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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2002
Registration No. 333-101861
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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AMENDMENT NO. 1
TO
FORM S-3
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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COMCAST CORPORATION
(formerly AT&T Comcast Corporation)
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Pennsylvania See Table of Additional Registrants 27-0000798
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(State of other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number including area code,
of Registrant's principal executive offices)
Arthur R. Block, Esq.
Senior Vice President
Comcast Corporation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of agent for service)
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Copies to:
Bruce K. Dallas
Davis Polk & Wardwell
1600 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, California 94025
(650) 752-2000
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon
as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.
If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered
pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following
box: [ ].
If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered
on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act
of 1933, check the following box: |X|
If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering
pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following
box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier
effective registration statement for the same offering: [ ] _______
If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act
registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement
for the same offering: [ ] _______
If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434,
please check the following box: [ ].
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The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or
dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant
shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration
Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of
the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become
effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a),
may determine.
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ADDITIONAL REGISTRANTS
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 23-2175755
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(State of other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number including area code,
of Registrant's principal executive offices)
Arthur R. Block, Esq.
Senior Vice President
Comcast Corporation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of agent for service)
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COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
(formerly AT&T Broadband Corp.)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 04-3592397
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(State of other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number including area code,
of Registrant's principal executive offices)
Arthur R. Block, Esq.
Senior Vice President
Comcast Corporation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of agent for service)
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COMCAST CABLE HOLDINGS, LLC
(formerly AT&T Broadband, LLC)
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 84-1260157
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(State of other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number including area code,
of registrant's principal executive offices)
Arthur R. Block, Esq.
Senior Vice President
Comcast Corporation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of agent for service)
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COMCAST MO GROUP, INC.
(formerly MediaOne Group, Inc.)
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 84-0926774
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(State of other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number including area code,
of Registrant's principal executive offices)
Arthur R. Block, Esq.
Senior Vice President
Comcast Corporation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
(215) 665-1700
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
of agent for service)
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
The purpose of this Amendment No. 1 is to file the Exhibits to the
Registration Statement as set forth below in Item 16 of Part II.
PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
All of the expenses in connection with the offering are as follows:
Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee............... $ 920,000
Legal fees and expenses........................................... 175,000*
Printing and engraving fees....................................... 50,000*
Accountants' fees and expenses.................................... 75,000*
Miscellaneous..................................................... 30,000*
Total.................................................... $ 1,250,000*
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*Estimated
Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Comcast Corporation
Indemnification under Pennsylvania Law and Comcast Charter and Bylaws.
Sections 1741 through 1750 of Subchapter D, Chapter 17, of the Pennsylvania
Business Corporation Law ("PBCL") contain provisions for mandatory and
discretionary indemnification of a corporation's directors, officers and other
personnel, and related matters.
Under Section 1741 of the PBCL, subject to certain limitations, a
corporation has the power to indemnify directors and officers under certain
prescribed circumstances against expenses (including attorneys' fees),
judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred in connection with an action or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative (other than derivative actions), to which any
such officer or director is a party or is threatened to be made a party by
reason of such person being a representative of the corporation or serving at
the request of the corporation as a representative of another domestic or
foreign corporation for profit or not-for-profit, partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise, so long as the director or officer acted in good
faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best
interests of the corporation and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, such
officer or director had no reasonable cause to believe his/her conduct was
unlawful.
Section 1742 of the PBCL permits indemnification in derivative and
corporate actions if the appropriate standard of conduct is met, except in
respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which the person has been adjudged
to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the proper
court determines upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability
but in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and
reasonably entitled to indemnity for the expenses that the court deems proper.
Under Section 1743 of the PBCL, indemnification is mandatory to the extent
that the officer or director has been successful on the merits or otherwise in
defense of any action or proceeding referred to in Section 1741 or 1742 of the
PBCL.
Section 1744 of the PBCL provides that, unless ordered by a court, any
indemnification under Section 1741 or 1742 of the PBCL shall be made by the
corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that
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the representative met the applicable standard of conduct, and such
determination will be made by (i) the board of directors by a majority vote of
a quorum of directors not parties to the action or proceeding, (ii) if a quorum
is not obtainable, or if obtainable and a majority of disinterested directors
so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (iii) by the
shareholders.
Section 1745 of the PBCL provides that expenses (including attorneys'
fees) incurred by an officer, director, employee or agent in defending any
action or proceeding referred to in Subchapter D of Chapter 17 of the PBCL may
be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action
or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to
repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled
to be indemnified by the corporation. Except as otherwise provided in the
corporation's bylaws, advancement of expenses must be authorized by the board
of directors.
Section 1746 of the PBCL provides generally that the indemnification and
advancement of expenses provided by Subchapter D of Chapter 17 of the PBCL
shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a person seeking
indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw,
agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both
as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity
while holding that office. In no event may indemnification be made in any case
where the act or failure to act giving rise to the claim for indemnification is
determined by a court to have constituted willful misconduct or recklessness.
Section 1747 of the PBCL grants a corporation the power to purchase and
maintain insurance on behalf of any director or officer against any liability
incurred by him in his capacity as officer or director, whether or not the
corporation would have the power to indemnify him against that liability under
Subchapter D of Chapter 17 of the PBCL.
Sections 1748 and 1749 of the PBCL extend the indemnification and
advancement of expenses provisions contained in Subchapter D of Chapter 17 of
the PBCL to successor corporations in fundamental changes and to
representatives serving as fiduciaries of employee benefit plans.
Section 1750 of the PBCL provides that the indemnification and advancement
of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, Subchapter D of Chapter 17 of
the PBCL shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue
as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and
shall inure to the benefit of the heirs and personal representatives of such
person.
Article Eleventh of the Comcast charter and Article VII of the Comcast
bylaws provide that no director of Comcast will be personally liable, as such,
for monetary damages (other than under criminal statutes and under laws
imposing such liability on directors or officers for the payment of taxes)
unless such person's conduct constitutes self-dealing, willful misconduct or
recklessness. Article Eleventh of the Comcast charter also extends such
protection to officers.
Article VII of the Comcast bylaws provides that each officer and director
of Comcast is indemnified and held harmless by Comcast for all actions taken by
him or her and for all failures to take action (regardless of the date of any
such action or failure to take action) to the fullest extent permitted by
Pennsylvania law against all expense, liability and loss (including, without
limitation, attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, taxes, penalties and amounts
paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such
officer or director in connection with any threatened, pending or completed
action, suit or proceeding (including, without limitation, an action, suit or
proceeding by or in the right of Comcast), whether civil, criminal,
administrative or investigative.
The foregoing statements are subject to the detailed provisions of the
PBCL and to the applicable provisions of the Comcast charter and bylaws.
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Merger Agreement Provision Relating to AT&T and Comcast Holdings Directors and
Officers
Comcast has agreed in the merger agreement to indemnify the present and
former officers and directors of AT&T, the AT&T subsidiaries, Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, the Comcast Cable Communications Holdings
subsidiaries, Comcast Holdings and the Comcast Holdings subsidiaries, and each
individual who prior to the completion of the AT&T Comcast transaction becomes
such an officer or director, from their acts or omissions in those capacities
occurring at or prior to the completion of such transaction to the maximum
extent permitted by law; provided, however, no such indemnification will be
required for officers or directors acting in a capacity for AT&T and its
subsidiaries other than in connection with either AT&T's broadband business or
the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement.
AT&T (and not Comcast Cable Communications Holdings) will indemnify and
hold harmless Comcast for 50% of any losses described in the preceding
paragraph arising out of acts or omissions of the AT&T officers and directors
in connection with the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated by
the merger agreement.
For six years after completion of the AT&T Comcast transaction, Comcast
will provide officers' and directors' liability insurance in respect of acts or
omissions occurring prior to completion of the transactions covering each
officer and director identified in the second preceding paragraph (for officers
and directors of AT&T and its subsidiaries, only for acts or omissions of such
person acting in connection with either AT&T's broadband business or the merger
agreement and the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement) currently
covered by the officers' and directors' liability insurance policy of AT&T or
Comcast Holdings, as the case may be, on terms no less favorable than those of
such policy in effect on December 19, 2001, except that Comcast will only be
obligated to pay up to 300% of the annual premium paid for such insurance by
either AT&T or Comcast Holdings as of December 19, 2001.
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc. is a corporation organized
under the laws of the State of Delaware. Subsection (a) of Section 145 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware empowers a corporation to
indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party
to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether
civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in
the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that he is or was a
director, employee or agent of the corporation or is or was serving at the
request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against
expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in
settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such
action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no
cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
Subsection (b) of Section 145 empowers a corporation to indemnify any
person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any
threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the
corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that such
person acted in any of the capacities set forth above, against expenses
(including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in
connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in
good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no
indemnification may be made in respect to any claim, issue or matter as to
which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation
unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in which
such action or suit was brought shall determine that despite the adjudication
of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case such person is
fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnify for such expenses which the court
shall deem proper.
Section 145 further provides that to the extent a director, officer,
employee or agent of a corporation has been successful in the defense of any
action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) or (b) or in the
defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against
expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in
connection therewith; that indemnification or advancement of expenses provided
for
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by Section 145 shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which
the indemnified party may be entitled; and empowers the corporation to purchase
and maintain insurance on behalf of a director, officer, employee or agent of
the corporation against any liability asserted against him or incurred by him
in any such capacity or arising out of his status as such whether or not the
corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liabilities
under Section 145.
Article VIII, Section 1 of Comcast Cable Communications Holdings'
Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director of Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings will not be personally liable to Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings or its shareholder for monetary damages for breach of
fiduciary duty as director, except if this exemption is not permitted by the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Any repeal or modification of
this provision will not affect the rights of a director of Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings prior to such repeal or modification.
Article VIII, Section 2 of Comcast Cable Communications Holdings'
Certificate of Incorporation provides that each person who was or is made a
party or is otherwise in any way involved in any action, suit or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a
"proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he, or the person from whom he is
legal representative, is or was a director or officer of Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings or is or was serving at its request as a director,
officer or employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an
employee benefit plan (hereinafter an "indemnitee"), whether the basis of the
proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity or in any other capacity
while serving as a director, officer or employee, will be indemnified and held
harmless by Comcast Cable Communications Holdings to the fullest extent
authorized by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware against all
expense, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 excise taxes or penalties and
amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by the indemnitee
in connection with the proceeding. In the event that the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware is amended, the indemnification provided will
change only to the extent that the amendment permits Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings to provide broader indemnification rights than
previously permitted. However, except in the case of proceedings to enforce
rights to indemnification, Comcast Cable Communications Holdings will indemnify
an indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by
the indemnitee only if the proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors
of Comcast Cable Communications Holdings. The right to indemnification includes
the right to be paid by Comcast Cable Communications Holdings the advancement
of expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final
disposition; provided, however, that, if the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an
indemnitee in his capacity as a director or officer only will be made only upon
delivery to Comcast Cable Communications Holdings of an undertaking, by or on
behalf of the indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it is ultimately
determined that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for the
expenses. Also, the Board of Directors of Comcast Cable Communications Holdings
may grant rights to indemnification as described above to any of Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings' employees and agents.
If a claim for indemnification is not paid in full within 30 days after a
written claim is received by Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, the
indemnitee may bring suit to recover the unpaid amount of the claim, and if
successful in whole or in part, the indemnitee will be entitled to be paid also
the expense of prosecuting the suit. It shall be a defense to any such action
(other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in
defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition where the required
undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered) that the claimant has not
met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware for Comcast Cable Communications
Holdings to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings would bear the burden of proving this defense.
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings may maintain insurance, at its
expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of
Comcast
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Cable Communications Holdings or another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss,
whether or not Comcast Cable Communications Holdings would have the power to
indemnify such person under the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. is a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Delaware. The applicable provisions relating to the
indemnification of officers and directors under the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware are described above under "-- Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc."
In addition, Section 7-1 of Comcast Cable's By-laws provides that Comcast
Cable will indemnify any of its directors or officers or any director or
officer who is or was serving as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another company, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (any
such person is hereinafter referred to as a "director or officer") against
expenses (including, but not limited to, attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and
amounts paid in settlement, actually and reasonably incurred by such director
or officer, to the fullest extent now or hereafter permitted by law in
connection with any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or
proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a
"Proceeding"), brought or threatened to be brought against such director or
officer by reason of the fact that he or she is or was serving in any such
capacity or in any other capacity on behalf of the company, its parent or any
of its subsidiaries.
Section 7-2 of Comcast Cable's By-laws provides that expenses incurred by
any director or officer in defending a Proceeding will be paid by Comcast Cable
in advance of the final disposition of such Proceeding as authorized by the
Board of Directors in the specific case upon receipt of an undertaking, by or
on behalf of such director or officer, to repay such amount without interest if
it is ultimately determined that he or she is not entitled to be indemnified by
Comcast Cable as authorized by law.
Section 7-4 of Comcast Cable's By-laws provides that Comcast Cable may
purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a
director or officer of Comcast Cable against any liability asserted against him
or her and incurred by him or her in any such capacity, or arising out of his
or her status as such, whether or not Comcast Cable would have the power to
indemnify him or her against such liability under law.
Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC
Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC is a limited liability company organized under
the laws of the State of Delaware. Section 18-108 of the Delaware Limited
Liability Company Act permits a limited liability company, subject to any
restrictions that may be set forth in its limited liability company agreement,
to indemnify its members and managers from and against any and all claims and
demands.
Section 12(a) of Comcast Cable Holdings' LLC Agreement provides that
Comcast Cable Holdings will indemnify the manager and the member, which in each
case is Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, and any current or former
director or officer of Comcast Cable Communications Holdings (each, an
"indemnitee") from and against all loss, damage, expense (including reasonable
attorney's and other advisor's fees, court costs and other liabilities incurred
in any proceeding to which Comcast Cable Communications Holdings is made a
party) incurred because of Comcast Cable Communications Holdings' role as
manager or member. Also, each indemnitee will be indemnified for losses
resulting from the indemnitee's acts or failures to act with respect to the
business or affairs of Comcast Cable Holdings, if the indemnitee (a) acts in
good faith, (b) if acting in an official capacity, reasonably believed the
action was in the best interests of Comcast Cable Holdings, and if not acting
in an official capacity, believed that the conduct was not opposed to Comcast
Cable Holdings' best interests, and (c) if in a criminal proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe its conduct was unlawful. Section 12(c) of Comcast
Cable Holdings' LLC Agreement provides that Comcast Cable Holdings may advance
funds to Comcast Cable Communications Holdings in respect of expenses incurred
by Comcast Cable Communications Holdings in a proceeding prior to the final
disposition of the proceeding if Comcast Cable Communications Holdings gives
written affirmation of its good-faith belief that it has complied with the
standards of conduct described in the preceding sentence, agrees to repay the
advancement with interest if it is determined that the standards of conduct
were not met, and Comcast Cable Holdings determines that indemnification is
permissible under these standards. Also, Section 12(e) provides
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that Comcast Cable Holdings will indemnify specified officers, and it may in
its discretion indemnify employees, on the same basis as it indemnifies Comcast
Cable Communications Holdings as described above.
Section 12(b) of Comcast Cable Holdings' LLC Agreement provides that,
notwithstanding the above paragraph, Comcast Cable Holdings will not indemnify
an indemnitee in connection with any proceeding in which Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings is adjudged liable to Comcast Cable Holdings or any
proceeding charging improper personal benefit to Comcast Cable Communications
Holdings wherein the indemnitee was adjudged liable on the basis of improperly
receiving a personal benefit.
Section 12(f) of Comcast Cable Holdings' LLC Agreement provides that
neither Comcast Cable Communications Holdings nor specified officers will be
liable to Comcast Cable Holdings for any loss, damage or expense if Comcast
Cable Communications Holdings or such officers, as the case may be (a) acts in
good faith, (b) if acting in an official capacity, reasonably believed the
action was in the best interests of Comcast Cable Holdings, and if not in an
official capacity, believed that the conduct was not opposed to Comcast Cable
Holdings' best interests, and (c) if in a criminal proceeding, had no
reasonable cause to believe its conduct was unlawful. However, Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings or the specified officers will be liable for any loss,
expense or damage incurred in connection with a proceeding in which Comcast
Cable Communications Holdings or such officers is adjudged liable to Comcast
Cable Holdings as a result of not meeting the standards of conduct described in
the preceding sentence or a proceeding charging improper personal benefit to
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings wherein the indemnitee was adjudged
liable on the basis of improperly receiving a personal benefit.
Comcast MO Group, Inc.
Comcast MO Group, Inc. is a corporation organized under the laws of the
State of Delaware. The indemnification of officers and directors provided for
by Comcast MO Group's organizational documents and the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware is identical to the indemnification provisions
described above under "-- Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc."
Item 16. Exhibits.
The following exhibits are filed as part of the Registration Statement:
Exhibit
Number Description
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1.1 Form of Underwriting Agreement (Debt Securities, Warrants,
Purchase Contracts and Units).
1.2 Form of Underwriting Agreement (Preferred Stock, Depositary
Shares, Common Stock).
2.1 Composite copy of Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of
December 19, 2001, as amended, among Comcast Holdings
Corporation (formerly known as Comcast Corporation), AT&T
Corp., Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc. (formerly
known as AT&T Broadband Corp.), Comcast Corporation (formerly
known as AT&T Comcast Corporation) and the other parties
signatory thereto.*
2.2 Composite copy of Separation and Distribution Agreement dated
as of December 19, 2001, as amended, between AT&T Corp. and
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as
AT&T Broadband Corp.).*
2.3 Support Agreement dated as of December 19, 2001, as amended,
among AT&T Corp., Comcast Holdings Corporation (formerly known
as Comcast Corporation), Comcast Corporation (formerly known as
AT&T Comcast Corporation), Sural LLC and Brian L. Roberts.**
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Exhibit
Number Description
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2.4 Tax Sharing Agreement dated as of December 19, 2001 between
AT&T Corp. and Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.
(formerly known as AT&T Broadband Corp.).**
2.5 Employee Benefits Agreement dated as of December 19, 2001
between AT&T Corp. and Comcast Cable Communications Holdings,
Inc. (formerly known as AT&T Broadband Corp.).***
2.6 Exchange Agreement dated as of December 7, 2001, as amended,
between Microsoft Corporation and Comcast Holdings Corporation
(formerly known as Comcast Corporation).**
2.7 Instrument of Admission dated as of December 19, 2001, as
amended, between Comcast Corporation (formerly known as AT&T
Comcast Corporation) and AT&T Corp.**
4.1 Rights Agreement dated as of November 18, 2002 between Comcast
Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast Corporation) and
EquiServe Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent, which includes
the Form of Certificate of Designation of Series A
Participant's Cumulative Preferred Stock as Exhibit A and the
Form of Right Certificate as Exhibit B.****
4.2 Credit Agreement dated as of April 26, 2002 among Comcast
Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast Corporation),
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as
AT&T Broadband Corp.), the Financial Institutions party
thereto, JP Morgan Chase Bank, as Administrative Agent, Swing
Line Lender and Issuing Lender, Citibank, N.A., as Syndication
Agent, and Bank of America, N.A., Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley
Senior Funding, Inc., as Co-Documentation Agents.*****
4.3 Bridge Credit Agreement dated as of April 26, 2002 among
Comcast Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast
Corporation), Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.
(formerly known as AT&T Broadband Corp.), the Financial
Institutions party thereto, JP Morgan Chase Bank, as
Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and Issuing Lender,
Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Bank of America,
N.A., Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &
Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as
Co-Documentation Agents.*****
4.4 Credit Agreement dated as of May 3, 2002 among Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as AT&T Broadband
Corp.), Comcast Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast
Corporation), the Financial Institutions party thereto, JP
Morgan Chase Bank, as Administrative Agent, Citibank, N.A.,
Bank of America, N.A., Merrill Lynch Capital Corporation and
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.*****
4.5 Form of Senior Indenture among the Company, the cable
guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York, as Trustee.******
4.6 Form of Subordinated Indenture among the Company, the cable
guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York, as Trustee.******
4.7 Form of Senior Debt Security.******
4.8 Form of Subordinated Debt Security.******
4.9 Form of Purchase Contract Agreement relating to Purchase
Contracts (included in Exhibit 4.10).
4.10 Form of Unit Agreement.*******
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Exhibit
Number Description
- ------ -----------
4.11 Form of Warrant Agreement for Warrants sold separately.
4.12 Form of Warrant for Warrants sold separately (included in
Exhibit 4.11).
4.13 Form of Warrant Agreement for Warrants sold attached to other
Securities.
4.14 Form of Warrant for Warrants sold attached to other Securities
(included in Exhibit 4.13).
4.15 Form of Pledge Agreement.
4.16 Form of Deposit Agreement.******
4.17 Form of Depositary Share (included in Exhibit 4.16).
4.18 Form of Guarantee (Warrants, Purchase Contracts and Units).
5.1 Opinion of Arthur R. Block, Esquire.
5.2 Opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell.
12.1 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast Corporation.******
12.2 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.******
12.3 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.******
12.4 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC.******
12.5 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast MO Group, Inc.******
12.6 Statement Regarding Computation of Pro Forma Ratio of Earnings
to Fixed Charges of Comcast Corporation.******
12.7 Statement Regarding Computation of Pro Forma Ratio of Earnings
to Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Dividends of Comcast
Corporation.******
12.8 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to
Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Dividends of Comcast
Corporation.******
23.1 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP with respect to Comcast
Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast Corporation).******
23.2 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP with respect to Comcast
Holdings Corporation (formerly known as Comcast Corporation).******
23.3 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP with respect to Comcast Cable
Communications, Inc.******
23.4 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP with respect to AT&T
Broadband Group.******
23.5 Consent of Arthur R. Block, Esquire (included in Exhibit 5.1).
23.6 Consent of Davis Polk & Wardwell (included in Exhibit 5.2).
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Exhibit
Number Description
- ------ -----------
24.1 Powers of Attorney.******
25.1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Bank of New York, as Trustee under the
Senior Indenture.******
25.2 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Bank of New York, as Trustee under the
Subordinated Indenture. ******
- ---------------
* Incorporated by reference to our Current Report on Form 8-K12g3, filed
on November 18, 2002.
** Incorporated by reference to our registration statement on Form S-4,
filed on February 11, 2002.
*** Incorporated by reference to AT&T Corp.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2001, filed on April 1, 2002.
**** Incorporated by reference to our registration statement on Form 8-A12g,
filed on November 18, 2002.
***** Incorporated by reference to our Amended Registration Statement on Form
S-4/A, filed on May 14, 2002.
****** Previously filed with this Registration Statement.
******* To be filed with subsequent Current Report on Form 8-K.
Item 17. Undertakings.
The undersigned registrants hereby undertake:
1. (a) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:
(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act");
(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after
the effective date of the Registration Statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate,
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the
Registration Statement;
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of
distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any
material change to such information in the Registration Statement;
provided, however, that subparagraphs (a) (i) and (a) (ii) shall not apply
to the extent that information required to be included in a post-effective
amendment by those subparagraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by
the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") that are incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement.
(b) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.
(c) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.
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2. The undersigned registrants hereby undertake that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be
deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.
3. If the securities to be registered are to be offered at competitive
bidding, the undersigned registrants hereby undertake (1) to use their best
efforts to distribute prior to the opening of bids, to prospective bidders,
underwriters, and dealers, a reasonable number of copies of a prospectus which
at that time meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act, and
relating to the securities offered at competitive bidding, as contained in the
Registration Statement, together with any supplements thereto, and (2) to file
an amendment to the Registration Statement reflecting the results of bidding,
the terms of the reoffering and related matters to the extent required by the
applicable form, not later than the first use, authorized by the issuer after
the opening of bids, of a prospectus relating to the securities offered at
competitive bidding, unless no further public offering of such securities by
the issuer and no reoffering of such securities by the purchasers is proposed
to be made.
4. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrants
have been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission
such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities
Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR COMCAST CORPORATION
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Comcast
Corporation certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused Amendment
No. 1 to this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the
23rd day of December, 2002.
COMCAST CORPORATION
By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
-----------------------------
Name: Arthur R. Block
Title: Senior Vice President
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Amendment No.
1 to this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons
in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date
--------- ----- ----
* Chairman of the Executive and Finance December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- Committee of the Board of Directors;
Ralph L. Roberts Director
* Chairman of the Board of Directors; December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- Director
C. Michael Armstrong
* Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors; December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- Director
Julian A. Brodsky
* President and Chief Executive Officer December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Executive Officer); Director
Brian L. Roberts
* Executive Vice President December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer)
Lawrence S. Smith
* Executive Vice President and Treasurer December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer)
John R. Alchin
* Senior Vice President and Controller December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Accounting Officer)
Lawrence J. Salva
* Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
S. Decker Anstrom
* Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
Sheldon M. Bonovitz
* Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
J. Michael Cook
* Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
George M. C. Fisher
* Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
Dr. Judith Rodin
* Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
Louis A. Simpson
* Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
Michael I. Sovern
*By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
------------------------------------
Arthur R. Block
Attorney-in-fact
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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Comcast Cable
Communications, Inc. certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that
it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused
Amendment No. 1 to this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on
the 23rd day of December, 2002.
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
---------------------------------
Name: Arthur R. Block
Title: Senior Vice President;
Director
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Amendment No.
1 to this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons
in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date
--------- ----- ----
* President and Chief Executive Officer December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Executive Officer); Director
Brian L. Roberts
* Executive Vice President December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer); Director
Lawrence S. Smith
* Executive Vice President and Treasurer December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer)
John R. Alchin
* Executive Vice President; Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
David L. Cohen
/s/ Arthur R. Block Senior Vice President; Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
Arthur R. Block
* Senior Vice President and Controller December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Accounting Officer)
Lawrence J. Salva
*By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
------------------------------------
Arthur R. Block
Attorney-in-fact
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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc. certifies that it has reasonable grounds to
believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has
duly caused Amendment No. 1 to this Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, on the 23rd day of December, 2002.
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
HOLDINGS, INC.
By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
--------------------------------
Name: Arthur R. Block
Title: Senior Vice President;
Director
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Amendment No.
1 to this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons
in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date
--------- ----- ----
* President and Chief Executive Officer December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Executive Officer)
Brian L. Roberts
* Executive Vice President December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer); Director
Lawrence S. Smith
* Executive Vice President and Treasurer December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer)
John R. Alchin
* Executive Vice President; Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
David L. Cohen
/s/ Arthur R. Block Senior Vice President; Director December 23, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
Arthur R. Block
* Senior Vice President December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Accounting Officer)
Lawrence J. Salva
*By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
------------------------------------
Arthur R. Block
Attorney-in-fact
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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR COMCAST CABLE HOLDINGS, LLC
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Comcast Cable
Holdings, LLC certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused Amendment
No. 1 to this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the
23rd day of December, 2002.
Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC
By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
------------------------------
Name: Arthur R. Block
Title: Senior Vice President
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Amendment No.
1 to this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons
in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date
--------- ----- ----
* President and Chief Executive Officer December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Executive Officer)
Brian L. Roberts
* Executive Vice President December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer)
Lawrence S. Smith
* Executive Vice President and Treasurer December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer)
John R. Alchin
* Senior Vice President December 23, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Accounting Officer)
Lawrence J. Salva
*By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
------------------------------------
Arthur R. Block
Attorney-in-fact
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
HOLDINGS, INC.
By: /s/ Arthur R. Block Sole Member December 23, 2002
------------------------------------
Arthur R. Block
Senior Vice President
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SIGNATURES AND POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR COMCAST MO GROUP, INC.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Comcast MO
Group, Inc. certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused Amendment
No. 1 to this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the
23rd day of December, 2002.
COMCAST MO GROUP, INC.
By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
-------------------------
Name: Arthur R. Block
Title: Senior Vice President
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Amendment No.
1 to this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons
in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature Title Date
--------- ----- ----
* President and Chief Executive Officer December 16, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Executive Officer)
Brian L. Roberts
* Executive Vice President December 16, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer); Director
Lawrence S. Smith
* Executive Vice President and Treasurer December 16, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Co-Principal Financial Officer)
John R. Alchin
* Executive Vice President; Director December 16, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
David L. Cohen
/s/ Arthur R. Block Senior Vice President; Director December 16, 2002
- ---------------------------------------------
Arthur R. Block
* Senior Vice President December 16, 2002
- --------------------------------------------- (Principal Accounting Officer)
Lawrence J. Salva
*By: /s/ Arthur R. Block
------------------------------------
Arthur R. Block
Attorney-in-fact
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EXHIBIT LIST
Exhibit
Number Description
- ------ -----------
1.1 Form of Underwriting Agreement (Debt Securities, Warrants,
Purchase Contracts and Units).
1.2 Form of Underwriting Agreement (Preferred Stock, Depositary
Shares, Common Stock).
2.1 Composite copy of Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of
December 19, 2001, as amended, among Comcast Holdings
Corporation (formerly known as Comcast Corporation), AT&T
Corp., Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc. (formerly
known as AT&T Broadband Corp.), Comcast Corporation (formerly
known as AT&T Comcast Corporation) and the other parties
signatory thereto.*
2.2 Composite copy of Separation and Distribution Agreement dated
as of December 19, 2001, as amended, between AT&T Corp. and
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as
AT&T Broadband Corp.).*
2.3 Support Agreement dated as of December 19, 2001, as amended,
among AT&T Corp., Comcast Holdings Corporation (formerly known
as Comcast Corporation), Comcast Corporation (formerly known as
AT&T Comcast Corporation), Sural LLC and Brian L. Roberts.**
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Exhibit
Number Description
- ------ -----------
2.4 Tax Sharing Agreement dated as of December 19, 2001 between
AT&T Corp. and Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.
(formerly known as AT&T Broadband Corp.).**
2.5 Employee Benefits Agreement dated as of December 19, 2001
between AT&T Corp. and Comcast Cable Communications Holdings,
Inc. (formerly known as AT&T Broadband Corp.).***
2.6 Exchange Agreement dated as of December 7, 2001, as amended,
between Microsoft Corporation and Comcast Holdings Corporation
(formerly known as Comcast Corporation).**
2.7 Instrument of Admission dated as of December 19, 2001, as
amended, between Comcast Corporation (formerly known as AT&T
Comcast Corporation) and AT&T Corp.**
4.1 Rights Agreement dated as of November 18, 2002 between Comcast
Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast Corporation) and
EquiServe Trust Company, N.A., as Rights Agent, which includes
the Form of Certificate of Designation of Series A
Participant's Cumulative Preferred Stock as Exhibit A and the
Form of Right Certificate as Exhibit B.****
4.2 Credit Agreement dated as of April 26, 2002 among Comcast
Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast Corporation),
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as
AT&T Broadband Corp.), the Financial Institutions party
thereto, JP Morgan Chase Bank, as Administrative Agent, Swing
Line Lender and Issuing Lender, Citibank, N.A., as Syndication
Agent, and Bank of America, N.A., Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley
Senior Funding, Inc., as Co-Documentation Agents.*****
4.3 Bridge Credit Agreement dated as of April 26, 2002 among
Comcast Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast
Corporation), Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.
(formerly known as AT&T Broadband Corp.), the Financial
Institutions party thereto, JP Morgan Chase Bank, as
Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and Issuing Lender,
Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Bank of America,
N.A., Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &
Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as
Co-Documentation Agents.*****
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Exhibit
Number Description
- ------ -----------
4.4 Credit Agreement dated as of May 3, 2002 among Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as AT&T Broadband
Corp.), Comcast Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast
Corporation), the Financial Institutions party thereto, JP
Morgan Chase Bank, as Administrative Agent, Citibank, N.A.,
Bank of America, N.A., Merrill Lynch Capital Corporation and
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.*****
4.5 Form of Senior Indenture among the Company, the cable
guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York, as Trustee.
******
4.6 Form of Subordinated Indenture among the Company, the cable
guarantors party thereto and The Bank of New York, as Trustee.
