.04. |
Governing Law; Jurisdiction |
92 |
Section 17.05. |
Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee |
93 |
Section 17.06. |
Legal Holidays |
93 |
Section 17.07. |
No Security Interest Created |
94 |
Section 17.08. |
Benefits of Indenture |
94 |
Section 17.09. |
Table of Contents, Headings, Etc |
94 |
Section 17.10. |
Authenticating Agent |
94 |
Section 17.11. |
Execution in Counterparts |
95 |
Section 17.12. |
Severability |
95 |
Section 17.13. |
Waiver of Jury Trial |
95 |
Section 17.14. |
Force Majeure |
96 |
Section 17.15. |
Calculations |
96 |
Section 17.16. |
USA PATRIOT Act |
96 |
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EXHIBIT |
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Exhibit A |
Form of Note |
A-1 |
INDENTURE dated as of August
13, 2024 between WISDOMTREE, INC., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the “Company,” as more fully set forth in Section
1.01) and U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as trustee (the “Trustee,” as more fully set forth in Section
1.01).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate
purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance of its 3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”),
initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $300,000,000 (as increased by an amount up to $45,000,000 equal to the aggregate
principal amount of any additional Notes purchased by the Initial Purchaser pursuant to the exercise of its option to purchase additional
Notes as set forth in the Purchase Agreement), and in order to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are to be authenticated,
issued and delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the Form of Note,
the certificate of authentication to be borne by each Note, the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice and the Form of Assignment and Transfer to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms herein provided; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things
necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating
agent, as in this Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and this Indenture a valid agreement according
to its terms, have been done and performed, and the execution of this Indenture and the issuance hereunder of the Notes have in all respects
been duly authorized.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE
WITNESSETH:
That in order to declare the
terms and conditions upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises
and of the purchase and acceptance of the Notes by the Holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the equal
and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Notes (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:
ARTICLE 1
Definitions
Section 1.01.
Definitions. The terms defined in this Section 1.01
(except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any
indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01. The words “herein,” “hereof,”
“hereunder” and words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other
subdivision. The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular.
“1% Provision”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(l).
“13G Investors”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.13(a).
“Additional Interest”
means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d), Section 4.06(e) and Section 6.03, as applicable.
“Additional Shares”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(a).
“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 or cause the direction of 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. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the determination of whether one Person is
an “Affiliate” of another Person for purposes of this Indenture shall be made based on the facts at the time such determination
is made or required to be made, as the case may be, hereunder.
“Beneficial Owner”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.13(a).
“Beneficial Ownership
Limit” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.13(a).
“Bid Solicitation
Agent” means the Company or the Person appointed by the Company to solicit bids for the Trading Price of the Notes in accordance
with Section 14.01(b)(i). The Company shall initially act as the Bid Solicitation Agent.
“Board of Directors”
means the board of directors of the Company or a committee of such board duly authorized to act for it hereunder.
“Board Resolution”
means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board
of Directors, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Business Day”
means, with respect to any Note, any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is authorized
or required by law or executive order to close or be closed. However, solely for purposes of Section 17.06, a day on which the applicable
place of payment is authorized or required by law or executive order to close or be closed will be deemed not to be a “Business
Day.”
“Capital Stock”
means, for any entity, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or
interests in (however designated) stock issued by that entity, but shall not include any debt securities convertible or exchangeable for
any securities otherwise constituting Capital Stock pursuant to this definition until so converted or exchanged.
“Cash Percentage”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(iii).
“Certificate of Designations”
means the certificate of designations of the Company in effect on the date hereof, as amended from time to time.
“Clause A Distribution”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Clause B Distribution”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Clause C Distribution”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“close of business”
means 5:00 p.m. (New York City time).
“Commission”
means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Common Equity”
of any Person means Capital Stock of such Person that is generally entitled (a) to vote in the election of directors of such Person or
(b) if such Person is not a corporation, to vote or otherwise participate in the selection of the governing body, partners, managers or
others that will control the management or policies of such Person.
“Common Stock”
means the voting common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, at the date of this Indenture, subject to Section 14.07.
“Company”
shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture, and subject to the provisions of Article 11, shall include
its successors and assigns.
“Company Order”
means a written order of the Company signed by any of its Officers and delivered to the Trustee.
“Conversion Agent”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
“Conversion Consideration”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.12(a).
“Conversion Date”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(c).
“Conversion Obligation”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).
“Conversion Price”
means as of any time, $1,000, divided by the Conversion Rate as of such time.
“Conversion Rate”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(a).
“Corporate Event”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(b)(iii).
“Corporate Trust
Office” means the designated office of the Trustee at which at any time this Indenture shall be administered, which office at
the date hereof is located at U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, Denver Tower, 950 17th Street, Denver, CO 80202
Attention: WisdomTree, Inc. Administrator, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders
and the Company, or the designated corporate trust office of any successor trustee (or such other address as such successor trustee may
designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).
“Custodian”
means the Trustee, as custodian for The Depository Trust Company, with respect to the Global Notes, or any successor entity thereto.
“Daily Conversion
Value” means, for each of the 50 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period, 1/50th of the product of
(a) the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day and (b) the Daily VWAP for such Trading Day.
“Daily Net Settlement
Amount” for each of the 50 consecutive Trading Days during the relevant Observation Period, means: (A) if the Company does not
elect a Cash Percentage, a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the quotient of (i) the difference between the Daily Conversion Value
and 1/50th of $1,000, and (ii) the daily VWAP for such Trading Day; (B) if the Company elects a Cash Percentage of 100%, cash
in an amount equal to the difference between the Daily Conversion Value and 1/50th of $1,000; or (C) if the Company elects
a Cash Percentage and it is less than 100%, (i) cash equal to the product of (x) the difference between the Daily Conversion Value and
1/50th of $1,000 and (y) the Cash Percentage, plus (ii) a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the product of (x) (A)
the difference between the Daily Conversion Value and 1/50th of $1,000, divided by (B) the Daily VWAP for such Trading Day
and (y) 100% minus the Cash Percentage.
“Daily Settlement
Amount,” means, for each of the 50 consecutive Trading Days during the Observation Period, the sum of: (A) cash equal to the
lesser of (i) 1/50th of $1,000 and (ii) the Daily Conversion Value for such Trading Day; and (B) if the Daily Conversion Value
exceeds 1/50th of $1,000, the Daily Net Settlement Amount.
“Daily VWAP”
means, for each of the 50 consecutive Trading Days during the relevant Observation Period, the per share volume-weighted average price
as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page “WT <equity> AQR” (or its equivalent successor
if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the
primary trading session on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of
the Common Stock on such Trading Day reasonably determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent
investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company). The “Daily VWAP” shall be determined without regard
to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.
“Default”
means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
“Defaulted Amounts”
means any amounts on any Note (including, without limitation, the Redemption Price, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, principal
and interest) that are payable but are not punctually paid or duly provided for.
“Depositary”
means, with respect to each Global Note, the Person specified in Section 2.05(c) as the Depositary with respect to such Notes, until a
successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter, “Depositary”
shall mean or include such successor.
“Designated Financial
Institution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.12(a).
“Distributed Property”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Dividend Threshold”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(d).
“Effective Date”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(c), except that, as used in Section 14.04 and Section 14.05, “Effective Date”
means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, reflecting
the relevant share split or share combination, as applicable. For the avoidance of doubt, any alternative trading convention on the applicable
exchange or market in respect of shares of Common Stock under a separate ticker symbol or CUSIP number will not be considered “regular
way” for this purpose.
“Event of Default”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
“Ex-Dividend Date”
means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without
the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question, from the Company or, if applicable, from the seller of Common
Stock on such exchange or market (in the form of due bills or otherwise) as determined by such exchange or market.
“Exchange Act”
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Exchange Election”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.12(a).
“Form of Assignment
and Transfer” means the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” attached as Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached
hereto as Exhibit A.
“Form of Fundamental
Change Repurchase Notice” means the “Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” attached as Attachment 2 to the
Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Form of Note”
means the “Form of Note” attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Form of Notice of
Conversion” means the “Form of Notice of Conversion” attached as Attachment 1 to the Form of Note attached hereto
as Exhibit A.
“Fundamental Change”
shall be deemed to have occurred at the time after the Notes are originally issued if any of the following occurs:
(a) a
“person” or “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company, its direct
or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and the employee benefit plans of the Company and its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, has become the
direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of Common Stock of the Company representing
more than 50% of the voting power of the Common Stock of the Company and has filed a Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report)
or any schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act that discloses such fact, unless such beneficial ownership arises solely as a result
of a revocable proxy delivered in response to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to the applicable rules and regulations
under the Exchange Act and is not also then reportable on Schedule 13D or Schedule 13G (or any successor schedule) under the Exchange
Act; provided that no person or group shall be deemed to be the beneficial owner of any securities tendered pursuant to a tender
or exchange offer made by or on behalf of such person or group until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange under
such offer;
(b) the
consummation of (A) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than a change to par value or from par
value to no par value or changes resulting from a subdivision or combination) as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted
into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets; (B) any share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company
pursuant to which the Common Stock will be converted into cash, securities or other property or assets; or (C) any sale, lease or other
transfer in one transaction or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than one or more of the Company’s direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiaries;
provided, however, that neither (i) a transaction described in clause (A) or clause (B) in which the holders of all classes of
the Company’s Common Equity immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of all classes of Common
Equity of the continuing or surviving corporation or transferee or the direct or indirect parent thereof immediately after such transaction
in substantially the same proportions (relative to each other) as such ownership immediately prior to such transaction nor (ii) any merger
of the Company solely for the purpose of change its jurisdiction of incorporation that results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange
of outstanding shares of Common Stock solely into shares of common stock of the surviving entity shall, in each case, be a Fundamental
Change pursuant to this clause (b);
(c) the
stockholders of the Company approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
(d) the
Common Stock (or other common stock underlying the Notes) ceases to be listed or quoted on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The Nasdaq
Global Select Market or The Nasdaq Global Market (or any of their respective successors) and is not listed or quoted on one of The New
York Stock Exchange, The Nasdaq Global Select Market or The Nasdaq Global Market (or any of their respective successors) within one Trading
Day of such cessation;
provided, however, that a transaction or
transactions described in clause (a) or clause (b) above shall not constitute a Fundamental Change, if at least 90% of the consideration
received or to be received by the common stockholders of the Company, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments
made in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights, in connection with such transaction or transactions consists of shares of common
stock that are listed or quoted on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The Nasdaq Global Select Market or The Nasdaq Global Market (or
any of their respective successors) or will be so listed or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such transaction or transactions
and as a result of such transaction or transactions such consideration, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments
made in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights (subject to the provisions of Section 14.02(a), Section 14.04 and Section 14.03)
becomes Reference Property for the Notes. If any transaction in which the Common Stock is replaced by the securities of another entity
occurs, following completion of any related Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period (or, in the case of a transaction that would have been
a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change but for the proviso immediately following clause (d) of this definition, following
the effective date of such transaction) references to the Company in this definition shall instead be references to such other entity.
For purposes of this definition, any transaction
that constitutes a Fundamental Change pursuant to both clause (a) and clause (b) of this definition (without regard to the proviso in
clause (2)) shall be deemed a Fundamental Change solely under clause (2) of such definition (subject to such proviso).
“Fundamental Change
Company Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(c).
“Fundamental Change
Repurchase Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).
“Fundamental Change
Repurchase Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(b)(i).
“Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).
The terms “given”,
“mailed”, “notify,” “delivered” or “sent” with respect to
any notice to be given to a Holder pursuant to this Indenture, including in circumstances pursuant to which such notice must be “written,”
shall mean notice (x) given to the Depositary (or its designee) pursuant to the standing instructions from the Depositary or its designee,
including by electronic mail in accordance with accepted practices or procedures at the Depositary (in the case of a Global Note) or (y)
mailed to such Holder by first class mail, postage prepaid, at its address as it appears on the Note Register (in the case of a Physical
Note), in each case, in accordance with Section 17.03. Notice so “given” shall be deemed to include any notice to be “mailed”
or “delivered,” as applicable, under this Indenture.
“Global Note”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b).
“Holder,”
as applied to any Note, or other similar terms (but excluding the term “beneficial holder”), means any Person in whose name
at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note Register.
“Indenture”
means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented.
“Initial Purchaser”
means Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
“Interest Payment
Date” means each February 15 and August 15 of each year, beginning on February 15, 2025.
“Last Original Issue
Date” means, (A) with respect to the Notes offered pursuant to the Offering Memorandum, and any Notes issued in exchange therefor
or in substitution thereof, the later of (i) the date of this Indenture and (ii) the last day any Notes are originally issued as part
of the same offering pursuant to the exercise of the option granted to the Initial Purchaser to purchase additional Notes as set forth
in the Purchase Agreement; (B) with respect to any additional Notes issued pursuant to the first sentence of Section 2.10, and any Notes
issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof, either (i) the later of (x) the date such Notes are originally issued and (y)
the last date any Notes are originally issued as part of the same offering pursuant to the exercise of an option granted to the initial
purchaser(s) of such Notes to purchase additional Notes; or (ii) such other date as is specified in an Officer’s Certificate delivered
to the Trustee before the original issuance of such Notes.
“Last Reported Sale
Price” of the Common Stock (or any other security for which a last reported sale price must be determined) on any date means
the closing sale price (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either
case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) per share of the Common Stock (or such other security) on that date as
reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded.
If the Common Stock (or such other security) is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant
date, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the last quoted bid price per share of the Common Stock (or such other
security) in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If the
Common Stock (or such other security) is not so quoted, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the average of the
mid-point of the last bid and ask prices per share of the Common Stock (or such other security) on the relevant date from each of at least
three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for this purpose. The “Last Reported
Sale Price” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of regular trading session
hours.
“Make-Whole Fundamental
Change” means any transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change (as defined above and determined after giving effect
to any exceptions to or exclusions from such definition, but without regard to the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof).
“Make-Whole Fundamental
Change Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(a).
“Market Disruption
Event” means, for the purpose of determining amounts due upon conversion only (a) a failure by the primary U.S. national or
regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading to open for trading during its regular
trading session or (b) the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Scheduled Trading Day for the Common
Stock for more than one half-hour period in the aggregate during regular trading hours of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading
(by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant stock exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any
options contracts or futures contracts relating to the Common Stock.
“Maturity Date”
means August 15, 2029.
“Measurement Period”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01(b)(i).
“Merger Event”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
“Note”
or “Notes” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of the recitals of this Indenture.
“Note Obligation”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.01.
“Note Register”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).
“Note Registrar”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).
“Notice of Conversion”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(b).
“Notice of Redemption”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02(a).
“Observation Period”
with respect to any Note surrendered for conversion means: (i) subject to clause (ii), if the relevant Conversion Date occurs prior to
May 15, 2029, the 50 consecutive Trading Day period beginning on, and including, the second Trading Day immediately succeeding such Conversion
Date; (ii) if the relevant Conversion Date for a Note called for redemption occurs during a Redemption Period pursuant to Section 16.02,
the 50 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 51st Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding such Redemption
Date; and (iii) subject to clause (ii) of this definition above, if the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after May 15, 2029, the
50 consecutive Trading Days beginning on, and including, the 51st Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity
Date.
“Offering Memorandum”
means the preliminary offering memorandum dated August 8, 2024, as supplemented by the related pricing term sheet dated August 8, 2024,
relating to the offering and sale of the Notes.
“Officer”
means, with respect to the Company, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer,
the Chief Legal Officer, the Chief Administrative Officer, the Treasurer, and the Secretary.
“Officer’s
Certificate,” when used with respect to the Company, means a certificate that is delivered to the Trustee and that is signed
by any Officer of the Company. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in Section 17.05 if and to the extent required
by the provisions of such Section. The Officer giving an Officer’s Certificate pursuant to Section 4.08 shall be the principal executive,
financial or accounting officer of the Company.
“open of business”
means 9:00 a.m. (New York City time).
“Opinion of Counsel”
means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, or other counsel who is reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee, which opinion may contain customary exceptions and qualifications as to the matters set forth therein, that
is delivered to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall include the statements provided for in Section 17.05 if and to the extent required
by the provisions of such Section 17.05.
“Optional Redemption”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.01.
“Other Redemption
Payments” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Certificate of Designations as in effect on the date hereof.
“outstanding,”
when used with reference to Notes, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Notes authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:
(a) Notes
theretofore canceled by the Trustee or accepted by the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Notes,
or portions thereof, that have become due and payable and in respect of which monies in the necessary amount shall have been deposited
in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by the
Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent);
(c) Notes
that have been paid pursuant to Section 2.08 or Notes in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other Notes shall have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.08 unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held
by protected purchasers in due course;
(d) Notes
converted pursuant to Article 14 and required to be cancelled pursuant to Section 2.08;
(e) Notes
redeemed pursuant to Article 16; and
(f) Notes
repurchased by the Company pursuant to the penultimate sentence of Section 2.10 and delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
“Paying Agent”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
“Person”
means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a partnership, a joint venture, a joint stock company,
a trust, an unincorporated organization or a government or an agency or a political subdivision thereof.
“Physical Notes”
means permanent certificated Notes in registered form issued in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof.
“Predecessor Note”
of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note;
and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in lieu of or in exchange for a mutilated,
lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note that it replaces.
“Purchase Agreement”
means that certain Purchase Agreement, dated August 8, 2024, between the Company and the Initial Purchaser.
“Record Date”
means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock (or other applicable
security) have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or such other security) is exchanged
for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the time and date fixed for determination of holders of the
Common Stock (or such other security) entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Company
in good faith, by statute, by contract or otherwise).
“Redemption Date”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02(a).
“Redemption Notice
Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.01.
“Redemption Period”
means, with respect to any Optional Redemption of Notes pursuant to Article 16, the period from, and including, the Redemption Notice
Date for such Optional Redemption to, and including, the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the
Redemption Date.
“Redemption Price”
means, for any Notes to be redeemed pursuant to Section 16.01, 100% of the principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest,
if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (unless the Redemption Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the immediately
succeeding Interest Payment Date, in which case the Company will pay, on or, at the Company’s election, before such Interest Payment
Date, the full amount of accrued and unpaid interest to the Holders of record of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular
Record Date, and the Redemption Price will be equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Notes to be redeemed).
“Reference Property”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
“Regular Record Date,”
with respect to any Interest Payment Date, means the February 1 or August 1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day), as the case may
be, immediately preceding the applicable February 15 or August 15 Interest Payment Date, respectively.
“Reorganization Merger
Event” means a Merger Event that is solely for the purpose of changing the jurisdiction of organization of the Company that
(x) does not constitute a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change and (y) results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange
of outstanding shares of Common Stock solely into shares of common stock of the surviving entity and such common stock becomes Reference
Property for the notes
“Resale Restriction
Termination Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
“Responsible Officer”
means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, including any senior vice
president, vice president, assistant vice president, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, or any other officer of the Trustee
who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or
to whom any corporate trust matter relating to this Indenture is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity
with the particular subject and who, in each case, shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.
“Restricted Securities”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
“Restrictive Notes
Legend” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
“Rule 144”
means Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act.
“Rule 144A”
means Rule 144A as promulgated under the Securities Act.
“Scheduled Trading
Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market
on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading. If the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, “Scheduled
Trading Day” means a Business Day.
“Securities Act”
means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Series A Preferred
Stock” means the Company’s Series A Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock.
“Settlement Amount”
has the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(iv).
“Settlement Method
Election Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(iii).
“Settlement Notice”
has the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a)(iii).
“Significant Subsidiary”
means a Subsidiary of the Company that meets the definition of “significant subsidiary” in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X
under the Exchange Act; provided that, in the case of a Subsidiary that meets the criteria of clause (1)(iii) of the definition
thereof but not clause (1)(i) or (1)(ii) thereof, in each case, as such rule is in effect on the date hereof, such Subsidiary shall be
deemed not to be a Significant Subsidiary unless the Subsidiary’s income (or loss) from continuing operations before income taxes
exclusive of amounts attributable to any non-controlling interests for the last completed fiscal year prior to the date of such determination
exceeds $25,000,000. For the avoidance of doubt, to the extent any such Subsidiary would not be deemed to be a “significant subsidiary”
under the relevant definition set forth in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X (or any successor rule) as in effect on the relevant
date of determination, such Subsidiary shall not be deemed to be a “significant subsidiary” under the indenture irrespective
of whether such Subsidiary would otherwise be deemed to be a “significant subsidiary” pursuant to the immediately preceding
sentence.
“Specified Dollar
Amount” means the maximum cash amount per $1,000 principal amount of Notes to be received upon conversion as specified in the
Settlement Notice (or deemed specified as provided in Section 14.02(a)(iii)) related to any converted Notes.
“Spin-Off”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Stock Price”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.03(c).
“Stockholder Rights
Agreement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.13(a).
“Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total
voting power of shares of Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the occurrence
of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled,
directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person; (ii) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person; or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries
of such Person.
“Successor Company”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.01(a).
“Trading Day”
means, except for determining amounts due upon conversion as set forth below, a day on which (i) trading in the Common Stock (or other
security for which a closing sale price must be determined) generally occurs on The New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock (or
such other security) is not then listed on The New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange
on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then listed or, if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not then listed
on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market (including an over-the-counter market) on which the
Common Stock (or such other security) is then traded and (ii) a Last Reported Sale Price for the Common Stock (or closing sale price for
such other security) is available on such securities exchange or market; provided that if the Common Stock (or such other security)
is not so listed or traded, “Trading Day” means a Business Day; and provided further that, for purposes of determining
amounts due upon conversion only, “Trading Day” means a day on which (x) there is no Market Disruption Event and (y)
trading in the Common Stock generally occurs on The New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on The New York
Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the
Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common
Stock is then listed or admitted for trading, except that if the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, “Trading
Day” means a Business Day.
“Trading Price”
of the Notes on any date of determination means the average of the secondary market bid quotations obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent
(who may, for the avoidance of doubt, be the Company) for $2,000,000 principal amount of Notes at approximately 3:30 p.m., New York City
time, on such determination date from three independent nationally recognized securities dealers the Company selects for this purpose;
provided that if three such bids cannot reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent but two such bids are obtained, then
the average of the two bids shall be used, and if only one such bid can reasonably be obtained by the Bid Solicitation Agent, that one
bid shall be used. If the Bid Solicitation Agent cannot reasonably obtain at least one bid for $2,000,000 principal amount of Notes from
a nationally recognized securities dealer, then the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be deemed to be less than
98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock and the Conversion Rate.
“transfer”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
“Trigger Event”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Trust Indenture
Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as it was in force at the date of execution of this Indenture; provided,
however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after the date hereof, the term “Trust Indenture Act”
shall mean, to the extent required by such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended.
“Trustee”
means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor trustee shall have
become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include
each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.
