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 15, 2000
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LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 1-7107 93-0609074
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(State or other jurisdiction (Commission (IRS Employer
of incorporation) File Number) Identification No.)
111 S. W. Fifth Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204-3699
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(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code (503) 221-0800
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N/A
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(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS.
This Current Report on Form 8-K is being filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission by Louisiana-Pacific Corporation (the
"Company") for purposes of filing, as exhibits hereto, the Underwriting
Agreement, dated as of August 15, 2000, between the Company and the
underwriters named therein, the Pricing Agreement, dated as of August 15,
2000 between the Company and the underwriters named therein and the form of
First and Second Supplemental Trust Indentures contemplated to be entered
into between the Company and Bank One Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee, in
each case, in connection with the proposed sale by the Company of $190,000,000
aggregate principal amount of its 8.50% Senior Notes due 2005 and
$200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 8.875% Senior Notes due 2010.
ITEM 7. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, PRO FORMA FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND EXHIBITS.
The following exhibits are filed herewith:
1.1 Underwriting Agreement, dated as of August 15, 2000, between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and the underwriters named
therein.
1.2 Pricing Agreement, dated as of August 15, 2000, between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and the underwriters named
therein.
4.1 Form of First Supplemental Trust Indenture between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and Bank One Trust Company,
N.A., as Trustee.
4.2 Form of Second Supplemental Trust Indenture between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and Bank One Trust Company,
N.A., as Trustee.
99.1 Press Release.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
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(Registrant)
August 16, 2000 /s/ Gary C. Wilkerson
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Date Gary C. Wilkerson, Vice President and
General Counsel
EXHIBIT INDEX
EXHIBIT NUMBER DESCRIPTION
1.1 Underwriting Agreement, dated as of August 15, 2000, between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and the underwriters named
therein.
1.2 Pricing Agreement, dated as of August 15, 2000, between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and the underwriters named
therein.
4.1 Form of First Supplemental Trust Indenture between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and Bank One Trust Company,
N.A., as Trustee.
4.2 Form of Second Supplemental Trust Indenture between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation and Bank One Trust Company,
N.A., as Trustee.
99.1 Press Release.
Exhibit 1.1
EXECUTION COPY
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
DEBT SECURITIES
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
August 15, 2000
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
85 Broad Street
New York, New York 10004.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
From time to time Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, a Delaware corporation
(the "Company"), proposes to enter into one or more Pricing Agreements (each a
"Pricing Agreement") in the form of Annex I hereto, with such additions and
deletions as the parties thereto may determine, and, subject to the terms and
conditions stated herein and therein, to issue and sell to the firms named in
Schedule I to the applicable Pricing Agreement (such firms constituting the
"Underwriters" with respect to such Pricing Agreement and the securities
specified therein) certain of its debt securities (the "Securities") specified
in Schedule II to such Pricing Agreement (with respect to such Pricing
Agreement, the "Designated Securities").
The terms and rights of any particular issuance of Designated
Securities shall be as specified in the Pricing Agreement relating thereto and
in or pursuant to the indenture (the "Indenture") identified in such Pricing
Agreement.
1. Particular sales of Designated Securities may be made from time to
time to the Underwriters of such Securities, for whom the firms designated as
representatives of the Underwriters of such Securities in the Pricing Agreement
relating thereto will act as representatives (the "Representatives"). The term
"Representatives" also refers to a single firm acting as sole representative of
the Underwriters and to an Underwriter or Underwriters acting without any firm
being designated as its or their representative. This Underwriting Agreement
shall not be construed as an obligation of the Company to sell any of the
Securities or as an obligation of any of the Underwriters to purchase the
Securities. The obligation of the Company to issue and sell any of the
Securities and the obligation of any of the Underwriters to purchase any of the
Securities shall be evidenced by the Pricing Agreement with respect to the
Designated Securities specified therein. Each Pricing Agreement shall specify
the aggregate principal amount of such Designated Securities, the initial public
offering price of such Designated Securities, the purchase price to the
Underwriters of such Designated Securities, the names of the Underwriters of
such Designated Securities, the names of the Representatives of such
Underwriters and the principal amount of such Designated Securities to be
purchased by each Underwriter and shall set forth the date, time and manner of
delivery of such Designated Securities and payment therefor. The Pricing
Agreement shall also specify (to the extent not set forth in the Indenture and
the registration statement and prospectus with respect thereto) the terms of
such Designated Securities. A Pricing Agreement shall be in the form of an
executed writing (which may be in counterparts), and may be evidenced by an
exchange of telegraphic communications or any other rapid transmission device
designed to produce a written record of communications transmitted. The
obligations of the Underwriters under this Agreement and each Pricing Agreement
shall be several and not joint.
2. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the
Underwriters that:
(a) A registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-73157)
(the "Initial Registration Statement") in respect of the Securities has
been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission"); the Initial Registration Statement and any
post-effective amendment thereto, each in the form heretofore delivered
or to be delivered to the Representatives without exhibits but with all
documents incorporated by reference in the prospectus contained
therein, have been declared effective by the Commission in such form;
other than a registration statement, if any, increasing the size of the
offering (a "Rule 462(b) Registration Statement"), filed pursuant to
Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"),
which became effective upon filing, no other document with respect to
the Initial Registration Statement or document incorporated by
reference therein has heretofore been filed or transmitted for filing
with the Commission (other than prospectuses filed pursuant to Rule
424(b) of the rules and regulations of the Commission under the Act,
each in the form heretofore delivered to the Representatives); and no
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Initial Registration
Statement, any post-effective amendment thereto or the Rule 462(b)
Registration Statement, if any, has been issued and no proceeding for
that purpose has been initiated or threatened by the Commission (any
preliminary prospectus included in the Initial Registration Statement
or filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) under the Act, is
hereinafter called a "Preliminary Prospectus"; the various parts of the
Initial Registration Statement, any post-effective amendment thereto
and the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, including all
exhibits thereto and the documents incorporated by reference in the
prospectus contained in the Initial Registration Statement at the time
such part of the Initial Registration Statement became effective but
excluding Form T-1, each as amended at the time such part of the
Initial Registration Statement became effective or such part of the
Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, if any, became or hereafter becomes
effective, are hereinafter collectively called the "Registration
Statement"; the prospectus relating to the Securities, in the form in
which it has most recently been filed, or transmitted for filing, with
the Commission on or prior to the date of this Agreement, is
hereinafter called the "Prospectus"; any reference herein to any
Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to
and include the documents as amended, if applicable, incorporated by
reference therein pursuant to the applicable form under the Act, as of
the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may
be; any reference to any amendment or supplement to any Preliminary
Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include
any documents as amended, if applicable, filed after the date of such
Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, as the case may be, under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and
incorporated by reference in such Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus,
as the case may be; any reference to any amendment to the Initial
Registration Statement shall be deemed to refer to and include any
annual report of the Company filed pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d)
of the Exchange Act after the effective date of the Initial
Registration Statement that is incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement; and any reference to the Prospectus as amended
or supplemented shall be deemed to refer to the Prospectus as amended
or supplemented in relation to the applicable Designated Securities in
the form in which it is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule
424(b) under the Act in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof, including
any documents incorporated by reference therein as of the date of such
filing);
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(b) The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus,
as amended, when they became effective or were filed with the
Commission, as the case may be (giving retroactive effect to any such
amendments), conformed in all material respects to the requirements of
the Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and
regulations of the Commission thereunder, and none of such documents
(as so amended, if applicable, giving retroactive effect to such
amendments) contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein not misleading; and any further documents
so filed and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or any further
amendment or supplement thereto, when such documents become effective
or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in
all material respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange
Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact
or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that this representation and warranty shall not apply to any
statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with
information furnished in writing to the Company by an Underwriter of
Designated Securities through the Representatives expressly for use in
the Prospectus as amended or supplemented relating to such Securities;
(c) The Registration Statement and the Prospectus conform, and
any further amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus will conform, in all material respects to the
requirements of the Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended
(the "Trust Indenture Act"), and the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder and do not and will not, as of the applicable
effective date as to the Registration Statement and any amendment
thereto and as of the applicable filing date as to the Prospectus and
any amendment or supplement thereto, contain an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this representation and warranty shall not
apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in
conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by an
Underwriter of Designated Securities through the Representatives
expressly for use in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented relating
to such Securities or to any statements in or omissions from the
Statement of Eligibility of the Trustee under the Indenture;
(d) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has
sustained since the date of the latest audited financial statements
included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus any material
loss or interference with its business from fire, explosion, flood or
other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor
dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, otherwise
than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented; and, since the latest date as of which information is
given in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented, there has not been any change in the capital stock (other
than issuances and forfeitures of capital stock in connection with
equity-based compensation plans of the company, issuances of stock upon
the exercise, conversion or exchange of any outstanding securities of
the Company that are excisable to purchase, or convertible into or
exchangeable for, capital stock and purchases of capital stock pursuant
to any stock repurchase program disclosed in the Prospectus as amended
or supplemented) or any increase in excess of $40 million in the
long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries otherwise than
as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented or any material adverse change, or any development
involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the
general affairs, management, financial position, stockholders' equity
or results of
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operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole,
otherwise than as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus as
amended or supplemented;
(e) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly
existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its incorporation, with power and authority (corporate
and other) to own its properties and conduct its business as described
in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented, and has been duly
qualified as a foreign corporation for the transaction of business and
is in good standing under the laws of each other jurisdiction in which
it is required to be so qualified, except where failure to be so
qualified and in good standing individually or in the aggregate would
not have a material adverse effect on the current or future
consolidated financial position, stockholders' equity or results of
operations of the Company and its subsidiaries ("Material Adverse
Effect"); and each subsidiary of the Company has been duly incorporated
and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the
laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, except where failure to be
duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing would not,
individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
(f) The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth
in the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, all of the issued shares
of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized
and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; and all of the issued
shares of capital stock of each subsidiary of the Company have been
duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and
non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company,
free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims (except
as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented or
where, individually or in the aggregate, the failure to have been duly
and validly authorized and issued, to be fully paid and non-assessable
and to be owned directly or indirectly by the Company free and clear of
liens, encumbrances, equities or claims would not have a Material
Adverse Effect);
(g) The Securities have been duly authorized, and, when the
Designated Securities are issued and delivered pursuant to this
Agreement and the Pricing Agreement with respect to such Designated
Securities, such Designated Securities will have been duly executed,
authenticated, issued and delivered and will constitute valid and
legally binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits
provided by the Indenture, which will be substantially in the form
filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement; the Indenture has
been duly authorized and duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act
and, at the Time of Delivery for such Designated Securities (as defined
in Section 4 hereof), the Indenture will constitute a valid and legally
binding instrument, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject,
as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other
laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors'
rights and to general equity principles, regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law; and
the Indenture conforms in all material respects, and the Designated
Securities will conform in all material respects, to the descriptions
thereof contained in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented with
respect to such Designated Securities;
(h) The issue and sale of the Securities and the compliance by
the Company with all of the provisions of the Securities, the
Indenture, this Agreement and any Pricing Agreement, and the
consummation of the transactions herein and therein contemplated will
not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the
terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture,
mortgage, deed of trust, sale/leaseback agreement, loan agreement or
other similar financing agreement or instrument, or other agreement or
instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party
or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to
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which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is subject (except for such conflicts, breaches,
violations and defaults as individually or in the aggregate would not
have a Material Adverse Effect), nor will such action result in any
violation of the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or
By-laws of the Company or any statute or any order, rule or regulation
of any court or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over
the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties
(except for such violations as individually or in the aggregate would
not have a Material Adverse Effect); and no consent, approval,
authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any such
court or governmental agency or body is required for the issue and sale
of the Securities or the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Pricing Agreement or
the Indenture, except such as have been, or will have been prior to the
Time of Delivery, obtained under the Act and the Trust Indenture Act
and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or
qualifications as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky
laws or the laws of jurisdictions outside of the United States in
connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the
Underwriters;
(i) The statements set forth in the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented under the captions "Description of Debt Securities" and
"Description of the Securities", insofar as they purport to constitute
a summary of the terms of the Securities, and under the captions "Plan
of Distribution" and "Underwriting", insofar as they purport to
describe the provisions of the laws and documents referred to therein,
are accurate in all material respects;
(j) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in
violation of its Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws (or comparable
governing documents). Except for set forth in the Prospectus as amended
or supplemented and such violations, defaults and failures as
individually or in the aggregate would not have a Material Adverse
Effect, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (a) is in
default, and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time
or both, would constitute such a default, in the performance or
observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition
contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement,
lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by
which it or any of its properties may be bound, (b) is in violation of
any law, ordinance, governmental rule, regulation or court decree to
which it or its property is subject or (c) has failed to obtain any
license, permit, certificate, franchise or other governmental
authorization necessary to the ownership of its property or to the
conduct of its business;
(k) Other than as set forth in the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending to
which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any
property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject
which, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its
subsidiaries, would individually or in the aggregate have a Material
Adverse Effect; and, to the Company's knowledge, no such proceedings
are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or
threatened by others;
(l) The Company is not and, after giving effect to the
offering and sale of the Securities, will not be an "investment
company" or an entity "controlled" by an "investment company", as such
terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended
(the "Investment Company Act");
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(m) Each of Arthur Anderson LLP and Deloitte & Touche LLP, who
have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its
subsidiaries, are independent public accountants as required by the Act
and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; and
(n) The description of the Year 2000 problem set forth in the
Prospectus as amended or supplemented, including without limitation any
statements as to the status, cost or results thereof or the anticipated
effects of the Year 2000 Problem on the Company and its subsidiaries,
is accurate in all material respects. The "Year 2000 Problem" as used
herein means any significant risk that computer hardware or software
used in the receipt, transmission, processing, manipulation, storage,
retrieval, retransmission or other utilization of data or in the
operation of mechanical or electrical systems of any kind will not,
when presented with dates or time periods occurring after December 31,
1999, function at least as effectively as when presented with dates or
time periods occurring prior to January 1, 2000.
(o) Other than as set forth in the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented, the Company (i) is in compliance with, and is not subject
to costs or liabilities under, any and all local, state, provincial,
federal and foreign laws, regulations, rules of common law, orders and
decrees, as in effect as of the date hereof, and any presently
effective judgments, decrees, orders and injunctions issued or
promulgated thereunder, in each case, relating to pollution or
protection of public and employee health and safety and the environment
applicable to it or its business or operations or ownership or use of
its property ("Environmental Laws"), other than such noncompliance or
costs or liabilities that would not, either individually or in the
aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect, and (ii) possesses all
permits, licenses or other approvals required under applicable
Environmental Laws, other than such permits, licenses or approvals the
lack of which would not, either individually or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Adverse Effect. The statements set forth in the
Prospectus as amended or supplemented or incorporated by reference
therein regarding pending or threatened proceedings, notices of
violation and notices of potential responsibility or liability under
Environmental Laws and other existing environmental conditions with
respect to the Company or its subsidiaries, do not contain an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required
to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not
misleading. The Company maintains a system of internal environmental
management controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that all
material sampling, analytical, record keeping and reporting
requirements under applicable Environmental Laws are implemented,
executed and maintained in accordance with the requirements of such
Environmental Laws.