******
4.7 Form of Senior Debt Security.******
4.8 Form of Subordinated Debt Security.******
4.9 Form of Purchase Contract Agreement relating to Purchase
Contracts (included in Exhibit 4.10).
4.10 Form of Unit Agreement.*******
4.11 Form of Warrant Agreement for Warrants sold separately.
4.12 Form of Warrant for Warrants sold separately (included in
Exhibit 4.11).
4.13 Form of Warrant Agreement for Warrants sold attached to other
Securities.
4.14 Form of Warrant for Warrants sold attached to other Securities
(included in Exhibit 4.13).
4.15 Form of Pledge Agreement.
4.16 Form of Deposit Agreement.******
4.17 Form of Depositary Share (included in Exhibit 4.16).
4.18 Form of Guarantee (Warrants, Purchase Contracts and Units).
5.1 Opinion of Arthur R. Block, Esquire.
5.2 Opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell.
12.1 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast Corporation.******
12.2 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.******
12.3 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.******
12.4 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC.******
12.5 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed
Charges of Comcast MO Group, Inc.******
12.6 Statement Regarding Computation of Pro Forma Ratio of Earnings
to Fixed Charges of Comcast Corporation.******
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Exhibit
Number Description
- ------ -----------
12.7 Statement Regarding Computation of Pro Forma Ratio of Earnings
to Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Dividends of Comcast
Corporation.******
12.8 Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to
Combined Fixed Charges and Preferred Dividends of Comcast
Corporation.******
23.1 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP with respect to Comcast
Corporation (formerly known as AT&T Comcast Corporation).******
23.2 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP with respect to Comcast
Holdings Corporation (formerly known as Comcast Corporation).******
23.3 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP with respect to Comcast Cable
Communications, Inc.******
23.4 Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP with respect to AT&T
Broadband Group. ******
23.5 Consent of Arthur R. Block, Esquire (ncluded in Exhibit 5.1).
23.6 Consent of Davis Polk & Wardwell (included in Exhibit 5.2).
24.1 Powers of Attorney.******
25.1 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Bank of New York, as Trustee under the
Senior Indenture.******
25.2 Statement of Eligibility under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended, of The Bank of New York, as Trustee under the
Subordinated Indenture.******
- ---------------
* Incorporated by reference to our Current Report on Form 8-K12g3, filed
on November 18, 2002.
** Incorporated by reference to our registration statement on Form S-4,
filed on February 11, 2002.
*** Incorporated by reference to AT&T Corp.'s Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the year ended December 31, 2001, filed on April 1, 2002.
**** Incorporated by reference to our registration statement on Form 8-A12g,
filed on November 18, 2002.
***** Incorporated by reference to our Amended Registration Statement on Form
S-4/A, filed on May 14, 2002.
****** Previously filed with this Registration Statement.
******* To be filed with subsequent Current Report on Form 8-K.
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EXHIBIT 1.1
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
(Debt Securities)
[________________]
Comcast Corporation
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
Dear Sirs:
We (the "Manager") are acting on behalf of the underwriter or underwriters
(including ourselves) named below (such underwriter or underwriters being herein
called the "Underwriters"), and we understand that Comcast Corporation, a
Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell $[ ]
aggregate principal amount of [ ]% Notes Due [ ] (the "Offered Securities"). The
Offered Securities are to be issued pursuant to the provisions of the [specify
the indenture] and guaranteed on an unsecured and [unsubordinated]
[subordinated] basis by Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc., Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and Comcast MO Group,
Inc. (the "Cable Guarantors").
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by reference
herein, the Company hereby agrees to sell and the Underwriters agree to
purchase, severally and not jointly, the aggregate principal amount of the
Offered Securities set forth below opposite their names at a purchase price of [
], plus accrued interest, if any, from to the date of payment and delivery (the
"Purchase Price").
Number of
Offered Securities
Underwriter To Be Purchased
- ----------- ------------------
[Insert syndicate list]
------------------
Total..................................
==================
The Underwriters will pay for the Offered Securities upon delivery thereof
at the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1600 El Camino Real, Menlo Park,
California at 10:00 a.m. (New York time) on __________, ____, or at such other
time, not later than 5:00 p.m. (New York time) on ,__________, _____ as shall be
designated in writing by the Underwriters and the Company. The time and date of
such payment and delivery are hereinafter referred to as the Closing Date.
The Offered Securities shall have the terms set forth in the Prospectus
dated December [ ], 2002 and the Prospectus Supplement dated ______, ____,
including the following:
Terms of Offered Securities
Maturity Date:
Interest Rate:
Redemption Provisions:
Interest Payment Dates: [ ], commencing [ ] (Interest accrues
from [ ])
Form and Denomination:
Ranking:
Conversion Provisions:
Other Terms:
Capitalized terms used above and not defined herein shall have the meanings
set forth in the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement referred to above.
Except as set forth below, all provisions contained in the document
entitled Comcast Corporation Underwriting Agreement Standard Provisions (Debt
Securities, Warrants, Purchase Contracts, Units and Guarantees) dated December [
], 2002, (the "Standard Provisions"), a copy of which is attached hereto, are
herein incorporated by reference in their 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, except that (i) if any term defined in such document is
otherwise defined herein, the definition set forth herein shall control, (ii)
all references in such document to a type of security that is not an Offered
Security shall not be deemed to be a part of this Agreement and (iii) all
references in such document to a type of agreement that has not been entered
into in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall not be deemed
to be a part of this Agreement.
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Please confirm your agreement by having an authorized officer sign a copy
of this Agreement in the space set forth below.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Lead Managers]
On behalf of themselves and the other
Underwriters named herein
By [ ]
-----------------------------
By:
-------------------------------
Name:
Title:
Accepted:
COMCAST CORPORATION
By:
--------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
By:
--------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
By:
--------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
COMCAST CABLE HOLDINGS, LLC
By:
--------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
COMCAST MO GROUP, INC.
By:
--------------------------------------
Name:
Title:
3
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
(Warrants)
-------------------- --, ----
Comcast Corporation
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
Dear Sirs:
We (the "Manager") are acting on behalf of the underwriter or underwriters
(including ourselves) named below (such underwriter or underwriters being herein
called the "Underwriters"), and we understand that Comcast Corporation, a
Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell [number and
title of warrants] Warrants (the "Offered [Company] Securities"). The Offered
[Company] Securities are to be issued pursuant to the provisions of a Warrant
Agreement (the "Warrant Agreement") dated as of [_________, ____] between the
Company and [name of Warrant Agent], as Warrant Agent.
[It is understood that substantially contemporaneously with the closing of
the sale of the Offered Company Securities to the Underwriters contemplated
hereby, [Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable Communications
Holdings, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and] [Comcast MO Group, Inc.]
(collectively, the "Cable Guarantors") and [ ], as Guarantee Trustee, shall
enter into a Guarantee Agreement in substantially the form of the Form of the
Guarantee Agreement attached as Exhibit 4.18 of the Registration Statement
referred to below (the "Additional Guarantee") for the benefit of the holders
from time to time of the Offered Company Securities. The Offered Company
Securities and the Additional Guarantee are hereinafter collectively referred to
as the "Offered Securities."]
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by reference
herein, the Company hereby agrees to sell and the Underwriters agree to
purchase, severally and not jointly, the aggregate number of Offered [Company]
Securities set forth below opposite their names at a purchase price of $_____
per Offered Company Security, (the "Purchase Price").
Number of
Offered [Company] Securities
Underwriter To Be Purchased
- ----------- -----------------------------
[Insert syndicate list]
---------------
Total.........................................
===============
The Underwriters will pay for the Offered [Company] Securities upon
delivery thereof at the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1600 El Camino Real,
Menlo Park, CA at 10:00 a.m. (New York time) on __________, ____, or at such
other time, not later than 5:00 p.m. (New York time) on __________, ____, as
shall be designated in writing by the Underwriters and the Company. The time and
date of such payment and delivery are hereinafter referred to as the Closing
Date.
The Offered Securities shall have the terms set forth in the Prospectus
dated December [ ], 2002, and the Prospectus Supplement dated [__________,
____], including the following:
Terms of Offered [Company] Securities
Designation of the Series of Warrants: [Call] [Put] Warrants
Warrant Property:
Aggregate Number of Warrants:
Price to Public:
Warrant Exercise Price:
Dates upon which Warrants may be exercised:
Expiration Date:
Form:
Currency in which exercise payments shall be made:
Minimum number of Warrants exercisable by any holder on any day:
Maximum number of Warrants exercisable on any day:
Formula for determining Cash Settlement Value:
Exchange Rate (or method of calculation):
Exchange on which Warrants are to be listed:
Other Terms:
Capitalized terms used above and not defined herein shall have the meanings
set forth in the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement referred to above.
Except as set forth below, all provisions contained in the document
entitled Comcast Corporation Underwriting Agreement Standard Provisions (Debt
Securities, Warrants, Purchase Contracts, Units and Guarantees) dated December
__, 2002, (the "Standard Provisions"), a copy of which is attached hereto, are
herein incorporated by reference in their entirety and shall be
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deemed to be a part of this Agreement to the same extent as if such provisions
had been set forth in full herein, except that (i) if any term defined in such
document is otherwise defined herein, the definition set forth herein shall
control, (ii) all references in such document to a type of security that is not
an Offered Security shall not be deemed to be a part of this Agreement and (iii)
all references in such document to a type of agreement that has not been entered
into in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall not be deemed
to be a part of this Agreement.
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Please confirm your agreement by having an authorized officer sign a copy
of this Agreement in the space set forth below.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Lead Managers]
On behalf of themselves and the other
Underwriters named herein
By [ ]
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By:
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Name:
Title:
Accepted:
COMCAST CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
[COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.]
By:
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Name:
Title:
[COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.]
By:
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Name:
Title:
[COMCAST CABLE HOLDINGS, LLC]
By:
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Name:
Title:
[COMCAST MO GROUP, INC.]
By:
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Name:
Title:
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UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
(Prepaid Purchase Contracts)
[ ]
Comcast Corporation
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
Dear Sirs:
We (the "Manager") are acting on behalf of the underwriter or underwriters
(including ourselves) named below (such underwriter or underwriters being herein
called the "Underwriters"), and we understand that Comcast Corporation, a
Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell [number and
title of purchase contracts] Purchase Contracts (the "Offered Securities"). The
Offered Securities are to be issued pursuant to the provisions of the [Senior
Indenture] [Subordinated Indenture] and guaranteed on a[n] [unsubordinated]
[subordinated] basis by Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc., Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and Comcast MO Group,
Inc.
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by reference
herein, the Company hereby agrees to sell and the Underwriters agree to
purchase, severally and not jointly, the aggregate number of Offered Securities
set forth below opposite their names at a purchase price of per Offered
Security, (the "Purchase Price").
Number of
Offered Company Securities
Underwriter To Be Purchased
[Insert syndicate list]
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Total.........................................
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The Underwriters will pay for the Offered Securities upon delivery thereof
at the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1600 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA at
10:00 a.m. (New York time) on __________, ____, or at such other time, not later
than 5:00 p.m. (New York time) on __________, ____, as shall be designated in
writing by the Underwriters and the Company. The time and date of such payment
and delivery are hereinafter referred to as the Closing Date.
The Offered Securities shall have the terms set forth in the Prospectus
dated December [ ], 2002, and the Prospectus Supplement dated __________, ____,
including the following:
Terms of Offered Securities
Designation of the Series of Purchase Contracts: [Purchase][Sale]
Purchase Contracts
Purchase Contract Property:
Aggregate Number of Purchase Contracts:
Price to Public:
Settlement Date:
[Purchase/Sale] Price of Purchase Contract Property
Form:
Other Terms:
Capitalized terms used above and not defined herein shall have the meanings
set forth in the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement referred to above.
Except as set forth below, all provisions contained in the document
entitled Comcast Corporation Underwriting Agreement Standard Provisions (Debt
Securities, Warrants, Purchase Contracts, Units and Guarantees) dated December [
], 2002 (the "Standard Provisions"), a copy of which is attached hereto, are
herein incorporated by reference in their 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, except that (i) if any term defined in such document is
otherwise defined herein, the definition set forth herein shall control, (ii)
all references in such document to a type of security that is not an Offered
Security shall not be deemed to be a part of this Agreement and (iii) all
references in such document to a type of agreement that has not been entered
into in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall not be deemed
to be a part of this Agreement.
Please confirm your agreement by having an authorized officer sign a copy
of this Agreement in the space set forth below.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Lead Managers]
On behalf of themselves and the other
Underwriters named herein
By [ ]
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By:
---------------------------------
Name:
Title:
Accepted:
COMCAST CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
COMCAST CABLE HOLDINGS, LLC
By:
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Name:
Title:
COMCAST MO GROUP, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
(Units)
---------- --, ----
Comcast Corporation
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
Dear Sirs:
We (the "Manager") are acting on behalf of the underwriter or underwriters
(including ourselves) named below (such underwriter or underwriters being herein
called the "Underwriters"), and we understand that Comcast Corporation, a
Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell [number and
title of units] Units (the "Offered [Company] Securities") consisting of [$____
aggregate principal amount of __% Notes Due ____ ] [number and title of
Warrants] [number and title of Purchase Contracts]. The Offered [Company]
Securities are to be issued pursuant to the provisions of a Unit Agreement (the
"Unit Agreement") dated as of [______, ___] among the Company,
[_________________], as Agent, and the holders from time to time of the Units.
[The Debt Securities included in the Offered [Company] Securities will be issued
pursuant to the [specify the indenture].] [The Warrants included in the Offered
[Company] Securities will be issued pursuant to the [specify the warrant
agreement.]] [The Purchase Contracts included in the Offered [Company]
Securities will be issued pursuant to the Unit Agreement.]
[It is understood that substantially contemporaneously with the closing of
the sale of the Offered Company Securities to the Underwriters contemplated
hereby, [Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable Communications
Holdings, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and] [Comcast MO Group, Inc.]
(collectively, the "Cable Guarantors") and [ ], as Guarantee Trustee, shall
enter into a Guarantee Agreement in substantially the form of the Form of the
Guarantee Agreement attached as Exhibit 4.18 of the Registration Statement
referred to below (the "Additional Guarantee") for the benefit of the holders
from time to time of the Offered Company Securities. The Offered Company
Securities and the Additional Guarantee are hereinafter collectively referred to
as the "Offered Securities."]
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by reference
herein, the Company hereby agrees to sell and the Underwriters agree to
purchase, severally and not jointly, the aggregate number of Offered [Company]
Securities set forth below opposite their names at a purchase price of
$__________, plus accrued interest, if any, from [________, ____] to the date of
payment and delivery (the "Purchase Price").
Number of
Offered [Company] Securities
Underwriter To Be Purchased
- ----------- ----------------------------
[Insert syndicate list]
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Total..........................................
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The Underwriters will pay for the Offered [Company] Securities upon
delivery thereof at the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1600 El Camino Real,
Menlo Park, CA at 10:00 a.m. (New York time) on __________, ___, or at such
other time, not later than 5:00 p.m. (New York time) on __________, ___, as
shall be designated in writing by the Underwriters and the Company. The time and
date of such payment and delivery are hereinafter referred to as the Closing
Date.
The Offered Securities shall have the terms set forth in the Prospectus
dated December [ ], 2002, and the Prospectus Supplement dated [__________,
____], including the following:
Terms of Debt Securities
Maturity Date:
Interest Rate:
Redemption Provisions:
Interest Payment Dates: _________________,
commencing __________ (Interest accrues from __________)
Form and Denomination:
Ranking:
Other Terms:
Terms of Warrants
Designation of the Series of Warrants: [Call] [Put] Warrants
Warrant Property:
Aggregate Number of Warrants:
Warrant Exercise Price:
Dates upon which Warrants may be exercised:
Expiration Date:
Currency in which exercise payments shall be made:
[Maximum number of Warrants exercisable on any day:]
Formula for determining Cash Settlement Value:
Exchange Rate (or method of calculation):
Other Terms:
Terms of Purchase Contracts
Designation of the Series of Purchase Contracts: [Purchase][Sale]
Purchase Contracts
Purchase Contract Property:
Aggregate Number of Purchase Contracts:
Price to Public:
Settlement Date:
[Purchase/Sale] Price of Purchase Contract Property
Form:
Other Terms:
Capitalized terms used above and not defined herein shall have the meanings
set forth in the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement referred to above.
Except as set forth below, all provisions contained in the document
entitled Comcast Corporation Underwriting Agreement Standard Provisions (Debt
Securities, Warrants, Purchase Contracts, Units and Guarantees) dated December [
], 2002, (the "Standard Provisions"), a copy of which is attached hereto, are
herein incorporated by reference in their 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, except that (i) if any term defined in such document is
otherwise defined herein, the definition set forth herein shall control, (ii)
all references in such document to a type of security that is not an Offered
Security shall not be deemed to be a part of this Agreement and (iii) all
references in such document to a type of agreement that has not been entered
into in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall not be deemed
to be a part of this Agreement.
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Please confirm your agreement by having an authorized officer sign a copy
of this Agreement in the space set forth below.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Lead Managers]
On behalf of themselves and the other
Underwriters named herein
By [ ]
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By:
---------------------------------
Name:
Title:
Accepted:
COMCAST CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
[COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.]
By:
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Name:
Title:
[COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS HOLDINGS, INC.]
By:
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Name:
Title:
[COMCAST CABLE HOLDINGS, LLC]
By:
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Name:
Title:
[COMCAST MO GROUP, INC.]
By:
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Name:
Title:
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COMCAST CORPORATION
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
STANDARD PROVISIONS
(DEBT SECURITIES, WARRANTS, PURCHASE CONTRACTS, UNITS AND GUARANTEES)
December [ ], 2002
From time to time, Comcast Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation (the
"Company"), may, alone or together with Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.,
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc., Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and
Comcast MO Group, Inc. (collectively, the "Cable Guarantors"), enter into one
or more underwriting agreements that provide for the sale of designated
securities to the several underwriters named therein. The standard provisions
set forth herein may be incorporated by reference in any such underwriting
agreement (an "Underwriting Agreement"). The Underwriting Agreement, including
the provisions incorporated therein by reference, is herein referred to as this
Agreement. Terms defined in the Underwriting Agreement are used herein as
therein defined.
The Company proposes to issue from time to time (a) its senior debt
securities ("Senior Debt Securities"), (b) its subordinated debt securities
("Subordinated Debt Securities" and with the Senior Debt Securities, the "Debt
Securities"), (c) warrants ("Warrants") and (d) purchase contracts ("Purchase
Contracts") requiring the holders thereof to purchase or sell (i) securities of
an entity unaffiliated with the Company, a basket of such securities, an index
or indices of such securities or any combination of the above, (ii) currencies
or composite currencies or (iii) commodities. Debt Securities, Purchase
Contracts and Warrants or any combination thereof may be offered in the form of
Units ("Units"). As used herein, the term "Debt Securities" includes prepaid
Purchase Contracts. The Debt Securities are to be guaranteed (the "Cable
Guarantees") on an unsecured basis by the Cable Guarantors. The Warrants,
Purchase Contracts and Units may be guaranteed on an unsecured basis by the
Cable Guarantors to the extent described in the Prospectus (as defined below)
pursuant to a Guarantee Agreement to be dated as of a date specified in the
Underwriting Agreement and executed and delivered by the Cable Guarantors and [
], as trustee (the "Guarantee Trustee") for the benefit of the holders from
time to time of the Offered Company Securities (the "Additional Guarantee").
The Company and the Cable Guarantors have filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") a registration statement including a
prospectus relating to the Debt Securities, Warrants, Purchase Contracts,
Units, Cable Guarantees and Additional Guarantees (collectively, the
"Securities") and have filed with, or transmitted for filing to, or shall
promptly after the date of the Underwriting Agreement file with or transmit for
filing to, the Commission a prospectus supplement (the "Prospectus Supplement")
pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"), specifically relating to the Securities offered pursuant to
this Agreement (the "Offered Company Securities" and the "Offered Guarantees,"
if any, and, together, the "Offered Securities"). The term Registration
Statement means the registration statement as amended to the date of the
Underwriting Agreement including any additional registration statement filed by
the Company pursuant to Rule 462(b). The term Basic Prospectus means the
prospectus included in the Registration Statement. The term Prospectus means
the Basic Prospectus together with the Prospectus Supplement. The term
preliminary prospectus means a preliminary prospectus supplement specifically
relating to the Offered Securities, together with the Basic Prospectus. As used
herein, the terms "Basic Prospectus," "Prospectus" and "preliminary prospectus"
shall include in each case the documents, if any, incorporated by reference
therein. The terms "supplement," "amendment" and "amend" as used herein shall
include all documents deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus
that are filed subsequent to the date of the Basic Prospectus by the Company
with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the "Exchange Act"). For purposes of this Agreement, "Issuers" means the
Company and includes the Cable Guarantors if Cable Guarantees or an Additional
Guarantee are offered pursuant to this Agreement.
1. Representations and Warranties. The Issuers, jointly and severally,
represent and warrant to each of the Underwriters as of the date of the
Underwriting Agreement that (i) each document filed or to be filed pursuant to
the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus complied or
will comply when so filed in all material respects with the Exchange Act and
the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and (ii) the
Registration Statement and Prospectus comply in all material respects with the
Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and
do not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements
therein not misleading, except that the foregoing representations and
warranties do not apply to (a) that part of the Registration Statement which
shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility of the Trustee on Form T-1 (the
"Form T-1") and (b) statements or omissions in the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto based upon information
furnished to the Issuers in writing by any Underwriter through the Manager
expressly for use therein.
2. Public Offering. The Issuers are advised by the Manager that the
Underwriters propose to make a public offering of their respective portions of
the Offered Securities as soon after this Agreement has been entered into as in
the Manager's judgment is advisable. The terms of the public offering of the
Offered Securities are set forth in the Prospectus.
3. Purchase and Delivery. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 3,
payment for the Offered Securities shall be made to the Company in Federal or
other funds immediately available in New York City at the time and place set
forth in the Underwriting Agreement, upon delivery to the Manager for the
respective accounts of the several Underwriters of the Offered Securities
registered in such names and in such denominations as the Manager shall request
in writing not less than one full business day prior to the date of delivery,
with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the transfer of the Offered
Securities to the Underwriters duly paid.
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4. Conditions to Closing. The several obligations of the Underwriters
hereunder are subject to the following conditions:
(a) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceedings for
such purpose shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission,
and there shall have been no material adverse change in the
condition, business or operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries, as a whole, from that set forth in the Prospectus; and
the Manager shall have received, on the Closing Date, a certificate,
dated the Closing Date and signed by an executive officer of the
Company, to the foregoing effect. Such certificate will also provide
that the representations and warranties of the Company contained
herein are true and correct as of the Closing Date. The officer
making such certificate may rely upon the best of his knowledge as to
proceedings threatened.
(b) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date an
opinion of Arthur R. Block, Esquire, Senior Vice President of the
Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that:
(i) the Company has been duly incorporated, is validly
existing as a corporation subsisting under the laws of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is duly qualified to transact
business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which
the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing of
property requires such qualification (except where the failure
to so qualify would not have a material adverse effect upon the
business or financial condition of the Company and its
subsidiaries, as a whole);
(ii) each of the Senior Indenture dated as of [ ] (the
"Senior Indenture") among the Company, the Cable Guarantors and
The Bank of New York, as trustee, and the Subordinated Indenture
dated as of [ ] (the "Subordinated Indenture") among the Company
and the Cable Guarantors and The Bank of New York, as trustee
has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
(iii) the Warrant Agreement, if any, has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;
(iv) the Unit Agreement, if any, has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Company;
(v) the Offered Company Securities have been duly
authorized by the Company;
(vi) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company;
(vii) except as rights to indemnity and contribution under
this Agreement may be limited under applicable law, the
execution and delivery by each Issuer of, and the performance by
each Issuer of its obligations under, this Agreement, the Senior
Indenture, the Subordinated Indenture, the Offered Securities,
the Warrant Agreement, the Unit Agreement and the Additional
Guarantee, if any, will not contravene any provision of
applicable law of the
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United States (except with respect to laws relating specifically
to the cable communications industry, as to which such counsel
is not called upon to express any opinion), Pennsylvania, or, to
the best knowledge of such counsel, of any other state or
jurisdiction of the United States or of any foreign jurisdiction
(in which foreign jurisdiction the Company or any specified
subsidiary does business which is material to the Company and
its subsidiaries, as a whole), or the articles of incorporation
or by-laws of the Company or, to the best knowledge of such
counsel, any agreement or other instrument binding upon such
Issuer, and, except for the orders of the Commission making the
Registration Statement effective and the Senior Indenture and
the Subordinated Indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended (the "Trust Indenture Act") (which have
been obtained) and such permits or similar authorizations
required under the securities or Blue Sky laws of certain states
or foreign jurisdictions (as to which such counsel is not called
upon to express any opinion), no consent, approval or
authorization of any governmental body or agency of the United
States (except with respect to consents, approvals and
authorizations relating specifically to the cable communications
industry, as to which such counsel is not called upon to express
any opinion), Pennsylvania, or, to the best knowledge of such
counsel, of any other state or jurisdiction of the United States
or of any foreign jurisdiction is required for the performance
by any Issuer of its obligations under this Agreement, the
Senior Indenture, the Subordinated Indenture, the Offered
Securities, the Warrant Agreement, the Unit Agreement and the
Additional Guarantee, if any;
(viii) subject to such qualification as may be set forth in
the Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries have, and are
in material compliance with, such franchises, and to the best
knowledge of such counsel after reasonable investigation, such
licenses and authorizations, as are necessary to own their cable
communications properties and to conduct their cable
communications business in the manner described in the
Prospectus, except where the failure to have, or comply with,
such franchises, licenses and authorizations would not have a
material adverse effect on the business or financial condition
of the Company and its subsidiaries, as a whole, and such
franchises, licenses and authorizations contain no materially
burdensome restrictions not adequately described in the
Prospectus, which restrictions would have a material adverse
effect on the business or financial condition of the Company and
its subsidiaries, as a whole;
(ix) the statements (A) in Item 3 of the Company's most
recent Annual Report on Form 10-K incorporated by reference in
the Prospectus, (B) in Part II, Item 1 under the caption "Legal
Proceedings" of the Company's most recent Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and (C) in
the Registration Statement in Item 15, insofar as such
statements constitute a summary of the legal matters, documents
or proceedings referred to therein, fairly present the
information called for with respect to such legal matters,
documents and proceedings;
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(x) such counsel does not know of any legal or governmental
proceeding pending or threatened to which the Company or any of
its subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the properties of
the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject which is
required to be described in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus and is not so described or of any contract or other
document which is required to be described in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus or to be filed as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement which is not described or filed as
required;
(xi) the securities into which the Offered Company
Securities are convertible, initially reserved for issuance upon
conversion of the Offered Company Securities (the "Underlying
Securities") have been duly authorized and reserved for
issuance; and
(xii) when the Underlying Securities are issued upon
conversion of the Offered Company Securities in accordance with
the terms of the Offered Company Securities, such Underlying
Securities will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable
and will not be subject to any preemptive or other right to
subscribe for or purchase such Underlying Securities.
Such counsel shall also state that no facts have come to his attention
that lead him to believe (1) that the Registration Statement or any amendments
thereto (except for the financial statements and other financial or statistical
data included or incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom and the
Form T-1, as to which such counsel is not called upon to express any belief),
on the date on which it became effective or the date of filing of the most
recent subsequent Annual Report on Form 10-K, 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; (2) that
the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, if applicable (except for the
financial statements and other financial or statistical data included or
incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such
counsel is not called upon to express any belief), at the date of the
Underwriting Agreement or at the Closing Date, contained or contains an untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they are made, not misleading; or (3) that the
documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (except for the financial
statements and other financial or statistical data included or incorporated by
reference therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such counsel is not called
upon to express any belief), as of the dates they were filed with the
Commission, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to
state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the
light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
With respect to the preceding paragraph, such counsel may state that his
opinion and belief is based upon his participation in the preparation of the
Registration Statement, Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) and the
documents incorporated therein by reference and review and discussion of the
contents thereof, but is without independent check or verification except as
specified.
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In expressing his opinion as to questions of the law of jurisdictions
other than the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States, such counsel
may rely to the extent reasonable on such counsel as may be reasonably
acceptable to counsel to the Underwriters. In addition, such counsel may
reasonably rely as to questions of fact on certificates of responsible officers
of the Company.
(c) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of
Davis Polk & Wardwell, special counsel for the Company, dated the Closing
Date, to the effect that:
(i) each Cable Guarantor is a corporation or limited liability
company duly incorporated or duly organized, validly existing and in
good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation
or formation;
(ii) each of the Senior Indenture and the Subordinated Indenture
has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each Cable
Guarantor and assuming each of the Senior Indenture and the
Subordinated Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company and duly executed and delivered by the
respective trustee thereto, each of the Senior Indenture and the
Subordinated Indenture is a valid and binding agreement of each
Issuer, enforceable against each Issuer in accordance with its terms
(subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, moratorium or other
similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally from time to time
in effect and to general equity principles);
(iii) assuming the Warrant Agreement, if any, has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and duly executed
and delivered by the Warrant Agent, the Warrant Agreement, if any, is
a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in
accordance with its terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to
applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or
other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally from time to
time in effect and to general equity principles);
(iv) assuming the Unit Agreement, if any, has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and duly executed
and delivered by the Agent, the Unit Agreement, if any, is a valid
and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with
its terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable
bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other similar
laws affecting creditors' rights generally from time to time in
effect and to general equity principles);
(v) the Additional Guarantee, if any, has been duly authorized,
executed and delivered by each Cable Guarantor and is a valid and
binding agreement of each Cable Guarantor, enforceable in accordance
with its terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable
bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
moratorium or other similar laws affecting
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creditors' rights generally from time to time in effect and to
general equity principles);
(vi) the Cable Guarantees have been duly authorized, and,
assuming the Offered Company Securities have been authorized by the
Company, when the Offered Company Securities have been duly executed
and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the relevant
Senior Indenture or Subordinated Indenture, will be valid and binding
obligations of the Cable Guarantors, enforceable against them in
accordance with their terms (subject, as to enforcement or remedies,
to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, moratorium or other similar laws affecting creditors'
rights generally from time to time in effect and to general equity
principles), and will be entitled to the benefits of the relevant
Senior Indenture or Subordinated Indenture.
(vii) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by each Cable Guarantor party hereto;
(viii) each of the Senior Indenture and the Subordinated
Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act;
(ix) except as rights to indemnity and contribution under this
Agreement may be limited under applicable law, the execution and
delivery by each Issuer of, and the performance by each Issuer of its
obligations under, this Agreement, the Senior Indenture, the
Subordinated Indenture, the Offered Securities, the Warrant
Agreement, the Unit Agreement and the Additional Guarantee, if any,
will not contravene any provision of applicable law of the United
States (except with respect to laws relating specifically to the
cable communications industry, as to which such counsel is not called
upon to express any opinion), or New York, or the articles of
incorporation or bylaws or equivalent organizational documents of any
Cable Guarantor and, except for the orders of the Commission making
the Registration Statement effective and the Senior Indenture and the
Subordinated Indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act (which
have been obtained) and such permits or similar authorizations
required under the securities or Blue Sky laws of certain states or
foreign jurisdictions (as to which such counsel is not called upon to
express any opinion), no consent, approval or authorization of any
governmental body or agency of the United States (except with respect
to consents, approvals and authorizations relating specifically to
the cable communications industry, as to which such counsel is not
called upon to express any opinion), or New York is required for the
performance by any Issuer of its obligations under this Agreement,
the Senior Indenture, the Subordinated Indenture, the Offered
Securities, the Warrant Agreement, the Unit Agreement and the
Additional Guarantee, if any, and
(x) the statements in the Prospectus Supplement under
"Description of [the Offered Securities]", "Certain U.S. Tax
Considerations" and
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"Underwriting" and in the Basic Prospectus under "Description of [the
Offered Securities]", and "Plan of Distribution", insofar as such
statements constitute a summary of the legal matters or documents
referred to therein, fairly present the information called for with
respect to such legal matters and documents.