“unit of Reference
Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
“Valuation Period”
shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary”
means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person, except that, solely for purposes of this definition, the reference to
“more than 50%” in the definition of “Subsidiary” shall be deemed replaced by a reference to “100%.”
Section 1.02.
References to Interest. Unless the context otherwise
requires, any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note in this Indenture shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if,
in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of Section 4.06(d), Section 4.06(e) and Section 6.03.
Unless the context otherwise requires, any express mention of Additional Interest in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding
Additional Interest in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.
ARTICLE 2
Issue, Description, Execution, Registration and Exchange of Notes
Section 2.01.
Designation and Amount. The Notes shall be designated
as the “3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029.” The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture is initially limited to $300,000,000 (as increased by an amount up to $45,000,000 equal to the aggregate principal
amount of any additional Notes purchased by the Initial Purchaser pursuant to the exercise of its option to purchase additional Notes
as set forth in the Purchase Agreement), subject to Section 2.10 and except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration or
transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes to the extent expressly permitted hereunder.
Section 2.02.
Form of Notes. The Notes and the Trustee’s
certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A, the terms
and provisions of which shall constitute, and are hereby expressly incorporated in and made a part of this Indenture. To the extent applicable,
the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be
bound thereby. In the case of any conflict between this Indenture and a Note, the provisions of this Indenture shall control and govern
to the extent of such conflict.
Any Global Note may be endorsed
with or have incorporated in the text thereof such legends or recitals or changes not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture
as may be required by the Custodian or the Depositary, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or any regulation thereunder
or with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation system upon which the Notes may be listed or traded
or designated for issuance or to conform with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to
which any particular Notes are subject.
Any of the Notes may have
such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends or endorsements as the Officer executing the same may
approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture,
or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any
securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage
or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.
Each Global Note shall represent
such principal amount of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal
amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented
thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect redemptions, repurchases, cancellations, conversions, transfers or exchanges
permitted hereby. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes
represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon instructions
given by the Holder of such Notes in accordance with this Indenture. Payment of principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, a Global Note shall be made to the Holder of such Note
on the date of payment, unless a record date or other means of determining Holders eligible to receive payment is provided for herein.
Section 2.03.
Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and
Defaulted Amounts. (a) The Notes shall be issuable in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 principal
amount and integral multiples thereof. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication and shall bear cash interest from the date
specified on the face of such Note. Accrued interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year composed of twelve
30-day months and, for partial months, on the basis of the number of days actually elapsed in a 30-day month.
(b)
The Person in whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the Note Register at the close of business on any
Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such Interest Payment
Date. The principal amount of any Note (x) in the case of any Physical Note, shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained
by the Company for such purposes in the United States of America, which shall initially be the Corporate Trust Office and (y) in the case
of any Global Note, shall be payable by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee.
The Company shall pay, or cause the Paying Agent to pay, interest (i) on any Physical Notes (A) to Holders holding Physical Notes having
an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or less, by check mailed to the Holders of these Notes at their address as it appears in the
Note Register and (B) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of more than $5,000,000, either by check
mailed to each such Holder or, upon written application by such a Holder to the Note Registrar in a form reasonably satisfactory to the
Note Registrar not later than the relevant Regular Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to that Holder’s
account within the United States if such Holder has provided the Trustee or the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) with the requisite
information necessary to make such wire transfer, which written application shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies, in writing,
the Note Registrar to the contrary or (ii) on any Global Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary
or its nominee.
(c)
Any Defaulted Amounts shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant payment date but shall accrue interest
per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, such relevant
payment date, and such Defaulted Amounts together with such interest thereon shall be paid by the Company, at its election in each case,
as provided in clause (i) or (ii) below:
(i)
The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Amounts to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor
Notes) are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts, which shall be fixed
in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of the Defaulted Amounts proposed to be paid on
each Note and the date of the proposed payment (which shall be not less than 25 days after the receipt by the Trustee of such notice,
unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier date), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money
equal to the aggregate amount to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Amounts or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
such deposit on or 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 Amounts as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Company shall fix a special record date for the payment of
such Defaulted Amounts which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment, and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment (unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier
date). The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of such special record date at least five (5) Business Days before such
notice is to be sent to the Holders and the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed
payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor to be delivered to each Holder not less than 10 days prior to such
special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor having been so delivered,
such Defaulted Amounts shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at
the close of business on such special record date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (ii) of this Section
2.03(c). The Trustee shall have no responsibility whatsoever for the calculation of the Defaulted Amounts.
(ii)
The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Amounts in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, and upon such notice as
may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment
pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Section 2.04.
Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes.
The Notes shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual, facsimile or electronic signature of its Chief Executive
Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Chief Legal Officer, Secretary or Chief Administrative
Officer.
At any time and from time
to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication,
together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order
shall authenticate and deliver such Notes, without any further action by the Company hereunder; provided, however, that the Trustee
shall be entitled to receive an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel of the Company with respect to the issuance, authentication
and delivery of such Notes.
Only such Notes as shall bear
thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth on the Form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto, executed
manually by an authorized officer of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by Section 17.10), shall
be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating
agent) upon any Note executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
In case any Officer of the
Company who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be such Officer before the Notes so signed shall have been authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of
as though the person who signed such Notes had not ceased to be such Officer of the Company; and any Note may be signed on behalf of the
Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Note, shall be the Officers of the Company, although at the date
of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.
Section 2.05.
Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions
on Transfer; Depositary. (a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the register maintained
in such office or in any other office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02, the “Note Register”)
in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers
of Notes. Such register shall be in written form or in any form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable period
of time. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers
of Notes as herein provided. The Company may appoint one or more co-Note Registrars in accordance with Section 4.02.
Upon surrender for registration
of transfer of any Note to the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such transfer set forth
in this Section 2.05, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee
or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such restrictive
legends as may be required by this Indenture.
Notes may be exchanged for
other Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any
such office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive, bearing
registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.
All Notes presented or surrendered
for registration of transfer or for exchange, repurchase, redemption or conversion shall (if so required by the Company, the Trustee,
the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Company and duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be
imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent for any exchange or registration of
transfer of Notes, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer
tax required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of new Notes issued upon such exchange or registration of transfer
being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for exchange or registration of transfer.
None of the Company, the Trustee,
the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar shall be required to exchange for other Notes or register a transfer of (i) any Notes surrendered
for conversion or, if a portion of any Note is surrendered for conversion, such portion thereof surrendered for conversion, (ii) any Notes,
or a portion of any Note, surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn) in accordance with Article 15 or (iii) any Notes selected for
redemption in accordance with Article 16, except the unredeemed portion thereof.
All Notes issued upon any
registration of transfer or exchange of Notes in accordance with this Indenture shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing
the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(b)
So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless otherwise required by law, subject to the
fourth paragraph from the end of Section 2.05(c) all Notes shall be represented by one or more Notes in global form (each, a “Global
Note”) registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary. Each Global Note shall bear the legend required
on a Global Note set forth in Exhibit A hereto. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note that does not involve
the issuance of a Physical Note shall be effected through the Depositary (but not the Trustee or the Custodian) in accordance with this
Indenture (including the restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor.
(c)
Every Note that bears or is required under this Section 2.05(c) to bear the Restrictive Notes Legend (together with any Common
Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes that is required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), collectively, the “Restricted
Securities”) shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 2.05(c) (including the Restrictive Notes
Legend set forth below), unless such restrictions on transfer shall be eliminated or otherwise waived by written consent of the Company,
and the Holder of each such Restricted Security, by such Holder’s acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by all such restrictions
on transfer. As used in this Section 2.05(c) and Section 2.05(d), the term “transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge,
transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Security.
Until the date (the “Resale
Restriction Termination Date”) that is the later of (1) the date that is one year after the Last Original Issue Date, or such
shorter period of time as permitted by Rule 144 or any successor provision thereto, and (2) such later date, if any, as may be required
by applicable law, any certificate evidencing some or all of the Notes (and all securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution
thereof, other than Common Stock, if any, issued upon conversion thereof, which shall bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), if
applicable) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (the “Restrictive Notes Legend”) (unless such Notes
have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that
continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any
similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, with notice thereof to
the Trustee):
THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON
STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES
ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS
ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS
THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES
FOR THE BENEFIT OF WISDOMTREE, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS
SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF
OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO AND (Y) SUCH LATER
DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
(A) TO
THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(B) PURSUANT
TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(C) TO
A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(D) PURSUANT
TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION
OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH
LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
NO AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN
RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF WISDOMTREE, INC. OR PERSON THAT HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT) OF WISDOMTREE, INC. DURING THE PRECEDING THREE MONTHS MAY PURCHASE, OTHERWISE ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST
HEREIN.
No transfer of any Note prior
to the Resale Restriction Termination Date will be registered by the Note Registrar unless the applicable box on the Form of Assignment
and Transfer has been checked.
Any Note (or security issued
in exchange or substitution therefor) (i) as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms,
(ii) that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become effective or been declared effective under the Securities
Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or (iii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration
provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, may, upon surrender of such Note for exchange to
the Note Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.05, be exchanged for a new Note or Notes, of like tenor and aggregate
principal amount, which shall not bear the Restrictive Notes Legend required by this Section 2.05(c) and shall not be assigned a restricted
CUSIP number. The Restrictive Notes Legend set forth above and affixed on any Note will be deemed, in accordance with the terms of the
certificate representing such Note, to be removed therefrom upon the Company’ s delivery to the Trustee of written notice to such
effect, without further action by the Company, the Trustee, the Holder(s) thereof or any other Person; at such time, such Note will be
deemed to be assigned an unrestricted CUSIP number as provided in the certificate representing such Note, it being understood that the
Depositary of any Global Note may require a mandatory exchange or other process to cause such Global Note to be identified by an unrestricted
CUSIP number in the facilities of such Depositary; provided, however, that if such Note is a Global Note and the Depositary thereof
requires a mandatory exchange or other procedure to cause such Global Note to be identified by “unrestricted” CUSIP and ISIN
numbers in the facilities of such Depositary, then (i) the Company will effect such exchange or procedure as soon as reasonably practicable;
and (ii) for purposes of Section 4.06, such Global Note will not be deemed to be identified by unrestricted CUSIP and ISIN numbers until
such time as such exchange or procedure is effected. The Company and the Trustee reserve the right to require the delivery of such legal
opinions, certifications or other evidence as may reasonably be required in order to determine that any proposed transfer of any Note
is being made in compliance with the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
The Company shall be entitled
to instruct the Custodian in writing to so surrender any Global Note as to which any of the conditions set forth in clause (i) through
(iii) of the immediately preceding sentence have been satisfied, and, upon such instruction, the Custodian shall so surrender such Global
Note for exchange; and any new Global Note so exchanged therefor shall not bear the Restrictive Notes Legend specified in this Section
2.05(c) and shall not be assigned a restricted CUSIP number. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee upon the occurrence of the
Resale Restriction Termination Date and promptly after a registration statement, if any, with respect to the Notes or any Common Stock
issued upon conversion of the Notes has been declared effective under the Securities Act.
Notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in this Section 2.05(c)), a Global Note may not be transferred as a
whole or in part except (i) by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another
nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary
and (ii) for exchange of a Global Note or a portion thereof for one or more Physical Notes in accordance with the second immediately succeeding
paragraph.
The Depositary shall be a
clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with
respect to each Global Note. Initially, each Global Note shall be issued to the Depositary, registered in the name of Cede & Co.,
as the nominee of the Depositary, and deposited with the Trustee as custodian for Cede & Co.
If (i) the Depositary notifies
the Company at any time that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the Global Notes and a successor depositary
is not appointed within 90 days, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor
depositary is not appointed within 90 days or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing and,
subject to the Depositary’s applicable procedures, a beneficial owner of any Note requests that its beneficial interest therein
be issued as a Physical Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate and a Company
Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes, shall authenticate and deliver (x) in the case of clause (iii), a Physical Note to
such beneficial owner in a principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Note corresponding to such beneficial owner’s
beneficial interest and (y) in the case of clause (i) or (ii), Physical Notes to each beneficial owner of the related Global Notes (or
a portion thereof) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Global Notes in exchange for such
Global Notes, and upon delivery of the Global Notes to the Trustee such Global Notes shall be canceled.
Physical Notes issued in exchange
for all or a part of the Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.05(c) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations
as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, or, in the case of clause (iii) of
the immediately preceding paragraph, the relevant beneficial owner, shall instruct the Trustee. Upon execution and authentication, the
Trustee shall deliver such Physical Notes to the Persons in whose names such Physical Notes are so registered.
At such time as all interests
in a Global Note have been converted, canceled, repurchased upon a Fundamental Change, redeemed or transferred, such Global Note shall
be, upon receipt thereof, canceled by the Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and existing instructions between the Depositary
and the Custodian. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Physical Notes, converted,
canceled, repurchased upon a Fundamental Change, redeemed or transferred to a transferee who receives Physical Notes therefor or any Physical
Note is exchanged or transferred for part of such Global Note, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the
standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, be appropriately reduced or increased, as the
case may be, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to
reflect such reduction or increase.
None of the Company, the Trustee,
the Conversion Agent, the Paying Agent or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any act
or omission of the Depositary or for the payment of amounts to owners of beneficial interest in a Global Note, for any aspect of the records
relating to or payments made on account of those interests by the Depositary, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records
of the Depositary relating to those interests.
(d)
Until the Resale Restriction Termination Date, any stock certificate representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of a Note
shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless such Common Stock has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement
that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or
pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or such
Common Stock has been issued upon conversion of a Note that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become
or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or pursuant to the
exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise
agreed by the Company with written notice thereof to the Trustee and any transfer agent for the Common Stock):
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED
OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN,
THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS
THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES
FOR THE BENEFIT OF WISDOMTREE, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS
SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THE
NOTES UPON THE CONVERSION OF WHICH THIS SECURITY WAS ISSUED OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO AND (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
(A) TO
THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(B) PURSUANT
TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(C) TO
A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(D) PURSUANT
TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION
OF THIS SECURITY IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRANSFER AGENT FOR THE COMPANY’S
COMMON STOCK RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED
IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
Any such Common Stock (i)
as to which such restrictions on transfer shall have expired in accordance with their terms, (ii) that has been transferred pursuant to
a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the
time of such transfer or (iii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision
then in force under the Securities Act, may, upon surrender of the certificates representing such shares of Common Stock for exchange
in accordance with the procedures of the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be exchanged for a new certificate or certificates for a
like aggregate number of shares of Common Stock, which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this Section 2.05(d).
The Company shall cause any
Note that is repurchased or owned by it to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08.
The Trustee and any other
agent appointed under this Indenture shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions
on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any
transfers between or among Depositary participants or beneficial owners of interests in any Global Note) other than to require delivery
of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by
the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.
Neither the Trustee nor any
agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary, and may assume performance absent
written notice to the contrary.
(e)
Any Note or Common Stock issued upon conversion of a Note that is repurchased or owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company
(or any Person who was an Affiliate of the Company at any time during the three months immediately preceding) may not be resold by the
Company or such Affiliate (or such Person, as the case may be) unless registered under the Securities Act or resold pursuant to an exemption
from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in a transaction that results in such Note or Common Stock, as the case may be,
no longer being a “restricted security” (as defined under Rule 144).
Section 2.06.
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. In case
any Note shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in its discretion may execute, and upon receipt of a Company
Order the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Note, bearing a registration
number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in substitution for the
Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and,
if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any
loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the
applicant shall also furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent evidence to their satisfaction
of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
The Trustee or such authenticating
agent may authenticate any such substituted Note and deliver the same upon the receipt of a Company Order and such security or indemnity
as the Trustee, the Company and, if applicable, such authenticating agent may require. No service charge shall be imposed by the Company,
the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent upon the issuance of any substitute Note, but the Company may
require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax required in connection therewith
as a result of the name of the Holder of the new substitute Note being different from the name of the Holder of the old Note that became
mutilated or was destroyed, lost or stolen. In case any Note that has matured or is about to mature or has been surrendered for redemption
or required repurchase or is about to be converted in accordance with Article 14 shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen,
the Company may, in its sole discretion, instead of issuing a substitute Note, pay or authorize the payment of or convert or authorize
the conversion of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the case may be, if the applicant for
such payment or conversion shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security
or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected
with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and, if applicable,
any Paying Agent or Conversion Agent evidence of their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership
thereof.
Every substitute Note issued
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.06 by virtue of the fact that any Note is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled
to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any
and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. To the extent permitted by law, all Notes shall be held and owned upon the express condition
that the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or
hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of negotiable instruments
or other securities without their surrender.
Section 2.07.
Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Physical
Notes, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon written request of the
Company, authenticate and deliver temporary Notes (printed or lithographed). Temporary Notes shall be issuable in any authorized denomination,
and substantially in the form of the Physical Notes but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary
Notes, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Note shall be executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee
or such authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Physical
Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent Physical Notes (other
than any Global Note) and thereupon any or all temporary Notes (other than any Global Note) may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at
each office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02 and the Trustee or such authenticating agent upon receipt of
a Company Order shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Notes an equal aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes.
Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes
shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Physical Notes authenticated
and delivered hereunder.
Section 2.08.
Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc. The Company
shall cause all Notes surrendered for the purpose of payment, repurchase (including upon a Fundamental Change but not including Notes
repurchased pursuant to cash-settled swaps and other derivatives), redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion (other
than any Notes exchanged pursuant to Section 14.12), if surrendered to the Company or any of its agents, Subsidiaries or Affiliates, as
applicable, to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. All Notes delivered to the Trustee shall be canceled promptly by it in
accordance with its customary procedures. Except for any Notes surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, or as otherwise expressly
permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture, no Notes shall be authenticated in exchange for any Notes surrendered to the Trustee
for cancellation. The Trustee shall dispose of canceled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures and, after such disposition,
shall deliver a certificate of such disposition to the Company, at the Company’s written request in a Company Order.
Section 2.09.
CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may
use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in all notices
issued to Holders as a convenience to such Holders; provided that the Trustee shall have no liability for any defect in the “CUSIP”
numbers as they appear on any Note, notice or elsewhere, and, provided, further, that any such notice may state that no representation
is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or on such notice and that reliance may be placed only on
the other identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP”
numbers.
Section 2.10.
Additional Notes; Repurchases. The Company may, without
the consent of, or notice to, the Holders and notwithstanding Section 2.01, reopen this Indenture and issue additional Notes hereunder
with the same terms as the Notes initially issued hereunder (other than differences in the issue date, the issue price, interest accrued
prior to the issue date of such additional Notes and, if applicable, restrictions on transfer in respect of such additional Notes) in
an unlimited aggregate principal amount; provided that if any such additional Notes are not fungible with the Notes initially issued
hereunder for U.S. federal income tax or securities law purposes, such additional Notes shall not have the same CUSIP numbers as the Notes
initially issued hereunder. Prior to the issuance of any such additional Notes, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee (copied to the
Paying Agent and Note Registrar) a Company Order, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, such Officer’s Certificate
and Opinion of Counsel to cover such matters, in addition to those required by Section 17.05, as the Trustee shall reasonably request.
In addition, the Company may, to the extent permitted by law, and directly or indirectly (regardless of whether such Notes are surrendered
to the Company), repurchase Notes in the open market or otherwise, whether by the Company or its Subsidiaries or through a privately negotiated
transaction or public tender or exchange offer or through counterparties to private agreements, including by cash-settled swaps or other
derivatives, in each case, without the consent of or notice to the Holders of the Notes. The Company shall cause any Notes so repurchased
(other than Notes repurchased pursuant to cash-settled swaps or other derivatives) to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation in
accordance with Section 2.08 and such Notes shall no longer be considered outstanding under this Indenture upon their repurchase.
ARTICLE 3
Satisfaction and Discharge
Section 3.01.
Satisfaction and Discharge. This Indenture and the
Notes shall upon request of the Company contained in an Officer’s Certificate cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, at
the expense of the Company, shall execute such instruments reasonably requested by the Company acknowledging satisfaction and discharge
of this Indenture and the Notes, when (a) (i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Notes which have been destroyed,
lost or stolen and which have been replaced, paid or converted as provided in Section 2.06) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
or (ii) the Company has deposited with the Trustee or delivered to Holders, as applicable, after the Notes have become due and payable,
whether on the Maturity Date, any Redemption Date, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, upon conversion or otherwise, cash and/or shares
of Common Stock (or other Reference Property) or a combination thereof, as applicable, solely to satisfy the Company’s Conversion
Obligation, sufficient to pay all of the outstanding Notes and all other sums due and payable under this Indenture by the Company; and
(b) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s 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 to the Trustee under Section 7.06 shall survive.
ARTICLE 4
Particular Covenants of the Company
Section 4.01.
Payment of Principal and Interest. The Company covenants
and agrees that it will cause to be paid the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if
applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided
herein and in the Notes.
Section 4.02.
Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will
maintain in the United States of America, an office or agency where the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange
or for presentation for payment or repurchase or redemption (“Paying Agent”) or for conversion (“Conversion
Agent”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Company
will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time
the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office or the office or agency of the Trustee
located in the United States.
The Company may also from
time to time designate as co-Note Registrars one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for
any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided that no such designation or rescission shall
in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the United States of America, for such purposes.
The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of
any such other office or agency. The terms “Paying Agent” and “Conversion Agent” include any such
additional or other offices or agencies, as applicable.
The Company hereby initially
designates the Trustee as the Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Custodian and Conversion Agent and the Corporate Trust Office as the office
or agency in the contiguous United States, where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation
for payment or repurchase or redemption or for conversion and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes
and this Indenture may be served; provided that the Corporate Trust Office shall not be a place for service of legal process for
the Company.
Section 4.03.
Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office.
The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 7.09,
a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
Section 4.04.
Provisions as to Paying Agent. (a) If the Company
shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, the Company will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.04:
(i)
that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the
Notes;
(ii)
that it will give the Trustee prompt notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption
Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall
be due and payable; and
(iii)
that at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust.
The Company shall, on or before
each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued
and unpaid interest on, the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Redemption Price
and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) or accrued and unpaid interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee)
the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of any failure to take such action; provided that if such deposit is made on the due
date, such deposit must be received by the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date.
(b)
If the Company acts as its own Paying Agent, it shall, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price
and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, set aside, segregate and
hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Redemption Price and the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) and accrued and unpaid interest so becoming due and will promptly notify the Trustee
in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption
Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall
become due and payable. On the occurrence of any Event of Default under Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i), the Trustee shall automatically
become the Paying Agent.
(c)
Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay, cause to be paid or deliver to the Trustee all sums or amounts held in
trust by the Company or any Paying Agent hereunder as required by this Section 4.04, such sums or amounts to be held by the Trustee upon
the trusts herein contained and upon such payment or delivery by the Company or any Paying Agent to the Trustee, the Company or such Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability but only with respect to such sums or amounts.