3. Upon the execution of the Pricing Agreement applicable to any
Designated Securities and authorization by the Representatives of the release of
such Designated Securities, the several Underwriters propose to offer such
Designated Securities for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in the
Prospectus as amended or supplemented.
4. Designated Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter pursuant
to the Pricing Agreement relating thereto, in the form specified in such Pricing
Agreement, and in such authorized denominations and registered in such names as
the Representatives may request upon at least forty-eight hours' prior notice to
the Company, shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Company to the
Representatives for the account of such Underwriter, against payment by such
Underwriter or on its behalf of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of
Federal (same-day) funds to the account specified by the Company to the
Representatives at least forty-eight hours in advance or at such other
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place and time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in
writing, such time and date being herein called the "Time of Delivery" for such
Securities.
5. The Company agrees with each of the Underwriters of any Designated
Securities:
(a) To prepare the Prospectus as amended or supplemented in
relation to the applicable Designated Securities in a form approved by
the Representatives (which approval will not be unreasonably withheld
or delayed) and to file such Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b) under
the Act not later than the Commission's close of business on the second
business day following the execution and delivery of the Pricing
Agreement relating to the applicable Designated Securities or, if
applicable, such earlier time as may be required by Rule 424(b); to
make no further amendment or any supplement to the Registration
Statement or Prospectus as amended or supplemented after the date of
the Pricing Agreement relating to such Securities and prior to the Time
of Delivery for such Securities which shall be disapproved by the
Representatives promptly after reasonable notice thereof (which
disapproval, if any, must not be unreasonable); to advise the
Representatives promptly of any such amendment or supplement after such
Time of Delivery and furnish the Representatives with copies thereof;
to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information
statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act for
so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with
the offering or sale of such Securities, and during such same period to
advise the Representatives, promptly after it receives notice thereof,
of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been
filed with the Commission or becomes effective or any supplement to the
Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed with the
Commission, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of
any order preventing or suspending the use of any prospectus relating
to the Securities, of the suspension of the qualification of such
Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation
or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any
request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the
Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information;
and, in the event of the issuance of any such stop order or of any such
order preventing or suspending the use of any prospectus relating to
the Securities or suspending any such qualification, to promptly use
its best efforts to obtain the withdrawal of such order;
(b) Promptly from time to time to take such action as the
Representatives may reasonably request to qualify such Securities for
offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions in
the United States as the Representatives may request and to comply with
such laws so as to permit the continuance of sales and dealings therein
in such jurisdictions for as long as may be necessary to complete the
distribution of such Securities, provided that in connection therewith
the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation
or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction;
(c) Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the New York
Business Day next succeeding the date of the Pricing Agreement relating
to the applicable Designated Securities and from time to time
thereafter, to furnish to the Underwriters in New York City copies of
the Prospectus as amended or supplemented in relation to such
Securities in such quantities as the Representatives may reasonably
request, and, if the delivery of a prospectus is required at any time
in connection with the offering or sale of such Securities and if at
such time any event shall have occurred as a result of which the
Prospectus as then amended or supplemented in relation to such
Securities would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit
to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under
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which they were made when the Prospectus, as so amended or
supplemented, is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason
it shall be necessary during such same period to amend or supplement
the Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act any document
incorporated by reference in the Prospectus in order to comply with the
Act, the Exchange Act or the Trust Indenture Act, to notify the
Representatives and upon their request to file such document and to
prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any
dealer in securities as many copies as the Representatives may from
time to time reasonably request of an amended Prospectus or a
supplement to the Prospectus which will correct such statement or
omission or effect such compliance and in case any Underwriter is
required to deliver a prospectus in connection with sales of any of
such Securities at any time nine months or more after the time of issue
of the Prospectus as amended or supplemented in relation thereto, upon
the request and at the expense of such Underwriter, to prepare and
deliver to such Underwriter as many copies as such Underwriter may
request of an amended or supplemented Prospectus complying with Section
10(a)(3) of the Act in relation to such Securities;
(d) To make generally available to its securityholders as soon
as practicable, but in any event not later than eighteen months after
the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Rule
158(c) under the Act), an earnings statement of the Company and its
subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 9(a) of
the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder
(including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158, in which case this
Section 5(d) will not be construed to require the Company to file any
report referred to in Rule 158 prior to the time at which such report
is otherwise due);
(e) During the period beginning from the date of the Pricing
Agreement for such Designated Securities and continuing to and
including the later of (i) the termination of trading restrictions for
such Designated Securities, as notified to the Company by the
Representatives and (ii) the Time of Delivery for such Designated
Securities, not to offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose
of any debt securities of the Company which mature more than one year
after such Time of Delivery and which are substantially similar to such
Designated Securities, without the prior written consent of the
Representatives; and
(f) If the Company elects to rely upon Rule 462(b), the
Company shall file a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the
Commission in compliance with Rule 462(b) by 10:00 P.M., Washington,
D.C. time, on the date of this Agreement, and the Company shall at the
time of filing either pay to the Commission the filing fee for the Rule
462(b) Registration Statement or give irrevocable instructions for the
payment of such fee pursuant to Rule 111(b) under the Act.
6. The Company covenants and agrees with the several Underwriters that
the Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i) the fees,
disbursements and expenses of the Company's counsel and accountants in
connection with the registration of the Securities under the Act and all other
expenses in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of the
Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus and
amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies
thereof to the Underwriters and dealers; (ii) the cost of printing or producing
any Agreement among Underwriters, this Agreement, any Pricing Agreement, any
Indenture, any Blue Sky and Legal Investment Memoranda, closing documents
(including any compilations thereof) and any other documents in connection with
the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Securities; (iii) all expenses
in connection with the qualification of the Securities for offering and sale
under state securities laws as provided in Section 5(b) hereof, including the
fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such
qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky and Legal Investment Surveys;
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(iv) any fees charged by securities rating services for rating the Securities;
(v) any filing fees incident to, and the fees and disbursements of counsel for
the Underwriters in connection with, any required review by the National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. of the terms of the sale of the
Securities; (vi) the cost of preparing the Securities; (vii) the fees and
expenses of any Trustee and any agent of any Trustee and the fees and
disbursements of counsel for any Trustee in connection with any Indenture and
the Securities; and (viii) all other costs and expenses incident to the
performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically
provided for in this Section. It is understood, however, that, except as
provided in this Section, and Sections 8 and 11 hereof, the Underwriters will
pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel,
transfer taxes on resale of any of the Securities by them, and any advertising
expenses connected with any offers they may make.
7. The obligations of the Underwriters of any Designated Securities
under the Pricing Agreement relating to such Designated Securities shall be
subject, in the discretion of the Representatives, to the condition that all
representations and warranties and other statements of the Company in or
incorporated by reference in the Pricing Agreement relating to such Designated
Securities are, at and as of the Time of Delivery for such Designated
Securities, true and correct, the condition that the Company shall have
performed all of its obligations hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the
following additional conditions:
(a) The Prospectus as amended or supplemented in relation to
the applicable Designated Securities shall have been filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) within the applicable time period
prescribed for such filing by the rules and regulations under the Act
and in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof; if the Company has elected
to rely upon Rule 462(b), the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall
have become effective by 10:00 P.M., Washington, D.C. time, on the date
of this Agreement; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement or any part thereof shall have been issued and
no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened
by the Commission; and all requests for additional information on the
part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the
Representatives' reasonable satisfaction;
(b) Counsel for the Underwriters shall have furnished to the
Representatives their written opinion, dated the Time of Delivery for
such Designated Securities, in substantially the form of Annex III
hereto and such counsel shall have received such papers and information
as they may reasonably request to enable them to render such opinion;
(c) The General Counsel or Deputy General Counsel of the
Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters his written opinion,
dated the Time of Delivery for such Designated Securities, in
substantially the form attached hereto as Annex IV;
(d) Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP or other counsel for the
Company satisfactory to the Representatives shall have furnished to the
Representatives their written opinion, dated the Time of Delivery for
such Designated Securities, in substantially the form attached hereto
as Annex V;
(e) The Trustee, shall have furnished to the Representative an
officer's certificate dated the Time of Delivery in substantially the
form set forth as Annex VI hereto.
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(f) On or prior to the date of the Pricing Agreement for any
Designated Securities and at the Time of Delivery for such Designated
Securities, each of the independent accountants of the Company who have
certified the financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
shall have furnished to the Representatives a letter to the effect set
forth in Annex II(a) hereto, and a letter dated such Time of Delivery
to the effect set forth in Annex II(b) hereto, respectively, and with
respect to such letter dated such Time of Delivery, as to such other
matters as the Representatives may reasonably request and in form and
substance satisfactory to the Representatives;
(g) (i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall
have sustained since the date of the latest audited financial
statements included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus as
amended or supplemented prior to the date of the Pricing Agreement
relating to the Designated Securities any loss or interference with its
business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not
covered by insurance, or from any labor dispute or court or
governmental action, order or decree, otherwise than as set forth or
contemplated in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented prior to the
date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities,
and (ii) since the latest date as of which information is given in the
Prospectus as amended or supplemented prior to the date of the Pricing
Agreement relating to the Designated Securities there shall not have
been any change in the capital stock (other than issuances and
forfeitures of capital stock in connection with equity-based
compensation plans of the company and issuances of stock upon the
exercise, conversion or exchange of any outstanding securities of the
Company that are excisable to purchase, or convertible into or
exchangeable for, capital stock and purchases of capital stock pursuant
to any stock repurchase program disclosed in the Prospectus as amended
or supplemented) or any increase in excess of $40 million in the
long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries otherwise than
as set forth or contemplated in the Prospectus as so amended or
supplemented or any change, or any development involving a prospective
change, in or affecting the general affairs, management, financial
position, stockholders' equity or results of operations of the Company
and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, otherwise than as set forth or
contemplated in the Prospectus as amended or supplemented prior to the
date of the Pricing Agreement relating to the Designated Securities,
the effect of which, in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii),
is in the judgment of the Representatives so material and adverse as to
make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public
offering or the delivery of the Designated Securities on the terms and
in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus;
(h) On or after the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to
the Designated Securities (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the
rating accorded the Company's debt securities or preferred stock by any
"nationally recognized statistical rating organization", as that term
is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the
Act, and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that
it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative
implications, its rating of any of the Company's debt securities or
preferred stock;
(i) On or after the date of the Pricing Agreement relating to
the Designated Securities there shall not have occurred any of the
following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in
securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange; (ii) a suspension
or material limitation in trading in the Company's securities on the
New York Stock Exchange; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial
banking activities declared by either Federal or New York State
authorities; or (iv) the outbreak or escalation of hostilities
involving the United States or the declaration by the United States of
a national emergency or war, if the effect of any such event
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specified in this Clause (iv) in the judgment of the Representatives
makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public
offering or the delivery of the Designated Securities on the terms and
in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus as first amended or
supplemented relating to the Designated Securities;
(j) The Company shall have complied with the provisions of
Section 5(c) hereof with respect to the furnishing of prospectuses on
the New York Business Day next succeeding the date of the Pricing
Agreement relating to such Designated Securities; and
(k) The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished
to the Representatives at the Time of Delivery for the Designated
Securities a certificate or certificates signed on behalf of the
Company by the Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer and
another senior officer of the Company substantially in the form of
Annex VII hereto (including any additional matters as the
Representatives may reasonably request) and otherwise satisfactory to
the Representatives and counsel to the Representatives.
8 (a) The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter
against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which
such Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such
losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out
of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary
prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented and any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any
amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission
or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated
therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and will
reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred
by such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such
action or claim as such expenses are incurred; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the
Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss,
claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any Preliminary
Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement,
the Prospectus as amended or supplemented and any other prospectus relating to
the Securities, or any such amendment or supplement in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter
of Designated Securities through the Representatives expressly for use in the
Prospectus as amended or supplemented relating to such Securities.
(b) Each Underwriter will indemnify and hold harmless the Company
against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company may
become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims,
damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based
upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact
contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary prospectus supplement,
the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or supplemented and any
other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any amendment or supplement
thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to
state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to
the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission
or alleged omission was made in any Preliminary Prospectus, any preliminary
prospectus supplement, the Registration Statement, the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented and any other prospectus relating to the Securities, or any such
amendment or supplement in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through the
Representatives expressly for use therein; and will reimburse the Company for
any legal or other
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expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in connection with investigating or
defending any such action or claim as such expenses are incurred.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a)
or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party
shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying
party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the
commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall
not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party
otherwise than under such subsection. In case any such action shall be brought
against any indemnified party and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the
commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate
therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other
indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with
counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the
consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and,
after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its
election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be
liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of
other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such
indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable
costs of investigation. No indemnifying party shall, without the written consent
of the indemnified party, effect the settlement or compromise of, or consent to
the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action or
claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought
hereunder (whether or not the indemnified party is an actual or potential party
to such action or claim) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (i)
includes an unconditional release of the indemnified party from all liability
arising out of such action or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to
or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of
any indemnified party.
(d) If the indemnification provided for in this Section 8 is
unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under
subsection (a) or (b) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each
indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or
actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the
relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters
of the Designated Securities on the other from the offering of the Designated
Securities to which such loss, claim, damage or liability (or action in respect
thereof) relates. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately
preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the indemnified
party failed to give the notice required under subsection (c) above, then each
indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such
indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such
relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and
the Underwriters of the Designated Securities on the other in connection with
the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or
liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant
equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the
one hand and such Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same
proportion as the total net proceeds from such offering (before deducting
expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and
commissions received by such Underwriters. The relative fault shall be
determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged
untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state
a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand
or such Underwriters on the other and the parties' relative intent, knowledge,
access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or
omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and
equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (d) were determined by PRO
RATA allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such
purpose) or by any other
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method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations
referred to above in this subsection (d). The amount paid or payable by an
indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or
actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (d) shall be
deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such
indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action
or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), no Underwriter
shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the
total price at which the applicable Designated Securities underwritten by it and
distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any
damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of
such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No
person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section
11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not
guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The obligations of the Underwriters
of Designated Securities in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in
proportion to their respective underwriting obligations with respect to such
Securities and not joint.
(e) The obligations of the Company under this Section 8 shall be in
addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have and shall extend,
upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any
Underwriter within the meaning of the Act; and the obligations of the
Underwriters under this Section 8 shall be in addition to any liability which
the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same
terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the Company including any
person who, with his or her consent, is named in the Registration Statement as
about to become a director of the Company and to each person, if any, who
controls the Company within the meaning of the Act.
9 (a) If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase
the Designated Securities which it has agreed to purchase under the Pricing
Agreement relating to such Designated Securities, the Representatives may in
their discretion arrange for themselves or another party or other parties to
purchase such Designated Securities on the terms contained herein. If within
thirty-six hours after such default by any Underwriter the Representatives do
not arrange for the purchase of such Designated Securities, then the Company
shall be entitled to a further period of thirty-six hours within which to
procure another party or other parties satisfactory to the Representatives to
purchase such Designated Securities on such terms. In the event that, within the
respective prescribed period, the Representatives notify the Company that they
have so arranged for the purchase of such Designated Securities, or the Company
notifies the Representatives that it has so arranged for the purchase of such
Designated Securities, the Representatives or the Company shall have the right
to postpone the Time of Delivery for such Designated Securities for a period of
not more than seven days, in order to effect whatever changes may thereby be
made necessary in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus as amended or
supplemented, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees
to file promptly any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus which in the opinion of the Representatives may thereby be made
necessary. The term "Underwriter" as used in this Agreement shall include any
person substituted under this Section with like effect as if such person had
originally been a party to the Pricing Agreement with respect to such Designated
Securities.