Such counsel shall also state that no facts have come to the attention of
such counsel that lead them to believe (1) that the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus and any supplements or amendments thereto or the documents
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus (except
for financial statements and other financial or statistical data included or
incorporated by reference therein and the Form T- 1, as to which such counsel
is not called upon to express any belief) did not comply as to form in all
material respects with the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder; (2) that the Registration Statement or any amendment
thereto (except for the financial statements and other financial or statistical
data included or incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom and the
Form T-1, as to which such counsel is not called upon to express any belief) at
the date of the Underwriting Agreement 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; or (3) that the
Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, if applicable (except for the financial
statements and other financial or statistical data included or incorporated by
reference therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such counsel is not called
upon to express any belief), at the date of the Underwriting Agreement or at
the Closing Date, contained or contains an untrue statement of a material fact
or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are
made, not misleading.
With respect to the preceding paragraph, Davis Polk & Wardwell may state
that their opinion and belief is based upon their participation in the
preparation of the Registration Statement and Prospectus and any amendments or
supplements thereto (but not including documents incorporated therein by
reference) and review and discussion of the contents thereof (including
documents incorporated therein by reference), but is without independent check
or verification except as specified.
(d) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of
[ ], internal counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the
effect that:
(i) no approval of the Federal Communications Commission (the
"FCC") is required in connection with the issuance and sale of the
Offered Securities,
(ii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Senior
Indenture, the Subordinated Indenture, the Warrant Agreement, the
Unit Agreement and the Additional Guarantee, if any, by each Issuer,
the fulfillment of the terms set forth herein and therein by each
Issuer and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby
and thereby by each Issuer do not violate any statute, regulation or
other law of the United States relating specifically to the cable
communications industry (except as otherwise explicitly set forth in
the Prospectus) or, to the knowledge of such counsel, any order,
judgment or decree
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of any court or governmental body of the United States relating
specifically to the cable communications industry and applicable to
such Issuer or any subsidiary, and which violation would have a
material adverse effect on the business or financial condition of
such Issuer and its subsidiaries, as a whole,
(iii) the statements in the Company's most recent Annual Report
on Form 10-K incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
and Prospectus [identify sections describing cable regulatory
matters] as updated by the Company's most recent Quarterly Reports on
Form 10-Q incorporated in the Registration Statement and Prospectus
and as updated by the Prospectus, insofar as they are, or refer to,
statements of federal law or legal conclusions, have been reviewed by
such counsel and present in all material respects the information
called for with respect to such statements of federal law or legal
conclusions, and
(iv) such counsel does not know of any proceeding pending before
the FCC to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or
involving the cable communications properties, licenses or
authorizations of the Company and its subsidiaries, or of any cable
communications law or regulation relevant thereto required to be
described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus pursuant to
Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act, which is not
described as required.
(e) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of
Cahill Gordon & Reindel, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing
Date, covering the matters requested by and in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Manager.
(f) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date, a letter
dated the Closing Date, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to
the Manager, from (i)Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent public
accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily
included in accountants' "comfort letters" to underwriters with respect to
the financial statements and certain financial information reviewed by
them contained in or incorporated by reference in the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus and (ii) each other firm of independent
accountants, if any, who audited or reviewed financial statements
contained in or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
and the Prospectus, containing statements and information of the type
ordinarily included in accountants' "comfort letters" to underwriters with
respect to such financial statements and financial information.
(g) The Manager shall have received on the date hereof or on the
Closing Date, as applicable, such additional documents as the Manager
shall have reasonably requested to confirm compliance with the conditions
to Closing listed herein.
5. Covenants of the Company. In further consideration of the agreements of
the Underwriters herein contained, the Issuers covenant as follows:
(a) To furnish to the Manager, without charge, a copy of the
Registration Statement and two signed copies of any post-effective
amendment thereto specifically
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relating to the Offered Securities (including exhibits thereto and
documents incorporated therein by reference) and, during the period
mentioned in paragraph (c) below, as many copies of the Prospectus, any
documents incorporated therein by reference and any supplements and
amendments thereto as the Manager may reasonably request.
(b) Before amending or supplementing the Registration Statement or
the Prospectus, to furnish the Manager a copy of each such proposed
amendment or supplement.
(c) If, during such period after the first date of the public
offering of the Offered Securities during which in the opinion of counsel
to the Manager the Prospectus is required by law to be delivered in
connection with sales by an Underwriter or dealer, any event shall occur
as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus
in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances
existing at the time, not misleading, forthwith to prepare and furnish, at
its expense, to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and
addresses the Manager will furnish to the Company) to which Offered
Securities may have been sold by the Manager on behalf of the Underwriters
and to any other dealers on request, either amendments or supplements to
the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or
supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances existing at the
time, be misleading.
(d) To endeavor to qualify the Offered Securities for offer and sale
under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such U.S. jurisdictions as the
Manager shall reasonably request.
(e) To make generally available to the Company's security holders as
soon as practicable an earnings statement covering the twelve month period
beginning on the first day of the first fiscal quarter commencing after
the date hereof, which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of
the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission
thereunder (which may be accomplished by making generally available the
Company's financial statements in the manner provided for by Rule 158 of
the Securities Act).
6. Indemnification and Contribution. The Issuers, jointly and severally,
agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and each person, if any,
who controls each Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the
Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act from and against any and all
losses, claims, damages and liabilities caused by any untrue statement or
alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) or any preliminary
prospectus, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a
material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except
insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities are caused by any such
untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission based upon
information furnished to any Issuer in writing by such Underwriter through the
Manager expressly for use therein; provided, however, that the foregoing
indemnity agreement with respect to any preliminary prospectus shall not inure
to the benefit of any Underwriter from whom the person asserting any such
losses, claims, damages or liabilities purchased Offered
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Securities, or any person controlling any such Underwriter, if a copy of the
Prospectus (as then amended or supplemented) was not sent or given by or on
behalf of such Underwriter to such person, if required by law so to have been
delivered, at or prior to the written confirmation of the sale of the Offered
Securities to such person, and if the Prospectus (as so amended or supplemented
but without reference to documents incorporated by reference therein) would
have cured the defect giving rise to such loss, claim, damage or liability.
Each Underwriter agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Issuer, their
respective directors and officers who sign the Registration Statement and each
person, if any, who controls an Issuer within the meaning of either Section 15
of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as
the foregoing indemnity from the Issuers to such Underwriter, but only with
reference to information relating to such Underwriter furnished to any Issuer
in writing by such Underwriter through the Manager expressly for use in the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto, or
any preliminary prospectus.
In case any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be
instituted involving any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought
pursuant to either of the two preceding paragraphs, such person (hereinafter
called the "indemnified party") shall promptly notify the person against whom
such indemnity may be sought (hereinafter called the "indemnifying party") in
writing and the indemnifying party, upon request of the indemnified party,
shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to
represent the indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may
designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and disbursements of such
counsel related to such proceeding. In any such proceeding, any indemnified
party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses
of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i)
the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to
the retention of such counsel or (ii) the named parties to any such proceeding
(including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the
indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would
be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them.
It is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any
proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the
reasonable fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any
local counsel) for all such indemnified parties and that all such fees and
expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. In the case of any such
separate firm for the Underwriters and such control persons of the
Underwriters, such firm shall be designated in writing by the Manager. In the
case of any such separate firm for the Issuers and such directors, officers and
controlling persons of the Issuers, such firm shall be designated in writing by
the Issuers. The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of
any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such
consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying
party agrees to indemnify, to the extent provided in the two immediately
preceding paragraphs, the indemnified party from and against any loss or
liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. No indemnifying party
shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any
settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any
indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been
sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an
unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims
that are the subject matter of such proceeding.
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If the indemnification provided for in the second or third paragraph of
this Section 6 is unavailable to an indemnified party in respect of any losses,
claims, damages or liabilities for which indemnification is provided herein,
then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party,
shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a
result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as
is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Issuers on the
one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Offered
Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not
permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect
not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the
relative fault of the Issuers on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the
other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such
losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable
considerations. The relative benefits received by the Issuers and the
Underwriters shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the
net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the
Issuers bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by
the Underwriters in respect thereof. The relative fault of the Issuers and the
Underwriters 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 Issuers or by the Underwriters and the parties' relative intent, knowledge,
access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or
omission.
The Issuers and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and
equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 6 were determined by pro
rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such
purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of
the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding
paragraph. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of
the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in the immediately
preceding paragraph shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set
forth above, 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 Section 6, the Underwriters
shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which
the total price at which the Offered Securities underwritten by it and
distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any
damages which the Underwriters have 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 Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person
who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
The indemnity and contribution agreement contained in this Section 6 and
the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement
shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any
termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of
the Underwriters or any person controlling the Underwriters or by or on behalf
of the Issuers, their respective officers or directors or any other person
controlling an Issuer and (iii) acceptance of and payment for any of the
Offered Securities.
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7. Termination. This Agreement shall be subject to termination in the
absolute discretion of the Manager by notice given by the Manager to the
Issuers, if (a) after the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement
and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended
or materially limited on or by, as the case may be, the New York Stock
Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc., (ii) trading of any securities of the Company shall
have been suspended on the Nasdaq National Market, (iii) a general moratorium
on commercial banking activities in New York shall have been declared by either
Federal or New York State authorities, or (iv) there shall have occurred any
outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any
calamity or crisis that, in the judgment of the Manager, is material and
adverse and (b) in the case of any of the events specified in clauses (a)(i)
through (iv), such event, singly or together with any other such event, makes
it, in the judgment of the Manager, impracticable to market the Offered
Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Prospectus.
The Issuers will pay and bear all costs and expenses incident to the
performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including (a) the
preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement (including
financial statements and exhibits), as originally filed and as amended, the
preliminary prospectuses and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements
thereto, and the cost of furnishing copies thereto to the Underwriters, (b) the
preparation, printing and distribution of this Agreement, the Senior Indenture,
the Subordinated Indenture, the Warrant Agreement, the Unit Agreement and the
Additional Guarantee, if any, and Blue Sky Memorandum, (c) the delivery of the
Offered Securities to the Underwriters, (d) the reasonable fees and
disbursements of the Issuers' counsel and accountants, (e) the qualification of
the Offered Securities under the applicable state securities or Blue Sky laws
in accordance with Section 5, including filing fees and reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection therewith and in
connection with any Blue Sky survey and any legal investment survey, (f) all
fees payable to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. in
connection with the review, if any, of the offering of the Securities, (g) any
fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Offered Securities and (h) the
fees and expenses of the Trustee, including the fees and disbursements of
counsel for the Trustee, in connection with the Senior Indenture, the
Subordinated Indenture and the Offered Securities. Except as specifically
provided elsewhere herein, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and
expenses, including without limitation the fees and expenses of their counsel
and the expenses of selling presentations.
If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters because of any
failure or refusal on the part of the Issuers to comply with the terms or to
fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, or if for any reason the
Issuers shall be unable to perform their obligations under this Agreement, the
Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses
(including the fees and disbursements of their counsel) reasonably incurred by
the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement or the offering contemplated
hereunder. This provision shall survive the termination or cancellation of this
Agreement.
8. Defaulting Underwriters. If on the Closing Date any one or more of the
Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Offered Securities that it has or
they have agreed to purchase on such date, and the aggregate amount of Offered
Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed
or refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth
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of the aggregate amount of the Offered Securities to be purchased on such date,
the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally in the proportions that the
amount of Offered Securities set forth opposite their respective names bears to
the aggregate amount of Offered Securities set forth opposite the names of all
such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as the Manager
may specify, to purchase the Offered Securities which such defaulting
Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such
date; provided that in no event shall the amount of Offered Securities that any
Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to this Agreement be increased
pursuant to this Section 8 by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such amount
of Offered Securities without the written consent of such Underwriter. If on
the Closing Date any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to
purchase Offered Securities and the aggregate amount of Offered Securities with
respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate
amount of Offered Securities to be purchased on such date, and arrangements
satisfactory to the Manager and the Issuers for the purchase of such Offered
Securities are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement
shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter
or the Issuers. In any such case either the Manager or the Issuers shall have
the right to postpone the Closing Date but in no event for longer than seven
days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement
and in the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be
effected. Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any
defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such
Underwriter under this Agreement.
9. Counterparts. The Underwriting Agreement may be signed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if
the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
10. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.
11. Headings. The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been
inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of
this Agreement.
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EXHIBIT 1.2
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
(Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares, Common Stock)
[ ]
Comcast Corporation
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
Dear Sirs:
We (the "Manager") are acting on behalf of the underwriter or underwriters
(including ourselves) named below (such underwriter or underwriters being herein
called the "Underwriters"), and we understand that Comcast Corporation, a
Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell the number
of shares of its securities identified as Firm Securities herein (the "Firm
Securities"). The Company also proposes to issue and sell not more than the
number of shares of its securities, if any, identified as Additional Securities
herein (the "Additional Securities"), if and to the extent that we, as Manager
of this offering, shall have determined to exercise, on behalf of the
Underwriters, the right to purchase such Additional Securities granted to the
Underwriters herein. The Firm Securities and the Additional Securities are
hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Offered Securities."
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by reference
herein, the Company hereby agrees to sell and the Underwriters agree to
purchase, severally and not jointly, the aggregate principal amount of the Firm
Securities set forth below opposite their names at a purchase price of
$[ ], per Firm Security (the "Purchase Price").
Number of
Firm Securities
Underwriter To Be Purchased
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[Insert syndicate list]
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Total..................................................
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Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by reference
herein, the Company hereby agrees to sell to the Underwriters the Additional
Securities, and the Underwriters shall have a one-time right to purchase,
severally and not jointly, up to the number of Additional Securities set forth
below at the Purchase Price [plus accrued dividends, if any, from [ ]
to the date of payment and delivery]. Additional Securities may be purchased as
provided herein solely for the purpose of covering over-allotments made in
connection with the offering of the Firm Securities. If any Additional
Securities are to be
purchased, each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase the
number of Additional Securities (subject to such adjustments to eliminate
fractional Offered Securities as you may determine) that bears the same
proportion to the total number of Additional Securities to be purchased as the
amount of Firm Securities set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter above
bears to the total amount of Firm Securities.
The Underwriters will pay for the Firm Securities upon delivery thereof at
the offices of Davis Polk & Wardwell, 1600 El Camino Real, Menlo Park,
California at 10:00 a.m. (New York time) on [ ], or at such other time, not
later than 5:00 p.m. (New York time) on [ ], as shall be designated in writing
by the Underwriters and the Company. The time and date of such payment and
delivery are hereinafter referred to as the "Closing Date."
Payment for any Additional Securities shall be made at the offices referred
to above at 10:00 A.M. (New York time), on such date (which may be the same as
the Closing Date but shall in no event be earlier than the Closing Date nor
later than ten business days after the giving of the notice hereinafter referred
to) as shall be designated in a written notice from us to the Company of our
determination, on behalf of the Underwriters, to purchase an amount, specified
in said notice, of Additional Securities, as shall be designated in writing by
us. The time and date of such payment are hereinafter referred to as the "Option
Closing Date." The notice of the determination to exercise the option to
purchase Additional Securities and of the Option Closing Date may be given at
any time within 30 days after the date of the Underwriting Agreement.
The Offered Securities shall have the terms set forth in the Prospectus
dated December [ ], 2002, and the Prospectus Supplement dated [ ], including the
following:
Terms of Offered Securities
Securities:
Aggregate Number of Firm Securities:
Aggregate Number of Additional Securities:
Redemption Provisions:
Conversion Provisions:
Exchange Provisions:
Lock-Up Securities:
Lock-Up Period:
Additional Provisions:
[If depositary shares are offered, list beneficial ownership of preferred
stock that each depositary share represents and list Deposit Agreement.]
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Capitalized terms used above and not defined herein shall have the meanings
set forth in the Prospectus and Prospectus Supplement referred to above.
Except as set forth below, all provisions contained in the document
entitled Comcast Corporation Underwriting Agreement Standard Provisions
(Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares, Common Stock) dated December [ ], 2002,
(the "Standard Provisions"), a copy of which is attached hereto, are herein
incorporated by reference in their 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, except that (i) if any term defined in such document is otherwise
defined herein, the definition set forth herein shall control, (ii) all
references in such document to a type of security that is not an Offered
Security shall not be deemed to be a part of this Agreement and (iii) all
references in such document to a type of agreement that has not been entered
into in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall not be deemed
to be a part of this Agreement.
Please confirm your agreement by having an authorized officer sign a copy
of this Agreement in the space set forth below.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Lead Managers]
On behalf of themselves and the other
Underwriters named herein
By [ ]
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By:
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Name:
Title:
Accepted:
COMCAST CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
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COMCAST CORPORATION
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
STANDARD PROVISIONS
(PREFERRED STOCK, DEPOSITARY SHARES, COMMON STOCK)
[ ]
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From time to time, Comcast Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation (the
"Company"), may enter into one or more underwriting agreements that provide for
the sale of designated securities to the several underwriters named therein. The
standard provisions set forth herein may be incorporated by reference in any
such underwriting agreement (an "Underwriting Agreement"). The Underwriting
Agreement, including the provisions incorporated therein by reference, is herein
referred to as this Agreement. Terms defined in the Underwriting Agreement are
used herein as therein defined.
The Company proposes to issue from time to time (a) its preferred stock,
without par value (the "Preferred Stock"), (b) depositary shares representing
its Preferred Stock (the "Depositary Shares") and (c) its Class A common stock,
$0.01 par value (the "Class A Common Stock") and its Class A Special common
stock, $0.01 par value (the "Class A Special Common Stock", and together with
the Class A Common Stock, the "Common Stock").
The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") a registration statement including a prospectus relating to the
Preferred Stock, Depositary Shares and Common Stock (collectively, the
"Securities") and has filed with, or transmitted for filing to, or shall
promptly after the date of the Underwriting Agreement file with or transmit for
filing to, the Commission a prospectus supplement (the "Prospectus Supplement")
pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"), specifically relating to the Securities offered pursuant to
this Agreement (the "Offered Securities"). The term Registration Statement means
the registration statement as amended to the date of the Underwriting Agreement
including any additional registration statement filed by the Company pursuant to
Rule 462(b). The term Basic Prospectus means the prospectus included in the
Registration Statement. The term Prospectus means the Basic Prospectus together
with the Prospectus Supplement. The term preliminary prospectus means a
preliminary prospectus supplement specifically relating to the Offered
Securities, together with the Basic Prospectus. As used herein, the terms "Basic
Prospectus", "Prospectus" and "preliminary prospectus" shall include in each
case the documents, if any, incorporated by reference therein. The terms
"supplement", "amendment" and "amend" as used herein shall include all documents
deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus that are filed
subsequent to the date of the Basic Prospectus by the Company with the
Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
"Exchange Act").
The Company hereby agrees that, without the prior written consent of the
Manager, it will not offer, sell, contract to sell or grant any option to
purchase or otherwise dispose of any shares of the Lock-Up Securities, or any
securities convertible into or exchangeable for Lock-Up Securities, for the
Lock-Up Period, other than (i) the Offered Securities to be sold hereunder,
(ii) any Lock-Up Securities sold upon the exercise of an option or warrant or
the conversion of a security outstanding on the date hereof or (iii) any Lock-Up
Securities issued pursuant to any stock option or similar employee compensation
plan in effect on the date hereof.
1. Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to
each of the Underwriters as of the date of the Underwriting Agreement that (i)
each document filed or to be filed pursuant to the Exchange Act and incorporated
by reference in the Prospectus complied or will comply when so filed in all
material respects with the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the
Commission thereunder and (ii) the Registration Statement and Prospectus comply
in all material respects with the Securities Act and the rules and regulations
of the Commission thereunder and do not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except that the
foregoing representations and warranties do not apply to statements or omissions
in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement
thereto based upon information furnished to the Company in writing by any
Underwriter through the Manager expressly for use therein.
2. Public Offering. The Company is advised by the Manager that the
Underwriters propose to make a public offering of their respective portions of
the Offered Securities as soon after this Agreement has been entered into as in
the Manager's judgment is advisable. The terms of the public offering of the
Offered Securities are set forth in the Prospectus.
3. Purchase and Delivery. Except as otherwise provided in this Section 3,
payment for the Offered Securities shall be made to the Company in Federal or
other funds immediately available in New York City at the time and place set
forth in the Underwriting Agreement, upon delivery to the Manager for the
respective accounts of the several Underwriters of the Offered Securities.
Certificates representing the Offered Securities shall be in definitive form and
registered in such names and in such denominations as the Manager shall request
in writing not less than one full business day prior to the date of delivery,
with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the transfer of the Offered
Securities to the Underwriters duly paid.
4. Conditions to Closing. The several obligations of the Underwriters
hereunder are subject to the following conditions:
(a) No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement shall be in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose shall be
pending before or threatened by the Commission, and there shall have been
no material adverse change in the condition, business or operations of the
Company and its subsidiaries, as a whole, from that set forth in the
Prospectus; and the Manager shall have received, on the Closing Date, a
certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by an executive officer of
the Company, to the foregoing effect. Such certificate will also provide
that the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein are
true and correct as of the Closing Date. The officer making such
certificate may rely upon the best of his knowledge as to proceedings
threatened.
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(b) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of
Arthur R. Block, Esquire, Senior Vice President of the Company, dated the
Closing Date, to the effect that:
(i) the Company has been duly incorporated, is validly existing
as a corporation subsisting under the laws of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good
standing in each jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or
its ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification
(except where the failure to so qualify would not have a material
adverse effect upon the business or financial condition of the Company
and its subsidiaries, as a whole),
(ii) the Offered Securities have been duly authorized, and when
executed and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be validly issued,
fully paid and non-assessable,
(iii) this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company,
(iv) except as rights to indemnity and contribution under this
Agreement may be limited under applicable law, the execution, delivery
and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the issuance and
sale of the Offered Securities by the Company will not contravene any
provision of applicable law of the United States (except with respect
to laws relating specifically to the cable communications industry, as
to which such counsel is not called upon to express any opinion),
Pennsylvania, or, to the best knowledge of such counsel, of any other
state or jurisdiction of the United States or of any foreign
jurisdiction (in which foreign jurisdiction the Company or any
specified subsidiary does business which is material to the Company
and its subsidiaries, as a whole), or the articles of incorporation or
by-laws of the Company or, to the best knowledge of such counsel, any
agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company, and, except
for the orders of the Commission making the Registration Statement
effective (which have been obtained) and such permits or similar
authorizations required under the securities or Blue Sky laws of
certain states or foreign jurisdictions (as to which such counsel is
not called upon to express any opinion), no consent, approval or
authorization of any governmental body or agency of the United States
(except with respect to consents, approvals and authorizations
relating specifically to the cable communications industry, as to
which such counsel is not called upon to express any opinion),
Pennsylvania, or, to the best knowledge of such counsel, of any other
state or jurisdiction of the United States or of any foreign
jurisdiction is required for the performance of this Agreement by the
Company, or the issuance and sale of the Offered Securities by the
Company,
(v) subject to such qualification as may be set forth in the
Prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries have, and are in material
compliance with, such franchises, and to the best knowledge of such
counsel after reasonable
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investigation, such licenses and authorizations, as are necessary to
own their cable communications properties and to conduct their cable
communications business in the manner described in the Prospectus,
except where the failure to have, or comply with, such franchises,
licenses and authorizations would not have a material adverse effect
on the business or financial condition of the Company and its
subsidiaries, as a whole, and such franchises, licenses and
authorizations contain no materially burdensome restrictions not
adequately described in the Prospectus, which restrictions would have
a material adverse effect on the business or financial condition of
the Company and its subsidiaries, as a whole,
(vi) the statements (A) in Item 3 of the Company's most recent
Annual Report on Form 10-K incorporated by reference in the
Prospectus, (B) in Part II, Item 1 under the caption "Legal
Proceedings" of the Company's most recent Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and (C) in the
Registration Statement in Item 15, insofar as such statements
constitute a summary of the legal matters, documents or proceedings
referred to therein, fairly present the information called for with
respect to such legal matters, documents and proceedings,
(vii) such counsel does not know of any legal or governmental
proceeding pending or threatened to which the Company or any of its
subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the properties of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject which is required to be
described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus and is not
so described or of any contract or other document which is required to
be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or to be
filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement which is not
described or filed as required,
(viii) the security into which the Offered Securities are
convertible, initially reserved for issuance upon conversion of the
Offered Securities (the "Underlying Securities") have been duly
authorized and reserved for issuance, and
(ix) when the Underlying Securities are issued upon conversion of
the Offered Securities in accordance with the terms of the Offered
Securities, such Underlying Securities will be validly issued, fully
paid and non-assessable and will not be subject to any preemptive or
other right to subscribe for or purchase such Underlying Securities.
Such counsel shall also state that no facts have come to his attention that
lead him to believe (1) that the Registration Statement or any amendments
thereto (except for the financial statements and other financial or statistical
data included or incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom, as to
which such counsel is not called upon to express any belief), on the date on
which it became effective or the date of filing of the most recent subsequent
Annual Report on Form 10-K, 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; (2) that
the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, if applicable (except for the
financial statements and other financial or statistical data included or
incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such counsel
is not called upon to express any belief), at the date of the Underwriting
Agreement or at the Closing Date, contained or contains an untrue statement of a
material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
are made, not misleading; or (3) that the documents incorporated by reference in
the Prospectus (except for the financial statements and other financial or
statistical data included or incorporated by reference therein or omitted
therefrom, as to which such counsel is not called upon to express any belief),
as of the dates they were filed with the Commission, contained an untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they are made, not misleading.
With respect to the preceding paragraph, such counsel may state that his
opinion and belief is based upon his participation in the preparation of the
Registration Statement, Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) and the
documents incorporated therein by reference and review and discussion of the
contents thereof, but is without independent check or verification except as
specified.
In expressing his opinion as to questions of the law of jurisdictions other
than the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the United States, such counsel may
rely to the extent reasonable on such counsel as may be reasonably acceptable to
counsel to the Underwriters. In addition, such counsel may reasonably rely as to
questions of fact on certificates of responsible officers of the Company.
(c) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of
Davis Polk & Wardwell, special counsel for the Company, dated the Closing
Date, to the effect that:
(i) except as rights to indemnity and contribution under this
Agreement may be limited under applicable law, the execution, delivery
and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the issuance and
sale of the Offered Securities by the Company will not contravene any
provision of applicable law of the United States (except with respect
to laws relating specifically to the cable communications industry, as
to which such counsel is not called upon to express any opinion), or
New York and, except for the orders of the Commission making the
Registration Statement effective (which have been obtained) and such
permits or similar authorizations required under the securities or
Blue Sky laws of certain states or foreign jurisdictions (as to which
such counsel is not called upon to express any opinion), no consent,
approval or authorization of any governmental body or agency of the
United States (except with respect to consents, approvals and
authorizations relating specifically to the cable communications
industry, as to which such counsel is not called upon to express any
opinion), or New York is required for the performance of this
Agreement by the Company, or the issuance and sale of the Offered
Securities by the Company, and
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(ii) the statements in the Prospectus Supplement under
"Description of [the Offered Securities]", "Certain U.S. Tax
Considerations" and "Underwriting" and in the Basic Prospectus under
"Description of [the Offered Securities]" and "Plan of Distribution",
insofar as such statements constitute a summary of the legal matters
or documents referred to therein, fairly present the information
called for with respect to such legal matters and documents.
Such counsel shall also state that no facts have come to the attention of
such counsel that lead them to believe (1) that the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus and any supplements or amendments thereto or the documents
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus (except
for financial statements and other financial or statistical data included or
incorporated by reference therein, as to which such counsel is not called upon
to express any belief) did not comply as to form in all material respects with
the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder;
(2) that the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto (except for the
financial statements and other financial or statistical data included or
incorporated by reference therein or omitted therefrom, as to which such counsel
is not called upon to express any belief) at the date of the Underwriting
Agreement 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; or (3) that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented,
if applicable (except for the financial statements and other financial or
statistical data included or incorporated by reference therein or omitted
therefrom, as to which such counsel is not called upon to express any belief),
at the date hereof or at the Closing Date, contained or contains an untrue
statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the
circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.
With respect to the preceding paragraph, Davis Polk & Wardwell may state
that their opinion and belief is based upon their participation in the
preparation of the Registration Statement and Prospectus and any amendments or
supplements thereto (but not including documents incorporated therein by
reference) and review and discussion of the contents thereof (including
documents incorporated therein by reference), but is without independent check
or verification except as specified.
(d) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of
[ ], internal counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the
effect that:
(i) no approval of the Federal Communications Commission (the
"FCC") is required in connection with the issuance and sale of the
Offered Securities,
(ii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, by the
Company, the fulfillment of the terms set forth herein by the Company
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the
Company do not violate any statute, regulation or other law of the
United States relating specifically to the cable communications
industry (except as otherwise explicitly set forth in the Prospectus)
or, to the knowledge of such counsel, any order,
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judgment or decree of any court or governmental body of the United
States relating specifically to the cable communications industry and
applicable to the Company or any subsidiary, and which violation would
have a material adverse effect on the business or financial condition
of the Company and its subsidiaries, as a whole,
(iii) the statements in the Company's most recent Annual Report
on Form 10-K incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement
and Prospectus [identify sections describing cable regulatory matters]
as updated by the Company's most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q
incorporated in the Registration Statement and Prospectus and as
updated by the Prospectus, insofar as they are, or refer to,
statements of federal law or legal conclusions, have been reviewed by
such counsel and present in all material respects the information
called for with respect to such statements of federal law or legal
conclusions, and
(iv) such counsel does not know of any proceeding pending before
the FCC to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or
involving the cable communications properties, licenses or
authorizations of the Company and its subsidiaries, or of any cable
communications law or regulation relevant thereto required to be
described in the Registration Statement or Prospectus pursuant to
Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act, which is not
described as required.
(e) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion of
Cahill Gordon & Reindel, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing
Date, covering the matters requested by and in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Manager.
(f) The Manager shall have received on the Closing Date, a letter
dated the Closing Date, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to
the Manager, from (i) Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent public
accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily
included in accountants' "comfort letters" to underwriters with respect to
the financial statements and certain financial information reviewed by them
contained in or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus and (ii) each other firm of independent accountants, if any,
who audited or reviewed financial statements contained in or incorporated
by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, containing
statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants'
"comfort letters" to underwriters with respect to such financial statements
and financial information.
(g) The Manager shall have received on the date hereof or on the
Closing Date, as applicable, such additional documents as the Manager shall
have reasonably requested to confirm compliance with the conditions to
Closing listed herein.
The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase Additional
Securities hereunder are subject to the delivery to the Manager on the Option
Closing Date of such opinions, certificates and documents as are contemplated
for the Closing of the Firm Securities in this Section 4.
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5. Covenants of the Company. In further consideration of the agreements of
the Underwriters herein contained, the Company covenants as follows:
(a) To furnish to the Manager, without charge, a copy of the
Registration Statement and two signed copies of any post-effective
amendment thereto specifically relating to the Offered Securities
(including exhibits thereto and documents incorporated therein by
reference) and, during the period mentioned in paragraph (c) below, as many
copies of the Prospectus, any documents incorporated therein by reference
and any supplements and amendments thereto as the Manager may reasonably
request.
(b) Before amending or supplementing the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus, to furnish the Manager a copy of each such proposed amendment
or supplement.
(c) If, during such period after the first date of the public offering
of the Offered Securities during which in the opinion of counsel to the
Manager the Prospectus is required by law to be delivered in connection
with sales by an Underwriter or dealer, any event shall occur as a result
of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at
the time, not misleading, forthwith to prepare and furnish, at its expense,
to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses the
Manager will furnish to the Company) to which Offered Securities may have
been sold by the Manager on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other
dealers on request, either amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so
that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will
not, in the light of the circumstances existing at the time, be misleading.