(d)
Subject to applicable escheatment laws, any money and shares of Common Stock deposited with the Trustee, the Conversion Agent or
any Paying Agent or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, accrued and unpaid interest on and the consideration due upon conversion of any Note and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable),
interest or consideration due upon conversion has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on request of the Company contained
in an Officer’s Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust and the Trustee shall have no
further liability with respect to such fund or property; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor,
look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee, the Conversion Agent or such Paying Agent with respect
to such trust money and shares of Common Stock, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.
Section 4.05.
Existence. Subject to Article 11, the Company shall
do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 4.06.
Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports.
(a) At any time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall, so long as any of the Notes
or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof shall, at such time, constitute “restricted securities” within
the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, promptly provide to the Trustee and, upon written request, any Holder, beneficial
owner or prospective purchaser of such Notes or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Notes, the information required
to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to facilitate the resale of such Notes or shares of Common Stock
pursuant to Rule 144A.
(b)
The Company shall file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the same are required to be filed with the Commission, copies of
any annual or quarterly reports (on Form 10-K or Form 10-Q or any respective successor form) that the Company is required to file with
the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (excluding any such information, documents or reports, or portions
thereof, subject to, or with respect to which the Company is actively seeking, confidential treatment and any correspondence with the
Commission, and giving effect to any grace period provided by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act (or any successor thereto)). Any such
document or report that the Company files with the Commission via the Commission’s EDGAR system (or any successor system) shall
be deemed to be filed with the Trustee for purposes of this Section 4.06(b) at the time such documents are filed via the EDGAR system
(or such successor). The Trustee shall have no responsibility to determine whether such posting has occurred.
(c)
Delivery of the reports, information and documents described in subsection (b) above to the Trustee is for informational purposes
only, and the information and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained
therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder
(as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely on an Officer’s Certificate).
(d)
If, at any time during the six-month period beginning on, and including, the date that is six months after the Last Original Issue
Date, the Company fails to timely file any document or report that it is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods thereunder and other than reports on Form
8-K), or the Notes are not otherwise freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Company’s Affiliates or Holders
that were the Company’s Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding (as a result of restrictions pursuant
to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes), the Company shall pay Additional Interest on the Notes. Such Additional
Interest shall accrue on the Notes at the rate of (i) 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each of the
first 90 days and (ii) 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day from, and including, the 91st
day during such period for which the Company’s failure to file has occurred and is continuing or the Notes are not otherwise freely
tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Company’s Affiliates (or Holders that were the Company’s Affiliates
at any time during the three months immediately preceding) without restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this
Indenture or the Notes. As used in this Section 4.06(d), documents or reports that the Company is required to “file” with
the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act does not include documents or reports that the Company furnishes to
the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. For purposes of this Section 4.06(d), the phrase “restrictions
pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes” shall not include, for the avoidance of doubt, the
assignment of a restricted CUSIP number, the existence of the Restrictive Notes Legend on Notes in compliance with Section 2.05(c) during
the six-month period described in this Section 4.06(d).
(e)
If, and for so long as, the Restrictive Notes Legend on the Notes specified in Section 2.05(c) has not been removed, the Notes
are assigned a restricted CUSIP number or the Notes are not otherwise freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Company’s
Affiliates or Holders that were the Company’s Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding (without restrictions
pursuant to U.S. securities laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes) as of the 385th day after the Last Original Issue
Date, the Company shall pay Additional Interest on the Notes at a rate equal to 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of Notes outstanding
until the Restrictive Notes Legend on the Notes has been removed in accordance with Section 2.05(c), the Notes are assigned an unrestricted
CUSIP number and the Notes are freely tradable pursuant to Rule 144 by Holders other than the Company’s Affiliates (or Holders that
were the Company’s Affiliates at any time during the three months immediately preceding) without restrictions pursuant to U.S. securities
laws or the terms of this Indenture or the Notes; provided, however, that no such Additional Interest shall accrue or be owed until
the fifth Business Day following written notification to the Company (with a copy to the Trustee) by any Holder or Beneficial Owner of
the Notes requesting that the Company comply with its obligations described in this paragraph (which notice may be given at any time after
the 330th day after the Last Original Issue Date), it being understood and agreed that in no event shall such Additional Interest
accrue or be owed for any period prior to the 385th day after the Last Original Issue Date.
(f)
Additional Interest will be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date following accrual in the same manner as regular interest
on the Notes.
(g)
Subject to the immediately succeeding sentence, the Additional Interest that is payable in accordance with Section 4.06(d) or Section
4.06(e) shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any Additional Interest that may be payable as a result of the Company’s election
pursuant to Section 6.03. However, in no event shall Additional Interest payable for the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations
to timely file any document or report that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act, as applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods thereunder and other than reports on Form 8-K), as set
forth in Section 4.06(d), together with any Additional Interest that may accrue at the Company’s election as a result of the Company’s
failure to comply with its reporting obligations pursuant to Section 6.03, accrue at a rate in excess of 0.50% per annum pursuant to this
Indenture, regardless of the number of events or circumstances giving rise to the requirement to pay such Additional Interest.
(h)
If Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06(d) or Section 4.06(e), the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee (copied to the Paying Agent) an Officer’s Certificate to that effect stating (i) the amount of such Additional Interest
that is payable and (ii) the date on which such Additional Interest is payable. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
receives at the Corporate Trust Office such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is
payable and the Trustee shall not have any duty to verify the Company’s calculation of Additional Interest. If the Company has paid
Additional Interest directly to the Persons entitled to it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate setting
forth the particulars of such payment.
Section 4.07.
Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants
(to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take
the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all
or any portion of the principal of or interest on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in
force, or that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby
expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though
no such law had been enacted.
Section 4.08.
Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (beginning with the fiscal year
ending on December 31, 2024) an Officer’s Certificate stating whether the signers thereof have knowledge of any Default or Event
of Default that occurred during the previous year and, if so, specifying each such Default or Event of Default and the nature thereof.
In addition, the Company shall
deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default or Default, an Officer’s Certificate setting
forth the details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and the action that the Company is taking or proposing to take in respect
thereof; provided that the Company shall not be required to deliver such Officer’s Certificate if such Default or Event of
Default has been cured within the applicable grace period (if any) provided for in this Indenture.
Section 4.09.
Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the
Trustee, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper
to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
ARTICLE 5
Lists of Holders and Reports by the Company and the Trustee
Section 5.01.
Lists of Holders. The Company covenants and agrees
that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee not more than fifteen days after each Regular Record Date beginning with
the Regular Record Date on February 1, 2025, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt
by the Company of any such request (or such lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to enable it to timely provide
any notice to be provided by it hereunder), 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 15 days (or such other date as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to so provide any such notices)
prior to the time such information is furnished, except that no such list need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Note Registrar.
Section 5.02.
Preservation and Disclosure of Lists. The Trustee
shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the Holders contained
in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar, if
so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
ARTICLE 6
Defaults and Remedies
Section 6.01.
Events of Default. Each of the following events shall
be an “Event of Default” with respect to the Notes:
(a)
default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, and the default continues for a period of 30 consecutive days,
whether or not prohibited under Article 13;
(b)
default in the payment of principal of any Note when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon Optional Redemption, upon any required
repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise, whether or not prohibited under Article 13;
(c)
failure by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes in accordance with this Indenture upon exercise of a
Holder’s conversion right and such failure continues for three Business Days, whether or not prohibited under Article 13;
(d)
failure by the Company to issue a Fundamental Change Company Notice in accordance with Section 15.02(c), notice of a Make-Whole
Fundamental Change in accordance with Section 14.03(b) or notice of a specified corporate event in accordance with Section 14.01(b)(ii)
or 14.01(b)(iii), in each case when due and such failure continues for five Business Days;
(e)
failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Article 11;
(f)
failure by the Company for 60 days after written notice from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of
the Notes then outstanding has been received by the Company to comply with any of its other agreements contained in the Notes or this
Indenture, whether or not prohibited under Article 13;
(g)
default by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument
under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of
$50,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) in the aggregate of the Company and/or any such Significant Subsidiary, whether such
indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created (i) resulting in such indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior
to its stated maturity date or (ii) constituting a failure to pay the principal of any such indebtedness when due and payable (after the
expiration of all applicable grace periods) at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise,
and in the cases of clauses (i) and (ii), such acceleration shall not have been rescinded or annulled or such failure to pay or default
shall not have been cured or waived, or such indebtedness is not paid or discharged, as the case may be, within 30 days after written
notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes
then outstanding in accordance with this Indenture;
(h)
the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization
or other relief with respect to the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other
similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official
of the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the
appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make
a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due;
(i)
an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary seeking liquidation,
reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency
or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar
official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding
shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(j)
a final judgment or judgments for the payment of $50,000,000 (or its foreign currency equivalent) or more (in each case excluding
any amounts covered by insurance) in the aggregate rendered against the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, which judgment
is not discharged, bonded, paid, waived or stayed within 60 days after (i) the date on which the right to appeal thereof has expired if
no such appeal has commenced, or (ii) the date on which all rights to appeal have been extinguished.
Section 6.02.
Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. If one or
more Events of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i) with respect to the Company (and
not with respect to a Significant Subsidiary)) shall have occurred and be continuing (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), then, and in each and every such case, unless the principal
of all of the Notes shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Notes then outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee
if given by Holders), may declare 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Notes to be due and payable immediately,
and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable, anything contained in this
Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i) with
respect to the Company (and not with respect to a Significant Subsidiary) occurs and is continuing, 100% of the principal of, and accrued
and unpaid interest, if any, on, all Notes shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable.
The immediately preceding
paragraph, however, is subject to the conditions that if, at any time after the principal of the Notes shall have been so declared due
and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided,
and if (1) rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2) any and all existing
Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the nonpayment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on Notes
that shall have become due solely by such acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to Section 6.09, then and in every such
case (except as provided in the immediately succeeding sentence) the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all Defaults or Events of Default with respect to the
Notes and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences and such 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 or rescission and annulment shall
extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent thereon. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary herein, no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any Default or Event of Default resulting
from (i) the nonpayment of the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of,
or accrued and unpaid interest on, any Notes, (ii) a failure to repurchase any Notes when required or (iii) a failure to pay or deliver,
as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes.
Section 6.03.
Additional Interest. Notwithstanding anything in
this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary, to the extent the Company elects, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to
the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) shall, for the first 365 days after the occurrence
of such an Event of Default, consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Notes at a rate equal to (x) 0.25%
per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during the first 180 days during which such Event of Default is
continuing beginning on, and including, the date on which such Event of Default occurs, and (y) 0.50% per annum of the principal amount
of the Notes outstanding from the 181st day to, and including, the 365th day following the occurrence of such Event of Default,
as long as such Event of Default is continuing. Subject to the last paragraph of this Section 6.03, Additional Interest payable pursuant
to this Section 6.03 shall be in addition to, not in lieu of, any Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d) or Section 4.06(e).
If the Company so elects, such Additional Interest shall be payable in the same manner and on the same dates as the stated interest payable
on the Notes. On the 366th day after such Event of Default (if the Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure
to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) is not cured or waived prior to such 366th day), the Notes shall be immediately
subject to acceleration in accordance with Section 6.02. The provisions of this paragraph will not affect the rights of Holders in the
event of the occurrence of any Event of Default other than the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in
Section 4.06(b). In the event the Company does not elect to pay Additional Interest following an Event of Default in accordance with this
Section 6.03 or the Company elected to make such payment but does not pay the Additional Interest when due, the Notes shall be immediately
subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.
In order to elect to pay Additional
Interest as the sole remedy during the first 365 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure
to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) in accordance with the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company must
notify all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent in writing of such election prior to the beginning of such 365-day period.
Upon the failure to timely give such notice, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.
In no event shall Additional
Interest payable at the Company’s election for failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) as set forth
in this Section 6.03, together with any Additional Interest that may accrue as a result of the Company’s failure to timely file
any document or report that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as
applicable (after giving effect to all applicable grace periods under the Exchange Act and other than reports on Form 8-K), pursuant to
Section 4.06(d), accrue at a rate in excess of 0.50% per annum pursuant to this Indenture, regardless of the number of events or circumstances
giving rise to the requirement to pay such Additional Interest. The Trustee shall have no duty to calculate or verify the calculation
of Additional Interest.
Section 6.04.
Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor. If an
Event of Default described in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.01 shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall, upon demand
of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for
principal and interest, if any, with interest on any overdue principal and interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Notes at such time
and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover any amounts due to the Trustee under Section 7.06. If the
Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree
and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable
in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated.
In the event there shall be
pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes under Title 11 of the
United States Code, or any other applicable law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property
of the Company or such other obligor, or in the event of any other judicial proceedings relative to the Company or such other obligor
upon the Notes, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal
of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee
shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.04, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings
or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, in respect
of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and to take such other
actions as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative
to the Company or any other obligor on the Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies
or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of any amounts due to the
Trustee under Section 7.06; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar official
is hereby authorized by each of the Holders to make such payments to the Trustee, as administrative expenses, and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for reasonable compensation,
expenses, advances and disbursements, including agents and counsel fees, and including any other amounts due to the Trustee under Section
7.06, incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of reasonable compensation, expenses, advances
and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a
lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies, securities and other property that the Holders of the
Notes may be entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
Nothing herein contained shall
be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition affecting such Holder or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of
the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
All rights of action and of
asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the
Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment
of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit
of the Holders of the Notes.
In any proceedings brought
by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a
party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of the Notes
parties to any such proceedings.
In case the Trustee shall
have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of any
waiver pursuant to Section 6.09 or any rescission and annulment pursuant to Section 6.02 or for any other reason or shall have been determined
adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall, subject to any determination in
such proceeding, be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the
Company, the Holders and the Trustee shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 6.05.
Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies
or property collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 6 with respect to the Notes shall be applied in the following order, at
the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies, upon presentation of the several Notes, and stamping thereon
the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof, if fully paid:
First, to the payment
of all amounts due the Trustee (in each of its capacities under this Indenture) hereunder;
Second, in case the
principal of the outstanding Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of interest on, and any cash due upon conversion
of, the Notes in default in the order of the date due of the payments of such interest and cash due upon conversion, as the case may be,
with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) upon such overdue payments at the rate borne by the
Notes at such time, such payments to be made ratably to the Persons entitled thereto;
Third, in case the
principal of the outstanding Notes shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid to the payment of the whole amount
(including, if applicable, the payment of the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion)
then owing and unpaid upon the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest on the overdue principal and, to the extent that
such interest has been collected by the Trustee, upon overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and
in case such monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and unpaid upon the Notes, then to the payment of such
principal (including, if applicable, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion)
and interest without preference or priority of principal over interest, or of interest over principal or of any installment of interest
over any other installment of interest, or of any Note over any other Note, ratably to the aggregate of such principal (including, if
applicable, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) and accrued and unpaid
interest; and
Fourth, to the payment
of the remainder, if any, to the Company.
Section 6.06.
Proceedings by Holders. Except to enforce the right
to receive payment of principal (including, if applicable, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) or interest
when due, or the right to receive payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, no Holder of any Note shall have any right
by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture or the Notes to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at
law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian or other similar
official, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(a)
such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as
herein provided;
(b)
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee
to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(c)
such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee such security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against any losses, liabilities,
costs, or expenses;
(d)
the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such written notice, request and offer of such security or indemnity, shall have neglected
or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding; and
(e)
no direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee
by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding within such 60-day period pursuant to Section
6.09,
it being understood and intended, and being expressly
covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Note with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee that no one or more Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights
of any other Holder, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder (it being understood that the
Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances are unduly prejudicial to such Holder),
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all
Holders (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section 6.06, each and every Holder and the
Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note, each Holder shall have the right to institute suit for the enforcement of its
right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of (x) the principal (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, (y) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and (z) the consideration due upon conversion of, such
Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in such Note or in this Indenture, or to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment or delivery, as the case may be.
Section 6.07.
Proceedings by Trustee. In case of an Event of Default,
the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial
proceedings as are necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding
in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of
the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture
or by law.
Section 6.08.
Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. Except as provided
in the last paragraph of Section 2.06, all powers and remedies given by this Article 6 to the Trustee or to the Holders shall, to the
extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee
or the Holders of the Notes, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements
contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any of the Notes to exercise any right or power
accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default
or Event of Default or any acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.06, every power and remedy given by this
Article 6 or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by
the Trustee or by the Holders.
Section 6.09.
Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority
of Holders. Subject to the Trustee’s right to receive security or indemnity from the relevant Holders as described herein,
the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section
8.04 shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Notes; provided, however, that (a) such direction shall
not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and (b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
that is not inconsistent with such direction. The Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that it determines is unduly prejudicial
to the rights of any other Holder (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not
such directions are unduly prejudicial to such Holder) or that would involve the Trustee in personal liability or that conflicts with
applicable law or this Indenture.
The Holders of a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 may on behalf of the Holders
of all of the Notes (x) waive any past Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except any continuing defaults relating
to (i) a default in the payment of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the principal (including any Redemption Price and any Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price) of, the Notes when due that has not been cured pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, (ii) a failure by
the Company to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes or (iii) a default in respect of
a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 10 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding
Note affected; and (y) rescind any resulting acceleration of the Notes and its consequences if (i) such rescission would not conflict
with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (ii) all existing Events of Default (other than nonpayment of the
principal of, and interest on, the Notes that have become due solely by such acceleration) have been cured or waived. Upon any such waiver
the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any Default or Event
of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 6.09, said Default or Event of Default shall for all purposes
of the Notes and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent
or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 6.10.
Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall, within 90
days after a Responsible Officer obtains actual knowledge of the occurrence and continuance of a Default, deliver to all Holders notice
of all Defaults known to a Responsible Officer, unless such Defaults shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice;
provided that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of (including the Redemption Price and the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price, if applicable), or accrued and unpaid interest on, any of the Notes or a Default in the payment or delivery of
the consideration due upon conversion, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer
determines in good faith that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders.
Section 6.11.
Undertaking to Pay Costs. All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Holder of any Note by its acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in its discretion, require,
in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or
omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such
court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant
in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided that
the provisions of this Section 6.11 (to the extent permitted by law) shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit
instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding
determined in accordance with Section 8.04, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal
of or accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on any Note (including, but not limited to, the Redemption Price and the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price, if applicable) on or after the due date expressed or provided for in such Note or to any suit for the enforcement of
the right to convert any Note, or receive the consideration due upon conversion, in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.
ARTICLE 7
Concerning the Trustee
Section 7.01.
Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee. The Trustee,
prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiver of all Events of Default that may have occurred, undertakes
to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. In the event an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of
care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s
own affairs; provided that if an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers under this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holders have offered, and
if requested, provided, to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability, cost or expense
that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
No provision of this Indenture
shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own gross negligence or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(a)
prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has written or actual knowledge and
after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default that may have occurred:
(i)
the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee
shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii)
in the absence of gross negligence and willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to
the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the
Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provisions
hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether
or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of any mathematical calculations
or other facts stated therein); provided, however, that the Trustee need not act or refrain from acting based on any certificate
or opinion that it determines to be not in conformity with the requirements of this Indenture. If presented with a non-conforming certificate
or opinion, the Trustee may request the delivering party to re-issue the certificate or opinion in the manner required by this Indenture
before taking any action;
(b)
the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee,
unless it shall be proved in a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision that the Trustee was grossly negligent
in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(c)
the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with
the written direction of the Holders of not less than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding
determined as provided in Section 8.04 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to
the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture;
(d)
whether or not therein provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of, or affording
protection to, the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 7.01;
(e)
the Trustee shall not be liable in respect of any payment (as to the correctness of amount, entitlement to receive or any other
matters relating to payment) or notice effected by the Company or any Paying Agent or any records maintained by any co-Note Registrar
with respect to the Notes;
(f)
if any party fails to deliver a notice relating to an event the fact of which, pursuant to this Indenture, requires notice to be
sent to the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely on its failure to receive such notice as reason to act as if no such event occurred,
unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee had actual knowledge of such event;
(g)
in the absence of written investment direction from the Company, all cash received by the Trustee shall be placed in a non-interest
bearing trust account, and in no event shall the Trustee be liable for the selection of investments or for investment losses incurred
thereon or for losses incurred as a result of the liquidation of any such investment prior to its maturity date or the failure of the
party directing such investments prior to its maturity date or the failure of the party directing such investment to provide timely written
investment direction, and the Trustee shall have no obligation to invest or reinvest any amounts held hereunder in the absence of such
written investment direction from the Company;
(h)
under no circumstances shall the Trustee be liable in its individual capacity for the obligations evidenced by the Notes; and
(i)
in the event that the Trustee is also acting as Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent,
transfer agent, or any other agent hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article 7 shall also
be afforded to such Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent, transfer agent, or any other agent
hereunder.
None of the provisions contained
in this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance
of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.
Section 7.02.
Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc. Except as otherwise
provided in Section 7.01:
(a)
the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon or other paper or document believed
by it in good faith to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b)
any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate
(unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any Board Resolution may be evidenced to the Trustee
by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;
(c)
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 gross negligence or willful misconduct on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officer’s Certificate;
(d)
the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and require an Opinion of Counsel and any advice of such counsel or Opinion
of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith
and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(e)
the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee,
in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall
determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company,
personally or by agent or attorney at the expense of the Company and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or
investigation;
(f)
the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents, custodians, nominees or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any
agent, custodian, nominee or attorney appointed by it with due care hereunder;
(g)
the permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties;
(h)
the Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the names of the individuals and/or
titles of officers authorized at such times to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officer’s Certificate may
be signed by any Person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate, including any Person specified as so authorized in any such
certificate previously delivered and not superseded;
(i)
the Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it reasonably believes
to be authorized or within its rights or powers;
(j)
the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of its powers and duties hereunder; and
(k)
neither the Trustee nor any of its directors, officers, employees, agents, or affiliates shall be responsible for nor have any
duty to monitor the performance or any action of the Company, or any of their respective directors, members, officers, agents, affiliates,
or employees, nor shall it have any liability in connection with the malfeasance or nonfeasance by such party. The Trustee shall not be
responsible for any inaccuracy or omission in the information obtained from the Company or for any inaccuracy or omission in the records
which may result from such information or any failure by the Trustee to perform its duties or set forth herein as a result of any inaccuracy
or incompleteness.
In no event shall the Trustee
be liable for any special, indirect, 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. The Trustee
shall not be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes, unless either (1) a Responsible Officer
shall have actual knowledge of such Default or Event of Default or (2) written notice of such Default or Event of Default shall have been
given to the Trustee and actually received by a Responsible Officer at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee by the Company or by
any Holder or any agent of any Holder, referencing this Indenture and/or of the Notes and stating that it is a “notice of default.”