(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the
Designated Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the
Representatives and the Company as provided in subsection (a) above, the
aggregate principal amount of such Designated Securities which remains
unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of
the Designated Securities, then the Company shall have the right to require each
non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the principal amount of Designated
Securities which such Underwriter agreed to purchase under the
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Pricing Agreement relating to such Designated Securities and, in addition, to
require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase its pro rata share (based on
the principal amount of Designated Securities which such Underwriter agreed to
purchase under such Pricing Agreement) of the Designated Securities of such
defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been
made; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability
for its default.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the
Designated Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the
Representatives and the Company as provided in subsection (a) above, the
aggregate principal amount of Designated Securities which remains unpurchased
exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of the Designated
Securities, as referred to in subsection (b) above, or if the Company shall not
exercise the right described in subsection (b) above to require non-defaulting
Underwriters to purchase Designated Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or
Underwriters, then the Pricing Agreement relating to such Designated Securities
shall thereupon terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting
Underwriter or the Company, except for the expenses to be borne by the Company
and the Underwriters as provided in Section 6 hereof and the indemnity and
contribution agreements in Section 8 hereof; but nothing herein shall relieve a
defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.
10 The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties
and other statements of the Company and the several Underwriters, as set forth
in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to
this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any
investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf
of any Underwriter or any controlling person of any Underwriter, or the Company,
or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company, and shall
survive delivery of and payment for the Securities.
11 If any Pricing Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 9
hereof, the Company shall not then be under any liability to any Underwriter
with respect to the Designated Securities covered by such Pricing Agreement
except as provided in Sections 6 and 8 hereof; but, if for any other reason
Designated Securities are not delivered by or on behalf of the Company as
provided herein, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters through the
Representatives for all out-of-pocket expenses approved in writing by the
Representatives, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably
incurred by the Underwriters in making preparations for the purchase, sale and
delivery of such Designated Securities, but the Company shall then be under no
further liability to any Underwriter with respect to such Designated Securities
except as provided in Sections 6 and 8 hereof.
12 In all dealings hereunder, the Representatives of the Underwriters
of Designated Securities shall act on behalf of each of such Underwriters, and
the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement,
request, notice or agreement on behalf of any Underwriter made or given by such
Representatives jointly or by such of the Representatives, if any, as may be
designated for such purpose in the Pricing Agreement.
All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in
writing, and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered or sent by mail, telex or
facsimile transmission to the address of the Representatives as set forth in the
Pricing Agreement; and if to the Company shall be delivered or sent by mail,
telex or facsimile transmission to the address of the Company set forth in the
Registration Statement: Attention: General Counsel; provided, however, that any
notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 8(c) hereof shall be delivered or
sent by mail, telex or facsimile transmission to such Underwriter at its address
set forth in its Underwriters' Questionnaire, or telex constituting such
Questionnaire, which
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address will be supplied to the Company by the Representatives upon request. Any
such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect upon receipt
thereof.
13 This Agreement and each Pricing Agreement shall be binding upon, and
inure solely to the benefit of, the Underwriters, the Company and, to the extent
provided in Sections 8 and 10 hereof, the officers and directors of the Company
and each person who controls the Company or any Underwriter, and their
respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and no
other person shall acquire or have any right under or by virtue of this
Agreement or any such Pricing Agreement. No purchaser of any of the Securities
from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of
such purchase.
14 Time shall be of the essence of each Pricing Agreement. As used
herein, "business day" shall mean any day when the Commission's office in
Washington, D.C. is open for business.
15 THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH PRICING AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
16 This Agreement and each Pricing Agreement may be executed by any one
or more of the parties hereto and thereto in any number of counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such respective counterparts
shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding,
please sign and return to us one for the Company and for each of the
Representatives plus one for each counsel counterparts hereof.
Very truly yours,
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
By: /s/ Gary C. Wilkerson
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Name: Gary C. Wilkerson
Title: Vice-President
Accepted as of the date hereof:
GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
By: /s/ Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Exhibit 1.2
PRICING AGREEMENT
Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
As Representative of the several
Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto,
c/o Goldman, Sachs & Co.,
85 Broad Street,
New York, New York 10004.
AUGUST 15, 2000
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein and in the
Underwriting Agreement, dated August 15, 2000 (the "Underwriting Agreement"),
between the Company on the one hand and Goldman, Sachs & Co., Banc of America
Securities LLC, UBS Warburg LLC and Wachovia Securities, Inc. on the other hand,
to issue and sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the
"Underwriters") the Securities specified in Schedule II hereto (the "Designated
Securities"). Each of the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement is
incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, and shall be deemed to be a
part of this Agreement to the same extent as if such provisions had been set
forth in full herein; and each of the representations and warranties set forth
therein shall be deemed to have been made at and as of the date of this Pricing
Agreement, except that each representation and warranty which refers to the
Prospectus in Section 2 of the Underwriting Agreement shall be deemed to be a
representation or warranty as of the date of the Underwriting Agreement in
relation to the Prospectus (as therein defined), and also a representation and
warranty as of the date of this Pricing Agreement in relation to the Prospectus
as amended or supplemented relating to the Designated Securities which are the
subject of this Pricing Agreement. Each reference to the Representatives herein
and in the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement so incorporated by reference
shall be deemed to refer to you. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined
in the Underwriting Agreement are used herein as therein defined. The
Representatives designated to act on behalf of the Representatives and on behalf
of each of the Underwriters of the Designated Securities pursuant to Section 12
of the Underwriting Agreement and the address of the Representatives referred to
in such Section 12 are set forth at the end of Schedule II hereto.
An amendment to the Registration Statement, or a supplement to the
Prospectus, as the case may be, relating to the Designated Securities, in the
form heretofore delivered to you is now proposed to be filed with the
Commission.
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the
Underwriting Agreement incorporated herein by reference, the Company agrees to
issue and sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees,
severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the time and place
and at the purchase price to the Underwriters set forth in Schedule II hereto,
the principal amount of Designated Securities set forth opposite the name of
such Underwriter in Schedule I hereto.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please sign and
return to us one for the Company and each of the Representatives plus one for
each counsel counterparts hereof, and upon acceptance hereof by you, on behalf
of each of the Underwriters, this letter and such acceptance hereof, including
the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement incorporated herein by reference,
shall constitute a binding agreement between each of the Underwriters and the
Company. It is understood that your acceptance of this letter on behalf of each
of the Underwriters is or will be pursuant to the authority set forth in a form
of Agreement among Underwriters, the form of which shall be submitted to the
Company for examination upon request, but without warranty on the part of the
Representatives as to the authority of other Underwriters party thereto.
Very truly yours,
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
By: /s/ Gary C. Wilkerson
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Name: Gary C. Wilkerson
Title: Vice-President
Accepted as of the date hereof:
GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.
By: /s/ Goldman, Sachs & Co.
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Name:
Title:
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
On behalf of each of the Underwriters
SCHEDULE I
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF
8.875% SENIOR NOTES 8.500% SENIOR NOTES
UNDERWRITER DUE 2010 TO BE DUE 2005 TO BE
- ----------- PURCHASED PURCHASED
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GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO. $130,000,000 $123,500,000
BANC OFAMERICA SECURITIES LLC $ 40,000,000 $ 38,000,000
UBS WARBURG LLC $ 20,000,000 $ 19,000,000
WACHOVIA SECURITIES, INC. $ 10,000,000 $ 9,500,000
TOTAL $200,000,000 $190,000,000
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SCHEDULE II
TITLE OF DESIGNATED SECURITIES:
8.875% Senior Notes due August 15, 2010
8.500% Senior Notes due August 15, 2005
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT:
Senior Notes due 2010: $200,000,000
Senior Notes due 2005: $190,000,000
PRICE TO PUBLIC:
Senior Notes due 2010: 99.526% of the principal amount
Senior Notes due 2005: 99.618% of the principal amount
PURCHASE PRICE BY UNDERWRITERS:
Senior Notes due 2010: 98.876% of the principal amount
Senior Notes due 2005: 99.018% of the principal amount
FORM OF DESIGNATED SECURITIES:
Book-entry only form represented by one or more global securities
deposited with The Depository Trust Company ("DTC") or its designated
custodian, to be made available for checking by the Representatives at
least twenty-four hours prior to the Time of Delivery at the office of
DTC.
SPECIFIED FUNDS FOR PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE:
Federal (same day) funds
TIME OF DELIVERY:
10 a.m. (New York City time), August 18, 2000
INDENTURE:
Indenture dated April 2, 1999, between the Company and Bank One Trust
Company, N.A., as Trustee
MATURITY:
Senior Notes due 2010: August 15, 2010
Senior Notes due 2005: August 15, 2005
INTEREST RATE:
Senior Notes due 2010: 8.875%
Senior Notes due 2005: 8.500%
INTEREST PAYMENT DATES:
February 15 and August 15, commencing February 15, 2001
REDEMPTION PROVISIONS:
The securities will be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option
of the Company at any time at a redemption price equal to the greater of (1)
100% of the principal amount of the securities to be redeemed and (2) as
determined by a Quotation Agent, the sum of the present values of the
remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon (not including
any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the date of
redemption) discounted to the redemption date on a semiannual basis (assuming
a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury
Rate plus 20 basis points in the case of the 8.500% senior notes, and at the
Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points in the case of the 8.875% senior
notes, together in either case with accrued interest on the principal amount
being redeemed to the date of redemption.
"Adjusted Treasury Rate" means, with respect to any redemption date,
the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of
the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury
Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.
"Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury security
selected by a Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the remaining
term of the 8.500% senior notes or the 8.875% senior notes, as applicable, that
would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary
financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of
comparable maturity to the remaining term of 8.500% senior notes or the 8.875%
senior notes, as applicable.
"Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any redemption date,
(1) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption
date, after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, or (2) if the trustee obtains fewer than three such Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Quotations.
"Quotation Agent" means the Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the
trustee after consultation with the Company.
"Reference Treasury Dealer" means (1) Goldman, Sachs & Co. and its
successors; provided, however, that if the foregoing shall cease to be a primary
U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a "Primary Treasury
Dealer"), the Company is required to substitute therefor another Primary
Treasury Dealer, and (2) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the
trustee after consultation with the Company.
"Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by
the trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in
writing to the trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the
third business day preceding such redemption date.
CHANGE OF CONTROL:
Following a Change of Control, the Company will be obligated to offer
to repurchase all or any part (equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple
thereof) of each holder's securities pursuant to the offer described below
(the "Change of Control Offer") at a price in cash equal to 101% of the
aggregate principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date
of purchase (the "Change of Control Payment").
"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the following: any
"person" or "group" (as such terms are used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange
Act) becomes the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5
under the Exchange Act) of more than 50% of the total voting stock of the
Company; the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, another
Person or another Person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the
Company, in either case pursuant to a transaction in which the outstanding
voting stock of the Company is converted into or exchanged for cash,
securities, or other property, other than any such transaction where (1)
immediately after such transaction no "person" or "group" (as such terms are
used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) is the "beneficial owner" (as
defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), of more than 50% of
the total voting stock (or comparable equity securities) of the Person
created by or surviving such transaction and (2) the holders of a majority of
the total voting stock of the Company immediately prior to such transaction
hold, immediately following such transaction, a majority of the total voting
stock (or comparable equity securities) of the Person created by or surviving
such transaction; the sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries as a whole to any "person" or "group" (as such terms
are used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act); during any consecutive
two-year period, individuals who at the beginning of the period constituted
the Board of Directors of the Company (together with any new directors whose
election by the Board of Directors of the Company or whose nomination for
election by the stockholders of the Company was approved by a vote of a
majority of the directors then still in office who were either directors at
the beginning of the period or whose election or nomination for election was
previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the
Board of Directors of the Company then in office; or the dissolution or
liquidation of the Company.
DEFEASANCE:
Except as described below, upon compliance with the applicable
requirements described below, the Company: (1) will be deemed to have been
discharged from its obligations with respect to a tranche of the securities;
or (2) will be released from its obligations to comply with the covenants
described above with respect to the securities of that tranche, and the
occurrence of the following events of default: (a) failure to redeem, or to
pay the repurchase price for, any security of such tranche when required; (b)
failure to perform any other covenant of the Company in the indenture or the
applicable supplemental indenture (other than a covenant included therein
solely for the benefit of a series of debt securities other than the
securities of such tranche), which failure continues for 60 calendar days
after written notice as provided in the indenture or the applicable
supplemental indenture; (c) any nonpayment at maturity or other default
(beyond any applicable grace period) under any agreement or instrument relating
to any
other Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary (the unpaid
principal amount of which is not less than $50.0 million), which default results
in the acceleration of the maturity of such Indebtedness prior to its stated
maturity or occurs at the final maturity thereof; and (d) the entry of any final
judgments or orders against the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in
excess of $50.0 million individually or in the aggregate (not covered by
insurance) that is not paid, discharged or otherwise stayed (by appeal or
otherwise) within 60 calendar days after the entry of such judgments or orders.
SINKING FUND PROVISIONS:
No sinking fund provisions.
CLOSING LOCATION FOR DELIVERY OF DESIGNATED SECURITIES:
New York, New York
ADDITIONAL CLOSING CONDITIONS:
No additional closing conditions.
DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE:
Goldman Sachs & Co.
85 Broad Street
New York, New York 10004
Susan Healy
Exhibit 4.1
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LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
and
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
TRUSTEE
FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL TRUST INDENTURE
DATED AS OF AUGUST 18, 2000
Supplementing that certain
INDENTURE
DATED AS OF APRIL 2, 1999
Authorizing the Issuance and Delivery of
Senior Notes
consisting of $190,000,000 aggregate principal amount of
8.500% Senior Notes Due 2005
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
RECITALS 1
[Form of Face of Security] 2
[Form of Reverse of Security] 3
ARTICLE I. ISSUANCE OF SENIOR NOTES. 8
SECTION I.1. ISSUANCE OF SENIOR NOTES; PRINCIPAL AMOUNT; MATURITY. 8
SECTION I.2. INTEREST ON THE SENIOR NOTES; PAYMENT OF INTEREST. 9
SECTION I.3. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF SECURITIES. 9
ARTICLE II. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS. 9
SECTION II.1. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS. 9
ARTICLE III. CERTAIN COVENANTS. 13
SECTION III.1. LIENS 13
SECTION III.2. SALE AND LEASE-BACK TRANSACTIONS. 15
SECTION III.3. OFFER TO REPURCHASE UPON CHANGE OF CONTROL 15
SECTION III.4. PERMITTING UNRESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES TO BECOME
RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES 16
SECTION III.5. PAYMENT OFFICE 17
ARTICLE IV. ADDITIONAL EVENTS OF DEFAULT. 17
SECTION IV.1. ADDITIONAL EVENTS OF DEFAULT. 17
ARTICLE V. DEFEASANCE. 18
SECTION V.1. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE V OF THE INDENTURE 18
ARTICLE VI. REDEMPTION OF SENIOR NOTES 18
SECTION VI.1. RIGHT OF REDEMPTION 18
ARTICLE VII. MISCELLANEOUS. 18
SECTION VII.1. REFERENCE TO AND EFFECT ON THE INDENTURE 19
SECTION VII.2. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS 19
SECTION VII.3. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE MAY BE EXECUTED IN COUNTERPARTS 19
SECTION VII.4. EFFECT OF HEADINGS 19
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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of August 18, 2000, between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "COMPANY"), and Bank One Trust Company,
N.A. (as successor in interest to The First National Bank of Chicago), a
national banking association duly incorporated under the laws of the United
States of America, as Trustee (the "TRUSTEE"), supplementing that certain
Indenture, dated as of April 2, 1999, between the Company and the Trustee (the
"INDENTURE").