(d) To endeavor to qualify the Offered Securities for offer and sale
under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such U.S. jurisdictions as the
Manager shall reasonably request.
(e) To make generally available to the Company's security holders as
soon as practicable an earnings statement covering the twelve month period
beginning on the first day of the first fiscal quarter commencing after the
date hereof, which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the
Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder
(which may be accomplished by making generally available the Company's
financial statements in the manner provided for by Rule 158 of the
Securities Act).
6. Indemnification and Contribution. The Company agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless each Underwriter and each person, if any, who controls each
Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or
Section 20 of the Exchange Act from and against any and all losses, claims,
damages and liabilities caused by any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) or any preliminary prospectus, or caused
by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary
to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such losses,
claims, damages or liabilities are caused by
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any such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission
based upon information furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter
through the Manager expressly for use therein; provided, however, that the
foregoing indemnity agreement with respect to any preliminary prospectus shall
not inure to the benefit of any Underwriter from whom the person asserting any
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities purchased Offered Securities, or any
person controlling any such Underwriter, if a copy of the Prospectus (as then
amended or supplemented) was not sent or given by or on behalf of such
Underwriter to such person, if required by law so to have been delivered, at or
prior to the written confirmation of the sale of the Offered Securities to such
person, and if the Prospectus (as so amended or supplemented but without
reference to documents incorporated by reference therein) would have cured the
defect giving rise to such loss, claim, damage or liability.
Each Underwriter agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its
directors, its officers who sign the Registration Statement and each person, if
any, who controls the Company within the meaning of either Section 15 of the
Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the
foregoing indemnity from the Company to such Underwriter, but only with
reference to information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company
in writing by such Underwriter through the Manager expressly for use in the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereto, or
any preliminary prospectus.
In case any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be
instituted involving any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought
pursuant to either of the two preceding paragraphs, such person (hereinafter
called the "indemnified party") shall promptly notify the person against whom
such indemnity may be sought (hereinafter called the "indemnifying party") in
writing and the indemnifying party, upon request of the indemnified party, shall
retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the
indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may designate in such
proceeding and shall pay the fees and disbursements of such counsel related to
such proceeding. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the
right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall
be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party
and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such
counsel or (ii) the named parties to any such proceeding (including any
impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party
and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate
due to actual or potential differing interests between them. It is understood
that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any proceeding or
related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the reasonable fees
and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel)
for all such indemnified parties and that all such fees and expenses shall be
reimbursed as they are incurred. In the case of any such separate firm for the
Underwriters and such control persons of the Underwriters, such firm shall be
designated in writing by the Manager. In the case of any such separate firm for
the Company and such directors, officers and controlling persons of the Company,
such firm shall be designated in writing by the Company. The indemnifying party
shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its
written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final
judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify, to the
extent provided in the two immediately preceding paragraphs, the indemnified
party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or
judgment. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the
indemnified party, effect any settlement of any
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pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or
could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such
indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of
such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter
of such proceeding.
If the indemnification provided for in the second or third paragraph of
this Section 6 is unavailable to an indemnified party in respect of any losses,
claims, damages or liabilities for which indemnification is provided herein,
then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party,
shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a
result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as
is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the
Underwriters from the offering of the Offered Securities or (ii) if the
allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in
such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits
referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company and
of the Underwriters in connection with the statements or omissions which
resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other
relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company
and the Underwriters shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as
the net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the
Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the
Underwriters in respect thereof. The relative fault of the Company and the
Underwriters 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 or by the Underwriters 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 Section 6 were determined by pro rata
allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such
purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the
equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. The
amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses,
claims, damages and liabilities referred to in the immediately preceding
paragraph shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth
above, 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 Section 6, the Underwriters shall not be
required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total
price at which the Offered Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the
public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which the
Underwriters have 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
Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not
guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.
The indemnity and contribution agreement contained in this Section 6 and
the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement
shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any
termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of
the Underwriters or any person controlling the
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Underwriters or by or on behalf of the Company, its officers or directors or any
other person controlling the Company and (iii) acceptance of and payment for any
of the Offered Securities.
7. Termination. This Agreement shall be subject to termination in the
absolute discretion of the Manager by notice given by the Manager to the
Company, if (a) after the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement
and prior to the Closing Date [or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be,]
(i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on or by,
as the case may be, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or
the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., (ii) trading of any
securities of the Company shall have been suspended on the Nasdaq National
Market, (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York
shall have been declared by either Federal or New York State authorities, or
(iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any
change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis that, in the judgment of
the Manager, is material and adverse and (b) in the case of any of the events
specified in clauses (a)(i) through (iv), such event, singly or together with
any other such event, makes it, in the judgment of the Manager, impracticable to
market the Offered Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the
Prospectus.
The Company will pay and bear all costs and expenses incident to the
performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including (a) the
preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement (including
financial statements and exhibits), as originally filed and as amended, the
preliminary prospectuses and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements
thereto, and the cost of furnishing copies thereto to the Underwriters, (b) the
preparation, printing and distribution of this Agreement and Blue Sky
Memorandum, (c) the delivery of the Offered Securities to the Underwriters, (d)
the reasonable fees and disbursements of the Company's counsel and accountants,
(e) the qualification of the Offered Securities under the applicable state
securities or Blue Sky laws in accordance with Section 5, including filing fees
and reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in
connection therewith and in connection with any Blue Sky survey and any legal
investment survey, (f) all fees payable to the National Association of
Securities Dealers, Inc. in connection with the review, if any, of the offering
of the Securities and (g) any fees charged by rating agencies for the rating of
the Offered Securities. Except as specifically provided elsewhere herein, the
Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including without
limitation the fees and expenses of their counsel and the expenses of selling
presentations.
If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters because of any
failure or refusal on the part of the Company to comply with the terms or to
fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, or if for any reason the
Company shall be unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the
Company will reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket expenses
(including the fees and disbursements of their counsel) reasonably incurred by
the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement or the offering contemplated
hereunder. This provision shall survive the termination or cancellation of this
Agreement.
8. Defaulting Underwriters. If on the Closing Date [or the Option Closing
Date, as the case may be,] any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or
refuse to purchase Offered Securities that it has or they have agreed to
purchase on such date, and the aggregate amount of Offered Securities which such
defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or
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refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth of the aggregate amount of the
Offered Securities to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be
obligated severally in the proportions that the amount of Offered Securities set
forth opposite their respective names bears to the aggregate amount of Offered
Securities set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters,
or in such other proportions as the Manager may specify, to purchase the Offered
Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed
or refused to purchase on such date; provided that in no event shall the amount
of Offered Securities that any Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to
this Agreement be increased pursuant to this Section 8 by an amount in excess of
one-ninth of such amount of Offered Securities without the written consent of
such Underwriter. If on the Closing Date [or the Option Closing Date, as the
case may be,] any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase
Offered Securities and the aggregate amount of Offered Securities with respect
to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate amount of
Offered Securities to be purchased on such date, and arrangements satisfactory
to the Manager and the Company for the purchase of such Offered Securities are
not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate
without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company.
In any such case either the Manager or the Company shall have the right to
postpone the Closing Date [or the Option Closing Date, as the case may be,] but
in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if
any, in the Registration Statement and in the Prospectus or in any other
documents or arrangements may be effected. Any action taken under this paragraph
shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any
default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.
9. Counterparts. The Underwriting Agreement may be signed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the
signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
10. Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.
11. Headings. The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been
inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of
this Agreement.
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EXHIBIT 4.11
[Form of Warrant Agreement for Warrants Sold Alone]
COMCAST CORPORATION
and
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as Warrant Agent
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WARRANT AGREEMENT
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ARTICLE 1
ISSUANCE OF WARRANTS AND EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
Section 1.01. Issuance of Warrants............................................2
Section 1.02. Execution and Delivery of Warrant Certificates..................2
Section 1.03. Issuance of Warrant Certificates................................3
ARTICLE 2
WARRANT PRICE, DURATION AND EXERCISE
Section 2.01. Warrant Price...................................................3
Section 2.02. Duration of Warrants............................................4
Section 2.03. Exercise of Warrants............................................4
ARTICLE 3
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF WARRANT
Section 3.01. No Rights as Warrant Securityholder Conferred by Warrants
or Warrant Certificates.........................................5
Section 3.02. Lost, Mutilated, Stolen or Destroyed Warrant Certificates.......6
Section 3.03. Enforcement of Rights...........................................6
Section 3.04. Merger, Consolidation, Conveyance or Transfer...................6
ARTICLE 4
EXCHANGE AND TRANSFER
Section 4.01. Exchange and Transfer...........................................7
Section 4.02. Treatment of Holders of Warrant Certificates....................8
Section 4.03. Cancellation of Warrant Certificates............................8
ARTICLE 5
CONCERNING THE WARRANT AGENT
Section 5.01. Warrant Agent...................................................8
Section 5.02. Conditions of Warrant Agent's Obligations.......................9
Section 5.03. Resignation and Appointment of Successor.......................10
ARTICLE 6
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 6.01. Amendment......................................................12
Section 6.02. Notices and Demands to the Company and Warrant Agent...........12
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Section 6.03. Addresses......................................................12
Section 6.04. Applicable Law.................................................12
Section 6.05. Delivery of Prospectus.........................................12
Section 6.06. Obtaining of Governmental Approval.............................12
Section 6.07. Persons Having Rights Under Warrant Agreement..................13
Section 6.08. Headings.......................................................13
Section 6.09. Counterparts...................................................13
Section 6.10. Inspection of Agreement........................................13
Section 6.11. Notices to Holders of Warrants.................................13
TESTIMONIUM...................................................................13
SIGNATURES....................................................................13
EXHIBIT A - Form of Warrant Certificate
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WARRANT AGREEMENT(1)
THIS AGREEMENT dated as of [ ] between COMCAST CORPORATION, a
corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Pennsylvania (the "Company"), and [ ], a [bank] [trust company] duly
incorporated and existing under the laws of [ ], as Warrant Agent (the
"Warrant Agent"),
W I T N E S S E T H :
[WHEREAS, the Company has entered into an Indenture dated as of [ ]
(the "Senior Indenture") among the Company, as issuer, Comcast Cable
Communications, Inc., Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc., Comcast Cable
Holdings, LLC and Comcast MO Group, Inc. (collectively, the "Cable Guarantors")
and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the "Senior Indenture Trustee"), and an
Indenture dated as of [ ] (the "Subordinated Indenture") among the
Company, the Cable Guarantors and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the
"Subordinated Indenture Trustee") (together the "Trustees" or "Trustee" and
"Indentures" or "Indenture"), providing for the issuance from time to time of
its unsecured debt securities to be issued in one or more series and fully and
unconditionally guaranteed by the Cable Guarantors as provided in the Indenture;
and]
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to sell [title of such securities being
offered] (the "Offered Securities") with one or more warrants (the "Warrants")
representing the right to purchase [title of such securities purchasable through
exercise of Warrants] (the "Warrant Securities"), the Warrants to be evidenced
by warrant certificates issued pursuant to this Agreement (the "Warrant
Certificates"); and
[WHEREAS, [Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and] [Comcast MO
Group, Inc.] (collectively, the "Cable Guarantors") have entered into a
Guarantee Agreement dated as of [ ] among the Cable Guarantors and
[ ], as Guarantee Trustee, providing for the Cable Guarantors to fully
and unconditionally guarantee on an unsecured basis, the full and punctual
payment of (i) all amounts payable by the Company from time to time pursuant to
this Agreement (including, without limitation, any interest ("Post-Petition
Interest") which accrues after the commencement of any case, proceeding or other
action relating to the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company
(whether or not such interest is allowed or allowable as a claim in any such
case, proceedings or other action) and (ii) any renewals, refinancings or
extensions of any of the foregoing (including Post-Petition Interest); and]
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the terms of the Warrants and Warrant Securities. Monetary amounts may be in
U.S. dollars in a foreign currency or in a composite currency, including but not
limited to the euro.
WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the
Company in connection with the issuance, transfer, exchange, exercise and
replacement of the Warrant Certificates, and in this Agreement wishes to set
forth, among other things, the form and provisions of the Warrant Certificates
and the terms and conditions on which they may be issued, transferred,
exchanged, exercised and replaced;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual
agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Article 1
ISSUANCE OF WARRANTS AND EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
Section 1.01. Issuance of Warrants. The Warrants shall be evidenced by one
or more Warrant Certificates. Each Warrant evidenced thereby shall represent the
right, subject to the provisions contained herein and therein, to purchase
[_____ shares of the Warrant Securities] [ aggregate principal amount of Warrant
Securities].
Section 1.02. Execution and Delivery of Warrant Certificates. Each Warrant,
whenever issued, shall be evidenced by a Warrant Certificate in registered form
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, shall be dated and may
have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and
such legends or endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as the
officers of the Company executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be
conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Agreement, or as may be required to comply with any law or
with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation
of any stock exchange on which the Warrants may be listed, or to conform to
usage. The Warrant Certificates shall be signed on behalf of the Company by its
chairman or vice chairman of the Board of Directors, the president, any managing
director, or the treasurer of the Company, in each case under its corporate
seal, which may but need not be attested by its Secretary or one of its
Assistant Secretaries. Such signatures may be manual or facsimile signatures of
such authorized officers and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the
Warrant Certificates. The corporate seal of the Company may be in the form of a
facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise
reproduced on the Warrant Certificates.
No Warrant Certificate shall be valid for any purpose, and no Warrant
evidenced thereby shall be exercisable, until such Warrant Certificate has been
countersigned by the Warrant Agent by manual signature. Such signature by the
Warrant Agent upon any Warrant Certificate executed by the Company shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that the Warrant Certificate so
countersigned has been duly issued hereunder.
In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Warrant
Certificates either manually or by facsimile signature shall cease to be such
officer before the Warrant Certificates so signed shall have been countersigned
and delivered by the Warrant Agent, such Warrant Certificates may be
countersigned and delivered notwithstanding that the person who
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signed such Warrant Certificates ceased to be such officer of the Company; and
any Warrant Certificate may be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons
as, at the actual date of the execution of such Warrant Certificate, shall be
the proper officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of
this Agreement any such person was not such officer.
The term "Holder", when used with respect to any Warrant Certificate shall
mean any person in whose name at the time such Warrant Certificate shall be
registered upon the books to be maintained by the Warrant Agent for that
purpose.
Section 1.03. Issuance of Warrant Certificates. Warrant Certificates
evidencing the right to purchase [_____ shares of the Warrant Securities] [an
aggregate principal amount not exceeding aggregate principal amount of Warrant
Securities] (except as provided in Sections 2.03, 3.02 and 4.01) may be executed
by the Company and delivered to the Warrant Agent upon the execution of this
Warrant Agreement or from time to time thereafter. The Warrant Agent shall, upon
receipt of Warrant Certificates duly executed on behalf of the Company,
countersign Warrant Certificates evidencing Warrants representing the right to
purchase up to [_____shares of the Warrant Securities] [$______ aggregate
principal amount of Warrant Securities] and shall deliver such Warrant
Certificates to or upon the order of the Company. Subsequent to such original
issuance of the Warrant Certificates, the Warrant Agent shall countersign a
Warrant Certificate only if the Warrant Certificate is issued in exchange or
substitution for one or more previously countersigned Warrant Certificates or in
connection with their transfer as hereinafter provided or as provided in the
antepenultimate paragraph of Section 2.03.
Pending the preparation of definitive Warrant Certificates evidencing
Warrants, the Company may execute and the Warrant Agent shall countersign and
deliver temporary Warrant Certificates evidencing such Warrants (printed,
lithographed, typewritten or otherwise produced, in each case in form
satisfactory to the Warrant Agent). Such temporary Warrant Certificates shall be
issuable substantially in the form of the definitive Warrant Certificates but
with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for
temporary Warrant Certificates, all as may be determined by the Company with the
concurrence of the Warrant Agent. Such temporary Warrant Certificates may
contain such reference to any provisions of this Warrant Agreement as may be
appropriate. Every such temporary Warrant Certificate shall be executed by the
Company and shall be countersigned by the Warrant Agent upon the same conditions
and in substantially the same manner, and with like effect, as the definitive
Warrant Certificates. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall execute and
shall furnish definitive Warrant Certificates and thereupon such temporary
Warrant Certificates may be surrendered in exchange therefor without charge
pursuant to and subject to the provisions of Section 4.01, and the Warrant Agent
shall countersign and deliver in exchange for such temporary Warrant
Certificates definitive Warrant Certificates of authorized denominations
evidencing a like aggregate number of Warrants evidenced by such temporary
Warrant Certificates. Until so exchanged, such temporary Warrant Certificates
shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Warrant Agreement as
definitive Warrant Certificates.
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Article 2
WARRANT PRICE, DURATION AND EXERCISE
Section 2.01. Warrant Price. Warrant Price. On [ ], the exercise
price of each Warrant will be $[ ]. During the period from [ ],
through and including [ ], [ ], the
exercise price of each Warrant will be $[ ] [plus [accrued amortization
of the original issue discount] [accrued interest] from [ ].] On
[ ], the exercise price of each Warrant will be $[ ]. During
the period from [ ], through and including [ ], the exercise
price of each Warrant will be [plus [accrued amortization of the original issue
discount] [accrued interest] from [ ].] [In each case, the original
issue discount will be amortized at a ____% annual rate, computed on an annual
basis using the "interest" method and using a 360-day year consisting of twelve
30-day months]. Such exercise price of Warrant Securities is referred to in this
Agreement as the "Warrant Price". [The original issue discount for each
principal amount of Warrant Securities is $_________.]
Section 2.02. Duration of Warrants. Subject to Section 4.03(b), each
Warrant may be exercised [in whole but not in part] [in whole or in part] [at
any time, as specified herein, on or after [the date thereof] [ ], and
at or before [time, location] on [ ] (each day during such period may
hereinafter be referred to as an "Exercise Date")] [on [list of specific dates]
(each, an "Exercise Date")], or such later date as the Company may designate by
notice to the Warrant Agent and the Holders of Warrant Certificates [in
registered form and to the beneficial owners of the Global Warrant Certificate]
(the "Expiration Date"). Each Warrant not exercised at or before [time,
location] on the Expiration Date shall become void, and all rights of the Holder
[and any beneficial owners] of the Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant
under this Agreement shall cease.
Section 2.03. Exercise of Warrants. [With respect to Warrants evidenced by
Warrant Certificates in registered form, during] [During] the period specified
in Section 2.02, any whole number of Warrants may be exercised by providing
certain information as set forth on the reverse side of the Warrant Certificates
evidencing such Warrants and by paying in full [in lawful money of the United
States of America] [in applicable currency] [in cash] [by certified check or
official bank check or by bank wire transfer, in each case,] [by bank wire
transfer] [in immediately available funds,] the Warrant Price for each Warrant
exercised [(plus accrued interest, if any, on the Warrant Securities to be
issued upon exercise of such Warrant from and including the Interest Payment
Date (as defined in the Indenture), if any, in respect of such Warrant
Securities immediately preceding the Exercise Date to and including the Exercise
Date (unless the Exercise Date is after the Regular Record Date (as defined in
the Indenture), if any, for such Interest Payment Date, but on or before the
immediately succeeding Interest Payment Date for such Warrant Securities, in
which event no such accrued interest shall be payable))] to the Warrant Agent at
its corporate trust office at [address] [or at ], provided that such exercise is
subject to receipt within five business days of such [payment] [wire transfer]
by the Warrant Agent of the Warrant Certificate evidencing each Warrant
exercised with the form of election to purchase Warrant Securities set forth on
the reverse side of the Warrant Certificate properly completed and duly
executed. [Cashless Exercise Option].
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The date on which payment in full of the Warrant Price (plus any such
accrued interest) is received by the Warrant Agent shall, subject to receipt of
the Warrant Certificate as aforesaid, be deemed to be the date on which the
Warrant is exercised. The Warrant Agent shall deposit all funds received by it
in payment for the exercise of Warrants in an account of the Company maintained
with it (or in such other account as may be designated by the Company) and shall
advise the Company, by telephone or by facsimile transmission or other form of
electronic communication available to both parties, at the end of each day on
which a payment for the exercise of Warrants is received of the amount so
deposited to its account. The Warrant Agent shall promptly confirm such advice
to the Company in writing.
If a day on which Warrants may be exercised in the city in which such
Warrants are to be exercised shall be a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which
banking institutions in such city are authorized or required to be closed, then,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or the Warrant Certificate
evidencing such Warrants, but subject to the limitation that no Warrant may be
exercised after the Expiration Date, the Warrants shall be exercisable on the
next succeeding day which in such city is not a Saturday or Sunday or a day on
which banking institutions in such city are authorized or required to be closed.
The Warrant Agent shall, from time to time, as promptly as practicable,
advise the Company [and the Trustee] in writing of (i) the number of Warrants
exercised, (ii) the instructions of each Holder of the Warrant Certificates
evidencing such Warrants with respect to delivery of the Warrant Securities to
be issued upon such exercise, (iii) delivery of any Warrant Certificates
evidencing the balance, if any, of the Warrants remaining after such exercise,
and (iv) such other information as the Company or the Trustee shall reasonably
require.
As soon as practicable after the exercise of any Warrant, but subject to
receipt by the Warrant Agent of the Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant
as provided in this Section, the Company shall issue[, pursuant to the
Indenture, in authorized denominations to or upon the order of the Holder of the
Warrant Certificate evidencing each Warrant,] the Warrant Securities to which
such Holder is entitled, in fully registered form, registered in such name or
names as may be directed by such Holder. If fewer than all of the Warrants
evidenced by such Warrant Certificate are exercised, the Company shall execute,
and an authorized officer of the Warrant Agent shall manually countersign and
deliver, a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the number of such Warrants
remaining unexercised.
The Company shall not be required to pay any stamp or other tax or other
governmental charge required to be paid in connection with any transfer involved
in the issuance of the Warrant Securities, and in the event that any such
transfer is involved, the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any
Warrant Security until such tax or other charge shall have been paid or it has
been established to the Company's satisfaction that no such tax or other charge
is due.
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Article 3
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF WARRANT
Section 3.01. No Rights as Warrant Securityholder Conferred by Warrants or
Warrant Certificates. No Warrant Certificate or Warrant evidenced thereby shall
entitle the Holder of any beneficial owner thereof to any of the rights of a
holder or beneficial owner of Warrant Securities, including, without limitation,
[the right to receive the payment of principal of (premium, if any) or interest,
if any, on Warrant Securities or to enforce any of the covenants in the
Indenture] [the right to receive dividend payments on the Warrant Securities or
any voting rights].
Section 3.02. Lost, Mutilated, Stolen or Destroyed Warrant Certificates.
Upon receipt by the Warrant Agent of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it and
the Company of the ownership of and the loss, mutilation, theft or destruction
of any Warrant Certificate and of such security or indemnity as may be required
by the Company and the Warrant Agent to hold each of them and any agent of them
harmless and, in the case of mutilation of a Warrant Certificate, upon surrender
thereof to the Warrant Agent for cancellation, then, in the absence of notice to
the Company or the Warrant Agent that such Warrant Certificate has been acquired
by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute, and an authorized officer
of the Warrant Agent shall manually countersign and deliver, in exchange for or
in lieu of the lost, mutilated, stolen or destroyed Warrant Certificate, a new
Warrant Certificate of the same tenor and evidencing a like number of Warrants.
Upon the issuance of any new Warrant Certificate under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any stamp or other tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Warrant Agent) in connection
therewith. Every substitute Warrant Certificate executed and delivered pursuant
to this Section in lieu of any lost, mutilated, stolen or destroyed Warrant
Certificate shall represent an additional contractual obligation of the Company,
whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Warrant Certificate shall be at any
time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Warrant
Certificates duly executed and delivered hereunder. The provisions of this
Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights
and remedies with respect to the replacement of lost, mutilated, stolen or
destroyed Warrant Certificates.
Section 3.03. Enforcement of Rights. Notwithstanding any of the provisions
of this Agreement, any Holder of a Warrant Certificate, without the consent of
the Warrant Agent, the relevant Trustee, the holder of any Offered Securities of
the Holder of any other Warrant Certificate, may, in its own behalf and for its
own benefit, enforce, and may institute and maintain any suit, action or
proceeding against the Company suitable to enforce, or otherwise in respect of,
its right to exercise its Warrants in the manner provided in its Warrant
Certificate and in this Agreement.
Section 3.04. Merger, Consolidation, Conveyance or Transfer. Error!
Bookmark not defined. If at any time there shall be a merger or consolidation of
the Company or a sale, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of its
property and assets substantially as an entirety [as permitted under the
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Indenture], then in any such event the successor or assuming corporation
referred to therein shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company, with
the same effect[, subject to the Indenture,] as if it had been named herein and
in the Warrant Certificates as the Company; the Company shall thereupon be
discharged from all obligations hereunder and under the Warrants and the Warrant
Certificates. Such successor or assuming corporation may thereupon cause to be
signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company,
Warrant Certificates evidencing any or all of the Warrants issuable hereunder
which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company, and may execute and
deliver Warrant Securities in its own name[, pursuant to the Indenture], in
fulfillment of its obligations to deliver Warrant Securities upon exercise of
the Warrants. All the Warrants so issued shall in all respects have the same
legal rank and benefit under this Agreement as the Warrants theretofore or
thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Agreement as though all
of such Warrants had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In any
case of any such consolidation, sale, conveyance, transfer, lease or other
disposition such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be
made in the Warrant Certificates representing the Warrants thereafter to be
issued as may be appropriate.
(b) The Warrant Agent may receive a written opinion of legal counsel (who
shall be acceptable to the Warrant Agent) as conclusive evidence that any such
merger, consolidation or transfer complies with the provisions of this Section
and the Indentures.
[Add Anti-Dilution provisions as necessary.]
Article 4.
EXCHANGE AND TRANSFER
Section 4.01. Exchange and Transfer. Error! Bookmark not defined. Upon
surrender at the corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent at [address] [or ],
Warrant Certificates evidencing Warrants may be exchanged for Warrant
Certificates in other authorized denominations evidencing such Warrants or the
transfer thereof may be registered in whole or in part; provided, however, that
such other Warrant Certificates shall evidence the same aggregate number of
Warrants as the Warrant Certificates so surrendered.
(b) The Warrant Agent shall keep, at its corporate trust office at
[address] [and at ], books in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as
it may prescribe, it shall register Warrant Certificates and exchanges and
transfers of outstanding Warrant Certificates upon surrender of such Warrant
Certificates to the Warrant Agent at its corporate trust office at [address] [or
] for exchange or registration of transfer, properly endorsed [or accompanied by
appropriate instruments of registration of transfer and written instructions for
transfer, all in form satisfactory to the Company and the Warrant Agent.]
(c) No service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of
transfer of Warrant Certificates, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any
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stamp or other tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any such exchange or registration of transfer.
(d) Whenever any Warrant Certificates, are so surrendered for exchange or
registration of transfer, an authorized officer of the Warrant Agent shall
manually countersign and deliver to the person or persons entitled thereto a
Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates, duly authorized and executed by the
Company, as so requested. The Warrant Agent shall not effect any exchange or
registration of transfer which will result in the issuance of a Warrant
Certificate, evidencing a fraction of a Warrant or a number of full Warrants and
a fraction of a Warrant.
(e) All Warrant Certificates, issued upon any exchange or registration of
transfer of Warrant Certificates shall be the valid obligations of the Company,
evidencing the same obligations, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Agreement, as the Warrant Certificates surrendered for such exchange or
registration or transfer.
Section 4.02. Treatment of Holders of Warrant Certificates. Each Holder of
a Warrant Certificate, by accepting the same, consents and agrees with the
Company, the Warrant Agent and every subsequent Holder of such Warrant
Certificate that until the transfer of such Warrant Certificate is registered on
the books of such Warrant Agent, the Company and the Warrant Agent may treat the
registered Holder of such Warrant Certificate as the absolute owner thereof for
any purpose and as the person entitled to exercise the rights represented by the
Warrants evidenced thereby, any notice to the contrary notwithstanding.
Section 4.03. Cancellation of Warrant Certificates. [Error! Bookmark not
defined.] Any Warrant Certificate surrendered for exchange or registration of
transfer or exercise of the Warrants evidenced thereby shall, if surrendered to
the Company, be delivered to the Warrant Agent, and all Warrant Certificates
surrendered or so delivered to the Warrant Agent shall be promptly cancelled by
the Warrant Agent and shall not be reissued and, except as expressly permitted
by this Agreement, no Warrant Certificate shall be issued hereunder in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof. The Warrant Agent shall cause all cancelled Warrant
Certificates to be destroyed and shall deliver a certificate of such destruction
to the Company.
[(b) If the Company notifies the relevant Trustee of its election to redeem
[, as a whole but not in part,] the Warrant Securities pursuant to the Indenture
or the terms thereof, the Company may elect, and shall give notice to the
Warrant Agent of its election, to cancel the unexercised Warrants, the Warrant
Certificates and the rights evidenced thereby. Promptly after receipt of such
notice by the Warrant Agent, the Company shall, or, at the Company's request,
the Warrant Agent shall in the name of and at the expense of the Company, give
notice of such cancellation to the Holders of the Warrant Certificates, such
notice to be so given not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the date
fixed for the redemption of the Warrant Securities pursuant to Indenture or the
terms thereof. The unexercised Warrants, the Warrant Certificates and the rights
evidenced thereby shall be cancelled and become void on the 15th day prior to
such date fixed for redemption.]
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Article 5
CONCERNING THE WARRANT AGENT
Section 5.01. Warrant Agent. The Company hereby appoints as Warrant Agent
of the Company in respect of the Warrants and the Warrant Certificates upon the
terms and subject to the conditions herein and in the Warrant Certificates set
forth; and hereby accepts such appointment. The Warrant Agent shall have the
powers and authority granted to and conferred upon it in the Warrant
Certificates and herein and such further powers and authority to act on behalf
of the Company as the Company may hereafter grant to or confer upon it. All of
the terms and provisions with respect to such powers and authority contained in
the Warrant Certificates are subject to and governed by the terms and provisions
hereof.
Section 5.02. Conditions of Warrant Agent's Obligations. The Warrant Agent
accepts its obligations herein set forth upon the terms and conditions hereof,
including the following, to all of which the Company agrees and to all of which
the rights hereunder of the Holders from time to time of the Warrant
Certificates shall be subject:
(a) Compensation and Indemnification. The Company agrees promptly to pay
the Warrant Agent the compensation to be agreed upon with the Company for all
services rendered by the Warrant Agent and to reimburse the Warrant Agent for
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees)
incurred by the Warrant Agent without negligence, bad faith or breach of this
Agreement on its part in connection with the services rendered hereunder by the
Warrant Agent. The Company also agrees to indemnify the Warrant Agent for, and
to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without
negligence or bad faith on the part of the Warrant Agent, arising out of or in
connection with its acting as Warrant Agent hereunder, as well as the reasonable
costs and expenses of defending against any claim of such liability.
(b) Agent for the Company. In acting under this Agreement and in connection
with the Warrants and the Warrant Certificates, the Warrant Agent is acting
solely as agent of the Company and does not assume any obligation or
relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the Holders of Warrant
Certificates or beneficial owners of Warrants.
(c) Counsel. The Warrant Agent may consult with counsel satisfactory to it
in its reasonable judgment, and the advice of such counsel shall be full and
complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice of
such counsel.
(d) Documents. The Warrant Agent shall be protected and shall incur no
liability for or in respect of any action taken or thing suffered by it in
reliance upon any Warrant Certificate, notice, direction, consent, certificate,
affidavit, statement or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be
genuine and to have been presented or signed by the proper parties.