Section 7.03.
No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc. The recitals
contained herein and in the Notes (except in the Trustee’s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the
Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity,
enforceability or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of any Notes or the proceeds of any Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture or any money paid to the Company or upon the Company’s direction under any provision of this Indenture. The Trustee shall
have no responsibility or liability with respect to any information, statement or recital in the Offering Memorandum or other disclosure
material prepared or distributed with respect to the issuance of the Notes.
Section 7.04.
Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents, Bid Solicitation
Agent or Note Registrar May Own Notes. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent (if other than
the Company or any Affiliate thereof) or Note Registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes
with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Bid Solicitation Agent or Note Registrar.
Section 7.05.
Monies and Shares of Common Stock to Be Held in Trust.
All monies and shares of Common Stock received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the
purposes for which they were received. Money and shares of Common Stock held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated
from other funds or property except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money or
shares of Common Stock received by it hereunder except as may be agreed from time to time by the Company and the Trustee. The Trustee
shall not be obligated to take possession of any Common Stock, whether on conversion or in connection with any discharge of this Indenture
pursuant to Article 3 hereof, but shall satisfy its obligation as Conversion Agent by working through the stock transfer agent of the
Company from time to time as directed by the Company.
Section 7.06.
Compensation and Expenses of Trustee. The Company
covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee, in any capacity under this Indenture, from time to time and the Trustee shall receive such
compensation agreed in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all services rendered by it hereunder in any capacity (which shall
not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) as mutually agreed to in writing
between the Trustee and the Company, and the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances reasonably incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture in any capacity thereunder
(including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel and of all Persons not regularly in
its employ and including reasonable attorneys’ fees in connection with its enforcement of its rights to indemnity herein) except
any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall have been caused by its gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a
final, non-appealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee or any predecessor
Trustee in any capacity under this Indenture and any other document or transaction entered into in connection herewith and its officers,
directors, attorneys, employees and agents and any authenticating agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, claim (whether
asserted by the Company, a Holder or any other Person), damage, liability or expense (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) incurred
without gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, its officers, directors, agents or employees, or such agent
or authenticating agent, as the case may be determined by a final, non-appealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction, and arising
out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or in any other capacity hereunder, including the costs
and expenses of defending themselves against any claim of liability in the premises and enforcement of this Section 7.06. The obligations
of the Company under this Section 7.06 to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses, disbursements
and advances shall be secured by a senior lien to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected
by the Trustee, except, subject to the effect of Section 6.05, funds held in trust herewith for the benefit of the Holders of particular
Notes, and, for the avoidance of doubt, such lien shall not be extended in a manner that would conflict with the Company’s obligations
to its other creditors. The Trustee’s right to receive payment of any amounts due under this Section 7.06 shall not be subordinate
to any other liability or indebtedness of the Company. The obligation of the Company under this Section 7.06 shall survive the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture, the payment of the Notes, and the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee. The Company need not
pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The indemnification provided in this
Section 7.06 shall extend to the officers, directors, agents and employees of the Trustee.
Without prejudice to any other
rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when the Trustee and its agents and any authenticating agent incur expenses or render
services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services
are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.
Section 7.07.
Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as Evidence.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem
it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless
other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on
the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel
delivered to the Trustee, and such Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct
on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture
upon the faith thereof.
Section 7.08.
Eligibility of Trustee. There shall at all times
be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act (as if the Trust Indenture Act were
applicable hereto) to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least the minimum amount required by the Trust Indenture
Act. If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section 7.08, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined
capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section 7.08, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified
in this Article.
Section 7.09.
Resignation or Removal of Trustee. (a) The Trustee
may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company and by delivering notice thereof to the Holders. Upon
receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed
by an Officer of the Company, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee.
If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 45 days after the giving of such notice of resignation
to the Holders, the resigning Trustee may, at the expense of the Company, upon ten Business Days’ notice to the Company and the
Holders, petition any court of competent jurisdiction, for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Holder who has been a bona fide
holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture) may, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11,
on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee.
Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(b)
In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i)
the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.08 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
(ii)
the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of
its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in either case, the Company may by an Officer’s
Certificate remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by an Officer’s Certificate,
one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions
of Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture)
may, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of
the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and
prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
(c)
The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, as determined in accordance with
Section 8.04, may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee that shall be deemed appointed as successor trustee
unless within ten days after notice to the Company of such nomination the Company objects thereto, in which case the Trustee so removed
or any Holder, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in Section 7.09(a) provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction
for an appointment of a successor trustee.
(d)
Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section
7.09 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 7.10.
Section 7.10.
Acceptance by Successor Trustee. Any successor trustee
appointed as provided in Section 7.09 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and such
successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations
of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request of
the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions
of Section 7.06, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so
ceasing to act. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully
and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless,
retain a senior lien to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by such trustee as such,
except for funds held in trust for the benefit of Holders of particular Notes, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions
of Section 7.06.
No successor trustee shall
accept appointment as provided in this Section 7.10 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible under
the provisions of Section 7.08.
Upon acceptance of appointment
by a successor trustee as provided in this Section 7.10, each of the Company and the successor trustee, at the written direction and at
the expense of the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder to the Holders. If
the Company fails to deliver such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee
shall cause such notice to be delivered at the expense of the Company.
No resigning Trustee shall
be responsible or liable for the actions or inactions of any successor Trustee.
Section 7.11.
Succession by Merger, Etc. Any corporation or other
entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to all
or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including the administration of this Indenture), shall be the successor
to the Trustee hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided
that in the case of any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee
such corporation or other entity shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.
In case at the time such successor
to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered,
any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent appointed
by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated,
any successor to the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by such successor trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the
name of any predecessor trustee hereunder or in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have
the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided,
however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name
of any predecessor trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
Section 7.12.
Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company.
Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company (other than with regard to any action proposed to be taken or
omitted to be taken by the Trustee that affects the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture) may, at the option of the
Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after
which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable to the Company for any action taken
by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application
(which date shall not be less than three Business Days after the date notice to the Company has been deemed given pursuant to Section
17.03, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date), unless, prior to taking any such action (or the effective
date in the case of any omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in accordance with this Indenture in response
to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.
ARTICLE 8
Concerning the Holders
Section 8.01.
Action by Holders. Whenever in this Indenture it
is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes may take any action (including the
making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that at the
time of taking any such action, the Holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or
any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the record
of the Holders voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article 9,
or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders. Whenever the Company or the
Trustee solicits the taking of any action by the Holders of the Notes, the Company or the Trustee may, but shall not be required to, fix
in advance of such solicitation, a date as the record date for determining Holders entitled to take such action. The record date if one
is selected shall be not more than fifteen days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of such action.
Section 8.02.
Proof of Execution by Holders. Subject to the provisions
of Section 7.01, Section 7.02 and Section 9.05, proof of the execution of any instrument or writing by a Holder or its agent or proxy
shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner
as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register or by a certificate of the Note Registrar.
The record of any Holders’ meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 9.06.
Section 8.03.
Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners. The Company, the
Trustee, any authenticating agent, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent and any Note Registrar may deem the Person in whose name a Note
shall be registered upon the Note Register to be, and may treat it as, the absolute owner of such Note (whether or not such Note shall
be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon made by any Person other than the Company or any Note
Registrar) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal (including any Redemption Price and any Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price) of and (subject to Section 2.03) accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, for conversion of such Note and for
all other purposes under this Indenture; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Paying Agent nor any Conversion Agent nor any
Note Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. The sole registered holder of a Global Note shall be the Depositary or
its nominee. All such payments or deliveries so made to any Holder for the time being, or upon its order, shall be valid, and, to the
extent of the sums or shares of Common Stock so paid or delivered, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies payable
or shares deliverable upon any such Note. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture or the Notes following an Event of
Default, any holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may directly enforce against the Company, without the consent, solicitation,
proxy, authorization or any other action of the Depositary or any other Person, such holder’s right to exchange such beneficial
interest for a Note in certificated form in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 8.04.
Company-Owned Notes Disregarded. In determining whether
the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under
this Indenture, Notes that are owned by the Company, by any Subsidiary thereof or by any Affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary thereof
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of any such determination; provided that for the purposes
of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent, waiver or other action only Notes that
a Responsible Officer knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded
as outstanding for the purposes of this Section 8.04 if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s
right to so act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company, a Subsidiary thereof or an Affiliate of the Company
or a Subsidiary thereof. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall
be full protection to the Trustee. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer’s Certificate
listing and identifying all Notes, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above described
Persons; and, subject to Section 7.01, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officer’s Certificate as conclusive evidence
of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Notes not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
Section 8.05.
Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound. At
any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 8.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders
of the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder
of a Note that is shown by the evidence to be included in the Notes the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing
written notice with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 8.02, revoke such action
so far as concerns such Note. Except as aforesaid, any such action taken by the Holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding upon
such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Note and of any Notes issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration
of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Note or any Note issued in exchange or substitution
therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof.
ARTICLE 9
Holders’ Meetings
Section 9.01.
Purpose of Meetings. A meeting of Holders may be
called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article 9 for any of the following purposes:
(a)
to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee or to give any directions to the Trustee permitted under this Indenture, or
to consent to the waiving of any Default or Event of Default hereunder (in each case, as permitted under this Indenture) and its consequences,
or to take any other action authorized to be taken by Holders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article 6;
(b)
to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant to the provisions of Article 7;
(c)
to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.02; or
(d)
to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of the Holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of the
Notes under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.
Section 9.02.
Call of Meetings by Trustee. The Trustee may at any
time call a meeting of Holders to take any action specified in Section 9.01, to be held at such time and at such place as the Trustee
shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Holders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the
action proposed to be taken at such meeting and the establishment of any record date pursuant to Section 8.01, shall be delivered to Holders
of such Notes. Such notice shall also be delivered to the Company. Such notices shall be delivered not less than 20 nor more than 90 days
prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
Any meeting of Holders shall
be valid without notice if the Holders of all Notes then outstanding are present in person or by proxy or if notice is waived before or
after the meeting by the Holders of all Notes then outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly authorized
representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.
Section 9.03.
Call of Meetings by Company or Holders. In case at
any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Holders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the
action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have delivered the notice of such meeting within 20 days after receipt
of such request, then the Company or such Holders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting to take
any action authorized in Section 9.01, by delivering notice thereof as provided in Section 9.02.
Section 9.04.
Qualifications for Voting. To be entitled to vote
at any meeting of Holders a Person shall (a) be a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting or (b) be
a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting.
The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such
meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
Section 9.05.
Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provisions
of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders, in regard to
proof of the holding of Notes and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the
submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct
of the meeting as it shall think fit.
The Trustee shall, by an instrument
in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by Holders as provided
in Section 9.03, in which case the Company or the Holders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary
chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding Notes represented at the meeting and entitled to vote at the meeting.
Subject to the provisions
of Section 8.04, at any meeting of Holders each Holder or proxyholder shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of
Notes held or represented by him or her; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of
any Note challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall
have no right to vote other than by virtue of Notes held by it or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating it as the proxy
to vote on behalf of other Holders. Any meeting of Holders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02 or Section 9.03 may
be adjourned from time to time by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented at the meeting, whether
or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
Section 9.06.
Voting. The vote upon any resolution submitted to
any meeting of Holders shall be by written ballot on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders or of their representatives
by proxy and the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting
shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and
file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate
of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record
the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge
of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was delivered as provided in Section 9.02.
The record shall show the aggregate principal amount of the Notes voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be signed
and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to
the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the
meeting.
Any record so signed and verified
shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.
Section 9.07.
No Delay of Rights by Meeting. Nothing contained
in this Article 9 shall be deemed or construed to authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of Holders or any rights expressly
or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or reserved
to the Trustee or to the Holders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the Notes.
ARTICLE 10
Supplemental Indentures
Section 10.01.
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
The Company and the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, may from time to time and at any time amend or enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto for one or more of the following purposes to:
(a)
cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency in this Indenture;
(b)
provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture pursuant to Article 11;
(c)
add guarantees with respect to the Notes;
(d)
secure the Notes;
(e)
add to the covenants or Events of Default of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred
upon the Company under this Indenture;
(f)
make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any material respect;
(g)
increase the Conversion Rate as provided herein;
(h)
provide for the acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee or facilitate the administration of the trusts under this Indenture
by more than one trustee;
(i)
in connection with any Merger Event, provide that the notes are convertible into Reference Property, subject to the provisions
of Section 14.02, and make such related changes to the terms of the Notes to the extent expressly required by Section 14.07;
(j)
comply with the rules of any applicable Depositary, including The Depository Trust Company, so long as such amendment does not
materially and adversely affect the rights of any Holder;
(k)
conform the provisions of this Indenture or the Notes to the “Description of notes” section of the Offering Memorandum;
(l)
comply with any requirement of the Commission in connection with any qualification of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture
under the Trust Indenture Act; or
(m)
provide for the issuance of additional Notes in accordance with this Indenture.
Upon the written request of
the Company, the Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution of any such amendment or supplemental indenture
and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be obligated
to, but may in its discretion, enter into any supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities
under this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture
authorized by the provisions of this Section 10.01 may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of
any of the Notes at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 10.02.
Section 10.02.
Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Holders of at least a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding (determined in accordance with Article 8 and including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a repurchase
of, or tender or exchange offer for, Notes), the Company and the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, may from time to time and at
any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner
or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Notes or any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights
of the Holders; provided, however, that, without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected, no such supplemental
indenture shall:
(a)
reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment;
(b)
reduce the rate of or extend the stated time for payment of interest on any Note;
(c)
reduce the principal of or extend the Maturity Date of any Note;
(d)
make any change that adversely affects the conversion rights of any Notes;
(e)
reduce the Redemption Price or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of any Note or amend or modify in any manner adverse to
the Holders the Company’s obligation to make such payments, whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in the covenants,
definitions or otherwise;
(f)
make any Note payable in a currency, or at a place of payment, other than that stated in the Note;
(g)
change the ranking of the Notes;
(h)
impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal and interest on such Holder’s Note on or after the due dates
therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such Holder’s Notes;
(i)
irrevocably elect a Cash Percentage or eliminate the Company’s right to elect a Cash Percentage as permitted by the provisions
described under Section 14.02(a)(iii) or
(j)
make any change in this Article 10 that requires each Holder’s consent or in the waiver provisions in Section 6.02 or Section
6.09.
Upon the written request of
the Company, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of requisite Holders as aforesaid and subject to Section
10.05, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects
the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion,
but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture.
Holders do not need under
this Section 10.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture. It shall be sufficient if such Holders approve
the substance thereof. After any such supplemental indenture becomes effective, the Company shall deliver to the Holders a notice (with
a copy to the Trustee) briefly describing such supplemental indenture. However, the failure to give such notice to all the Holders (with
a copy to the Trustee), or any defect in the notice, will not impair or affect the validity of the supplemental indenture.
Section 10.03.
Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution
of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and
amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture
of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to
such modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part
of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 10.04.
Notation on Notes. Notes authenticated and delivered
after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10 may, at the Company’s expense, bear
a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Trustee
shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any modification of this Indenture
contained in any such supplemental indenture may, at the Company’s expense, be prepared and executed by the Company, authenticated
by the Trustee (or an authenticating agent duly appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 17.10) and delivered in exchange for the
Notes then outstanding, upon surrender of such Notes then outstanding.
Section 10.05.
Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished
Trustee. In addition to the documents required by Section 17.05, the Trustee shall receive an Officer’s Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this
Article 10 and is permitted or authorized by this Indenture; such Opinion of Counsel shall include a customary legal opinion stating that
such supplemental indenture is the valid and binding obligation of the Company, subject to customary exceptions and qualifications. The
Trustee shall have no responsibility for determining whether any amendment or supplemental indenture will or may have an adverse effect
on any Holder.
ARTICLE 11
Consolidation, Merger, Sale, Conveyance and Lease
Section 11.01.
Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms.
Subject to the provisions of Section 11.02, the Company shall not consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease
all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to another Person
unless:
(a)
the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”), if not the Company, shall be a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and the Successor
Company (if not the Company) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture all of the obligations of the Company under the Notes and
this Indenture; and
(b)
immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under
this Indenture; and
(c)
if, upon the occurrence of any such transaction, (x) the Notes would become convertible into securities issued by an issuer other
than the resulting, surviving, transferee or successor corporation, and (y) such resulting, surviving, transferee or successor corporation
is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the issuer of such securities into which the Notes have become convertible, such other issuer shall fully
and unconditionally guarantee on a senior basis the resulting, surviving, transferee or successor corporation’s obligations under
the Notes.
For purposes of this Section
11.01, the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of
the Company to another Person, which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all
or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the sale, conveyance,
transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to another Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
this Article 11 shall not apply to any sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of assets between or among the Company and its direct or indirect
Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and, in such an event, the Company shall not be discharged from its obligations under the Notes and this Indenture.
Section 11.02.
Successor Corporation to Be Substituted. In case
of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and upon the assumption by the Successor Company, by supplemental
indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal
of and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the Notes, the due and punctual delivery or payment, as the case may be, of any consideration
due upon conversion of the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed
by the Company, such Successor Company (if not the Company) shall succeed to and, except in the case of a lease of all or substantially
all of the Company’s properties and assets, shall be substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein
as the party of the first part, and may thereafter exercise every right and power of the Company under this Indenture. Such Successor
Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Notes issuable
hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Successor
Company instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall
authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Notes that previously shall have been signed and delivered
by the Officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Notes that such Successor Company thereafter shall cause to
be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Notes so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit
under this Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such
Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In the event of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or transfer
(but not in the case of a lease), upon compliance with this Article 11 the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph
of this Indenture (or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article 11) may be dissolved,
wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person shall be released from its liabilities
as obligor and maker of the Notes and from its obligations under this Indenture and the Notes.
In case of any such consolidation,
merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter
to be issued as may be appropriate.
ARTICLE 12
Immunity of Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors
Section 12.01.
Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations.
No recourse for the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest on any Note, nor for any claim based thereon or otherwise
in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental
indenture or in any Note, nor because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator,
stockholder, employee, agent, Officer or director or Subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor
corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule
of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby
expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of the Notes.
ARTICLE 13
Subordination
Section 13.01.
Agreement To Subordinate. The Company covenants and
agrees, and each Holder of a Note, by its acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter
set forth in this Article 13, any payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes, including any Fundamental Change Repurchase
Price, Redemption Price or amounts due upon acceleration of the Notes, or any payment or delivery (in cash, Common Stock or otherwise)
due in connection with a conversion of the Notes (any such obligation, a “Note Obligation”), is hereby expressly made
subordinate and postponed to and subject in right of payment as provided in this Article 13 to the prior payment in full of all Other
Redemption Payments. Other than set forth in the immediately preceding sentence, the Notes shall in all respects rank pari passu
with all current and future senior indebtedness and senior to all existing and future subordinated indebtedness of the Company, and only
Other Redemption Payments shall rank senior to the Notes in accordance with the provisions set forth herein. All provisions of this Article
13 shall be subject to Section 13.05.
Section 13.02.
Liquidation, Dissolution, Bankruptcy. In the event
of (a) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding, or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or proceeding
in connection therewith, relative to the Company or to its assets, whether voluntary or involuntary from any source, (b) any liquidation,
dissolution or other winding-up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy,
or (c) any assignment for the benefit of creditors or any other marshaling of assets or liabilities of the Company, then and in any such
event:
(a)
Persons to whom Other Redemption Payments are due shall receive payment in full in of all amounts due on or in respect of all Other
Redemption Payments before the Holders of the Notes are entitled to receive any payment or distribution of any kind or character from
any source on account of the Note Obligations or on account of the purchase or redemption or other acquisition of Notes by the Company;
and
(b)
any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character from any source, whether in cash, property or securities,
other assets, including by way of set-off or enforcement of any guarantee or otherwise, which the Trustee or the Holders would be entitled
to receive but for the provisions of this Article shall be paid by the liquidating trustee or agent or other person making such payment
or distribution, whether a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver or liquidating trustee or otherwise, directly to Persons to whom Other Redemption
Payments are due ratably according to the aggregate amounts remaining unpaid on account of the Other Redemption Payments held or represented
by each, to the extent necessary to make payment in full of all Other Redemption Payments remaining unpaid, after giving effect to any
concurrent payment or distribution; and
(c)
any taxes that have been withheld or deducted from any payment or distribution in respect of the Notes, or any taxes that ought
to have been withheld or deducted from any such payment or distribution that have been remitted to the relevant taxing authority, shall
not be considered to be an amount that a Holder or the Trustee is entitled to receive for the purposes of this Article 13.
The consolidation of the Company
with, or the merger of the Company into, another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the conveyance, transfer,
lease or other disposal of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to another Person upon the terms and conditions set
forth in Article 11 shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up, liquidation, reorganization, assignment for the benefit of creditors
or marshaling of assets and liabilities of the Company for the purposes of this Section if the Person formed by such consolidation or
into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires such assets substantially as an entirety, as the case may be, shall, as
a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposal, complies with the conditions set forth in Article 11.
Section 13.03.
Default on Other Redemption Payments.
(a)
If Other Redemption Payments are due and payable, the Company may not make any payment or distribution to the Trustee or any Holder
in respect of Note Obligations with respect to the Notes and may not acquire from the Trustee or any Holder any Notes for cash or property
until all Other Redemption Payments have been paid in full.
(b)
The Company may and shall resume payments on and distributions in respect of the Notes and may acquire them after all Other Redemption
Payments that are due and payable have been paid in full.
Section 13.04.
When Distributions Must Be Paid Over.
In the event that the Trustee
or any Holder receives any payment of any Note Obligations with respect to the Notes at a time when the Trustee or such Holder, as applicable,
has actual knowledge that such payment is prohibited by this Article 13, such payment will be held by the Trustee or such Holder, in trust
for the benefit of, and will be paid forthwith over and delivered, upon written request of the Company, to, the holders of the Series
A Preferred Stock as their interests may appear under the Certificate of Designations (or as the Company specifies in an Officer’s
Certificate to the Trustee), for application to the payment of all Other Redemption Payments remaining unpaid to the extent necessary
to pay such Other Redemption Payments in full in accordance with their terms.
With respect to the holders
of Series A Preferred Stock, the Trustee undertakes to perform only those obligations on the part of the Trustee as are specifically set
forth in this Article 13, and no implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock will be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee will not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of the Series A
Preferred Stock, and will not be liable to any such holders if the Trustee pays over or distributes to or on behalf of Holders or the
Company or any other Person money or assets to which any holders of Series A Preferred Stock are then entitled by virtue of this Article
13, except if such payment is made as a result of the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the Trustee.
