prior to the Benchmark Replacement Date and in consultation with the Calculation Agent,
ensuring that the Calculation Agent will be able to meet its obligations and requirements under
the Indenture with respect to the Benchmark Replacement. No such replacement (including any
conforming changes to the Indenture) shall affect the Trustee’s or the Calculation Agent’s own
rights, duties or immunities under the indenture or otherwise.
For the avoidance of doubt, the Trustee (in any capacity in which it may act,
including, without limitation, if relevant, as Calculation Agent) shall be under no obligation (i) to
monitor, determine or verify the unavailability or cessation of any index or interest rate,
Compounded SOFR or SOFR Index or SOFR, (ii) to select, determine or designate any successor
or replacement index, or whether the conditions to the designation of such an index or rate for
the Notes have been satisfied, or (iii) to determine whether or what changes are necessary or
advisable, if any, in connection with any of the foregoing.
The Trustee (in any capacity in which it may act, including, without limitation, if
relevant, as Calculation Agent) shall not be liable for any inability, failure or delay on the part of
the Trustee (or Calculation Agent) in performing any of its duties set forth in the Indenture as a
result of the unavailability of SOFR or any index and designation of a replacement rate or
replacement index, including as a result of any inability, delay, error or inaccuracy on the part of
the Company or the part of its designee in providing any direction, instruction, notice, or
information required or contemplated by the terms of the Indenture and reasonably required for
the performance of such duties. The Trustee (in any capacity in which it may act, including,
without limitation, if relevant, as Calculation Agent) shall not have any duty to succeed to,
assume or otherwise perform any of the Company’s duties or the duties of its designee in the
event of a default, breach or failure of performance on the Company’s part or the part of the
Company’s designee, as applicable. The Trustee (in any capacity in which it may act, including,
without limitation, if relevant, as Calculation Agent (unless specifically agreed otherwise in
writing in its capacity as Calculation Agent)) will not be responsible for (i) determining the
SOFR, SOFR rate, any rate related to, or based on, SOFR or any other rate or any successor or
replacement rate or any changes related to SOFR in connection with any of the foregoing, (ii)
monitoring, determining or verifying the unavailability or cessation of SOFR, the SOFR rate, any
rate related to, or based on, SOFR and shall not have any liability for the failure of any party to
set such rate or provide notice related thereto.
“Benchmark” means, initially, Compounded SOFR; provided that if a Benchmark
Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to
Compounded SOFR (or the published SOFR Index used in the calculation thereof) or the then-
current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement.
“Benchmark Replacement” means the first alternative set forth in the order below
that can be determined by the Company or its designee as of the Benchmark Replacement Date;
provided that if the Benchmark Replacement cannot be determined in accordance with clause (1)
below as of the Benchmark Replacement Date and the Company or its designee shall have
determined that the ISDA Fallback Rate determined in accordance with clause (2) below is not
an industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S.