(e) Certain Transactions. The Warrant Agent, and its officers, directors
and employees, may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, Warrants,
with the same rights that it or
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they would have if it were not the Warrant Agent hereunder, and, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, it or they may engage or be interested in any
financial or other transaction with the Company and may act on, or as
depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Warrant
Securities or other obligations of the Company as freely as if it were not the
Warrant Agent hereunder. [Nothing in this Warrant Agreement shall be deemed to
prevent the Warrant Agent from acting as Trustee under the Indenture.]
(f) No Liability for Interest. The Warrant Agent shall have no liability
for interest on any monies at any time received by it pursuant to any of the
provisions of this Agreement or of the Warrant Certificates.
(g) No Liability for Invalidity. The Warrant Agent shall not be under any
responsibility with respect to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or
the execution and delivery hereof (except the due authorization to execute this
Agreement and the due execution and delivery hereof by the Warrant Agent) or
with respect to the validity or execution of any Warrant Certificates (except
its countersignature thereof).
(h) No Liability for Recitals. The recitals contained herein shall be taken
as the statements of the Company and the Warrant Agent assumes no liability for
the correctness of the same.
(i) No Implied Obligations. The Warrant Agent shall be obligated to perform
only such duties as are herein and in the Warrant Certificates specifically set
forth and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or
the Warrant Certificates against the Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent shall not
be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which may tend to involve
it in any expense or liability, the payment of which within a reasonable time is
not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. The Warrant Agent shall not be
accountable or under any duty or responsibility for the use by the Company of
any of the Warrant Certificates countersigned by the Warrant Agent and delivered
by it to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or for the application by the
Company of the proceeds of the Warrant Certificates. The Warrant Agent shall
have no duty or responsibility in case of any default by the Company in the
performance of its covenants or agreements contained herein or in the Warrant
Certificates or in the case of the receipt of any written demand from a Holder
of a Warrant Certificate with respect to such default, including, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, any duty or responsibility to initiate
or attempt to initiate any proceedings at law or otherwise or, except as
provided in Section 6.02, to make any demand upon the Company.
Section 5.03. Resignation and Appointment of Successor. Error! Bookmark not
defined. The Company agrees, for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of
the Warrant Certificates, that there shall at all times be a Warrant Agent
hereunder until all the Warrants have been exercised or are no longer
exercisable.
(b) The Warrant Agent may at any time resign as such by giving written
notice of its resignation to the Company, specifying the desired date on which
its resignation shall become effective; provided, however, that such date shall
be not less than 90 days after the date on which
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such notice is given unless the Company agrees to accept shorter notice. Upon
receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a
successor Warrant Agent (which shall be a bank or trust company in good
standing, authorized under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization to
exercise corporate trust powers) by written instrument in duplicate signed on
behalf of the Company, one copy of which shall be delivered to the resigning
Warrant Agent and one copy to the successor Warrant Agent. The Company may, at
any time and for any reason, remove the Warrant Agent and appoint a successor
Warrant Agent (qualified as aforesaid) by written instrument in duplicate signed
on behalf of the Company and specifying such removal and the date when it is
intended to become effective, one copy of which shall be delivered to the
Warrant Agent being removed and one copy to the successor Warrant Agent. Any
resignation or removal of the Warrant Agent and any appointment of a successor
Warrant Agent shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the
successor Warrant Agent as provided in this subsection (b). In the event a
successor Warrant Agent has not been appointed and accepted its duties within 90
days of the Warrant Agent's notice of resignation, the Warrant Agent may apply
to any court of competent jurisdiction for the designation of a successor
Warrant Agent. Upon its resignation or removal, the Warrant Agent shall be
entitled to the payment by the Company of the compensation and to the
reimbursement of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable
attorneys' fees) incurred by it hereunder as agreed to in Section 5.02(a).
(c) The Company shall remove the Warrant Agent and appoint a successor
Warrant Agent if the Warrant Agent (i) shall become incapable of acting, (ii)
shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, (iii) shall commence a voluntary case
or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with
respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law
now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver,
liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of
its property, (iv) shall consent to, or shall have had entered against it a
court order for, any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession
by any such official in any involuntary case or other proceedings commenced
against it, (v) shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or
(vi) shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due. Upon the
appointment as aforesaid of a successor Warrant Agent and acceptance by it of
such appointment, the predecessor Warrant Agent shall, if not previously
disqualified by operation of law, cease to be Warrant Agent hereunder.
(d) Any successor Warrant Agent appointed hereunder shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to its predecessor and the Company an instrument
accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon such successor Warrant
Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all
the authority, rights, powers, immunities, duties and obligations of such
predecessor with like effect as if originally named as Warrant Agent hereunder,
and such predecessor shall thereupon become obligated to transfer, deliver and
pay over, and such successor Warrant Agent shall be entitled to receive, all
monies, securities and other property on deposit with or held by such
predecessor as Warrant Agent hereunder.
(e) Any corporation into which the Warrant Agent hereunder may be merged or
converted or any corporation with which the Warrant Agent may be consolidated,
or any
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corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the
Warrant Agent shall be a party, or any corporation to which the Warrant Agent
shall sell or otherwise transfer all or substantially all the assets and
business of the Warrant Agent, provided that it shall be qualified as aforesaid,
shall be the successor Warrant Agent under this Agreement without the execution
or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties
hereto.
Article 6
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 6.01. Amendment. This Agreement and the terms of the Warrants and
the Warrant Certificates may be amended by the parties hereto, without the
consent of the Holder of any Warrant Certificate or the beneficial owner of any
Warrant, for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or of curing, correcting or
supplementing any defective or inconsistent provision contained herein or in the
Warrant Certificates, or making any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Agreement as the Company and the Warrant Agent may
deem necessary or desirable, provided that such action shall not affect
adversely the interests of the Holders of the Warrant Certificates or the
beneficial owners of Warrants in any material respect.
Section 6.02. Notices and Demands to the Company and Warrant Agent. If the
Warrant Agent shall receive any notice or demand addressed to the Company by the
Holder of a Warrant Certificate pursuant to the provisions of the Warrant
Certificates, the Warrant Agent shall promptly forward such notice or demand to
the Company.
Section 6.03. Addresses. Any communication from the Company to the Warrant
Agent with respect to this Agreement shall be addressed to [ ], Attention: [ ],
and any communication from the Warrant Agent to the Company with respect to this
Agreement shall be addressed to Comcast Corporation, 1500 Market Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19102-2148, Attention: [ ] (or such other address as
shall be specified in writing by the Warrant Agent or by the Company).
Section 6.04. Applicable Law. The validity, interpretation and performance
of this Agreement and each Warrant Certificate issued hereunder and of the
respective terms and provisions hereof and thereof shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
Section 6.05. Delivery of Prospectus. The Company will furnish to the
Warrant Agent sufficient copies of a prospectus relating to the Warrant
Securities deliverable upon exercise of Warrants (the "Prospectus"), and the
Warrant Agent agrees that upon the exercise of any Warrant, the Warrant Agent
will deliver to the Holder of the Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant,
prior to or concurrently with the delivery of the Warrant Securities issued upon
such exercise, a Prospectus. The Warrant Agent shall not, by reason of any such
delivery, assume any responsibility for the accuracy or adequacy of such
Prospectus.
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Section 6.06. Obtaining of Governmental Approval. The Company will from
time to time take all action which may be necessary to obtain and keep effective
any and all permits, consents and approvals of governmental agencies and
authorities and securities acts filings under United States federal and state
laws (including without limitation a registration statement in respect of the
Warrants and Warrant Securities under the Securities Act of 1933), which may be
or become requisite in connection with the issuance, sale, transfer and delivery
of the Warrant Certificates, the exercise of the Warrants, the issuance, sale,
transfer and delivery of the Warrant Securities issued upon exercise of the
Warrants or upon the expiration of the period during which the Warrants are
exercisable.
Section 6.07. Persons Having Rights Under Warrant Agreement. Nothing in
this Agreement shall give to any person other than the Company, the Warrant
Agent and the Holders of the Warrant Certificates any right, remedy or claim
under or by reason of this Agreement.
Section 6.08. Headings. The descriptive headings of the several Articles
and Sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not
control or affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof.
Section 6.09. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which as so executed shall be deemed to be an original,
but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the Same instrument.
Section 6.10. Inspection of Agreement. A copy of this Agreement shall be
available at all reasonable times at the principal corporate trust office of the
Warrant Agent for inspection by the Holder of any Warrant Certificate. The
Warrant Agent may require such Holder to submit his Warrant Certificate for
inspection by it.
Section 6.11. Notices to Holders of Warrants. Any notice to Holders of
Warrants evidenced by Warrant Certificates which by any provisions of this
Warrant Agreement is required or permitted to be given shall be given by first
class mail prepaid at such Holder's address as it appears on the books of the
Warrant Agent.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
duly executed and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and
attested, all as of the date first above written.
COMCAST CORPORATION
By
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Name:
Title:
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[WARRANT AGENT]
By
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]
[Face]
Form of Legend if [Prior to _______________,
Warrants are not Warrants evidenced by this Warrant
immediately exercisable: Certificate cannot be exercised.]
EXERCISABLE ONLY IF AUTHENTICATED BY THE WARRANT
AGENT AS PROVIDED HEREIN
VOID AFTER THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON _________, ____
COMCAST CORPORATION
Warrant Certificate representing
Warrants to purchase
[Title of Warrant Securities]
as described herein
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No. [ ] Warrants
This certifies that [ ] or registered assigns is the registered owner of
the above indicated number of Warrants, each Warrant entitling such registered
owner to purchase, at any time [after the close of business on _________, ____,
and] on or before the close of business on [ ], [____ shares of the [Title of
Warrant Securities]] [$________ aggregate principal amount of [Title of Warrant
Securities]](the "Warrant Securities") of Comcast Corporation (the "Company") [,
issued or to be issued under the Indenture (as hereinafter defined),] on the
following basis(2). [During the period from ________,
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2 Complete and modify the following provisions as appropriate to reflect
the terms of the Warrants and the Warrant Securities.
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____ through and including ___________, ____, each Warrant shall entitle the
Holder thereof, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to purchase from
the Company the [principal] amount of Warrant Securities stated above in this
Warrant Certificate at the exercise price of [ ] [___% of the principal amount
thereof [plus accrued amortization, if any, of the original issue discount of
the Warrant Securities][plus accrued interest, if any, from the most recent date
from which interest shall have been paid on the Warrant Securities or, if no
interest shall have been paid on the Warrant Securities, from ___________,
____]; [in each case, the original issue discount ($_______ for each $1,000
principal amount of Warrant Securities) will be amortized at a ___% annual rate,
computed on a[n] [semi-]annual basis[, using a 360-day year constituting of
twelve 30-day months]] (the "Exercise Price"). The Holder of this Warrant
Certificate may exercise the Warrants evidenced hereby, in whole or in part, by
surrendering this Warrant Certificate, with the purchase form set forth hereon
duly completed, accompanied [by payment in full, in lawful money of the United
States of America,] [in cash or by certified check or official bank check in New
York Clearing House funds] [by bank wire transfer in immediately available
funds]], the Exercise Price for each Warrant exercised, to the Warrant Agent (as
hereinafter defined), at the corporate trust office of [name of Warrant Agent],
or its successor as warrant agent (the "Warrant Agent") [or at ____________,] at
the addresses specified on the reverse hereof and upon compliance with and
subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Warrant Agreement (as
hereinafter defined). This Warrant Certificate may be exercised only for the
purchase of [ shares of] Warrant Securities [in the principal amount of ] or any
integral multiple thereof. [Cashless Exercise Option].
The term "Holder" as used herein shall mean the person in whose name at the
time such Warrant Certificate shall be registered upon the books to be
maintained by the Warrant Agent for that purpose pursuant to Section 3.01 of the
Warrant Agreement.
Any whole number of Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate may be
exercised to purchase Warrant Securities in registered form. Upon any exercise
of fewer than all of the Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate, there
shall be issued to the registered owner hereof a new Warrant Certificate
evidencing the number of Warrants remaining unexercised.
This Warrant Certificate is issued under and in accordance with the Warrant
Agreement dated as of [ ] (the "Warrant Agreement"), between the Company and the
Warrant Agent and is subject to the terms and provisions contained in the
Warrant Agreement, to all of which terms and provisions the Holder of this
Warrant Certificate consents by acceptance hereof. Copies of the Warrant
Agreement are on file at the above-mentioned office of the Warrant Agent [and at
_______________].
[The full and punctual payment of (i) all amounts payable by the Company
from time to time pursuant to the Warrant Agreement (including, without
limitation, any interest ("Post-Petition Interest") which accrues after the
commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy,
insolvency or reorganization of the Company (whether or not such interest is
allowed or allowable as a claim in any such case, proceedings or other action)
and (ii) any renewals, refinancings or extensions of any of the foregoing
(including Post-Petition Interest) are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on
an unsecured basis, by [Comcast Cable
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Communications, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.,] [Comcast
Cable Holdings, LLC and] [Comcast MO Group, Inc.] (collectively, the "Cable
Guarantors") under and in accordance with the Guarantee Agreement dated as of [
] among the Cable Guarantors and [ ], as Guarantee Trustee.]
[The Warrant Securities to be issued and delivered upon the exercise of
Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate will be issued under and in
accordance with an Indenture, dated as of ________________ (the "Indenture"),
among the Company, the Cable Guarantors parties thereto and The Bank of New
York, as trustee (such trustee, and any successors to such trustee, the
"Trustee") and will be subject to the terms and provisions contained in the
Warrant Securities and in the Indenture. Copies of the Indenture, including the
form of the Warrant Securities, are on file at the corporate trust office of the
Trustee [and at ].]
This Warrant Certificate, and all rights hereunder, may be transferred when
surrendered at the corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent [or _________] by
the registered owner or his assigns, in person or by an attorney duly authorized
in writing, in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant
Agreement.
After authentication by the Warrant Agent and prior to the expiration of
this Warrant Certificate, this Warrant Certificate may be exchanged at the
corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent [or at _____________] for Warrant
Certificates representing the same aggregate number of Warrants.
This Warrant Certificate shall not entitle the registered owner hereof to
any of the rights of a registered holder of the Warrant Securities, including,
without limitation, [the right to receive payments of principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest, if any, on the Warrant Securities or to enforce any of the
covenants of the Indenture] [the right to receive dividend payments on the
Warrant Securities or any voting rights].
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Warrant
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose
until authenticated by the Warrant Agent.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant Certificate to be
duly executed under its corporate seal.
Dated: _____________ COMCAST CORPORATION
By
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Attest:
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Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the Warrant Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned
Warrant Agreement.
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As Warrant Agent
By
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Authorized Signature
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[REVERSE] [FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]
(Instructions for Exercise of Warrants)
To exercise any Warrants evidenced hereby, the Holder of this Warrant
Certificate must pay [in cash or by certified check or official bank check in
New York Clearing House funds or by bank wire transfer in immediately available
funds], the Exercise Price in full for each of the Warrants exercised, to [ ],
Corporate Trust Department, [ ], Attn: [ ] [or ________________], which payment
should specify the name of the Holder of this Warrant Certificate and the number
of Warrants exercised by such Holder. In addition, the Holder of this Warrant
Certificate should complete the information required below and present in person
or mail by registered mail this Warrant Certificate to the Warrant Agent at the
addresses set forth below.
[FORM OF EXERCISE]
(To be executed upon exercise of Warrants.)
The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise [ ] Warrants,
represented by this Warrant Certificate, to purchase [_______ shares of [Title
of Equity Securities]] [$_________ aggregate principal amount of the [Title of
Debt Securities]] (the "Warrant Securities") of Comcast Corporation and
represents that he has tendered payment for such Warrant Securities [in cash or
by certified check or official bank check in New York Clearing House funds or by
bank wire transfer in immediately available funds] to the order of Comcast
Corporation, c/o Treasurer in the amount of $[ ] in accordance with the terms
hereof. The undersigned requests that said [principal] amount of Warrant
Securities be in fully registered form, in the authorized denominations,
registered in such names and delivered, all as specified in accordance with the
instructions set forth below.
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If said [principal] amount of Warrant Securities is less than all of the
Warrant Securities purchasable hereunder, the undersigned requests that a new
Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of the Warrants evidenced
hereby be issued and delivered to the undersigned unless otherwise specified in
the instructions below.
Dated:
Name
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... (Please Print)
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(Insert Social Security or Other
Identifying Number of Holder) Address
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Signature
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(Signed exactly as name appears
on the other side of this
Warrant Certificate)
This Warrant may be exercised at the following addresses:
By hand at
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By mail at
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(Instructions as to form and delivery of Warrant Securities and/or Warrant
Certificates):
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[[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT]
(TO BE EXECUTED TO TRANSFER THE WARRANT CERTIFICATE)
FOR VALUE RECEIVED __________________ hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
Please insert social security or other
identifying number
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(Please print name and address including
zip code)
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the right represented by the within Warrant Certificate and does hereby
irrevocably constitute and appoint _________________, Attorney, to transfer said
Warrant Certificate on the books of the Warrant Agent with full power of
substitution.
Dated:
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Signature
(Signed exactly as name appears on the
other side of this Warrant Certificate)
Signature Guarantee:
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Participant in a recognized Signature
Guarantee Medallion Program (or other
signature guarantor program reasonably
acceptable to the Warrant Agent)
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EXHIBIT 4.13
[Form of Warrant Agreement
For Warrant Sold Attached
To Securities]
COMCAST CORPORATION
and
[ ],
as Warrant Agent
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WARRANT AGREEMENT
Dated as of [ ]
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Warrants to Purchase [ ]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
ARTICLE 1
ISSUANCE OF WARRANTS AND EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
Section 1.01. Issuance of Warrants............................................2
Section 1.02. Execution and Delivery of Warrant Certificates..................2
Section 1.03. Issuance of Warrant Certificates................................3
ARTICLE 2
WARRANT PRICE, DURATION AND EXERCISE OF WARRANTS
Section 2.01. Warrant Price...................................................4
Section 2.02. Duration of Warrants............................................4
Section 2.03. Exercise of Warrants............................................4
ARTICLE 3
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF WARRANT
Section 3.01. No Rights as Warrant Securityholder Conferred by Warrant
or Warrant Certificates.........................................6
Section 3.02. Lost, Mutilated, Stolen, or Destroyed Warrant Certificates......6
Section 3.03. Enforcement of Rights...........................................7
Section 3.04. Merger, Consolidation, Conveyance or Transfer...................7
ARTICLE 4
EXCHANGE AND TRANSFER
Section 4.01. Exchange and Transfer...........................................7
Section 4.02. Treatment of Holders of Warrant Certificates....................8
Section 4.03. Treatment of Holders of Warrant Certificates....................8
ARTICLE 5
CONCERNING THE WARRANT AGENT
Section 5.01. Warrant Agent...................................................9
Section 5.02. Conditions of Warrant Agent's Obligations.......................9
Section 5.03. Resignation and Appointment Of Successor.......................11
ARTICLE 6
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 6.01. Amendment......................................................12
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Section 6.02. Notices and Demands to the Company and Warrant Agent...........12
Section 6.03. Addresses......................................................12
Section 6.04. Applicable Law.................................................13
Section 6.05. Delivery of Prospectus.........................................13
Section 6.06. Obtaining of Governmental Approval.............................13
Section 6.07. Persons Having Rights Under Warrant Agreement..................13
Section 6.08. Headings.......................................................13
Section 6.09. Counterparts...................................................13
Section 6.10. Inspection of Agreement........................................13
Section 6.11. Notices to Holders of Warrants.................................14
TESTIMONIUM...................................................................15
SIGNATURES....................................................................15
EXHIBIT A - Form of Warrant Certificate
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WARRANT AGREEMENT(1)
THIS AGREEMENT dated as of [ ] between COMCAST CORPORATION, a
corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Pennsylvania (the "Company"), and [ ], a [bank] [trust company] duly
incorporated and existing under the laws of [Delaware], as Warrant Agent (the
"Warrant Agent"),
Bracketed language here and throughout this Agreement should be inserted as
follows:
1. If Warrants are immediately detachable from the Offered Securities; and
2. If Warrants are detachable from the Offered Securities only after the
Detachable Date.
W I T N E S S E T H :
[WHEREAS, the Company has entered into an Indenture dated as of
[ ] (the "Senior Indenture") among the Company, as issuer, Comcast
Cable Communications, Inc., Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc., Comcast
Cable Holdings, LLC and Comcast MO Group, Inc. (collectively, the "Cable
Guarantors"), as guarantors, and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (the "Senior
Indenture Trustee"), and an Indenture dated as of [ ] (the
"Subordinated Indenture") among the Company, the Cable Guarantors and The Bank
of New York, as Trustee (the "Subordinated Indenture Trustee") (together, the
"Trustees" or "Trustee" and "Indentures" or "Indenture"), providing for the
issuance from time to time of its unsecured debt securities to be issued in one
or more series, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Cable Guarantors as
provided in the Indenture; and]
WHEREAS, the Company proposes to sell [title of such securities being
offered] (the "Offered Securities") with one or more warrants (the "Warrants")
representing the right to purchase [title of such securities purchasable through
exercise of Warrants] (the "Warrant Securities"), the Warrants to be evidenced
by Warrant certificates issued pursuant to this Agreement (the "Warrant
Certificates"); and
[WHEREAS, [Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and] [Comcast MO
Group, Inc.] (collectively, the "Cable Guarantors") have entered into a
Guarantee Agreement dated as of [ ] among the Cable Guarantors and
[ ], as Guarantee Trustee, providing for the Cable Guarantors to fully
and unconditionally guarantee, on an unsecured basis, the full and punctual
payment of (i) all amounts payable by the Company from time to time pursuant to
this Agreement (including,
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1 Complete or modify the provisions of this form as appropriate to reflect
the terms of the Warrants and Warrant Securities. Monetary amounts may be in
U.S. dollars in a foreign currency or in a composite currency, including, but
not limited to, the euro.
without limitation, any interest ("Post-Petition Interest") which accrues after
the commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the
bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company (whether or not such
interest is allowed or allowable as a claim in any such case, proceedings or
other action) and (ii) any renewals, refinancings or extensions of any of the
foregoing (including Post-Petition Interest); and]
WHEREAS, the Company desires the Warrant Agent to act on behalf of the
Company in connection with the issuance, transfer, exchange, exercise and
replacement of the Warrant Certificates, and in this Agreement wishes to set
forth, among other things, the form and provisions of the Warrant Certificates
and the terms and conditions on which they may be issued, transferred,
exchanged, exercised and replaced;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual
agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Article 1
ISSUANCE OF WARRANTS AND EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF WARRANT CERTIFICATES
Section 1.01. Issuance of Warrants. The Warrants shall be evidenced by one
or more Warrant Certificates. Each Warrant evidenced thereby shall represent the
right, subject to the provisions contained herein and therein, to purchase
[_____ shares of the Warrant Securities] [$_________ aggregate principal amount
of Warrant Securities ] and shall be initially issued in connection with the
issuance of the Offered Securities [and shall be separately transferable
immediately thereafter] [2: but shall not be separately transferable until on
and after ____, ____ (the "Detachable Date")]. The Warrants shall be initially
issued [in units] with the Offered Securities, and each Warrant [included in
such a unit] shall evidence the right, subject to the provisions contained
herein and in the Warrant Certificates, to purchase[_____ shares of the Warrant
Securities] [$________ aggregate principal amount of Warrant Securities]
[included in such a unit].
Section 1.02. Execution and Delivery of Warrant Certificates. Each Warrant,
whenever issued, shall be evidenced by a Warrant Certificate in registered form,
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, shall be dated and may
have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and
such legends or endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as the
officers of the Company executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be
conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Agreement, or as may be required to comply with any law or
with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation
of any stock exchange on which the Warrants may be listed, or to conform to
usage. The Warrant Certificates shall be signed on behalf of the Company by its
chairman or vice chairman of the Board of Directors, the president, any managing
director or the treasurer of the Company, in each case under its corporate seal,
which may but need not be, attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant
Secretaries. Such signatures may be manual or facsimile signatures of such
authorized officers and may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the Warrant
Certificates. The corporate seal of the Company may be in the form of a
facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise
reproduced on the Warrant Certificates.
No Warrant Certificate shall be valid for any purpose, and no Warrant
evidenced thereby shall be exercisable, until such Warrant Certificate has been
countersigned by the Warrant Agent by manual signature. Such signature by the
Warrant Agent upon any Warrant Certificate executed by the Company shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that the Warrant Certificate so
countersigned has been duly issued hereunder.
In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Warrant
Certificates either manually or by facsimile signature shall cease to be such
officer before the Warrant Certificates so signed shall have been countersigned
and delivered by the Warrant Agent as provided herein, such Warrant Certificates
may be countersigned and delivered notwithstanding that the person who signed
such Warrant Certificates ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any
Warrant Certificate may be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as,
at the actual date of the execution of such Warrant Certificate, shall be the
proper officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this
Agreement any such person was not such officer.
The term "Holder", when used with respect to any Warrant Certificate, shall
mean any person in whose name at the time such Warrant Certificate shall be
registered upon the books to be maintained by the Warrant Agent for that purpose
or, prior to the Detachable Date, any person in whose name at the time the
Offered Security to which such Warrant Certificate is attached is registered
upon the register of the Offered Securities. Prior to the Detachable Date, the
Company will, or will cause the registrar of the Offered Securities to, make
available at all times to the Warrant Agent such information as to holders of
the Offered Securities with Warrants as may be necessary to keep the Warrant
Agent's records up to date.]
Section 1.03. Issuance of Warrant Certificates. Warrant Certificates
evidencing the right to purchase [_____ shares of the Warrant Securities] [an
aggregate principal amount not exceeding aggregate principal amount of Warrant
Securities] (except as provided in Sections 2.03, 3.02 and 4.01) may be executed
by the Company and delivered to the Warrant Agent upon the execution of this
Warrant Agreement or from time to time thereafter. The Warrant Agent shall, upon
receipt of Warrant Certificates duly executed on behalf of the Company,
countersign Warrant Certificates evidencing [ ] Warrants representing the right
to purchase up to [_____shares of the Warrant Securities] [$_____ aggregate
principal amount of Warrant Securities] and shall deliver such Warrant
Certificates to or upon the order of the Company. Subsequent to such original
issuance of the Warrant Certificates, the Warrant Agent shall countersign a
Warrant Certificate only if the Warrant Certificate is issued in exchange or
substitution for one or more previously countersigned Warrant Certificates or in
connection with their transfer as hereinafter provided or as provided in the
antepenultimate paragraph of Section 2.03.
Pending the preparation of definitive Warrant Certificates evidencing
Warrants, the Company may execute and the Warrant Agent shall countersign and
deliver temporary Warrant
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Certificates evidencing such Warrants (printed, lithographed, typewritten or
otherwise produced, in each case in form satisfactory to the Warrant Agent).
Such temporary Warrant Certificates shall be issuable substantially in the form
of the definitive Warrant Certificates but with such omissions, insertions and
variations as may be appropriate for temporary Warrant Certificates, all as may
be determined by the Company with the concurrence of the Warrant Agent. Such
temporary Warrant Certificates may contain such reference to any provisions of
this Warrant Agreement as may be appropriate. Every such temporary Warrant
Certificate shall be executed by the Company and shall be countersigned by the
Warrant Agent upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and
with like effect, as the definitive Warrant Certificates. Without unreasonable
delay, the Company shall execute and shall furnish definitive Warrant
Certificates and thereupon such temporary Warrant Certificates may be
surrendered in exchange therefor without charge pursuant to and subject to the
provisions of Section 4.01, and the Warrant Agent shall countersign and deliver
in exchange for such temporary Warrant Certificates definitive Warrant
Certificates of authorized denominations evidencing a like aggregate number of
Warrants evidenced by such temporary Warrant Certificates. Until so exchanged,
such temporary Warrant Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under
this Warrant Agreement as definitive Warrant Certificates.
Article 2
WARRANT PRICE, DURATION AND EXERCISE OF WARRANTS
Section 2.01. Warrant Price. On [ ] the exercise price of each
Warrant will be $[ ]. During the period from [ ], through
and including, [ ], the exercise price of each Warrant will be
$[ ] [plus [accrued amortization of the original issue discount]
[accrued interest] from [ ].] On [ ], the exercise price of
each Warrant will be $[ ]. During the period from [ ],
through and including [ ], the exercise price of each Warrant will be
$[ ] [plus [accrued amortization of the original issue discount]
[accrued interest] from [ ].] [In each case, the original issue discount will
be amortized at a [___] % annual rate, computed on an annual basis using the
"interest" method and using a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months].
Such exercise price of Warrant Securities is referred to in this Agreement as
the "Warrant Price". [The original issue discount for each principal amount of
Warrant Securities is $[__________].]
Section 2.02. Duration of Warrants. Subject to Section 4.03(b), each
Warrant may be exercised [in whole but not in part] [in whole or in part] [at
any time, as specified herein, on or after [the date thereof] [,] and at or
before [time, location] on [ ] (each day during such period may
hereinafter be referred to as an "Exercise Date")][on [list of specific dates]
(each, an "Exercise Date")], or such later date as the Company may designate by
notice to the Warrant Agent and the Holders of Warrant Certificates [in
registered form and to the beneficial owners of the Global Warrant Certificate]
(the "Expiration Date"). Each Warrant not exercised at or before [time,
location] on the Expiration Date shall become void, and all rights of the Holder
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[and any beneficial owners] of the Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant
under this Agreement shall cease.
Section 2.03. Exercise of Warrants. During the period specified in Section
2.02, any whole number of Warrants may be exercised by providing certain
information as set forth on the reverse side of the Warrant Certificates
evidencing such Warrants and by paying in full [in lawful money of the United
States of America] [in applicable currency] [in cash] [by certified check or
official bank check or by bank wire transfer, in each case,] [by bank wire
transfer] [in immediately available funds,] the Warrant Price for each Warrant
exercised [(plus accrued interest, if any, on the Warrant Securities to be
issued upon exercise of such Warrant from and including the Interest Payment
Date (as defined in the Indenture), if any, in respect of such Warrant
Securities immediately preceding the Exercise Date to and including the Exercise
Date (unless the Exercise Date is after the Regular Record Date (as defined in
the Indenture), if any, for such Interest Payment Date, but on or before the
immediately succeeding Interest Payment Date for such Warrant Securities, in
which event no such accrued interest shall be payable in respect of Warrant
Securities to be issued in registered form))] to the Warrant Agent at its
corporate trust office at [address] [or at ], provided that such exercise is
subject to receipt within five business days of such[payment] [wire transfer] by
the Warrant Agent of the Warrant Certificate evidencing each Warrant exercised
with the form of election to purchase Warrant Securities set forth on the
reverse side of the Warrant Certificate properly completed and duly executed.
[Cashless Exercise Option]
The date on which payment in full of the Warrant Price (plus any such
accrued interest) is received by the Warrant Agent shall, subject to receipt of
the Warrant Certificate as aforesaid, be deemed to be the date on which the
Warrant is exercised. The Warrant Agent shall deposit all funds received by it
in payment for the exercise of Warrants in an account of the Company maintained
with it (or in such other account as may be designated by the Company) and shall
advise the Company, by telephone or by facsimile transmission or other form of
electronic communication available to both parties, at the end of each day on
which a payment for the exercise of Warrants is received of the amount so
deposited to its account. The Warrant Agent shall promptly confirm such advice
to the Company in writing.
If a day on which Warrants may be exercised in the city in which such
Warrants are to be exercised shall be a Saturday or Sunday or a day on which
banking institutions in such city are authorized or required to be closed, then,
notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or the Warrant Certificate
evidencing such Warrants, but subject to the limitation that no Warrant may be
exercised after the Expiration Date, the Warrants shall be exercisable on the
next succeeding day which in such city is not a Saturday or Sunday or a day on
which banking institutions in such city are authorized or required to be closed.