Section 13.05.
Notice by the Company.
The Company will promptly
notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent of any facts known to the Company that would cause a payment of any Note Obligations with respect
to the Notes to violate this Article 13, but failure to give such notice will not affect the subordination of the Notes to the Other Redemption
Payments when due as provided in this Article 13.
Section 13.06.
Subrogation.
After all Other Redemption
Payments are paid in full and until the Notes are paid in full, Holders of Notes will be subrogated (equally and ratably with all other
Indebtedness pari passu with the Notes) to the rights of holders of Series A Preferred Stock to receive distributions applicable
to Other Redemption Payments to the extent that distributions otherwise payable to the Holders of Notes have been applied to the payment
of Other Redemption Payments. A distribution made under this Article 13 to holders of Series A Preferred Stock that otherwise would have
been made to Holders of Notes is not, as between the Company and Holders, a payment by the Company on the Notes.
Section 13.07.
Relative Rights. This Article 13 defines the relative
rights of Holders and Persons to whom Other Redemption Payments are due. Nothing in this Indenture shall:
(a)
impair, as between the Company and Holders, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay principal
of, premium, if any, and interest on, and consideration due upon conversion of, the Notes in accordance with their terms; or
(b)
affect the relative rights against the Company of Holders and creditors of the Company other than the Persons to whom Other Redemption
Payments are due; or
(c)
prevent the Trustee or any Holder from exercising its available remedies upon a Default or an Event of Default, subject to the
rights of Persons to whom Other Redemption Payments are due to receive distributions otherwise payable to Holders.
Section 13.08.
Article 13 Not To Prevent Events of Default or Limit Right
To Accelerate. The failure to make a payment pursuant to the Notes by reason of any provision in this Article 13 shall not be construed
as preventing the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default. Nothing in this Article 13 shall have any effect on the right of the
Holders or the Trustee to accelerate the maturity of the Notes in the circumstances described in Article 6.
Section 13.09.
Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent.
Notwithstanding the provisions
of this Article 13 or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee, Paying Agent and Conversion Agent will not be charged with knowledge
of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment or distribution by the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Conversion
Agent and the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent may continue to make payments on the Notes, unless the Trustee has received
prior to the payment written notice of facts that would cause the payment of any Note Obligations with respect to the Notes to violate
this Article 13. Only the Company may give the notice. Nothing in this Article 13 will impair the claims of, or payments to, the Trustee
in any of its capacities under or pursuant to Section 7.06 hereof.
Section 13.10.
Authorization to Effect Subordination.
Each Holder of Notes, by the
Holder’s acceptance thereof, authorizes and directs the Trustee on such Holder’s behalf to take such action as may be requested
by the Company to effectuate the subordination as provided in this Article 13, and appoints the Trustee to act as such Holder’s
attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
Section 13.11.
Trust Moneys Not Subordinated. Notwithstanding anything
contained herein to the contrary, payments from money or the proceeds of Common Stock held in trust under Section 7.05 or Section 3.01
by the Trustee and which were deposited not in violation of this Article 13 for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes
shall not be subordinated to the prior payment of any Other Redemption Payments or subject to the restrictions set forth in this Article
13, and none of the Holders shall be obligated to pay over any such amount to the Company or any Persons to whom Other Redemption Payments
are due or any other creditor of the Company.
Section 13.12.
Term of Subordination. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary in this Indenture, this Article 13 shall be void and shall cease to have any force or effect upon the filing by the Company
of a certificate of elimination of the Series A Preferred Stock with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, which filing is
expected to occur on or about the date hereof.
ARTICLE 14
Conversion of Notes
Section 14.01.
Conversion Privilege. (a) Subject to and upon compliance
with the provisions of this Article 14, each Holder of a Note shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert all or any
portion (if the portion to be converted is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) of such Note (i) subject to satisfaction
of the conditions described in Section 14.01(b), at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding
May 15, 2029 under the circumstances and during the periods set forth in Section 14.01(b), and (ii) regardless of the conditions described
in Section 14.01(b), on or after May 15, 2029 and prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding
the Maturity Date, in each case, at an initial conversion rate of 84.5934 shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment as provided in
this Article 14, the “Conversion Rate”) per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (subject to, and in accordance with, the
settlement provisions of Section 14.02, the “Conversion Obligation”).
(b)
(i) Prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding May 15, 2029, a Holder may surrender all or any portion
of its Notes for conversion at any time during the five Business Day period immediately after any ten consecutive Trading Day period (the
“Measurement Period”) in which the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes, as determined following a request
by a Holder in accordance with this subsection (b)(i), for each Trading Day of the Measurement Period was less than 98% of the product
of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on each such Trading Day and the Conversion Rate on each such Trading Day. The Trading
Prices shall be determined by the Bid Solicitation Agent pursuant to this subsection (b)(i) and the definition of Trading Price set forth
in this Indenture. The Bid Solicitation Agent (if other than the Company) shall have no obligation to determine the Trading Price per
$1,000 principal amount of Notes unless the Company has requested such determination in writing and has provided the Bid Solicitation
Agent with the names and contact information of the three independent nationally recognized securities dealers the Company has selected
for this purpose, and the Company shall have no obligation to make such request (or, if the Company is acting as Bid Solicitation Agent,
the Company shall have no obligation to determine the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes) unless a Holder of at least
$2,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes provides the Company with reasonable evidence that the Trading Price per $1,000 principal
amount of Notes on any Trading Day would be less than 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on such Trading
Day and the Conversion Rate on such Trading Day, at which time the Company shall instruct the Bid Solicitation Agent (if other than the
Company) to determine, or if the Company is acting as Bid Solicitation Agent, the Company shall determine (in each case, by instructing
three independent nationally recognized securities dealers to deliver bids to the Bid Solicitation Agent pursuant to the definition of
“Trading Price”), the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes beginning on the next Trading Day and on each
successive Trading Day until the Trading Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes is greater than or equal to 98% of the product of
the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock and the Conversion Rate. If (x) the Company is not acting as Bid Solicitation Agent,
and the Company does not, when the Company is required to, instruct the Bid Solicitation Agent to determine the Trading Price per $1,000
principal amount of Notes when obligated as provided in the preceding sentence, or if the Company instructs the Bid Solicitation Agent
to obtain bids and the Bid Solicitation Agent fails to make such determination, or (y) the Company is acting as Bid Solicitation Agent
and the Company fails to make such determination when obligated as provided in the preceding sentence, then, in either case, the Trading
Price per $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be deemed to be less than 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common
Stock and the Conversion Rate on each Trading Day of such failure. If the Trading Price condition set forth above has been met, the Company
shall so notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) in writing. Any such determination shall
be conclusive absent manifest error. If, at any time after the Trading Price condition set forth above has been met, the Trading Price
per $1,000 principal amount of Notes is greater than or equal to 98% of the product of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock
and the Conversion Rate for such Trading Day, the Company shall so notify the Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent
(if other than the Trustee) in writing.
(ii)
If, prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding May 15, 2029, the Company elects to:
(A)
issue to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants (other than in connection with a
stockholder rights plan) entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance,
to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices
of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date
of announcement of such issuance; or
(B)
distribute to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock the Company’s assets, securities or rights to purchase
securities of the Company (other than in connection with a stockholder rights plan), which distribution has a per share value, as reasonably
determined by the Company in good faith, exceeding 10% of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day preceding
the date of announcement for such distribution,
then, in either case, the Company shall notify
all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) at least 60 Scheduled Trading Days prior to
the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance or distribution. Once the Company has given such notice, Holders may surrender all or any portion
of their Notes for conversion at any time until the earlier of (1) the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the
Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance or distribution and (2) the Company’s announcement that such issuance or distribution will not
take place, even if the Notes are not otherwise convertible at such time. Holders may not convert their Notes pursuant to this subsection
(b)(ii) if they participate, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock and solely as a result of holding
the Notes, in any of the transactions described in clause (A) or (B) of this subsection (b)(ii) without having to convert their Notes
as if they held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate as of the Record Date for such issuance or distribution,
multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder.
(iii)
If (A) a transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change or a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs prior to the close
of business on the Business Day immediately preceding May 15, 2029, regardless of whether a Holder has the right to require the Company
to repurchase the Notes pursuant to Section 15.02, or (B) if the Company is a party to a Merger Event (other than a Reorganization Merger
Event) prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding May 15, 2029 (each such Fundamental Change, Make-Whole
Fundamental Change or Merger Event, a “Corporate Event”), all or any portion of a Holder’s Notes may be surrendered
for conversion at any time from or after the effective date of the Corporate Event until 35 Trading Days after the effective date of such
Corporate Event, or, if such Corporate Event also constitutes a Fundamental Change, until the close of business on the Business Day immediately
preceding the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other
than the Trustee) in writing no later than the effective date of such Corporate Event.
(iv)
Prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding May 15, 2029, a Holder may surrender all or any portion
of its Notes for conversion at any time during any calendar quarter commencing after the calendar quarter ending on December 31, 2024
(and only during such calendar quarter), if the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or
not consecutive) during the period of 30 consecutive Trading Days ending on, and including, the last Trading Day of the immediately preceding
calendar quarter is greater than or equal to 130% of the Conversion Price on each applicable Trading Day.
(v)
If the Company calls any of the Notes for redemption pursuant to Article 16 (or if any Notes are deemed to be called for redemption
as contemplated by the penultimate sentence of Section 16.02(d)) prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding
May 15, 2029, the Holder of Notes called for redemption may surrender such Notes (or any portion thereof) for conversion at any time prior
to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day prior to the Redemption Date, even if the Notes are not otherwise convertible
at such time. After that time, the right to convert pursuant to this subsection (b)(v) shall expire, unless the Company defaults in the
payment of the Redemption Price, in which case a Holder of the Notes called for redemption pursuant to Article 16 may convert such Notes
(or any portion thereof) until the Redemption Price has been paid or duly provided for.
For the avoidance of doubt,
neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any responsibility or obligation (i) to monitor the stock price or make any calculation
or determination whether or not an event triggering the rights of the Holders to surrender Notes for conversion has occurred, (ii) to
notify the Company, the Depositary, or the Holders if the Notes have become subject to conversion, or (iii) to ensure timely delivery
of any Settlement Amounts.
Section 14.02.
Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion.
(a)
Subject to this Section 14.02, Section 14.03(b) and Section 14.07(a), upon conversion of any Note, the Company shall satisfy its
Conversion Obligation by paying or delivering, as the case may be, to the converting Holder, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount
of Notes being converted, (x) cash up to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being converted and (y) cash or shares of Common
Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, at the Company’s election, in respect of the remainder, if any, of its
Conversion Obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being converted, as set forth in this Section 14.02(a)(iii)
and 14.02(j).
(i)
All conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after May 15, 2029, and all conversions for which the relevant
Conversion Date occurs during a Redemption Period, shall be settled using the same forms and amounts of consideration.
(ii)
Except for any conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs during a Redemption Period, and any conversions for which
the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after May 15, 2029, the Company shall use the same forms and amounts of consideration for all
conversions with the same Conversion Date, but the Company shall not have any obligation to use the same forms and amounts of consideration
with respect to conversions with different Conversion Dates. In addition, if the Company calls any Notes for redemption pursuant to Article
16, and the related Redemption Date is on or after May 15, 2029, then the forms and amounts of consideration during the Redemption Period
must be the same forms and amounts of consideration that apply to all conversions with a Conversion Date that occurs on or after May 15,
2029.
(iii)
If, in respect of any Conversion Date (or any conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs during a Redemption Period,
or for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs on or after May 15, 2029), the Company elects to settle all or a portion of its Conversion
Obligation in excess of the principal portion of the Notes being converted in cash, the Company shall provide a notice (the “Settlement
Notice”) to Holders of such election in respect of such Conversion Date (or such period, as the case may be), and the Company
shall deliver such Settlement Notice to converting Holders in writing (or if the Notes are then in global form through the applicable
procedures of the Depositary), the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee), no later than the close of business on
the Trading Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date (or, in the case of any conversions for which the relevant Conversion
Date occurs (x) during a Redemption Period, in the applicable Notice of Redemption or (y) on or after May 15, 2029, no later than the
close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding May 15, 2029) (the “Settlement Method Election Date”).
Such Settlement Notice shall indicate the percentage of each share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion in excess of the principal
portion of the Notes being converted that will be paid in cash (the “Cash Percentage”). If the Company does not make
such an election prior to the Settlement Method Election Date, the Company shall no longer have the right to elect a Cash Percentage and
the Company shall settle its Conversion Obligation paying cash in respect of the principal portion of the Notes being converted and delivering
shares of Common Stock in respect of the remainder, if any, of the Company’s Conversion Obligation in excess of the aggregate principal
portion of the Notes being converted.
(iv)
The cash, shares of Common Stock or combination of cash and shares of Common Stock in respect of any conversion of Notes (the “Settlement
Amount”) shall be computed as follows: the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, to the converting Holder in respect
of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, a Settlement Amount equal to the sum of the Daily Settlement Amounts for each
of the 50 consecutive Trading Days during the related Observation Period.
(v)
The Daily Settlement Amounts, the Daily Net Settlement Amounts and the Daily Conversion Values shall be determined by the Company
promptly following the last day of the Observation Period. Promptly after such determination of the Daily Settlement Amounts, the Daily
Net Settlement Amounts, the Daily Conversion Values and the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common
Stock, the Company shall notify the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of the Daily Settlement Amounts, the
Daily Net Settlement Amounts, the Daily Conversion Values and the amount of cash payable in lieu of delivering fractional shares of Common
Stock. The Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) shall have no responsibility for any such determination.
(b)
Subject to Section 14.02(e), before any Holder of a Note shall be entitled to convert a Note as set forth above, such Holder shall
(i) in the case of a Global Note, comply with the applicable procedures of the Depositary in effect at that time and, 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 14.02(h)
and (ii) in the case of a Physical Note (1) complete, manually sign and deliver an irrevocable notice to the Conversion Agent as set forth
in the Form of Notice of Conversion (or a facsimile, PDF or other electronic transmission thereof) (a notice pursuant to the applicable
procedure of the Depositary or a notice as set forth in the Form of Notice of Conversion, a “Notice of Conversion”)
at the office of the Conversion Agent and 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 any 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 (and accompanied by
appropriate endorsement and transfer documents in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Conversion Agent), at the office of the Conversion
Agent, (3) if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Conversion Agent
and (4) 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 14.02(h). The Trustee (and if different, the Conversion Agent) shall notify the Company of any conversion pursuant to
this Article 14 on the Conversion Date for such conversion. No Notes may be surrendered for conversion by a Holder thereof if such Holder
has also delivered a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice to the Company in respect of such Notes and has not validly withdrawn such Fundamental
Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with Section 15.03.
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 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)
A Note shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to the close of business on the date (the “Conversion
Date”) that the Holder has complied with the requirements set forth in subsection (b) above. Except as set forth in Section
14.03(b) and Section 14.07(a), the Company shall pay and, if applicable, deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due in respect
of the Conversion Obligation on the second Business Day immediately following the last Trading Day of the Observation Period unless such
Conversion Date occurs following the regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date, in which case the Company shall make
such payment (and delivery, if applicable) on the Maturity Date. If any shares of Common Stock are due to a converting Holder, the Company
shall issue or cause to be issued, and deliver (if applicable) to the Conversion Agent or to such Holder, or such Holder’s nominee
or nominees, the full number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder shall be entitled, in book-entry format through the Depositary,
in satisfaction of the Company’s Conversion Obligation.
(d)
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 a new Note or Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Note, without payment of any service charge by the converting Holder
but, if required by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer
tax or similar governmental charge required by law or that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder
of the new Notes issued upon such conversion being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such conversion.
(e)
If a Holder submits a Note for conversion, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on
the issue of any shares of Common Stock upon conversion, unless the tax is due because the Holder requests such shares to be issued in
a name other than the Holder’s name, in which case the Holder shall pay that tax. 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 is due by such Holder in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence.
(f)
Except as provided in Section 14.04, no adjustment shall be made for dividends on any shares of Common Stock issued upon the conversion
of any Note as provided in this Article 14.
(g)
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.
(h)
Upon conversion, a Holder shall not receive any separate cash payment for accrued and unpaid interest, if any, except as set forth
in this Section 14.02(h), and the Company will not adjust the Conversion Rate for any accrued and unpaid interest on any converted Notes.
The Company’s settlement of the full Conversion Obligation shall be deemed to satisfy in full its obligation to pay the principal
amount of the Note and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the relevant Conversion Date. As a result, accrued
and unpaid interest, if any, to, but not including, the relevant Conversion Date shall be deemed to be paid in full rather than cancelled,
extinguished or forfeited. Upon a conversion of Notes accrued and unpaid interest will be deemed to be paid first out of the cash paid
upon such conversion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Notes are converted after the close of business on a Regular Record Date and prior
to the open of business on the corresponding Interest Payment Date, Holders of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular
Record Date will receive the full amount of interest payable on such Notes (to, but not including the corresponding Interest Payment Date)
on the corresponding Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion. Notes surrendered for conversion during the period from the
close of business on any Regular Record Date to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date must be accompanied
by funds equal to the amount of interest payable on the Notes so converted on the corresponding Interest Payment Date (regardless of whether
the converting Holder was the Holder of record on such Regular Record Date); provided that no such payment shall be required (1)
for conversions following the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date; (2) if the Company has specified a Redemption
Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Scheduled Trading Day immediately following the corresponding Interest
Payment Date; (3) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior
to the Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date; or (4) to the extent of any Defaulted Amounts, if any
Defaulted Amounts exist at the time of conversion with respect to such Note. Therefore, for the avoidance of doubt, all Holders of record
at the close of business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date shall receive the full interest payment due
on the Maturity Date in cash regardless of whether their Notes have been converted following such Regular Record Date.
(i)
The Person in whose name the shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon conversion shall be treated as a stockholder of record
as of the close of business on the last Trading Day of the relevant Observation Period. Upon a conversion of Notes, such Person shall
no longer be a Holder of such Notes surrendered for conversion.
(j)
The Company shall not issue any fractional share of Common Stock upon conversion of the Notes and shall instead pay cash in lieu
of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion based on the Daily VWAP for the last Trading Day of the relevant
Observation Period. For each Note surrendered for conversion, if the Company has elected a Cash Percentage less than 100% or if the Company
does not deliver a Settlement Notice prior to the Settlement Method Election Date, the full number of shares that shall be issued upon
conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate Daily Settlement Amounts for the relevant Observation Period and any
fractional shares remaining after such computation shall be paid in cash.
Section 14.03.
Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered
in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes or during a Redemption Period. (a) If (i) the Effective Date of a Make-Whole
Fundamental Change occurs prior to the Maturity Date and a Holder elects to convert its Notes in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental
Change or (ii) the Company issues a Notice of Redemption as provided under Section 16.02, and a Holder elects to convert such Notes with
a Conversion Date during the related Redemption Period, the Company shall, in each case, under the circumstances described below, increase
the Conversion Rate for the Notes so surrendered for conversion by a number of additional shares of Common Stock (the “Additional
Shares”), as described below. A conversion of Notes shall be deemed for these purposes to be “in connection with”
such Make-Whole Fundamental Change if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the period from, and including, the Effective Date of
the Make-Whole Fundamental Change up to, and including, the close of business on the Business Day immediately prior to the related Fundamental
Change Repurchase Date (or, in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change that would have been a Fundamental Change but for the proviso
in clause (b) of the definition thereof, the 35th Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental
Change) (such period, the “Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period”). For the avoidance of doubt, the Company shall not
increase the Conversion Rate pursuant to the provisions of this Section 14.03 on account of an anticipated Fundamental Change that does
not occur. If the Company issues a Notice of Redemption as set forth under Section 16.02 the Company shall increase the Conversion Rate
during the related Redemption Period only with respect to conversions of Notes called for redemption (or deemed called for redemption
as contemplated by the penultimate sentence of Section 16.02(d)), and not for Notes not called for redemption. Accordingly, if the Company
elects to redeem fewer than all of the outstanding Notes pursuant to Article 16, Holders of the Notes not called for redemption will not
be entitled to convert such Notes on account of the Notice of Redemption and will not be entitled to an increased Conversion Rate for
conversions of such Notes on account of the Notice of Redemption during the related Redemption Period if such Notes are otherwise convertible,
except in the limited circumstances set forth in the penultimate sentence of Section 16.02(d).
(b)
Upon surrender of Notes for conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change or of Notes called for redemption with
a Conversion Date occurring during the related Redemption Period, the Company shall, at its option, satisfy the related Conversion Obligation
in accordance with Section 14.02; provided, however, that if, at the effective time of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described
in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Reference Property following such Make-Whole Fundamental Change is composed
entirely of cash, for any conversion of Notes following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Conversion Obligation
shall be calculated based solely on the Stock Price for the transaction and shall be deemed to be an amount of cash per $1,000 principal
amount of converted Notes equal to the Conversion Rate (including any increase to reflect the Additional Shares), multiplied by
such Stock Price. In such event, the Conversion Obligation shall be determined and paid to Holders in cash on the second Business Day
following the Conversion Date. The Company shall notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee)
of the Effective Date of any Make-Whole Fundamental Change in writing no later than five Business Days after such Effective Date.
(c)
The number of Additional Shares, if any, by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased for conversions in connection with a Make-Whole
Fundamental Change or a Notice of Redemption shall be determined by reference to the table below, based on the date on which the Make-Whole
Fundamental Change occurs or becomes effective (in each case, the “Effective Date”) or the Redemption Notice Date,
as applicable, and the price (the “Stock Price”) paid (or deemed to be paid) per share of the Common Stock in the Make-Whole
Fundamental Change or on the Redemption Notice Date, as applicable. If the holders of the Common Stock receive in exchange for their Common
Stock only cash in a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Stock Price shall
be the cash amount paid per share. Otherwise, the Stock Price shall be the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock
over the ten consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the applicable Effective Date
of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change or the Redemption Notice Date, as the case may be. In the event that a conversion during a Redemption
Period would also be deemed to be in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, a Holder of the Notes to be converted will be entitled
to a single increase to the Conversion Rate with respect to the first to occur of the applicable Redemption Notice Date or the Effective
Date of the applicable Make-Whole Fundamental Change, and the later event will be deemed not to have occurred for purposes of this Section
14.03.
(d)
The Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table below shall be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate
of the Notes is otherwise adjusted. The adjusted Stock Prices shall equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment,
multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such adjustment giving rise to the
Stock Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. The number of Additional Shares set forth in
the table below shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 14.04.