RECITALS
A. The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of the
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness (the "SECURITIES") to be
issued in one or more series as provided for in the Indenture.
B. The Indenture provides that the Securities of each series shall
be in substantially the form set forth in the Indenture, or in such other form
as may be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more
indentures supplemental thereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions, and other variations as are required or permitted by
the Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers, or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities,
as evidenced by their execution thereof.
C. The Company and the Trustee have agreed that the Company shall
issue and deliver, and the Trustee shall authenticate, Securities denominated
"8.500% Senior Notes Due 2005" (the "SENIOR NOTES") pursuant to the terms of
this Supplemental Indenture and substantially in the form set forth below, in
each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, and other
variations as are required or permitted by the Indenture and this Supplemental
Indenture, and with such letters, numbers, or other marks of identification and
such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with
the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Senior Notes, as evidenced by their
execution of such Senior Notes.
[Form of Face of Security]
This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture
hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depositary or a
nominee thereof. This Security may not be transferred to, or registered or
exchanged for Securities registered in the name of, any Person other than the
Depositary or a nominee thereof, and no such transfer may be registered, except
in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture. Every Security
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for
or in lieu of, this Security shall be a Global Security subject to the
foregoing, except in such limited circumstances.
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
8.500% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2005
No. __ $___________
Cusip No. 546347 AA 3
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, a corporation duly organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the
"COMPANY," which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede &
Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $ on August 15, 2005 and to pay
interest thereon from August 18, 2000 or from the most recent Interest Payment
Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually on
February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing on February 15, 2001, at the
rate of 8.500% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available
for payment. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in said Indenture, be paid to
the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities)
is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest, which shall be the February 1 or August 1 (whether or not a Business
Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such
interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the
Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be
given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 calendar days
prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful
manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on
which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may
be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
Subject, in the case of any Global Security, to any applicable
requirements of the Depositary, payment of the principal of and interest on this
Security shall be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for the
purpose in New York, New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that at the option of the Company payment of
interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address appears in the Security Register.
REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS SET FORTH ON THE
REVERSE HEREOF. SUCH PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS
THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.
This Security shall not be valid or become obligatory for any
purpose until the certificate of authentication herein has been signed manually
by the Trustee under said Indenture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this instrument has been duly executed in
accordance with the Indenture.
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
Date Issued: By:______________________________
Attest:
By:___________________
[Form of Reverse of Security]
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "SECURITIES") issued and to be issued in one or more
series under an Indenture, dated as of April 2, 1999 (herein called the
"INDENTURE"), between the Company and Bank One Trust Company, N.A. (as successor
in interest to The First National Bank of Chicago) as Trustee (herein called the
"TRUSTEE," which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to
which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties, and
immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee, and the Holders of the
Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on
the face hereof, limited in aggregate principal amount to $190,000,000.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company is required
to offer to purchase the Securities at a purchase price equal to 101% of the
principal amount thereof, together with accrued and unpaid interest to the
Change of Control Payment Date, but interest installments with a Stated Maturity
on or prior to such Change of Control Payment Date shall be payable to the
Holders of such Securities of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.
In the event of the repurchase of this Security in part only, a new
Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the portion hereof
not so repurchased shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the
cancellation hereof.
The Securities are redeemable in whole or in part, at the option of
the Company at any time and from time to time, on not less than 30 or more than
60 days' prior notice mailed to the Holders of the Securities, at a Redemption
Price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities
to be redeemed and (ii) as determined by a Quotation Agent, the sum of the
present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments thereon discounted to the
Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of
twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points,
together in either case with accrued interest on the principal amount being
redeemed to the Redemption Date.
"ADJUSTED TREASURY RATE" means, with respect to any Redemption Date,
the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity
(computed as of the second business day immediately preceding such Redemption
Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable
Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.
"COMPARABLE TREASURY ISSUE" means the United States Treasury
security selected by a Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the
remaining term of the Securities that would be utilized, at the time of
selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new
issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term
of the Securities.
"COMPARABLE TREASURY PRICE" means, with respect to any Redemption
Date, (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such
Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Trustee obtains fewer than three such
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Quotations.
"QUOTATION AGENT" means the Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by
the Trustee after consultation with the Company.
"REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER" means (i) Goldman, Sachs & Co. and its
successors; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the foregoing shall cease to be a primary
U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a "PRIMARY TREASURY
DEALER"), the Company shall designate as a substitute therefor another Primary
Treasury Dealer, and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the
Trustee after consultation with the Company.
"REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER QUOTATIONS" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by
the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in
writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer as of 5:00 p.m., New
York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
"REMAINING SCHEDULED PAYMENTS" means, with respect to each Security
to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of the principal thereof and
interest thereon that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for
such redemption, except that, if such Redemption Date is not an interest payment
date with respect to such Security, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled
interest payment thereon shall be reduced by the amount of interest accrued
thereon to such Redemption Date.
On and after any Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on
the Securities or any portion thereof called for redemption. Prior to any
Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with a paying agent money sufficient
to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be
redeemed on such date. If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee by such method as the
Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate in accordance with methods generally
used at the time of selection by fiduciaries in similar circumstances.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (a)
the entire indebtedness of this Security or (b) certain restrictive covenants
and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon
compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series
shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series
may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in
the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
effected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration
of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not
notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the
Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding
with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or
for any other remedy thereunder unless such Holder shall have previously given
the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee
shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request and shall have failed to institute such proceeding for 60 calendar
days after receipt of such notice, request, and offer of indemnity. The
foregoing shall apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for
the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest
hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security at the times, place, and rate, and in the
coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of
this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount, shall be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form
without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount
of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized
denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security shall be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Trustee, nor any such agent shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
Unless this Security is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company (55 Water Street, New York, New York) to the
Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any
Security issued upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu
of, this Security is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such other name as
requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company and
payment hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF
FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL because the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
D. The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in
substantially the following form:
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated: _________________
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
as Trustee
By:___________________________
AUTHORIZED OFFICER
E. All acts and things necessary to make the Senior Notes, when the
Senior Notes have been executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee
and delivered as provided in the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, the
valid, binding, and legal obligations of the Company and to constitute these
presents a valid indenture and agreement according to its terms, have been done
and performed, and the execution and delivery by the Company of the Indenture
and this Supplemental Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Senior Notes have
in all respects been duly authorized; and the Company, in the exercise of legal
right and power in it vested, has executed and delivered the Indenture and is
executing and delivering this Supplemental Indenture and proposes to make,
execute, issue, and deliver the Senior Notes.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
In order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Senior
Notes are authenticated, issued, and delivered, and in consideration of the
premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Senior Notes by the Holders
thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of the
respective Holders from time to time of the Senior Notes, as follows:
ARTICLE I. ISSUANCE OF SENIOR NOTES.
SECTION I.1. ISSUANCE OF SENIOR NOTES; PRINCIPAL AMOUNT; MATURITY.
(a) On August 18, 2000 the Company shall issue and deliver to the
Trustee, and the Trustee shall authenticate, Senior Notes substantially in the
form set forth above, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions, and other variations as are required or permitted by the
Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, and with such letters, numbers, or
other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as
may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Senior
Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Senior Notes.
(b) The Senior Notes shall be issued in the aggregate principal
amount of $190,000,000 and shall mature on August 15, 2005.
SECTION I.2. INTEREST ON THE SENIOR NOTES; PAYMENT OF INTEREST.
(a) The Senior Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 8.500% per
annum from August 18, 2000, except in the case of Senior Notes delivered
pursuant to Sections 2.05 or 2.07 of the Indenture, which shall bear interest
from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or
duly provided for, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for
payment. Such interest shall be payable semiannually on February 15 and August
15 of each year, commencing February 15, 2001.
(b) The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided
for, on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in such Indenture, be paid
to the Person in whose name a Senior Note (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest, which shall be the February 1 or August 1 (whether or not a
Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith
cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be
paid to the Person in whose name the Senior Note (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice
whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10
calendar days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which the Senior Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.
(c) Subject, in the case of any Global Security, to any applicable
requirements of the Depositary, payment of the principal of and interest on the
Senior Notes shall be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
the purpose in New York, New York, in such coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that at the option of the Company payment of
interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address appears in the Security Register.
SECTION I.3. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF SECURITIES.
The Senior Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Company by the
Chairman or any Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, or any Vice President of the Company and attested by the
Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer, or any Assistant Secretary of
the Company, in each case by either manual or facsimile signature.
ARTICLE II. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS.
SECTION II.1. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS.
The terms defined in this Section 2.1 (except as herein otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context of this Supplemental Indenture
otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture and of any
indenture supplemental hereto have the respective meanings specified in this
Section 2.1. All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with GAAP. All other terms used in this
Supplemental Indenture that are defined in the Indenture or the Trust Indenture
Act, either directly or by reference therein (except as herein otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context of this Supplemental Indenture
otherwise requires), have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the
Indenture or the Trust Indenture Act, as the case may be, as in force at the
date of this Supplemental Indenture as originally executed.
"CAPITAL STOCK" means, with respect to any Person, any and all
shares, interests, participations, rights in or other equivalents (however
designated) of such Person's capital stock or equity interests (including
without limitation, with respect to partnerships, limited liability companies or
business trusts, ownership interests (whether general or limited) and any other
interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share
of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, such partnerships,
limited liability companies or business trusts) and any rights (other than debt
securities convertible into such capital stock or equity interests), warrants or
options exchangeable for or convertible into such capital stock or equity
interests.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL" means the occurrence of any of the following
events: (a) any "PERSON" or "GROUP" (as such terms are used in Section 13(d) of
the Exchange Act) becomes the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and
13d-5 under Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total
Voting Stock of the Company; (b) the Company consolidates with, or merges with
or into, another Person, or another Person consolidates with, or merges with or
into, the Company, in either case pursuant to a transaction in which the
outstanding Voting Stock of the Company is converted into or exchanged for cash,
securities, or other property, other than any such transaction where (i)
immediately after such transaction no "person" or "group" (as such terms are
used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) is the "beneficial owner" (as defined
in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
more than 50% of the total Voting Stock of the Person created by or surviving
such transaction and (ii) the holders of a majority of the total Voting Stock of
the Company immediately prior to such transaction hold, immediately following
such transaction, a majority of the total Voting Stock (or comparable equity
securities) of the Person created by or surviving such transaction;(c) the sale,
assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries
as a whole to any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used in Section 13(d)
of the Exchange Act), (d) during any consecutive two-year period, individuals
who at the beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors (together
with any new directors whose election by such Board of Directors or whose
nomination for election by the stockholders of the Company was approved by a
vote of a majority of the directors then still in office who were either
directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for
election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a
majority of the Board of Directors then in office; or (e) the dissolution or
liquidation of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction
effected to create a holding company of the Company will not be deemed to
involve a Change of Control if (1) pursuant to such transaction the Company
becomes a wholly owned Subsidiary of such holding company and (2) the holders of
the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following such transaction
are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company
immediately prior to such transaction.
"CONSOLIDATED NET TANGIBLE ASSETS" means total assets (less
accumulated depreciation and valuation reserves and other reserves and items
deductible from gross book value of specific asset accounts under GAAP) after
deducting therefrom (i) all current liabilities and (ii) all goodwill, trade
names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount, organization expenses,
and other like intangibles, all as set forth on the most recent balance sheet of
the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries and computed in accordance with
GAAP.
"DEBT" means (i) all indebtedness, whether or not represented by
bonds, debentures, notes or other securities, for the repayment of money
borrowed and (ii) all guaranties, endorsements, assumptions and other
contractual obligations in respect of, or to purchase or to otherwise acquire,
indebtedness of others.
"FUNDED DEBT" means any Debt which by its terms matures more than
one year after, or which is renewable or extendible at the option of the obligor
for a period ending more than one year after, the date as of which Funded Debt
is being determined, and shall include (i) any Debt that so matures or that is
so renewable or extendible incurred, assumed or guaranteed by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary, either directly or indirectly, (ii) any deferred
indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for the payment of the
purchase price of property or assets purchased that so matures or that is so
renewable or extendible, and (iii) any indebtedness secured by a mortgage, lien,
security interest, pledge, assignment or transfer on, in or of any property of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and upon which the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary customarily pays the interest, that so matures or that is
so renewable or extendible.
"PRINCIPAL PROPERTY" means any mill, converting plant or
manufacturing facility (including, in each case, the equipment therein) and any
timberland, in each case located within the continental Untied States of America
(other than any of the foregoing acquired principally for the control or
abatement of atmospheric pollutants or contaminants or water, noise, odor or
other pollution, or any facility financed from the proceeds of pollution control
or revenue bonds), whether owned on the date hereof or hereafter acquired,
having a gross book value (without deduction of any applicable accumulated
depreciation) on the date as of which the determination is being made of more
than 5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets, but shall not include any minerals
or mineral rights, or any timberland designated by the Board of Directors of the
Company or of a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, as being held
primarily for investment, development and/or sale.
"RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY" means any Subsidiary of the Company other
than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
"SALE AND LEASE-BACK TRANSACTION" means, with respect to any Person,
an arrangement with any bank, insurance company or other lender or investor or
to which such lender or investor is a party providing for the leasing pursuant
to a Capital Lease to such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person of any
property or asset of such Person or such Subsidiary which has been or is being
sold or transferred by such Person or such Subsidiary to such lender or investor
or to any Person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such lender or
investor on the security of such property or asset, other than (a) leases for a
term, including renewals at the option of the lessee, of not more than three
years, by the end of which term it is intended that the use of such property or
asset by such Person will be discontinued, (b) leases between the Company and a
Restricted Subsidiary or between Restricted Subsidiaries, provided that any
Restricted Subsidiary that is a lessee under any such lease continues to be a
Restricted Subsidiary for the term of such lease, and (c) leases entered into
within 120 days after the later of the acquisition or the completion of
construction or improvement of the property to be leased.
"SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARY" means any Subsidiary of the Company that
accounts for (a) 10.0% or more of the total consolidated assets of the Company
and its Subsidiaries as of any date of determination or (b) 10.0% or more of the
total consolidated revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the most
recently concluded fiscal quarter.
"UNRESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY" means (a) L-P SPV, Inc. and L-P SPV2, LLC,
(b) any Subsidiary of the Company the primary business of which consists of, and
is restricted by the charter, partnership agreement, or similar organizational
document of such Subsidiary to, financing operations on behalf of the Company
and its Subsidiaries, and/or purchasing accounts receivable or direct or
indirect interests therein and/or making loans secured by accounts receivable or
direct or indirect interests therein (and business related to the foregoing), or
which is otherwise primarily engaged in, and restricted by its charter,
partnership agreement, or similar organizational document to, the business of a
finance company (and business related thereto), which, in accordance with the
provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, has been designated by Board
Resolution as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, in each case unless and until any of
the Subsidiaries of the Company referred to in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b)
is, in accordance with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, designated
by a Board Resolution as a Restricted Subsidiary, and (c) any Subsidiary of the
Company of which, in the case of a corporation, more than 50% of the issued and
outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of
the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether at the time
capital stock of any other class or classes of such corporation has or might
have voting power upon the occurrence of any contingency), or, in the case of
any partnership or other legal entity, more than 50% of the ordinary equity
capital interests, is at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by
one or more Unrestricted Subsidiaries and the primary business of which consists
of, and is restricted by the charter, partnership agreement, or similar
organizational document of such Subsidiary to, financing operations on behalf of
the Company and its Subsidiaries, and/or purchasing accounts receivable or
direct or indirect interests therein, and/or making loans secured by accounts
receivable or direct or indirect interests therein (and business related to the
foregoing), or which is otherwise primarily engaged in, and restricted by its
charter, partnership agreement, or similar organizational document to, the
business of a finance company (and business related thereto).
"VALUE" means with respect to a Sale and Lease-Back Transaction, as
of any particular time, an amount equal to (1) the greater of (a) the fair value
of the property leased pursuant to such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction (as
determined by the Board of Directors of Louisiana-Pacific or a Person designated
by such Board of Directors) and (b) the net proceeds from the sale or transfer
of the property leased pursuant to such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction divided
by (2) the number of full years of the term of the lease (determined without
regard to any renewal or extension options contained in the lease) and
multiplied by (3) the number of full years of such term remaining at the time of
determination (determined without regard to any renewal or extension options
contained in the lease).
"VOTING STOCK" means any class or classes of Capital Stock (however
designated) conferring upon the holders thereof the ordinary voting power to
elect or remove at least a majority of the board of directors, general or
managing partners, managers or trustees of any Person, determined without regard
to any voting power that has been or may be conferred by any class or classes of
Capital Stock (however designated) by reason of the occurrence of any
contingency.
ARTICLE III. CERTAIN COVENANTS.
The following covenants shall be applicable to the Company for so
long as any of the Senior Notes are Outstanding. Nothing in this paragraph will,
however, affect the Company's rights or obligations under any other provision of
the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION III.1. LIENS.
(a) The Company shall not and shall not permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to, (i) incur, assume or guarantee any Debt secured by any
mortgage, lien, security interest, pledge, assignment or transfer
(hereinafter called "mortgage" or "mortgages") on, in or of any Principal
Property of the Company or of a Restricted Subsidiary or on, in or of any
shares of stock or indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary (whether such
Principal Property, shares of stock or indebtedness is now owned or
hereafter acquired), or (ii) directly or indirectly secure any outstanding
Debt of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary by any mortgage on, in or
of any Principal Property of the Company or of a Restricted Subsidiary or
upon any shares of stock or indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary
(whether such Principal Property, shares of stock or indebtedness is now
owned or hereafter acquired), without in any such case concurrently and
effectively securing, the Senior Notes (together with, if the Company
shall so determine, any other indebtedness of or guaranteed by the Company
or such Restricted Subsidiary ranking equally with the Senior Notes and
then existing or thereafter created) with the same property equally and
ratably with such Debt; provided, however, that the foregoing restrictions
shall not apply to
(i) any mortgage on, in or of any property acquired,
constructed or improved by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
after the date of this Supplemental Indenture which is created,
incurred or assumed within 120 days after such acquisition or the
completion of such construction or improvement, or within six months
thereafter pursuant to a firm commitment for financing arranged with
a lender or investor within such 120-day period, to secure or
provide for the payment
of all or any part of the purchase price of such property (including
the purchase price of any Person that owns such property) or the
cost of such construction or improvement incurred after the date of
this Supplemental Indenture, PROVIDED that such mortgage does not
extend to or cover any property of the Company or of any Restricted
Subsidiary other than the property so acquired, constructed or
improved;
(ii) mortgages existing or in effect with respect to any
property, shares of stock or indebtedness at the time the same is
acquired by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary by merger or
otherwise;
(iii) mortgages existing or in effect with respect to any
property (including shares of stock and indebtedness) of any Person
existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary;
(iv) mortgages existing or in effect on the date of this
Supplemental Indenture;
(v) mortgages securing Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary to the
Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary;
(vi) mortgages in favor of the United States of America or any
state thereof, or any department, agency or instrumentality or
political subdivision of the United States of America or any state
thereof, to secure partial progress, advance or other payments
pursuant to any contract or statute or to secure any indebtedness
incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the
purchase price or the cost of constructing or improving the property
subject to such mortgages;
(vii) any mortgage on, in or of timberlands in connection with
an arrangement under which the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary is
obligated to cut or pay for timber in order to provide the secured
party with a specified amount of money, however determined, PROVIDED
that such mortgage does not extend to or cover any property of the
Company or of any Restricted Subsidiary other than such timberlands;
(viii) mortgages created, incurred or assumed in connection
with the issuance of revenue bonds the interest of which is exempt
from federal income taxation pursuant to Section 103(a) and related
provisions (including any successor provisions thereto) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; or
(ix) mortgages created, extended or renewed in connection with
any extension, renewal, refinancing, replacement or refunding
(including successive extensions, renewals, refinancings,
replacements or refundings), in whole or in part, of Debt secured by
any mortgage referred to in the foregoing clauses (i) to (viii);
provided, however, that the principal amount of Debt secured thereby
shall not exceed the principal amount of Debt so secured at the time
of such extension, renewal,
refinancing, replacement or refunding, and that such extension,
renewal, refinancing, replacement or refunding shall be limited to
all or a part of the property which secured the Debt so extended,
renewed, refinanced, replaced or refunded (plus improvements on such
property).
(b) The provisions of Section 3.1(a) shall not apply to the
incurrence, assumption or guarantee by the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary of Debt secured by, or the securing of any outstanding Debt of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary by, one or more mortgages (other
than mortgages permitted by Section 3.1(a)) that would otherwise be
subject to the foregoing restrictions up to an aggregate amount which,
together with (i) all other Debt of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries secured by mortgages (other than mortgages permitted by
Section 3.1(a)) that would otherwise be subject to the foregoing
restrictions and (ii) the Value of all Sale and Lease-Back Transactions
involving Principal Properties in existence at such time (other than any
Sale and Lease-Back Transaction described in Section 3.2(b)) does not at
the time exceed 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
SECTION III.2. SALE AND LEASE-BACK TRANSACTIONS.
The Company shall not and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary
to, enter into any Sale and Lease-Back Transaction involving any Principal
Property unless:
(a) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary would be permitted,
pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.1(b), to incur Debt in a principal
amount at least equal to the Value of the Sale and Lease-Back Transaction
and to secure such Debt with a mortgage on the Principal Property to be
leased, without equally and ratably securing the Senior Notes; or
(b) the Company, within 120 days of the effective date of such Sale
and Lease-Back Transaction (or in the case of (ii) below, within six
months thereafter pursuant to a firm purchase commitment entered into
within such 120-day period), causes to be applied an amount equal to the
Value of such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction (i) to the payment or other
retirement of Senior Notes or Funded Debt incurred or assumed by the
Company which ranks senior to or pari passu with the Senior Notes or of
Funded Debt incurred or assumed by any Restricted Subsidiary (other than,
in either case, Senior Notes or Funded Debt owned by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary), or (ii) to the purchase of a Principal Property
(other than the Principal Property involved in such sale);
and the consideration paid or payable to Louisiana-Pacific or a Restricted
Subsidiary in connection with the sale or transfer of the property leased
pursuant to such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction is at least equal to the fair
value of such property (as determined by the Board of Directors of
Louisiana-Pacific or a Person designated by such Board of Directors).
SECTION III.3. OFFER TO REPURCHASE UPON CHANGE OF CONTROL.
(a) Following the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company
shall make an offer (a "Change of Control Offer") to each Holder of Senior
Notes to repurchase all or any part (equal to $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof) of such Holder's Senior Notes at a
price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued
and unpaid interest thereon to the date of purchase (the "Change of
Control Payment"). The Change of Control Offer shall be made by mailing,
within 30 days following the Change of Control, a notice to the Trustee
and each Holder at the address appearing in the Security Register, by
first class mail, postage prepaid, by the Company or, at the Company's
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company,
describing the transaction or transactions that constitute the Change of
Control and offering to repurchase Senior Notes on the date specified in
such notice, which date shall be no earlier than 30 days and no later than
60 days from the date such notice is mailed (the "Change of Control
Payment Date"). The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule
14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations
under the Exchange Act to the extent such laws and regulations are
applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes as a result of a
Change of Control.
(b) On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the
extent lawful, (i) accept for payment all Senior Notes or portions thereof
properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (ii) deposit
with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in
respect of all Senior Notes or portions thereof so accepted, and (iii)
deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Senior Notes so
accepted together with an Officer's Certificate stating the aggregate
principal amount of Senior Notes or portions thereof being purchased by
the Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to each Holder of Senior
Notes so accepted the Change of Control Payment for such Senior Notes. In
the event that any Senior Note is so accepted in part only, the Trustee
shall promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book
entry) to the Holder thereof a new Senior Note equal in principal amount
to the unpurchased portion of such Senior Note; provided that each such
new Senior Note will be in a principal amount of $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof.
Acceptance of the Change of Control Offer by a Holder shall be
irrevocable (unless otherwise provided by law). The payment of accrued
interest as part of any repurchase price on any Change of Control Payment
Date shall be subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant
Regular Record Date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date
that is on or prior to such Change of Control Payment Date.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3.3,
the Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a
Change of Control if (i) the Company has effected Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance of the Senior Notes as provided in Article V of the Indenture
prior to the occurrence of the Change of Control or (ii) if a third party
makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the time and otherwise
in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Section 3.3 and
purchases all Senior Notes validly tendered pursuant to such Change of
Control Offer.
SECTION III.4. PERMITTING UNRESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES TO BECOME RESTRICTED
SUBSIDIARIES.
The Company shall not permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be
designated as a Restricted Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary is otherwise in
compliance with all provisions of the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture
that apply to Restricted Subsidiaries.
SECTION III.5. PAYMENT OFFICE.
The Company shall cause a Payment Office for the Senior Notes to be
maintained at all times in New York, New York.
ARTICLE IV. ADDITIONAL AND MODIFIED EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
SECTION IV.1. ADDITIONAL AND MODIFIED EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
In addition to the Events of Default set forth in the Indenture
(other than the Event of Default set forth in clause (v) of Section 8.01(a) of
the Indenture, which is superseded in its entirety by the provisions of clause
(b) of this Section IV.1), the term "EVENT OF DEFAULT," whenever used in the
Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture with respect to the Senior Notes, means
any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default
and whether it may be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of
law or pursuant to any judgment, decree, or order of any court or any order,
rule, or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) the failure to redeem any Senior Note when required pursuant to
the terms and conditions thereof or to pay the purchase price for any
Senior Note to be purchased in accordance with Section 3.3 of this
Supplemental Indenture;
(b) any nonpayment at maturity or other default under any agreement
or instrument relating to any other Indebtedness of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary (the unpaid principal amount of which is not less
than $50.0 million), and, in any such case, such default (i) continues
beyond any period of grace provided with respect thereto and (ii) results
in such Indebtedness becoming due prior to its stated maturity or occurs
at the final maturity of such Indebtedness; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that,
subject to the provisions of Section 9.01 and 8.08 of the Indenture, the
Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of such nonpayment or other
default unless either (1) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual
knowledge of nonpayment or other default or (2) the Trustee has received
written notice thereof from the Company, from any Holder, from the holder
of any such Indebtedness or from the trustee under the agreement or
instrument, relating to such Indebtedness;
(c) the entry of one or more final judgments or orders for the
payment of money against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, which
judgments and orders create a liability of $50.0 million or more in excess
of insured amounts and have not been stayed (by appeal or otherwise),
vacated, discharged, or otherwise satisfied within 60 calendar days of the
entry of such judgments and orders; and
(d) Events of Default of the type and subject to the conditions set
forth in clauses (vi) and (vii) of Section 8.01(a) of the Indenture in
respect of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Significant
Subsidiary or, in related events, any group of Restricted
Subsidiaries of the Company that if considered in the aggregate, would be
a Significant Subsidiary of the Company.
ARTICLE V. DEFEASANCE.
SECTION V.1. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE V OF THE INDENTURE.
(a) The Senior Notes shall be subject to Defeasance and Covenant
Defeasance as provided in Article V of the Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall be effective unless and until:
(i) there shall have been delivered to the Trustee the
opinion of a nationally recognized independent public accounting firm
certifying the sufficiency of the amount of the moneys, U.S. Government
Obligations, or a combination thereof, placed on deposit to pay, without
regard to any reinvestment, the principal of and any premium and interest
on the Senior Notes on the Stated Maturity thereof or on any earlier date
on which the Senior Notes shall be subject to redemption;
(ii) there shall have been delivered to the Trustee the
certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company certifying, on behalf
of the Company, to the effect that (A) such Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a
default under, any agreement to which the Company is a party or violate
any law to which the Company is subject and (B) no Event of Default or
event that (after notice or lapse of time or both) would become an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such deposit; and
(iii) no Event of Default specified in Sections
8.01(a)(vi) and (vii) of the Indenture or event that (after notice or
lapse of time or both) would become an Event of Default specified in
Sections 8.01(a)(vi) and (vii) of the Indenture shall have occurred and be
continuing at any time on or prior to the 124th calendar day after the
date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be
deemed satisfied until after such 124th calendar day).
(b) Upon the exercise of the option provided in Section 5.01 of the
Indenture to have Section 5.03 of the Indenture applied to the Outstanding
Senior Notes, in addition to the obligations from which the Company shall be
released specified in the Indenture, the Company shall be released from its
obligations under Article III hereof.
ARTICLE VI. REDEMPTION OF SENIOR NOTES.
SECTION VI.1. RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.
The Senior Notes may be redeemed by the Company in accordance with
the provisions of the form of Securities set forth herein.
ARTICLE VII. MISCELLANEOUS.
SECTION VII.1. REFERENCE TO AND EFFECT ON THE INDENTURE.
This Supplemental Indenture shall be construed as supplemental to
the Indenture and all the terms and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture
shall be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of the Indenture. Except
as set forth herein, the Indenture heretofore executed and delivered is hereby
(i) incorporated by reference in this Supplemental Indenture and (ii) ratified,
approved, and confirmed.
SECTION VII.2. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
term, provision, or condition set forth in Article III hereof if the Holders of
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Senior Notes shall, by Act of
such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive
compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall
extend to or affect such term, provision, or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations
of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term,
provision, or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION VII.3. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE MAY BE EXECUTED IN COUNTERPARTS.
This instrument 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.
SECTION VII.4. EFFECT OF HEADINGS.