The Warrant Agent shall, from time to time, as promptly as practicable, advise
the Company and the Trustee in writing of (i) the number of Warrants exercised,
(ii) the instructions of each Holder of the Warrant Certificates evidencing such
Warrants with respect to delivery of the Warrant Securities to be issued upon
such exercise, (iii) delivery of any Warrant Certificates evidencing the
balance, if any, of the Warrants remaining after such exercise, and (iv) such
other information as the Company or the Trustee shall reasonably require.
As soon as practicable after the exercise of any Warrant, but subject to
receipt by the Warrant Agent of the Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant
as provided in this Section, the Company shall issue[, pursuant to the
Indenture, in authorized denominations to or upon the order of the Holder of the
Warrant Certificate evidencing each Warrant,] the Warrant Securities to which
such Holder is entitled, in fully registered form, registered in such name or
names as may be directed by such Holder. If fewer than all of the Warrants
evidenced by such Warrant Certificate are exercised, the Company shall execute,
and an authorized officer of the Warrant Agent shall manually countersign and
deliver, a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the number of such Warrants
remaining unexercised.
The Company shall not be required to pay any stamp or other tax or other
governmental charge required to be paid in connection with any transfer involved
in the issuance of the Warrant Securities, and in the event that any such
transfer is involved, the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any
Warrant Security until such tax or other charge shall have been paid or it has
been established to the Company's satisfaction that no such tax or other charge
is due.
Article 3
OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF WARRANT
Section 3.01. No Rights as Warrant Securityholder Conferred by Warrant or
Warrant Certificates. No Warrant Certificate or Warrant evidenced thereby shall
entitle the Holder or any beneficial owner thereof to any of the rights of a
holder or beneficial owner of Warrant Securities, including, without limitation,
[the right to receive the payment of principal of (premium, if any) or interest,
if any, on Warrant Securities or to enforce any of the covenants in the
Indenture] [the right to receive dividend payments on the Warrant Securities or
any voting rights].
Section 3.02. Lost, Mutilated, Stolen, or Destroyed Warrant Certificates.
Upon receipt by the Warrant Agent of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it and
the Company of the ownership of and the loss, mutilation, theft or destruction
of any Warrant Certificate and of such security or indemnity as may be required
by the Company and the Warrant Agent to hold each of them and any agent of them
harmless and, in the case of mutilation of a Warrant Certificate, upon surrender
thereof to the Warrant Agent for cancellation, then, in the absence of notice to
the Company or the Warrant Agent that such Warrant Certificate has been acquired
by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute, and an authorized officer
of the Warrant Agent shall manually countersign and deliver, in exchange for or
in lieu of the lost, mutilated, stolen or destroyed Warrant Certificate, a new
Warrant Certificate of the same tenor and evidencing a like number of Warrants.
Upon the issuance of any new Warrant Certificate under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any stamp or other tax or
other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Warrant Agent) in connection
therewith. Every substitute Warrant Certificate executed and delivered pursuant
to this Section in lieu of any lost, mutilated, stolen or destroyed Warrant
Certificate shall represent an additional contractual obligation of the
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Company, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Warrant Certificate shall
be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to the benefits of
this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Warrant
Certificates duly executed and delivered hereunder. The provisions of this
Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights
and remedies with respect to the replacement of lost, mutilated, stolen or
destroyed Warrant Certificates.
Section 3.03. Enforcement of Rights. Notwithstanding any of the provisions
of this Agreement, any Holder of a Warrant Certificate, without the consent of
the Warrant Agent, the Trustee, the holder of any Offered Securities or the
Holder of any other Warrant Certificate, may, in its own behalf and for its own
benefit, enforce, and may institute and maintain any suit, action or proceeding
against the Company suitable to enforce, or otherwise in respect of, its right
to exercise its Warrants in the manner provided in its Warrant Certificate and
in this Agreement.
Section 3.04. Merger, Consolidation, Conveyance or Transfer. Error!
Bookmark not defined. If at any time there shall be a merger or consolidation of
the Company or a sale, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of its
property and assets substantially as an entirety[as permitted under the
Indenture], then in any such event the successor or assuming corporation
referred to therein shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company, with
the same effect[, subject to the Indenture,] as if it had been named herein and
in the Warrant Certificates as the Company; the Company shall thereupon be
discharged from all obligations hereunder and under the Warrants and the Warrant
Certificates. Such successor or assuming corporation may thereupon cause to be
signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company,
Warrant Certificates evidencing any or all of the Warrants issuable hereunder
which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company, and may execute and
deliver Warrant Securities in its own name [,pursuant to the Indenture,] in
fulfillment of its obligations to deliver Warrant Securities upon exercise of
the Warrants. All the Warrants so issued shall in all respects have the same
legal rank and benefit under this Agreement as the Warrants theretofore or
thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Agreement as though all
of such Warrants had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In any
case of any such merger, consolidation, sale, conveyance, transfer, lease or
other disposition such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance)
may be made in the Warrant Certificates representing the Warrants thereafter to
be issued as may be appropriate.
(b) The Warrant Agent may receive a written opinion of legal counsel(who
shall be acceptable to the Warrant Agent) as conclusive evidence that any such
merger, consolidation or transfer complies with the provisions of this Section
and the Indenture.
[Add Anti-Dilution provisions as necessary.]
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Article 4
EXCHANGE AND TRANSFER
Section 4.01. Exchange and Transfer. Error! Bookmark not defined. [1: Upon]
[2: Prior to the Detachable Date, a Warrant Certificate may be exchanged or
transferred only together with the Offered Security to which such Warrant
Certificate was initially attached, and only for the purpose of effecting, or in
conjunction with, an exchange or transfer of such Offered Security. Prior to any
Detachable Date, each transfer of the Offered Security, shall operate also to
transfer the related Warrant Certificates. On or after the Detachable Date,
upon] surrender at the corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent at[address]
[or ], Warrant Certificates evidencing Warrants may be exchanged for Warrant
Certificates in other authorized denominations evidencing such Warrants or the
transfer thereof may be registered in whole or in part; provided, however, that
such other Warrant Certificates shall evidence the same aggregate number of
Warrants as the Warrant Certificates so surrendered.
(b) The Warrant Agent shall keep, at its corporate trust office at[address]
[and at ], books in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, it shall register Warrant Certificates and exchanges and transfers of
outstanding Warrant Certificates upon surrender of such Warrant Certificates to
the Warrant Agent at its corporate trust office at [address][or ] for exchange
or registration of transfer, properly endorsed [or accompanied by appropriate
instruments of registration of transfer and written instructions for transfer,
all in form satisfactory to the Company and the Warrant Agent.]
(c) No service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of
transfer of Warrant Certificates, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any stamp or other tax or other governmental charge that may
be imposed in connection with any such exchange or registration of transfer.
(d) Whenever any Warrant Certificates, are so surrendered for exchange or
registration of transfer, an authorized officer of the Warrant Agent shall
manually countersign and deliver to the person or persons entitled thereto a
Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates, duly authorized and executed by the
Company, as so requested. The Warrant Agent shall not effect any exchange or
registration of transfer which will result in the issuance of a Warrant
Certificate, evidencing a fraction of a Warrant or a number of full Warrants and
a fraction of a Warrant
(e) All Warrant Certificates, issued upon any exchange or registration of
transfer of Warrant Certificates shall be the valid obligations of the Company,
evidencing the same obligations, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Agreement, as the Warrant Certificates surrendered for such exchange or
registration or transfer.
Section 4.02. Treatment of Holders of Warrant Certificates. Each Holder of
a Warrant Certificate, by accepting the same, consents and agrees with the
Company, the Warrant Agent and every subsequent Holder of such Warrant
Certificate that until the transfer of such Warrant Certificate is registered on
the books of such Warrant Agent [2: or, prior to the Detachable Date, until the
transfer of the Offered Security to which such Warrant Certificate is attached,
is
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registered in the register of the Offered Securities], the Company and the
Warrant Agent may treat the registered Holder of such Warrant Certificate as the
absolute owner thereof for any purpose and as the person entitled to exercise
the rights represented by the Warrants evidenced thereby, any notice to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Section 4.03. Treatment of Holders of Warrant Certificates. [Error!
Bookmark not defined.] Any Warrant Certificate surrendered for exchange or
registration of transfer or exercise of the Warrants evidenced thereby shall, if
surrendered to the Company, be delivered to the Warrant Agent, and all Warrant
Certificates surrendered or so delivered to the Warrant Agent shall be promptly
cancelled by the Warrant Agent and shall not be reissued and, except as
expressly permitted by this Agreement, no Warrant Certificate shall be issued
hereunder in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof. The Warrant Agent shall cause
all cancelled Warrant Certificates to be destroyed and shall deliver a
certificate of such destruction to the Company.
[(b) If the Company notifies the Trustee of its election to redeem[2: prior
to the Detachable Date] [, as a whole but not in part,] [2: the Offered
Securities [or] [and]] the Warrant Securities pursuant to the Indenture or the
terms thereof, the Company may elect, and shall give notice to the Warrant Agent
of its election, to cancel the unexercised Warrants, the Warrant Certificates
and the rights evidenced thereby. Promptly after receipt of such notice by the
Warrant Agent, the Company shall, or, at the Company's request, the Warrant
Agent shall in the name of and at the expense of the Company, give notice of
such cancellation to the Holders of the Warrant Certificates, such notice to be
so given not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for the
redemption of [2: the Offered Securities[or] [and]] the Warrant Securities
pursuant to the Indenture or the terms thereof. The unexercised Warrants, the
Warrant Certificates and the rights evidenced thereby shall be cancelled and
become void on the 15th day prior to such date fixed for redemption.]
Article 5
CONCERNING THE WARRANT AGENT
Section 5.01. Warrant Agent. The Company hereby appoints [ ] as Warrant
Agent of the Company in respect of the Warrants and the Warrant Certificates
upon the terms and subject to the conditions herein and in the Warrant
Certificates set forth; and [ ] hereby accepts such appointment. The Warrant
Agent shall have the powers and authority granted to and conferred upon it in
the Warrant Certificates and herein and such further powers and authority to act
on behalf of the Company as the Company may hereafter grant to or confer upon
it. All of the terms and provisions with respect to such powers and authority
contained in the Warrant Certificates are subject to and governed by the terms
and provisions hereof.
Section 5.02. Conditions of Warrant Agent's Obligations. The Warrant Agent
accepts its obligations herein set forth upon the terms and conditions hereof,
including the following, to all of which the Company agrees and to all of which
the rights hereunder of the Holders from time to time of the Warrant
Certificates shall be subject:
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(a) Compensation and Indemnification. The Company agrees promptly to pay
the Warrant Agent the compensation to be agreed upon with the Company for all
services rendered by the Warrant Agent and to reimburse the Warrant Agent for
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees)
incurred by the Warrant Agent without negligence, bad faith or breach of this
Agreement on its part in connection with the services rendered hereunder by the
Warrant Agent. The Company also agrees to indemnify the Warrant Agent for, and
to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without
negligence or bad faith on the part of the Warrant Agent, arising out of or in
connection with its acting as Warrant Agent hereunder, as well as the reasonable
costs and expenses of defending against any claim of such liability.
(b) Agent for the Company. In acting under this Agreement and in connection
with the Warrants and the Warrant Certificates, the Warrant Agent is acting
solely as agent of the Company and does not assume any obligation or
relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the Holders of Warrant
Certificates or beneficial owners of Warrants.
(c) Counsel. The Warrant Agent may consult with counsel satisfactory to it
in its reasonable judgment, and the advice of such counsel shall be full and
complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the advice of
such counsel.
(d) Documents. The Warrant Agent shall be protected and shall incur no
liability for or in respect of any action taken or thing suffered by it in
reliance upon any Warrant Certificate, notice, direction, consent, certificate,
affidavit, statement or other paper or document reasonably believed by it to be
genuine and to have been presented or signed by the proper parties.
(e) Certain Transactions. The Warrant Agent, and its officers, directors
and employees, may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, Warrants,
with the same rights that it or they would have if it were not the Warrant Agent
hereunder, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, it or they may engage
or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Company and may
act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders
of Warrant Securities or other obligations of the Company as freely as if it
were not the Warrant Agent hereunder. [Nothing in this Warrant Agreement shall
be deemed to prevent the Warrant Agent from acting as Trustee under the
Indenture.]
(f) No Liability for Interest. The Warrant Agent shall have no liability
for interest on any monies at any time received by it pursuant to any of the
provisions of this Agreement or of the Warrant Certificates.
(g) No Liability for Invalidity. The Warrant Agent shall not be under any
responsibility with respect to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or
the execution and delivery hereof (except the due authorization to execute this
Agreement and the due execution and delivery hereof by the Warrant Agent) or
with respect to the validity or execution of any Warrant Certificates (except
its countersignature thereof).
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(h) No Liability for Recitals. The recitals contained herein shall be taken
as the statements of the Company and the Warrant Agent assumes no liability for
the correctness of the same.
(i) No Implied Obligations. The Warrant Agent shall be obligated to perform
only such duties as are herein and in the Warrant Certificates specifically set
forth and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or
the Warrant Certificates against the Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent shall not
be under any obligation to take any action hereunder which may tend to involve
it in any expense or liability, the payment of which within a reasonable time is
not, in its reasonable opinion, assured to it. The Warrant Agent shall not be
accountable or under any duty or responsibility for the use by the Company of
any of the Warrant Certificates countersigned by the Warrant Agent and delivered
by it to the Company pursuant to this Agreement or for the application by the
Company of the proceeds of the Warrant Certificates. The Warrant Agent shall
have no duty or responsibility in case of any default by the Company in the
performance of its covenants or agreements contained herein or in the Warrant
Certificates or in the case of the receipt of any written demand from a Holder
of a Warrant Certificate with respect to such default, including, without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, any duty or responsibility to initiate
or attempt to initiate any proceedings at law or otherwise or, except as
provided in Section 6.02, to make any demand upon the Company.
Section 5.03. Resignation and Appointment Of Successor. Error! Bookmark not
defined. The Company agrees, for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of
the Warrant Certificates, that there shall at all times be a Warrant Agent
hereunder until all the Warrants have been exercised or are no longer
exercisable.
(b) The Warrant Agent may at any time resign as such by giving written
notice of its resignation to the Company, specifying the desired date on which
its resignation shall become effective; provided, however, that such date shall
be not less than 90 days after the date on which such notice is given unless the
Company agrees to accept shorter notice. Upon receiving such notice of
resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Warrant Agent (which
shall be a bank or trust company in good standing, authorized under the laws of
the jurisdiction of its organization to exercise corporate trust powers) by
written instrument in duplicate signed on behalf of the Company, one copy of
which shall be delivered to the resigning Warrant Agent and one copy to the
successor Warrant Agent. The Company may, at any time and for any reason, remove
the Warrant Agent and appoint a successor Warrant Agent (qualified as aforesaid)
by written instrument in duplicate signed on behalf of the Company and
specifying such removal and the date when it is intended to become effective,
one copy of which shall be delivered to the Warrant Agent being removed and one
copy to the successor Warrant Agent. Any resignation or removal of the Warrant
Agent and any appointment of a successor Warrant Agent shall become effective
upon acceptance of appointment by the successor Warrant Agent as provided in
this subsection (b). In the event a successor Warrant Agent has not been
appointed and accepted its duties within 90 days of the Warrant Agent's notice
of resignation, the Warrant Agent may apply to any court of competent
jurisdiction for the designation of a successor Warrant Agent. Upon its
resignation or removal, the Warrant Agent shall be entitled to the payment by
the Company of the compensation and to the reimbursement of all reasonable
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out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) incurred by it
hereunder as agreed to in Section 5.02(a).
(c) The Company shall remove the Warrant Agent and appoint a successor
Warrant Agent if the Warrant Agent (i) shall become incapable of acting, (ii)
shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, (iii) shall commence a voluntary case
or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with
respect to it or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law
now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver,
liquidator, custodian or other similar official of it or any substantial part of
its property, (iv) shall consent to, or shall have had entered against it a
court order for, any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession
by any such official in any involuntary case or other proceedings commenced
against it, (v) shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or
(vi) shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due. Upon the
appointment as aforesaid of a successor Warrant Agent and acceptance by it of
such appointment, the predecessor Warrant Agent shall, if not previously
disqualified by operation of law, cease to be Warrant Agent hereunder.
(d) Any successor Warrant Agent appointed hereunder shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to its predecessor and the Company an instrument
accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon such successor Warrant
Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all
the authority, rights, powers, immunities, duties and obligations of such
predecessor with like effect as if originally named as Warrant Agent hereunder,
and such predecessor shall thereupon become obligated to transfer, deliver and
pay over, and such successor Warrant Agent shall be entitled to receive, all
monies, securities and other property on deposit with or held by such
predecessor as Warrant Agent hereunder.
(e) Any corporation into which the Warrant Agent hereunder may be merged or
converted or any corporation with which the Warrant Agent may be consolidated,
or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to
which the Warrant Agent shall be a party, or any corporation to which the
Warrant Agent shall sell or otherwise transfer all or substantially all the
assets and business of the Warrant Agent, provided that it shall be qualified as
aforesaid, shall be the successor Warrant Agent under this Agreement without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the
parties hereto.
Article 6
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 6.01. Amendment. This Agreement and the terms of the Warrants and
the Warrant Certificates may be amended by the parties hereto, without the
consent of the Holder of any Warrant Certificate or the beneficial owner of any
Warrant, for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or of curing, correcting or
supplementing any defective or inconsistent provision contained herein or in the
Warrant Certificates, or making any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Agreement as the Company and the Warrant Agent may
deem necessary or desirable, provided that such action shall not affect
adversely the interests of
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the Holders of the Warrant Certificates or the beneficial owners of Warrants in
any material respect.
Section 6.02. Notices And Demands To The Company And Warrant Agent. If the
Warrant Agent shall receive any notice or demand addressed to the Company by the
Holder of a Warrant Certificate pursuant to the provisions of the Warrant
Certificates, the Warrant Agent shall promptly forward such notice or demand to
the Company.
Section 6.03. Addresses. Any communication from the Company to the Warrant
Agent with respect to this Agreement shall be addressed to [ ], Attention: [ ],
and any communication from the Warrant Agent to the Company with respect to this
Agreement shall be addressed to Comcast Corporation, 1500 Market Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19102-2148, Attention: [ ] (or such other address as
shall be specified in writing by the Warrant Agent or by the Company).
Section 6.04. Applicable Law. The validity, interpretation and performance
of this Agreement and each Warrant Certificate issued hereunder and of the
respective terms and provisions hereof and thereof shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
Section 6.05. Delivery of Prospectus. The Company will furnish to the
Warrant Agent sufficient copies of a prospectus relating to the Warrant
Securities deliverable upon exercise of Warrants (the "Prospectus"), and the
Warrant Agent agrees that upon the exercise of any Warrant, the Warrant Agent
will deliver to the Holder of the Warrant Certificate evidencing such Warrant,
prior to or concurrently with the delivery of the Warrant Securities issued upon
such exercise, a Prospectus. The Warrant Agent shall not, by reason of any such
delivery, assume any responsibility for the accuracy or adequacy of such
Prospectus.
Section 6.06. Obtaining of Governmental Approval. The Company will from
time to time take all action which may be necessary to obtain and keep effective
any and all permits, consents and approvals of governmental agencies and
authorities and securities acts filings under United States federal and state
laws (including without limitation a registration statement in respect of the
Warrants and Warrant Securities under the Securities Act of 1933), which may be
or become requisite in connection with the issuance, sale, transfer and delivery
of the Warrant Certificates, the exercise of the Warrants, the issuance, sale,
transfer and delivery of the Warrant Securities issued upon exercise of the
Warrants or upon the expiration of the period during which the Warrants are
exercisable.
Section 6.07. Persons Having Rights Under Warrant Agreement. Nothing in
this Agreement shall give to any person other than the Company, the Warrant
Agent and the Holders of the Warrant Certificates any right, remedy or claim
under or by reason of this Agreement.
Section 6.08. Headings. The descriptive headings of the several Articles
and Sections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not
control or affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof.
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Section 6.09. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which as so executed shall be deemed to be an original,
but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 6.10. Inspection of Agreement. A copy of this Agreement shall be
available at all reasonable times at the principal corporate trust office of the
Warrant Agent for inspection by the Holder of any Warrant Certificate. The
Warrant Agent may require such Holder to submit his Warrant Certificate for
inspection by it.
Section 6.11. Notices to Holders of Warrants. Any notice to Holders of
Warrants evidenced by Warrant Certificates which by any provisions of this
Warrant Agreement is required or permitted to be given shall be given by first
class mail prepaid at such Holder's address as it appears on the books of the
Warrant Agent.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
duly executed and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed and
attested, all as of the date first above written.
COMCAST CORPORATION
By
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Name:
Title:
[WARRANT AGENT]
By
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]
[Face]
Prior to _______________, this
Warrant Certificate may be
transferred or exchanged if and only
if the [Title of Offered Security] to
which it was initially attached is so
transferred or exchanged.
[Prior to ________________, Warrants
Form of Legend if evidenced by this Warrant Certificate
Warrants are not cannot be exercised.]
immediately exercisable:
EXERCISABLE ONLY IF AUTHENTICATED BY THE WARRANT
AGENT AS PROVIDED HEREIN
VOID AFTER THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON _________, ____
COMCAST CORPORATION
Warrant Certificate representing
Warrants to purchase
[Title of Warrant Securities]
as described herein
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No. _______________ Warrants
This certifies that [ ] or registered assigns is the registered owner
of the above indicated number of Warrants, each Warrant entitling such
registered owner to purchase, at any time [after the close of business on
_________, ____, and] on or before the close of business on ____________, ____,
[____ shares of the [Title of Warrant Securities]] [$________ aggregate
principal amount of [Title of Warrant Securities]] (the "Warrant Securities") of
Comcast Corporation (the "Company") [, issued or to be issued
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under the Indenture (as hereinafter defined),] on the following basis.2 [During
the period from ________, ____ through and including ___________, ____, each
Warrant shall entitle the Holder thereof, subject to the provisions of this
Agreement, to purchase from the Company the [principal] amount of Warrant
Securities stated above in this Warrant Certificate at the exercise price of
[___] [___% of the principal amount thereof [plus accrued amortization, if any,
of the original issue discount of the Warrant Securities][plus accrued interest,
if any, from the most recent date from which interest shall have been paid on
the Warrant Securities or, if no interest shall have been paid on the Warrant
Securities, from ___________, ____]; [in each case, the original issue discount
($_______ for each $1,000 principal amount of Warrant Securities) will be
amortized at a ___% annual rate, computed on a[n] [semi-]annual basis[, using a
360-day year constituting of twelve 30-day months]] (the "Exercise Price"). The
Holder of this Warrant Certificate may exercise the Warrants evidenced hereby,
in whole or in part, by surrendering this Warrant Certificate, with the purchase
form set forth hereon duly completed, accompanied [by payment in full, in lawful
money of the United States of America,] [in cash or by certified check or
official bank check in New York Clearing House funds] [by bank wire transfer in
immediately available funds]], the Exercise Price for each Warrant exercised, to
the Warrant Agent (as hereinafter defined), at the corporate trust office of
[name of Warrant Agent], or its successor as warrant agent (the "Warrant Agent")
[or at ____________,] at the addresses specified on the reverse hereof and upon
compliance with and subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the
Warrant Agreement (as hereinafter defined). This Warrant Certificate may be
exercised only for the purchase of [ shares of ] Warrant Securities [in the
principal amount of ] or any integral multiple thereof. [Cashless Exercise
Option]
The term "Holder" as used herein shall mean, prior to [ ] (the
"Detachable Date"), the registered owner of the Company's [title of Offered
Securities] to which such Warrant Certificate was initially attached, and after
such Detachable Date, the person in whose name at the time such Warrant
Certificate shall be registered upon the books to be maintained by the Warrant
Agent for that purpose pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Warrant Agreement.
Any whole number of Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate may be
exercised to purchase Warrant Securities in registered form. Upon any exercise
of fewer than all of the Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate, there
shall be issued to the registered owner hereof a new Warrant Certificate
evidencing the number of Warrants remaining unexercised.
This Warrant Certificate is issued under and in accordance with the
Warrant Agreement dated as of [ ] (the "Warrant Agreement"), between
the Company and the Warrant Agent and is subject to the terms and provisions
contained in the Warrant Agreement, to all of which terms and provisions the
Holder of this Warrant Certificate consents by acceptance
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2 Complete and modify the following provisions as appropriate to reflect
the terms of the Warrants and the Warrant Securities.
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hereof. Copies of the Warrant Agreement are on file at the above-mentioned
office of the Warrant Agent [and at _______________].
[The full and punctual payment of (i) all amounts payable by the Company
from time to time pursuant to the Warrant Agreement (including, without
limitation, any interest ("Post-Petition Interest") which accrues after the
commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy,
insolvency or reorganization of the Company (whether or not such interest is
allowed or allowable as a claim in any such case, proceedings or other action)
and (ii) any renewals, refinancings or extensions of any of the foregoing
(including Post-Petition Interest) are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on
an unsecured basis, by [Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and] [Comcast MO
Group, Inc.] (collectively, the "Cable Guarantors") under and in accordance with
the Guarantee Agreement dated as of [ ] among the Cable Guarantors and
[ ], as Guarantee Trustee.]
[The Warrant Securities to be issued and delivered upon the exercise of
Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate will be issued under and in
accordance with an Indenture, dated as of ________________ (the "Indenture"),
among the Company, as issuer, Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc., Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and Comcast MO Group,
Inc. (collectively, the "Cable Guarantors") and The Bank of New York, as trustee
(such trustee, and any successors to such trustee, the "Trustee") and will be
subject to the terms and provisions contained in the Warrant Securities and in
the Indenture. Copies of the Indenture, including the form of the Warrant
Securities, are on file at the corporate trust office of the Trustee [and at
__________].]
Prior to [ ] (the "Detachable Date"), this Warrant Certificate
may be exchanged or transferred only together with the [title of Offered
Security] (the "Offered Security") to which this Warrant Certificate was
initially attached, and only for the purpose of effecting, or in conjunction
with, an exchange or transfer of such Offered Security.
Additionally, on or prior to the Detachable Date, each transfer of such
Offered Security on the register of the Offered Securities shall operate also to
transfer this Warrant Certificate. After the Detachable Date, this Warrant
Certificate, and all rights hereunder, may be transferred when surrendered at
the corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent [or _________] by the registered
owner or his assigns, in person or by an attorney duly authorized in writing, in
the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement.
Except as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph, after
authentication by the Warrant Agent and prior to the expiration of this Warrant
Certificate, this Warrant Certificate may be exchanged at the corporate trust
office of the Warrant Agent [or at _____________] for Warrant Certificates
representing the same aggregate number of Warrants.
This Warrant Certificate shall not entitle the registered owner hereof to
any of the rights of a registered holder of the Warrant Securities, including,
without limitation, [the right to receive payments of principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest, if any, on the Warrant
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Securities or to enforce any of the covenants of the Indenture] [the right to
receive dividend payments on the Warrant Securities or any voting rights].
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Warrant
Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose
until authenticated by the Warrant Agent.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant Certificate to be
duly executed under its corporate seal.
Dated: _____________
COMCAST CORPORATION
By
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Attest:
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Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the Warrant Certificates referred to in the within-mentioned
Warrant Agreement.
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As Warrant Agent
By____________________________________
Authorized Signature
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[REVERSE] [FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]
(Instructions for Exercise of Warrants)
To exercise any Warrants evidenced hereby, the Holder of this Warrant
Certificate must pay [in cash or by certified check or official bank check in
New York Clearing House funds or by bank wire transfer in immediately available
funds], the Exercise Price in full for each of the Warrants exercised, to [ ],
Corporate Trust Department, [ ], Attn: [ ] [or ________________], which payment
should specify the name of the Holder of this Warrant Certificate and the number
of Warrants exercised by such Holder. In addition, the Holder of this Warrant
Certificate should complete the information required below and present in person
or mail by registered mail this Warrant Certificate to the Warrant Agent at the
addresses set forth below.
[FORM OF EXERCISE]
(To be executed upon exercise of Warrants.)
The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise [ ] Warrants,
represented by this Warrant Certificate, to purchase [______ shares of [Title of
Warrant Securities]] [$_________ aggregate principal amount of the [Title of
Warrant Securities]] (the "Warrant Securities") of Comcast Corporation and
represents that he has tendered payment for such Warrant Securities [in cash or
by certified check or official bank check in New York Clearing House funds or by
bank wire transfer in immediately available funds] to the order of Comcast
Corporation, c/o Treasurer in the amount of $[ ] in accordance with the terms
hereof. The undersigned requests that said [principal] amount of Warrant
Securities be in fully registered form, in the authorized denominations,
registered in such names and delivered, all as specified in accordance with the
instructions set forth below.
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If said [principal] amount of Warrant Securities is less than all of the
Warrant Securities purchasable hereunder, the undersigned requests that a new
Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of the Warrants evidenced
hereby be issued and delivered to the undersigned unless otherwise specified in
the instructions below.
Dated:
Name
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(Please Print)
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(Insert Social Security or Other
Identifying Number of Holder) Address
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Signature
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(Signed exactly as name appears
on the other side of this Warrant
Certificate)
This Warrant may be exercised at the following addresses:
By hand at
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By mail at
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(Instructions as to form and delivery of Warrant Securities and/or Warrant
Certificates):
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[[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT]
(TO BE EXECUTED TO TRANSFER THE WARRANT CERTIFICATE)
FOR VALUE RECEIVED __________________ hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto
Please insert social
security or other
identifying number
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(Please print name and address
including zip code)
the right represented by the within Warrant Certificate and does hereby
irrevocably constitute and appoint _________________, Attorney, to transfer said
Warrant Certificate on the books of the Warrant Agent with full power of
substitution.
Dated:
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Signature
(Signed exactly as name appears on the
other side of this Warrant Certificate)
Signature Guarantee:
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Participant in a recognized Signature
Guarantee Medallion Program (or other
signature guarantor program reasonably
acceptable to the Warrant Agent)
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EXHIBIT 4.15
PLEDGE AGREEMENT
PLEDGE AGREEMENT, dated as of [ ] (this "Agreement"), among Comcast
Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company"), [ ], not
individually but solely as collateral agent (in such capacity, together with its
successors in such capacity, the "Collateral Agent"), and [ ], not
individually but solely
as purchase contract agent and as attorney-in-fact of the Holders (as
hereinafter defined) from time to time of the Securities (as hereinafter
defined) (in such capacity, together with its successors in such capacity, the
"Purchase Contract Agent") under the Purchase Contract Agreement (as hereinafter
defined).
RECITALS
The Company and the Purchase Contract Agent are parties to the Purchase
Contract Agreement, dated as of the date hereof (as modified and supplemented
and in effect from time to time, the "Purchase Contract Agreement"), pursuant to
which there will be issued [____]% [____________] (the "Securities").
[The full and punctual payment of (i) all amounts payable by the Company
from time to time pursuant to the Purchase Contract (including, without
limitation, any interest ("Post-Petition Interest") which accrues after the
commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the bankruptcy,
insolvency or reorganization of the Company (whether or not such interest is
allowed or allowable as a claim in any such case, proceedings or other action)
and (ii) any renewals, refinancings or extensions of any of the foregoing
(including Post-Petition Interest) are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on
an unsecured basis, by [Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable
Communications Holdings, Inc.,] [Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC and] [Comcast MO
Group, Inc.] (collectively, the "Cable Guarantors") under and in accordance with
the Guarantee Agreement dated as of [ ] among the Cable Guarantors and [ ], as
Guarantee Trustee.]
Each Security consists of (a) one Purchase Contract (as hereinafter
defined) and (b) [ ]% United States Treasury Notes due [ ] ("Treasury Notes")
having a principal amount equal to $[ ] (the "Stated Amount") and maturing on [
] (the "Final Settlement Date"), subject to the pledge of such Treasury Notes
created hereby.