(e)
The following table sets forth the number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased per $1,000 principal
amount of Notes pursuant to this Section 14.03 for each Stock Price and Effective Date or Redemption Notice Date, as applicable, set forth
below:
|
Stock Price |
Effective Date/Redemption Notice Date |
$9.65 |
$9.85 |
$10.25 |
$10.75 |
$11.50 |
$12.50 |
$14.00 |
$16.00 |
$20.00 |
$25.00 |
$32.50 |
$42.50 |
August 14, 2024 |
19.0335 |
18.0975 |
16.3922 |
14.5302 |
12.1991 |
9.7616 |
7.1193 |
4.8038 |
2.3100 |
0.9280 |
0.1609 |
0.0000 |
August 15, 2025 |
19.0335 |
18.0975 |
16.3922 |
14.5302 |
12.1183 |
9.5400 |
6.8050 |
4.4819 |
2.0950 |
0.8352 |
0.1357 |
0.0000 |
August 15, 2026 |
19.0335 |
18.0975 |
16.2078 |
14.0502 |
11.4070 |
8.7368 |
5.9964 |
3.7850 |
1.6770 |
0.6492 |
0.1000 |
0.0000 |
August 15, 2027 |
19.0335 |
17.5919 |
15.3698 |
13.0056 |
10.1687 |
7.4032 |
4.7329 |
2.7700 |
1.1380 |
0.4276 |
0.0495 |
0.0000 |
August 15, 2028 |
19.0335 |
16.6701 |
14.0205 |
11.2530 |
8.0591 |
5.1848 |
2.7900 |
1.4006 |
0.5460 |
0.2176 |
0.0206 |
0.0000 |
August 15, 2029 |
19.0335 |
16.4985 |
12.4878 |
7.8865 |
1.7226 |
0.0000 |
0.0000 |
0.0000 |
0.0000 |
0.0000 |
0.0000 |
0.0000 |
The exact Stock Prices and
Effective Dates or Redemption Notice Dates may not be set forth in the table above, in which case:
(i)
if the Stock Price is between two Stock Prices in the table above or the Effective Date or Redemption Notice Date, as applicable,
is between two Effective Dates or Redemption Notice Dates, as applicable, in the table, the number of Additional Shares by which the Conversion
Rate shall be increased shall be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of Additional Shares set forth for the
higher and lower Stock Prices and the earlier and later Effective Dates or Redemption Notice Dates, as applicable, based on a 365- or
366 day year, as applicable;
(ii)
if the Stock Price is greater than $42.50 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in
the column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (d) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate;
and
(iii)
if the Stock Price is less than $9.65 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the
column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (d) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall
the Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of Notes exceed 103.6269 shares of Common Stock, subject to adjustment in the same manner
as the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04.
(f)
Nothing in this Section 14.03 shall prevent an adjustment to the Conversion Rate that would otherwise be required pursuant to Section
14.04 in respect of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change.
Section 14.04.
Adjustment of Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate
shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company if any of the following events occurs, except that the Company shall not make any adjustments
to the Conversion Rate if Holders of the Notes participate (other than in the case of (x) a share split or share combination or (y) a
tender or exchange offer), at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock and solely as a result of holding the
Notes, in any of the transactions described in this Section 14.04, without having to convert their Notes, as if they held a number of
shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate, multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held
by such Holder. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any responsibility to verify the accuracy of any adjustment to
the Conversion Rate. The Company shall notify the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent promptly in writing of any adjustments
to the Conversion Rate, which adjustments shall be conclusive and binding on holders, absent manifest error.
(a)
If the Company exclusively issues shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on shares of the Common Stock to all or
substantially all holders of the Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination, the Conversion Rate shall
be adjusted based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date of such dividend or distribution, or immediately prior
to the open of business on the Effective Date of such share split or share combination, as applicable; |
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or
Effective Date, as applicable; |
OS0 | = | the number
of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date, as applicable;
and |
OS’ | = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend,
distribution, share split or share combination, as applicable. |
Any adjustment made under this Section 14.04(a)
shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately
after the open of business on the Effective Date for such share split or share combination, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution
of the type described in this Section 14.04(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted,
effective as of the date the Company determines in good faith not to pay such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would
then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
(b)
If the Company issues to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant
to a stockholders rights plan) entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance,
to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices
of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date
of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance; |
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date; |
OS0 | = | the number
of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date; |
X | = | the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants;
and |
Y | = | the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights,
options or warrants, divided by the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading
Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights, options
or warrants. |
Any increase made under this Section 14.04(b)
shall be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are issued and shall become effective immediately after the open
of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance. To the extent that shares of the Common Stock are not delivered after the expiration
of such rights, options or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the
increase with respect to the issuance of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares
of Common Stock actually delivered. If such rights, options or warrants are not so issued, or if no such rights, options or warrants are
exercised prior to their expiration, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such
Ex-Dividend Date for such issuance had not occurred.
For purposes of this Section
14.04(b) and for the purpose of Section 14.01(b)(ii)(A), in determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle the holders of
the Common Stock to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at less than such average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of
the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of
announcement of such issuance, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into
account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or conversion
thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Company in good faith.
(c)
If the Company distributes shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness, other assets or property of the Company
or rights, options or warrants to acquire its Capital Stock or other securities, to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock,
excluding (i) dividends, distributions or issuances as to which an adjustment was effected (or would be effected, disregarding the 1%
Provision) pursuant to Section 14.04(a) or Section 14.04(b), (ii) rights issued under a stockholders rights plan (except as provided in
Section 14.11), (iii) dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash as to which the provisions set forth in Section 14.04(d) shall
apply, (iv) distributions of Reference Property in exchange for, or upon conversion of, Common Stock in a Merger Event and (v) Spin-Offs
as to which the provisions set forth in this Section 14.04(c) shall apply (any of such shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness,
other assets or property or rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock or other securities, the “Distributed Property”),
then the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; |
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date; |
SP0 | = | the average
of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading
Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution; and |
FMV | = | the fair market value (as determined by the Company in good faith) of the Distributed Property with respect
to each outstanding share of the Common Stock on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution. |
Any increase made under the portion of this Section
14.04(c) above shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such distribution. If such distribution
is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such distribution
had not been declared. In the case of any distribution of rights, options or warrants, to the extent such rights, options or warrants
expire unexercised, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had such unexercised
rights, options or warrants not been distributed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “FMV” (as defined above) is equal to or
greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, in respect
of each $1,000 principal amount thereof, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock receive the Distributed
Property, the amount and kind of Distributed Property such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common
Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Ex-Dividend Date for the distribution.
With respect to an adjustment
pursuant to this Section 14.04(c) where there has been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock of shares of
Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a Subsidiary, other business unit or Affiliate of
the Company, that are, or, when issued, will be, listed or admitted for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange (a “Spin-Off”),
the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately prior to the end of the Valuation Period; |
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the end of the Valuation Period; |
FMV0 | = | the average
of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of the Common Stock applicable
to one share of the Common Stock (determined by reference to the definition of Last Reported Sale Price as set forth in Section 1.01
as if references therein to Common Stock were to such Capital Stock or similar equity interest) over the first 10 consecutive Trading
Day period after, and including, the Ex-Dividend Date of the Spin-Off (the “Valuation Period”); and |
MP0 | = | the average
of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the Valuation Period. |
The increase to the Conversion
Rate under the preceding paragraph shall occur at the close of business on the last Trading Day of the Valuation Period; provided
that for any Trading Day that falls within the relevant Observation Period for such conversion and within the Valuation Period, the reference
to “10” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed
between the Ex-Dividend Date of such Spin-Off and such Trading Day in determining the Conversion Rate as of such Trading Day.
If any dividend or distribution
that constitutes a spin-off is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately decreased, effective as of the
date the Board of Directors determines not to pay or make such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in
effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared or announced.
For purposes of this Section
14.04(c) (and subject in all respects to Section 14.11), rights, options or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of the
Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Company’s Capital Stock, including Common Stock (either initially
or under certain circumstances), which rights, options or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (“Trigger
Event”): (i) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of the Common Stock; (ii) are not exercisable; and (iii) are also
issued in respect of future issuances of the Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 14.04(c)
(and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c) will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event,
whereupon such rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required)
to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 14.04(c). If any such right, option or warrant, including any such existing rights,
options or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights,
options or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences of indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the
occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and Ex-Dividend Date with respect to new rights,
options or warrants with such rights (in which case the existing rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to terminate and expire on
such date without exercise by any of the holders thereof). In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights,
options or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence) with respect thereto
that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c)
was made, (1) in the case of any such rights, options or warrants that shall all have been redeemed or purchased without exercise by any
holders thereof, upon such final redemption or purchase (x) the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options or warrants
had not been issued and (y) the Conversion Rate shall then again be readjusted to give effect to such distribution, deemed distribution
or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or purchase price received
by a holder or holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights, options or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights,
options or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or purchase, and (2) in the case of such rights,
options or warrants that shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted
as if such rights, options and warrants had not been issued.
For purposes of Section 14.04(a),
Section 14.04(b) and this Section 14.04(c), if any dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.04(c) is applicable also includes
one or both of:
(A) a
dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock to which Section 14.04(a) is applicable (the “Clause A Distribution”);
or
(B) a
dividend or distribution of rights, options or warrants to which Section 14.04(b) is applicable (the “Clause B Distribution”),
then, in either case, (1) such dividend or distribution,
other than the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution, shall be deemed to be a dividend or distribution to which this Section
14.04(c) is applicable (the “Clause C Distribution”) and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by this Section 14.04(c)
with respect to such Clause C Distribution shall then be made, and (2) the Clause A Distribution and Clause B Distribution shall be deemed
to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by Section 14.04(a) and Section 14.04(b) with
respect thereto shall then be made, except that, if determined by the Company (I) the “Ex-Dividend Date” of the Clause A Distribution
and the Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to be the Ex-Dividend Date of the Clause C Distribution and (II) any shares of Common Stock
included in the Clause A Distribution or Clause B Distribution shall be deemed not to be “outstanding immediately prior to the open
of business on such Ex-Dividend Date or Effective Date” within the meaning of Section 14.04(a) or “outstanding immediately
prior to the open of business on such Ex-Dividend Date” within the meaning of Section 14.04(b).
(d)
If any cash dividend or distribution is made to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock that, together with all prior
dividends or distributions made to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock during the calendar quarter in which such dividend
or distribution is made exceeds $0.03 per share (the “Dividend Threshold”), the Conversion Rate shall be increased
based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; |
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for
such dividend or distribution; |
SP0 | = | the Last
Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution; |
T | = | the Dividend Threshold; provided that if the amount in cash per share the Company distributes
to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock dividend or distribution is not a regular quarterly cash dividend, the Dividend
Threshold will be deemed to be zero; and |
C | = | the amount in cash per share the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of the Common
Stock. |
The Dividend Threshold shall be subject to adjustment
in a manner inversely proportional to adjustments to the Conversion Rate; provided that no adjustment shall be made to the Dividend
Threshold for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate pursuant to this Section 14.04(d).
Any increase pursuant to this
Section 14.04(d) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Ex-Dividend Date for such dividend or distribution.
If such dividend or distribution is not so paid, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased, effective as of the date the Company determines
in good faith not to make or pay such dividend or distribution, to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend
or distribution had not been declared. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “C” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than
“SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, for each $1,000 principal
amount of Notes it holds, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of shares of the Common Stock, the amount of cash that such
Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate on the Ex-Dividend Date
for such cash dividend or distribution.
(e)
If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries make a payment in respect of a tender or exchange offer for the Common Stock that is
subject to the then applicable tender offer rules under the Exchange Act (other than any odd-lot tender offer), to the extent that the
cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of the Common Stock exceeds the average of the Last Reported
Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding
the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the Conversion Rate shall be increased
based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion
Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the
Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; |
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the 10th Trading
Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; |
AC | = | the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Company in good
faith) paid or payable for shares of Common Stock purchased in such tender or exchange offer; |
OS0 | = | the number
of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the date such tender or exchange offer expires (prior to giving effect to
the purchase of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); |
OS’ | = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the date such tender or exchange
offer expires (after giving effect to the purchase of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange
offer); and |
SP’ | = | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading
Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires. |
The increase to the Conversion Rate under this
Section 14.04(e) shall occur at the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading
Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; provided that for any Trading Day that falls within the relevant
Observation Period for such conversion and within the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding
the expiration date of any tender or exchange offer, references to “10” or “10th” in the preceding
paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the expiration date of such tender
or exchange offer and such Trading Day in determining the Conversion Rate as of such Trading Day.
If the Company or one of its
Subsidiaries is obligated to purchase shares of Common Stock pursuant to any such tender or exchange offer described in this Section 14.04(e)
but the Company or such Subsidiary is permanently prevented by applicable law from effecting any such purchase or all such purchases are
rescinded, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such tender or exchange offer
had not been made or had been made only in respect of the purchases that have been made.
(f)
Notwithstanding this Section 14.04 or any other provision of this Indenture or the Notes, if: (i) a Conversion Rate adjustment
for any dividend or distribution becomes effective on any Ex-Dividend Date as described in this Section 14.04; (ii) a Note is to be converted
for which the conversion consideration includes shares of Common Stock; (iii) any Trading Day in the Observation Period for such conversion
occurs on or after such Ex-Dividend Date and on or before the related Record Date; (iv) the consideration due upon such conversion includes
any whole shares of Common Stock based on a Conversion Rate that is adjusted for such dividend or distribution; and (v) the Holder would
be entitled to participate in such dividend or distribution on account of such shares, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary:
the Conversion Rate adjustment relating to such Ex-Dividend Date shall be made for such conversion in respect of such Trading Day, but
the shares of Common Stock issuable with respect to such Trading Day based on such adjusted conversion rate shall not be entitled to participate
in such dividend or distribution.
(g)
If a Holder has converted its Notes on or after such Ex-Dividend Date and on or prior to the related Record Date would become the
record holder of the shares of Common Stock as of the related Conversion Date as described under Section 14.02(i) based on an adjusted
Conversion Rate for such Ex-Dividend Date, then, notwithstanding the Conversion Rate adjustment provisions in this Section 14.04, the
Conversion Rate adjustment relating to such Ex-Dividend Date shall not be made for such converting Holder. Instead, such Holder shall
be treated as if such Holder were the record owner of the shares of Common Stock on an unadjusted basis and participate in the related
dividend, distribution or other event giving rise to such adjustment.
(h)
Except as stated herein, the Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of shares of the Common Stock or any
securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Common Stock or the right to purchase shares of the Common Stock or such
convertible or exchangeable securities.
(i)
In addition to those adjustments required by clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this Section 14.04, and to the extent permitted
by applicable law and subject to the applicable rules of any exchange on which any of the Company’s securities are then-listed,
the Company from time to time may increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for a period of at least 20 Business Days if the Company
determines, in good faith, that such increase would be in the Company’s best interest. In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable
law and subject to the applicable rules of any exchange on which the Company’s securities are then listed, the Company may (but
is not required to) increase the Conversion Rate to avoid or diminish any income tax to holders of Common Stock or rights to purchase
Common Stock in connection with a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock (or rights to acquire shares of Common Stock) or
similar event.
(j)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article 14, the Conversion Rate shall not be adjusted:
(i)
upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock (other than any such issuance described in clause (a), (b) or (c) of this Section
14.04) at a price below the Conversion Price for the Notes;
(ii)
upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends
or interest payable on the Company’s securities and the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of Common Stock under
any plan;
(iii)
upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase those shares pursuant to any present or future
employee, director or consultant benefit plan or program of or assumed by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries (other
than any stockholder rights plan);
(iv)
upon the issuance of any shares of the Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible
security not described in clause (iii) of this subsection and outstanding as of the date the Notes were first issued;
(v)
for a third-party tender offer by any party other than a tender offer by one or more of the Company’s Subsidiaries described
in clause (e) of this Section 14.04;
(vi)
upon the repurchase of any shares of Common Stock that is not a tender offer or exchange offer of the nature described under clause
(e) of this Section 14.04 including (structured or derivative transactions and open market repurchases of shares of Common Stock, or transactions
pursuant to a stock repurchase program approved by the Board of Directors or otherwise);
(vii)
solely for a change in the par value of the Common Stock; or
(viii)
for accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
(k)
All calculations and other determinations under this Article 14 shall be made by the Company and shall be made to the nearest one-ten
thousandth (1/10,000th) of a share.
(l)
If an adjustment to the Conversion Rate otherwise required by this Section 14.04 would result in a change of less than 1% to the
Conversion Rate, then, notwithstanding the foregoing, Company may, at its election, defer and carry forward such adjustment, except that
all such deferred adjustments must be given effect immediately upon the earliest to occur of the following: (i) when all such deferred
adjustments would result in an aggregate change of at least 1% to the Conversion Rate; (ii) the Conversion Date of, or any Trading Day
of an Observation Period for, any Note; (iii) the date a Fundamental Change and/or Make-Whole Fundamental Change; (iv) if the Company
calls any Notes for redemption; or (v) May 15, 2029, in each case, unless the adjustment has already been made. The provision described
in the immediately preceding sentence of this Section 14.04(l) is referred to herein as the “1% Provision.”
(m)
Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly file with the Trustee (and the Conversion
Agent if not the Trustee) an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief
statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officer’s
Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume without inquiry
that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect. Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall
prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment
becomes effective and shall deliver such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to each Holder. Failure to deliver such notice
shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment.
(n)
For purposes of this Section 14.04, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares of Common
Stock held in the treasury of the Company so long as the Company does not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common
Stock held in the treasury of the Company, but shall include shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in
lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock.
Section 14.05.
Adjustments of Prices. Whenever any provision of
this Indenture requires the Company to calculate the Last Reported Sale Prices, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values or the Daily
Settlement Amounts over a span of multiple days (including an Observation Period and the Stock Price for purposes of a Make-Whole Fundamental
Change or for purposes of determining whether the Company may issue a Notice of Redemption), the Company shall make appropriate adjustments
in good faith to each to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment
to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date, Effective Date or expiration date, as the case may be, of the event occurs at any time
during the period when the Last Reported Sale Prices, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values or the Daily Settlement Amounts are
to be calculated.
Section 14.06.
Shares to Be Fully Paid. The Company shall maintain,
free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares held in treasury, sufficient shares of Common Stock to
provide for (i) the conversion of the Notes from time to time as such Notes are presented for conversion (assuming delivery of the maximum
number of Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.03 and that at the time of computation of such number of shares, all such Notes would
be converted by a single Holder and that the Company had elected to deliver the maximum number of shares of Common Stock allowed under
Section 14.02(a)(iii) as consideration for its Conversion Obligation and (ii) the full conversion of all of the Company’s outstanding
preferred stock into shares of Common Stock.
Section 14.07.
Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes
of the Common Stock.
(a)
In the case of:
(i)
any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than changes in par value or from par value to no par
value, or changes resulting from a subdivision or combination),
(ii)
any consolidation, merger, combination or similar transaction involving the Company,
(iii)
any sale, lease or other transfer to a third party of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries
substantially as an entirety or
(iv)
any statutory share exchange,
in each case, as a result of which the Common
Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination
thereof) (any such event, a “Merger Event”), then, at the effective time of the Merger Event, the Company or the successor
or acquiring person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture, without the consent of the Holders,
providing that at and after the effective time of such Merger Event, the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall
be changed into a right to convert such principal amount of Notes into the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other
property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) that a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion
Rate immediately prior to such Merger Event would have owned or been entitled to receive (the “Reference Property,”
with each “unit of Reference Property” meaning the kind and amount of Reference Property that a holder of one share
of Common Stock is entitled to receive) upon such Merger Event and, prior to or at the effective time of such Merger Event, the Company
or the successor or purchasing Person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture permitted under Section
10.01(j) providing for such change in the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes; provided, however, that at and
after the effective time of the Merger Event (A) the Company or the successor or acquiring company, as the case may be, shall continue
to have the right to elect to determine the form of consideration to be paid or delivered, as the case may be, in respect of the remainder,
if any, of the Conversion Obligation in excess of the principal amount of the Notes being converted, in accordance with Section 14.02,
(B) any amount payable in cash upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 14.02 shall continue to be payable in cash, (C)
any shares of Common Stock that the Company would have been required to deliver upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section
14.02 shall instead be deliverable in the amount and type of Reference Property that a holder of that number of shares of Common Stock
would have received in such Merger Event and (D) the Daily VWAP shall be calculated based on the value of a unit of Reference Property.
If the Merger Event causes
the Common Stock to be converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based
in part upon any form of stockholder election), then (i) the Reference Property into which the Notes will be convertible shall be deemed
to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration actually received by the holders of Common Stock, and (ii) the unit
of Reference Property for purposes of the immediately preceding paragraph shall refer to the consideration referred to in clause (i) attributable
to one share of Common Stock. If the holders of the Common Stock receive only cash in such Merger Event, then for all conversions for
which the relevant Conversion Date occurs after the effective date of such Merger Event (A) the consideration due upon conversion of each
$1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be solely cash in an amount equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date (as may
be increased by any Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.03), multiplied by the price paid per share of Common Stock in such
Merger Event and (B) the Company shall satisfy the Conversion Obligation by paying cash to converting Holders on the second Business Day
immediately following the relevant Conversion Date. The Company shall notify Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than
the Trustee) in writing of such weighted average as soon as reasonably practicable after such determination is made.
If the Reference Property
in respect of any Merger Event includes, in whole or in part, shares of Common Equity or securities convertible into or exchangeable for
shares of Common Equity, the supplemental indenture described in the second immediately preceding paragraph shall provide for anti-dilution
and other adjustments that shall be as nearly equivalent as is possible to the adjustments provided for in this Article 14 with respect
to the portion of Reference Property consisting of such Common Equity or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common
Equity. If the Reference Property in respect of any such Merger Event includes shares of stock, securities or other property or assets,
other than cash and/or cash equivalents, of a Person other than the Company or the successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may
be, in such Merger Event and such other company, if an affiliate of the Company (or, if the Company does not survive the Merger Event,
an affiliate of the successor or purchasing company) is party to the transaction, such other company shall also execute such supplemental
indenture, and such supplemental indenture shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders as the Company
shall in good faith reasonably consider necessary by reason of the foregoing, including the provisions providing for the purchase rights
set forth in Article 15.
In connection with any adjustment
to the Conversion Rate described above, the Company shall also adjust the Dividend Threshold based on the number of shares of Common Stock
comprising the Reference Property and (if applicable) the value of any non-stock consideration comprising the Reference Property. If the
Reference Property is composed solely of non-stock consideration, the Dividend Threshold shall be zero.
(b)
When the Company executes a supplemental indenture pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 14.07, the Company shall promptly
file with the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate briefly stating the reasons therefor, the kind or amount of cash, securities or property
or asset that will comprise a unit of Reference Property after any such Merger Event, any adjustment to be made with respect thereto and
that all conditions precedent have been complied with, and shall promptly deliver or cause to be delivered notice thereof to all Holders.
The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be delivered to each Holder within 20 days after execution
thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.