The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
[Seal] LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
By:____________________________________
Name:__________________________________
Title:_________________________________
Attest:
Name:______________________________
Title:_____________________________
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
as Trustee
By:____________________________________
Name:__________________________________
Title:_________________________________
Attest:
Name:______________________________
Title:_____________________________
STATE OF )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF )
On this ____ day of ________, 2000, before me personally came
__________, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that
he/she is a _____________________ of LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, one of the
entities described in and which executed the above instrument; that he/she knows
the seal of said entity; that the seal or a facsimile thereof affixed to said
instrument is such seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of
Directors of said entity, and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by like
authority.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
STATE OF )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF )
On this ____ day of __________, 2000, before me personally came
____________, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that
he/she is a ____________________________ of BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, N.A., one of
the entities described in and which executed the above instrument; that he/she
knows the seal of said entity; that the seal or a facsimile thereof affixed to
said instrument is such seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board
of Directors of said entity, and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by like
authority.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
Exhibit 4.2
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LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
and
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
TRUSTEE
SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL TRUST INDENTURE
DATED AS OF AUGUST 18, 2000
Supplementing that certain
INDENTURE
DATED AS OF APRIL 2, 1999
Authorizing the Issuance and Delivery of
Senior Notes
consisting of $200,000,000 aggregate principal amount of
8.875% Senior Notes Due 2010
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
RECITALS 1
[Form of Face of Security] 2
[Form of Reverse of Security] 3
ARTICLE I. ISSUANCE OF SENIOR NOTES. 8
SECTION I.1. ISSUANCE OF SENIOR NOTES; PRINCIPAL AMOUNT; MATURITY. 8
SECTION I.2. INTEREST ON THE SENIOR NOTES; PAYMENT OF INTEREST. 9
SECTION I.3. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF SECURITIES. 9
ARTICLE II. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS. 9
SECTION II.1. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS. 9
ARTICLE III. CERTAIN COVENANTS. 13
SECTION III.1. LIENS 13
SECTION III.2. SALE AND LEASE-BACK TRANSACTIONS. 15
SECTION III.3. OFFER TO REPURCHASE UPON CHANGE OF CONTROL 15
SECTION III.4. PERMITTING UNRESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES TO BECOME
RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES 16
SECTION III.5. PAYMENT OFFICE 17
ARTICLE IV. ADDITIONAL EVENTS OF DEFAULT. 17
SECTION IV.1. ADDITIONAL EVENTS OF DEFAULT. 17
ARTICLE V. DEFEASANCE. 18
SECTION V.1. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE V OF THE INDENTURE 18
ARTICLE VI. REDEMPTION OF SENIOR NOTES 18
SECTION VI.1. RIGHT OF REDEMPTION 18
ARTICLE VII. MISCELLANEOUS. 18
SECTION VII.1. REFERENCE TO AND EFFECT ON THE INDENTURE 19
SECTION VII.2. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS 19
SECTION VII.3. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE MAY BE EXECUTED IN COUNTERPARTS 19
SECTION VII.4. EFFECT OF HEADINGS 19
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SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of August 18, 2000, between
Louisiana-Pacific Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of the State of Delaware (the "COMPANY"), and Bank One Trust Company,
N.A. (as successor in interest to The First National Bank of Chicago), a
national banking association duly incorporated under the laws of the United
States of America, as Trustee (the "TRUSTEE"), supplementing that certain
Indenture, dated as of April 2, 1999, between the Company and the Trustee (the
"INDENTURE").
RECITALS
A. The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of the
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness (the "SECURITIES") to be
issued in one or more series as provided for in the Indenture.
B. The Indenture provides that the Securities of each series shall
be in substantially the form set forth in the Indenture, or in such other form
as may be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more
indentures supplemental thereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions, and other variations as are required or permitted by
the Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers, or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities,
as evidenced by their execution thereof.
C. The Company and the Trustee have agreed that the Company shall
issue and deliver, and the Trustee shall authenticate, Securities denominated
"8.875% Senior Notes Due 2010" (the "SENIOR NOTES") pursuant to the terms of
this Supplemental Indenture and substantially in the form set forth below, in
each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions, and other
variations as are required or permitted by the Indenture and this Supplemental
Indenture, and with such letters, numbers, or other marks of identification and
such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with
the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Senior Notes, as evidenced by their
execution of such Senior Notes.
[Form of Face of Security]
This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the Indenture
hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depositary or a
nominee thereof. This Security may not be transferred to, or registered or
exchanged for Securities registered in the name of, any Person other than the
Depositary or a nominee thereof, and no such transfer may be registered, except
in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture. Every Security
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for
or in lieu of, this Security shall be a Global Security subject to the
foregoing, except in such limited circumstances.
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
8.875% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2010
No. __ $___________
Cusip No. 546347 AB 1
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, a corporation duly organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the
"COMPANY," which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede &
Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $ on August 15, 2010 and to pay
interest thereon from August 18, 2000 or from the most recent Interest Payment
Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually on
February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing on February 15, 2001, at the
rate of 8.875% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available
for payment. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in said Indenture, be paid to
the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities)
is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest, which shall be the February 1 or August 1 (whether or not a Business
Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such
interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the
Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be
given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 calendar days
prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful
manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on
which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may
be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
Subject, in the case of any Global Security, to any applicable
requirements of the Depositary, payment of the principal of and interest on this
Security shall be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for the
purpose in New York, New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of
America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that at the option of the Company payment of
interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address appears in the Security Register.
REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS SET FORTH ON THE
REVERSE HEREOF. SUCH PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS
THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH IN THIS PLACE.
This Security shall not be valid or become obligatory for any
purpose until the certificate of authentication herein has been signed manually
by the Trustee under said Indenture.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this instrument has been duly executed in
accordance with the Indenture.
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
Date Issued: By:______________________________
Attest:
By:___________________
[Form of Reverse of Security]
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "SECURITIES") issued and to be issued in one or more
series under an Indenture, dated as of April 2, 1999 (herein called the
"INDENTURE"), between the Company and Bank One Trust Company, N.A. (as successor
in interest to The First National Bank of Chicago) as Trustee (herein called the
"TRUSTEE," which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to
which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties, and
immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee, and the Holders of the
Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on
the face hereof, limited in aggregate principal amount to $200,000,000.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company is required
to offer to purchase the Securities at a purchase price equal to 101% of the
principal amount thereof, together with accrued and unpaid interest to the
Change of Control Payment Date, but interest installments with a Stated Maturity
on or prior to such Change of Control Payment Date shall be payable to the
Holders of such Securities of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.
In the event of the repurchase of this Security in part only, a new
Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the portion hereof
not so repurchased shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the
cancellation hereof.
The Securities are redeemable in whole or in part, at the option of
the Company at any time and from time to time, on not less than 30 or more than
60 days' prior notice mailed to the Holders of the Securities, at a Redemption
Price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities
to be redeemed and (ii) as determined by a Quotation Agent, the sum of the
present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments thereon discounted to the
Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of
twelve 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points,
together in either case with accrued interest on the principal amount being
redeemed to the Redemption Date.
"ADJUSTED TREASURY RATE" means, with respect to any Redemption Date,
the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity
(computed as of the second business day immediately preceding such Redemption
Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable
Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.
"COMPARABLE TREASURY ISSUE" means the United States Treasury
security selected by a Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the
remaining term of the Securities that would be utilized, at the time of
selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new
issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term
of the Securities.
"COMPARABLE TREASURY PRICE" means, with respect to any Redemption
Date, (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such
Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Trustee obtains fewer than three such
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Quotations.
"QUOTATION AGENT" means the Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by
the Trustee after consultation with the Company.
"REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER" means (i) Goldman, Sachs & Co. and its
successors; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the foregoing shall cease to be a primary
U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a "PRIMARY TREASURY
DEALER"), the Company shall designate as a substitute therefor another Primary
Treasury Dealer, and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the
Trustee after consultation with the Company.
"REFERENCE TREASURY DEALER QUOTATIONS" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by
the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in
writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer as of 5:00 p.m., New
York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
"REMAINING SCHEDULED PAYMENTS" means, with respect to each Security
to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of the principal thereof and
interest thereon that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for
such redemption, except that, if such Redemption Date is not an interest payment
date with respect to such Security, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled
interest payment thereon shall be reduced by the amount of interest accrued
thereon to such Redemption Date.
On and after any Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on
the Securities or any portion thereof called for redemption. Prior to any
Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with a paying agent money sufficient
to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be
redeemed on such date. If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by the Trustee by such method as the
Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate in accordance with methods generally
used at the time of selection by fiduciaries in similar circumstances.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (a)
the entire indebtedness of this Security or (b) certain restrictive covenants
and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon
compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series
shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series
may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in
the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
effected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration
of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not
notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the
Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding
with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or
for any other remedy thereunder unless such Holder shall have previously given
the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount
of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of
Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee
shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request and shall have failed to institute such proceeding for 60 calendar
days after receipt of such notice, request, and offer of
indemnity. The foregoing shall apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of
this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any
premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed
herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security at the times, place, and rate, and in the
coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registerable in the Security
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of
this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount, shall be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form
without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount
of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized
denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security shall be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Trustee, nor any such agent shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
Unless this Security is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company (55 Water Street, New York, New York) to the
Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any
Security issued upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu
of, this Security is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such other name as
requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company and
payment hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF
FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL because the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture
shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
D. The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in
substantially the following form:
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated: _________________
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
as Trustee
By:___________________________
AUTHORIZED OFFICER
E. All acts and things necessary to make the Senior Notes, when the
Senior Notes have been executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee
and delivered as provided in the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, the
valid, binding, and legal obligations of the Company and to constitute these
presents a valid indenture and agreement according to its terms, have been done
and performed, and the execution and delivery by the Company of the Indenture
and this Supplemental Indenture and the issue hereunder of the Senior Notes have
in all respects been duly authorized; and the Company, in the exercise of legal
right and power in it vested, has executed and delivered the Indenture and is
executing and delivering this Supplemental Indenture and proposes to make,
execute, issue, and deliver the Senior Notes.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
In order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Senior
Notes are authenticated, issued, and delivered, and in consideration of the
premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Senior Notes by the Holders
thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of the
respective Holders from time to time of the Senior Notes, as follows:
ARTICLE I. ISSUANCE OF SENIOR NOTES.
SECTION I.1. ISSUANCE OF SENIOR NOTES; PRINCIPAL AMOUNT; MATURITY.
(a) On August 18, 2000 the Company shall issue and deliver to the
Trustee, and the Trustee shall authenticate, Senior Notes substantially in the
form set forth above, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions, and other variations as are required or permitted by the
Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, and with such letters, numbers, or
other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as
may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Senior
Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Senior Notes.
(b) The Senior Notes shall be issued in the aggregate principal
amount of $200,000,000 and shall mature on August 15, 2010.
SECTION I.2. INTEREST ON THE SENIOR NOTES; PAYMENT OF INTEREST.
(a) The Senior Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 8.875% per
annum from August 18, 2000, except in the case of Senior Notes delivered
pursuant to Sections 2.05 or 2.07 of the Indenture, which shall bear interest
from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or
duly provided for, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for
payment. Such interest shall be payable semiannually on February 15 and August
15 of each year, commencing February 15, 2001.
(b) The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided
for, on any Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in such Indenture, be paid
to the Person in whose name a Senior Note (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest, which shall be the February 1 or August 1 (whether or not a
Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith
cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be
paid to the Person in whose name the Senior Note (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice
whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10
calendar days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which the Senior Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.
(c) Subject, in the case of any Global Security, to any applicable
requirements of the Depositary, payment of the principal of and interest on the
Senior Notes shall be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
the purpose in New York, New York, in such coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that at the option of the Company payment of
interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address appears in the Security Register.
SECTION I.3. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF SECURITIES.
The Senior Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Company by the
Chairman or any Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, or any Vice President of the Company and attested by the
Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer, or any Assistant Secretary of
the Company, in each case by either manual or facsimile signature.
ARTICLE II. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS.
SECTION II.1. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS.
The terms defined in this Section 2.1 (except as herein otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context of this Supplemental Indenture
otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture and of any
indenture supplemental hereto have the respective meanings specified in this
Section 2.1. All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with GAAP. All other terms used in this
Supplemental Indenture that are defined in the Indenture or the Trust Indenture
Act, either directly or by reference therein (except as herein otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context of this Supplemental Indenture
otherwise requires), have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the
Indenture or the Trust Indenture Act, as the case may be, as in force at the
date of this Supplemental Indenture as originally executed.
"CAPITAL STOCK" means, with respect to any Person, any and all
shares, interests, participations, rights in or other equivalents (however
designated) of such Person's capital stock or equity interests (including
without limitation, with respect to partnerships, limited liability companies or
business trusts, ownership interests (whether general or limited) and any other
interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share
of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, such partnerships,
limited liability companies or business trusts) and any rights (other than debt
securities convertible into such capital stock or equity interests), warrants or
options exchangeable for or convertible into such capital stock or equity
interests.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL" means the occurrence of any of the following
events: (a) any "PERSON" or "GROUP" (as such terms are used in Section 13(d) of
the Exchange Act) becomes the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and
13d-5 under Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total
Voting Stock of the Company; (b) the Company consolidates with, or merges with
or into, another Person, or another Person consolidates with, or merges with or
into, the Company, in either case pursuant to a transaction in which the
outstanding Voting Stock of the Company is converted into or exchanged for cash,
securities, or other property, other than any such transaction where (i)
immediately after such transaction no "person" or "group" (as such terms are
used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) is the "beneficial owner" (as defined
in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
more than 50% of the total Voting Stock of the Person created by or surviving
such transaction and (ii) the holders of a majority of the total Voting Stock of
the Company immediately prior to such transaction hold, immediately following
such transaction, a majority of the total Voting Stock (or comparable equity
securities) of the Person created by or surviving such transaction;(c) the sale,
assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries
as a whole to any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used in Section 13(d)
of the Exchange Act), (d) during any consecutive two-year period, individuals
who at the beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors (together
with any new directors whose election by such Board of Directors or whose
nomination for election by the stockholders of the Company was approved by a
vote of a majority of the directors then still in office who were either
directors at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for
election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a
majority of the Board of Directors then in office; or (e) the dissolution or
liquidation of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction
effected to create a holding company of the Company will not be deemed to
involve a Change of Control if (1) pursuant to such transaction the Company
becomes a wholly owned Subsidiary of such holding company and (2) the holders of
the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following such transaction
are substantially the same as the holders of Voting Stock of the Company
immediately prior to such transaction.
"CONSOLIDATED NET TANGIBLE ASSETS" means total assets (less
accumulated depreciation and valuation reserves and other reserves and items
deductible from gross book value of specific asset accounts under GAAP) after
deducting therefrom (i) all current liabilities and (ii) all goodwill, trade
names, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discount, organization expenses,
and other like intangibles, all as set forth on the most recent balance sheet of
the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries and computed in accordance with
GAAP.
"DEBT" means (i) all indebtedness, whether or not represented by
bonds, debentures, notes or other securities, for the repayment of money
borrowed and (ii) all guaranties, endorsements, assumptions and other
contractual obligations in respect of, or to purchase or to otherwise acquire,
indebtedness of others.