The Company has caused the Underwriters to purchase the Treasury Notes on
its behalf with the proceeds of the offering of the Securities and the Company
has simultaneously conveyed such Treasury Notes to the Holders as a part of the
Securities.
Pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the `Purchase
Contracts, the Holders (as defined in the Purchase Contract Agreement) from time
to time of the Securities have irrevocably authorized the Purchase Contract
Agent, as attorney-in-fact of such Holders, among other things to execute and
deliver this Agreement on behalf of such Holders and to grant the pledge
provided hereby of the Treasury Notes constituting part of such Securities as
provided herein and subject to the terms hereof.
Accordingly, the Company, the Collateral Agent and the Purchase Contract
Agent, on its own behalf and as attorney-in-fact of the Holders from time to
time of the Securities, agree as follows:
Section 1. Definitions. For all purposes of this Agreement, except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular; and
(2) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act" has the meaning specified in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
"Agreement" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from
time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more agreements supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"Applicable Treasury Regulations" means Subpart O-Book-Entry Procedure of
Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations (31 CFR (S) 306.115 et. seq.) and
any other regulations of the United States Treasury Department from time to time
applicable to the transfer or pledge of book-entry U.S. Treasury Securities.
"Bankruptcy Code" means Title 11 of the United States Code, or any other
law of the United States that from time to time provides a uniform system of
bankruptcy laws.
"Board Resolution" has the meaning specified in the Purchase Contract
Agreement.
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"Business Day" means any day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on
which the New York Stock Exchange or banking institutions or trust companies in
[The City of New York] are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to
be closed.
"Collateral Agent" has the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this
instrument.
"Collateral Account" means the account maintained at [ ] in the
name "[ ] as Collateral Agent of Comcast Corporation as pledgee of
[ ] as Purchase Contract Agent".
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of
this instrument until a successor shall have become such, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor.
"Early Settlement" has the meaning specified in the Purchase Contract
Agreement.
"Early Settlement Amount" has the meaning specified in the Purchase
Contract Agreement. "Final Settlement Date" has the meaning specified in the
Recitals.
"Holder" when used with respect to a Security, or a Purchase Contract
constituting a part thereof, has the meaning specified in the Purchase Contract
Agreement.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel,
who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company and who shall be reasonably
acceptable to the Collateral Agent or the Purchase Contract Agent, as the case
may be.
"Outstanding Securities" has the meaning specified in the Purchase Contract
Agreement.
"Outstanding Security Certificates" has the meaning specified in the
Purchase Contract Agreement.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"Pledge" has the meaning specified in Section 2 hereof.
"Pledged Treasury Notes" has the meaning specified in Section 2 hereof.
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"Purchase Contract" has the meaning specified in the Purchase Contract
Agreement.
"Purchase Contract Agent" has the meaning specified in the first paragraph
of this instrument.
"Security" has the meaning specified in the Recitals.
"Security Certificate" has the meaning specified in the Purchase Contract
Agreement.
"Stated Amount" has the meaning specified in the Recitals.
"Termination Event" has the meaning specified in the Purchase Contract
Agreement.
"Treasury Notes" has the meaning specified in the Recitals.
Section 2. The Pledge. The Holders from time to time of the Securities
acting through the Purchase Contract Agent, as their attorney-in-fact, hereby
pledge and grant to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Company, as
collateral security for the performance when due by such Holders of their
respective obligations under the Purchase Contracts constituting part of such
Securities, a security interest in all of the right, title and interest of such
Holders in the Treasury Notes constituting a part of such Securities. Prior to
or concurrently with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the initial
Holders and the Purchase Contract Agent shall (i) cause the Treasury Notes to be
transferred to the Collateral Agent by Federal Reserve Bank-Wire to the account
of the Collateral Agent and (ii) the Collateral Agent shall credit the Treasury
Notes to the Collateral Account; in each case pursuant to Applicable Treasury
Regulations and to the Uniform Commercial Code to the extent such laws are
applicable. The pledge provided in this Section 2 is herein referred to as the
"Pledge" and the Treasury Notes subject to the Pledge, excluding any Treasury
Notes released from the Pledge as provided in Section 4 hereof, are hereinafter
referred to as the "Pledged Treasury Notes". Subject to the Pledge, the Holders
from time to time of the Securities shall have full beneficial ownership of the
Treasury Notes constituting a part of such Securities.
Section 3. Distribution of Principal and Interest. (a) All payments of
principal of, or interest on, any Treasury Notes constituting part of the
Securities received by the Collateral Agent shall be paid by the Collateral
Agent by wire transfer in same day funds no later than 1:00 p.m., New York City
time, on the Business Day such interest payment is received by the Collateral
Agent (provided that in the event such interest payment is received by the
Collateral Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 1:00 p.m., New
York City time, on a Business Day, then such payment shall be made no later than
10:00 a.m., New
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York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day) (i) in the case of (A)
interest payments and (B) any principal payments with respect to any Treasury
Notes that have been released from the Pledge pursuant to Section 4 hereof, to
the Purchase Contract Agent to the account designated by it for such purpose and
(ii) in the case of principal payments on any Pledged Treasury Notes, the
Purchase Contract Agent on behalf of the Holder hereby directs the Collateral
Agent to make such payments to the Company, in full satisfaction of the
respective obligations of the Holders of the Securities of which such Pledged
Treasury Notes are a part under the Purchase Contracts forming a part of such
Securities. All such payments received by the Purchase Contract Agent as
provided herein shall be applied by the Purchase Contract Agent pursuant to the
provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement. If, notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Purchase Contract Agent shall receive any payments of principal
on account of any Pledged Treasury Notes, the Purchase Contract Agent shall hold
the same as trustee of an express trust for the benefit of the Company (and
promptly deliver over to the Company) for application to the obligations of the
Holders of the Securities of which such Treasury Notes are a part under the
Purchase Contracts relating to the Securities of which such Treasury Notes are a
part, and such Holders shall acquire no right, title or interest in any such
payments of principal so received.
Section 4. Release of Pledged Treasury Notes. (a) Upon written notice to
the Collateral Agent by the Company or the Purchase Contract Agent that there
has occurred a Termination Event, the Collateral Agent shall release all Pledged
Treasury Notes from the Pledge and shall transfer all such Treasury Notes, free
and clear of any lien, pledge or security interest created hereby, to the
Purchase Contract Agent.
If such Termination Event shall result from the Company's becoming a debtor
under the Bankruptcy Code, and if the Collateral Agent shall for any reason fail
immediately to effectuate the release and transfer of all Pledged Treasury Notes
as provided by this Section 4(a), the Purchase Contract Agent shall, subject to
Section 6.12, (i) use its best efforts to obtain an opinion of a nationally
recognized law firm reasonably acceptable to the Collateral Agent to the effect
that, as a result of the Company's being the debtor in such a bankruptcy case,
the Collateral Agent will not be prohibited from releasing or transferring the
Treasury Notes as provided in this Section 4(a), and shall deliver such opinion
to the Collateral Agent within ten days after the occurrence of such Termination
Event, and if (y) the Purchase Contract Agent shall be unable to obtain such
opinion within ten days after the occurrence of such Termination Event or (z)
the Collateral Agent shall continue, after delivery of such opinion, to refuse
to effectuate the release and transfer of all Pledged Treasury Notes as provided
in this Section 4(a), then the Purchase Contract Agent shall within fifteen days
after the occurrence of such Termination Event commence an action or proceeding
in the court with jurisdiction of the Company's case under the Bankruptcy Code
seeking an order requiring the Collateral Agent to effectuate the release and
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transfer of all Pledged Treasury Notes as provided by this Section 4(a) or (ii)
commence an action or proceeding like that described in subsection (i)(z) hereof
within ten days after the occurrence of such Termination Event.
(b) Upon written notice to the Collateral Agent by the Purchase Contract
Agent that one or more Holders of Securities have elected to effect Early
Settlement of their respective obligations under the Purchase Contracts forming
a part of such Securities in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contracts
and the Purchase Contract Agreement (setting forth the number of such Purchase
Contracts as to which such Holders have elected to effect Early Settlement), and
that the Purchase Contract Agent has received from such Holders, and paid to the
Company, the related Early Settlement Amounts pursuant to the terms of the
Purchase Contracts and the Purchase Contract Agreement and that all conditions
to such Early Settlement have been satisfied, then the Collateral Agent shall
release from the Pledge Pledged Treasury Notes with a principal amount equal to
the product of (i) the Stated Amount times (ii) the number of such Purchase
Contracts as to which such Holders have elected to effect Early Settlement.
(c) Transfers of Treasury Notes pursuant to Section 4(a) or (b) shall be by
Federal Reserve Bank-Wire or in another appropriate manner, (i) if the
Collateral Agent shall have received such notification at or prior to 11:00
a.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, then no later than 2:00 p.m., New
York City time, on such Business Day and (ii) if the Collateral Agent shall have
received such notification on a day that is not a Business Day or after 11:00
a.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, then no later than 10:00 a.m., New
York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day.
Section 5. Rights and Remedies. (a) The Collateral Agent shall have all of
the rights and remedies with respect to the Pledged Treasury Notes of a secured
party under the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York
(the "Code") (whether or not the Code is in effect in the jurisdiction where the
rights and remedies are asserted) and such additional rights and remedies to
which a secured party is entitled under the laws in effect in any jurisdiction
where any rights and remedies hereunder may be asserted.
(b) Without limiting any rights or powers otherwise granted by this
Agreement to the Collateral Agent, in the event the Collateral Agent is unable
to make payments to the Company on account of principal payments of any Pledged
Treasury Notes as provided in Section 3 hereof in satisfaction of the
obligations of the Holder of the Securities of which such Pledged Treasury Notes
are a part under the Purchase Contracts forming a part of such Securities, the
Collateral Agent shall have and may exercise, with reference to such Pledged
Treasury Notes and such obligations of such Holder, any and all of the rights
and remedies available to a secured party under the Code after default by a
debtor, and as otherwise granted herein or under any other law.
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(c) Without limiting any rights or powers otherwise granted by this
Agreement to the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably
authorized to receive and collect all payments of principal of or interest on
the Pledged Treasury Notes.
(d) The Purchase Contract Agent agrees that, from time to time, upon the
written request of the Collateral Agent, the Purchase Contract Agent shall
execute and deliver such further documents and do such other acts and things as
the Collateral Agent may reasonably request in order to maintain the Pledge, and
the perfection and priority thereof, and to confirm the rights of the Collateral
Agent hereunder.
Section 6. The Collateral Agent and the Purchase Contract Agent. It is
hereby agreed as follows:
6.01. Appointment, Powers and Immunities. The Collateral Agent shall act as
agent for the Company hereunder with such powers as are specifically vested in
the Collateral Agent by the terms of this Agreement, together with such other
powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Collateral Agent: (a) shall
have no duties or responsibilities except those expressly set forth in this
Agreement and no implied covenants or obligations shall be inferred from this
Agreement against the Collateral Agent, nor shall the Collateral Agent be bound
by the provisions of any agreement by any party hereto beyond the specific terms
hereof; (b) shall not be responsible for any recitals contained in this
Agreement, or in any certificate or other document referred to or provided for
in, or received by it under, this Agreement, the Securities or the Purchase
Contract Agreement, or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness,
enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement (other than as against the
Collateral Agent), the Securities or the Purchase Contract Agreement or any
other document referred to or provided for herein or therein or for any failure
by the Company or any other Person (except the Collateral Agent) to perform any
of its obligations hereunder or thereunder; (c) shall not be required to
initiate or conduct any litigation or collection proceedings hereunder (except
pursuant to directions furnished under Section 6.02 hereof); (d) shall not be
responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it hereunder or under
any other document or instrument referred to or provided for herein or in
connection herewith or therewith, except for its own negligence; and (e) shall
not be required to advise any party as to selling or retaining, or taking or
refraining from taking any action with respect to, any securities or other
property deposited hereunder. Subject to the foregoing, during the term of this
Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall take all reasonable action in connection
with the safe keeping and preservation of the Pledged Treasury Notes hereunder.
No provision of this Agreement shall require the Collateral Agent to expend or
risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance
of any of its duties hereunder. In no event shall the Collateral Agent be liable
for any amount in excess of the value of the Pledged Treasury Notes.
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6.02. Instructions of the Company. The Company shall have the right, by one
or more instruments in writing executed and delivered to the Collateral Agent,
to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any right
or remedy available to the Collateral Agent, or of exercising any power
conferred on the Collateral Agent, or to direct the taking or refraining from
taking of any action authorized by this Agreement; provided, however, that (i)
such direction shall not conflict with the provisions of any law or of this
Agreement and (ii) the Collateral Agent shall be adequately indemnified as
provided herein. Nothing in this Section 6.02 shall impair the right of the
Collateral Agent in its discretion to take any action or omit to take any action
which it deems proper and which is not inconsistent with such direction.
6.03. Reliance by Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall be entitled
to rely upon any certification, order, judgment, opinion, notice or other
communication (including, without limitation, any thereof by telephone,
telecopy, telex, telegram or cable) believed by it to be genuine and correct and
to have been signed or sent by or on behalf of the proper Person or Persons
(without being required to determine the correctness of any fact stated
therein), and upon advice and statements of legal counsel and other experts
selected by the Collateral Agent. As to any matters not expressly provided for
by this Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in
acting, or in refraining from acting, hereunder in accordance with instructions
given by the Company in accordance with this Agreement.
6.04. Rights in Other Capacities. The Collateral Agent and its affiliates
may (without having to account therefor to the Company) accept deposits from,
lend money to, make investments in and generally engage in any kind of banking,
trust or other business with the Purchase Contract Agent and any Holder of
Securities (and any of their subsidiaries or affiliates) as if it were not
acting as the Collateral Agent, and the Collateral Agent and its affiliates may
accept fees and other consideration from the Purchase Contract Agent and any
Holder of Securities without having to account for the same to the Company,
provided that the Collateral Agent covenants and agrees with the Company that
the Collateral Agent shall not accept, receive or permit there to be created in
its favor any security interest, lien or other encumbrance of any kind in or
upon the Pledged Treasury Notes.
6.05. Non-Reliance on Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall not be
required to keep itself informed as to the performance or observance by the
Purchase Contract Agent or any Holder of Securities of this Agreement, the
Purchase Contract Agreement, the Securities or any other document referred to or
provided for herein or therein or to inspect the properties or books of the
Purchase Contract Agent or any Holder of Securities. The Collateral Agent shall
not have any duty or responsibility to provide the Company with any credit or
other information concerning the affairs, financial condition or business of the
Purchase
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Contract Agent or any Holder of Securities (or any of their affiliates) that may
come into the possession of the Collateral Agent or any of its affiliates.
6.06. Compensation and Indemnity. The Company agrees: (i) to pay the
Collateral Agent from time to time reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by it hereunder and (ii) to indemnify the Collateral Agent for, and to
hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without
negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of its powers and duties under this Agreement,
including the costs and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of
counsel) of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with
the exercise or performance of such powers and duties.
6.07. Failure to Act. In the event of any ambiguity in the provisions of
this Agreement or any dispute between or conflicting claims by or among the
parties hereto and/or any other Person with respect to any funds or property
deposited hereunder, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled, at its sole option,
to refuse to comply with any and all claims, demands or instructions with
respect to such property or funds so long as such dispute or conflict shall
continue, and the Collateral Agent shall not be or become liable in any way to
any of the parties hereto for its failure or refusal to comply with such
conflicting claims, demands or instructions. The Collateral Agent shall be
entitled to refuse to act until either (i) such conflicting or adverse claims or
demands shall have been finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction
or settled by agreement between the conflicting parties as evidenced in a
writing, satisfactory to the Collateral Agent or (ii) the Collateral Agent shall
have received security or an indemnity satisfactory to the Collateral Agent
sufficient to save the Collateral Agent harmless from and against any and all
loss, liability or expense which the Collateral Agent may incur by reason of its
acting. The Collateral Agent may in addition elect to commence an interpleader
action or seek other judicial relief or orders as the Collateral Agent may deem
necessary. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the
Collateral Agent shall not be required to take any action that is in its opinion
contrary to law or to the terms of this Agreement, or which would in its opinion
subject it or any of its officers, employees or directors to liability.
6.08. Resignation of Collateral Agent. Subject to the appointment and
acceptance of a successor Collateral Agent as provided below, (a) the Collateral
Agent may resign at any time by giving notice thereof to the Company and the
Purchase Contract Agent, (b) the Collateral Agent may be removed at any time by
the Company and (c) if the Collateral Agent fails to perform any of its material
obligations hereunder in any material respect for a period of not less than 20
days after receiving written notice of such failure by the Purchase Contract
Agent and such failure shall be continuing, the Collateral Agent may be removed
by the Purchase Contract Agent. The Purchase Contract Agent shall promptly
notify the
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Company of any removal of the Collateral Agent pursuant to clause (c) of the
immediately preceding sentence. Upon any such resignation or removal, the
Company shall have the right to appoint a successor Collateral Agent. If no
successor Collateral Agent shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted
such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Collateral Agent's giving of
notice of resignation or such removal, then the retiring Collateral Agent may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall be a bank which has an office in
New York, New York with a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000.
Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Collateral Agent hereunder by a
successor Collateral Agent, such successor Collateral Agent shall thereupon
succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties
of the retiring Collateral Agent, and the retiring Collateral Agent shall take
all appropriate action to transfer any money and property held by it hereunder
(including the Pledged Treasury Notes) to such successor Collateral Agent. The
retiring Collateral Agent shall, upon such succession, be discharged from its
duties and obligations as Collateral Agent hereunder. After any retiring
Collateral Agent's resignation hereunder as Collateral Agent, the provisions of
this Section 6 shall continue in effect for its benefit in respect of any
actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as the Collateral
Agent.
Promptly following the removal or resignation of the Collateral Agent the
Company shall give written notice thereof to Moody's Investors Services, Inc.
6.09. Right to Appoint Agent or Advisor. The Collateral Agent shall have
the right to appoint agents or advisors in connection with any of its duties
hereunder, and the Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or
omitted by such agents or advisors selected in good faith.
6.10. Survival. The provisions of this Section 6 shall survive termination
of this Agreement and the resignation or removal of the Collateral Agent.
6.11. Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in no
event shall the Collateral Agent or its officers, employees or agents be liable
under this Agreement to any third party for indirect, special, punitive, or
consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including lost profits'
whether or not the likelihood of such loss or damage was known to the Collateral
Agent, or any of them, incurred without any act or deed that is found to be
attributable to gross negligence on the part of the Collateral Agent.
6.12. The Purchase Contract Agent. The duties and responsibilities of the
Purchase Contract Agent under this Agreement shall in each case be governed by
Article VII of the Purchase Contract Agreement.
Section 7. Amendment.
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7.01. Amendment Without Consent of Holders. Without the consent of any
Holders, the Company, the Collateral Agent and the Purchase Contract Agent, at
any time and from time to time, may amend this Agreement, in form satisfactory
to the Company, the Collateral Agent and the Purchase Contract Agent, for any of
the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and
the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company; or
(3) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Collateral Agent or Purchase Contract Agent; or
(4) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions
herein which may be inconsistent with any other such provisions herein, or
to make any other provisions with respect to such matters or questions
arising under this Agreement, provided such action shall not adversely
affect the interests of the Holders.
7.02. Amendment with Consent of Holders. With the consent of the Holders of
not less than 66 2/3% of the Outstanding Securities, by Act of said Holders
delivered to the Company, the Purchase Contract Agent and the Collateral Agent,
the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Purchase Contract Agent
and the Collateral Agent may amend this Agreement for the purpose of modifying
in any manner the provisions of this Agreement or the rights of the Holders in
respect of the Securities; provided, however, that no such supplemental
agreement shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
affected thereby,
(1) change the amount or type of Treasury Notes underlying a Security,
impair the right of the Holder of any Security to receive interest payments
on the underlying Treasury Notes or otherwise adversely affect the Holder's
rights in or to such Treasury Notes; or
(2) otherwise effect any action that would require the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby pursuant to the
Purchase Contract Agreement if such action were effected by an agreement
supplemental thereto; or
(3) reduce the percentage of Outstanding Securities the consent of
whose Holders is required for any such amendment.
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It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be
sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
7.03. Execution of Amendments. In executing any amendment permitted by this
Section, the Collateral Agent and the Purchase Contract Agent shall be entitled
to receive and (subject to Section 6.01 hereof, with respect to the Collateral
Agent, and Section 7.1 of the Purchase Contract Agreement, with respect to the
Purchase Contract Agent) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of
Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is authorized or permitted
by this Agreement.
7.04. Effect of Amendments. Upon the execution of any amendment under this
Section, this Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
amendment shall form a part of this Agreement for all purposes; and every Holder
of Security Certificates theretofore or thereafter authenticated, executed on
behalf of the Holders and delivered under the Purchase Contract Agreement shall
be bound thereby and that all conditions precedent to such execution and
delivery have been satisfied.
7.05. Reference to Amendments. Security Certificates authenticated,
executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered after the execution of any
amendment pursuant to this Section may, and shall if required by the Collateral
Agent or the Purchase Contract Agent, bear a notation in form approved by the
Purchase Contract Agent and the Collateral Agent as to any matter provided for
in such amendment. If the Company shall so determine, new Security Certificates
so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Collateral Agent, the Purchase
Contract Agent and the Company, to any such amendment may be prepared and
executed by the Company and authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and
delivered by the Purchase Contract Agent in accordance with the Purchase
Contract Agreement in exchange for Outstanding Security Certificates.
Section 8. Miscellaneous.
8.01. No Waiver. No failure on the part of the Collateral Agent or any of
its agents to exercise, and no course of dealing with respect to, and no delay
in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder shall operate as a waiver
thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise by the Collateral Agent or any
of its agents of any right, power or remedy hereunder preclude any other or
further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy.
The remedies herein are cumulative and are not exclusive of any remedies
provided by law.
8.02. Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The Company, the Collateral
Agent and the Holders
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from time to time of the Securities, acting through the Purchase Contract Agent
as their attorney-in-fact, hereby submit to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and of any
New York state court sitting in New York City for the purposes of all legal
proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions
contemplated hereby. The Company, the Collateral Agent and the Holders from time
to time of the Securities, acting through the Purchase Contract Agent as their
attorney-in-fact, irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, any objection which they may now or hereafter have to the laying
of the venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that
any such proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient
forum.
8.03. Notices. All notices, requests, consents and other communications
provided for herein (including, without limitation, any modifications of, or
waivers or consents under, this Agreement) shall be given or made in writing
(including, without limitation, by telecopy) delivered to the intended recipient
at the "Address for Notices" specified below its name on the signature pages
hereof or, as to any party, at such other address as shall be designated by such
party in a notice to the other parties. Except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement, all such communications shall be deemed to have been duly given when
transmitted by telecopier or personally delivered or, in the case of a mailed
notice, upon receipt, in each case given or addressed as aforesaid.
8.04. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the respective successors and assigns of the Company,
the Collateral Agent and the Purchase Contract Agent, and the Holders from time
to time of the Securities, by their acceptance of the same, shall be deemed to
have agreed to be bound by the provisions hereof and to have ratified the
agreements of, and the grant of the Pledge hereunder by, the Purchase Contract
Agent.
8.05. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same
instrument, and any of the parties hereto may execute this Agreement by signing
any such counterpart.
8.06. Severability. If any provision hereof is invalid and unenforceable in
any jurisdiction, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (i) the other
provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect in such jurisdiction and
shall be liberally construed in order to carry out the intentions of the parties
hereto as nearly as may be possible and (ii) the invalidity or unenforceability
of any provision hereof in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or
enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction.
8.07. Expenses, etc. The Company agrees to reimburse the Collateral Agent
for: (a) all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Collateral
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Agent (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and expenses of
counsel to the Collateral Agent), in connection with (i) the negotiation,
preparation, execution and delivery or performance of this Agreement and (ii)
any modification, supplement or waiver of any of the terms of this Agreement;
(b) all reasonable costs and expenses of the Collateral Agent (including,
without limitation, reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) in connection with
(i) any enforcement or proceedings resulting or incurred in connection with
causing any Holder of Securities to satisfy its obligations under the Purchase
Contracts forming a part of the Securities and (ii) the enforcement of this
Section 8.07; and (c) all transfer, stamp, documentary or other similar taxes,
assessments or charges levied by any governmental or revenue authority in
respect of this Agreement or any other document referred to herein and all
costs, expenses, taxes, assessments and other charges incurred in connection
with any filing, registration, recording or perfection of any security interest
contemplated hereby.
8.08. Security Interest Absolute. All rights of the Collateral Agent and
security interests hereunder, and all obligations of the Holders from time to
time of the Securities hereunder, shall be absolute and unconditional
irrespective of:
(a) any lack of validity or enforceability of any provision of the Purchase
Contracts or the Securities or any other agreement or instrument relating
thereto;
(b) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or any other
term of, or any increase in the amount of, all or any of the obligations of
Holders of Securities under the related Purchase Contracts, or any other
amendment or waiver of any term of, or any consent to any departure from any
requirement of, the Purchase Contract Agreement or any Purchase Contract or any
other agreement or instrument relating thereto; or
(c) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense
available to, or discharge of, a borrower, a guarantor or a pledgor.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be
duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
Comcast Corporation
By:
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Name:
Title:
Address for Notices:
Comcast Corporation
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
Attention: [ ]
Telecopy: [ ]
_______________________________, as Purchase
Contract Agent and as attorney-in-fact of the
Holders from time to time of the Securities
By:
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Address for Notices:
________________________, as Collateral Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
Address for Notices:
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EXHIBIT 4.18
GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
[Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.]
[Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc.]
[Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC]
[Comcast MO Group, Inc.]
Dated as of [______________]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
Section 1.01. Definitions and Interpretation..................................5
ARTICLE 2
TRUST INDENTURE ACT
Section 2.01. Trust Indenture Act; Application................................8
Section 2.02. Lists of Holders of Securities..................................8
Section 2.03. Reports by the Guarantee Trustee................................8
Section 2.04. Periodic Reports by the Guarantee Trustee.......................8
Section 2.05. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent................9
Section 2.06. Events of Default; Waiver.......................................9
Section 2.07. Event of Default; Notice........................................9
ARTICLE 3
POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS
Section 3.01. Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee......................9
Section 3.02. Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee............................11
Section 3.03. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Guarantee..........13
Section 3.04 Rights of Holders...............................................13
ARTICLE 4
GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
Section 4.01. Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility.................................14
Section 4.02. Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Guarantee Trustee......14
ARTICLE 5
GUARANTEES
Section 5.01. Guarantees.....................................................15
Section 5.02. Guarantee Unconditional........................................16
Section 5.03. Discharge; Reinstatement.......................................16
Section 5.04. Waiver by the Cable Guarantors.................................17
Section 5.05. Subrogation and Contribution...................................17
Section 5.06. Stay of Acceleration...........................................17
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Section 5.07. Limitation on Amount of Guarantee..............................17
Section 5.08. Release of Guarantee...........................................17
ARTICLE 6
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 6.01. Exculpation....................................................18
Section 6.02. Indemnification................................................18
ARTICLE 7
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.01. Successors and Assigns.........................................19
Section 7.02. Amendments.....................................................19
Section 7.03. Notices........................................................19
Section 7.04. Benefit........................................................20
Section 7.05. Governing Law..................................................20
Section 7.06. Counterparts...................................................20
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GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
This GUARANTEE AGREEMENT (the "Guarantee"), dated as of [ ], is
executed and delivered by [Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (excluding its Subsidiaries, "Comcast Cable Communications"),]
[Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (excluding
its Subsidiaries, "Comcast Cable Communications Holdings"),] [Comcast Cable
Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (excluding its Subsidiaries,
"Comcast Cable Holdings") and] [Comcast MO Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(excluding its Subsidiaries, "Comcast MO Group"] and collectively with [Comcast
Cable Communications,] [Comcast Cable Communications Holdings and] [Comcast
Cable Holdings], the "Cable Guarantors") and [ ], a [New York] banking
corporation, as trustee (the "Guarantee Trustee"), for the benefit of the
Holders (as defined herein) from time to time of the Company Securities (as
defined herein) of Comcast Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation (the
"Company").
WHEREAS, each Cable Guarantor is a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Company;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of a [Warrant Agreement] [Purchase
Contract Agreement] [Unit Agreement] (the "Agreement") dated [ ]
between the Company and [ ], the Company is issuing on the date hereof
[number and title] [Warrants] [Purchase Contracts] [Units] (the "Company
Securities")
WHEREAS, as incentive for the Holders to purchase the Company Securities,
each Cable Guarantor desires irrevocably, fully and unconditionally, jointly and
severally, to the extent set forth in this Guarantee, to guarantee the full and
punctual payment whether at maturity, upon redemption, or otherwise, of each
Guaranteed Obligation as herein after defined, to the Holders of the Company
Securities.
WHEREAS, in consideration of the financial and other support that the
Company has provided, and such financial and other support as the Company may in
the future provide, to each Cable Guarantor, such Cable Guarantor is willing to
enter into this Guarantee;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each Holder of Company
Securities, which purchase each Cable Guarantor hereby agrees shall benefit such
Cable Guarantor, such Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee for the
benefit of the Holders.
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Article 1
DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION
Section 1.01. Definitions and Interpretation.
In this Guarantee, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) Capitalized terms used in this Guarantee but not defined in the
preamble above have the respective meanings assigned to them in this Section
1.01;
(b) a term defined anywhere in this Guarantee has the same meaning
throughout;
(c) all references to "the Guarantee" or "this Guarantee" are to this
Guarantee as modified, supplemented or amended from time to time;
(d) all references in this Guarantee to Articles and Sections are to
Articles and Sections of this Guarantee, unless otherwise specified;
(e) a term defined in the Trust Indenture Act has the same meaning when
used in this Guarantee, unless otherwise defined in this Guarantee or unless the
context otherwise requires; and
(f) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa.
"Affiliate" has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor rule thereunder.
"Business Day" means any day other than a day on which banking institutions
in the City of New York, New York are authorized or required by any applicable
law to close.
"Capital Stock" means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares,
interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated, whether
voting or non-voting) of such Person's capital stock or other ownership
interests, whether now outstanding or issued after the date hereof, including,
without limitation, all Common Stock and Preferred Stock.
"Common Stock" means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares,
interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated, whether
voting or non-voting) of such Person's common stock, whether now outstanding or
issued after the date hereof, including, without limitation, all series and
classes of such common stock.
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"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Guarantee Trustee at which
the corporate trust business of the Guarantee Trustee shall, at any particular
time, be principally administered, which office at the date of execution of this
Agreement is located at [ ].
"Covered Person" means any Holder or beneficial owner of Company
Securities.
"Event of Default" means a default by any Cable Guarantor on any of its
payment or other obligations under this Guarantee.
"Guarantee Trustee" means [ ], a [New York] banking corporation, until a
Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment
pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee and thereafter means each such Successor
Guarantee Trustee.
"Holder" shall mean any holder, as registered on the books and records of
the Company of any Company Securities; provided, however, that, in determining
whether the holders of the requisite percentage of Company Securities have given
any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, "Holder" shall not include any
Cable Guarantor or any Affiliate of any Cable Guarantor.
"Indemnified Person" means the Guarantee Trustee, any Affiliate of the
Guarantee Trustee, or any officers, directors, shareholders, members, partners,
employees, representatives, nominees, custodians or agents of the Guarantee
Trustee.
"Officers' Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a certificate
signed by two Authorized Officers of such Person. Any Officers' Certificate
delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for
in this Guarantee shall include:
(a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers' Certificate has
read the covenant or condition and the definition relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering the Officers' Certificate;
(c) a statement that each such officer has made such examination or
investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable such officer
to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such officer, such
condition or covenant has been complied with.
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"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability
company, joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or any
other entity.
"Preferred Stock" means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares,
interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated, whether
voting or non-voting) of such Person's preferred or preference stock, whether
now outstanding or issued after the date hereof, including, without limitation,
all series and classes of such preferred or preference stock.