(c)
The Company shall not become a party to any Merger Event unless its terms are reasonably consistent with this Section 14.07 and
in compliance with Section 14.10. None of the foregoing provisions shall affect the right of a holder of Notes to convert its Notes into
cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, as set forth in Section 14.01 and Section
14.02 prior to the effective date of such Merger Event.
(d)
The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive Merger Events.
Section 14.08.
Certain Covenants. (a) The Company covenants that
all shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of Notes will be fully paid and non-assessable by the Company and free from all taxes,
liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
(b)
The Company covenants that it shall endeavor promptly to comply with all federal and state securities laws regulating the issuance
and delivery of shares of Common Stock upon the conversion of Notes, if any, and shall issue such shares of Common Stock in accordance
therewith including, as permitted thereunder, obtaining any required approval of or registration with ay governmental authority with respect
to such Common Stock.
(c)
The Company further covenants that if at any time the Common Stock shall be listed on any national securities exchange or automated
quotation system the Company will list and keep listed, so long as the Common Stock shall be so listed on such exchange or automated quotation
system, any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes.
Section 14.09.
Responsibility of Trustee. The Trustee and any other
Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder to determine the Conversion Rate (or any adjustment
thereto) or whether any facts exist that may require any adjustment (including any increase) of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to
the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental
indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not be accountable with respect
to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities, property or cash that may at any
time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Note; and the Trustee and any other Conversion Agent make no representations with
respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or
deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Note for the
purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be under any responsibility to determine
the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 14.07 relating either to the
kind or amount of shares of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders upon the conversion of their Notes
after any event referred to in such Section 14.07 or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions
of Section 7.01, may accept (without any independent investigation) as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions,
and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officer’s Certificate (which the Company shall be obligated to file with the Trustee
prior to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall be
responsible for determining whether any event contemplated by Section 14.01(b) has occurred that makes the Notes eligible for conversion
or no longer eligible therefor until the Company has delivered to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent the notices referred to in Section
14.01(b) with respect to the commencement or termination of such conversion rights, on which notices the Trustee and the Conversion Agent
may conclusively rely, and the Company agrees to deliver such notices to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent immediately after the occurrence
of any such event or at such other times as shall be provided for in Section 14.01(b). Except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
neither the Trustee nor any other agent acting under this Indenture (other than the Company, if acting in such capacity) shall have any
obligation to make any calculation or to determine whether the Notes may be surrendered for conversion pursuant to this Indenture, or
to notify the Company or the Depositary or any of the Holders if the Notes have become convertible pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
Section 14.10.
Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions. In case
of any:
(a)
action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04
or Section 14.11; or
(b)
voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company;
then, in each case (unless notice of such event
is otherwise required pursuant to another provision of this Indenture), the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and the Conversion
Agent (if other than the Trustee) and to be delivered to each Holder, as promptly as possible, a notice stating (i) the date on which
a record is to be taken for the purpose of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or, if a record is not to be taken, the
date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record are to be determined for the purposes of such action by the Company or one of its
Subsidiaries, or (ii) the date on which such dissolution, liquidation or winding-up is expected to become effective or occur, and the
date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities
or other property deliverable upon such dissolution, liquidation or winding-up. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall
not affect the legality or validity of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up.
Section 14.11.
Stockholder Rights Plans. If the Company has a stockholder
rights plan in effect, upon conversion of the Notes, each share of Common Stock, if any, issued upon such conversion shall be entitled
to receive the appropriate number of rights, if any, and the certificates representing the Common Stock issued upon such conversion shall
bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the terms of any such stockholder rights plan, as the same may be amended
from time to time. However, if, prior to any conversion of Notes, the rights have separated from the shares of Common Stock in accordance
with the provisions of the applicable stockholder rights plan, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted at the time of separation as if the
Company distributed to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock Distributed Property as provided in Section 14.04(c), subject
to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of such rights.
Section 14.12.
Exchange in Lieu of Conversion.
(a)
When a Holder surrenders its Notes for conversion, the Company may, at its election (an “Exchange Election”),
direct the Conversion Agent in writing to deliver, on or prior to the Trading Day immediately following the Conversion Date, such Notes
to one or more financial institutions designated by the Company (each, a “Designated Financial Institution”) for exchange
in lieu of conversion. In order to accept any Notes surrendered for conversion, the Designated Financial Institution(s) must agree to
timely pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, in exchange for such Notes, cash up to the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be
converted and pay or deliver, as the case may be, cash, shares of Common Stock or combination thereof at the election of the Company due
upon conversion pursuant to Section 14.02 or such other amount agreed to by the Holder and the Designated Financial Institution(s) (the
“Conversion Consideration”). If the Company makes an Exchange Election, the Company shall, by the close of business
on the Trading Day following the relevant Conversion Date, notify in writing the Trustee, the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee)
and the Holder surrendering Notes for conversion that the Company has made the Exchange Election, and the Company shall notify the Designated
Financial Institution(s) of the relevant deadline for delivery of the Conversion Consideration and the type of Conversion Consideration
to be paid and/or delivered, as the case may be.
(b)
Any Notes delivered to the Designated Financial Institution(s) shall remain outstanding and the Designated Financial Institution(s)
shall be the holder(s) of the Notes, subject to the applicable procedures of the Depositary. If the Designated Financial Institution(s)
agree(s) to accept any Notes for exchange but does not timely pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, the related Conversion Consideration,
or if such Designated Financial Institution(s) does not accept the Notes for exchange, the Company shall notify the Trustee, the Conversion
Agent and the Holder surrendering its Notes for conversion and pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, the relevant Conversion Consideration,
as, and at the time, required pursuant to this Indenture as if the Company had not made the Exchange Election and the Notes will be cancelled
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
(c)
The Company’s designation of any Designated Financial Institution(s) to which the Notes may be submitted for exchange does
not require such Designated Financial Institution(s) to accept any Notes.
Section 14.13.
Conversion Limitations.
(a)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Holder shall be entitled to receive any shares of Common Stock otherwise deliverable
upon conversion of the Notes to the extent, but only to the extent, that such receipt would cause such Holder to become, directly or indirectly,
a “Beneficial Owner” (as defined in the Stockholder Rights Agreement, dated as of March 17, 2023, by and between the
Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as amended or supplemented through the date hereof or from time to time
(the “Stockholder Rights Agreement”)) of more than 9.99% (or 19.99% in the case of passive stockholders or “13G
Investors” as defined in the Stockholder Rights Agreement) of the shares of Common Stock outstanding at such time (such restriction,
the “Beneficial Ownership Limit”).
Any purported delivery of shares of Common Stock
upon conversion of the Notes shall be void and have no effect to the extent, but only to the extent, that such delivery would result in
any Person becoming the Beneficial Owner of shares of Common Stock outstanding at such time in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limit.
If any delivery of shares
of Common Stock otherwise owed to any Person (or Persons) upon conversion of the Notes is not made, in whole or in part, as a result of
the Beneficial Ownership Limit, the Company’s obligation to make such delivery shall not be extinguished and, such Holder may certify
to the Company that the Person (or Persons) receiving shares of Common Stock upon conversion is not, and would not, as a result of such
conversion, become the Beneficial Owner of shares of Common Stock outstanding at such time in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limit,
after which the Company shall deliver any such shares of Common Stock withheld on account of the Beneficial Ownership Limit by the later
of (i) the date such shares were otherwise due to such Person (or Persons) and (ii) two (2) Trading Days after receipt of such certification;
provided, however, until such time as the affected Holder gives such notice, no Person shall be deemed to be the stockholder
of record with respect to the shares of Common Stock otherwise deliverable upon conversion in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limit.
(b)
The Company may, at its option with the approval of the Board of Directors and subject to the applicable listing standards of The
New York Stock Exchange, waive the Beneficial Ownership Limit (as to a particular Person or as to all Persons). In the event that the
Company exercises its right to waive the general Beneficial Ownership Limit to all Persons, the Company or, at the Company’s written
request and expense, the Trustee, shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Holder 61 days prior to the effective waiver date an
irrevocable notice of such waiver. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any obligation to monitor the Beneficial Ownership
Limit (as to a particular Person or as to all Persons).
ARTICLE 15
Repurchase of Notes at Option of Holders
Section 15.01.
[Intentionally Omitted].
Section 15.02.
Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change.
(a) If a Fundamental Change occurs at any time prior to the Maturity Date, each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option,
to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holder’s Notes, or any portion of the principal amount thereof properly
surrendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to Section 15.03 that is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000, on the date
(the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Date”) specified by the Company that is not less than 20 Business Days or more
than 35 Business Days following the date of the Fundamental Change Company Notice at a repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal
amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (the “Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price”), unless the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to
the Interest Payment Date to which such Regular Record Date relates, in which case the Company shall instead pay, on or, at the Company’s
election, before such Interest Payment Date, the full amount of accrued and unpaid interest to Holders of record as of such Regular Record
Date, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased pursuant to
this Article 15.
(b)
Repurchases of Notes under this Section 15.02 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:
(i)
delivery to the Paying Agent by a Holder of a duly completed notice (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice”)
in the form set forth in Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, if the Notes are Physical Notes, or in compliance
with the Depositary’s procedures for surrendering interests in Global Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in each case, on or
before the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date; and
(ii)
delivery of the Notes, if the Notes are Physical Notes, to the Paying Agent at any time after delivery of the Fundamental Change
Repurchase Notice (together with all necessary endorsements for transfer) at the Corporate Trust Office of the Paying Agent, or book-entry
transfer of the Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in compliance with the procedures of the Depositary, in each case, such delivery
or transfer being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price therefor.
The Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice in respect of any Physical Notes to be repurchased shall state:
(1)
if Physical Notes have been issued the certificate numbers of the Notes to be delivered for repurchase;
(2)
the portion of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and
(3)
that the Notes are to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Notes and this Indenture.
If the Notes are Global Notes, to exercise the
Fundamental Change repurchase right, Holders must surrender their Notes in accordance with applicable Depositary procedures.
Notwithstanding anything herein
to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice contemplated by this Section 15.02
shall have the right to withdraw, in whole or in part, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business
on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the
Paying Agent in accordance with Section 15.03.
The Paying Agent shall promptly
notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.
(c)
On or before the 15th Business Day after the occurrence of the effective date of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall provide
to all Holders and the Trustee, the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and the Paying Agent (if other than the Trustee) a written
notice (the “Fundamental Change Company Notice”) of the occurrence of the effective date of the Fundamental Change
and of the repurchase right at the option of the Holders arising as a result thereof. In the case of Physical Notes, such notice shall
be by first class mail or, in the case of Global Notes, such notice shall be delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of
the Depositary. Simultaneously with providing such notice, the Company shall publish such information on the Company’s website or
through such other public medium as the Company may use at that time, including through the filing of a Form 8-K with the Commission.
Each Fundamental Change Company Notice shall specify:
(i)
the events causing the Fundamental Change;
(ii)
the effective date of the Fundamental Change;
(iii)
the last date on which a Holder may exercise the repurchase right pursuant to this Article 15;
(iv)
the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;
(v)
the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;
(vi)
the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;
(vii)
if applicable, the Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate as a result of a Fundamental Change (or related Make-Whole
Fundamental Change);
(viii)
that the Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only
if the Holder validly withdraws the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and
(ix)
the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to repurchase their Notes.
No failure of the Company
to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders’ repurchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings
for the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to this Section 15.02.
At the Company’s written
request, the Trustee shall give such notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however,
that, in all cases, the text of such Fundamental Change Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company and delivered to the Trustee at
least three Business Days prior (or such shorter period as shall be acceptable to the Trustee).
(d)
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Article 15, the Company shall not be required to repurchase, or to make an offer
to repurchase, the Notes upon a Fundamental Change if a third party makes such an offer in the same manner, at the same time and otherwise
in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company as set forth in this Article 15 and such third party purchases all
Notes properly surrendered and not validly withdrawn under its offer in the same manner, at the same time and otherwise in compliance
with the requirements for an offer made by the Company as set forth above.
(e)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Notes may be repurchased by the Company on any date at the option of the Holders upon a Fundamental
Change if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to such date
(except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price
with respect to such Notes). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes held by it during
the acceleration of the Notes (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes), or any instructions for book-entry transfer of the Notes in compliance with the applicable
procedures of the Depositary shall be deemed to have been cancelled, and, upon such return or cancellation, as the case may be, the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.
Section 15.03.
Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice.
A Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice may be withdrawn (in whole or in part) in respect of Physical Notes by means of a written notice
of withdrawal received by the Corporate Trust Office of the Paying Agent in accordance with this Section 15.03 at any time prior to the
close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, specifying:
(i)
the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, which must be $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof,
(ii)
the certificate number of the Note in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, and
(iii)
the principal amount, if any, of such Note that remains subject to the original Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, which must
be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof.
If the Notes are Global Notes, such notice of
withdrawal must comply with applicable procedures of the Depositary.
Section 15.04.
Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. (a)
The Company will deposit with the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company, or if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.04) on or prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Date an amount of money sufficient to repurchase all of the Notes to be repurchased at the appropriate Fundamental Change
Repurchase Price. Subject to receipt of funds and/or Notes by the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company), payment for
Notes surrendered for repurchase (and not validly withdrawn prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the
Fundamental Change Repurchase Date) will be made on the later of (i) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (provided the Holder
has satisfied the conditions in Section 15.02) and (ii) the time of book-entry transfer or the delivery of such Note to the Trustee (or
other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 15.02 by mailing checks for the amount
payable to the Holders of such Notes entitled thereto as they shall appear in the Note Register; provided, however, that payments
to the Depositary shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Trustee
shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price.
(b)
If by 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by
the Company) holds money sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price (and, to the extent not included in the Fundamental
Change Repurchase Price, accrued and unpaid interest, if applicable) of the Notes to be repurchased on such Fundamental Change Repurchase
Date, then, with respect to the Notes that have been properly surrendered for repurchase and have not been validly withdrawn, (i) such
Notes will cease to be outstanding, (ii) interest will cease to accrue on such Notes (whether or not book-entry transfer of the Notes
has been made or whether or not the Notes have been delivered to the Trustee or Paying Agent) and (iii) all other rights of the Holders
of such Notes will terminate (other than the right to receive the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and, to the extent not included
in the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, accrued and unpaid interest, if applicable).
(c)
Upon surrender of a Note that is to be repurchased in part pursuant to Section 15.02, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder, a new Note in an authorized denomination equal in principal amount to the unrepurchased
portion of the Note surrendered.
Section 15.05.
Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase
of Notes. In connection with any repurchase offer upon a Fundamental Change pursuant to this Article 15, the Company will, if required:
(a)
comply in all material respects with the provisions of Rule 13e-4, Rule 14e-1 and any other tender offer rules under the Exchange
Act that may then be applicable;
(b)
file a Schedule TO or any other required schedule under the Exchange Act; and
(c)
otherwise comply in all material respects with all federal and state securities laws in connection with any offer by the Company
to repurchase the Notes;
in each case, so as to permit the rights and obligations
under this Article 15 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified in this Article 15.
However, to the extent that
the obligations of the Company to offer to repurchase and to repurchase Notes pursuant to the provisions described above conflict with
any law or regulation adopted after the date of this Indenture and that is applicable to the Company, the Company’s compliance with
such law or regulation shall not be considered to be a Default of those obligations.
ARTICLE 16
Optional Redemption
Section 16.01.
Optional Redemption. No sinking fund is provided
for the Notes. The Notes shall not be redeemable by the Company prior to August 20, 2026. On a Redemption Date occurring on or after August
20, 2026 and on or before the 55th Scheduled Trading Day before the Maturity Date, the Company may redeem (an “Optional
Redemption”) for cash all or any part of the Notes, at the Company’s option, at the Redemption Price, if the Last Reported
Sale Price of the Common Stock has been at least 130% of the Conversion Price then in effect for at least 20 Trading Days (whether or
not consecutive), including the Trading Day immediately preceding the date on which the Company provides a Notice of Redemption during
any 30 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date (the “Redemption
Notice Date”) on which the Company provides the Notice of Redemption in accordance with Section 16.02.
Section 16.02.
Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes.
(a) In case the Company exercises its Optional Redemption right to redeem all or, as the case may be, any part of the Notes pursuant to
Section 16.01, it shall fix a date for redemption (each, a “Redemption Date”) and it or, at its written request received
by the Trustee not less than five Business Days prior to the Redemption Notice Date (or such shorter period of time as may be acceptable
to the Trustee), the Trustee, in the name of and at the expense of the Company, shall deliver or cause to be delivered a written notice
of such Optional Redemption (a “Notice of Redemption”) (in all cases, the text of such Notice of Redemption shall be
prepared by the Company) not less than 55 nor more than 70 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes
so to be redeemed in whole or in part; provided, however, that, if the Company shall give such notice, it shall also give written
notice of the Redemption Date to the Trustee, the Conversion Agent and the Paying Agent. In the case of any Optional Redemption in part,
Holders of Notes not called for Optional Redemption will not be entitled to an increased Conversion Rate for such Notes in accordance
with Section 14.03 and Section 16.02(c). The Redemption Date must be a Business Day.
(b)
The Notice of Redemption, if delivered in the manner herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether
or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such Notice of Redemption or any defect in the Notice of Redemption
to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption
of any other Note.
(c)
Each Notice of Redemption shall specify:
(i)
the Redemption Date (which must be a Business Day);
(ii)
the Redemption Price;
(iii)
that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each Note to be redeemed, and that interest
thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date;
(iv)
the place or places where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
(v)
that Holders may surrender their Notes for conversion at any time prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading
Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date;
(vi)
the procedures a converting Holder must follow to convert its Notes and the forms and amounts of consideration payable by the Company
upon conversion;
(vii)
the Conversion Rate and, if applicable, the number of Additional Shares added to the Conversion Rate in accordance with Section
14.03;
(viii)
the CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers, if any, assigned to such Notes; and
(ix)
in case any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and on and after the
Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Note, a new Note in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof shall be issued,
which principal amount must be $1,000 or a multiple thereof.
A Notice of Redemption shall be irrevocable.
(d)
If fewer than all of the outstanding Notes are to be redeemed and the Notes to be redeemed are Global Notes, the Notes to be redeemed
shall be selected by the Depositary in accordance with the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. If fewer than all of the
outstanding Notes are to be redeemed and the Notes to be redeemed are not Global Notes, the Trustee shall select the Notes or portions
thereof to be redeemed (in principal amounts of $1,000 or multiples thereof) by lot, on a pro rata basis or by another method the
Trustee considers to be fair and appropriate. If any Note selected for partial redemption is submitted for conversion in part after such
selection, the portion of the Note submitted for conversion shall be deemed (so far as may be possible) to be the portion selected for
redemption, subject, in the case of Notes represented by a Global Note, to the Depositary’s applicable procedures. If fewer than
all of the outstanding Notes are to be redeemed and the Holder of any Note (or any owner of a beneficial interest in any Global Note)
is reasonably not able to determine, before the close of business on the 55th scheduled Trading Day immediately before the
relevant Redemption Date, whether such Note or beneficial interest, as applicable, is to be redeemed pursuant to such redemption, then
such Holder or owner, as applicable, will be entitled to convert such Note or beneficial interest, as applicable, at any time before the
close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day prior to such Redemption Date, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the
Redemption Price pursuant to Section 14.01(b)(v), in which case such Holder or owner, as applicable, will be entitled to convert such
Note or beneficial interest, as applicable, until the Redemption Price has been paid or duly provided for, and each such conversion will
be deemed to be of a Note called for redemption. The Trustee shall not be obligated to make any determination in connection with the foregoing.
Section 16.03.
Payment of Notes Called for Redemption. (a) If any
Notice of Redemption has been given in respect of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.02, the Notes shall become due and payable on
the Redemption Date at the place or places stated in the Notice of Redemption and at the applicable Redemption Price. On presentation
and surrender of the Notes at the place or places stated in the Notice of Redemption, the Notes shall be paid and redeemed by the Company
at the applicable Redemption Price.
(b)
Prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent or, if the Company
or a Subsidiary of the Company is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 7.05 an amount
of cash (in immediately available funds if deposited on the Redemption Date), sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all of the Notes
to be redeemed on such Redemption Date. Subject to receipt of funds by the Paying Agent, payment for the Notes to be redeemed shall be
made on the Redemption Date for such Notes. The Paying Agent shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company,
return to the Company any funds in excess of the Redemption Price.
Section 16.04.
Restrictions on Redemption. No Notes may be redeemed
on any date if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, and such acceleration
has not been rescinded, on or prior to the Redemption Date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company
in the payment of the Redemption Price with respect to such Notes).
ARTICLE 17
Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 17.01.
Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors.
All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements of the Company contained in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns
whether so expressed or not.
Section 17.02.
Official Acts by Successor Corporation. Any act or
proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or Officer of the
Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the like board, committee or officer of any corporation or other
entity that shall at the time be the lawful sole successor of the Company.
Section 17.03.
Addresses for Notices, Etc. Any notice or demand
that by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the Holders on the Company
shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes if given or served by overnight courier or by being deposited
postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed (until another address is filed by the Company with
the Trustee) to WisdomTree, Inc., 250 West 34th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10119, Attention: Legal Notice, Email:
legalnotice@wisdomtree.com, with a copy to Jocelyn Arel, Goodwin Procter LLP, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston, MA 02210. Any notice, direction,
request or demand hereunder to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given
or served by being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed to the Corporate Trust
Office or sent electronically in PDF format, whether by mail or electronically, upon actual receipt by the Trustee.
The Trustee, by notice to
the Company, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
Any notice or communication
delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Physical Notes shall be mailed to it by first class mail, postage prepaid, at its address
as it appears on the Note Register and shall be sufficiently given to it if so mailed within the time prescribed. Any notice or communication
delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Global Notes shall be delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary
and shall be sufficiently given to it if so delivered within the time prescribed. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture
or any Note, where this Indenture or any Note provides for notice of any event (including any Fundamental Change Company Notice) to a
Holder of a Global Note (whether by mail or otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the Depositary (or its designee)
pursuant to the standing instructions from the Depositary or its designee, including by electronic mail in accordance with the Depositary’s
applicable procedures.
Failure to mail or deliver
a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice
or communication is mailed or delivered, as the case may be, in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee
receives it.
In case by reason of the suspension
of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice to Holders by mail, then such notification
as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 17.04.
Governing Law; Jurisdiction. THIS INDENTURE AND EACH
NOTE, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
The Company irrevocably consents
and agrees, for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Notes and the Trustee, that any legal action, suit or proceeding against
it with respect to obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Indenture or the Notes may be
brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City,
New York and, until amounts due and to become due in respect of the Notes have been paid, hereby irrevocably consents and submits to the
non-exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in personam, generally and unconditionally with respect to any action, suit or proceeding
for itself in respect of its properties, assets and revenues.