"FUNDED DEBT" means any Debt which by its terms matures more than
one year after, or which is renewable or extendible at the option of the obligor
for a period ending more than one year after, the date as of which Funded Debt
is being determined, and shall include (i) any Debt that so matures or that is
so renewable or extendible incurred, assumed or guaranteed by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary, either directly or indirectly, (ii) any deferred
indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary for the payment of the
purchase price of property or assets purchased that so matures or that is so
renewable or extendible, and (iii) any indebtedness secured by a mortgage, lien,
security interest, pledge, assignment or transfer on, in or of any property of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and upon which the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary customarily pays the interest, that so matures or that is
so renewable or extendible.
"PRINCIPAL PROPERTY" means any mill, converting plant or
manufacturing facility (including, in each case, the equipment therein) and any
timberland, in each case located within the continental Untied States of America
(other than any of the foregoing acquired principally for the control or
abatement of atmospheric pollutants or contaminants or water, noise, odor or
other pollution, or any facility financed from the proceeds of pollution control
or revenue bonds), whether owned on the date hereof or hereafter acquired,
having a gross book value (without deduction of any applicable accumulated
depreciation) on the date as of which the determination is being made of more
than 5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets, but shall not include any minerals
or mineral rights, or any timberland designated by the Board of Directors of the
Company or of a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, as being held
primarily for investment, development and/or sale.
"RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY" means any Subsidiary of the Company other
than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
"SALE AND LEASE-BACK TRANSACTION" means, with respect to any Person,
an arrangement with any bank, insurance company or other lender or investor or
to which such lender or investor is a party providing for the leasing pursuant
to a Capital Lease to such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person of any
property or asset of such Person or such Subsidiary which has been or is being
sold or transferred by such Person or such Subsidiary to such lender or investor
or to any Person to whom funds have been or are to be advanced by such lender or
investor on the security of such property or asset, other than (a) leases for a
term, including renewals at the option of the lessee, of not more than three
years, by the end of which term it is intended that the use of such property or
asset by such Person will be discontinued, (b) leases between the Company and a
Restricted Subsidiary or between Restricted Subsidiaries, provided that any
Restricted Subsidiary that is a lessee under any such lease continues to be a
Restricted Subsidiary for the term of such lease, and (c) leases entered into
within 120 days after the later of the acquisition or the completion of
construction or improvement of the property to be leased.
"SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARY" means any Subsidiary of the Company that
accounts for (a) 10.0% or more of the total consolidated assets of the Company
and its Subsidiaries as of any date of determination or (b) 10.0% or more of the
total consolidated revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the most
recently concluded fiscal quarter.
"UNRESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY" means (a) L-P SPV, Inc. and L-P SPV2, LLC,
(b) any Subsidiary of the Company the primary business of which consists of, and
is restricted by the charter, partnership agreement, or similar organizational
document of such Subsidiary to, financing operations on behalf of the Company
and its Subsidiaries, and/or purchasing accounts receivable or direct or
indirect interests therein and/or making loans secured by accounts receivable or
direct or indirect interests therein (and business related to the foregoing), or
which is otherwise primarily engaged in, and restricted by its charter,
partnership agreement, or similar organizational document to, the business of a
finance company (and business related thereto), which, in accordance with the
provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, has been designated by Board
Resolution as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, in each case unless and until any of
the Subsidiaries of the Company referred to in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b)
is, in accordance with the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, designated
by a Board Resolution as a Restricted Subsidiary, and (c) any Subsidiary of the
Company of which, in the case of a corporation, more than 50% of the issued and
outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of
the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of whether at the time
capital stock of any other class or classes of such corporation has or might
have voting power upon the occurrence of any contingency), or, in the case of
any partnership or other legal entity, more than 50% of the ordinary equity
capital interests, is at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by
one or more Unrestricted Subsidiaries and the primary business of which consists
of, and is restricted by the charter, partnership agreement, or similar
organizational document of such Subsidiary to, financing operations on behalf of
the Company and its Subsidiaries, and/or purchasing accounts receivable or
direct or indirect interests therein, and/or making loans secured by accounts
receivable or direct or indirect interests therein (and business related to the
foregoing), or which is otherwise primarily engaged in, and restricted by its
charter, partnership agreement, or similar organizational document to, the
business of a finance company (and business related thereto).
"VALUE" means with respect to a Sale and Lease-Back Transaction, as
of any particular time, an amount equal to (1) the greater of (a) the fair value
of the property leased pursuant to such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction (as
determined by the Board of Directors of Louisiana-Pacific or a Person designated
by such Board of Directors) and (b) the net proceeds from the sale or transfer
of the property leased pursuant to such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction divided
by (2) the number of full years of the term of the lease (determined without
regard to any renewal or extension options contained in the lease) and
multiplied by (3) the number of full years of such term remaining at the time of
determination (determined without regard to any renewal or extension options
contained in the lease).
"VOTING STOCK" means any class or classes of Capital Stock (however
designated) conferring upon the holders thereof the ordinary voting power to
elect or remove at least a majority of the board of directors, general or
managing partners, managers or trustees of any Person, determined without regard
to any voting power that has been or may be conferred by any class or classes of
Capital Stock (however designated) by reason of the occurrence of any
contingency.
ARTICLE III. CERTAIN COVENANTS.
The following covenants shall be applicable to the Company for so
long as any of the Senior Notes are Outstanding. Nothing in this paragraph will,
however, affect the Company's rights or obligations under any other provision of
the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture.
SECTION III.1. LIENS.
(a) The Company shall not and shall not permit any Restricted
Subsidiary to, (i) incur, assume or guarantee any Debt secured by any
mortgage, lien, security interest, pledge, assignment or transfer
(hereinafter called "mortgage" or "mortgages") on, in or of any Principal
Property of the Company or of a Restricted Subsidiary or on, in or of any
shares of stock or indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary (whether such
Principal Property, shares of stock or indebtedness is now owned or
hereafter acquired), or (ii) directly or indirectly secure any outstanding
Debt of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary by any mortgage on, in or
of any Principal Property of the Company or of a Restricted Subsidiary or
upon any shares of stock or indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary
(whether such Principal Property, shares of stock or indebtedness is now
owned or hereafter acquired), without in any such case concurrently and
effectively securing, the Senior Notes (together with, if the Company
shall so determine, any other indebtedness of or guaranteed by the Company
or such Restricted Subsidiary ranking equally with the Senior Notes and
then existing or thereafter created) with the same property equally and
ratably with such Debt; provided, however, that the foregoing restrictions
shall not apply to
(i) any mortgage on, in or of any property acquired,
constructed or improved by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
after the date of this Supplemental Indenture which is created,
incurred or assumed within 120 days after such acquisition or the
completion of such construction or improvement, or within six months
thereafter pursuant to a firm commitment for financing arranged with
a lender or investor within such 120-day period, to secure or
provide for the payment
of all or any part of the purchase price of such property (including
the purchase price of any Person that owns such property) or the
cost of such construction or improvement incurred after the date of
this Supplemental Indenture, PROVIDED that such mortgage does not
extend to or cover any property of the Company or of any Restricted
Subsidiary other than the property so acquired, constructed or
improved;
(ii) mortgages existing or in effect with respect to any
property, shares of stock or indebtedness at the time the same is
acquired by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary by merger or
otherwise;
(iii) mortgages existing or in effect with respect to any
property (including shares of stock and indebtedness) of any Person
existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary;
(iv) mortgages existing or in effect on the date of this
Supplemental Indenture;
(v) mortgages securing Debt of a Restricted Subsidiary to the
Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary;
(vi) mortgages in favor of the United States of America or any
state thereof, or any department, agency or instrumentality or
political subdivision of the United States of America or any state
thereof, to secure partial progress, advance or other payments
pursuant to any contract or statute or to secure any indebtedness
incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the
purchase price or the cost of constructing or improving the property
subject to such mortgages;
(vii) any mortgage on, in or of timberlands in connection with
an arrangement under which the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary is
obligated to cut or pay for timber in order to provide the secured
party with a specified amount of money, however determined, PROVIDED
that such mortgage does not extend to or cover any property of the
Company or of any Restricted Subsidiary other than such timberlands;
(viii) mortgages created, incurred or assumed in connection
with the issuance of revenue bonds the interest of which is exempt
from federal income taxation pursuant to Section 103(a) and related
provisions (including any successor provisions thereto) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; or
(ix) mortgages created, extended or renewed in connection with
any extension, renewal, refinancing, replacement or refunding
(including successive extensions, renewals, refinancings,
replacements or refundings), in whole or in part, of Debt secured by
any mortgage referred to in the foregoing clauses (i) to (viii);
provided, however, that the principal amount of Debt secured thereby
shall not exceed the principal amount of Debt so secured at the time
of such extension, renewal,
refinancing, replacement or refunding, and that such extension,
renewal, refinancing, replacement or refunding shall be limited to
all or a part of the property which secured the Debt so extended,
renewed, refinanced, replaced or refunded (plus improvements on such
property).
(b) The provisions of Section 3.1(a) shall not apply to the
incurrence, assumption or guarantee by the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary of Debt secured by, or the securing of any outstanding Debt of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary by, one or more mortgages (other
than mortgages permitted by Section 3.1(a)) that would otherwise be
subject to the foregoing restrictions up to an aggregate amount which,
together with (i) all other Debt of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries secured by mortgages (other than mortgages permitted by
Section 3.1(a)) that would otherwise be subject to the foregoing
restrictions and (ii) the Value of all Sale and Lease-Back Transactions
involving Principal Properties in existence at such time (other than any
Sale and Lease-Back Transaction described in Section 3.2(b)) does not at
the time exceed 15% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.
SECTION III.2. SALE AND LEASE-BACK TRANSACTIONS.
The Company shall not and shall not permit any Restricted Subsidiary
to, enter into any Sale and Lease-Back Transaction involving any Principal
Property unless:
(a) the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary would be permitted,
pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.1(b), to incur Debt in a principal
amount at least equal to the Value of the Sale and Lease-Back Transaction
and to secure such Debt with a mortgage on the Principal Property to be
leased, without equally and ratably securing the Senior Notes; or
(b) the Company, within 120 days of the effective date of such Sale
and Lease-Back Transaction (or in the case of (ii) below, within six
months thereafter pursuant to a firm purchase commitment entered into
within such 120-day period), causes to be applied an amount equal to the
Value of such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction (i) to the payment or other
retirement of Senior Notes or Funded Debt incurred or assumed by the
Company which ranks senior to or pari passu with the Senior Notes or of
Funded Debt incurred or assumed by any Restricted Subsidiary (other than,
in either case, Senior Notes or Funded Debt owned by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary), or (ii) to the purchase of a Principal Property
(other than the Principal Property involved in such sale);
and the consideration paid or payable to Louisiana-Pacific or a Restricted
Subsidiary in connection with the sale or transfer of the property leased
pursuant to such Sale and Lease-Back Transaction is at least equal to the fair
value of such property (as determined by the Board of Directors of
Louisiana-Pacific or a Person designated by such Board of Directors).
SECTION III.3. OFFER TO REPURCHASE UPON CHANGE OF CONTROL.
(a) Following the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company
shall make an offer (a "Change of Control Offer") to each Holder of Senior
Notes to repurchase all or any part (equal to $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof) of such Holder's Senior Notes at a
price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued
and unpaid interest thereon to the date of purchase (the "Change of
Control Payment"). The Change of Control Offer shall be made by mailing,
within 30 days following the Change of Control, a notice to the Trustee
and each Holder at the address appearing in the Security Register, by
first class mail, postage prepaid, by the Company or, at the Company's
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company,
describing the transaction or transactions that constitute the Change of
Control and offering to repurchase Senior Notes on the date specified in
such notice, which date shall be no earlier than 30 days and no later than
60 days from the date such notice is mailed (the "Change of Control
Payment Date"). The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule
14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations
under the Exchange Act to the extent such laws and regulations are
applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes as a result of a
Change of Control.
(b) On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the
extent lawful, (i) accept for payment all Senior Notes or portions thereof
properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (ii) deposit
with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in
respect of all Senior Notes or portions thereof so accepted, and (iii)
deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Senior Notes so
accepted together with an Officer's Certificate stating the aggregate
principal amount of Senior Notes or portions thereof being purchased by
the Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to each Holder of Senior
Notes so accepted the Change of Control Payment for such Senior Notes. In
the event that any Senior Note is so accepted in part only, the Trustee
shall promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book
entry) to the Holder thereof a new Senior Note equal in principal amount
to the unpurchased portion of such Senior Note; provided that each such
new Senior Note will be in a principal amount of $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof.
Acceptance of the Change of Control Offer by a Holder shall be
irrevocable (unless otherwise provided by law). The payment of accrued
interest as part of any repurchase price on any Change of Control Payment
Date shall be subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant
Regular Record Date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date
that is on or prior to such Change of Control Payment Date.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3.3,
the Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a
Change of Control if (i) the Company has effected Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance of the Senior Notes as provided in Article V of the Indenture
prior to the occurrence of the Change of Control or (ii) if a third party
makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the time and otherwise
in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Section 3.3 and
purchases all Senior Notes validly tendered pursuant to such Change of
Control Offer.
SECTION III.4. PERMITTING UNRESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES TO BECOME RESTRICTED
SUBSIDIARIES.
The Company shall not permit any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be
designated as a Restricted Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary is otherwise in
compliance with all provisions of the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture
that apply to Restricted Subsidiaries.
SECTION III.5. PAYMENT OFFICE.
The Company shall cause a Payment Office for the Senior Notes to be
maintained at all times in New York, New York.
ARTICLE IV. ADDITIONAL AND MODIFIED EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
SECTION IV.1. ADDITIONAL AND MODIFIED EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
In addition to the Events of Default set forth in the Indenture
(other than the Event of Default set forth in clause (v) of Section 8.01(a) of
the Indenture, which is superseded in its entirety by the provisions of clause
(b) of this Section IV.1), the term "EVENT OF DEFAULT," whenever used in the
Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture with respect to the Senior Notes, means
any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default
and whether it may be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of
law or pursuant to any judgment, decree, or order of any court or any order,
rule, or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) the failure to redeem any Senior Note when required pursuant to
the terms and conditions thereof or to pay the purchase price for any
Senior Note to be purchased in accordance with Section 3.3 of this
Supplemental Indenture;
(b) any nonpayment at maturity or other default under any agreement
or instrument relating to any other Indebtedness of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary (the unpaid principal amount of which is not less
than $25.0 million), and, in any such case, such default (i) continues
beyond any period of grace provided with respect thereto and (ii) results
in such Indebtedness becoming due prior to its stated maturity or occurs
at the final maturity of such Indebtedness; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that,
subject to the provisions of Section 9.01 and 8.08 of the Indenture, the
Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of such nonpayment or other
default unless either (1) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual
knowledge of nonpayment or other default or (2) the Trustee has received
written notice thereof from the Company, from any Holder, from the holder
of any such Indebtedness or from the trustee under the agreement or
instrument, relating to such Indebtedness;
(c) the entry of one or more final judgments or orders for the
payment of money against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, which
judgments and orders create a liability of $50.0 million or more in excess
of insured amounts and have not been stayed (by appeal or otherwise),
vacated, discharged, or otherwise satisfied within 60 calendar days of the
entry of such judgments and orders; and
(d) Events of Default of the type and subject to the conditions set
forth in clauses (vi) and (vii) of Section 8.01(a) of the Indenture in
respect of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Significant
Subsidiary or, in related events, any group of Restricted
Subsidiaries of the Company that if considered in the aggregate, would be
a Significant Subsidiary of the Company.