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Guarantee Trustee, any
officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Guarantee Trustee, including
any vice president, any assistant vice president, any assistant secretary, the
treasurer, any assistant treasurer or other officer of the Corporate Trust
Office of the Guarantee Trustee customarily performing functions similar to
those performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with
respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such
matter is referred because of that officer's knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject.
"Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, any corporation,
association or other business entity of which more than 50% of all votes
represented by all classes of outstanding Voting Stock is owned, directly or
indirectly, by such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person.
"Successor Guarantee Trustee" means a successor Guarantee Trustee
possessing the qualifications to act as Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.01.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
"Voting Stock" means with respect to any Person, Capital Stock of any class
or kind ordinarily having the power to vote for the election of directors,
managers or other voting members of the governing body of such Person.
"Wholly-Owned" is defined to mean, with respect to any Subsidiary of any
person, such Subsidiary if all of the outstanding common stock or other similar
equity ownership interests (but not including preferred stock) in such
Subsidiary (other than any director's qualifying shares or investments by
foreign nationals mandated by applicable law) is owned directly or indirectly by
such person.
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Article 2
TRUST INDENTURE ACT
Section 2.01. Trust Indenture Act; Application.
(a) This Guarantee is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
that are required to be part of this Guarantee and shall, to the extent
applicable, be governed by such provisions; and
(b) if and to the extent that any provision of this Guarantee limits,
qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Section 310 to 317, inclusive,
of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control.
SECTION 2.02. Lists of Holders of Securities.
(a) The Cable Guarantors shall provide the Guarantee Trustee with a list,
in such form as the Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Holders of the Company Securities ("List of Holders") as of
such date, (i) within 1 Business Day after January 1 and June 30 of each year,
and (ii) at any other time within 30 days of receipt by the Cable Guarantors of
a written request for a List of Holders as of a date no more than 14 days before
such List of Holders is given to the Guarantee Trustee provided, that the Cable
Guarantors shall not be obligated to provide such List of Holders at any time
the List of Holders does not differ from the most recent List of Holders given
to the Guarantee Trustee by the Cable Guarantors. The Guarantee Trustee may
destroy any List of Holders previously given to it on receipt of a new List of
Holders.
(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall comply with its obligations under Sections
311(a), 311(b) and Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.03. Reports by the Guarantee Trustee.
Within 60 days after May 15 of each year, the Guarantee Trustee shall
provide to the Holders of the Company Securities such reports as are required by
Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any, in the form and in the manner
provided by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Guarantee Trustee shall
also comply with the requirements of Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 2.04. Periodic Reports by the Guarantee Trustee.
The Cable Guarantors shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such documents,
reports and information as required by Section 314 (if any) and the compliance
certificate required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in
the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.
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Section 2.05. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
The Cable Guarantors shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such evidence
of compliance with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
Guarantee that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the
Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an
officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) may be given in the form of an Officers'
Certificate.
Section 2.06. Events of Default; Waiver.
The Holders of a majority of outstanding Company Securities may, by vote,
on behalf of the Holders of all of the Company Securities, waive any past Event
of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such Event of Default
shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed
to have been cured, for every purpose of this Guarantee, but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair
any right consequent thereon.
Section 2.07. Event of Default; Notice.
(a) The Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of an
Event of Default, transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders
of the Company Securities, notices of all Events of Default actually known to a
Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee, unless such defaults have been
cured before the giving of such notice, provided, that, the Guarantee Trustee
shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a Responsible
Officer of the Guarantee Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding
of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Company Securities.
(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any
Event of Default unless the Guarantee Trustee shall have received written
notice, or of which a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee charged with
the administration of the Guarantee shall have obtained actual knowledge.
Article 3
POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE AND HOLDERS
Section 3.01. Powers and Duties of the Guarantee Trustee.
(a) This Guarantee shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee for the benefit
of the Holders of the Company Securities, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not
transfer this Guarantee to any Person except a Holder of Company Securities
exercising his or her rights pursuant to Section 3.04(b) or to a Successor
Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Guarantee Trustee of its
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appointment to act as Successor Guarantee Trustee. The right, title and interest
of the Guarantee Trustee shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee
Trustee, and such vesting and cessation of title shall be effective whether or
not conveyancing documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the
appointment of such Successor Guarantee Trustee.
(b) If an Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the
Guarantee Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the Guarantee Trustee shall
enforce this Guarantee for the benefit of the Holders of the Company Securities.
(c) The Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default
and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall
undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Guarantee, and no implied covenants shall be read into this Guarantee against
the Guarantee Trustee. In case an Event of Default has occurred (that has not
been cured or waived pursuant to Section 2.06) and is actually known to a
Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Guarantee, and use
the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent person
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own
affairs.
(d) No provision of this Guarantee shall be construed to relieve the
Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the
curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have occurred:
(A) the duties and obligations of the Guarantee Trustee shall be
determined solely by the express provisions of this Guarantee, and the
Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of
such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this
Guarantee, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into
this Guarantee against the Guarantee Trustee; and
(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Guarantee
Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth
of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Guarantee
Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Guarantee; but in
the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provision
hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Guarantee
Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall be under a
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duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to
the requirements of this Guarantee;
(ii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee
Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Guarantee Trustee was negligent
in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon which such judgment was made;
(iii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with
the direction of the Holders of not less than a majority of outstanding
Company Securities relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee, or exercising
any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this
Guarantee; and
(iv) no provision of this Guarantee shall require the Guarantee
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Guarantee Trustee shall
have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such funds or
liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Guarantee
or indemnity, reasonably satisfactory to the Guarantee Trustee, against
such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
Section 3.02. Certain Rights of Guarantee Trustee.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.01:
(i) The Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, and shall be fully
protected in acting or refraining from acting upon, any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to
have been signed, sent or presented by the proper party or parties.
(ii) Any direction or act of the Cable Guarantors contemplated by this
Guarantee shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate.
(iii) Whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee, the Guarantee
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
before taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Guarantee
Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in
the absence of bad faith on its part, request and conclusively rely
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upon an Officers' Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be
promptly delivered by the Cable Guarantors.
(iv) The Guarantee Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording,
filing or registration of any instrument (or any rerecording, refiling or
registration thereof).
(v) The Guarantee Trustee may consult with counsel, and the written
advice or opinion of such counsel with respect to legal matters shall be
full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action
taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance
with such advice or opinion. Such counsel may be counsel to the Cable
Guarantors or any Affiliate of a Cable Guarantor and may include any
employees of a Cable Guarantor. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right
at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this
Guarantee from any court of competent jurisdiction.
(vi) The Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Guarantee at the request
or direction of any Holder, unless such Holder shall have provided to the
Guarantee Trustee such security and indemnity, reasonably satisfactory to
the Guarantee Trustee, against the costs, expenses (including attorneys'
fees and expenses and the expenses of the Guarantee Trustee's agents,
nominees or custodians) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in
complying with such request or direction, including such reasonable
advances as may be requested by the Guarantee Trustee; provided that,
nothing contained in this Section 3.02(a)(vi) shall be taken to relieve the
Guarantee Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its
obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this
Guarantee.
(vii) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Guarantee Trustee, in its
discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts
or matters as it may see fit.
(viii) The Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
agents, nominees, custodians or attorneys, and the Guarantee Trustee shall
not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any
agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.
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(ix) Any action taken by the Company Guarantee Trustee or its agents
hereunder shall bind the Holders of the Company Securities, and the
signature of the Guarantee Trustee or its agents alone shall be sufficient
and effective to perform any such action. No third party shall be required
to inquire as to the authority of the Guarantee Trustee to so act or as to
its compliance with any of the terms and provisions of this Guarantee, both
of which shall be conclusively evidenced by the Guarantee Trustee's or its
agent's taking such action.
(x) Whenever in the administration of this Guarantee the Guarantee
Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to
enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the
Guarantee Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders of a
majority of outstanding Company Securities, (ii) may refrain from enforcing
such remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions
are received, and (iii) shall be protected in conclusively relying on or
acting in accordance with such instructions.
(b) No provision of this Guarantee shall be deemed to impose any duty or
obligation on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any
right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction
in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Guarantee Trustee shall be
unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any
such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No
permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee shall be
construed to be a duty.
Section 3.03. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Guarantee.
The recitals contained in this Guarantee shall be taken as the statements
of the Cable Guarantors, and the Guarantee Trustee does not assume any
responsibility for their correctness. The Guarantee Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Guarantee.
Section 3.04. Rights of Holders.
(a) Holders of a majority of outstanding Company Securities have the right
to direct the time, method and place of conducting of any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this Guarantee or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this
Guarantee.
(b) If the Guarantee Trustee fails to enforce such Guarantee, any Holder of
Company Securities may institute a legal proceeding directly against any Cable
Guarantor to enforce the Guarantee Trustee's rights under this Guarantee,
without
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first instituting a legal proceeding against the Company, the Guarantee Trustee
or any other person or entity.
Article 4
GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
Section 4.01. Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility.
(a) There shall at all times be a Guarantee Trustee which shall:
(i) not be an Affiliate of any Cable Guarantor; and
(ii) be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of
the United States of America or any State or Territory thereof or of the
District of Columbia, or a corporation or Person permitted by the
Securities and Exchange Commission to act as an institutional trustee under
the Trust Indenture Act, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate
trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least 50 million
U.S. dollars ($50,000,000), and subject to supervision or examination by
Federal, State, Territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to
law or to the requirements of the supervising or examining authority
referred to above, then, for the purposes of this Section 4.01(a)(ii), the
combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published.
(b) If at any time the Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be eligible to so
act under Section 4.01(a), the Guarantee Trustee shall immediately resign in the
manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.02(c).
(c) If the Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any "conflicting
interest" within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the
Guarantee Trustee and Cable Guarantors shall in all respects comply with the
provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 4.02. Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Guarantee Trustee.
(a) Subject to Section 4.02(b), the Guarantee Trustee may be appointed or
removed without cause at any time by the Cable Guarantors.
(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be removed in accordance with Section
4.02(a) until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has
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accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by such Successor
Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Cable Guarantors.
(c) The Guarantee Trustee appointed to office shall hold office until a
Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed or until its removal or
resignation. The Guarantee Trustee may resign from office (without need for
prior or subsequent accounting) by an instrument in writing executed by the
Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Cable Guarantors, which resignation shall
not take effect until a Successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has
accepted such appointment by instrument in writing executed by such Successor
Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Cable Guarantors and the resigning
Guarantee Trustee.
(d) If no Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and
accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.02 within 60 days after
delivery to the Cable Guarantors of an instrument of removal or resignation, the
resigning Guarantee Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
appointment of a Successor Guarantee Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after
prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem proper, appoint a Successor
Guarantee Trustee.
(e) No Guarantee Trustee shall be liable for the acts or omissions to act
of any Successor Guarantee Trustee.
(f) Upon termination of this Guarantee or removal or resignation of the
Guarantee Trustee pursuant to this Section 4.2, the Cable Guarantors shall pay
to the Guarantee Trustee all amounts accrued to the date of such termination,
removal or resignation.
Article 5
GUARANTEES
Section 5.01. Guarantees. Subject to the provisions of this Article, each
Cable Guarantor hereby irrevocably, fully and unconditionally guarantees,
jointly and severally, on an unsecured basis, the full and punctual payment
(whether at maturity, upon redemption, or otherwise) of each Guaranteed
Obligation as hereinafter defined. Upon failure by the Company to pay punctually
any Guaranteed Obligation, a Cable Guarantor shall forthwith on demand pay the
amount not so paid at the place and in the manner specified in the instrument
evidencing such Guaranteed Obligation. "Guaranteed Obligations" means (i) all
amounts payable by the Company from time to time pursuant to the Agreement
(including, without limitation, any interest ("Post-Petition Interest") which
accrues (or which would accrue but for such case, proceeding or action) after
the commencement of any case, proceeding or other action relating to the
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bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of the Company (whether or not such
interest is allowed or allowable as a claim in any such case, proceeding or
other action) with respect to such amounts) and (ii) any renewals, refinancings
or extensions of any of the foregoing (including Post-Petition Interest).
Section 5.02. Guarantee Unconditional. The obligations of each Cable
Guarantor hereunder with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations are unconditional
and absolute and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, will not be
released, discharged or otherwise affected by:
(a) any extension, renewal, settlement, compromise, waiver or release in
respect of any obligation of the Company under the Agreement by operation of law
or otherwise;
(b) any modification or amendment of or supplement to the Agreement;
(c) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of the
Company, or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar
proceeding affecting the Company or its assets or any resulting release or
discharge of any obligation of the Company contained in the Agreement;
(d) the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights which any Cable
Guarantor may have at any time against the Company, the Holders of the Company
Securities, any other Cable Guarantor or any other Person, whether in connection
herewith or an unrelated transactions, provided that nothing herein prevents the
assertion of any such claim by separate suit or compulsory counterclaim;
(e) any invalidity, irregularity or unenforceability relating to or against
the Company for any reason of the Agreement, or any provision of applicable law
or regulation purporting to prohibit the payment by the Company of any amounts
payable by the Company pursuant to the Agreement; or
(f) any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind by the Company,
the Holders of the Company Securities or any other Person or any other
circumstance whatsoever which might, but for the provisions of this paragraph,
constitute a legal or equitable discharge of or defense to such Cable
Guarantor's obligations hereunder.
Section 5.03. Discharge; Reinstatement. Each Cable Guarantor's obligations
hereunder will remain in full force and effect until all Guaranteed Obligations
shall have been paid in full. If at any time any payment of any Guaranteed
Obligation is rescinded or must be otherwise restored or returned upon the
insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise,
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each Cable Guarantor's obligations hereunder with respect to such payment will
be reinstated as though such payment had been due but not made at such time.
Section 5.04. Waiver by the Cable Guarantors. Each Cable Guarantor
irrevocably waives acceptance hereof, presentment, demand, protest and any
notice not provided for herein, as well as any requirement that at any time any
action be taken by any Person against such Cable Guarantor, the Company or any
other Person.
Section 5.05. Subrogation and Contribution. Upon making any payment with
respect to any obligation of the Company under this Article, the Cable Guarantor
making such payment will be subrogated to the rights of the payee against the
Company with respect to such obligation, provided that the Cable Guarantor may
not enforce either any right of subrogation, or any right to receive payment in
the nature of contribution, or otherwise, from any other Cable Guarantor, with
respect to such payment so long as any Guaranteed Obligation under remains
unpaid.
Section 5.06. Stay of Acceleration. If acceleration of the time of any
Guaranteed Obligation is stayed upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or
reorganization of the Company, all such Guaranteed Obligations otherwise subject
to acceleration under the terms of the Agreement shall nonetheless be payable by
the Cable Guarantors hereunder forthwith on demand by the Guarantee Trustee. If
the Guarantee Trustee fails to enforce such Guarantee any Holder of Company
Securities may institute a legal proceeding directly against any Cable
Guarantors to enforce the Guarantee Trustee's rights under the Guarantee without
first instituting a legal proceeding against the Company the Guarantee Trustee
or any other Person or entity.
Section 5.07. Limitation on Amount of Guarantee. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary in this Article, each Cable Guarantor hereby confirms that it is
the intention of all such parties that the Guarantee of such Cable Guarantor not
constitute a fraudulent conveyance under applicable fraudulent conveyance
provisions of the United States Bankruptcy Code or any comparable provision of
other U.S. and non-U.S. law. To effectuate that intention, the obligations of
each Cable Guarantor under its Guarantee are limited to the maximum amount that
would not render the Guarantor's obligations subject to avoidance under
applicable fraudulent conveyance provisions of the United States Bankruptcy Code
or any comparable provision of other U.S. and non-U.S. law.
Section 5.08. Release of Guarantee. The Guarantee of a Cable Guarantor will
terminate upon the sale or other disposition (including by way of consolidation
or merger) of the Cable Guarantor or the sale or disposition of all or
substantially all the assets of the Cable Guarantor (in each case other than to
a
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Guarantor or a Person who, prior to such sale or other disposition, is an
Affiliate of a Cable Guarantor).
Article 6
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 6.01. Exculpation.
(a) No Indemnified Person shall be liable, responsible or accountable in
damages or otherwise to a Cable Guarantor or any Covered Person for any loss,
damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission performed or omitted
by such Indemnified Person in good faith in accordance with this Guarantee and
in a manner that such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within the
scope of the authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Guarantee or
by law, except that an Indemnified Person shall be liable for any such loss,
damage or claim incurred by reason of such Indemnified Person's negligence or
willful misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions.
(b) Each Indemnified Person shall be fully protected in relying in good
faith upon the records of the Cable Guarantors and upon such information,
opinions, reports or statements presented to the Cable Guarantors by any Person
as to matters the Indemnified Person reasonably believes are within such other
Person's professional or expert competence and who has been selected with
reasonable care by or on behalf of the Cable Guarantors, including information,
opinions, reports or statements as to the value and amount of the assets,
liabilities, profits, losses, or any other facts pertinent to the existence and
amount of assets from which distributions to Holders of Company Offered
Securities might properly be paid.
Section 6.02. Indemnification.
Each Cable Guarantor agrees to indemnify, on a joint and several basis,
each Indemnified Person for, and to hold each Indemnified Person harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith
on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and
expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses) of defending itself
against, or investigating, any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The obligation
to indemnify as set forth in this Section 6.02 shall survive the termination of
this Guarantee.
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Article 7
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.01. Successors and Assigns.
Subject to Section 5.08, hereof all guarantees and agreements contained in
this Guarantee shall bind the respective successors, assigns, receivers,
trustees and representatives of the Cable Guarantors and shall inure to the
benefit of the Holders of the Company Securities then outstanding.
Section 7.02. Amendments.
Except with respect to any changes that do not adversely affect the rights
of Holders (in which case no consent of Holders will be required), this
Guarantee may only be amended with the prior approval of the Holders of at least
a majority of outstanding Company Securities.
Section 7.03. Notices.
All notices provided for in this Guarantee shall be in writing, duly signed
by the party giving such notice, and shall be delivered, telecopied or mailed by
registered or certified mail, as follows:
(a) given to the Guarantee Trustee, at the Guarantee Trustee's mailing
address set forth below (or such other address as the Guarantee Trustee may give
notice of to the Holders of the Company Securities):
[ ]:
Corporate Trust Trustee Administration
(b) given to a Cable Guarantor, at such Guarantor's mailing address set
forth below (or such other address as such Cable Guarantor may give notice of to
the Holders of the Company Securities):
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., 1500 Market Street, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19102-2148 Attention:
Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc., 1500 Market Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148 Attention:
Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC, 1500 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19102-2148 Attention:
Comcast MO Group, Inc., 1500 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
19102-2148 Attention:
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(c) given to any Holder of Company Securities, at the address set forth on
the books and records of the Company.
All such notices shall be deemed to have been given when received in
person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail,
postage prepaid except that if a notice or other document is refused delivery or
cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was given,
such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date
of such refusal or inability to deliver.
Section 7.04. Benefit.
This Guarantee is solely for the benefit of the Holders of the Company
Securities and, subject to Section 3.01(a), is not separately transferable from
the Company Securities.
Section 7.05. Governing Law.
THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 7.06. Counterparts.
This Guarantee 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.
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THIS GUARANTEE is executed as of the day and year first above written.
[COMCAST CABLE
COMMUNICATIONS, INC.]
By:
--------------------------------
Name:
Title:
[COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS
HOLDINGS, INC.]
By:
--------------------------------
Name:
Title:
[COMCAST CABLE HOLDINGS, INC.]
By:
--------------------------------
Name:
Title:
[COMCAST MO GROUP, INC.]
By:
--------------------------------
Name:
Title:
[ ],
as Guarantee Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT 5.1
[LETTERHEAD OF COMCAST CORPORATION]
December 23, 2002
Comcast Corporation
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I am Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Comcast
Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company") and have acted for the
Company in connection with the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the
"Registration Statement") (File No. 333-101861) filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the
registration of the sale by the Company from time to time of up to
$10,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of (i) senior debt securities and
subordinated debt securities (together, the "Debt Securities"), that shall be
fully and unconditionally guaranteed by each of Comcast Cable Communications,
Inc., Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc., Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC
and Comcast MO Group, Inc. (together, the "Cable Guarantors"), (ii) shares of
preferred stock, without par value (the "Preferred Stock"), (iii) shares of
Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value (the "Class A Common Stock"), (iv) shares
of Class A Special Common Stock, $0.01 par value (the "Class A Special Common
Stock"), (v) warrants to purchase Debt Securities, Preferred Stock, Class A
Common Stock, Class A Special Common Stock or other securities or rights (the
"Warrants"), (vi) purchase contracts (the "Purchase Contracts") requiring the
holders thereof to purchase or sell (A) the Company's securities or securities
of an entity unaffiliated or affiliated with the Company, a basket of such
securities, an index or indices of such securities or any combination of the
above, (B) currencies or composite currencies or (C) commodities, (vii) units
(the "Units") consisting of Debt Securities, Warrants, Purchase Contracts,
Preferred Stock, Class A Common Stock or Class A Special Common Stock or any
combination of the foregoing,
Comcast Corporation 2 December 23, 2002
(viii) guarantees (the "Cable Guarantees") of the Debt Securities by the Cable
Guarantors and (ix) guarantees (the "Additional Guarantees") of Warrants,
Purchase Contracts and Units or any combination of the foregoing by the Cable
Guarantors. The Debt Securities, Preferred Stock, Class A Common Stock, Class A
Special Common Stock, Warrants, Purchase Contracts, Units, Cable Guarantees and
Additional Guarantees are herein collectively referred to as the "Securities".
The Debt Securities and the Preferred Stock may be convertible and/or
exchangeable for Securities or other securities or rights. The senior Debt
Securities are to be issued pursuant to an Indenture (the "Senior Indenture")
among the Company, the Cable Guarantors and The Bank of New York, as Trustee,
substantially in the form attached as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.
The subordinated Debt Securities are to be issued pursuant to an Indenture (the
"Subordinated Indenture") among the Company, the Cable Guarantors and The Bank
of New York, as Trustee, substantially in the form attached as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. The Senior Indenture and the Subordinated Indenture are
hereinafter referred to individually as an "Indenture" and collectively as the
"Indentures". The Company may offer Depositary Shares (the "Depositary Shares")
representing interests in Preferred Stock deposited with a Depositary and
evidenced by Depositary Receipts, and such Depositary Shares are also covered by
the Registration Statement.
I have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to
my satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records, certificates of public
officials and other instruments as I have deemed necessary or advisable for the
purpose of rendering this opinion.
1. Upon designation of the preferences and relative, participating,
optional and other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or
restrictions, of any series of Preferred Stock by the Board of Directors of the
Company and proper filing with the Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania of a Certificate of Designations relating to such series of
Preferred Stock, all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company will
have been taken to authorize the issuance and sale of such series of Preferred
Stock proposed to be sold by the Company, and when such shares of Preferred
Stock are issued and delivered against payment therefor in accordance with the
applicable underwriting or other agreement or upon conversion in accordance with
the terms of any other Security that has been duly authorized, issued, paid for
and delivered, such shares will be validly issued, fully paid and
non-assessable.
2. When the specific terms of any offering or offerings of Class A Special
Common Stock have been duly established by the Board of Directors of the Company
and in accordance with provisions of any applicable underwriting
Comcast Corporation 3 December 23, 2002
agreement so as not to violate any applicable law or agreement or instrument
then binding on the Company, and shares of the Class A Special Common Stock have
been issued and sold against payment therefor in accordance with the applicable
underwriting or other agreement or upon exchange in accordance with the terms of
any Security that has been duly authorized, issued, paid for and delivered, such
shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
3. When the specific terms of any offering or offerings of Class A Common
Stock have been duly established by the Board of Directors of the Company and in
accordance with provisions of any applicable underwriting agreement so as not to
violate any applicable law or agreement or instrument then binding on the
Company, and shares of the Class A Common Stock have been issued and sold
against payment therefor in accordance with the applicable underwriting or other
agreement or upon exchange in accordance with the terms of any other Security
that has been duly authorized, issued, paid for and delivered, such shares will
be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.
4. When Depositary Shares evidenced by Depositary Receipts are issued and
delivered in accordance with the terms of a Deposit Agreement against the
deposit of duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable shares
of Preferred Stock, such Depositary Shares will entitle the holders thereof to
the rights specified in the Deposit Agreement.
In connection with my opinions expressed above, I have assumed that, at or
prior to the time of the delivery of any such Security, (i) the Board of
Directors shall have duly established the terms of such Security, (ii) the
Registration Statement shall have been declared effective and such effectiveness
shall not have been terminated or rescinded and (iii) there shall not have
occurred any change in law affecting the validity or enforceability of such
Security. I have also assumed that none of the terms of any Security to be
established subsequent to the date hereof, nor the issuance and delivery of such
Security, nor the compliance by the Company with the terms of such Security will
violate any applicable law or will result in a violation of any provision of any
instrument or agreement then binding upon the Company, or any restriction
imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over the Company.
I am a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the
foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
the federal laws of the United States of America.
I hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. In addition, I consent to the reference to me under the
caption "Legal Matters" in the prospectus.
Comcast Corporation 4 December 23, 2002
This opinion is rendered solely to you in connection with the above matter.
This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose or relied upon
by or furnished to any other person without my prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Arthur R. Block
EXHIBIT 5.2
[LETTERHEAD OF DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL]
December 23, 2002
Comcast Corporation
1500 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-2148
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as your counsel in connection with the Company's Registration
Statement on Form S-3 (the "Registration Statement") (File No. 333-101861) filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, for the registration of the sale by Comcast Corporation, a
Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company") from time to time of up to
$10,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount of (i) senior debt securities and
subordinated debt securities (together, the "Debt Securities") that shall be
fully and unconditionally guaranteed by each of Comcast Cable Communications,
Inc., Comcast Cable Communications Holdings, Inc., Comcast Cable Holdings, LLC
and Comcast MO Group, Inc. (collectively, the "Cable Guarantors," and together
with the Company, the "Obligors"), (ii) shares of preferred stock, without par
value (the "Preferred Stock"), (iii) shares of Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par
value (the "Class A Common Stock"), (iv) shares of Class A Special Common Stock,
$0.01 par value (the "Class A Special Common Stock"), (v) warrants to purchase
Debt Securities, Preferred Stock, Class A Common Stock, Class A Special Common
Stock or other securities or rights (the "Warrants"), (vi) purchase contracts
(the "Purchase Contracts") requiring the holders thereof to purchase or sell (A)
the Company's securities or securities of an entity unaffiliated or affiliated
with the Company, a basket of such securities, an index or indices of such
securities or any combination of the above, (B) currencies or composite
currencies or (C) commodities, (vii) units (the "Units") consisting of Debt
Securities, Warrants, Purchase Contracts, Preferred Stock, Class A Common Stock
or Class A Special Common Stock or any combination of the foregoing, (viii)
guarantees (the "Cable Guarantees") of the Debt Securities by the Cable
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Guarantors and (ix) guarantees (the "Additional Guarantees") of Warrants,
Purchase Contracts and Units or any combination of the foregoing by the Cable
Guarantors. The Debt Securities, Preferred Stock, Class A Common Stock, Class A
Special Common Stock, Warrants, Purchase Contracts, Units, Cable Guarantees and
Additional Guarantees are herein collectively referred to as the "Securities."
The Debt Securities and the Preferred Stock may be convertible and/or
exchangeable for Securities or other securities or rights. The senior Debt
Securities are to be issued pursuant to an Indenture (the "Senior Indenture")
among the Company, the Cable Guarantors and The Bank of New York, as Trustee,
substantially in the form attached as an exhibit to the Registration Statement.
The subordinated Debt Securities are to be issued pursuant to an Indenture (the
"Subordinated Indenture") among the Company, the Cable Guarantors and The Bank
of New York, as Trustee, substantially in the form attached as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. The Senior Indenture and the Subordinated Indenture are
hereinafter referred to individually as an "Indenture" and collectively as the
"Indentures." The Company may offer Depositary Shares (the "Depositary Shares")
representing interests in Preferred Stock deposited with a Depositary and
evidenced by Depositary Receipts, and such Depositary Shares are also covered by
the Registration Statement.
We have examined originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to
our satisfaction, of such documents, corporate records, certificates of public
officials and other instruments as we have deemed necessary for the purposes of
rendering this opinion.
On the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
1. When the Indentures have been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Trustee, the Company and the Cable Guarantors, the
specific terms of a particular Debt Security have been duly authorized and
established in accordance with the applicable Indenture and such Debt
Security has been duly authorized, executed, authenticated, issued and
delivered in accordance with the applicable Indenture and the applicable
underwriting or other agreement, such Debt Security will constitute a valid
and binding obligation of the Company enforceable in accordance with its
terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other similar laws affecting
creditors' rights generally from time to time in effect and to general
equity principles).
2. When the Indentures have been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Trustee, the Company and the Cable Guarantors, the
specific terms of a particular Debt Security have been authorized and
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established in accordance with the applicable Indenture and such Debt
Security has been duly authorized, executed, authenticated, issued and
delivered in accordance with the applicable Indenture and the applicable
underwriting or other agreement, the Cable Guarantees relating to such Debt
Security will be valid and binding obligations of the Cable Guarantors,
enforceable in accordance with their terms (subject, as to enforcement of
remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent
conveyance, moratorium or other similar law affecting creditors' rights
generally from time to time in effect and to general equity principles).
3. When the Warrants have been duly authorized by the Company, the
applicable Warrant Agreement has been duly executed and delivered and the
Warrants have been duly issued and delivered by the Company as contemplated
by the Registration Statement and any prospectus supplement relating
thereto, the Warrants will constitute valid and binding obligations of the
Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms (subject, as to
enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization,
insolvency, moratorium or other similar laws affecting creditors' rights
generally from time to time in effect and to general equity principles).
4. When the Additional Guarantees have been duly authorized by the
Cable Guarantors, the applicable Guarantee Agreement has been duly executed
and delivered and the applicable Warrants, Purchase Contracts and/or Units,
as the case may be, have been duly issued and delivered by the Company as
contemplated by the Registration Statement and any prospectus supplement
relating thereto, the Additional Guarantees will constitute valid and
binding obligations of the Cable Guarantors, enforceable in accordance with
their terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable
bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium
or other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally from time to
time in effect and to general equity principles).
5. When the Units and Purchase Contracts have been duly authorized by
the Company, the applicable Unit Agreement, Purchase Contract Agreement and
Pledge Agreement have been duly executed and delivered, the Units and
Purchase Contracts will constitute valid and binding obligations of the
Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms (subject, as to
enforcement of remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization,
insolvency, moratorium or other similar laws affecting creditors' rights
generally from time to time in effect and to general equity principles).
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In connection with the opinions expressed above, we have assumed that, at
or prior to the time of the delivery of any such Security, (i) the Board of
Directors shall have duly established the terms of such Security and duly
authorized the issuance and sale of such Security and such authorization shall
not have been modified or rescinded; (ii) the Registration Statement shall have
been declared effective and such effectiveness shall not have been terminated or
rescinded; and (iii) there shall not have occurred any change in law affecting
the validity or enforceability of such Security. We have also assumed that none
of the terms of any Security to be established subsequent to the date hereof,
nor the issuance and delivery of such Security, nor the compliance by the
Company or the Cable Guarantors with the terms of such Security will violate any
applicable law or will result in a violation of any provision of any instrument
or agreement then binding upon the Company or the Cable Guarantors, or any
restriction imposed by any court or governmental body having jurisdiction over
the Company or the Cable Guarantors.
We are members of the Bars of the State of New York and California and the
foregoing opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York and the
federal laws of the United States of America.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. In addition, we consent to the reference to us under the
caption "Legal Matters" in the prospectus.
This opinion is rendered solely to you in connection with the above matter.
This opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose or relied upon
by or furnished to any other person without our prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Davis Polk & Wardwell