The Company irrevocably and
unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue
of any of the aforesaid actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Indenture brought in the courts of the
State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and hereby further irrevocably
and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any
such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Section 17.05.
Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates
and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee. Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any of
the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating
that such action is permitted by the terms of this Indenture.
Each Officer’s Certificate
and Opinion of Counsel provided for, by or on behalf of the Company in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance
with this Indenture (other than the Officer’s Certificates provided for in Section 4.08) shall include (a) a statement that the
person signing such certificate is familiar with the requested action and this Indenture; (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope
of the examination or investigation upon which the statement contained in such certificate is based; (c) a statement that, in the judgment
of such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed judgment
as to whether or not such action is permitted by this Indenture; and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the judgment of such person,
such action is permitted by this Indenture and that all conditions precedent to such action have been complied with; provided that
no Opinion of Counsel shall be required to be delivered in connection with (1) the original issuance of Notes on the date hereof under
this Indenture, (2) the mandatory exchange of the restricted CUSIP of the Restricted Securities to an unrestricted CUSIP pursuant to the
applicable procedures of the Depositary upon the Notes becoming freely tradable by non-Affiliates of the Company under Rule 144 and the
removal of the restrictive legends in connection therewith unless a new Note is to be authenticated, or (3) a request by the Company that
the Trustee deliver a notice to Holders under the Indenture where the Trustee receives an Officer’s Certificate with respect to
such notice. With respect to matters of fact, an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officer’s Certificate or certificates of public
officials.
Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary in this Section 17.05, if any provision in this Indenture specifically provides that the Trustee shall or may receive an
Opinion of Counsel in connection with any action to be taken by the Trustee or the Company hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to
such Opinion of Counsel.
Section 17.06.
Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment
Date, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, any Redemption Date or the Maturity Date is not a Business Day, then any action to be taken
on such date need not be taken on such date, but may be taken on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if
taken on such date, and no interest shall accrue in respect of the delay.
Section 17.07.
No Security Interest Created. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar
legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in effect, in any jurisdiction.
Section 17.08.
Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the Holders, the parties hereto, any Paying Agent, any Conversion
Agent, any Bid Solicitation Agent, any Custodian, any authenticating agent, any Note Registrar and their successors hereunder, any benefit
or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 17.09.
Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The table of contents
and the titles and headings of the articles and sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not
to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
Section 17.10.
Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may appoint an
authenticating agent that shall be authorized to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of
Notes in connection with the original issuance thereof and transfers and exchanges of Notes hereunder, including under Section 2.04, Section
2.05, Section 2.06, Section 2.07, Section 10.04 and Section 15.04 as fully to all intents and purposes as though the authenticating agent
had been expressly authorized by this Indenture and those Sections to authenticate and deliver Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture,
the authentication and delivery of Notes by the authenticating agent shall be deemed to be authentication and delivery of such Notes “by
the Trustee” and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an authenticating agent shall be deemed to
satisfy any requirement hereunder or in the Notes for the Trustee’s certificate of authentication. Such authenticating agent shall
at all times be a Person eligible to serve as trustee hereunder pursuant to Section 7.08.
Any corporation or other entity
into which any authenticating agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity
resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any authenticating agent shall be a party, or any corporation or other
entity succeeding to the corporate trust business of any authenticating agent, shall be the successor of the authenticating agent hereunder,
if such successor corporation or other entity is otherwise eligible under this Section 17.10, without the execution or filing of any paper
or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or the authenticating agent or such successor corporation or other entity.
Any authenticating agent may
at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the
agency of any authenticating agent by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent and to the Company. Upon receiving
such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any authenticating agent shall cease to be eligible under
this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor authenticating agent (which may be the Trustee), shall give written notice of such appointment
to the Company and shall deliver notice of such appointment to all Holders.
The Company agrees to pay
to the authenticating agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services although the Company may terminate the authenticating
agent, if it determines such agent’s fees to be unreasonable.
The provisions of Section
7.02, Section 7.03, Section 7.04, Section 8.03 and this Section 17.10 shall be applicable to any authenticating agent.
If an authenticating agent
is appointed pursuant to this Section 17.10, the Notes may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication,
an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
________________________,
as Authenticating Agent, certifies that this is
one of the Notes described
in the within-named Indenture.
By:_____________________
Authorized Signatory
Section 17.11.
Execution in Counterparts. This Indenture may be
executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and
the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile, PDF or other electronic transmission
shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture
for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile, PDF or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective
execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the other parties hereto shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.
All notices, approvals, consents,
requests and any communications hereunder must be in writing (provided that any communication sent to Trustee hereunder that is required
to be signed must be in the form of a document that is signed manually or by way of a digital signature provided by DocuSign (or such
other digital signature provider as specified in writing to Trustee by the Company)), in English. The Company agrees to assume all risks
arising out of the use of digital signatures and electronic methods to submit communications to Trustee, including, without limitation,
the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties.
Section 17.12.
Severability. In the event any provision of this
Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then (to the extent permitted by law) the validity, legality or
enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired.
Section 17.13.
Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE
TRUSTEE HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
Section 17.14.
Force Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee be responsible
or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly,
forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, epidemics, pandemics, acts of war or terrorism,
civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities,
communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it being understood that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts that are
consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.
Section 17.15.
Calculations. Except as otherwise provided herein,
the Company shall be responsible for making all calculations called for under the Notes. These calculations include, but are not limited
to, determinations of the Redemption Price, Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock, the Daily VWAPs, the Daily Conversion Values,
the Daily Settlement Amounts, accrued interest payable on the Notes, any Additional Interest payable on the Notes, the Conversion Rate
of the Notes, and the Trading Price of the Notes for purposes of determining whether the Notes are convertible as described in this Indenture.
The Company shall make all of these calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, the Company’s calculations shall be final
and binding on Holders of Notes. The Company shall provide a schedule of its calculations to each of the Trustee and the Conversion Agent,
and each of the Trustee and Conversion Agent is entitled to rely conclusively upon the accuracy of the Company’s calculations without
independent verification. The Company will forward its calculations to any Holder of Notes upon the written request of that Holder.
Section 17.16.
USA PATRIOT Act. The parties hereto acknowledge that
in accordance with Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding
of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that
establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee
with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties
hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first written above.
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A GLOBAL NOTE]
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS
PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY
OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE 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 HEREUNDER 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.]
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF
A RESTRICTED SECURITY]
[THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON
STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES
ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS
ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS
THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES
FOR THE BENEFIT OF WISDOMTREE, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS
SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF
OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO AND (Y) SUCH LATER
DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
(A) TO
THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(B) PURSUANT
TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(C) TO
A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(D) PURSUANT
TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION
OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH
LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
NO AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED
IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF WISDOMTREE, INC. OR PERSON THAT HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT) OF WISDOMTREE, INC. DURING THE PRECEDING THREE MONTHS MAY PURCHASE, OTHERWISE ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST
HEREIN.]1
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The Restrictive Legend shall be deemed removed from the face of this Note without further action by the Company, Trustee or the Holders
of this Note at such time and in the manner provided under Section 2.05 of the Indenture.
WisdomTree, Inc.
3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029
No. [_____] |
[Initially]2
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CUSIP No. [_______]4
WisdomTree, Inc., a corporation
duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company,” which term includes any
successor corporation or other entity under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay
to [CEDE & CO.]5 [_______]6,
or registered assigns, the principal sum [as set forth in the “Schedule of Exchanges of Notes” attached hereto]7
[of $[__________]]8, which amount,
taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes, shall not, unless permitted by the Indenture, exceed $300,000,000
(as increased by an amount up to $45,000,000 equal to the aggregate principal amount of any additional Notes purchased by the Initial
Purchaser pursuant to the exercise of its option to purchase additional Notes as set forth in the Purchase Agreement), in accordance
with the rules and applicable procedures of the Depositary, on August 15, 2029, and interest thereon as set forth below.
This Note shall bear interest
at the rate of 3.25% per year from August 13, 2024, or from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for to, but
excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date until August 15, 2029. Interest is payable semi-annually in arrears on each February
15 and August 15, commencing on February 15, 2025, to Holders of record at the close of business on the preceding February 1 and August
1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day), respectively. Additional Interest will be payable as set forth in Section 4.06(d), Section
4.06(e) and Section 6.03 of the within-mentioned Indenture, and any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note therein shall
be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of such
Section 4.06(d), Section 4.06(e) or Section 6.03, and any express mention of the payment of Additional Interest in any provision therein
shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions thereof where such express mention is not made.
Any Defaulted Amounts shall
accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including,
the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such Defaulted Amounts shall have been paid by the Company, at its election,
in accordance with Section 2.03(c) of the Indenture.
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This Note will be deemed to be identified by CUSIP No. [_____] from and after such time when (i) the Company delivers, pursuant to Section
2.05(c) of the within-mentioned Indenture, written notice to the Trustee of the occurrence of the Resale Restriction Termination Date
and the removal of the restrictive legend affixed to this Note and (ii) this Note is identified by such CUSIP number in accordance with
the applicable procedures of the Depositary.
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The Company shall pay the
principal of and interest on this Note, if and so long as such Note is a Global Note, in immediately available funds to the Depositary
or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered Holder of such Note. As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture,
the Company shall pay the principal of any Notes (other than Notes that are Global Notes) at the office or agency designated by the Company
for that purpose. The Company has initially designated the Trustee as its Paying Agent and Note Registrar in respect of the Notes and
its agency in the United States, as a place where Notes may be presented for payment or for registration of transfer and exchange.
Reference is made to the further
provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, including, without limitation, provisions giving the Holder of this Note the
right to convert this Note into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, on the
terms and subject to the limitations set forth in the Indenture. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as
though fully set forth at this place.
This Note, and any claim,
controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Note, shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State
of New York.
In the case of any conflict
between this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control and govern.
This Note shall not be valid
or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed manually by the Trustee or
a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company
has caused this Note to be duly executed.
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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the
Notes described
in the within-named Indenture.
[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
WisdomTree, Inc.
3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029
This Note is one of a duly
authorized issue of Notes of the Company, designated as its 3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”),
limited to the aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000 (as increased by an amount up to $45,000,000 equal to the aggregate principal
amount of any additional Notes purchased by the Initial Purchaser pursuant to the exercise of its option to purchase additional Notes
as set forth in the Purchase Agreement), all issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of August 13, 2024 (the “Indenture”),
between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Notes. Additional Notes may be issued in an unlimited aggregate principal
amount, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture. Capitalized terms used in this Note and not defined in this Note shall
have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture.
In case certain Events of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of, and interest on, all Notes may be declared, by either the Trustee or
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding, and upon said declaration shall become, due and payable,
in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions and certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture.
The Company will pay cash
amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
The Indenture contains provisions
permitting the Company and the Trustee in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, and in certain other
circumstances, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding,
evidenced as in the Indenture provided, to execute supplemental indentures modifying the terms of the Indenture and the Notes as described
therein. It is also provided in the Indenture that, subject to certain exceptions, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Notes at the time outstanding may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default under
the Indenture and its consequences.
Each Holder shall have the
right to receive payment or delivery as described in the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable in
registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. At the office or agency of
the Company referred to on the face hereof, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, Notes may be exchanged
for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, without payment of any service charge but, if required
by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer or similar tax that may be imposed in connection therewith
as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such exchange of Notes being different from the name of the Holder
of the old Notes surrendered for such exchange.
The Notes shall be redeemable
at the Company’s option on or after August 20, 2026 in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions specified in the
Indenture. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.
Upon the occurrence of a Fundamental
Change, the Holder has the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holder’s
Notes or any portion thereof (in principal amounts of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof) on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date
at a price equal to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
Subject to the provisions
of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at its option, during certain periods and upon the occurrence of certain conditions
specified in the Indenture, prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date,
to convert any Notes or portion thereof that is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination
of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, at the Conversion Rate specified in the Indenture, as adjusted from time to time as
provided in the Indenture.
The Notes are subordinated
to Other Redemption Payments. To the extent provided in the Indenture, Other Redemption Payments of the Company must be paid before any
Note Obligations may be paid. The Company agrees, and each Holder by accepting a Note agrees, to the subordination provisions contained
in the Indenture and authorizes the Trustee to give it effect and appoints the Trustee as attorney-in-fact for such purpose.
ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations,
when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable
laws or regulations:
TEN COM = as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT = Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
CUST = Custodian
TEN ENT = as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN = joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common
Additional abbreviations may
also be used though not in the above list.
SCHEDULE A9
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES
WisdomTree, Inc.
3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029
The initial principal amount
of this Global Note is _______ DOLLARS ($[__________]). The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made.
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ATTACHMENT 1
[FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION]
To: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee
Denver Tower
950 17th Street
Denver, CO 80202
Attention: WisdomTree, Inc. Administrator
The undersigned registered
owner of this Note hereby exercises the option to convert this Note, or the portion hereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral
multiple thereof) below designated, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable,
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that any cash payable and any shares of Common Stock
issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any cash for any fractional share, and any Notes representing any unconverted
principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered Holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If
any shares of Common Stock or any portion of this Note not converted are to be issued in the name of a Person other than the undersigned,
the undersigned will pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes, if any in accordance with Section 14.02(d) and Section
14.02(e) of the Indenture. Any amount required to be paid to the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Note. Capitalized
terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
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ATTACHMENT 2
[FORM OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE REPURCHASE NOTICE]
To: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association,
as Trustee
Denver Tower
950 17th Street
Denver, CO 80202
Attention: WisdomTree, Inc. Administrator
The undersigned registered
owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from WisdomTree, Inc. (the “Company”) as to the occurrence
of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and specifying the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and requests and instructs the
Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with Section 15.02 of the Indenture referred to in this Note (1) the entire
principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated,
and (2) if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date does not fall during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the
corresponding Interest Payment Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Fundamental Change Repurchase
Date. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
In the case of Physical Notes,
the certificate numbers of the Notes to be repurchased are as set forth below:
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ATTACHMENT 3
[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER]
For value received _____________________ hereby
sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto _____________________ (Please insert social security or Taxpayer Identification Number of assignee)
the within Note, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints _________________ attorney to transfer the said Note on the books of
the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.
In connection with any transfer of the within
Note occurring prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date, as defined in the Indenture governing such Note, the undersigned confirms
that such Note is being transferred:
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To WisdomTree, Inc. or a subsidiary thereof; or
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Pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
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Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
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Exhibit 4.2
[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A GLOBAL NOTE]
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS
PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY
OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE 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 HEREUNDER 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.]
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF
A RESTRICTED SECURITY]
[THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON
STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES
ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS
ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS
THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES
FOR THE BENEFIT OF WISDOMTREE, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS
SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THE LATER OF (X) ONE YEAR AFTER THE LAST ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF
OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY SUCCESSOR PROVISION THERETO AND (Y) SUCH LATER
DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EXCEPT:
(A) TO
THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(B) PURSUANT
TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(C) TO
A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(D) PURSUANT
TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION
OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH
LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED
TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
NO AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED
IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF WISDOMTREE, INC. OR PERSON THAT HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT) OF WISDOMTREE, INC. DURING THE PRECEDING THREE MONTHS MAY PURCHASE, OTHERWISE ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST
HEREIN.]1
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The Restrictive Legend shall be deemed removed from the face of this Note without further action by the Company, Trustee or the Holders
of this Note at such time and in the manner provided under Section 2.05 of the Indenture.
WisdomTree, Inc.
3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029
No. [_____] |
[Initially]2
$[_____________]3 |
CUSIP No. [_______]4
WisdomTree, Inc., a corporation
duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company,” which term includes any
successor corporation or other entity under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay
to [CEDE & CO.]5 [_______]6,
or registered assigns, the principal sum [as set forth in the “Schedule of Exchanges of Notes” attached hereto]7
[of $[__________]]8, which amount,
taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes, shall not, unless permitted by the Indenture, exceed $300,000,000
(as increased by an amount up to $45,000,000 equal to the aggregate principal amount of any additional Notes purchased by the Initial
Purchaser pursuant to the exercise of its option to purchase additional Notes as set forth in the Purchase Agreement), in accordance
with the rules and applicable procedures of the Depositary, on August 15, 2029, and interest thereon as set forth below.
This Note shall bear interest
at the rate of 3.25% per year from August 13, 2024, or from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for to, but
excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date until August 15, 2029. Interest is payable semi-annually in arrears on each February
15 and August 15, commencing on February 15, 2025, to Holders of record at the close of business on the preceding February 1 and August
1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day), respectively. Additional Interest will be payable as set forth in Section 4.06(d), Section
4.06(e) and Section 6.03 of the within-mentioned Indenture, and any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note therein shall
be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of such
Section 4.06(d), Section 4.06(e) or Section 6.03, and any express mention of the payment of Additional Interest in any provision therein
shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions thereof where such express mention is not made.
Any Defaulted Amounts shall
accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including,
the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such Defaulted Amounts shall have been paid by the Company, at its election,
in accordance with Section 2.03(c) of the Indenture.
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This Note will be deemed to be identified by CUSIP No. [_____] from and after such time when (i) the Company delivers, pursuant to Section
2.05(c) of the within-mentioned Indenture, written notice to the Trustee of the occurrence of the Resale Restriction Termination Date
and the removal of the restrictive legend affixed to this Note and (ii) this Note is identified by such CUSIP number in accordance with
the applicable procedures of the Depositary.
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The Company shall pay the
principal of and interest on this Note, if and so long as such Note is a Global Note, in immediately available funds to the Depositary
or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered Holder of such Note. As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture,
the Company shall pay the principal of any Notes (other than Notes that are Global Notes) at the office or agency designated by the Company
for that purpose. The Company has initially designated the Trustee as its Paying Agent and Note Registrar in respect of the Notes and
its agency in the United States, as a place where Notes may be presented for payment or for registration of transfer and exchange.
Reference is made to the further
provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, including, without limitation, provisions giving the Holder of this Note the
right to convert this Note into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, on the
terms and subject to the limitations set forth in the Indenture. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as
though fully set forth at this place.
This Note, and any claim,
controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Note, shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State
of New York.
In the case of any conflict
between this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control and govern.
This Note shall not be valid
or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed manually by the Trustee or
a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company
has caused this Note to be duly executed.
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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the
Notes described
in the within-named Indenture.
[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
WisdomTree, Inc.
3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029
This Note is one of a duly
authorized issue of Notes of the Company, designated as its 3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”),
limited to the aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000 (as increased by an amount up to $45,000,000 equal to the aggregate principal
amount of any additional Notes purchased by the Initial Purchaser pursuant to the exercise of its option to purchase additional Notes
as set forth in the Purchase Agreement), all issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of August 13, 2024 (the “Indenture”),
between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Notes. Additional Notes may be issued in an unlimited aggregate principal
amount, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture. Capitalized terms used in this Note and not defined in this Note shall
have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture.
In case certain Events of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of, and interest on, all Notes may be declared, by either the Trustee or
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding, and upon said declaration shall become, due and payable,
in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions and certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture.
The Company will pay cash
amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
The Indenture contains provisions
permitting the Company and the Trustee in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, and in certain other
circumstances, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding,
evidenced as in the Indenture provided, to execute supplemental indentures modifying the terms of the Indenture and the Notes as described
therein. It is also provided in the Indenture that, subject to certain exceptions, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Notes at the time outstanding may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default under
the Indenture and its consequences.
Each Holder shall have the
right to receive payment or delivery as described in the Indenture.
The Notes are issuable in
registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples thereof. At the office or agency of
the Company referred to on the face hereof, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, Notes may be exchanged
for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, without payment of any service charge but, if required
by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer or similar tax that may be imposed in connection therewith
as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such exchange of Notes being different from the name of the Holder
of the old Notes surrendered for such exchange.
The Notes shall be redeemable
at the Company’s option on or after August 20, 2026 in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions specified in the
Indenture. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.
Upon the occurrence of a Fundamental
Change, the Holder has the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holder’s
Notes or any portion thereof (in principal amounts of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof) on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date
at a price equal to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
Subject to the provisions
of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at its option, during certain periods and upon the occurrence of certain conditions
specified in the Indenture, prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date,
to convert any Notes or portion thereof that is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination
of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable, at the Conversion Rate specified in the Indenture, as adjusted from time to time as
provided in the Indenture.
The Notes are subordinated
to Other Redemption Payments. To the extent provided in the Indenture, Other Redemption Payments of the Company must be paid before any
Note Obligations may be paid. The Company agrees, and each Holder by accepting a Note agrees, to the subordination provisions contained
in the Indenture and authorizes the Trustee to give it effect and appoints the Trustee as attorney-in-fact for such purpose.
ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations,
when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable
laws or regulations:
TEN COM = as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT = Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
CUST = Custodian
TEN ENT = as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN = joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common
Additional abbreviations may
also be used though not in the above list.
SCHEDULE A9
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES
WisdomTree, Inc.
3.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029
The initial principal amount
of this Global Note is _______ DOLLARS ($[__________]). The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made.
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ATTACHMENT 1
[FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION]
To: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee
Denver Tower
950 17th Street
Denver, CO 80202
Attention: WisdomTree, Inc. Administrator
The undersigned registered
owner of this Note hereby exercises the option to convert this Note, or the portion hereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral
multiple thereof) below designated, into cash, shares of Common Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock, as applicable,
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that any cash payable and any shares of Common Stock
issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any cash for any fractional share, and any Notes representing any unconverted
principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered Holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If
any shares of Common Stock or any portion of this Note not converted are to be issued in the name of a Person other than the undersigned,
the undersigned will pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes, if any in accordance with Section 14.02(d) and Section
14.02(e) of the Indenture. Any amount required to be paid to the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Note. Capitalized
terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
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ATTACHMENT 2
[FORM OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE REPURCHASE NOTICE]
To: U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association,
as Trustee
Denver Tower
950 17th Street
Denver, CO 80202
Attention: WisdomTree, Inc. Administrator
The undersigned registered
owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from WisdomTree, Inc. (the “Company”) as to the occurrence
of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and specifying the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and requests and instructs the
Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with Section 15.02 of the Indenture referred to in this Note (1) the entire
principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated,
and (2) if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date does not fall during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the
corresponding Interest Payment Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Fundamental Change Repurchase
Date. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
In the case of Physical Notes,
the certificate numbers of the Notes to be repurchased are as set forth below:
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ATTACHMENT 3
[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER]
For value received _____________________ hereby
sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto _____________________ (Please insert social security or Taxpayer Identification Number of assignee)
the within Note, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints _________________ attorney to transfer the said Note on the books of
the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.
In connection with any transfer of the within
Note occurring prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date, as defined in the Indenture governing such Note, the undersigned confirms
that such Note is being transferred:
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To WisdomTree, Inc. or a subsidiary thereof; or
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Pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
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Pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; or
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