ARTICLE V. DEFEASANCE.
SECTION V.1. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE V OF THE INDENTURE.
(a) The Senior Notes shall be subject to Defeasance and Covenant
Defeasance as provided in Article V of the Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall be effective unless and until:
(i) there shall have been delivered to the Trustee the
opinion of a nationally recognized independent public accounting firm
certifying the sufficiency of the amount of the moneys, U.S. Government
Obligations, or a combination thereof, placed on deposit to pay, without
regard to any reinvestment, the principal of and any premium and interest
on the Senior Notes on the Stated Maturity thereof or on any earlier date
on which the Senior Notes shall be subject to redemption;
(ii) there shall have been delivered to the Trustee the
certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company certifying, on behalf
of the Company, to the effect that (A) such Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a
default under, any agreement to which the Company is a party or violate
any law to which the Company is subject and (B) no Event of Default or
event that (after notice or lapse of time or both) would become an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such deposit; and
(iii) no Event of Default specified in Sections
8.01(a)(vi) and (vii) of the Indenture or event that (after notice or
lapse of time or both) would become an Event of Default specified in
Sections 8.01(a)(vi) and (vii) of the Indenture shall have occurred and be
continuing at any time on or prior to the 124th calendar day after the
date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be
deemed satisfied until after such 124th calendar day).
(b) Upon the exercise of the option provided in Section 5.01 of the
Indenture to have Section 5.03 of the Indenture applied to the Outstanding
Senior Notes, in addition to the obligations from which the Company shall be
released specified in the Indenture, the Company shall be released from its
obligations under Article III hereof.
ARTICLE VI. REDEMPTION OF SENIOR NOTES.
SECTION VI.1. RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.
The Senior Notes may be redeemed by the Company in accordance with
the provisions of the form of Securities set forth herein.
ARTICLE VII. MISCELLANEOUS.
SECTION VII.1. REFERENCE TO AND EFFECT ON THE INDENTURE.
This Supplemental Indenture shall be construed as supplemental to
the Indenture and all the terms and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture
shall be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of the Indenture. Except
as set forth herein, the Indenture heretofore executed and delivered is hereby
(i) incorporated by reference in this Supplemental Indenture and (ii) ratified,
approved, and confirmed.
SECTION VII.2. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
term, provision, or condition set forth in Article III hereof if the Holders of
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Senior Notes shall, by Act of
such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive
compliance with such term, provision or condition, but no such waiver shall
extend to or affect such term, provision, or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations
of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such term,
provision, or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION VII.3. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE MAY BE EXECUTED IN COUNTERPARTS.
This instrument 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.
SECTION VII.4. EFFECT OF HEADINGS.
The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
[Seal] LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
By:____________________________________
Name:__________________________________
Title:_________________________________
Attest:
Name:______________________________
Title:_____________________________
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
as Trustee
By:____________________________________
Name:__________________________________
Title:_________________________________
Attest:
Name:______________________________
Title:_____________________________
STATE OF )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF )
On this ____ day of ________, 2000, before me personally came
__________, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that
he/she is a _____________________ of LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, one of the
entities described in and which executed the above instrument; that he/she knows
the seal of said entity; that the seal or a facsimile thereof affixed to said
instrument is such seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of
Directors of said entity, and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by like
authority.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
STATE OF )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF )
On this ____ day of __________, 2000, before me personally came
____________, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that
he/she is a ____________________________ of BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, N.A., one of
the entities described in and which executed the above instrument; that he/she
knows the seal of said entity; that the seal or a facsimile thereof affixed to
said instrument is such seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board
of Directors of said entity, and that he/she signed his/her name thereto by like
authority.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my
official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.
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NOTARY PUBLIC
Exhibit 99.1
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC NEWS RELEASE
111 S.W. Fifth Avenue
Portland, OR 97204
503/221-0800 FAX 503/821-5107
Release No.: 117-7-0
Contact:
Kelly Stoner (Media Relations)
(503) 821-5281
Bill Hebert (Investor Relations)
(503) 221-0800
FOR RELEASE AT 7:00 A.M. (EDT) TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2000
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION REPORTS SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
Portland, Ore. -- Louisiana-Pacific Corp. (NYSE: LPX) today reported second
quarter income, excluding unusual items, of $44 million, or $.42 per diluted
share, on sales of $778 million. Including facility write-downs, primarily
related to the anticipated sale of the Samoa pulp mill, and an insurance
settlement recovery, net income was $21 million, or $.20 per diluted share. In
the second quarter of 1999, income excluding unusual items was $82 million, or
$.76 per diluted share, on sales of $769 million. Including a gain on the sale
of timberland, second quarter 1999 net income was $85 million, or $.79 per
diluted share.
Excluding unusual items, income for the first six months of 2000 was $101
million, or $.96 per diluted share, on sales of $1.6 billion. For the first six
months of 1999, income was $109 million, or $1.02 per diluted share, excluding
unusual items, on sales of $1.4 billion. Including unusual items, net income for
the first six months of 2000 was $79 million, or $.76 per diluted share,
compared to income in the first six months of 1999 of $112 million, or $1.05 per
diluted share.
"We maintained a relatively good earnings level, despite price decreases in our
commodity products as large as 20 percent to 30 percent versus last year," said
Mark A. Suwyn, Louisiana-Pacific's chairman and CEO. "In July, we have seen
further price erosion. Today's OSB prices are down about 30 percent and lumber
prices about 15 percent compared to the average in the
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC -- Page 1
second quarter. We are aggressively adjusting our operating levels and focusing
on costs and new product introductions to manage through the softening markets."
Louisiana-Pacific, now in its 27th year, is a premier supplier of building
products, offering a valuable mix of commodity and value added specialty
products to our rapidly growing retail, homebuilding and industrial customers.
Visit L-P's website at: WWW.L-PCORP.COM.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release contains statements concerning Louisiana-Pacific Corp.'s
future results and performance that are forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The accuracy of
such statements is subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions
that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected,
including, but not limited to, the effect of general economic conditions,
including the level of interest rates and housing starts, market demand for the
company's products, and prices for structural products; the effect of forestry,
land use, environmental and other governmental regulations; the ability to
obtain regulatory approvals, and the risk of losses from fires, floods and other
natural disasters. These and other factors that could cause or contribute to
actual results differing materially from such forward-looking statements are
discussed in greater detail in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission
filings.
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC -- Page 2
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED INCOME STATEMENT
(Dollar amounts in millions) (Unaudited)
Quarter Ended Six Months Ended
June 30, June 30,
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2000 1999 2000 1999
---- ---- ---- ----
Net sales........................................ $778.1 $ 768.5 $1,555.0 $1,368.6
Income before taxes and minority interest(1)..... 37.7 140.7 134.4 184.8
Net income(1).................................... 21.0 84.9 78.7 112.1
Income excluding unusual items(1)................ 43.7 81.7 100.5 108.9
Net income per share - basic and diluted(1).... 0.20 0.79 0.76 1.05
Income per share excluding unusual items(1)...... 0.42 0.76 0.96 1.02
Average shares outstanding
Basic........................................ 104.0 106.6 104.0 106.4
Diluted...................................... 104.2 106.8 104.2 106.6
SALES BY QUARTER (In millions)
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year
------ ------ ------ ------- --------
1999 $600.1 $768.5 $797.4 $712.6 $2,878.6
2000 $776.9 $778.1
NET INCOME BY QUARTER (In millions)
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year
------ ------ ------ ------- --------
1999 $ 27.2 $84.91 $69.3 1 $35.41 $216.8
2000 $ 57.7(1) $21.01
NET INCOME PER SHARE BY QUARTER-
BASIC AND DILUTED
1st 2nd 3rd 4th Year
------ ------ ------ ------- --------
1999 $ 0.26 $0.79(1) $0.65(1) $0.341 $2.04
2000 $ 0.55(1) $0.20(1)
Results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of
results to be expected for an entire year.
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC -- Page 3
1) In the second quarter of 1999, L-P recorded a $5 million gain ($3
million after taxes, or $.03 per diluted share) on the sale of
timberland.
In the third quarter of 1999, L-P Ketchikan Pulp Company subsidiary
recorded a net charge of $18.7 million ($11.5 million after taxes, or
$0.11 per diluted share) primarily related to reducing the carrying
value of the assets to be sold to the expected sales value and to
record an increase in estimated environmental remediation liabilities.
In the fourth quarter of 1999, L-P recorded a gain on the sale of its
Associated Chemists, Inc. subsidiary of $14.5 million ($8.9 million
after taxes, or $0.08 per diluted share) and a write-off a note
receivable of $9.2 million ($5.7 million after taxes, or $0.05 per
diluted share) received in a sale of assets in a prior year.
In the first quarter of 2000, L-P recorded a $5.0 million ($3.1 after
taxes, or $0.03 per diluted share) gain on an insurance recovery for
siding related matters and an impairment charge of $3.4 million ($2.1
million after taxes, or $0.02 per diluted share) to reduce the carrying
value of a manufacturing facility to its estimated net realizable
value.
In the second quarter of 2000, L-P recorded a net loss of $38 million
($22.7 million after taxes, or $.21 per share) primarily related to an
impairment charge to reduce the carrying value of the Samoa pulp mill
to its estimated net realizable value, an impairment charge at an MDF
facility, a mark to market charge on an interest rate hedge and a gain
on an insurance recovery for siding related matters.
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC -- Page 4
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
(Dollar amounts in millions, except per share amounts) (Unaudited)
Quarter Ended Six Months Ended
June 30, June 30,
---------------- -------------------
2000 1999 2000 1999
------ ------ ------ ------
Net sales ................................... $ 778.1 $ 768.5 $ 1,555.0 $ 1,368.6
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Costs and expenses:
Cost of sales ............................ 566.7 530.9 1,114.4 999.0
Depreciation, amortization and depletion.. 59.3 45.7 120.6 88.5
Selling and administrative ............... 67.6 54.7 132.0 101.2
Unusual credits and charges, net ......... 38.0 (5.2) 36.4 (5.2)
Interest expenses ........................ 18.5 11.1 35.6 20.1
Interest income .......................... (9.7) (9.4) (18.4) (19.2)
-------- -------- ----------- -----------
Total costs and expenses ............... 740.4 627.8 1,420.6 1,183.8
-------- -------- ----------- -----------
Income before taxes and minority interest ... 37.7 140.7 134.4 184.2
Provision for income taxes .................. 16.2 55.8 54.7 72.6
Minority interest in net income (loss) of
consolidated subsidiaries ............... 0.5 -- 1.0 (0.5)
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Net income ................................. $ 21.0 $ 84.9 $ 78.7 $ 112.1
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Net income per share -- basic and diluted ... $ 0.20 $ 0.79 $ 0.76 $ 1.05
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Average shares outstanding
Basic ................................... 104.0 106.6 104.0 106.4
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Diluted ............................... 104.2 106.8 104.2 106.6
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CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
(Dollar amounts in millions) (Unaudited)
June 30, 2000 Dec. 31, 1999
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ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents .............................. $ 118.1 $ 116.0
Accounts receivable, net ............................... 233.4 200.7
Inventories ............................................ 310.0 293.4
Prepaid expenses ....................................... 19.8 18.5
Income tax receivable .................................. 47.5 --
Deferred income taxes .................................. 69.7 110.8
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Total current assets .............................. 798.5 739.4
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Timber and timberlands ................................. 600.7 611.1
Property, plant and equipment .......................... 2,588.8 2,537.4
Accumulated depreciation ............................... (1,258.0) (1,203.4)
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Net property, plant and equipment ...................... 1,330.8 1,334.0
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Goodwill, net of amortization .......................... 335.1 347.7
Notes receivable from asset sales ...................... 403.8 403.8
Other assets ........................................... 63.2 52.2
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Total assets ...................................... $3,532.1 $3,448.2
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LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current portion of long-term debt ...................... $ 46.7 $ 44.9
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities ............... 297.4 306.5
Income taxes payable ................................... -- 9.3
Current portion of contingency reserves ................ 75.0 180.0
Total current liabilities ......................... 419.1 540.7
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Long-term debt, excluding current portion:
Limited recourse notes payable ...................... 396.5 396.5
Other long-term debt ................................ 729.3 618.3
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Total long-term debt, excluding ................... 1,125.8 1,014.8
current portion
Contingency reserves, excluding current ................ 109.2 128.8
portion
Deferred income taxes and other ........................ 471.8 443.9
Commitments and contingencies
Stockholders' equity:
Common stock ........................................ 117.0 117.0
Additional paid-in capital .......................... 444.6 445.4
Retained earnings ................................... 1,126.0 1,076.4
Treasury stock ...................................... (238.4) (228.3)
Loans to Employee Stock Ownership ................... (3.5) (6.9)
Trusts
Accumulated comprehensive loss ...................... (39.5) (43.6)
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Total stockholders' equity ........................ 1,406.2 1,360.0
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Total liabilities and equity ...................... $3,532.1 $3,488.2
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LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
SELECTED SEGMENT INFORMATION
(Dollar amounts in millions) (Unaudited)
Quarter Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
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2000 1999 2000 1999
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(Dollar amounts in millions)
Sales:
Structural products .......... $ 469.1 $ 473.8 $ 963.4 $ 849.9
Exterior products ............ 91.1 79.1 155.9 116.9
Industrial panel products .... 68.7 73.1 141.4 126.9
Other products ............... 110.3 114.6 215.2 225.1
Pulp ......................... 38.9 27.9 79.1 49.8
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Total sales .............. $ 778.1 $ 768.5 $1,555.0 $1,368.6
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Operating profit (loss):
Structural products .......... $ 88.4 $ 150.3 $ 202.4 $ 224.8
Exterior products ............ 13.9 16.3 22.0 24.0
Industrial panel products .... 3.3 4.7 5.9 5.8
Other products ............... (0.9) (4.1) (0.1) (12.7)
Pulp ......................... 5.9 (4.9) 10.3 (10.8)
Unusual credits and charges,
net .......................... (38.0) 5.2 (36.4) 5.2
General corporate and other
expense, net ................. (26.1) (25.4) (52.5) (51.2)
Interest income (expense), net ... (8.8) (1.7) (17.2) (.9)
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Income before taxes and
minority interest ............ $ 37.7 $ 140.4 $ 134.4 $ 184.2
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LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
SUMMARY OF PRODUCTION VOLUMES
LOUISIANA-PACIFIC CORPORATION
SUMMARY OF PRODUCTION VOLUMES
Quarter Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
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2000 1999 2000 1999
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Oriented strand board, million square feet 3/8" basis ........ 1,270 1,068 2,626 2,122
Softwood plywood, million square feet 3/8" basis ............. 268 211 528 447
Lumber, million board feet ................................... 276 269 515 529
Wood-based siding, million square feet 3/8" basis ............ 179 179 361 306
Industrial panel products (particleboard, medium density
fiberboard and hardboard), million square feet 3/4" basis 164 175 318 335
Engineered I-Joist, million lineal feet ...................... 24 21 44 45
Laminated veneer lumber (LVL), thousand cubic feet ........... 2,150 1,800 4,327 3,500
Pulp, thousand short tons .................................... 99 90 188 185
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